The ending give me chills for some reason. Though, I really love this manga. Hamita was really skilled at creating a mess of emotions which feels somewhat ordered in this manga, somehow.
I skimmed through the manga so maybe I’m missing something, but didn’t it go from happily ever after to “and then she died” in like 3 panels?
That’s like the most hamfisted cliche ending ever. In fact that’s the HIMYM ending lmao.
Was there like a whole “she struggled with depression” thing going on? Or a terminal illness thing? Cuz otherwise it doesn’t feel deep, it just feels like a shallow and cheap way for the author to crudely invoke negative emotions without actually building a message around it.
Basically it makes the author seemed unskilled and desperately trying to compensate for the lack of depth in the series by jamming in some corny, gaudy shock ending and trying to pass it off as some profound comment (that doesn’t exist).
I sort of get what the author might be trying to do, which is to use the death scene as way to give perspective on her life and its influence, but the way it was done was so gaudy that it just weakened the overall narrative when considered in context and with the tone.