I only just learned that many Japanese readers actually seemed to like the ending. I feel like the reaction over here tended to be very negative. They seemed to like how bittersweet it was, whereas I felt like it was far too bitter, and the sweet didn't make up for it at all.
>>287824458I only read it for t&a so I don't really recall anything controversial about the ending. Best girl wasn't part of the harem anyways
>>287824575This beautiful girl needs to be pregnant constantly
>>287824575I feel like there were two main sticking points (besides no harem). The first was the dreams the haremettes went through, that felt like reality. They had it ripped away from them and keep the memories. Chisaki had it done twice to her, I believe one of the times had Kogarashi proposing. The 2nd would be when the epilogues came out. Some of the girls had neutral to fine endings, but others felt like they were in bad taste.I'm a member of the first camp, the author (and some JP readers) basically saw the dreams as throwing the heroines and their supporters a bone, but to me it felt like rubbing salt in the wound.
>>287824706From the Japanese audience, I also saw favorable comparisons to Bokuben, as it let the main heroine get a clean win as opposed to alternate routes (since the dreams were obviously thrown out in Yuuna). Bokuben’s endings are also controversial, but I felt like the concept was fine, it’s just the routes had varying levels of quality.
>>287824657she's still growing...
>>287824921She needed to stay like this
>>287824786The problem is that they were merely dreams. The epilogue was even more cruel.>showed Chisaki being depressed after getting rejected>also showed her moving far away as possible from Yuuna who was supposed to be her best friend>showed Sagiri being miserable for throwing away her dream and drowns herself with work to stop thinking about romance>Karuta has a similar fate where she becomes a general without being happyOboro and Hibari have more lighthearted endings with the tease of them possibly becoming a couple.
>>287824786I feel like we kind of had to be guilted into the yuuna win though, especially because of the dreams. If she goes, koga always feel like she was the one who got away (he literally says as much in his confession) and depending on the timeline everyone eats shit in some future battle. Then so you don't feel too bad about the girls having their romance end dream, yuuna was revealed to have hundreds of them and all of them were tragic, so she became depressed AND catatonic. There you can argue that yuuna needed the win the most, since the haremettes were only "mildly" troubled in the dreams, but that just doesn't feel like an ending I'd read
>>287825674True, her and Sagiri
>>287824458The basic problem of this series always comes from the MC actually conquering each girl routes but still only really staying with one, it needs a harem ending, but it just grants happiness to one girl while creating a dozen of losing heroines. This comes from that era when VN adaptations where a thing, and there was no other alternative for a faithful adaptation but it became the staple a bad habit. Sure let´s make the mc and each girl develop a bond, make the MC completely ignore how important they became to each other and restart with another girl just to only finally caring about just one. Again authors use the VN formula of conquering a girl which main idea is that the relationship builds up to romantic love but to fit new girls cut it off without care to the dismay of the losers.
>>287825648Now that you mention it, I might’ve felt that it was something of a pitybait ending, it’s just been a good while.>>287828382Japanese readers seemed weirdly fine with it, which does kinda bother me. I will say that I do think Yuuna was the obvious winner and that she was more developed in that way, so it’s less offensive than other times. Something like Bokuben just felt like it was continuing what it was doing the whole manga, which is why the criticism has always fell flat. Maybe you could argue Uruka or Fumino would’ve been a more properly developed singular ending, but meh.
I like Seri, partly because I like the tease-y never-gonna-get-featured nature of liking that one.
>>287824458>Japanese readers actually seemed to like the endingIt's funny how so many negatively-received endings (in the West) are considered good/not bad endings in the East and vice versa. Eva Rebuilds, Fate Grand Order, BNHA, and a handful of other recent titles' endings have been similarly divisive by culture.
>>287832523Honestly I think Hero Academia’s ending was massively overhated, and for what felt like no good reason
>>287824458The ending was bad because it didn't end with:H I B A R IIBARI
>>287824458Cute
