Oh God, she's gonna get run over by a truck now, isn't she?!

Good ending? Bad ending? Who can say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse

Either way, a wonderful ride. Thank you for scanlating.

I was really scared, I though they're gonna do something dark, turns out they just sexed it up.

This is not like in real life? Right?

I'm glad they're still going on, but this ending was very bittersweet at best. It kinda stings.

What a real manga. Life must go on. Keep what makes you happy close.

Will be interesting to reread this in 10 years

I know starting out making your own way, in life can be rough. However this almost felt like a comedy sketch about bad actors trying to play dramatic roles but end up going way over the top with their performances.

Yeah, I really hated the ending. Really, really hated it. No doubt it's realistic to some extent, but it's not like anyone needs to tell us that, especially in a way that comes down to "just submit". Loved so much about this manga, but it took me where I had no interest in going. Bleh.

I wouldn't have minded if this ended like KitaKawa, but at the same time I don't mind the ending we did get.

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You know, I've read het manga where someone goes to an island to find themselves, find love and experience the slower pace of life, and they're always cheerful, so I guess adding to my annoyance is this feeling like we're back to the days where only yuri girls can't have nice things.

Well that was kinda sudden

I'm sad.
I maybe buy the manga to support the author, but I'm kinda disappointed and sad that with this ending the story pretty much went nowhere, everything went back to square one, like a loop.

I like realistic plots/stories but with this one I really wanted a stupid cute happy ending, they get jobs in aquariums or something and live happily like two old ladies in an island forgotten by god

I wonder if the series was axed. The ending does not make much sense, as if the move to the island has never taken place. Nothing has changed. I also do not know what the mangaka is trying to tell us with this plot.

I'm just glad it was a happy ending.

Life do be like that sometimes.

Honestly, this is such a huge letdown. "Just keep putting up with things" is the absolutely worst thing you could tell people. Especially since we all keep getting forced to put up with so many things already, and yet all we ever get is Joker types like this asshole mangaka casually passing on the abuse to the next generation , making sure that all they ever know is fucking suffering through life like a mindless drone. I don't care about them still being together anymore, I disagree with this whole story so much it's hard to describe. I did not put trust in this only to be slapped in the face

not sure what happened in this one, kinda seems like it just ended out of nowhere

a few characters were introduced and some plots were started but faded from reality. did it just get cut or the author got bored

Yeah, I really hated the ending. Really, really hated it. No doubt it's realistic to some extent, but it's not like anyone needs to tell us that, especially in a way that comes down to "just submit".

The message, in the end, turned out to be something like: "It's easier to live off part-time jobs in Tokyo than in the boondocks."

Which I suspect is something everyone and their uncle knew already.

There's a fuckton of otaku guys in Tokyo who work small part-time jobs and make enough to pay for food, rent, manga, doujinshi, anime merchandise, whatever shit they want. So yeah, we know it's feasible. Otoh on a sparsely populated island it's obviously gonna be more difficult to find a conventient arubaito. They lucked out when they were hired at that diving place; they ran out of luck after that.

So yeah, it's realistic, but... damn, I wish they had toned down the angst. ( ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)

(And what the hell has the marriage certificate to do with their problems, anyway? It's not because of that that couldn't get jobs. Was it really necessary to tear it up?)

It's not like the depicted outcome is unrealistic on an individual level, but I really hate the overall message this ending seems to convey. It feels like the definition of capitalist realism: 'Modern work culture might leave you depressed and drained, but any attempt to break free will only lead to failure, so you'll just have to submit to the status quo and never try to change anything.'

Those girls couldn't catch a break, uh... Can't say I like the ending or even can see it as "happy" in any way. Sure, they're still together, have renewed... Well, I want to say determination but it feels more like they resigned themselves to living a crappy life full of hardship in Tokyo.
Realistic, sure, but if I want to be reminded how crappy life can be, I just need to get out and open my eyes. I read mangas for a bit of escapism. ><
Chapter title feels like a lie as well, should have been "back to where we began".

At this point, tbh, I'd rather have them living and working appart for a couple years, then go back together on the island to live there a much more relaxed life. Would have made for a more satisfying ending than this one.

From what I heard, I feel like the author’s personal life just made this series too painful to keep writing so they just wanted it to end because it was starting to affect them personally too

All of us here acting like we're surprised it's autobiographical

Honestly, this is such a huge letdown. "Just keep putting up with things" is the absolutely worst thing you could tell people.

Lots of people have repeated this sentiment but I really don’t think that this story has a message, at least I did not interpret it that way. This story, overall, is intended to depict failure — it’s a story about failure. There’s no moral communicated, it’s just two people who made decisions that seemed reasonable at the time but turned out to have bad consequences. But that’s fine, since it’s made quite clear by the story that they had no way of knowing.

Another way of putting it, it’s art without hope. I will acknowledge that this genre is controversial in and of itself, but personally I think that it can be very enjoyable and empowering to read in its own way.

The sense of betrayal is justified. I do think it’s funny though.

This was like a weird pod person ending. The characters feel like people who are almost, but not quite, perfect copies of the people we knew before.

If anything the message is simply, "it's not worth stressing over your dreams if they're getting in the way of what's truly important." And that you're going to have to work and suffer a little for the things you love. So yes tearing up the marriage certificate was a symbolic gesture of throwing away the dream of making a living on the island and getting married there, because it wasn't feasible. It turned out to be more stressful than returning to the city. Which isn't presented as something inherent to the countryside or city—it mirrors Haru putting herself through the same needless pressure as in chapter 1—but them simply making poor decisions and weathering out a rough patch in their lives through commitment to each other. They aren't rejecting the idea of ever getting married at all either.

Really it's just a story about love persevering. In the end they're just as in love as they were in the beginning. The stress couldn't break them. They never wanted to change society or escape working, they only wanted to be happy together.

Now it's hard to say if that's the story Keyyan always wanted to tell, and it certainly wasn't meant to run through all these plot points in a single chapter. But that's the story we got. The only other endings I could imagine on such a short notice would be serious downers.

From what I heard of what was going on with the author, I feel like the author’s personal life just made this series too painful to keep writing so they just wanted it to end because it was starting to affect them personally too.

Entirely possible. I can't imagine what it must be like to write a story like this while also going through the same pressures yourself. Worse if you're going through them alone.

It's not uncommon for authors to fail miserably at trying to get their message across and I think this is one of those cases. I want to believe the author intended to say "No matter how shitty life gets, as long as you are with the person you love, you will get by one way or another" or something along those lines. But unfortunately, most of us agrees that the ending just ultimately came off as "just stick to the status quo and do what society demands of you."

Even though they didn't die or separate and become het, it still reminds me of early yuri stories where the overall message is "you will eventually have to grow up and fall in line with everyone else in society"