Man i kept thinking throughout the manga run that something terrible happened in the future which kept being hinted by the weird future sequences where emi was always melancholic. Didn't expect such a wholesome end.
This is more or less true. Even though I am positively confounded with the popularity of renkano . The online opinion about it is clearly not indicative of it's sales and in the end money sets the market. Be it the isekai boom or character stereotypes.