I see, the title is 'My Unrequited Love', so it ended when it stopped being unrequited. It's not about them getting together, or how they passed from unrequited love to having a relationship. It's like a slice of life that instead of being wholesome it has drama. Reading unrequited love is probably the payoff in and of itself. Probably only for tMnR.

I hate timeskips. They are the worst thing the Universe can provide. You can timeskip if you fill the space with a small summary of what happened, it's okay. Just don't drop me into another world with a turn of a page. Reach the conclusion, finish everything that's been going on, wrap up the story. Then, sure. A nice epilogue like 'what happens in 5-20 years with the heroes of the story' is fine. I like that. Why do they have the need to do that in the middle? WHY? I hate timeskips. The are the single bad thing the Universe can provide.

I see, the title is 'My Unrequited Love', so it ended when it stopped being unrequited. It's not about them getting together, or how they passed from unrequited love to having a relationship. It's like a slice of life that instead of being wholesome it has drama. Reading unrequited love is probably the payoff in and of itself. Probably only for tMnR.

Right--there's this one weird trick that makes unrequited love turn into requited love.

We just don't get to know what it is.

I see, the title is 'My Unrequited Love', so it ended when it stopped being unrequited. It's not about them getting together, or how they passed from unrequited love to having a relationship. It's like a slice of life that instead of being wholesome it has drama. Reading unrequited love is probably the payoff in and of itself. Probably only for tMnR.

Right--there's this one weird trick that makes unrequited love turn into requited love.

We just don't get to know what it is.

Heavy, heavy drugs and lazy writing.

1). "I'm back."
Okay so I'm guessing Uta's visited Kaoru a couple of times? But she says she hasn't seen Kaoru in over a year now... I'm confused honestly.

Like everyone's been saying, two timeskips. "I haven't seen Kaoru" is Uta in college. The end is Uta coming home from work, after college.

Suggestion: Uta is living platonically with Kaoru, and is one of the customers of all those yuri brothels we've been seeing recently, to meet her physical needs. :D

That or she just grinds on Kaoru like a body pillow every night.

It will be funny if "Living with my brother's wife" gets a better ending than MUL.

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It will be funny if "Living with my brother's wife" gets a better ending than MUL.

I don't think there's any doubt that, whatever the ending of "Brother's Wife" is, it will be light-years better than this one.

On a totally different note, I just realized the significance of that "I learned what it feels like to have someone like you" line:

It finally rounds out the "all the main characters have someone who likes them romantically that they don't love back" Unrequited Circle of Life.

Risako > Reiichi
Reiichi > Kaoru
Karou > Risako (& probably Uta--what can I say?--show me the evidence!)
Uta > Unknown presumably sentient entity in college

worst ending ever.

or she just grinds on Kaoru like a body pillow every night.

That's far more likely, I think.

Rushed ending, how sad.

it felt to me like a long ass train ride that took you nowhere

or she just grinds on Kaoru like a body pillow every night.

More like she has a Kaoru body pillow that she grinds on, since I doubt the real Kaoru wants to be touched by her :(

or she just grinds on Kaoru like a body pillow every night.

More like she has a Kaoru body pillow that she grinds on, since I doubt the real Kaoru wants to be touched by her :(

Uta probably shares the Kaoru body pillow with Risako

Blastaar posted:
As circamoore says, for recurrent-motif purposes it ought to be the same necklace, and readers are welcome to create headcanon saying that Kaoru has continued to make artisanal bling for what is now her little sweetie bedmate (or whatever the fuck we prefer to imagine).

But, as ever, we're left with the question of whether we're supposed make something of this detail or not, and if so, what.

KZA posted:
Edit: What if the author forgot what the orginal necklace looked like so she drew that. I honestly wouldn't be surprised, cuz they do look similar and well I doubt she'd go back and look at it.

The necklace makes so much sense, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets "fixed" for the volume release (even if it wasn't originally intended to be the same). Not only does it call back to the start of the story, it also shows Uta as having reached a point where she is comfortable "wearing" her feelings on the outside.

............What
That was so rushed and not satisfying at all. I expected it but still disappointed.

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The necklace makes so much sense, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets "fixed" for the volume release (even if it wasn't originally intended to be the same). Not only does it call back to the start of the story, it also shows Uta as having reached a point where she is comfortable "wearing" her feelings on the outside.

I've been saying all along that readers were working harder and paying closer attention to this story than the author was.

I really don't see the ending as a "lapse" on the part of the author--to me it's actually just more of the same.

Quoting LadidaSong's comment:

Why even have this farce up until now then? They didn't even show Kaoru's face in the end, signifying her really being not important as a character. Ffs

CONSPIRACY THEORY:

Now that you've mentioned. and gathering up all the hints author has left for us, that is clearly not Kaoru, but either a Twin, a look-alike, or a doppelganger (strongly leaning towards that). There you have it, mystery solved and we can go back to our normal lives!

Now that you've mentioned. and gathering up all the hints author has left for us, that is clearly not Kaoru, but either a Twin, a look-alike, or a doppelganger (strongly leaning towards that). There you have it, mystery solved and we can go back to our normal lives!

Kaoru sus

wut? oh come on at least give us a kiss.

wut? oh come on at least give us a kiss.

No kisses for you--not even a "her eyelashes are so long" or a "her skin is so soft."

Bereft likewise of a "why does my heart go doki-doki when I see her in her underwear?" shall you wander in the wilderness forever.

That’s it???????

I think the person who suggested that this is the author rushing through the plot points they had planned is spot on. I think they had this beautiful mental image of a slow burn arc where Uta goes to college and has somebody crush on her while Kaoru sorts her life out while taking strength from Uta's love, and they were told to just finish it because readers are losing interest and this is the author just going "oh goddammit fuck fuck fine here's what it was going to be whatevs i'm done"

I mean, I'm pretty sure the idea here is that Uta and Kaoru are effectively married at this point.

Fun point to note, We're all saying double timeskip...I think there's actually three. First we skip to immediate post-divorce Kaoru, THEN we jump to Uta in college, THEN we jump to domestic bliss.

I think the person who suggested that this is the author rushing through the plot points they had planned is spot on. I think they had this beautiful mental image of a slow burn arc where Uta goes to college and has somebody crush on her while Kaoru sorts her life out while taking strength from Uta's love, and they were told to just finish it because readers are losing interest and this is the author just going "oh goddammit fuck fuck fine here's what it was going to be whatevs i'm done"

I mean, I'm pretty sure the idea here is that Uta and Kaoru are effectively married at this point.

Fun point to note, We're all saying double timeskip...I think there's actually three. First we skip to immediate post-divorce Kaoru, THEN we jump to Uta in college, THEN we jump to domestic bliss.

Yes, and good call on the extra time shift.

Given that it took 35 chapters (not counting extras) to accomplish "Kaoru realizes that her marriage is a pile of crap" and "Uta can't bear living with Kaoru but still has feelings for her," the events you describe would be, what, 15 more volumes?

(Let's see, at least 8 chapters for the "negotiating with Reiichi about how they're all going to live in the same building" arc, and then . . .)

Slow burn, indeed.

Well then, at least the tittle didn't lie though.

I think they had this beautiful mental image of a slow burn arc where Uta goes to college and has somebody crush on her while Kaoru sorts her life out

How much do you wanna bet that the someone with a crush was pitched as a guy and the editor was like, "Well, I tried. Axe the series."

THAT ENDING AHHHHH

Yay! now that this pile of slow burnt poop is over I hope author moves to making sweet and wholesome stuff again