I know everyone blames axe-Kun. But a good rom-com SHOULD eventually end. There are cases where some have pulled off extending past the initial get together but a lot have botched the job horribly. It’s better to end with a satisfying conclusion than watch all the hard work the series did get dragged through the mud.
I actually agree that this was a good time for the series to end, but this is
far from a "satisfying conclusion".
I think this has had a good run of 61 chapters. It would have had potential if they had expanded more into the lives of the side characters, but I think everyone just wanted a kaiju waifu. At least it didn't stretch for like a hundred more. A pretty good conclusion if you ask me.
The problem is that people who "wanted a kaiju waifu" are
literally this comic's target audience. Chieri being a giant GF was the whole draw that got people to read this in the first place, and we put up with all of the romcom cliche "will they or won't they" bullshit expecting that to be the endgame, but then the ending we got establishes that the "giant" and the "GF" are and were always going to be mutually exclusive.
If Chieri gets big again in the final chapter and it turns out this is a double-bait, it was a pretty mean-spirited one, and if not, then it's basically shooting its entire premise in the foot.
What exactly did you think was going to happen? She stays giant and they can never become intimate or start a family? That was never how this was going to go. If anything she'll gain the ability to change at will, but she was never going to stay giant.
Thinking that they could
never be intimate or start a family if Chieri remained giant is saddeningly unimaginative. In the words of Dr. Ian Malcom, "Life, uh... finds a way".
