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| i have a feeling this chapter will get hate, but honestly i thought it was wonderful. besides the obvious lack of clarity on what happened to characters to get where they did (most notably shibasawa and nagi) this was honestly the best ending i could see fit. in the end, yuko was a terrible person from start to finish. at first i wished we saw her die, but towards the end i started realizing maybe her being on that bed wasting away alone, until she eventually did die, was a suited punishment. goodbye to esemori too, a terrible person as well, but at the very least he prevented yuko from killing reiji. all of this may have seemed to have started because of him, but in reality if he hadn't started this yuko would've done a lovers suicide with reiji. so, in some messed up way, he kinda saved him and nagi. edit: oh, and of course, i wished mao died. not just had yuri protect him from reiji. honestly, maybe her going to jail was for the best. i assume she turned herself in, which maybe is revealed in the extras minenami promised. goodbye boys abyss. <3 |
| I'm not sure how to feel about this ending, huh, a little random, and considering the first panel of the first chapter is a flashforward, it feels like the author didn't have this exact ending in mind and had a change of heart. Overall, great story, however the ending feels a little rushed in comparison to the rest of the manga. |
OetJul 24, 10:39 AM
 "I’m alone. I hate being alone. Being alone makes me feel empty." Hanabi Yasuraoka ✧ Linktree |
| Yeah was expecting an ending like this after how author streched and did things in a roundabout way for the last 100 ish chapters. Used to be really good at start, engaging story with suspense but lost it's momentum and at some point I stopped caring at all. Feels like a very pointless read, hollow like the characters themselves. |
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| Huh, TODAY already? I thought the chapter wouldn't be out until tomorrow, but maybe it was in Japanese time (I'm not Japanese)? That's why I was a bit surprised. So, this chapter is the last and ends the manga series after four and a half years! And I'm completely overwhelmed. Opinions differ a lot about the ending here, I have much to say about it too, so read the spoiler carefully, it contains a summary of the chapter and my commentary on it. Or maybe I just skimmed the chapter too quickly and missed important details (let me know if so). In any case, it's over now, unbelievable. I'll also post my full review of the manga in a few days. |
ForphyJul 24, 12:43 PM
| All I had on my mind after I finished reading the chapter was "that's it?". Lots of loose ends like how Reiji suddenly changed his mind about the suicide when everything prior to that scene of him returning to the bridge was leading to that, I understand that the core message of the manga is about breaking cycles and how hard it is to to that but I wish the how would at least make sense. Crazy how all this chapter made me feel like was confused, that's 100% not how I was expecting to feel like after reading the final chapter of a manga that evoked so many different strong emotions on me throughout it's run. |
| This is the ending you give us... seriously, Ryou? It was too underwhelmin'. And whatz up with the lack of clarity huh? Reiji's situation was somewhat vague and Nagi's whereabouts are nowhere just wth!? This series had induced very strong and also fucked up lunatic emotions in me throughout the run and it was tbh very amusin'(tho the last 35% chaps were somewhat less of that type). I seriously didn't expect this typa lightweight clarity lackin' ending sheesh Whatever letz see what the epilogue'd hold |
| Very, very underwhelming ending. And I'm saying it as someone who already had low expectations. It was vague, but in a bizarre way and unlike most of chapters filled with intriguing ambiguity we could read in the past. I'm not a fan of cheap mysteries getting dragged on for so long only to end up in a half-baked, lazy way. The theme of "mystery ending up in a very mysterious way and becoming even greater mystery" just doesn't click with me, lol. Overall, I had fun while reading this manga. Good example of a manga belonging to the misery literature genre. It had better and worse moments, but if we put aside that somewhat disappointing ending and the fact that some arcs dragged out for too long, making their initial great quality decline, Shounen no Abyss is a cool and interesting manga worth of at least checking it up. |
GeoXsf9 said: This is the ending you give us... seriously, Ryou? It was too underwhelmin'. And whatz up with the lack of clarity huh? Reiji's situation was somewhat vague and Nagi's whereabouts are nowhere just wth!? This series had induced very strong and also fucked up lunatic emotions in me throughout the run and it was tbh very amusin'(tho the last 35% chaps were somewhat less of that type). I seriously didn't expect this typa lightweight clarity lackin' ending sheesh Whatever letz see what the epilogue'd hold wait, so there'll be an epilogue? |
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GeoXsf9 said:
This is the ending you give us... seriously, Ryou? It was too underwhelmin'. And whatz up with the lack of clarity huh? Reiji's situation was somewhat vague and Nagi's whereabouts are nowhere just wth!? This series had induced very strong and also fucked up lunatic emotions in me throughout the run and it was tbh very amusin'(tho the last 35% chaps were somewhat less of that type). I seriously didn't expect this typa lightweight clarity lackin' ending sheesh
Whatever letz see what the epilogue'd hold
This is the ending you give us... seriously, Ryou? It was too underwhelmin'. And whatz up with the lack of clarity huh? Reiji's situation was somewhat vague and Nagi's whereabouts are nowhere just wth!? This series had induced very strong and also fucked up lunatic emotions in me throughout the run and it was tbh very amusin'(tho the last 35% chaps were somewhat less of that type). I seriously didn't expect this typa lightweight clarity lackin' ending sheesh
Whatever letz see what the epilogue'd hold
wait, so there'll be an epilogue?
| @Forphy I read on MangaMoguraRE's profile on X that the last volume will have a lot of exclusive content (source: https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1816207263650001235). What kind of exclusive content? I don't know. I assume that it can be a separate epilogue chapter, or extra pages for ch. 183, or just stuff like official artworks showing the main cast added to the volume as a bonus. |
Adnash said: @Forphy I read on MangaMoguraRE's profile on X that the last volume will have a lot of exclusive content (source: https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1816207263650001235). What kind of exclusive content? I don't know. I assume that it can be a separate epilogue chapter, or extra pages for ch. 183, or just stuff like official artworks showing the main cast added to the volume as a bonus. alr thank you so we'll see when vol 18 cones out, prob in September?? |
| What a bland ending, left a bad taste in my mouth. Had a good run at the start but dropped later. 5/10. |
| LMAOOOOOOOOO This is not even bland or meh, it's just straight up bad. 😂 |
| Signature. |
| goddamn i had low expectations, but this was even worse😭 ending so underwhelming that i don't even feel angry or sad, just feel nothing. which is a shame, because there used to be a time when i was actually hooked despite all it's obvious flaws. hate to have to lower my score again for the extremely lazy ending but it is what it is. |
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Adnash said:
@Forphy I read on MangaMoguraRE's profile on X that the last volume will have a lot of exclusive content (source: https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1816207263650001235). What kind of exclusive content? I don't know. I assume that it can be a separate epilogue chapter, or extra pages for ch. 183, or just stuff like official artworks showing the main cast added to the volume as a bonus.
@Forphy I read on MangaMoguraRE's profile on X that the last volume will have a lot of exclusive content (source: https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1816207263650001235). What kind of exclusive content? I don't know. I assume that it can be a separate epilogue chapter, or extra pages for ch. 183, or just stuff like official artworks showing the main cast added to the volume as a bonus.
alr thank you
so we'll see when vol 18 cones out, prob in September??
| @Forphy I think we might see it sometime in October or November. Most of this manga's volumes were released each 3-4 months, so if the preliminary volume (Vol. 17) was released sever days ago, then, given the frequency of the previous volumes' release, I assume the final one might be out in October or November. According to the author herself, the final volume will have extra stuff which was called by Ryo Minenami as "important". You can read it on her post posted on X: https://x.com/ryo_minenami/status/1816128818165453068. I think we will get an expanded final chapter, fleshing out more everything that the original magazine version failed to flesh out properly. I don't expect anything flashy, but I hope to see Reiji and Nagi, as well as Yuko and Esemori, getting a proper conclusion worth of roles they had in this manga. Edit: according to this post on X, the final volume should be released on October. |
AdnashJul 25, 1:40 PM
| That ending was garbage. The Epilogue chapter better pull through |
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| I didn't like this at the start, but it was bearable. Now and with this ending, I dislike it even more and feel like there was nothing worth in it |
| at least they got what they wanted, Boy's Abyss |
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| I don't really understand it I have no clue what this final chapter is but regardless I enjoyed the manga and the characters |
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| wow, they really shouldve ended it much sooner when gen was the big bad boss, it wouldve been much better imho. there are still so many things i just dont get like why mom and rei hate each other (nor do i care anymore), she shouldve stayed as the angel in that hellhole of a town |
| anime/manga version of steam would be awesome - https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1625396 |
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Upon rereading it several times over, I think the teacher killed Nagi and Reiji is hallucinating again on the bridge. Only because of the line about a room recently becoming open and she appears to get rid of the murder weapon right after saying that. Still unclear what transpired after and led to whatever the situation is on the mountain. Honestly I was hoping for more closure with this ending, so I'm probably just reaching.
| @Onyx_Rooster You're getting confused. Yuri (sensei) is talking with Mao, for some unexplained reason the writer though that ending up the manga with the implicaction that she took Mao to be the next "Nagi" (basically kidnapped and kept in that room for years taking "care" of). The problem with this manga is that Nagi is very uninteresting and frankly not that well developed even sensei has more than just look "sad" all the time going on for her. also she's living with Reiji and Nagi, which it's an entire story off-screen left as afterthought there in dialogue just because. |
DoomResetRJul 25, 5:52 AM
| Not much to say, after quite a long ride so anticlimatic ... |
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| What was the point of dragging the series for so long if you're going to end it like this? It ended like a wet fart. What a waste of time. |
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