@dankdevice Doesn't that just reflect more on the writer's ability though? Characters can still actually be a couple in the series and it can still be a good read. If anything, ending a series with the relationship beginning (with maybe some timeskip epilogue with them making a family) seems...
Uh... does the iron in Akaza's blood kinda resonate with the iron in their swords so he can kinda sense the attacks and their paths of trajectory... like a magnetic Seikuken from History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi?