Ok....after people talking about this manga I went and finished it all in 3 days or so. I must say that right now I am ANGRY and I HATE THE ENDING! Actually to tell you the truth I loved the beginning he met Aya and everything and it was going smoothly but when he wouldn't confess to her and she wouldn't confess to him over so many chapters I knew it just wasn't going to happen but I WAS NOT UPSET AT ALL because my FAVORITE AND FIRST PICK WAS SATSUKI!!!! I don't get WHY the author didn't have a Satsuki ending....SHE WAS THE PERFECT CHOICE!!! Why would Manaka not end up with the first girl who confessed to him...the first girl who said she loved him more than anything so many times....the ONLY girl he can act himself around....The only girl he trusts enough to even tell that he likes other girls as well, they even watched the same things on T.V......Now Aya did compliment Manaka but I felt her destiny was a Novelist so I had cut her loose somewhere in the middle of the manga.
I knew she wouldn't end up with him because her intelligence, her talents, they all didn't match with Manaka...Nishino's dream...her going overseas..her character it simply didn't match Manaka through my eyes.....But Satsuki....was perfect all around...Manaka is a damn idiot and I'm ANGRY because EVERY NIGHT I WENT TO SLEEP AFTER READING THIS I WOULD SLEEP INTO THE DAY....DREAMING...THINKING...FOR HOURS OF SCENES...IN WHICH IT WOULD BE A SATSUKI ENDING..There was NO REASON for it not to be....I don't get why he didn't pick her, I WOULD!!! Overall I give this manga a 7/10 only because Satsuki was in it....she was my favorite character, had best personality, she was just the best. She wasn't complicated, she spoke her mind so there was no guessing involved...she turned everything to positive basically. If it was a Satsuki ending I would give it a 10/10!!!!
My List of who I wanted the ending to be in order:
1. Satsuki
2. Aya
3. Kozue Mukai
No....Nishino is not on the list because I didn't like her character....i
I hate how the guys always don't want the girls who are devoted to them...the girls who try so hard for the guy to love them and they confess to the guy so much...simply live for the guy basically...his happiness is their happiness...but NO...he wants the average girl that leads to a boring relationship that I don't feel like reading. Anyway....Thx for Putting Satsuki in this manga. If I knew for sure she had no chance I would of stopped reading a long time ago.
Anyway...since this manga left me frustrated all I can do is hope I get a Satsuki in the real world so I can put this yet another bad memory of guy characters who don't like girls who confess their love so much and want to be loved by the guy to the point they will do anything for him to notice them. (If I had known a girl like Satsuki in High School....I would be married and extremely happy right now having fun with my wife with a kid on the way. Us just taking a stroll through the park...saying we love each other and a epic kiss!) That would of been my 4 YEARS later ending!