They weren't and aren't intended to get a resolution. This series wasn't and isn't intended to close.Feels like some characters did not get their resolution
The happy ending for Kitahara would close the series. Only a minority could be pleased with her finding love with a man other than Matoba Shinkichi, but these are tales about and around a little girl who lives with her widowed, unremarried father, not about a family with a living mother. Shinkichi loves a woman whom he cannot have because she is dead; Kitahara loves a man whom she cannot have because he loves another woman.What about Kitahara?
perfectly encapsulates my thoughts. with the overarching theme of how the atypical need not be treated as something strange or wrong or needing fixing, i think it's fitting that chise's family remains as we were introduced to it.The happy ending for Kitahara would close the series. Only a minority could be pleased with her finding love with a man other than Matoba Shinkichi, but these are tales about and around a little girl who lives with her widowed, unremarried father, not about a family with a living mother. Shinkichi loves a woman whom he cannot have because she is dead; Kitahara loves a man whom she cannot have because he loves another woman.