Shihai Shoujo Kubaru-chan - Ch. 81 - Bye-bye

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Didn't feel like ragebaiting readers or throwing the manga or anything of the sorts at all. Rushed and or Axed? Absolutely. Less investment by the author? Absolutely.
But very in character. Fitting end to the overall story and tone. 100% understand someone saying they didn't like it but typing stuff like "this manga continues the trend of new manga ending being worse and worse" is plain wrong.
 
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If the goal was for Kubaru to live rent free in the reader's head, I'd say she achieved it, because what the fuck is this ending lol
 
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I am baffled by this ending choice was expecting either a dark humorous ending or one where they get together.

This isn't just a bad ending but just random and not really connected to the tone of the series.

Also doesn't make sense for the mc to be okay her moving away and also dying.

Another Japanese author that has no idea how to end a series.
 
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Honestly the first 20 or so chapters were good, but it never stabilized for me and kept going downhill.
I don't know why I even invested my time into this since the writing was on the wall with how the plot wasn't going anywhere and how no plotlines were ever resolved.
I'll definitely be avoiding this author's future works.
 
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The ending makes perfect sense both thematically and character-wise.
Just because it makes sense doesn't mean it's good.
 
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its funny to me how i kind of dont like this ending but its just because seeing how she died unambiguously feels more boring than "what if she vanished forever and we never saw what happened".

him seemingly getting over her death when he was moments away kind of makes me mad lol
EDIT: thinking on it some more, i think that "shes stabbed the end" would have worked well enough as The Literal End, in terms of "this is a story about Her Impact and now that Shes Gone we dont See What's Next" so i do think that a lot of the problem is just the very boring way that he reacts to The Most Important Person In His Life dying like 10 feet away from him.
 
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I mean I was fully expecting her to die by the end of this but I had hoped it would be done better.

If you take the message of the manga to be that no one owes you their life despite how much they make yours shine/worth living for its a interesting take on people post breakups. You just have to ignore 70% of the rest of this manga to see this
 
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Not even surprised at the ending tbh. It was always set up to be a downer ending. This manga is fucked all the way up.
 
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I think people are being too harsh here. Sure, the series turned out to be nothing. But - imagine if it had been something?
 
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WAIT WAIT WAIT!!! WHO THE FUCK JUST STAB HER!? WDYM OVERSEAS!?

Welp atleast it was fun reading this even though MC still couldn't be with her till the end

Thanks for the TL :aquadrink:
 

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