Ao no Flag Chapter 54 Discussion

What a confusing ending. Taichi and Touma ending up together is certainly a bold direction for a shounen manga to take, but it would have made more sense if it, I don't know, had some actual development? Instead of happening at literally the very last second. Futaba and Taichi breaking up made perfect sense to me, as they never really had much chemistry, but all the hints throughout the manga that Taichi could possibly like Touma in that way were so vague it could easily be written off as friendship.

Masumi being married to a man doesn't sit right with me. This is not a character who was written as bisexual, we saw her struggles as a teen when she admitted that she can't love any of her boyfriends. Why include such a detail if she was intended to end up with a guy? At least she's happy with her husband instead of using him as a beard.

Overall I appreciate what they were trying to do here, especially how they made Tai and Touma's marriage explicit with the rings and Touma's surname being Ichinose now, even if it came totally out of left field. The manga always seemed to be building to a climax it never quite delivered on, and the whole last arc was kind of a mess. If only they'd cut out a few of those pointless chapters after the confession where every side character got to voice their irrelevant opinion on the situation, and used them to further develop the main four.

this ending really hurt me, and i think this is the exact emotion that the author wanted to cause in the readers.
i think that the central themes of this manga are ''the possibility, the choices, the unpredictability of the future'' and seeing toma and taichi married completely confirmed this, even because during the story there were subtle hints of an unconscious attraction for taichi towards toma.
seeing Futaba married really hurts but it's ok thinking that she also had a life outside the highschool part of the manga and made her own choices that led her to that point.
in my opinion everything is clear if you read carefully the panel where toma and taichi are watching the poster of that horror movie they watched years prior and criticize the characters for making weird choices, saying that people could say the same thing about them too.
overall i LOVED this manga, absolutely one of my favorites, and even if the ending is controversial and i would've preferred to see taichi and futaba together, i think it fits perfectly.

A 9.5/10 for me

i have a strong feeling that they will announce the anime adaptation very soon.
We can only hope.

I just know i won't like this ending, how disappointing

Taichi rejected Touma last chapter I thought that Was the end of it.

and Taichi can't you at least go to your ex's wedding just to show support =="

another manga with a shit ending ><"

What a confusing ending. Taichi and Touma ending up together is certainly a bold direction for a shounen manga to take, but it would have made more sense if it, I don't know, had some actual development? Instead of happening at literally the very last second. Futaba and Taichi breaking up made perfect sense to me, as they never really had much chemistry, but all the hints throughout the manga that Taichi could possibly like Touma in that way were so vague it could easily be written off as friendship.

Masumi being married to a man doesn't sit right with me. This is not a character who was written as bisexual, we saw her struggles as a teen when she admitted that she can't love any of her boyfriends. Why include such a detail if she was intended to end up with a guy? At least she's happy with her husband instead of using him as a beard.

Overall I appreciate what they were trying to do here, especially how they made Tai and Touma's marriage explicit with the rings and Touma's surname being Ichinose now, even if it came totally out of left field. The manga always seemed to be building to a climax it never quite delivered on, and the whole last arc was kind of a mess. If only they'd cut out a few of those pointless chapters after the confession where every side character got to voice their irrelevant opinion on the situation, and used them to further develop the main four.

I went into this knowing at least some character was Bi, so I kind of read every look Taichi gave in his childhood at Touma as "he likes him". But then it never really showed him outright blushing at the guy, so I honestly started thinking nothing would come out of it.

Then the final chapters happened and I just rolled with it. These kinds of endings are really common with lgbtq manga. I just wish there was more build up to it consider this got 50 chapters.

This ending dropped the manga from a strong 9/10 to around like a 5 or 6 holy shit.

It's not that I am mad about Taichi and Touma ending together since the hints of Taichi being bi were in the manga from the beginning ,in fact when I started reading I was rooting for a relationship between them to begin, but the way it was handled was horrendous. First you establish him as maybe having feelings for his friend, that's alright, then you have him end up with a girl, that's fine too. What isn't fine at all is have him suddenly pull up a 180 AT THE VERY LAST SECOND and have him end with Touma anyways EVEN THOUGH WE JUST SAW HIM MAKE IT PRETTY CLEAR THAT HE WANTED TO REMAIN FRIENDS. And don't get me started on poor Masumi, my sweet girl didn't deserve that character assassination.

No buildup of any kind, it kinda just happened, how did it happen? Fuck if we know, because the mangaka decided to drop these huge ass plot development on the last chapter, even though a few of them didn't even make sense to begin with.

Fuck, I am mad

This manga gives a lot of emotions, I have connected with all the characters and I think they are very well written, the plot twist surprised me and the ending is perfect 10/10