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>>46511138
How many children in a better world ?

>>46301455
honestly, i think people who want ikuko to be sayo just want their wish of sayo and battler being happy together to be fulfilled, but it just doesn't truly provide that
tohya isn't battler, to say he is would be denying the identity that he's clearly meant to have as a person that was established throughout EP8, and to condemn sayo to being eternally AROUND another man using the body of her beloved but not being that man is not granting her a happy ending, it's just sentencing her to further torment
even if you were to ignore all the things that don't add up in the ikuko-tohya story, if you were to say sayo was ikuko, it still provides nothing but a bitter tinge to the ending, nothing is truly improved it's just made worse for all
it was bad enough that ryukishi's office workers refused to let tohya have his own love life, to sentence both him and sayo to a permanent, inadequate life where neither will be happy and both remain lost purely to satisfy a shipper's denial of all other relationships is even worse