Saotome Senshu, Hitakakusu - Vol. 10 Ch. 124 - Saotome Senshu, Yes

[Panino]

Oh, look!
Another good manga ruined by nips poor taste!

 

[WoodyCyber]

this is the ending?? disappointed. we only got to see the main couple in the last 3 pages.... tell me, was this actually axed or not?? thanks for the translation though.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Caught up from chapter 80, I gotta say its pretty good. I think the series having shorter pages and not much retarded enough drama really helps me enjoy it more than the usual romance.

 

[sixfish11]

The mangaka was told he had to wrap the series up in a certain number of chapters because the series got axed. He did the best he could to give us a satisfying ending and this Is frankly better than how most of these mangas tend to end (i.e. "um I like you so let's maybe almost kinda be a couple BUT IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK BAKA")

 

[Lotvk]

@Panino
Shut up racist incel shounen and isekai are innovative compared to “art” that comes out of the corporate patriarchy of the west (even if they have problematic elements like slavery and rape)

 

[unknownfactor]

Yeah, never recovered from the nosedive it took around the "oh noes we have to secret our relationship!" part of the story. A shame, because it had a strong start but then floundered non-stop halfway through- then just... ended. Oh well~

 

[RangoBongo]

@Lotvk lmao chill

 

[nobaka]

i mean, i'm okay with this

would have liked to see how they performed in the final match, but oh well. thoroughly enjoyed the ride

 

[R4ampage]

MAN...I'm gonna miss this Manga...

 

[Rasparr]

I'm not crying, dammit!
Those two fucking adorable, lovely dorks are the best

'twas a fun ride, ladies and gentlemen.

Also: ABS!!!

 

[fform]

I didn't want it to end.

 

[Akikako]

I'm glad that he didn't dead by snu-snu

 

[Panino]

@Lotvk
Everyone is a "racist incel" today... this slant is being overused.
Care to explain why you think I'm an "incel"?

But I repeat, again this same shit.
It's staggering the amount of really good and honest manga that it's axed because of what appears to be a general bad taste of the average japanese reader.
I wonder how much the lack of "purity" affected this one.
Tomboy and with a boyfriend? Kamisama forbids!

@unknownfactor
But it never "nosedive".
Keeping the relationship a secret may be a little annoying but at least it was understandable in the context here. The important people knew (even if the pair thought they were succeeding in fooling them) and it was more to protect Saotome's "brand". The most important part, their relationship kept going and deepening.

 

[unknownfactor]

@Panino the whole thing felt so painfully artificial and hamfisted. It became the focus of the story, instead of the focus on their relationship and their training/matches. It wasn't entertaining or even a good story development- it was just a painfully annoying roadblock that felt forced. They just had to say, "Yes, we're a couple, f- off!" and it wouldn't have mattered (and according to the ending, it didn't really matter when everyone knew they were a couple anyway!).

The author also started to mess with love triangle BS and adding new characters at awkward times, it had all the signs of delayed developments for the sake of stretching the story and becoming overall a more generic romance story. It's really not that surprising it got axed, it lost its strength of focusing on their relationship and their struggles in the ring.

 

[KuroeNekumi]

If it wasn't axed, was it that the writter didn't know how to properly end it and clumsily stumbled about doing it?

Because all this controversy about both of them being a couple felt very weird the whole way through. It was very, very awkward, for a series that had managed to keep a pretty nice pace the whole way through IMO, and there was a very noticeable shift in the feel of it all, and didn't feel all that natural. I can only hope the author manages to learn from this and next time he manages better how to go about ending his work.

Thankfully most stuff before this part went from OK to very good, so it isn't like the story got completely demolished, and this ending just felt weird, instead of unfitting or feeling overly forced. I do believe this kind of ending could have worked, but the execution wasn't the best.

 

[Istealshoes]

please say sike

 

[Monky]

Thanks for all these abs
AND DID YALL SEE THE RING?!?

 

[Ambushments]

This ending is good enough for me i guess. I honestly thought it was going to be much worse than this

 

[Panino]

@unknownfactor
But wasn't mentioned since the begging that Saotome getting into a relationship would be meet with opposition?
And as we read, in the end it was temporary.

 

[Highvoltage13]

Why do a lot of mangas skip a lot of the relationship? Its like they cant or won't write a serious relationship because they don't know about
being in a relationship or they expect readers not to know and therefore cant relate. So dumb