Revisiting the series after learning the author is getting a new work (yay!), I feel like the ending is kind of pointed. Like, it's obviously supposed to be a bad ending, I get that, but the message being that the talented Lucky gets to live because hard work can never beat talent feels very... heartfelt? Just knowing that the manga was cancelled makes me wonder if the eq vs iq portion was put in there specifically because the author knew it was going to get axed. I guess there's no use questioning the authors intentions though, since it's already axed. Still, I hope their next work has a more cheerful outlook on things.
Revisiting the series after learning the author is getting a new work (yay!), I feel like the ending is kind of pointed. Like, it's obviously supposed to be a bad ending, I get that, but the message being that the talented Lucky gets to live because hard work can never beat talent feels very... heartfelt? Just knowing that the manga was cancelled makes me wonder if the eq vs iq portion was put in there specifically because the author knew it was going to get axed. I guess there's no use questioning the authors intentions though, since it's already axed. Still, I hope their next work has a more cheerful outlook on things.