I love the characters and hate the author and their crappy plot writing. It has no consistency, it’s filled with unreasonable and random plot/information building, and the emotional beatings (especially at the end) are crude audience engagements to me. Overall, I love the characters, hate the author, and grudgingly applaud for its high yet emotionally frustrating audience engagement.
The last chapter, I can’t believe I could actually hate a manga more for its nonsense. A combination of reincarnation with future descendants of the main protagonist team? Out of all the nonsensical and random theories & explanations the manga gives, this one irritates me the most. I can’t help but still be further disappointed by this slapped “happy ever after” ending that doesn’t even seem to respect the original characters... there was so much potential quality to this.
I’ll forever remember and cherish the characters but I’m never rereading this manga (nor any works of this author) ever again.
Edit: I wrote this right after basically binge reading everything in less than 4-ish days, so my initial comment is full of hurt. The positives parts are the cute drawings and humor, which genuinely made me laugh and smile, and how heart-wrenching and understandable some of the emotional backstories, buildup, and relationships are.