[Rant]
Pretty much the worst ending of any story I've ever read. It's been some years now since I've put volume 14 away, utterly disgusted. Never experienced any story that impacted my mood as negatively as this heap of trash. It spits in the face of its characters and on the intelligence of the readers.
Putting this amnesia on Karin out of nowhere for a completely asinine reason was just the most stupid thing I've ever read. What was that even for? Drama?
A fate worse than death for Karin (if we can even call that mentally screwed individual still Karin, because your memories define you as a person in a substantial manner) and Kenta forced to live with this emotional invalid for the rest of his life, a girl that doesn't even understand why she is subconsciously depressed for the rest of her life. Forced to live with a girl that in essence isn't even the girl he fell in love with. How cruel can you be? And for what reason? For a gratuitous egomaniac decision by her so called "loving" family. You can see the terror in Karin's eyes as she realizes what they intend to do to her, the ultimate betrayal. Robbing her of herself, her dignity as a person and of the family she loved. But hey, at least her family can feel happy now, knowing that her hollow puppet of a daughter can now live "happily ever after", aren't they wonderful and loving for their self-sacrifice? No?
Her life was going good at that point but they had to come and ruin it for her and Kenta for the most stupid reason ever.....
Honestly, I don't know how hard the author had to hit her head against the table to have this shit pour out of her head. The ending isn't even bittersweet, it's just bitter and unnecessarily cruel. It's as if anyone who moves abroad and away from their family at some point in their life would be better off just completely forgetting about them forever and not being able to visit them ever again. That's the message the story sends. And by comparison with someone who moves abroad, Karin would have been even better off, because she wouldn't even live far away from her family, the only difference would be that her family is nocturnal, wow, what a deal-breaker, she could never have lived happily with Kenta while knowing that her family sleeps during the day.....
Karin is the manga that made me stop buying manga before they're finished because I felt (and still feel) so emotionally cheated by how incompetent of an ending this was. It shits on everything that happened before (pretty much all of which I loved, otherwise this wouldn't have impacted me at all).
Lastly, I'm not one to hate on sad endings in principle, but the way this was executed was just inexcusable to me. And yeah, I know it's just a story and I'm not losing sleep over it or anything (not anymore :P ), but thinking about it always awakes these emotions inside of me and as I said, if I hadn't cared as much about the characters as I did, I wouldn't have felt this strongly about how stupid this ending was. Glad the anime was produced before this crap was finished. I haven't found any conclusive info about the ending of the novel, but it seems like the author there went with the original crap ending as (correct me if I'm wrong, please, I would LOVED to be wrong there). [/Rant] |