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The closure is that these horribly broken children were able to come to terms with their flaws and start their journeys to a normal existence. I don't see how it gets anymore satisfying than that without turning into some gay rear end fan fiction
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I'd a very japanese ending. I'm not saying this as an excuse or a codnemnation or anything, I'm just saying it's a very commont ype of ending in japanese media. My own feelings on it are mostly ambivalent.
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Nov 19, 2014 02:49
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I dunno what you guys are talking about, we got all the closure we needed: we saw Ishida's sister.
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Nov 19, 2014 03:46
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From the jaw down, anyways. I liked it. I don't really need big fat wrap-ups like a lot of folks do anymore, and I thought it was powerful enough that the Shou's were willing to face the most traumatizing part of their lives despite being scared. What they do in the future, whether they get together or not, that's entirely moot. The series was a romance fifth, maybe sixth, and a trauma-based drama about learning to cope with it and move on first and foremost.
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Nov 19, 2014 03:52
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Fine ending IMO. The kind of ending I would've hated the gently caress out of would've been some hacky 10-year time skip to everyone paired off with kids or some poo poo. :iamafag:
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Nov 19, 2014 04:12
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For me this felt like it was just the ending of the arc and not of the series. Past chapter would've worked way better as ending if they were going for an open ending.
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Nov 19, 2014 05:29
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Fabricated posted:Fine ending IMO. The kind of ending I would've hated the gently caress out of would've been some hacky 10-year time skip to everyone paired off with kids or some poo poo. :iamafag: I'll take Naruto for 500. No, I wasn't pissed at that ending, I was mostly delighted by all the butthurt and how it pisses on a decade's worth of fanfic. The ending for this could have been a little meatier, but honestly it was nice!
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Nov 19, 2014 05:35
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It was a very "And life goes on" ending. While there could of been one or two things I'd have liked to see a bit more proper closure on, it wasn't bad in the least. Just very... standard and safe as far as an ending point goes. All the actually important things had resolution already, so final chapter being about everyone moving on and their plans after school is fine by me.
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Nov 19, 2014 05:42
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I think something that people may be missing in the latest chapter is that the Coming of Age Day ceremony they're attending is for people who turned 20 that year. There was a non-obvious timeskip, which makes it all the more significant that these guys are still keeping in touch a few years after graduation.
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Nov 19, 2014 05:58
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I think Punpun had a better 'and yet life goes on' feeling for it's ending. It's probably because the chapters are so short here.
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Nov 19, 2014 11:31
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Nipponophile posted:I think something that people may be missing in the latest chapter is that the Coming of Age Day ceremony they're attending is for people who turned 20 that year. There was a non-obvious timeskip, which makes it all the more significant that these guys are still keeping in touch a few years after graduation. Yeah, this is basically something that wouldn't be obvious to people not familiar with Japanese customs like that. An explanation might've been nice for the English readers.
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Nov 19, 2014 11:57
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What a good series.
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Nov 19, 2014 14:18
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As endings go this was pretty safe and by-the-book, but the manga was great and it climaxed a while back and has just kinda been puttering around the last few chapters anyhow so that's fine. I'm happy there's an anime but I'm not all that excited about watching it at this point. Probably just the whole "Literally finished reading the manga 10 minutes ago" effect. In a few months I might be more interested in revisiting the series in another format.
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Nov 19, 2014 18:33
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The ending gave me all the closure I needed. The final scene is a metaphor about them facing the future together, and that's good enough for me. Also looking forward to the anime. I think that seeing the sign language animated will give this a breath of fresh air.
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Nov 19, 2014 23:12
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So, er, who was the blonde lady with the kid near the end? People here and there are saying it's Shimada, because they have similar eyes, and that the fat guy she was with was probably the 3rd guy in Ishida's old group of friends, but that would have really came outta nowhere since there was nothing leading up to it either.
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People have bad memories. John Carstairs posted:That is not him in the picture. I would assume it's his girlfriend. John Carstairs fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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Nov 20, 2014 01:04
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He was one of the buds
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I think I've figured out what I wanted in an ending, that would of course never happen because it's too far against the manga grain even for this manga. I'd like to see that 10-year timeskip mentioned earlier; a class reunion, where the cast is barely recognizable. They get to talking, and it's immediately apparent that they haven't all kept completely in touch, nor have their lives continued on as they were; maybe Sahara is working for a non-profit, Nagatsuka sends his regards because he had to stay home with his three kids, that sort of thing. Someone (probably the blonde one, let's be honest) brings up "the good old days", and everyone just kind of shifts uncomfortably, and then it clicks: this is a happy ending, because this group of hosed-up kids actually moved on. They've stopped letting themselves be defined by their pasts, high school included. Of course, that'd require something in Japan to not consider high school the Alpha and Omega of life. So, like I said, never gonna happen.
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Nipponophile posted:I think something that people may be missing in the latest chapter is that the Coming of Age Day ceremony they're attending is for people who turned 20 that year. There was a non-obvious timeskip, which makes it all the more significant that these guys are still keeping in touch a few years after graduation. drat thanks for pointing this out i wouldn't have figured this out.
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Nov 20, 2014 16:19
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We got closure on the moms and that's all I wanted out of this.
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Nov 20, 2014 16:35
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There might be an epilogue, y'never know!
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Anatharon posted:I think Punpun had a better 'and yet life goes on' feeling for it's ending. It's probably because the chapters are so short here. that's more because in the context of Punpun, "and yet life goes on" is a tragedy. As for the chapter, while I feel vindicated in the absolute-lack-of-romance ending, i gotta say that it was kind of an  way to end the series. I'd def say that the comic is weaker post suicide attempt, barring a couple chapters here and there.
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Nov 23, 2014 09:53
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i read this story over the week and i think it would have been better if the mom's kissed.
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That is a good idea, yessir!
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Nov 26, 2014 03:26
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but i really think the story should have just ended at like chapter 5 when he went to see her at the sign language class and just been open ended because honestly the next 57 chapters were terrible
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Nov 26, 2014 03:31
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I didn't really like the ending
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Dick Spacious CPA posted:i read this story over the week and i think it would have been better if the mom's kissed. 
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Nov 26, 2014 06:29
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Dick Spacious CPA posted:i read this story over the week and i think it would have been better if the mom's kissed. oh god this is getting me hot and bothered
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Dick Spacious CPA posted:i read this story over the week and i think it would have been better if the mom's kissed. 
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my honest opinion a week after the story ended is that i'm not too crazy about the whole thing in general it regularly had some good chapters so i don't regret reading it, but as a whole i don't think it ever really came together into a cohesive whole and it felt kinda aimless basically the one shot really was enough, i'm not sure it needed a full series
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Cake Attack posted:my honest opinion a week after the story ended is that i'm not too crazy about the whole thing in general I think it's a case of a weak ending dragging the rest down a bit. Ultimately most of the drama and character hangups past the first few chapters never really went anywhere. Everyone just sort of collectively went "Whelp, I'm terrible, better fix that poo poo off-panel" and then time-skip everyones happy yay.
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Nov 27, 2014 11:52
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Overall, it was one of the more interesting mangas I've read, but it was still a missed opportunity, particularly in terms of Nishimiya's characterisation in the second half of the story. I feel like Kawai or Eyebrows could've been cut out of the story entirely without much detriment to its themes.
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Nov 27, 2014 12:02
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Guess the anime might pick up the ending better. Or up the fanservice. Eh. Risky business.
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Nov 27, 2014 14:36
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It's been a week. I still liked the series and the ending. 
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Nov 27, 2014 15:58
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The series was good but then it just kinda died with a whimper.
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Nov 27, 2014 16:19
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They were willing to face the most traumatic period of both of their lives head on, together. I think the ending was fine. It wasn't a romance series to begin with even if the series had elements of it, so hopefully people aren't harping on it for not having a tied-with-a-bow pairing up ending.
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Nov 27, 2014 16:34
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For a romance series there's a major lack of communication between the two main characters.
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's how you build tension, isn't it? How much of this could have been resolved if Nishimiya had gotten her message through at the bridge?
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