Sigh lol. Just because two girls are together on a cover does not mean that the work is about romance... I thought this was a beautiful piece about two friends who share a positive relationship. Don’t trash talk the series because you wanted to get all horny watching em kiss or whatever :-(

I'm with Pyoro.

It wasn't so much the lack of relationship consummation per se, but just a rather damp ending--and not in a good lesbian-moisture way.

^ pretty much this

In any case the end is completely missed. Too bad there were some good moments but the author did not assume and therefore is criticized harshly.

Lol read it , expected some development because of the NSFW tags in the LAST Volume, gets my heart broken because you really grow an attachment to the characters and are especially sad because of Ran , good story, good characters, good text beautiful art but bad ending ( not because of the lack of yuri) was ready to make it into one of my all time favorite mangas I would alwayw come back to.... but not like that .

I'm with Pyoro.

It wasn't so much the lack of relationship consummation per se, but just a rather damp ending--and not in a good lesbian-moisture way.

^ pretty much this

The chemistry behind the two characters is pretty great as well, and not in the "we're just best friends" type of way, in my opinion. There's quite some subtext he's willing to give us, just not all the way-- I guess.

Kinda feels like a missed opportunity-- I like the dynamic between the two, and the history behind the two makes this seem like a very nice set up for a relationship.

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With a very special day right around the corner, I couldn't help but recall Troid's excellent April 1st release back while Stretch was running. I'm kinda bummed that it's not on the site anymore, and that there's no series nowadays any similar joke works for...

I just read this for the first time and it was fun while it lasted... but rather than being mad at the ending I'm mostly confused... why did they move, actually? I was half expecting that Keiko reconciled with her ex-boyfriend or whatever, that would actually make some sense even if people wouldn't like it... but the author took time to explicitly show that this wasn't the case, so I'm absolutely clueless why would they both move if they both said they wish they stayed together longer.

Did I miss something at the end, am I just stupid?

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b58 posted:

I just read this for the first time and it was fun while it lasted... but rather than being mad at the ending I'm mostly confused... why did they move, actually? I was half expecting that Keiko reconciled with her ex-boyfriend or whatever, that would actually make some sense even if people wouldn't like it... but the author took time to explicitly show that this wasn't the case, so I'm absolutely clueless why would they both move if they both said they wish they stayed together longer.

Did I miss something at the end, am I just stupid?

Nope, you didn't miss anything. The ending just sorta happens. It's never explained, and none of the major plot points (that I can recall) weave into the ending or even get much resolution on their own. At the time, response was significantly negative, due to how it has this feeling of, "Well, I guess it's over??"

The author must be partly "online" now, so I wish he'd go back and finish Prism. Unless it's been taken from him or something.

Wow. I cried, never expected to end just like that

I finally read it at one go. Other than Kuon in Implicity, Ran is now my favorite Higashiyama Show's character. You literally can see where Ichika is based on.

Rereading in 2023 it's as good to me as I remember. I feel like the possibility that the serialization was simply cancelled with three months left to wrap up is overlooked when discussing this series. It doesn't strike me as "bait" so much as a slice of life series wherein the leads have explicit feelings for one another that simply never came to fruition due to the rushed nature of the ending. It's not a satisfying conclusion to be sure, but the criticism I see in this thread whenever I return to it seems way too harsh.

...wow and they were roommates fr fr