It did feel kind of truncated. The big final fight between the two central characters ended up being kind of minor, I thought? Even the match immediately before, with double-jointed pigtails girl, had more action and emotional tension than the one we'd ostensibly been building up to for most of the story. It's as if they were only a third of the way through the big climactic battle when she was choked out. And why even go for that gloriously dumb wedding shot if they weren't going to connect, at any point? I feel like the author had been sitting on that one frame for years, but when they realised they were cutting the fight short to get it over with, they had to jam it in at the first opportunity just to get it out of their system.
I don't know. All in all, I think the author had charted out a lot more for this series, but was starting to lose steam really badly, and just couldn't go on hiatus again. They probably still have a vague sense of properly continuing the story someday, but they can't bring themselves to commit to it right now. So we get a half-hearted ending filled with sequel hooks, making it easy to pick up with a season 2, but if that never works out, then it can just be filed away with all the other thousands of inconclusively concluded battle manga.
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