Well that was a stretch

=Thwack!= Nandeyanen.

I will happily buy this entire series from shou in paper form

piss all over it

and then send it back

because that's what he did with my hopes and dreams

Because ideally, that's the audience he'll take with him to his next serious project, and so forth.

I unsuscribed Stretch, thought about Prism again and then subscribed to Shou on a whim. I'm not sure I'm going to read everything he puts out but I'd like to at least know about new stuff.

I like this ending, especially as they parted with a 'see you later' rather than a 'goodbye'

Is the first panel from when Ran moved in or is that supposed to be a glimpse of when she goes to visit Keiko?

e: words are hard, hitting the sack.

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The stretch became to long, so they ended things.

W...why though?

WHY THOUGH??

I don't get why something so boring has so many replies...
That's the fascinating part.

I'm not really surprised it ended this way, just a little bit disappointed that we didn't get something at least a little bit more concrete than that.

what. the. fuck.

i am so disappointed i can't even [to think i was about to start gushing with the hug and the "i will miss you" ugh]

I don't get why something so boring has so many replies...
That's the fascinating part.

Its like those dudes that keep going to the strip club thinking that the stripper REALLY LIKES them?

That's us.

We're the dudes.

And the strip club just closed for the night.

And us with our (figurative) blue balls.

end... End.. END?!!!
WHAT THE FUCK SHOU

I really hate it if a mangaka wrote a lot of chapters just to turn his complete work into shit with the last few pages.

Stretch was really nice, I didn't need any Yuri, but the ending made this manga so damn worthless and all I feel is I wasted my time on reading this. I really Hope this gets a sequel. But then again, ain't this author known for not ending his works or just turning them into shit? Maybe it's time to put him onto my block list...

Well, tbh this kind of ending is kind of expected. Look at how shou represents the important chapters in the past. He was pretty much clear that they (ran and keiko) wouldn't be doing romantic stuff in the Manga itself. Everything was pretty much open for our imagination.

IMO, this ending fits with the whole theme of the Manga. It's light, fun, sometimes a bit serious, and not complicated.

As I wrote before. I don't need Yuri in this Story. A non Yuri way is fine with me. It's just this whole story seems so damn pointless to me after reading the end. The met, the lived together, they go separate ways in 45 chapters - and no one gave a fucking shit about it. To me it seems like the whole point of the story was to write and maybe sell something and after about 40-42 chapters the author suddenly felt like "meh fuck this shit, not doing this any more".

In German I'd say the ending was "dahingeklatscht" roughly translating to doing something half-heartedly just to get done with it.

I don't get why something so boring has so many replies...
That's the fascinating part.

Its like those dudes that keep going to the strip club thinking that the stripper REALLY LIKES them?

B-But Shou said that I wasn't like the other clients that come to the club! he said that I was his favorite...

I like the "Until the next time" because we don't know where the heck Keiko is going and we don't know what was the message in their cellphones or the afterword or extra chapter... We can still dream.

BUT that "FRIENDS FOREVER" damn! That was intentionally put there to hurt us.

Wait, is that it? Well, guess I'll go sit in a corner for a little bit.

I don't get why something so boring has so many replies...
That's the fascinating part.

I'm with Grim Eater here. Granted, I haven't read Stretch, except for the last half of the last chapter. Delusions of yuri aside, after skimming some of the comments here I take it that it's got good characterization/interpersonal relationships/"genuine feelings" or whatever. That's nice.

Its like those dudes that keep going to the strip club thinking that the stripper REALLY LIKES them?

That's us.

We're the dudes.

And the strip club just closed for the night.

And us with our (figurative) blue balls.

Haha, that's quite the way to put it. My condolences.

we don't know what was the message in their cellphones

The message was the picture in the last page that was sent by Saki senpai to both Ran and Keiko

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WHAT THE FUCK

ak48

Show mentioned something about a Sequel.
Look forward to the 4th volume

If true then perhaps it was good that it finished here, and the sequel (which 98% won't happen) is one time when Keiko goes back for a bit or something.

I knew it was gonna end like this after the abruptness of Keiko moving but held a little hope that he will at least tie up some loose ends, but with this ending it leaves quite a lot to be desired. I wonder if Prism didn't get canceled would they break up at the end?

if it ends here im gonna be reaaaaallly upset

That is odd. Without the End I would have never assumed that the manga just ended. Forget all te yuri stuff, the story just feels like it stopped somewhere right before the last few chapters. It is missing way too much.

hahahaha, that was brilliant. Stretch is definitely a masterpiece of a yuri genre. It's been an amazing trip. And what I love about it, I'll keep rereading it once in a while discovering more and more hints of whatever ending I myself want. And Shou obviously ran out of exercises to depict.

And the best part about the ending, I'm glad that Keiko's going to see and accept her mother.

PS
Thanks to everybody for the fantastic discussions in this thread. You guys and our emotions are what actually made the manga priceless. I'll definitely miss that experience. And thanks to Shou of course for the awesome trollobait ride.

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It was an amazing trip that sadly had electrical problems and had to pull over and be towed over the finish line.

It was an amazing trip that sadly had electrical problems and had to pull over and be towed over the finish line.

And it wasn't even towed through the last part of the course, it just took a shortcut

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END ...END you ..are you f*cking kidding me D:

Shou is the greatest troll of all time, this entire series has been engineered to piss off as many people as possible, and it's a beautiful thing

I think the sorrow here is twofold.

One the one side we overhyped ourselves to the bloody skies. Always jumping at the chapter the second it comes out, always trying to see the small subtextual trials left in between the words, always yearning for that next fix. He put out a bait and we caught it like the lily-loving little fishies we are.

Though on the other hand, he did this to us. He left the bait out, he strung us along for 45 chapters, and the subtext was at times thick enough to put a spoon in it. He knew exactly what he was doing!

My biggest disappointment though is not in that it wasn't a Yuri ending, I could even have handled a het-ending or a "Confession ends in rejection" ending. This was neither Yuri nor Het, but the big problem is I'd barely even call it an ending at all. We don't get any conclusion, no satisfaction, and everything is still left unanswered.

Simply put, I think most of us here could've handled any kind of ending, but what we got was no ending. At least no ending that most of us could grasp. I think that's why so many of us are upset.

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