About the ending!!

Reckless_weeb said:
So I really didn't have any issue with the anime ending. But it sure wasn't that great, the show went from a 9 to 7 in the end but still it was good imo. But I heard they changed the ending from manga.
So what was the ending in manga?

LuFFY-Itachi said:

what did you not like about the explanation, can you explain pls

Reckless_weeb said:
So I really didn't have any issue with the anime ending. But it sure wasn't that great, the show went from a 9 to 7 in the end but still it was good imo. But I heard they changed the ending from manga.
So what was the ending in manga?

soultheories said:

the ending in the anime was definitely rushed and cramped! the ending in the manga went something like this:

* might not be completely accurate because it's been a while since i read it.

[ MANGA SPOILERS ]

satoru regains consciousness in the hospital. up to that point, everything is the same. however, instead of "defeating" yashiro right then and there, he falls into a second coma that lasts for a bit over a year

when he wakes up for a second time, he starts to live his life again to the best of his abilities, and befriends a little girl in the hospital iirc? kind of like in the anime. however, instead of everything happening at the hospital, they go to a summer camp when they're released. that's where satoru and yashiro meet again, and yashiro sets a trap for satoru by making it look like he's taken the girl

yashiro is obsessed with satoru, that much stays the same, but in the manga instead of simply wanting to kill him, he wishes to commit a double suicide with him, and thus lures him into an old bridge so the both of them can die together when they plummet to the ground.

satoru, always being one step ahead, sees through him and gets kenya's help to save the girl and himself, and he also chooses to save yashiro iirc. then we get to his reveries, where he talks about how the town without him and yada yada

personally i think the manga ending is more emotionally impactful, and there are also three side stories about characters dealing with satoru's coma(s) once the main story is finished: one for kayo, one for sachiko and one for kenya (this one has two parts! so in total it's four extra chapters)

my retelling is most likely very inaccurate!! so i recommend reading the actual manga ending <3 it's definitely worth a try and the ending is the only thing that considerably changes, so you wouldn't have to read the manga from the beginning, just from the part where it deviates from the anime !!