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astralhope · 3 months ago

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Another thing in Zexal manga ending that broke my heart (among many other things) is the fact that Astral wasn't going to tell Yuma and the others that he would sacrifice himself after gathering all the Numbers.

He wanted them to come back to Earth before completing his mission so that they would never know. He would have disappeared from their life with a simple goodbye, he would have become just a memory for them.

They would never know what had happened to him, Yuma would never know about his sacrifice to stop E'Rah completely.

He wanted them to only be happy about their victory, to return to a normal life.

He didn't want Yuma to be sad because of him, because of what he must do.

But Yuma knew what Astral was hiding from them, and he wasn't going to accept that. How could he? After all those battles, how could he let Astral sacrifice himself? All those discourses about hope and the future, and then Astral would seal himself for all eternity, alone, without letting any of them know what his real fate was.

No, Yuma wouldn't accept that, even if that meant fighting against Astral, even if he had to fight against all the Numbers with Utopia as his only hope. He was ready to do anything to keep Astral from sacrifice himself.

#Yuma held back Utopia as his only hope to stop Astral from doing what he had to do #he clung at it because it was the last piece that Astral needed to complete his mission #and Yuma had seen what that would have meant for Astral #he saw what would have happened to him #“It is all over” Astral wasn't talk just about their adventure #everything in this scene is so clear #their expressions their words everything here is perfect #especially the dialogues between Yuma and Astral #Astral's resolution of going on with his mission even after learning what would happened to him #and his care for Yuma in both his words and expressions: he wanted him to go home without looking back with pain #and then there's Yuma's hurt and anger because of Astral's mission and because Astral was lying to him #making him believe that everything was okay that Astral would be okay #and his own resolution of saving Astral by dueling against him #and also his fear because Astral's fate was terrifying #If Yuma and Astral hadn't been one Yuma and the others wouldn't have known the real fate of Astral #They would have just left without ever know what had happened to him #I just can't stop thinking about this #this scene is the moment where what it seemed a perfect ending became the start of a tragic last act #and as usual Yuma and Astral make me so emotional that it's hard to find the words to describe how much the end of the manga hurt #astral zexal #astral yugioh #yuma tsukumo #zexal #yugioh zexal #yu gi oh zexal #ygo zexal #zexal manga #zexal manga spoiler

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