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Originally Posted by Reckoner

I don't remember complaining about Ryuji's angst, I only complained about Yasako. No, a rewatch is not in order. This was horribly foreshadowed.

No offense man, but this comes off as really arrogant. "I didn't misunderstand anything, it's the show's fault! I won't recheck the scenes people suggest either."

They foreshadowed everything with Yasuko fine. Did you not catch the fact that she's a single pregnant teenage runaway before this episode or what? Because if you did, can you really not imagine how that'd be hard for her? Her relationship with her son is her whole life, him yelling at her and running off left her very hurt.

I did not misunderstand Ryuji's dilemma with his mother. Like I said, he quickly recovered from his psychological dilemma with relatively no explanation other than the fact that he has seen his mother tried hard for his sake, and that this is what she wants. This does not clear up the issue though. I do not see how he could of recovered from his thoughts of being a burden. He still has to decide if he wants to work to help his mother, or fulfill his mother's wishes of chasing greater goals in college. He feels he'll be a burden if he does not try to bring in pay.

The entire point of the trip to the grandparent's house was to have Ryuuji do something for his mom. Remember his words on the bridge about him wondering why his mom won't let him help her and how that makes him feel like a burden? This is him doing that big thing to help her, helping her reconcile with her parents, having a baaah sweet conversation and going home together. I didn't have any problem with this because he really does. Also, his problem wasn't so much wanting to support his mother financially so much as him not wanting to be a burden on her financially and physically (Exhaustion from overworking). Differing from the novel, I don't think we're given any indication that Ryuuji will pursue college at this point (He filled out his form saying he wants to pursue work, I can't remember if he changed it though). Either way though, it doesn't really matter.

And side characters or not, you do not introduce stories if you do plan to conclude them. Bad storytelling.

Kitamura's going to America to be with Sumire, Yasuko's reconciled with her parents, Inko-chan said his name, Ami's accepted Ryuuji as a friend, Minori's fulfilling her dream in pursuing softball, Noto finally made a move on Maya. What side character are you talking about?

Yeah, but I am not judging the novels here, just the anime. I am sure that are far less flaws in the novels, but that is J.C. staff's fault for poorly adapting the material in these last episodes. There could be legitimate excuses for these flaws, but being able to see this does not change the fact that I did not enjoy the ending episodes in this show. I think I would definitely appreciate a remake of the last 6-8 episodes of this show or so, with perhaps an extension of the episode count..

I'd be all for a remake that allowed the story to be fleshed out more, a lot of good material was cut. Early on especially, some of the episodes just felt jarring in their pacing and that first filler episode was forgettable at best. It's just that I feel that on it's own this ending they created is very satisfying and honestly, sounds better in several ways than what I've heard about the novel equivalent. Really, I can't think of a more complete and fulfilling ending to a show, for frame of reference what would you say is better?