Otona ni Narenai Bokura wa - Ch. 27 - Tuesday

[nihl]

Wait, what if the loop never broke?

They just were in it for so long that they forgot each other.

Maybe the start of the manga is the same, they are in the loop for so long that they forget everything and then meet again, forever. That's the true loop.

 

[Netik765]

Wish we had like 100 more chapters, this ending would've been perfect if only it had a more meaningful story behind it, because, them just having sex and going rampant the chapter right before this makes it lose all the value it had built up until now.

That's just my opinion, though.

Yeah this manga needed a slower buildup into insanity

 

[74HC595]

So secks didn’t fix it, they spent countless days and lost their minds, then basically reset their memories once it finally ticked to Tuesday? With just a faint phantom memory left behind? Thats The worst way to go. I’d even prefer if they’d introduce a hamfisted romantic rival into the time loop than this. Wiping their memories makes for a more realistic continuation of their real lives, but it’s the end of a manga, who cares if they’re coked up students with decades of strange wisdom pretending they’re the same age as everyone else at school?

 

[Pewkmon08]

Excuse me? That's the end???

 

[Ar2009]

Thank you for all of it

 

[Aoitenshi]

Any chance there's going to be an epilogue or anything in the tankobon?

 

[HunterCO]

Damn ax gave us a meh ending

 

[juxsan11]

before the ending solid 9, after the ending solid 8. we were so close to perfection dang it. anyway this one joins the list of peak romance.

 

[Yugseto]

It's sad it's ended, but at least they look happy now, not like last chapter

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

main issue I have with these last chapters is they were unsatisfying. I don't really need an explanation of the time loop, but the loop stopping doesn't really deliver on any of the themes from the rest of the manga.

Okay, so I'ma throw my hat into the ring as to why it ended this way.

My interpretation is that they didn't break out the loop due to sex, but moreso by completely accepting each other. They accepted each other's love, lust, pain, and joy. With that, they weren't in the loop anymore, But, because they were taken out the loop, they lost all of those memories. Of course, I could be completely wrong but that's just how I interpreted it.

I will say I am still confused on a few plot points, but I suppose some answers aren't meant to be revealed.

It wasn’t sex that broke the loop, in the last panels of 26 shows Aoi fucking other girls, even a threesome, and a lot of suicide attempts too, so they definitely went bonkers and stopped being close to each other at some point way after they had sex

Here's my interpretation, its a mix of these. (and I also wonder if Aoi is fucking other girls, or if that's Mashiro with a different look?)

It wasn't just seggs, it was the fact they finally fully accepted their feelings for each other.
In chapter one, he promised to teach Mashiro about love. And I think both of them finally learning that and loving each other is what broke the loop. In chapter 2, we get a little preview where Aoi doesn't want their relationship to change too fast and "50 years, however long it takes" for them to experience 'youth' and 'love'.

So we've got to remember how these two were when things started. Aoi was a depressed loner who hated the world, Mashiro was a pinup model who hated herself and was implied was thinking about suicide even before she started looping.

Mashiro wanted someone who wouldn't leave her. Aoi was afraid of actually caring about something. Them going into the bonezone was just them finally accepting their feelings.

Wait, what if the loop never broke?

They just were in it for so long that they forgot each other.

Maybe the start of the manga is the same, they are in the loop for so long that they forget everything and then meet again, forever. That's the true loop.

That also crossed my mind.

 

[catsdontsmile]

I'm reading a lot of speculation that the threeway panel was with his sister. thoughts? lmao

 

[Takuma_Aki]

The ending is good and romantic. Emotionally, author delivers it very well.

But it isn't satisfying because it left a lot unanswered, and those question undermined the story and payoff quite significantly. It makes everything feel ambiguous if there was any points, any learning, or anything at all for the two other than now they are destined together (but why from the first place?!)

 

[ninolover69]

When I read the raws I hadn't noticed July 8th wasn't their loop day, so I thought they were still just looping again forever until they forgot and met each other over and over. Somehow that ending was a little bit more satisfying to me, imagining chapter 1 started after another one of those post-amnesia loops and they were just looping forever and we just happened to observe them during one of these loops. But now, realizing they left the loop but not knowing how feels a little frustrating. I wish we could know exactly why. I wish it could've gone for longer.

I really enjoyed this manga, I loved the melancholy, there was always this sad eerie feeling behind every happy moment.
I liked those chapters showing the "average day" moments the loop stole from them, how they forgot what rain felt like, how they made Aoi's sister act like a human again, and how the nerdy guy from their band wouldn't even look him in the eye after they looped.
I don't know if that's common in loop stories, but I've never seen little details like that in other manga before. It made the time loop genre feel fresh and interesting again, you could really imagine how torturous each "new" day must've been.

It's a little bit frustrating for reasons outside the story, but overall I think I'm happy with this ending

 

[ninolover69]

I'm reading a lot of speculation that the threeway panel was with his sister. thoughts? lmao

she WAS always blushing at him

 

[Eliminateur]

that's it?

what in the groundhog day bullshit 3 pages ending was this, specially after the flustercluck of last chapter

 

[rymar]

Looks like chapter 26 was a highlight reel of what could have been

 

[ysil69]

Looks like chapter 26 was a highlight reel of what could have been

Honestly if each chapter had played out like the reel and the author had just drawn out him going on a fuck fest, I'd have dropped anyway. Which might be why it got axed if he had nothing else to add except that.

 

[whytebunny]

Honestly, the reason why this ending is unsatisfactory to me isn't because we don't know how they got out of the loop but because the axe made the story rush what made it unique.

To me, this story was never explicitly about the loop itself. Sure I was curious about how she initially got into the loop, how he was able to join her in it etc., but all of that took a backseat to the "mundane" content we got. A peer into their bleak, repeated days. The story was predicated on their feelings/growth (or rather regression) within the time loop. And there was something so compelling about the two of them being stuck together and not really trying to work out why the loop is a thing, investigative style (as most loop stories do), but rather focus on trying to feel and experience as much as possible despite their situation.

The degeneration of their mental state was what made this so good, and to not be able to see it carried out to the very end, to see what happens after Mashiro "got what she wanted", to see why they supposedly drifted apart... and instead having to see it as some film strip panels we have to guess from, that's what makes this sucky for me.

If we saw everything they endured up until the breaking of the loop, I don't think an unexplained breaking would've been that bad (though I'd still have some complaints), and it would've definitely made the ending a lot more emotional to see them go through so much only to thankfully not remember any of it.

 

[shrike]

I tend to think the burning reel was more like showing what was gonna be had Aoi didn't reciprocate her feelings.

It was burning shows how those things ended up not realized.

 

[cogniferous]

I tend to think the burning reel was more like showing what was gonna be had Aoi didn't reciprocate her feelings.

It was burning shows how those things ended up not realized.

that was one of my thoughts as well when I looked at the raws, but with such few chapters to end it after being axed I think it's just meant to get people speculating and maybe not even the author knows the exact meaning of it

and tbh since this is a time loop story, we know how nonsensical that shit can get, and with how depressing the panels were, maybe it's for the best it ended this way