Summary
The Chained Soldier breaks the romance by not kissing until the season or series finale, when Shushu voluntarily kisses Yuuki. Shushu’s controversial character portrayal and behavior make her the perfect character to subvert this trope. Even though the kiss may have been one-sided, it still held significance because it was motivated by Shushu’s genuine emotions, which is rare in romance anime.
Warning: The following contains spoilers for The Chained Soldier episode 6!!Although sometimes involved in controversy, The soldier was chained ABOVE HIDE not to make headlines for anything controversial, but to completely dismantle one of the biggest romance tropes in the perfect way – by going beyond the successful, albeit obvious, gimmick , by itself without being official. Shushu Suruga just kissed her lover Yuuki Wakura, and it’s not because of some special power that some of the characters act overly or inappropriately affectionate..
One of the original attractions of Chained Soldier was that Yuuki received a nice reward from Kyouka Uzen every time she used him in battle. While this sometimes involves kissing, no one can really say that these instances break the grand romantic pattern of lovers not kissing until the end of an anime season or series, because Kyouka had no choice but to reward Yuuki in this way.
However, in Chained Soldier episode 6, Shushu only did this of his own free will. What’s truly amazing about this development is that the anime chose to do it for her, just because of the way she’s been portrayed up until now.
The chained soldier couldn’t have broken the no-kissing trend with a better character
Produced by Seven Arcs, based on the manga by Takahiro & Yohei Takamura
One of Chained Soldier’s many shonen genres includes the more disturbing harem type, where Yuuki gets into steamy situations with individual girls. In this regard, Shushu is always the one who is most at fault. Although her feelings for him were clearly genuine, her way of expressing them could easily be interpreted as one of the most disgusting types of harassment. Still, it’s hard to believe that someone as controversial as Shushu would be the first character to kiss Yuuki for a reason unrelated to the series’ reward system.
Of course, there are some caveats to the explanation that The Chained Soldier defies the no-kiss romance trope. Shushu may have legitimate feelings and voluntarily kiss Yuuki, but it’s just a one-sided thing. There are no signs that Yuuki reciprocates Shushu’s feelings. It’s more likely that he cares or would care about Kyouka in this capacity. Therefore, it would be much more important if Yuuki and Kyouka shared a passionate kiss instead of him and Shushu for that reason. In other words, those who share this view certainly believe that the Chained Soldier will only break the no-kissing saying when it happens.
While the criticism is concerning, any form of kissing motivated by actual emotions is rare in romance anime. Since the first time Shushu and Yuuki appeared, in the episode “Curiosity, Shushu, Undressing”, viewers have known that she is at least attracted to him, and not just interested or curious like at first. head.
Each sequel has hinted that her appeal may run even deeper. Therefore, it cannot be said that there have been no fans embracing the “YuShu” or “ShuKi” ships in the past few weeks. At least, their kiss HIDELatest episode of The soldier was chained more epic than ever between Yuuki and Kyouka.
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