The rage in these comments is far more entertaining that the manga.

No! no! no! no! no! no! nom! nom! nom nom nom... sigh... but this one expresses my reaction better. https://youtu.be/uFRcg6Inj6k

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It ended in a rush, but in my headcanon, Washio and Kotooka eventually hook up. See matching bracelets on the backcover.

So, it could have been worse.

But there's loads of "I won't be able to hold your hand anymore!" and "I didn't cherish our pure high school love!" There's this weird bittersweetness and ambiguity and open-endedness to it. We know what almost certainly is supposed to happen in the future, but it's tinged with this sadness. I mean, it didn't do what some yuri manga do and outright say "She kept her wonderful memories in her heart and cherished them forever even after she married a man and had a normal life," and there's nothing but the idea they WILL end up together, but it's playing on the same kinds of emotional beats.

Sure, there r some bittersweet "open-ended" lines, but Sasameki Koto actually builds its characters & their relationship well enough that it leaves little room for doubt to how it will end, unlike this series, which if it weren't 4 the extra strips showing their adult life, God knows if Kotooka & Washio ever got together (their chemistry is nonexistent) or if Tsukasa's feeling was just a phase all along.

I wished for tsukasa and kotooka to end up but what a load of crap

It ended in a rush, but in my headcanon, Washio and Kotooka eventually hook up. See matching bracelets on the backcover.

So, it could have been worse.

I thought i was the only one rooting for Washio and Kotooka. But yeah, i think they got together in the end somehow.

It ended in a rush, but in my headcanon, Washio and Kotooka eventually hook up. See matching bracelets on the backcover.

So, it could have been worse.

I think the author's notes, the star symbolism, and the general tone of the final chapter make it pretty clear that it's gonna happen, although it would still have been nice to actually see it.

Wow I'm so surprised that was the ending. I thought there would be more than that.

The prize for most unfulfilling ending in Yuri this year goes to...

It's a shame, especially that Tsukasa is the one left out. Its also the first time I've read a yuri and been happier with the BL than the actual yuri. =-p

Oh well, far from the worst around!

That bonus chapter with Subaru and Asakura almost makes up for the sub-par ending. Go get him, Subaru!

Little details:

Maezono-san likes Kashiwagi?

Guess who got married?

Also,

Your first love never works out

Notice that Washio and Kotooka both had a first love that didn't work out, unlike Tsukasa.

And of course, the bracelets.

That moment when you came for the yuri, but stayed for the yaoi! The ending was way too forced. Wished for more canon yuri but oh well.

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Is this really the end? Nothing really changed and nothing really happened, nothing was resolved either :(

The ending reminded me of 6 year-old fanfictions I've written and never updated again.

...basically hardly satisfactory.

...and another example of poor time management haha (knowing the time and chapter constraints)

Errr so... a yuri manga ends up with nothing beside the yaoi couple huh? -_-

Well, the vague ending in the actual panels is disappointing, but if you read the character background pages, it makes things perfectly clear. In particular, the last two bullet points on the page for Tsukasa:

"It must have been hard on her to be the center of two love triangles."

and

"Despite how it ended, Tsukasa will also end up happy eventually. I feel that she's a girl who doesn't think something along the lines of "unrequited love = unhappiness".

That says to me that the other four ended up as couples and Tsukasa is the hypotenuse in both love triangles. Or perhaps the center of the love hourglass? Given that she did seem to be actually impacted by Asakura's confession, having her end up as bisexual in the end isn't a stretch, either. I would have preferred if, when Kotooka asked about her boyfriend it turned out she had a new GIRLFRIEND instead, but hadn't told her two friends that the person she was dating was female yet. (On the flash forward thing where they're meeting in the diner.) But, then again, it would have been better, over all, if the series had gone longer and not ended so abruptly.

Sooo 25 chapters later aaaand.... Nothing got resolved.
I wish Subaru would at least have found out his sister likes Washio.. And it's kind of hard to imagine that his sister won't find out he was crossdressing as her, especially since she's bound to talk to Asakura sooner or later and figure it all out..
Meh whatever, at least it's over x)

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I've never seen a manga take such a roundabout path to return to the status quo.
I find it hard to find the point of it all. Something about interpersonal relationships?

Me: So what was the point of this story?
Author: It's a secret!

Waste of time...

Is this really the end? Nothing really changed and nothing really happened, nothing was resolved either :(

So you say it has YAma nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi?

This must be what they had in mind when they coined "YAOI"

I thought this manga would be good when the characters all developed, I'm like "here it comes I was waiting for this a long time, now start the actual drama and romance all together!!", but then 'the end'.
Me : (・_・)
Manga :
Me : (・_・)
Manga :
Me : ARDGSHWVEUXBSSNJK THAT'S IT ????!!!!!!

Unpopular opinion, but I actually
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Really really loved it. Yes, I found the ending dissapointing, yes I felt like the resolution for Tsukasa should have been stronger and yes I'm well aware of all the rushed material and flaws. But in the end, it's the kind of love that transcends the flaws of the manga itself well because, it's simply very unique. Towards the end the quality dropped but I can't completely blame the artist since the series got canceled. Putting that aside, we had an extremely well-written manga about unrequited love, finding one's own identitiy, overcoming insecurities and the troubles of teenage friendships- all told very befittingly from the perspective of realistic middle schoolers. An added bonus are the male characters who aren't actual dicks and are not used as the "homophobic straight male" trope or as the antagonists, but as actual proper characters who made the story flourish. I for one, was more bothered by how the author decided to retcon Asakura's growing feelings towards Subaru to play it out as a gag where Subaru is now "crossdresser with a sister complex". It's a rare thing for me to care about bl more than gl but Kobayashi-sensei managed to pull it off. Hats off to you, my time reading this was well spent.

GL, BL, Het, etc. It's all just love in the end.

Me: So what was the point of this story?
Author: It's a secret!

Lol, totally true. ^^
The thing is that the author didn't have the guts to make his character take a decision.
Why would he made all this build up to only get back at the state of the beginning ? That does not make any sense.