These are my final thoughts on the story. Mostly on the ending, the quality of writing showcased and my final thoughts.
Honestly, I quite like the ending UNTIL Sugawa the Yankee (USA! USA! USA!) became the main love interest. To me it feels weird that Sugawa became the main love interest and it comes out of left field. Hell, even the MC acknowledges it that Sugawa and he are an odd match. Though we spend two chapters with Sugawa, and I don't think it ends the story quite as well, nor sets up a believable romance between the two than saw Kitahara would (I'll explain later)
Since I rawdogged this series, I initially thought in a previous comment Kitahara didn't like Kurosawa and Takigawa getting closer during the karaoke scene.When they do leave the karaoke room it shatters the idea that Kurosawa and Kitahara are kindred spirits. Remember that Kurosawa has begun to reform while Kitahara has not. She is still a raging mess maybe even the whole pissed her off. Thus causing her to inmate a plan to link Takigawa and Nagaoka to enrage Kurosawa. Why? This serves two purposes; one: is to simply get a stronger leash on Kurosawa and that leads to reason two: to keep Kurosawa her slave to feed her ego. The reason why I thought this was a plan by Kitahara was it would be a serious plot hole if Takigawa and Nagaoka end up together out of blue. As Kurosawa and us readers only get speculations on why they hook up.
This is also why I believe that Takigawa should be the main love interest as we spend the most amount of time with her is the most logical choice as they are actually Kindred spirts in ways. Now, the author needs to build up the romance, i.e become the last beacon of salvation during his darkest hour. The author kind of forgets Kitahara exists until she gets into a DDLC Yuri mood
. ( But this means Takigawa needs to stay out because we NEED the climax of Kurosawa getting cucked. Unlike Rent-a-Girlfriend this canon event tests if he has truly reformed or he bends Kitahara's will and truly become her dog. (Plus he does need to atone for his crimes)
And Kurosawa does! He confesses to his crimes, it shit a first but he slowly rebuilt his reputation and became normal
Don't get me wrong the author did a fabulous job writing this story! (Also that Teacher being proud of Kurosawa's atonement was phenomenal writing!) Its just I don't like how forced Sugawa is injected into the story.
On a whole, the story is quite well executed, besides some parts of the later manga scenes and plot holes.
As it stands Goon Master Kurosawa is imperfect, a chipped diamond if you will. Its still def an 8.0. As stated in an earlier comment, I strongly believe the story should get an anime adaptation (12 episodes), but characters should be in a high school setting ( yk lightning_mcgroomer.exe) as the story would work fine in that setting ( it also makes it easier to market to studios).
Bar that I see this a good read and it has the potential for this to be good anime.
Sorry for the yapfest! Im just honing my subpar writing skills! he he