Suzuka Chapter 166 Discussion

it was a fun read

Vicis said:
Oh and I'd love it if any one could recommend a manga to read that resembles Suzuka/Love Hina/Ichigo 100%, preferably something with a bunch of chapters since one shots leave me feeling empty on the inside...



hmm, recommendations? You might want to check out Kimi no Iru Machi (A Town Where you Live). Its a new manga by Kouji Seo, the very same guy who authored Suzuka, that started last Spring. and I have to say, it has been a great start for the manga so far, probably even better than the first couple of arcs in Suzuka.

THIS IS AN MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER.

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                Yay, I was right. Time skip but it was only a year into the future.



Yamato and Suzuka are having their wedding and we get to see their Daughter "Fuuka". Yamato and Suzuka plan to have a second kid.



More info on the chapter can be found here http://anime-horizon.blogspot.com/



I'm a bit happy that we get to meet the new daughter and see how everyone (their friends) have evolved a bit since the last time they met. I suppose this ending was a good choice. Props to Seo and cant wait till his new work this Sping time.

First of I'd like to say that chapter 166 was a great ending to the series, or I suppose as good an ending as the series could receive following the previous chapters, it tied off a lot of the lose ends that readers would have been left with had there not been a time skip so that was good. I don't think it left any room for a sequel in the least so I wouldn't recommend any one get their hopes up, it's very rare to see a manga about a married couple with a child..

arimakenshin said:


This manga had so much potential in the beginning and the second half was basically an insult to any reader's intelligence. Talented sprinters become teenage parents... What market are they trying to capture with the last two trashy volumes. Suzuka basically acted like she had no intelligence unlike the first three quarters of the manga.



3/10 ---> 4 points docked off for plot change and 3 points docked off for making me regret reading this manga.



Actually the beginning, at least to me was kind of painful to read. It was like watching emotionally unstable teenagers be....Emotionally unstable, but not on the same level as other mangas their reactions and everything just seemed to childish, I'd compare their relationship in the first couple of volumes to that of two 7 years olds in 15 year old bodies that think they're in love.



If you read the manga then you should very well know that neither of them was ever truly inspired to do track and field for them selves, Suzuka did it at first because of the kid that died and then Yamato's compliment inspired her to do better. Yamato did track and field because of Suzuka, so the fact that they were able to abandon their sports careers isn't all that shocking to me.



Of course every one to their own, I really enjoyed reading the later half of this manga. My only few complaints are that; when Suzuka went to America the mangaka just did a few chapters and then he did a time skip, I would've enjoyed to see Yamato get into a whole new relationship with one of the girls and to see him live his life without Suzuka. The other complaint being that I felt that the last 10 chapters or so were too rushed, the pregnancy thing really did surprise me and I can't really say it's the ending I was hoping for but it's an ending none the less and since I suppose I would rather something like that than your average predictable ending.



Oh and I'd love it if any one could recommend a manga to read that resembles Suzuka/Love Hina/Ichigo 100%, preferably something with a bunch of chapters since one shots leave me feeling empty on the inside...

Suzuka, a story about teen pregnancy ending unreasonably well. =p



That said, I found the manga to be much more enjoyable than the anime. It did seem like the author threw in the pregnancy thing just to wrap things up more quickly though.

This manga was never that good to begin with: slap stick humor, pretty typical drama, Suzuka being an absolute cunt.



But it all clicked at one point for some reason, the cringeworthy moments and mistakes that our protagonist would make, the slight and occasional transformations that Suzuka make (and no she's not really a tsundere, more like a complete tsun and then a complete dere, so no), and most of all, how soothingly and seamlessly the sports backdrop was weaved into the rather melodramatic plot. Thus this made not only the plot all the more engaging for us adrenaline junkies but also the conclusion all the more powerful. Perhaps it was a romantic ending, an unrealistic antithesis to the brutal suffering that our protagonist had endured. But it wasn't. Because Suzuka was still a cunt (though a nicer one, if even possible), our protagonist still an airhead, and just like the manga stated at the end, everything was still pretty much the same when compared to their times in HS.



And I think I like that. It didn't feel forced or anything-- no tragic ending nor complete disaster had to accompany the wholesomely organic slice of life feel and vibes that the manga had given off throughout its entirety. I especially loved the cheesy, albeit warming, foto of the couple with their friends and well ex's in the wedding photo. I also read the special but having the final moment be encompassing of a captured moment in time-- friends having a good time, uniting despite past hardships-- pays a strong homage to what the manga was really all about from beginning to end.

I finally finished this manga.



I don't know why people are bitching about the ending. I thought it was pretty satisfying.



I can't help but laugh when I saw that wedding photo. All of the girls present in that photo made advances to Yamato in the past and now they're attending the wedding XD.

i finished it and i am glad i made the decision to read this manga, a considerably good one i liked some of the moments like when both suzuka and yamato decide to have the baby born actually anime ended with a confusion but the manga made a good ending imposing on important developments between all characters but i wanted to see something between hatori and miki

i rate it a 9/10