After reading and watching so many animes and manga, i've come to realisethat im in a position to start writing review and this will be the first one im starting with.
Firstly,Good Ending is definitely worth reading if you're a fan of romance manga. The Mangaka (Sasuga Kei) have properly developed the characters, deeper into the characters past and the reason to how they felt and how they react. There was a purpose in each chapter and the story was progressing at a suitable pace (for a romance fanatic like me, it certainly was 'suitable' but might be abit slow for others, though not as slow as some others like kimi ni no todoke or daisy).
The art was really good, Sasuga was able to display the emotions fairly well on the faces. But what surprised me most was that he was his use of photos in the manga
(The protagonist, Seiji, took interest and joined a photography club). Through those photos, he really portrayed the feelings and emotions that was going thourgh Seiji.Not to mention that the artwork for the scenery/background is pretty well done.
The story take place in a high school settings that lasted for Seiji's 3 years in the school (not considering the 10 years skip at the back which i will talk about
more later). Sasuga was able to take into account the characters settings and made full use of it to develop the story to show the movment of the plot. Seiji is also not those type of character which u will despise, (not those weak, perverted harem) and this is definitely not typical manga where a troubled man recieve advice from a certain somebody and sees the light and solve the problem miraculously.The duration of the manga is also not too long to make you feel its draggy and not too short to make you feel that characters are underdeveloped.
The humour that Sasuga showed was also really interesting, although not to the extend of rofl, but its certainly enough for u to giggle and make people around you wonder whats going on.
The start was abit different as compared to the rest of the story. The characters was totally potrayed out of his usual self and might be a turn off for alot of readers (probably myself in the previous years but experience have told me that awesome manga might not necessarily have a good start). However story begins picking itself up after the first chapter so i would highly advice readers to not judge the whole manga immediately after reading the first chapter.
May contain some spoilers
Each character has a distinct personality but not all were fully developed. Would have been 9 if Sasuga considered adding side chapters to develop how 'Baldy
and Eri got together. As well as the story behind Onunamu and Izumi as they seem to share some past together which was not developed. But rest assured, the main characters were fully developed and all those burning questions answered as the chapters goes on.
For those that arent reading the paragraph below this, this manga would have been rated 9.5/10 if not for the ending. Seems that mangaka was rushed and summarized too many things into 1 chapter, and feels like a roller coaster ride where the drop was way too fast after something that climatic in the previous chapter. Perhaps more part about them enjoying their hard earned love/relationship could be shown. (Even though the whole damn story revolves around them, i'm pretty sure alot of readers will agree with me on this. They have nvr really been going out properly without someone feeling depress sad or some bad incident happening)
(CONTAIN heavy SPOILERS! Please refrain from reading this paragraph if you're planning on reading it)
Another downside to this manga would be the predictability straight from the start.The moment i saw how things were going from chapter 2, i knew that Seiji would definitely picked Yuki at the end. And as the story progress, it confirms my suspicion. However there were this little timespan in which when Seiji was dating Shou that made me thought that would it end with them being seperated? Apart from the predictability, the ending was also kinda cliche, like how parents are always the enemy of romance and how the protagonist would make huge sacrifice to travel to the girls house (which is always far away) to save her.
(Maybe its is just me but since i have read Kimi no Iru Machi recently, this part might be abit biased)
Furthermore, Sasuga just breeze past Yuki's fear of intimacy at the end. It seems like the ending is way too rushed and just by going 10 years later he summarised basically what is going on which is all within expectation. I certainly feel that more could be put into how both Seiji and Yuki overcome this fear that was brought forth by Tooru.
All in all i believe that this manga is certainly worth reading. Be prepared to go through the ups and downs of Seiji as Sasuga (Mangaka) brings out the pains and
happiness in this high school romance manga.
