#ons chapter 155

Hello everyone, as promised, there will be three analysis in total, this one's a bit simple, it was made between my best friend Ange & here, this lostsoul.

Yuu at first glance is a rather charismatic character, however, this analysis will focus on something heavier.

What's his real objective in all of this? Is it saving his "father"? Is it saving "Mikaela"? Is it saving the World? Is it truthfully resurrecting everyone?+

Would it surprise you if I said it's none of the above? Well, in fact, he doesn't seek salvation, if anything, he seeks his own death. What do I mean?

Yuu is a character that has mentioned endless times he's tired of living and if he's alive is thanks to Guren and the fact that Mikaela is "existing", otherwise he'd have given up. Yuu's real interest is to die. He doesn't want to live; however, Yuu's not the type to use his own hands for that; given that putting one's life to an end is considered as a huge sin within the lore of OnS story.

The 1st proof to this is back in chapter 90 when Mikaela as a vampire, was dying. Yuu told Asuramaru to put an end on his life

Ironically, Asuramaru reminded Yuu that Mika did everything so he could live; making Yuu realize he was loved; however, once Mikaela made boom, Krul finally managed to reach Yuu. Of course, Krul, in chapter 94 was begging Yuu to flee due to the massive danger a newborn demon posed. Yet Yuu was firm on not leaving, on basically sticking there ignoring all the things Yuu said until Krul said a keyword. What was that?

When Krul said "Save him again", Yuu's tears, all that pain he had, faded; if anything, it was as if a miracle had shone upon him. But that saving isn't entirely related to a real safety net but rather, it was more focused on a journey Yuu had from the get go.

What am I trying to say? What Yuu seeks, is a proper way to die. He knows dying out by his own hands is a no good to go; he knows in order to have the right to die, he must live first; thus he made his goal to save everything, but where does this goal orignally comes?

Correct. It comes from "regret". Both from his life as the angel Mikaela & the human boy Yuuichiro Amane. As the angel Mikaela, he didn't notice the sins his father was commiting, if anything, he understood that his existance was what condemmed his father; thus he took his life; but as the human Yuu the force of his regret started in the very 1st chapter of the story. Yuu acknowledged the existance of the kids of the Hyakuya Orphanage; however, he was distant, or rather, the best word to put in, is that he built a wall against them.

Akane & Mika tried hard to make him feel welcomed. However, when Mika had the map, when they tried to escape, when the Hyakuya kids were killed by Ferid Bathory, Yuu realized he had heaven on Earth. He realized too late that he loved them just like they had loved him without anything in exchange.

That's why, once he was taken under Guren's wing; his sole purpose was revenge. Once he grew up, he was all going in a solo way to attack horsemen of the apocalypse, he wanted to slay all vampires without a plan. It was simply jumping straight towards Death.

When Guren sent him to the school & being monitored by Shinoa, he didn't try to bond, if anything, it was all one sided. Once the squad was fully made, Yuu still acted reckless. All he was driven for was to kill the vampires and that was it; however, once he found Mika was alive, he chose to bond with the squad, he chose to cooperate not out of entire goodwill but because he saw he still had a chance to make things right.

He knew Mika was a vampire and was trying to find a way to make him fully a human back again. But then again, let's recall that Mika struggled for years to control his vampire thirst; he was half human, half vampire; and with time, Mika started suffering due to the restraint fo drinking human blood.

When they reuinited again, he told Mika to become a full vampire; Mika struggled so hard to keep part of his humanity but ultimately, he became one. Mika even told Yuu it was unnatural, it was against what goes towards a right path. Yet Yuu paid no mind to Mika's words.

Moving forward, once Mikaela's second death took place & Mika became a demon, for Yuu it was instantly as "Alive"; as another "chance". Yet that "Alive" was no longer something healthy, if anything, it turned into an obsession. Furthermore, upon finding the real stakes of what it meant to resurrect Mika.

He chose Mika not because it simply meant saving Mika; but rather, because for him, that path as hellish as it may be, would lead him to either recover the past he didn't treasure or lead him to finally die without having to struggle any further.

For Yuu, he's not interested in fighting, he's a character that not once has tried to live, to experience, to let the grief flow, to let those bitter emotions flow. He's a character that chose to remain hidden beneath the bed, a character that refuses to let go, a character that chose to mute Mikaela's voice regarding Mikaela's honest feelings.

Ultimately, if the plan fails, Yuu's find with everyone dying because it means he doesn't need to ponder on finding a reason to live or struggle any further.

The best way to show this intention is back in chapter 117 i think, where you clearly see Ashera with Krul in what seems to be "paradise", because they're together, right? Yet the next panel shows the crude reality, the people they killed, whose lifes were traded in a non natural way for them. Ashera sees the truth and is conflicted about it, yet Krul seems oblivious to reality. In this scenario, I feel like Ashera is Mikaela, Yuu is Krul. One is partially aware, yet chooses to remain in the present comfort and the other is constantly seeking a past feeling long gone.

Hey anon!

Hnm, well, let's dig on this.

First of all, it's true what you say about how it ends up turning into a viscious cycle of neverending of "repeating the same mistake".

1. Character insight towards the cycle

Shikama

At 1st, Shikama tried resurrecting Mikaela in order to prolong the life of his angels along bringing back the rest of the angels; but of course, that ended up in failure.

As the big OP angel said, because Shikama broke one of the biggest taboos within the laws, it's not simply law but rather, the main message that's been focused on transmiting.

That gratitude of life was forsaken, but here, let's not dwell on the right/wrong; but rather, narrative wise speaking, we're talking about how love has two faces very independent of how it's directed.

1. Love binded by order and gratitude

2. Selfish love

Shikama falls in the latter. Paimon specially told Shikama to not lose his path; he begged him to do what it was supposed to be the correct thing to do instead of losing his path; yet Shikama due to the deep love he felt for his followers, he chose to follow on a plan that literally highlighted "if God can create miracles, then I shall too cast one".

Which of course, the result ended up on his eternal punishment.

Guren

Regarding Guren, his action is more akin to a curse because eventually, the whole end of the world was bound to happen. For that, let's rely on the Catastrophe manga this time.

Very independent of how readers might interpret Mahiru; canonically speaking, Mahiru knew from the get go she wasn't bound to be happy, nor was bound to live beyond her 16 years of life. She knew she was someone whose wings were cut and set in stone.

The purpose of the Hiragi sisters was to control fully the Seraph of the End experiment. Mahiru was the one to create the cursed gear; Shinoa being the perfect result was made to control that punishment.

However, when it came to Guren, he understood that he couldn't save anyone, nor he wanted to go further, he was too devastated for that because ever since he met Mahiru, he fell in love with her; he understood with time that Mahiru didn't live like a spoiled girl under the Hiragi Family but the latter.

And what we see upon Guren is absolute despair, but along the way Guren has been able to defy "Fate" which is further mentioned in the Catastrophe & Resurrection at 19 LNs. Guren was made so he could oppose the fate directed by Shikama Doji.

And it was true, Mahiru would have wanted Guren to not get involved; but given that she was constantly struggling to retain control over her demons, along the fact that Guren was set on stone on a path of aiming to rescue the girl he loved. That's why Guren chose to get involved (it didn't help Rigr Stafford to mixed into the equation)

Ultimately, if Guren wasn't triggering, a team would have made for certain the punishment to make the world end. However, given that it was him, he carried on the sin.

Ultimately, in Vampire Reign story, Guren tried to control much better the divine punishment by just reviving humanity, yet for him, he was tired, he had enough, he only wanted to heal the world or fix what Shikama Doji's plan was focused on.

For him, it's not that he didn't value life, but his purpose is driven by guilt and seeking salvation for humanity.

Yuu

Contrast to the two mentioned above; Yuu's driven by guilt. Given that he didn't value the love given to him after he was healing regarding his 1st family aka his parents; when the kids get killed, Yuu literally loses it, he pretty much wants to die yet for Mika, it was a matter of living, of escaping, of being free.

And given that the resurrection became a possibility for him, he started to sink into an endless loop. To make it worse, it just didn't stop in humanity, it spread to the point he wants to bring Shikama, the vampires and angels back.

And this of course has left him on a point of him doing the same thing as Shikama. Not valuing life in the slightest.

I mean, he casually says this:

Mika is concerned cause it's not just some casual topic, he's talking about their friends, the ones who followed Yuu for the sake of his happiness. (They engaged into the idea of resurrection after Guren killed Mirai and mentioned the whereabouts of Tomoe).

Now. You mentioned this

Yuu = Krul

Mika = Ashera

This in fact is the opposite.

Krul and Mika are on the same opinion that immortality should come to an end. Whereas Yuu is doing exactly what Ashera did back in the past, hence why Ashera's lines:

Ashera at the end understood that they were supposed to long have perished. But because at that time immortality and the fact of seeing his sister again felt like heaven, he didn't pay much attention to it.

But when he knew his sister was there, concerned about him despite his reckles acts, he understood he made his baby sister suffer way worse than a single life, he made her suffer for thousand of years.

But as you can see, Yuu has sunk in that loop to the bitter end, while the squad has chosen to stand against that.

If Yuu were to win, there would be no meaning unless the author seeks to portray a delusional protagonist if he were to focus on a tragic end.

It will depend on what exactly the author seeks at the end.

What do you think anon?

This is the analysis that literally broke my mind along with bestie's; if anything, trying to understand how Tomoe's existance works was such an ordeal, but I do have an answer to this.

Back in february I updated this analysis:

However, current chapter was like a slap haha, but well, there's a logical answer. Let's begin!

First of all, I had to read carefully in this regard, given that there are several hypothesis, but also, after so long, a real answer to her case, let's enlist first the theories:

Imaginary Friend

She never existed in the 1st place (Contradiction = Catastrophe Ch. 27, Manga Ch. 114)

Yoichi has 3 personalities

Tomoe's soul is fully merged with Yoichi's soul to the point he can't tell where reality blends with illusion

Tomoe as a supervisor

There were in fact, two Tomoe. This one's complemented with bestie & yours truly that fuses option 4 & 5.

Number 1 & 2 sound interesting but sadly, they get debunked way too easily.

The Catastrophe LN & manga debunks automaticaly these two theories considering that Guren read the files Mahiru gave him.

Furthermore, Tomoe's corpse was in a coffin ready for her resurrection, meaning that a girl called Tomoe Saotome did exist in the real world.

Therefore, is number 3 correct? Yes & no. It also gets debunked due to material but its elements are elemental to understand Yoichi's psychology.

3. Yoichi has 3 personalities

Yoichi's very interesting despite him being a cinammon roll, if anything, his mind protects him from harsh ordeals with these 3 personalities.

1st personality = The real him, the one that recalls; the one that knows his family is fake.

2nd personality = The kind one who seeks peace and behaves truthfully sweet.

3rd personality = Tomoe, his strength & safe place

You could say Yoichi has multiple personality. And quotting the author within a LN (Boogiepop series, Kouhei Kadono; ironically the author within the LN is Kirima Seiichi):

Correct, you could say Tomoe is a personality that declared independence, a personality that fought to exist.

But, let's focus on the remaining 3, the ones that are heavily linked with each other.

4. Tomoe's soul is fully merged with Yoichi

This one elaborates that she existed at one point, however, due to the endless experiments he endured, along a specific evidence within the flashbacks, Tomoe ended up merging with him to the point Yoichi views her as a personality, but, is there some evidence?

But what evidence you might ask, right? There's one in specific within the Saotome siblings room. What is it? Correct. There's a single bed all the time, not two. While it's common to share when kids are little, it's more practical to have two, right? In Yoichi's case, whenever he entered his bedroom, there's something heavily pointed there that at first glance is easily dismissed:

That's correct. There's only one bed whenever he entered his bedroom or rather, the bedroom he shared with Tomoe. It's way common when siblings are small, they share a bedroom but not a bed unless one of two have nightmares.

Which of course, this makes us think that Tomoe was just a figment of imagination, then again, proof she lived debunks this.

This leads us to a new clue and answer.

5. Tomoe as a supervisor

This one implies that the Tomoe we see at the beginning, was in fact a proxy from the Hyakuya Sect.

Note: From here, this is heavily linked with 4 & upcoming 6). Remember during the flashback, Tomoe states that their parents are fake, right? Let's take that element and fuse it with the physical Tomoe in the flashback. What do I mean? The Tomoe there is also a fake.

The Tomoe we see is a replacement. It means, in order to have Yoichi some sort of support, the Tomoe we see interacting with him acted as a supervisor, which would answer to certain panel on which she directly speaks with the scientists. In that scene it'd have been impossible for Yoichi to communicate with the scientists of the Hyakuya Sect unless someone was there with them:

What does this mean? The Tomoe acting there was in fact a proxy of the Hyakuya Sect. She worked under them to bring Yoichi's full potential. However, at some point in the story, that proxy started harboring "Love". Meaning that she started seeing Yoichi as a sibling, someone to care for & worry for, hence why; she must have made a deal with the Hyakuya Sect in order to protect Yoichi one way or another. Given that the Hyakuya Sect members pointed they could have killed "both", not "Yoichi" alone had it been a case of multiple personality case.

The sacrifice that Tomoe aka the Supervisor did, was to actually become or boost the "personality" existing within Yoichi's mind, hence why she was able to take over Yoichi just like a demon possession would work as seen in other chapters.

Now, take this and let's focus on the veredict.

6. There are two Tomoe (This is the most logical explanation as crazy as it sounds).

Yoichi in fact, did had a family and a sister, his real sister Tomoe Saotomoe. "However", that real family actually passed away, making him get under the wing of the Hyakuya Sect, what do I mean?

Taking point 4 & 5 into consideration; the physical Tomoe we see in the flashback walking together with Yoichi or rather the Hyakuya proxy or Yoichi's supervisor, let's label her as Tomoe 2. Meanwhile, Tomoe 1, was in fact, the sister Yoichi truthfully had, biologically speaking. The one acting as his supervisor ensured Yoichi had some sort of mental safety; meanwhile Tomoe 1, the real one, was Yoichi's safety net or heaven. What do I mean? There's one interesting element that not only that Tomoe expresses, it's also something Guren mentions way back in Chapter 7. "Hide under the bed"

Whenever those scenes come, specifically when Tomoe appears, at the beginning of the flashback, it can be said that Yoichi's room is actually his heart or his safe zone; the Tomoe there is in fact, Tomoe 1. But once the vampires come, there's a massive time gap. The evidence lies on their ages.

When chapter 154 begins, we see that Tomoe's name card labels her as an 8 year old girl; while Yoichi at that time was 4 years old.

And we know that once the vampires started searching for the children, at that point, the whole squad members were at the age of 7-8 years old. What am I trying to get at? The Tomoe that took possession of Yoichi only strengthened the one that already existed, meaning the deal of the proxy was to let her soul fuel the "personality" or the "Tomoe 1" in order to give her complete materialization within Yoichi's mind in order to make her capable to possess him whenever he was in danger. Even for a proxy, "love" wasn't forbidden. Now, there's just one missing point. Why did Yoichi state he had no sister?

Answer: His family was fake. The ones he interacted weren't his family at all. The real one whom loved him were long dead; even the Tomoe 1, was so fused in his mind & soul to the point he no longer remembered due to the endless experiments but also, the fact that their interactions & degree of Yoichi's consciousness at the age of 4 wasn't as strong as it was when he was 7-8. Hence why, the Tomoe 2, or proxy, while she existed in the world, for Yoichi, she's not the real sister he had once.

For Yoichi, his core family were the parents that truthfully died in an accident as chapter 154 mentions; for him, even if he was technically taken care of, those weren't his parents. Same thing applies to the Tomoe Saotome that walked next to him.

Crazy right?

What do you think?

Let me know!

Hello everyone, this is the 2nd analysis I promised I'd update. Sometimes we might ponder about why Kagami shows us the PoV of the squad and mayhaps some might think that the Squad members are heartless, however, this in fact is a method to reflect what Yuu should have learnt on his life journey.

Thus, let's begin!

Was hearing this ost when my bestie talked with me:

P.S: This analysis fully belongs to my bestie Ange; she doesn't have a tumblr acc but she's on twitter but not so active, we actually talked about this on other social media plataform and she gave me authorization to post this. She's really well versed on OnS

The story so far, at first seems like a journey until it reaches its current destination; however, the tale itself is more of a reflection. What do I mean? Yuu is a character that treasures Mikaela, wants to see him alive and of course, he's focused on achieving that ultimate goal even if it means sacrificing his friends. This of course clashes well with his real goal which is to die if he fails even if he swears he won't.

On the other hand, we finally see the Shinoa squad members resolution, one by one. It's not random writing, there's a purpose to it, it's a way to create a difference and a reflection or a contrast.

Yuu's current self is a character that does not value life. It may sound harsh but, his character ignores the suffering all the vampires carry, dismisses that there's a time limit for living beings... dismisses that even demons have long suffered enough; dismisses the meaning humans have by simply stating he'll bring them back as an easy feat.

Let's start with the 1st reflection on contrast.

Shinoa Hiragi

Shinoa went from a girl who literally did not know of love. If anything, she saw that life held no meaning, however, for some reason, even if she broke her mind with it as a child, she kept living, something drove her to live. When the squad was made, at first she viewed it as duty, however, that warmth, that human interaction started to soften her heart.

When she started to interact with vampires, such as Crowley Eusford, she started to learn that even among vampires, some didn't choose to be turned into one; if anything, they too struggled to cope with other vampires.

With this, she was the only one to actually ask Krul about her past, about Ashera and their ties to the 1st. And it's not simply for digging information, if anything, she really didn't have to, yet she chose to ask, she chose to understand or at least tried to.

When she ambushed Ky Luc, she viewed Ky Luc as a mere killer, as someone who didn't value human life, someone who simply was as distorted as Ferid; however, when she started to gain Ky Luc's memories, she realized the memories of the vampires were more complex than she originally thought. She even saw why Ky Luc was fighting, aka Urd's dream to achieve death for all vampires

This allowed her to understand that vampires were exhausted of living forever, they were done struggling for eternity and the thing they wanted the most was to finally be able to rest. To stop living in cursed bodies that were bound to last for eternity.

2. Shiho Kimizuki

Kimizuki & Yuu have too much in common. Both lost what they held dear, and in the current chapter, we were able to see that Kimizuki's struggle or pain was letting go. He chose to mute Mirai. What the memory of her sister tried to convey was always met with a "shut up".

Kimizuki chose to mute Mirai in order to prevent hearing what her sister truthfully tried to convey.

This same situation reflects with Yuu, ever since he lost Mikaela as a human & as a vampire; Mikaela, before the whole memory recollection, tried to convey one single thing to Yuu, but like any moment, Yuu chose to mute his voice, his wishes.

Even Asuramaru told Yuu what Mikaela truthfully wanted.

3. Yoichi Saotome

With Yoichi, contrast to Yuu who refuses to let go of the past; Yoichi spent so much "hiding beneath the bed", however, thanks to chapter 154 & 155; Yoichi broke free from that. Yoichi reflects bravery, about standing up, about walking even if there seems to be no reason. It changes way more when someone out there is waiting for you, when someone cares & loves you so much that all they want is to see you well & again.

4. Mitsuba Sanguu

With Mitsuba, even if her development through the story hasn't been much... When you love, the least you want is to see your loved ones suffer physical pain; living is painful, but it's entirely different when you're actively hurting others...

What I'm trying to say, the squad itself reflects the path Yuu could have walked through; on the other hand, Yuu reflects a path that chose to remain in the past, chose to crawl down under the bed, refused to let go, refused to acknowledge that life is a path filled with grief, pain, sorrow; but at the same time, it's filled with happiness, love, joy, the value of life and the meaning each person possesses.

This is just a note but, I'll give you my analysis & theories regarding everything.

Tomoe gave me a real headache given the plot twist she carries but, surprisingly, there is a logical answer to it.

Soo the analysis are:

1. Yuu & the real purpose behind his goal.

2. Shinoa Squad & Yuu. A reflection of the path Yuu should have walked. (This one is a translation from bestie. She's the one who has full credits to it)

Hmm... well, while I understand your frustration dear anon, and of course, whenever we discuss here I tend to divide myself on the writer of this acc vs the fan that goes to whine to her bestie 😅 (yeah... I'm roasting myself...haha....just that she's a great person to talk with & trust).

But moving on to the topic.

As I've been thinking, the purpose of making the angel Mikaela a real angel instead of an artifitial being is due to all the light stored in the Sinful Keys.

Yesterday as I talked with this user on twitter, I actually gave some thought about an interesting question or statement they made. "The angels target humans".

I pondered on the "why". Considering those angels are "seraphs" in reality, but artifitial ones. Not pure ones like the ones in heaven. However, why is it that even the angels that appear inside Yuu don't attack him?

The best answer I reached is that; given that the angels recognize "light" and even if the Seraphs are Artifitially made under endless experimentation; you could say they send the same kind of "wavelength" like the real deal.

Since the sinful keys store massive amounts of "light" inside them; reviving the angel Mikaela as a real angel would infuse him with all that light stored

BUT, there's an issue. Where's the corpse? We have no clue where the corpse is. Even if they were to resurrect him, a body would be needed; unless, as Mika stated once and feared. Reviving Mikaela could mean Yuu losing his current body along affecting part of his memories.

Now, regarding the resurrection in general; the reason why Guren only aimed to revive humans is because for sure, angels are no longer part of their world (yes Guren did know the truth about Yuu and Mika); but more over, is because of the level of punishment.

Yuu being the redirection of said punishment would have worked because they'd have sent a wavelength in case Paradise realized and maybe, instead of having Guren burn for eternity, he'd pretty much just become an immortal.

However, Yuu's literally aiming to revive angels which is a heavier load in contrast to what the 1st attempted.

Even Mika is not fond of such massive stake considering that it's extremely risky:

True, the angel Mikaela was powerful, way more powerful, but precisely because of that, the punishment and stake will be higher.

So yes, even if he's thinking, even if there's a plan, the gamble he's taking is just too big.

And now, the issue about him killing Yoichi and Kimizuki:

As you said, Yuu's taking their lives lightly. Yes, he's set on a goal of reviving everyone but success or failure at the end of the day mean nothing considering his line is this:

While it's true those lines are way before he recovers his memories; he's still set on if we fail we get to die together issue.

The reason why the 1st got punished in the 1st place is precisely because of this:

I'm not going to deny that the severity God has in the story is strong, way too strong. However, I understand the point regarding having gratitute towards life.

If anything, Shikama spent his time focusing on his research to even care about the time he could have spent with his subjects. Only when they started perishing, he started becoming more obssessed about them leaving.

So yes, Yuu's wish alone is admirable to bring everyone back, however, given that he's afraid of facing reality, he doesn't understand why his father was punished or rather he views the actions of his father as noble, he's taking everything for granted.