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| THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER. ---------------------------------------- The ending! Minoru returned to ordinary life and now has an ordinary job. I'm sort of sad that everything is so normal. I did love how things from his former line of work sort of followed him though-- especially Alice. She is adorable and appears every once a week to buy akb related goods and maybe walk home with Minoru from time to time?! Still way too cute. Thought AkiP's visit was really funny. He buys so much jagariko. Actually offers Minoru a management job recommendation and then refers to the akb girls as jagariko too. Aphrodite gets it on with Raul. Okabe is successful and honest to her roots now. AKB continues without Minori. One regret I feel is the lack of post-exposure interaction with Hiroko. Minoru now is just "another one of Yoshinaga Hiroko's many fans." Minori has definitely impacted Hiroko, but it's a mystery whether the two ever meet now that Yoshinaga is the center and living her dream. I think Hiroko wants to bring Minori back every once in a while and Takamina is in approval but everyone else not as much. I wish there was a more clear cut ending to these relationships, but this is anime/manga in general. It was a fun read these past few years!!!!! Cheers. |
| I was hoping that Hiroko and Minoru would become a couple. But dating is considered a taboo for idol. But still, I want to see their interactions and conversations. |
| I'm a little confused by the ending, does Minoru's sister perform as him or does she perform as herself? I like to think he eventually gets a mangerial job at AKB48 after a lot of persuasion. And how does Hiroko feel about Minoru/Minori now? |
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Iritails said: I'm a little confused by the ending, does Minoru's sister perform as him or does she perform as herself? I like to think he eventually gets a mangerial job at AKB48 after a lot of persuasion. And how does Hiroko feel about Minoru/Minori now? Minoru's sister does not become an idol. I would personally think that she would be more traumatized of idols after finding the truth about her brother! The person at the end wearing Minori's wig is Hiroko, so you can sort of infer her feelings there. It's all mostly open-ended. After reading the ending again, Alice still the cutest. |
kae2 said: is there chapter 218?? does this manga still running? i really wanna know what happen after chapter 217 My guess is that the translation group dropped it after 217 and the posts at the top are about the completed Japanese release. |
| Rushed through the last 40 chapters since I've got exams coming up and I'd be fked if this was still on my mind. Feel like he proably should've consulted Aki-P, but I didn't exactly read the thing properly. My japs' a bit too poor to read manga efficiently. Swear Hiroko and Minoru's sister look so similar. Good man Aki-P for saving Minoru's life (career). He pretty much threw away any alternate career oppurtunites to pursue being an idol. Shame he can't be an international star :'( |
| I hated the ending what happened with yoshinaga? From the start I always read it for 1 purpose only is he gonna have a happy ending with Yoshigana. I mean later on alice and okabe appeared and made me even more curious but eventhough i read the ending I feel dissatisfied there isnt even a clear indication of who he dated or if je even dated anyone. This is just bs. At least make an after story to show his life later on. I admit that there are things that must be left to reader interpreation but this is not one of them. You could leave his future a mystery you could leave main plot a mystery but you never leave his relationship status a mystery. That is just plain taboo. |
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| Extremely disappointing cliff-hanger ending. Great drama to his identity being revealed but to see nothing of a grand epilogue compared to what we got was very lackluster. All this time since first reading this story, I thought it was going to fall back to the core of romance but somehow all of that died with no sign of its future... Horrible. ... In the end, he's working in a shop... isn't becoming a male idol instead, kept his identity safe... but never got his romance with Hiroko or Ai... who knows if more would have loved him as a guy. I wish I would have seen him become a male idol instead and continue to be friends with AKB49 but they didn't show any of that... |
animefc22 said: After all of that tension... this is what i hate about the end of story neither sad or happy.. at least ship him with alice argh.... Yeah, at least we ship both of them. I just with this finale was much less rushed and had more, like, 3 to 5 chapters to set everything up :( I feel kinda betrayed with this finale after so many time invested reading this and getting involved with the story argh |
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| I really liked the story as a whole i just felt like the ending was a bit underwhelming, i expected a bit more from the epilogue. Still i'm glad i was finally able to finish ^^ |
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| I wanted the ending to be better. Honestly, it could've been better. Way better. Regardless, this was very fun to read and it'd probably be on my favorite list for a while. |
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| When I read this the first time I stopped at 232 because that was how many chapters were out. I picked it back up about a week ago to finally finish it for good and I wasn't happy about the ending. It's missing closure. What happened between Minoru and the other members? What happened between Minoru and Hiroko? Is he really just going to go take a college entrance exam? I was pissed. But then I was reading around. I want to pull in some points for everyone's consideration -- I think I have a good understanding on the post-262 environment. Major things to consider: 1) The quick mart scene is 4 months following graduation. For some people, this is just slightly more than a summer break during school years. It's not a long time at all, and certainly not long time enough to figure out next steps in a career or life at that age (imo). Minoru may go back to the entertainment industry, he might pursue college, we don't really know since he's "going with the flow" right now and will see what happens 2) Minoru will always have a job with AKB48. Aki-P will 100% vouch for him or more likely than that, just straight hire Minoru if he chooses to come back. He is a world-famous, experienced idol, leader, and has experienced the production side of the entertainment industry for theater, television, music, and more. I guarantee that he has a position and would be welcome back any time. One more thing to add is that he loves the stage and he loves cultivating talent. He would excel as a producer, manager, or an idol as we have already seen. 3) Minoru is wealthy. It doesn't matter if he's working at a gas station, convenience store, or homeless. He traveled the world as a world-class star, appeared in music videos and programming alongside a world famous performer, and prior to that had 3 full years of salary in AKB48. Minoru likely doesn't have to work a day in his life again based on those 4 years of idol activity. 4) Minoru is still friends with his co-AKB48 members and they don't hate him. In 262, Takamina is performing alongside Minori, and then in 262.5 we see Takamina's graduation, which occurred after Minori's graduation. Since Minori shows up to Takamina's graduation, and we see that they are still friends and like each other, it is evident that they all stayed in touch, probably hung out regularly, and remained good friends. For more consideration, his friends do not turn on him after he is revealed to be Minoru and actively support and continue to cherish him (such as when Hiroko comes out in a wig in 262 as a tribute). 5) Finally, while Hiroko and Minoru did not get together in the end, she is still an idol by the time that the manga ends and she also previously expressed her love for Minoru. Hiroko cannot openly love anyone while she is still an idol, but no one stays an idol forever. Hiroko seals off her love for Minoru after finding out that he is Kurokami, but my thought is that upon her graduation they may get together as she would no longer be bound by those rules, self-imposed or not. After thinking about these pieces of evidence we are presented during the series, and 262.5, my conclusion is that it was an good ending. There are definitely things that we don't see that I would have liked to see on paper, but I think that, while it was ambiguously presented in certain facets, the ending was satisfying for me. |
MaxLemonOct 5, 2023 12:21 AM
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