Can anybody spoil me the ending

grileyish_20 said:
An epilogue or whatever was released by the author. Hasn’t been translated but worth a quick look over

ss4chris said:
where is this epilogue ?

bastek66 said:
It all returns to nothing. Citation from /a/

bastek66 said:
It all returns to nothing. Citation from /a/

Defective_Minus said:


So I’ll give a bit more context to this since this is kind of a biased way of putting it.

Towards the end of the manga, both of them start realizing that they still have the same issues that they had at the start except that can depend on each other and the friends around them to be exceptions. Meaning that Hoshino still has confidence issues without her makeup when around anybody except the MC and the MC still couldn’t talk to anyone outside of Hoshino. Even before the actual final breakup, there’s a chapter where Hoshino says that they should breakup as she is dealing with her problems of not wearing makeup on front of others. Later on they actually l breakup, MC kisses her on the forehead and they go there separate ways while also striving to improve in those aspects. MC goes to the new class assignments for the new year and none of the people that he was friends with are in his new class which causes him to distress. In the hallway, he sees Hoshino who is no longer wearing her makeup at this point but she runs off to talk to her friends. As the MC sees Hoshino laughing and having a good time with her friends without make up on and seemingly getting past her issues, he decides that it’s his turn to actually face his problems. He talks to a guy in his class and takes the initiative to try and become friends with him. I think that this is the first time that this is done in the story. With Hoshino getting past her issues and the MC starting to overcome his, he looks up. gives a few cliche words and smiles. That’s the ending.

Then the epilogue came out like 2 months later.

I think that the reason a lot of people were mad at the ending is because, they felt that the character didn’t develop, as mentioned in the previous post. However; if you go back and read it in one sitting, neither Hoshino nor the MC actually develop much for most of the manga outside of the progression in their (and the small inner circle of friends) relationship.
Hoshino can’t overcome her self confidence issues without makeup outside of her time with the MC and a couple of other characters and the MC is still the same with poor social skills outside of talking to Hoshino and a couple of other characters. Although he does have his moments, he always ends up back at the same place.
Also, they break up which obviously didn’t sit well for those who were invested in the romantic part of the series. Honestly, the author could have probably written the final arc with them tackling these issues and actually developing in a different way than them breaking up. Which is another thing people were mad about. The MC cutting ties kind of trashed on the relationships built up in the manga. Although there could be an argument that him having said relationships is what led him to eventually try to develop as a person.

The most disappointing thing for me rereading it is how the story is supposed to be a “coming of age” story but the majority of the character growth is done in the last 30 or so chapters (they have some moments before though). The character growth part has pacing issues imo. As I mentioned before, even in the final pre epilogue chapter, the MC still isn’t completely comfortable with making friends by himself, only by him seeing Hoshino’s development in the last pages is it enough for him to actual do it.

I think that covers the gist of the ending.

grileyish_20 said:


https://m.imgur.com/a/06xoAc2
Was posted to reddit in an imgur album

Arelia2017 said:


Tysm for the link!!!