| alright soooo, i just finished it. im not (too) upset about the ending, even tho i just can't understand why it finished like this.. i mean, Jun and Takumi had the most screentime, Takumi himself seemed like interested in her, he even told her that her voice is beautiful (in the hotel scene) and other shit like that. am i missing something? im not sure i completely understand the dialogue between Takumi and Nitou while they were carrying the bags the day before the musical, can someone explain pls? Daiki confession at the end was unnecessary and out of place. |
JoshikiMay 2, 2020 9:42 AM
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| Welcome to the club. The reason why it finished like this is because they needed some conflict so that Naruse doesn't just do her play and the bitch who wrote the script https://myanimelist.net/people/5978/Mari_Okada keeps doing stuff like this where best girl gets rejected probably because she thinks it makes the story "better" or "more mature". Maybe she wanted the moral of the story to be that we don't always get what we want but we have to move on with our lives regardless. Or maybe she just loves getting the audience invested, then bending them over and fucking them in the ass. In any case don't even bother trying to rationalize this from an in movie perspective since there is absolutely no point. The real world people who made it just needed another conflict for the story and thought this ending would be better/more interesting/less predictable. That's really all there is to it I'm afraid. But you're definitely not alone in your frustrations since most of the people I've talked to who've seen it seem to agree. |
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| I enjoyed the ending as well. I never really saw Takumi and Jun as love, but more like lost souls helping each other get over their respective obstacles. Everyone had a happy ending in my opinion and it was not super cliche (what was expected was the main two characters ending up together). Daiki (the jock) didnt end up with the cheerleader and Takumi got to fix his relationship and his regret with Nito. |
| "I hate to lose more than I like to win, the only reason I like to win is so I do not have to lose." - Manti Teo |
| Well they tried to be original in a good way. Some peoples might dislike because each character isn't paired with the one that seemed the best to viewers eyes. |
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| Subverting expectations is a good thing but the alternative you present has to be at least as good as what the viewers expected. And that wasn't the case with this movie. |
| What kind of ending was that...i mean was that even a proper ending??? Jun and Takumi - what happened to them? Takumi ruined the whole movie...why did he have to say that.? He gone mad? Why? |
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| I honestly thought it was kind of obvious how it was going to end up after finding out about Takumi and Nitou's past and noticing all the times Daiki blushed because of Jun. The Daiki and Jun scene with the passing train kind of sealed it for me. Still not a great build up but the pieces were was still there. |
| I feel like that ending contrasted the fairy tale fantasy idea Jun had with the actual reality. It wasn't the prince who got together with her, but someone else. The prince already loved someone else, but someone whom she didn't even think about felt strongly about her. In that sense the ending was a bit poetic actually. |
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| Wtf was that end seriously, man I'm really disappointed it felt like I just wasted 2 hours of my free time |
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| I was really pissed that Sakagami chose that annoying girl over Jun but then I realized that this boy really anit shit and Daiki is actually the better dude. He was annoying and rude at the beginning but this kid fixed his ways immediately! Look how earnestly he apologized to everyone and stepped up as a character! Such a gentleman too, walking Jun home and yelling at assholes who disrespect people! Good luck Daiki! Even if she says no keep trying dear! |
| What's there to talk about? The majority of the people who loved the story are the same people who suffered the same shit ending and can relate. |
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| Baseball player confession was totally contrived. Glad the boy got together with cheerleader babe. She did the whole play while psych patient copped out. |
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| I actually don't mind that she got totally rejected. I was watching the scene where baseballboi/naruse were walking home w/ each other and was like "you know, this might be more interesting if they were paired up". can't say i expected it to actually happen lol sometimes love doesn't work out, and this little twist was one of the handful of things I liked about the movie that being said the whole story needs a lot of revision and re-writing lol, it totally felt "contrived" as said by mr TrumpMD and up until the end the side-romantic-subplot felt totally unnecessary. The ending ended up feeling more like "oh, i see what they were going for" rather than "oh, that was very satisfying/made a lot of sense" |
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| I just wrote something like this in the discussion thread, but since this is about the ending it might be more fitting here. It feels like a romance written by a machine. Love through the eyes of something which doesnt understand love, other emotions, but not love. It knows what love is in theory and what it does, so the influence is there, but the love itself will feel empty. This entire story focuses on main girl opening her heart to her prince, that got all ghe developement. Yet suddenly he loves his old gf again after literally zero developement for that. My problem with this is, why? Sure I understand love isnt easy or rational. It doesnt follow rules. But this is a piece of entertainment. When you have a romance story and focus on 2 characters interacting yet they each end up with someone different, it feels pointless. As someone already said, Mari Okada does this all the time. I would actually recommend everyone who is bothered by this to just stop watching her stuff 10 minutes before the end. Its not as bad as subverted expectations in GoT, though that is nearly impossible. You can certainly subvert expectations for a twist, but not at the very end. Not when that renders everything pointless. |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| I came into this movie with semi-high expectations from what I heard of it and I came out fairly disappointed. Like what the user above me said, it was kinda pointless how they didn't even end up together despite everything that has happened and the ending just felt wasted. But whatever, some people found this good but I didn't. People on Instagram love overhyping stuff. |
| I think that the reason why i liked this film so much is that in certain way, i felt an connection with the problems that Naruse had, since something that happened in my life left me with an indisputable fear of communicating with strangers |
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| I enjoyed watching the movie. However, I felt the ending was forced into a relationship. I wanted the mains to ship together |
 Yahallo! Yatta! Baka! <!  "Humans, your existence was a mistake. Conflicts, lies, jealously, greed. You once caused me to lose everything and today I will devour everything... Because I am the Valkyrie Goddess"> |
| i couldn't care less tbh I didn't watch the movie for the romance |
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| I thought it was a very good ending. Of course it's not satisfying because we see through the viewpoint of Jun the whole movie, but it's a closure that makes sense and also helps her grow up as a person. Of all things, I think Mari Okada is specially good at handling rejection and not taking other person's feelings for granted. Or more exactly, showing that love is not an end goal or an award for trying hard. |
| Natsuki and Takumi's relationship was never explored, it was completely random and didn't make much sense. Maybe if we had an explanation as to why he loves her it would've made more sense, but no. The only explanation we can come up with, is that he loves her because she's hot. Daiki should've been in love with Natsuki, not Naruse. Natsuki said she'd cheer Takumi and Naruse, and unless she turns Takumi down, which we will never know if she does, then she lied. |
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| Ending was great, there was no romantic build up with the two main characters (main girl and main guy) and it broke the cliche so a definite plus Main guy was just an overly helpful guy, very platonic throughout whole show The other girl was happy, baseball guy is happy heck everybody's happy, and Jun wasn't overly in love with him in the first place, she just was grateful he helped her and thought it was love, no difference than other cliche of picking up the eraser and suddenly X is so in love with Y |
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| For romance part I'll just quote my post from main topic: Panzer92 said: I seriously don't buy those pairings. Naruse and Sakagami had some chemistry, they actually worked nicely beyond just being the main characters. But Sakagami and Nitou? There was nothing. Maybe if we had another 15-30 min focused on their backstory it could work, but as it is all I saw in them was "thing of the past". Tasaki and Naruse is totally random and should've never happened... Other than that, ending was ok. Whole stroy was about egg taking her voice, and in the end she understood there was no egg (among others) and got her voice back. Pretty solid. If not BS pairings, which would work better if they cut it out entirely and just went with friendship, it's solid end. |
JustAnotherShiroNov 3, 2020 1:12 PM
| It was very clear that Daiki liked Jun, so it makes sense he confessed to her.The thing with Nitou was more like, it would be what he would have had to do, in this role he played for his team and the others. Like the ace of the baseballteam and the top cheerleader belong together. But I really expected he and Nitou would be rejectet and end up together. It's a very real ending and i am not mad about it. There is also beauty in the sad times of love. |
glimglimFeb 7, 2021 4:34 PM
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| I honestly liked the choice at the end, I do wish they gave more screen time for her to talk to her mother or have some sort of closure... but that's fine too. I think the choice of them not ending up together makes more sense to me, since there wasn't really actually anything romantic between the two. It was more of just one sided love from her, because she saw him as a prince. But he didn't really look like he shared the same feeling towards her. More as someone who just admire her for her courage. Is the other part so bad that he ends up liking her? Ehh... I mean the heart is complicated ain't it not? Maybe he started to fall for her as he saw her grow throughout the time they spent together in the club. To see how she wrote a play and how she pulled through though she wanted to give up. How hurt she was but yet she eventually came back to finish what she started. But yeah I can understand those who don't like it, it's just me personally, I liked it. I didn't care for which ending really, I personally prefer this way compared to the other way. Though as I stated, I do wish they had a mother daughter moment... |
| Lmao, I remember this movie. It had a fantastic first hour, mediocre next half hour nd the absolute worst last half hour. The last 30 minutes of the movie made me regret watching the entire thing. The creator is infamous for giving these cuck endings. |
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| I rewatched it and she could have stayed single... who cares about this matching her with someone. The MC wasn't her prince. it should have ended that way. She didn't need someone if the romance wasn't developed. The eggman never showed interest in 1h59 minutes (or it was fucking subtle to notice) We had more information between Nito and Sakagami conversation about their feelings than in any other scenes. It was pretty clear he was hypocrite to help her. I get the feeling he was doing this only for himself. |
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