2012-04-24, 13:11 | Link #302 |
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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this series im not too happy about the ending.
Well at the same time im not unhappy, but i think it could of ended much better with rin marrying kyoki and daikichi marrying kyoki's mother. :\ Oh well... as i said im not unhappy about it either. But its just wierd to think a girl you raised would end up marrying you. |
2012-04-24, 22:57 | Link #303 | |
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New chapter was just mashing salt in old wounds. Young Rin is best Rin.
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2012-05-06, 02:02 | Link #309 | |
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You finished the greatest buffet you can find in town, then you realise that there was a living turtle swimming in the lemonade bowl.... Then you try to convince yourself that, the turtle was not part of the original buffet, just to hold on the best memories that day. But it's still there and it ruined everything
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2012-05-06, 03:39 | Link #310 |
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Oh, wow. I have nothing but fond memories for this anime/manga. I don't think I read the entire thing though. I watched the anime first (which covered the manga's first half). Then, I read the manga starting from the second half (post time-skip). Of course, the series ended rather awkwardly in a direction few people expected.
But then again, I believe that the problem arose from the transition being too abrupt, without enough foreshadowing to come across as convincing. On the other hand, it did manage tie up the loose plot strings (albeit not in the way the readers expected it too), so if viewed as an afterstory of sorts, it serves its purpose quite nicely. But to take a different perspective, could the strong aversion or readers towards the story's ending simply reflect a difference in cultural biases?
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2012-05-06, 08:45 | Link #312 | |
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Oh, and the site you're referring to is Japanese (hence I assume the reviews you're referring to come with the Japanese perspective in mind) and therefore a poor representative of feedback overseas. I might as well add that I can't read Japanese very well, and did not bother reading the reviews you referenced. Please correct me if I completely misunderstood your point.
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2012-05-06, 09:37 | Link #313 | |
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What I meant I see a lot of Japanese fans seemed to be upset at the ending for the same reason as non-Japanese fans. I can't read Japanese either but you can get the simple gist of the reviews with a normal translator. Fans have their own reasons for liking or disliking the end but I don't think it has anything to do with cultural differences, that was my main point.
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2012-05-06, 23:20 | Link #314 | |
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Age: 33
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I guess I'll take your word for it then. In that case, I'll fall back on my original idea that the transition to the ending was too abrupt, leading it too look too forced and unnatural after considering the story's initial tone.
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2013-02-14, 20:16 | Link #316 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Regardless, while I would have liked to see this go a different direction as well, I am not disappointed with the ending. I think that it was reasonably well setup, and I think the author did a decent job of explaining why she thought these characters would end up this way.
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