First of, thanks for doing such a stellar job working on this series.
Second, I hate this series. Too good to stop reading, yet it depresses me severely. Honestly surprised it is ending where it is.
One of my peeves is that comics seem to embrace the thought that the years in school are the most important. Certainly unique in one's life, but there is always more afterwards, just not as forced as a mandatory grouping with others of age. This issue comes into play, as the main couple seem to live in Hori's house with the younger brother. Aside from missing parents, the relationships didn't seem to change 10 years later. Nothing seemed to change aside from how they were drawn.
Better be at least a marriage extra chapter coming up.
On a somewhat related note, I'm sure it is merely rose tinted nostalgia, like how mid-life crisis people (I'm one of these) and older individuals pine after the "good old days" when strong labor unions grew the middle class and as kids they didn't have as many worries, as they weren't so aware of problems.