Good, he's back to the same old consistency. Anyways, the manga really needs to stop hyping Hitomi up if the author is going to shoe horn him into a relationship with Lanka.
I think it depends on what the underlying moral the author wants to portray. If he went with a romantic relationship with Jin + Lanka, maybe the underlying lesson would be how you can love anyone, no matter their race (species) or whatever differences. If the author wanted to drive home a "friendship becomes family" type of moral, then a non-romantic Jin + Lanka familial relationship and a romantic Hitomi + Jin would work as well. Seeing as how Lanka is a wolf/dog type character, I believe the latter theme would be a good conclusion for this manga, though I'm not sure if Japan has the same "Man's best friend" type of relationship with dogs like here in the States.
My "best end" would be Jin treating the pack as his family and getting romantically paired with Hitomi.
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That's the thing, I'd be willing to bet this is just like Watari-kun, and the author is going to shoehorn him with Lanka. I agree with most of what you said, I just don't think there's much of a question as to which sequence of events is going to unfold. It keeps trying to sneak Lanka in at points throughout the story, and no manga or series which I've ever seen has ever put this much effort into romance only to ignore it at the end. Jin and Lanka have always been the main focus of the manga, and I just don't see him ending up with Hitomi, not after the way everything has been written.