It truly does feel like one of those cases where the author gets angry about a cancellation, so she decided to have the protagonist get raped and Asami murdered in a ditch somewhere as a form of revenge. I can't explain this ending in any other way.
There was no lead up to anything, there was no real explanation of what Asami's past really was, there was absolutely no reason for Honda to rape Keiko when they were looking for Asami together (literally, why on earth did that rape scene even exist? what was his motive?) and the ending is just "lol she was killed"
Genuinely, the only reason why, upon the manga being clearly cancelled mid development, the author would waste half of the final chapter baiting readers with a bittersweet ending (where Asami had a kid and is only barely in contact with Keiko) only to then say "just kidding" and cut back to reality where she stays missing forever after heavily implying the teacher murdered her, is the typical "axed author's revenge". There is no other sensible explanation because I don't want to think the woman who wrote the first two thirds of this manga is a terrible writer. I know she isn't.
This was nonsensical. What a waste of time.
last edited at Dec 25, 2024 6:50PM