Re: Juri/Shiori. Well, I tend to be very fond of Shiori. However, I tend to agree with the authors that she and Juri shouldn't get together in THIS particular universe, though perhaps not for their reasons. ^^;;

Shiori suffers from horrible self-esteem and self-image, and tends to overcompensate wildly whenever she senses she's gaining any sort of hold over the one person she's compared herself to most of her life, Juri. If she ended up in the UF world, she'd quickly find herself among a group of people who would not tolerate anything remotely resembling that behavior, and would be very quick to tell her to either get with the program or go. This would be bad for Shiori in the extreme, IMO - even by the end of the show, I don't think she's ready to feel good about herself. Now Juri has LOTS of new friends with cool powers. Before Juri's only real friend was Miki, and even then they were still duellists. Shock to the system, and probably she'd simply vanish rather than deal with it.

So, I'm not looking for J/S in UF. I do think the authors are handling Juri wonderfully, BTW. ^_^

--SG