
I was sooo freakin' excited when this one popped up!
It's felt like forever and I've even reread it now and again because it was just too cute and adorable and amazing and, ahhh. ლ(´ڡ`ლ)
I love the hell out of Aki, he's my most favorite yakuza star by far.
Everything from his ridiculously bright, loud clothes and his blunt stubbornness to his adorable naivete and unfaltering devotion to Ueda make him just so perfect~!

I feel like I wouldn't have been truly happy with any ending.
Ao lied, yes, but he put up with Kou's cheating a lot and obviously Mikuni wasn't the first cheating incident. I felt like Ao suffered a lot through Kou's promiscuousness and his own guilt that has literally been dogging him for years. He even kept the photos and stuff because he didn't intend to deceive him forever.
I do like that Mikuni finally found him after all this time and I feel bad he went through all the effort to do so much for Kou but I'm not sure Mikuni would have been willing to put up with Kou's willfulness to the extent Ao has. I'm not sure if I buy the idea Kou only cheated in order to chase a phantom "type" that he forgot he had after the accident. I think Mikuni is too emotionally healthy to tolerate that sort of shit from Kou for long.
In that respect, it feels like Ao's deceit and Kou's cheating/willfulness balance out. They're definitely not healthy traits but as they say, "like attracts like."
This is one of my most favorite mangas. I don't want it to ever end~ ლ(´ڡ`ლ)