Honestly, after the disaster that was these last few chapters, I'm just glad it's over.
I remember this series started off wholesome and with fun characters (the man couple meeting, the ramune antics, the festival...), but the author couldn't help themselves from ruining what they had. Every scene with any parent seemed like a concentrated effort to punish us for caring about the story and its characters.
There are many ways to introduce conflict in romcoms, but whatever this author was cooking, they clearly missed the mark.
We're probably not supposed to hate everyone's parents and think they're genuinely stupid, clueless caricatures, but that's exactly the opinion I have of them all. Not even just the rich girl's parents - even the MC's mom seemed to just say whatever crazy nonsense the author needed to for her to help "progress" the plot or challenge the MC. It's like this story was written by Stockholm Syndrome's strongest soldier.
We're probably supposed to take the story's conflicts seriously, but everything after the festival was so laughable I was just speeding through the pages for the sake of getting this manga off my "Reading" list.
It's such a shame, because the early chapters and interaction with the MC's friend clearly showed that this author + artist can give us compelling character interactions. Heck, even the school introduced at the end actually sounded like an interesting environment to see them navigate! We could have kept having a good thing going if we focused on friendships and relationships, instead of this weird rich-alien-ultimatum nonsense and bizarre hostility towards anything resembling a healthy upbringing.
The writing just... crumbled any time the author felt the need to introduce tension or stakes, because man was it never convincing. I think I only ever rolled my eyes any time we left slice-of-life territory.
(Sincerely, thank you to KDT Scans for coming back to deliver us the rest of these chapters a year later. I no longer have to wonder how much further downhill this story went - I got to experience it all at once and be done with it. I'm actually more impressed y'all had the discipline to keep working on it until the end.)