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Originally Posted by roan

Spoiler:

1. Kitamura is a shell of his old self and passing his days watching DVDs of news reports on Sumire. He was going to go to the States after graduation, but became the victim of a traffic accident. During the time he was hospitalized, Sumire met another man that she eventually married and by the time Kitamura made it to the US, she was having a vacation with her new stud in London. They never met again, but he has been sued by her agent for stalking.

He's married to Minori, now a disgruntled housewife with several kids and whose dreams of continuing softball have been crushed since softball has been removed from the Olympics and her team has been dissolved due to the bad economy. Taiga disappeared since she transferred out, Ami left school around her 3rd year, and Ryuuji? It looks like Minori became fed up with Ryuuji and his indecisiveness a long time ago and their relationship ended on bitter terms.

She had been hoping to pass on her unfulfilled dreams of baseball/softball to her kids. Alas, her mother, who was looking after her 2 kids, accidently entered them into the soccer team instead of the little league team.


2. Due to a combination of fatigue and a cold, Ami took a bunch of days off and opted not to go the school trip. Since she didn't go to school that much, she started drifting away from her own circle of friends. She didn't know what was going on with the Taiga/Ryuuji/Minori thing either so she couldn't do anything about that either.

Taiga disappeared without a trace after the school trip (because her mother took custody of her and transferred her out) and Ami (who had dropped out of high school in her 2nd year; work has dried up and she has no talents other than modelling, no academic background nor work history either thanks to dropping out early and is now currently looking for a new job out of desparation btw) never saw her again, until an emotional reunion at a beauty parlor, where Taiga was working as a hairstyle model. Since both girls were kind of down on their luck financially, they ended up moving together.

Taiga hasn't seen Ryuuji or Minori since school, but after hearing that Minori (now a popular sportscaster; she couldn't fulfill her dreams and probably got that job through her brother's connections) was getting married to one of the baseball players on her little brother's team, she worked up the courage to meet them at the wedding after party....

...Where both Ami and Taiga caught the eye of a TV producer attending the party who came up with idea of a comedy variety show hosted by the two, under the name of ToraChiwa. The show became an unexpected hit and the two (+ Ryuuji who has become their manager) have finally secured stable income.

That's so...woah. Really reflects how life can suck so bad.