Aster

In all honest, Yuji made absolutely no show of reciprocating her feelings (heck, Yuko is internally monologuing and yuji is just "hehe snowman"). All this epilog did was solidify Yuko's feelings and show that Yuji retained his personality despite all the trauma he faced. It shows Yuji's resolve to keep pushing and to keep taking care of those who have passed on as he cleans out Gramps' house (which is also to what nobara and megumi were alluding to with rhe "no child deals with cleaning out a house). Plus it adds a bit of a parallel with Yuko doing mostly the same, showing that those who have faced hardship and those who haven't deal with similar life experience regardless. If Gege wanted to give Yuji a love interest, he would've a long time ago. To me, this epilog is less of setting up for a future relationship and more to show that even after a nearly world ending event, life picks right back up where you left it.

And not to mention that yutamaki is only "implied" and speculated, for all we know yuta ended up with someone completely different or adopted kids.

There is next to no romance in jjk and it's driving me insane that everyone is ignoring the larger points of these epilogs to use as shipping fodder.

In all honest, Yuji made absolutely no show of reciprocating her feelings (heck, Yuko is internally monologuing and yuji is just "hehe snowman"). All this epilog did was solidify Yuko's feelings and show that Yuji retained his personality despite all the trauma he faced. It shows Yuji's resolve to keep pushing and to keep taking care of those who have passed on as he cleans out Gramps' house. Plus it adds a bit of a parallel with Yuko doing mostly the same, showing that those who have faced hardship and those who haven't deal with similar life experience regardless. If Gege wanted to give Yuji a love interest, he would've a long time ago. To me, this epilog is less of setting up for a future relationship and more to show that even after a nearly world ending event, life picks right back up where you left it.