Whoa. Haven't read this manga in a while. I honestly think that the author, artist & editors have twisted personalities, especially the author. I'm being serious here.
I mean, it's very obvious that they'd been preparing for the "big surprise" with the yami-senpai sh*t and all that. So, I'm sure they knew that they will surely lose many readers. Like seriously. Any sane person could predict that.
And yet, they chose to torture the remaining readers (the pitiful survivors) who are still hopeful for a better story and ending with all these details. They practically turned the survivors into masochists. Crazy.
Even if their intentions were to create a "realistic", "deep", "innovative", take the bitter and the sweet (dark and light) kind of story, a romcom manga isn't really the best place to do that.
That's why I said that the author & co must have twisted personalities. Either they're twisted or dumb/clueless/ignorant. I mean, do you honestly believe that this kind of manga would be a "classic"?
If I were an editor, I'd simply clinically rely on the "shock effect/factor". I'd simply hope that people would talk about how shocking the story is and then new readers would hopefully come to check it out. Then I'd simply let the author to continue while paying attention to the number of remaining readers.
When the number of readers is low enough, that's when they finally give the remaining readers a coup de grace.
As a closing note, I'll just remind you guys that people read romcom manga for the rom and the com. Like obviously. If you want to go philosophical and deep, just read real literature: start with classics fiction & nonfiction. The Japanese have freaking Dazai & Akutagawa ffs.
I mean, it's very obvious that they'd been preparing for the "big surprise" with the yami-senpai sh*t and all that. So, I'm sure they knew that they will surely lose many readers. Like seriously. Any sane person could predict that.
And yet, they chose to torture the remaining readers (the pitiful survivors) who are still hopeful for a better story and ending with all these details. They practically turned the survivors into masochists. Crazy.
Even if their intentions were to create a "realistic", "deep", "innovative", take the bitter and the sweet (dark and light) kind of story, a romcom manga isn't really the best place to do that.
That's why I said that the author & co must have twisted personalities. Either they're twisted or dumb/clueless/ignorant. I mean, do you honestly believe that this kind of manga would be a "classic"?
If I were an editor, I'd simply clinically rely on the "shock effect/factor". I'd simply hope that people would talk about how shocking the story is and then new readers would hopefully come to check it out. Then I'd simply let the author to continue while paying attention to the number of remaining readers.
When the number of readers is low enough, that's when they finally give the remaining readers a coup de grace.
As a closing note, I'll just remind you guys that people read romcom manga for the rom and the com. Like obviously. If you want to go philosophical and deep, just read real literature: start with classics fiction & nonfiction. The Japanese have freaking Dazai & Akutagawa ffs.
