I will read and reread this until an update appears. Been waiting 11 years.
That said, this is still a very good manga to read for many reasons:
- The art is excellent!
- The storytelling is compelling. Characters are well rounded and grow as the story progresses. The way they are portrayed is very human. I dare say they have a life of their own beyond this manga. Lol.
- Yazawa-sensei loves using a lot of symbolism, parallelism, and hints in the story so it makes a fun piece to analyze. With the story on hiatus, you can more or less take a stab at how things will end up once you get the know the characters’ personality well, and take the clues and symbols into consideration. That said, since they are very well rounded characters, only the author knows how they will really end up.