Jokes aside, people have already come up with a ton of ideas for this just to escape the disappointing ending. Up to options where Akane resets time and at the last moment dies herself instead of Aqua to give him a metaphorical blow to the forehead and show how delusional his actions are. But on a more serious note, a sequel/spin-off manga with the original ending could be a great idea.
Given the title of the chapter, people hoped that the extras would reveal some new information that would make the ending at least happier, etc. But in the end we just got an extended final chapter and that's it.
Dude, in this context it turns into a literal justification for suicide on the level of "they would all really be better off without me." This is a very bad implication for obvious reasons. I completely understand this kind of copium and the desire to cope with the consequences of a shitty ending, but it's precisely because of things like this that the romanticization of suicide in the final chapters is so dangerous. Because suicide is really starting to look like a reasonable way out of problems. And yes, Aka does not agree and at least on this I agree with him. Before the release of the final volume, the whole company was determined that it was Aqua, the living Aqua, who pushed the characters to solve their problems. Oddly enough, he did not draw any conclusions from similar problems he himself had.
IDK, I didn't think that deep about the implication. I just feel that, in a story about industry and society that suicide is too common, is this how things can play out, and the answer was it is. And just purely on storytelling perspective, I think it is fitting for the setting and theme. That's all I thouht of writing that comment.
There is no need to think particularly “deeply” here. This is literally the embodiment of “they will all be better off without me” and other suicidal experiences when a person feels like a problem that prevents others from living. In terms of storytelling and developments, I think just because there are topics like these in the industry doesn't mean they'll be relevant. It's like saying that the ending where Freeren is killed by a random arrow during a fight is completely appropriate, because in the Middle Ages you constantly saw people killed at the wrong moment by a random arrow.
Considering how romance has played out in the story so far, it looked like Kana x Aqua. But in the end Aka just threw all the romance into the trash bin and we basically see LN trying to make everything into very weird Aqua x Akane. A lot of people expected LN to be a yuri bait, but it's mostly about how Kana moves on, becoming a work-wedded person with no love life, while Akane actually becomes a more significant female character even than Ruby. It's like all this time Aka secretly disliked Kana and wanted to make his avatar Akane the true heroine.
Valid points. I might even have to look back at myself how come I'm being so jaded with the topic.
It looks like Aka really realized that he screwed up and is now trying hard to justify things. I mean, we basically got another chapter 166, only this time with a very clumsily elevated level of optimism, flimsy attempts to explain it in terms of lore, and even something of a step towards the fans, where he admits that what Aqua did was wrong. But for the reasons I mentioned, it doesn't work, only leaving fans even more empty and disappointed. Just notice that Aqua's name is only mentioned once in the background, and Ruby is only depicted as a metaphorical Ai on one page.ah... yes... COPIUM EXTRA chapter for the fans...
Lol, I still remember when the whole manga was promoted as an optimistic story about characters looking for a way out of the darkness towards the light and only the official songs could leave you with an aftertaste of darker things. This is probably the only story in my memory where the idea of reincarnation ends in death again.
