Thanks for your hard work scanlating guys.
I can't really decide if this is a let down or not. I mean, part of me wants the main couple to end up together and happy, and we didn't get that - in fact, it seems like they parted, and didn't even talk for two years, since she's just now asking him to be friends.
But part of me also wanted this guy to be completely rejected for being a dumbass, and we didn't get that either. Dude's in freakin' obsessed otaku. Anyone that like, pays money or whatever to go shake the hand of the idol they're in love with is a fucking loser with zero self-respect, imo.
And another part of me wanted him and Mao to be happy together and married by the time Nanoka came back, causing her to wish she hadn't waited two fucking years to talk to someone she was mutually in love with already, and I didn't get that, either.
I want to at least like Mao, because she confessed her feelings head-on, but the fact that he could reject her, and she basically never looked unhappy a single moment, even when he was pursuing another girl right in front of her, basically... and she was encouraging him! No one's that much of a saint and no one should have to BE that much of a saint.
The ideal ending would be that Mao finds happiness with another guy, Nanoka ends up jaded and disillusioned with Hollywood after spending two years getting banged on casting couches by shady directors, and MC solidifies his path towards being a NEET otaku. Nanoka realizes she made the mistake of her life by rejecting the man she loved, so she returns to Japan after two years and confesses, but MC is no longer interested in used goods - but since, as far as HE knows, she has zero interest in a romantic relationship with him (remember, she NEVER TOLD HIM that she loved him, too, so he certainly wouldn't have ANY reason to continue to be in love with her) he's now in love with and idolizing another beautiful, virginal idol, and turns Nanoka down the same way he rejected Mao.
At least then, with THAT kind of ending, there would be some lessons learned by the characters -- a moral to the story. The current moral of the story is you can be a fucking idiot and still find happiness, and that's a bad story.