ＧＥ～グッドエンディング～（１５） (週刊少年マガジンコミックス)

GE～グッドエンディング～ #15

by Kei Sasuga, 流石 景

いま、真実を打ち明けよう……。――黒川（くろかわ）に忍び寄る、元カレ・透流（とおる）の影。黒川が心配な内海（うつみ）は、晶（しょう）からの着信を無視し、黒川のもとへと向かう。友達として放っておけないという内海に戸惑う黒川。そんな二人の前に、ついに透流が現れる！　怯える黒川を目にし、透流を責め立てる内海。だが、透流は黒川を傷つけた過去の事件は、誤解だったと、衝撃の真実を語り始める……。

Genres: Manga

201 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 17, 2012

About the author

Kei Sasuga (流石景, Sasuga Kei) is a japanese mangaka.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yuki’s ex, Toru, firmly reinserts himself in the drama and it turns out that his past history with Yuki might be a huge misunderstanding. Meanwhile, Itsumi and Shou have a moment and, for a change of pace, some other characters have something approximating a healthy human relationship.

I give this my highest ranking for Good Ending - ‘not as bad as expected’. In fact, some parts of this are even good as we sidle into this penultimate volume.

Toru sucks and I appreciate Yuki acknowledging that even if what happened wasn’t strictly his fault, it still happened and you can’t just divorce it from their shared history together, even if he suffered too (and make no mistake, listening to his dumb friends puts the whole thing in motion).

Then Toru turns into this pestering stalker type that won’t leave Yuki alone, which makes me wonder why they bothered to redeem one previous moment just to have him still end up as a sack of crap. I swear, if this is a set-up for Itsumi to save Yuki from an assault I will scream (doubly so since they try and wring comedy out of him not taking a hint and... no thanks).

The middle section featuring Erika and Kono and the baseball championship is quite good and definitely the best part of the book (weird how it barely focuses on the main characters... hmm...). Sports action, Kono being cheered on by Erika, a strict lesson in humility, a touching moment, it’s all really well done.

Finally we have Shou, destined forever to be the victim of every plot contrivance in this series. Once more she is thrown under the bus in service of our leads and I really, really didn’t like this section.

Shou’s clearly very happy being with Itsumi, but he just comes off like an utter bastard by projecting his interpretation of events and her feelings onto her. It’s a nasty, mean way to handle things and even if the story tries to make like he was right, I refuse to buy it for a second.

Still, it’s been pretty obvious from the start that Itsumi never should have started seeing Shou to begin with, so this finally lets the air out of those tires. It never felt like something that was adding to the narrative, except to crank up the drama - otherwise it was real dead end and a bad idea.

I think that’s the biggest problem with Good Ending - Itsumi’s a terrible person. His love for Yuki is so all encompassing that he ends up treating a lot of people like trash while trying to be good to her, or generally takes advantage of their affection towards him. Believable teenager? Maybe. Great protagonist? Less so.

Hey, 3 stars. No fan service to really speak of, some really fun moments with the baseball storyline, and while I am horrified at the prospect of how this story might wobble into the ending, for now it has aggravated me less than usual.

[Jose Granados · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ya en este nuevo tomo se nota que estamos llegando al final de la Historia , ya el protagonista está buscando la manera de resolver todo para sólo poder estar por la persona ya se dio cuenta que ama

[Rena · Rating 2 out of 5]

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!