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GE～グッドエンディング～ #14
ＧＥ～グッドエンディング～（１４） (週刊少年マガジンコミックス)
好きな人と付き合える。それだけで幸せだと思っていた……。――健人（けんと）が内海（うつみ）を訪ねてきた。晶（しょう）の連絡先を教えてほしいという健人に対し、その身勝手さが許せず、何も教えずに立ち去る内海。一方、内海と黒川（くろかわ）は、仲の良い友達同士の関係を保っていたが、黒川に一目惚れをしたという新入生が、部活見学に来たのをきっかけに、思いがけない展開を迎える……!!
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192 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 14, 2012
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February 16, 2021
Utsumi has a conversation with Shou’s ex, Utsumi talks to Shou, Kurokawa stops talking to Utsumi, I don’t care what happens to Utsumi, a vehicular accident does occur (called that one), but it turns out my predicted ending probably isn’t what I thought...
I’m already getting the first proofs of my ‘I Survived Good Ending’ t-shirts back from the printers, so I think it’s pretty clear that I have completely lost any ability I once possessed to fairly evaluate anything this book is doing on its own dubious merits.
First off, they basically excise everybody from the main cast out of the narrative save Shou, Utsumi, and Kurokawa. The others make the briefest of appearances (Erika appears once and that’s like staging your house and showing people your septic tank and not the master bedroom); instead our leads are often tangled up with newcomers.
Some of this works - the scenes where Utsumi and Shou are at her family’s place and they’re all interacting are some of the most pleasant the series has done and feel genuinely affecting and well-written (Shou being clobbered by a falling bag in her apartment is also a good moment). It honestly makes it even more of a damn shame that they’re about to shred this relationship to get Kurokawa and Utsumi back together.
Some of this does NOT work - the new guy they introduce to the tennis club makes such a dismal first impression that it’s actually a shock when he turns out to not be as bad as expected. Then again, in the little we see of his job environment, it’s not hard to tell where he may have gotten it from. But hey, a brand new character just before the book ends? Really?
It also feels, really, like this book is wasting everybody’s time. Kurokawa has a confession that could just about come at any point in the past two volumes and naturally makes things even worse. Shou’s dunderhead ex ends up trying to get back with her and boy does he ever end up setting himself on that path by nearly committing vehicular manslaughter, a time-honoured tradition for reconciliation.
That’s what I suspect we’re pushing towards - everybody is going to end up with somebody at the end, except maybe the university sempai from the photography club because she’s smarter than everybody else. If I’m right, it’s 100% why the new guy at the tennis club appeared.
Still, there’s a lot of underwrought melodrama being wrung out of this and it’s endlessly tiresome. There is one final plot development at the end, involving Utsumi’s kouhai from the photography club who wants to attend his high school, that is such an asinine contrivance that I was practically yelling at the book when it happened. It’s SO bad, but gotta get all the plot boxes ticked off, I guess. There’s no way this series ends without Utsumi and Kurokawa having sex.
3 stars because on the Good Ending scale it once more annoyed me but did not outright embarrass itself (despite one hell of an effort at the end). If I turn out to be wrong about that ending I will note it, but I don’t necessarily see it affecting my “enjoyment” one way or the other.
(I swear to god that every time I think the next volume is the last one there’s always more to come, but it has to run out at some point.)
I’m already getting the first proofs of my ‘I Survived Good Ending’ t-shirts back from the printers, so I think it’s pretty clear that I have completely lost any ability I once possessed to fairly evaluate anything this book is doing on its own dubious merits.
First off, they basically excise everybody from the main cast out of the narrative save Shou, Utsumi, and Kurokawa. The others make the briefest of appearances (Erika appears once and that’s like staging your house and showing people your septic tank and not the master bedroom); instead our leads are often tangled up with newcomers.
Some of this works - the scenes where Utsumi and Shou are at her family’s place and they’re all interacting are some of the most pleasant the series has done and feel genuinely affecting and well-written (Shou being clobbered by a falling bag in her apartment is also a good moment). It honestly makes it even more of a damn shame that they’re about to shred this relationship to get Kurokawa and Utsumi back together.
Some of this does NOT work - the new guy they introduce to the tennis club makes such a dismal first impression that it’s actually a shock when he turns out to not be as bad as expected. Then again, in the little we see of his job environment, it’s not hard to tell where he may have gotten it from. But hey, a brand new character just before the book ends? Really?
It also feels, really, like this book is wasting everybody’s time. Kurokawa has a confession that could just about come at any point in the past two volumes and naturally makes things even worse. Shou’s dunderhead ex ends up trying to get back with her and boy does he ever end up setting himself on that path by nearly committing vehicular manslaughter, a time-honoured tradition for reconciliation.
That’s what I suspect we’re pushing towards - everybody is going to end up with somebody at the end, except maybe the university sempai from the photography club because she’s smarter than everybody else. If I’m right, it’s 100% why the new guy at the tennis club appeared.
Still, there’s a lot of underwrought melodrama being wrung out of this and it’s endlessly tiresome. There is one final plot development at the end, involving Utsumi’s kouhai from the photography club who wants to attend his high school, that is such an asinine contrivance that I was practically yelling at the book when it happened. It’s SO bad, but gotta get all the plot boxes ticked off, I guess. There’s no way this series ends without Utsumi and Kurokawa having sex.
3 stars because on the Good Ending scale it once more annoyed me but did not outright embarrass itself (despite one hell of an effort at the end). If I turn out to be wrong about that ending I will note it, but I don’t necessarily see it affecting my “enjoyment” one way or the other.
(I swear to god that every time I think the next volume is the last one there’s always more to come, but it has to run out at some point.)
December 10, 2020
este número 14 de esté manga, Va por buen camino, se va poniendo muy bueno parece ser que esta llegando al final de la Historia.
August 10, 2016
Ugh! So much drama! I feel like some of these circumstances could have been left out. This really is dragging on. Will you two just admit you are perfect for each other and forget everything else that has happened in your past? Please!
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