Let me just say.... don't you fucking dare judge a mangaka from a manga that ISN'T COMPLETED. This manga is NOT COMPLETED and IS NO WHERE NEAR BEING COMPLRTED. If you're so fucking butthurt now, then get your ass off this manga. I didn't want to sound rude but you seriously pushed all my buttons. "No substance." So, when someone thinks a manga is really crappy just 'cause the characters don't end up together, then it's automatically called having no "substance?" If you read her other works, but by the looks of it, you obviously haven't, then you would know all her beginnings are fucked up. The endings are great though and everything ties in together. Caste heaven is still progressing and if you haven't read the raws that aren't out yet, then shut your fucking mind and stop typing.
I'm sorry, you clearly do want to sound rude. If you want to get your opinions across, no matter how strong they may be, do it the right way, with some respect for how others may react to your tone. No one has a need for that sort of attitude on this website.
Dear, you obviously do not understand how hard sensei works. Kindly keep your disrespectful and non-thoughtful opinions to yourself.
*inconsiderate
this is definitely and inevitably correct. I feel that it is like that,too.
Hi in response to this reply: 1) I have read all Ogawa Chise's work and I don't mind that her stories are all fucked up and have no happy ending. 2) I never meant to say that it had no substance BECAUSE Karino and Kukasabe won't end up together. 3) I had NO conclusions about this manga. All my sentences either ended with a question mark or began with an 'IF' because I acknowledged that it was an incomplete manga.
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Think about it though...Karino put Asuza in this dominion relationship...in this kind of realm where the power structure is that he's on the bottom and Karino is on top. From the beginning, the whole theme of the manga is power. Azusa had a taste of power and powerlessness. NOW...what he needs to taste is that that power is meaningless...and the only way he can do that is escaping the realm Karino put him in. No matter how much their relationship take form...like genuinely loving each other...he'll still be stuck in that realm.
Can I just say...if Kusakabe won't end up with Azusa or even play an actual role that will challenge/change /or do anything really about Azusa and Karino's dominion relationship, why the hell did that author introduce him in the first place? If it's just a manga about Azusa realizing and embracing how utterly powerless, useless and depressing his existence is, staying as a slave beneath the soles of Karino, then really...is there any substance that actually lies on this manga? And if it's just a manga wherein Azusa realizes he's just not this useless piece of shit because it turns out there was someone like Karino who really treasured him, then I greatly overestimated the ability of Ogawa Chise.