I almost forgot about this series. I should have not read the latest chap, should have left where I left...

Wait.... so judging from that art cover page, I'm assuming none of the girls end up with each other but they have boyfriends apparently. Not a single hint of all that any of the other girls turned out differently. What a hopeful ending for us readers.

Shame, I was actually enjoying this series but once I read that the series was canceled I knew the author was going to give rushed half assed ending, and judging from that cover page, it basically said that none of them end up together. I going to to finish the series just to get some closure since I do like the characters, particularly kotooka, but I'm not looking foward to it.

Before going into this chapter I thought it was going to end KotookaxWashio with a broken-hearted but supportive Tsukasa

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This could have been such a good series if it wasn't cancelled. (and if Kotooka finally shut her damn fool mouth for once)
Shame, too, the author is a really great writer, with some nice art style, so it's sad to see such talent totally wasted. But that's what you get when you spend so much time building up the scenario only to waste chapters with filler that no one remains invested.

Honestly, even with the cancellation, the author didn't need actually need to give any of them a boyfriend unless that was the intention the whole time. Unless that was also a (bizarrely specific and counterintuitive) form of editorial meddling, which... I guess it could be? If we're trying to absolve the author of everything we possibly can? I just think that, regardless of what the author was trying to do, if they hypothetically wanted to put middle fingers up and say "fuck you" to everyone who'd gotten invested in the story, a pretty effective way to do that would be to resolve none of the romance plots and then say that at least one of the girls is thinking about marrying a boy instead.

I'm just really glad I stopped caring about this story back in chapter 8. I kept an eye on it afterwards, kinda hoping that the plot would go somewhere and I'd get drawn back in, but... No chance of that anymore, I guess.

Lots of people saying "I stopped caring about this story back in..."

I was one of those who still caring at this point... Just kill me now...

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Btw, what's the point of keeping the "yuri" tag?

Just get rid of it...

Btw, what's the point of keeping the "yuri" tag?

Just get rid of it...

I guess because this isn't Kotooka's first time having feelings towards other girls. She's at least on the bi spectrum if not full on gay. Even though I'm not a fan of this idea, you could technically say the other two (washio and tsukasa) are just having those feelings of adolescence, but Kotooka IMHO is definitely attracted to women primarily.

Btw, what's the point of keeping the "yuri" tag?

Just get rid of it...

I guess because this isn't Kotooka's first time having feelings towards other girls. She's at least on the bi spectrum if not full on gay. Even though I'm not a fan of this idea, you could technically say the other two (washio and tsukasa) are just having those feelings of adolescence, but Kotooka IMHO is definitely attracted to women primarily.

Kotooka can not be happy with men after all. So I guess she is a full lesbian.
But still, at least change to "Yuri crush" so people don't get baited by this mess.

I guess the author got bitter about the series getting cancelled and decided to take it out on the readers, nice, happens way too often.

Oh, is this the new "Shou did Stretch as revenge over what happened with Prism"?

Nezchan posted:

I guess the author got bitter about the series getting cancelled and decided to take it out on the readers, nice, happens way too often.

Oh, is this the new "Shou did Stretch as revenge over what happened with Prism"?

Is more like the Happy End drama(justified)... Well, maybe not as bad for me, but is worse for others.

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I can only wish for the author to die. Preferably in a car fire, or maybe from hunger. Yeah, that'd be nice.

I can only wish for the author to die. Preferably in a car fire, or maybe from hunger. Yeah, that'd be nice.

He must be starving because APPARENTLY his manga is not selling and it was CANCELLED!

Oh boy, I can´t get over my anger...

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Jesus, people, it's just a gay picture book.

Yes please, let's not reach Oreimo fans level

Sorry for the rage.

It's just frustrating to see a series that you love and followed for months to end so sad...

Jesus, people, it's just a gay picture book.

It's more than that: it's giving the middle finger to the people that spent time reading your work.

As other people have said, the biggest problem with the way the ending seems to be headed will be if it ends up vindicating Kotooka's point of view, because everything up to now has shown that the way she's trying to live is self-destructive. She's been driving the emotional conflict of the story more than anyone else, so if she doesn't at least get her shit sorted out the whole story will have been a bit pointless. I don't even need to see her end up with one of the other main characters, just... not keep doing what she's doing.

LilyBlack posted:

As other people have said, the biggest problem with the way the ending seems to be headed will be if it ends up vindicating Kotooka's point of view, because everything up to now has shown that the way she's trying to live is self-destructive. She's been driving the emotional conflict of the story more than anyone else, so if she doesn't at least get her shit sorted out the whole story will have been a bit pointless. I don't even need to see her end up with one of the other main characters, just... not keep doing what she's doing.

I thought she was a great character, she was my favorite and I had high hopes for her but now she will be remembered as the crazy bitch from the cancelled manga.

Fuck I know I said I wanted things to happen faster but like not like this geez.

Omg, 4 more chapters till the end?!

Question: Which chapters were made before the author knew that the manga was canceled? Which chapters are from the original story and which chapters were made after he was informed of the cancellation?

Or... is the whole volume 5 made after he became aware of the cancellation?

komugi posted:

Question: Which chapters were made before the author knew that the manga was canceled? Which chapters are from the original story and which chapters were made after he was informed of the cancellation?

Or... is the whole volume 5 made after he became aware of the cancellation?

No way to know for sure, I bet arround chapter 19 to 21 he was noticed.

Come to think of it, In this chapter (19), I cannot help thinking that Kotooka overreacted... She even slapped Washio... She usually deals carefully with these amorous situations. In this case she was quite bitchy from the beginning.

That's why I find this chapter a bit off