Takaya Kagami's writing is overhated.
Even though i liked all the extended cast in SOTE, i believe killing them off is one of the best choices Kagami could've made at that point in the manga tbh. I wish to ramble about why:
He started this manga with a small story of 2 boys trapped at the end of the world. Then he wanted to expand on how that world ended. He had always planned for it to be a story about angels. (seraph of the end)
He made many loveable characters along the way exploring the biblical ways family, greed, lust, desperation etc drive people. The corruption and the hurt that can coincide with the desperation to live.
The Angel's selfish desires and the humans selfish desires are no different.
Angels, humans and vampires are all motivated by different forms of desire then become demons who eat desire itself.
We are in the final arc of the manga now/approaching it. Theres so little of the world left and even the characters the audience have come to know are dropping like flies.
Shinoa doesnt want to continue the cycle of ressurecting the dead anymore. She has lived her entire life with a guarded heart and there is nothing to look back upon. So she is not motivated by that sort of nostalgic yearning desire in the way other characters are.
"Squad policy, family looks out for family" -Shinoa chapter 23
She is still protecting her family, but is grounded to the present and those living around her. She really was the most perfect character to explore this direction.
Kagami writes things that i think annoy readers as a story released monthly, because info is drip-fed but long term it does actually flow.
The one fault in Kagami's writing is not the concepts themselves but the amount of characters that have been introduced to explore them.
Hes a good character writer which is why there are fans of all the random side characters in the first place, but they all distract from the main plotline really. All part of the chaos of the end of the world that they've been dropped in. Searching for meaning and purpose in their lives.
The story started with Mika, yuu, the end of the world and the Angel's actions that led them there. Perhaps that is what we might end with.
We'll see.
It also might end with the cycle finally being ended for good.
"What about Narumi?"
As for fans that ask "Wheres Narumi!!!?!!" Narumi was brought along temporarily as a nice moment to show comradeship. But also to have a character less familiar with the shinoa squads concept of family+yuuichiro to question Mikas humanity. There isnt much to do with him outside of that. Nothing that wouldnt have been distracting and a waste of time anyway, so he was lost in the chaos of war. I dont think he was anyone's favourite character nor do i think it was bad writing that he is now gone.He couldve been killed off but that wouldve taken more pages. He was there to have conflict. Thats all.
Kagami's writing isn't perfect. But people overlook what's good about it imo
