YuuNoa

"I really love Yuichiro."

- Shinoa to Shikama Doji

YuuNoa is the het ship between Shinoa Hīiragi and Yuichiro Hyakuya from the Seraph of the End fandom.

Canon
Shinoa and Yuichiro first meet in Chapter 2 of the manga, Shinoa originally was supposed to watch over Yuichiro, to see if he makes friends.

Both then quickly become friends, and are seen to get along good, even though Yuichiro seems to be annoyed by her constant teasing about him. During Chapter 8 Shinoa is seen to wait outside for Yuichiro, when Yuichiro then comes outside and sees Shinoa, she says that his Uniform look's good on him, to which he responds "Well...it looks good on you too", Shinoa then teases Yuichiro because of his respond.

At the end of Chapter 10, Shinoa thanks Yuichiro for saving the team, which caused him to become flustered. Yuchirio is about to activate his seraph form during Chapter 13 and he sees Shinoa who is getting bitten by a vampire. Seeing Shinoa getting bitten by a vampire seems to completely activate his seraph form. Guren tells Shinoa, that she needs to hug Yuichiro, so that he can come back to his human form, Shinoa firstly was embrassed about having to hug Yuichiro, but then decides to hug him, for his sake. Shinoa then hugs Yuichiro and he come's back to his his usual self. Later, Shinoa confronts Guren about Yuichiros transformation. Guren in turn asks her if she has fallen love with Yuichiro, which Shinoa is very embarrassed about. Shinoa then visits a sleeping Yuichiro, in the hospital and asks herself if she has really fallen in love with Yuichiro, but then denies it, but say's that she wishes that Yuichiro would wake up soon, with a blush on her face.

In the beginning of Chapter 15, Shinoa visits Yuichiro who just woke up, in the hospital. Shinoa firstly teases Yuichiro about being a crybaby, because he was crying, when she arrived at his room. After, Shinoa is finished teasing Yuichiro, they begin to talk about Mikaela. Yuichiro then later, notices Shinoas wound and is worried about her and touches the wound at Shinoa's neck, Shinoa is suprised about it and is seen to be embarrassed, and she then closes her eyes, and maybe expects something else from Yuichiro. Mitsuba then comes inside Yuichiro's hospital room and is suprised, at Yuichiros and Shinoas position. Shinoa embarrassed tries to explain to Mitsuba, that Yuichiro was just worried about her wound, and nothing else happened between the two. During Chapter 18, Shinoa joins Yuichiro on the roof, and they have a talk about Mikaela and Yuichiro asks Shinoa to help him to get Mikeala back, which Shinoa agrees too. Yuichiro and Shinoa then hold hands for a short time. While holding hands, Guren comes on the roof and and asks Shinoa and Yuichiro, if they are on a date and hold hands because of this. Gurens question embarrasses Shinoa, Yuichiro on the other hand, stays complete calm.

Guren later on, asks Shinoa again if she has fallen in love with Yuichiro and Shinoa responds, that she doesn't know it herself. Shinoas sister, Mahiru Hiragi, asks Shinoa, in Chapter 56, with who'm, from her squad, she wants to do it and Shinoa smiles at Yuichiro. Which seemed to give Mahiru, her answer. Shinoa later speaks with her demon Shikama Doji, who tells her that she is in love and that when she watches Yuichiro she feels her heart racing. In Chapter 73, Shinoa's demon possesed her. Yuichiro later hears about Shinoas possession and immediatly loosenes his chains and goes to Shinoa, to see if she's alright. Arrived at Shinoas room, Yuichiro asks her if shes alright, and she answers that she is okay, Yuichiro then promises to save Shinoa, which confuses Shinoa but causes her to blush.

Shikama Doji later attacks Asuramaru and Yuichiro. Shinoa comes to help Yuichiro and Shikama Doji states that she came to help him, because she loves him. Shinoa then fights against Shikama Doji, but ends up losing. After Shinoa losed against Shikama Doji, she ends up sacrifing herself for Yuichiro, to protect him. Shinoas sacrifice, greatly impacts Yuichiro. He later also screams that someone should save Shinoa.

After Shinoa is rescued, from Shikama Dojis possession, she immediately goes looking for Yuichiro with her squad. After finally finding Yuichiro, Shinoa talks with herself and say's, that she has to rescue Yuichiro, and that he was crying and asks herself if she even has the power to save him.

In chapter 96, after Shinoa gets drunk, Yu takes her and Mitsuba on his shoulders. Shinoa starts blushing and embarrassed, telling Yu that she's all dirty, but Yu says he doesn't care, adding "We're all friends here". Even though he heard about Shinoa's love from Shikama, he still considers her as his friend.

During chapter 99, she says a lot of times to Shikama Doji that she is in love with Yuichiro. Yuichiro, worried, rushes over to help her, and when Shinoa sees him, she say's in her head; "aah...I'am most definitely..", and when he touches her shoulder she lays her hand on his.

In Chapter 101 Shinoa says that she will cry if Yuichiro dies, with a blush on her face.

In Chapter 103, Shinoa fights Shikama. At one point, Shikama says that Shinoa wants to save Yuichiro. When Shinoa hears that Yuu and Mika are in danger, she pulls down the walls of her heart and says that Shikama can take possession of her. Shikama says that she really wants to save Yuu and that this desire is somewhere in the corners of her heart, but he leaves her anyway. When Shikama leaves, Shinoa screams "Yuu-san", but Yuu didn't hear her.

In Chapter 104, Yuu recalls some moments with the squad before submit Mika. At one point, Shinoa says that they will support him and she wishes him luck. Yuu smiles softly in response.

In Chapter 107, when Shinoa hears that Yu and Mika need help fighting Shikama, she injects herself with poison to weaken Shikama, saying she will save Yu.

In Chapter 108, Yu learns from Yoichi that Shinoa injected herself with poison to weaken Shikama and help Yu. Yu realizes that Shinoa is helping him too. After that, he leads a monologue and says that he wants to answer his friends in kind and wants to protect them. After that, he says that he wants love from his friends, because he is not able to love himself and he needs someone who will do it for him. When talking about friends, Yu also refers to Shinoa, which shows that Shinoa is just as much a friend to him as the rest of the squad.

In Chapter 109, Yu thanks Shinoa for her help, as does the rest of the squad, to which she smiles and blushes in return. Shinoa is also happy when she sees that Yu and Mika are fine.

In Chapter 110, Shinoa sees Yu and Mika talking. She says Yu has matured quite a bit. Yu starts to worry about Shinoa and asks if she's okay. In response to this, Shinoa jokes if Yu will take her in his arms as a princess if she says that she is not well. But Yu doesn't understand that this is a joke, and really take Shinoa in his arms. Shinoa tries to explain that this is a joke and blushes heavily. She ends up supposedly going to bed, causing Yu and the others to worry. Yu stood with Shinoa in his arms for a long time until Ferid arrived. Yu then sees that Shinoa has woken up, but she replies that she didn't sleep. Yu doesn't understand why Shinoa did it. Shinoa tells him to think, but Yu still doesn't know. After that, Shinoa says that's what she thought and gets off of Yu's arms. This scene shows that Yu doesn't really understand Shinoa's feelings and doesn't try. After a while, Shinoa talks to Mika about protecting Yu. When Mahiru starts getting on Mika, Shinoa becomes seriously angry and say that won't forgive Mahiru if she somehow hurts Yu.

In Chapter 112, Shinoa also supports Yu in his decision to forgive Guren and is the first to put her hand on Yu's arm. She is overjoyed when Yu and Guren reconcile.

In Chapter 113, Shinoa begins a big talk about what happened to the world and discussing with Guren. At one point, she begins to reveal her feelings and for the first time cries in front of everyone. Seeing this, Yu calls her a "idiot". He grabs her and Guren's hand and tries to reconcile them. After that, Shinoa joins the Yu family circle.

When Yu starts to oppose the idea of resurrecting humanity instead of Mika and became against the whole team, Shinoa doesn't attack Yu because she doesn't have a weapon, but she looks worried when Guren and Mahiru attack Yu and Shinoa trying call him.

When Mika gets mad at Yu for his actions, he asks who he now considers his enemies and against whom he is fighting. Mika sees that Yu thinks of the entire squad, including Shinoa, as enemies, meaning that he no longer considers them friends.

In Chapter 118, Yu continues to fight. At some point, the squad, including Shinoa, tries to talk to Yu. Shinoa asks Yu to return to them. As the others talk about families, Shinoa expresses her feelings to Yu by crying and hugging him. She asks him not to leave without her and says that she can no longer live without him. Yu hears the words of the entire squad and it brings him to tears. He remembers that he has friends, including Shinoa. When Yu wakes up, he lies on Shinoa's lap and sees her face. Shinoa is happy to see him, but he only says "I'm sorry, Shinoa". Realizing that Yu is about to leave, Shinoa begs Yu not to, but he just ignores her and leaves. Shinoa watches this in horror and later looks up at the ceiling Yuu escaped from, very upset.

In Chapter 119, Mika mentions to Yu that all of Yu's friends, including Shinoa, love him. When Mika says Yu should live a new life without him with another family and partner, he proposes to Yu the Shinoa as a partner and tells him to try to love Shinoa. In response to this, Yu gets angry and hits Mika, saying that it sounds like "go and die" to him. This shows that Yu doesn't even want to try to love Shinoa like she loves him.

Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen Light Novels
In Volume 7 Chapter 1 of the Guren novel's, Shinoa talks to his demon Shikama. At one point, Shinoa says that she has no desires or feelings, to which Shikama replies, “No, you also have desires. The desire for love, the desire for lust, the desire to be needed. Now there is none who could do this for you, but one day you will meet him, someone who can satisfy you (Meaning it will be Yuu). " Due to an erroneous translation into English, this phrase changed its meaning and many thought that Shikama called Yuu the fate partner of Shinoa, but, in fact, Shikama never called Yuu the fate partner of Shinoa. He said that Yuu would be the one to satisfy Shinoa and her desires, but he did not say that Yuu would have the same feelings for her or that they need to be together.

Quotes
"Oh, Shinoa, you look so adorable in that uniform I could positively die! After all, I'm just a poor, inexperienced virgin.' Really? I understand"

- Shinoa teasing Yuichiro

"Watching him, I can't help but wonder... How can he always get so worked up for the sake of others? ...There he goes again... getting attached to another so easily... Aah... It's amazing. Compared to him, I have a demon inside of me too, but... I have no raging passions, no welling emotions"

- Shinoa thinking about Yuichiro

"A reason... to live. I'm curious, Yuichiro. Teach me. Teach me more"

- Shinoa's tought's about Yuichiro

"Aha ha. Goodness, Yuichiro. You're always so loud. But I'm sorry. I'm afraid I might have to hurt you"

- Shinoa to Yuichiro

Fanon
YuuNoa is one of the most popular ships in the Seraph of the End fandom, it's main rival ships are MikaYuu and MitsuNoa and in rare cases the MitsuYuu ship. The fandom currently is in a ship war between MikaYuu and YuuNoa.

The main reason why the ship sailed was because of Shinoa's heavily implied romantic feelings for Yuichiro, although the ship is popular, it received a mixed reaction from the Seraph of the End  fandom, common used arguments why people dislike the ship are: that Shinoa's feelings came out of the blue, that Shinoa got brainwashed into loving Yuichiro, due mostly other people like Shikama Doji, Guren and Mahiru, pointing out for her that she is in love with Yuichiro or that her crush is a result of compulsive heterosexuality. Many people also may dislike the ship because it gets in the way of MikaYuu and MitsuNoa.

On Archive Of Our Own it's the 7th most written ship for the Seraph of the End tag. It's the 2th most written ship for Yūichirō, and as well the 2th most written ship for Shinoa. YuuNoa also has over 300 works on it's Pixiv tag.

Fandom
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 * Shinoa/Yuichiro on FanFiction.Net
 * Shinoa/Yuichiro on FanFiction.Net

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Trivia

 * Shinoa likes to tease Yūichirō, which usually annoys him.
 * Shinoa usually calls Yūichirō by the nickname "Yu-san".
 * Shinoa and Yuichiro are part of the same Team, the "Shinoa squad".
 * Mitsuba who has a heavily implied crush on Yuichiro, is often seen in Manga panels with Shinoa and Yuichiro, implying that she could be jealous of Shinoa, for being close with Yuichiro.

Variations

 * MikaYuuNoa refers to the ship between the two and Mikaela Hyakuya.
 * Yuichiro Harem refers to the ship between the two, Mikaela Hyakuya and Mitsuba Sangu.