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Finished reading volume 2... Hah... Once again, sola... Why can't it end happier...

Spoiler for volume cover:

Spoiler for plot...ending......:

Well, it was partially like the anime, mostly different though.

Takeshi never faced off against Matsuri in the manga, but by Mayuko, he gives up revenge.
His and Mayuko's story is left for the epilogue. The Yaka that turned Mayuko into a Yaka gets a minor appearance, rather part of her head... Black hair, but it doesn't seem to be Matsuri.

When Yorito started to feel pain from the memories of Matsuri that Aono erased and started to fall apart, Aono decided to leave the city with him. Yorito does not stab Matsuri before this.
They go from place to place, but Yorito is pretty much lifeless. When he finally regains his senses, he runs back to Matsuri, who has already acquainted herself with Mayuko and Takeshi.
Here, Aono chases after him, Yorito leaves her and follows Matsuri, and Aono makes Yorito stab Matsuri with a broken beer bottle.

Afterwards, Takeshi picks the two up and brings them with him. Yorito does scream a bit after waking up, like the anime, but Matsuri was there too, so that resolved soon.

Big fight with Aono vs. Matsuri ended almost like the anime. Matsuri disappears and Aono becomes human again. BUT.. Yorito stays alive.

6 months later...

Yorito and Aono comes back to town, and they meet their old friends, who have completely forgot them. Interestingly, Mana meets Yorito this time the same way she met him at first. Aono forgot about the whole Matsuri events.
Unfortunately, Yorito soon disappears afterwards, since his time is up and his body could no longer hold shape (during Aono vs. Matsuri, at the end after Matsuri stabs Aono, Yorito's body began to collapse, but Matsuri momentarily stopped the process with her blood. The repair, as shown, only lasted 6 months...).

Aono goes into depression over this, of course, and also remembers everything...
She only managed to stand back up after Takeshi comes and tells her Yorito's and Matsuri's last words to her.

Manga ends with Mana, Aono, and Koyori preparing for Koyori's birthday.

Last shot... is of course... the two cans of tomato juice on the park table.


Last, and random note, but the way Aono is drawn when she's angry... makes her look unneededly scary. Kind of has fangs, and slit-pupils...