Hi~~! Could you explain why you think that the relationship between Mika and Yuu represents romantic love rather than "familial love"?
First of all, let me explain you what a trope is!
Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations.
To make it short: writers use them to know what the audience wants, thus they’re tools to gain more attention towards the show.
“Love tropes”, though, are like… references! They use them to know what we want to see in a couple. Tragic couples who seem to care about each other more than about themselves always make a show more attractive for people to watch.
Then, why add so many romantic tropes to two characters who don’t have romantic feelings towards each other?
Three or two of those romantic hints can’t make people believe a couple could be official. If Mika and Yuu only had a “familial love” then there wouldn’t be so many romantic hints. If it’s all fanservice then that would make their whole relationship fanservice, which sounds very disappointing.
Why did Mika ask Yuu and Yuu only what his favorite food was to trade his blood for him? Why not Akane or the others?
Why did Yuu wait for Mika that night and then went all “whatever” when he came home?
Why did Yuu get so angry when he found out Mika was trading his blood but didn’t react the same way when he saw Shinoa’s bite marks if she is his “love interest”?
Why doesn’t he show any interest in females in the manga but they’re trying to change this in the anime?
Why does Ferid tease Mika about Yuu like he has a crush on him?
Why did Mika react that way when Ferid implied he wasn’t drinking human blood because of Yuu?
Why do they blush at each other so many times?
Why do they think about each other all the time?
Why didn’t Yuu move on? Why did he think more about Mika than the rest of his family?
Why did the demons use Mika’s figure to control him? Why did they try to make as much physical contact as possible? Why did Asuramaru say Mika was Yuu’s soft spot?
Why did Yuu blush when Mika carried him? Why is it that Mika always carries him bridal style?
Why did Yuu say Mika was the main reason he wanted revenge for their family in episode 5? Why does Yuu forget about his hatred for vampires when he is told a vampire helped Mika?
Why did Mika bite his neck when Yuu had cut his wrist? And, if you tell me “he did the same with Krul, because he was too thirsty”, then why didn’t he push Yuu away afterwards like he did with Krul?
Why does he give in to everything Yuu wants instead of simply taking him away?
Why does the fanbook imply Mika doesn’t have interest in the opposite sex? Why was Yuu’s answer “shut up”? Why is Mika Yuu’s main interest? Why is Yuu Mika’s main interest?
Why did Yuu blush and soften his gaze when Mika bit him even though being bitten is described as something painful? Why were both of them blushing whem Mika finished drinking?
Why is Yuu Mika’s reason to live?
Why make the opening and the ending be Yuu and Mika’s thoughts towards each other?
Why make the second opening sing “I look up to the sky and imagine your smile” at the very same moment Mika does exactly what the song says?
Why is Mika comfortable with living together with Yuu for the rest of his life hiding in the countryside?
Why does Mika go to the point of getting himself stabbed so many times, not only to protect Yuu, but in order to avoid him the guilt of have killed a friend?
Maybe some of these things alone would look like something friends would do but put all of them together and tell me it doesn’t sound like a love story.
I believe people say they’re “just brothers” because they can’t explain how two male characters can be so close.
And, don’t come and try to use the “they call each other family” with me because:
They aren’t even related by blood
Yuu calls the Squad and all of his friends “family”.
Saying it’s different because they lived in the same building for 4 years is terribly stupid.
Akane was in love with Mika thus the last statement is more than invalid.
They never called each other “brother” once.
Mikayuu can be seen as a platonic ship too, it’s up to you, but you can’t deny the proof and say their interactions can’t be romantic :/ it’s too much. Especially if the author considers yuu//noa interactions romantic. If that’s romantic then Mika and Yuu are married.
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