GE: Good Ending

As stated in the synopsis, this one-shot eventually inspired the full series of the same name. Note that I have not read the full series at the time of this writing, so these impressions will be made solely based on the one-shot.

Story, 7: Given its relatively short length, I thought the story was paced well and allowed for several dynamic scenes between the characters. The ending was very satisfying.

Art, 8: The lines and shading seem much more distinct in this than other manga I've read, though that may just be my relative inexperience in manga talking. The style was unique and pleasing.

Characters, 6: This rating unfortunately is a tad low, simply due to the brevity of the story. There were glimpses into deeper motivations and feelings of the characters that I expected are expanded upon in the full series.

Enjoyment, 7: The one-shot was a quick, enjoyable read that sparked my interest in the full series; I was particularly impressed with the art style.

Overall, 7: Romance fans will probably enjoy this, though I would recommend it to anyone looking for something short to read. While it may feel cliche, I think t offers something unique in its relatively short length.

The story took a long time for me to really get into after the first couple volumes, but then it gets pretty good in the latter half.

The art is great, I love the way the faces/expressions are drawn and portrayed, it really makes it so that you don't even have to read what they say, you know what the characters are thinking.

The main characters are quite deep, while I couldn't really connect to any characters on a personal level, I felt like I could still live through them, their past, and their story.

My enjoyment really wavered throughout, although I did end up finding myself really liking one of the characters and stuck through it to find out what happens in the end.

Overall I would recommend this for anyone who likes that slice of life/dark romance that has a little ecchi but doesn't go overboard with it. Definitely for 16+ I'd say.

(*These are my comments on the story, not an actual review*)

This manga was absolutely beautiful. It had tons of background meaning and though I viewed the characters in a way that most other readers didn't I think it is one of the best romances I've ever seen.. That's speaking for both anime and manga. I would recommend this to anyone as it incorporates a little bit of every genre. If I were asked who the best mangaka is I'd say Hajime Isayama, but if I were to be asked my favorite mangaka, I'd undoubtedly reply Sasuga Kei- Sensei. Domestic na Kanojo came after this and got an anime adaptation; I think Good Ending would do just as well as Dome x Kano If it got a anime adaptation aswell, The key difference between the two is that one has a clear path one doesn't, one has a happy ending where as the other doesn't. Lots of people had different ships, couldn't stand the NTR, or were just fed up with the patheticness the characters sometimes had and dropped it but I'm positive they would've really enjoyed if they read to the end. Chapters 1-80 were packed with good writing and lots of strong emotion, from around Chapters 90 - 120 it was pathetic, the writing had became cliche and dull, the characters were to wishy washy, the story didn't have any clear progression. This was fixed with Chapters 130ish to the end of the story... lots of chara development and story advancement, some would say the ending was rushed and I think they're reasonable to say so, but I also saw no reason for the beast of a mangaka that is Sasuga Kei- Sensei, to drag out this manga any longer and overall I was quite satisfied with the ending.

First thing first, if you're not interested in romance and drama, this manga is not for you. There's a lot of romance, a lot of drama and oh boy is it good.

For the story, it isn't to complicated Boy A likes Girl A, Girl B helps him, in some point in time Boy A starts liking more Girl B and the drama starts.
Is really simple but the execution is really good, the pace of the story is good, maybe a little rush in the final chapters, i would have liked to see more of the relationship between Utsumi and Kurokawa and maybe more development with the side characters (specially the relationship of Oonuma and Izumi) but overall is good, really good.

Now that i mention the characters, they're really good, Utsumi, is a really good MC, is not annoying like many romance anime MC and Kurukawa is really cute and intriguing, Shou made me mad, but is good because her character at some point made me mad and feel the story.
And about the secondary characters, all of them are good and really flesh out and they have their time to shine and give a conclusion to their problems, like i said i would have like to see more but overall they're all good and one more important thing,is that, they all act coherent, like a normal person of their age may act and that's something to appreciate.

There were some things in the story that i didn't like how they ended, most of it, because a person do that in real life, they would have gone to jail or getting kill or were to damn cliche, but there were little bumps in the story and are easily dismissed.
Also i have to note, that, some may say that there's a focus on tennis that is true, but is more of a plot device, you don't actually watch their tournaments, in that regard, and this are maybe spoilers, but you will see more baseball and photography than tennis.
Also a neutral point for me, the story is set in high school, so that may o may not be appealing for you.

Moving on to the art, well, is good, simply that good. Kei Sasuga really knows how to make cute girls, but sometimes, some of the boys, look weird, and somehow not really good proportionate, specially in the first chapters, but it gets better. Overall is good, not to much to talk about it.

In conclusion, i really enjoy it. It really hook me up, and wasn't unable to stop reading. I wasn't so sure that i will like it, but it really got me, it made mad, it made me sad, it made me really happy, it has some problems but they're little bumps that may be subjective.

Is a must read if you like romance and drama in general.

+ Good Story
+Good character and character development

-Somehow odd or cliche story decisions
-Art is odd at times

Neutral
*High School setting
*Could have use a little more tennis and baseball

I'm really sorry for my english in advance I hope it won't be too much trouble to read.

I have some mixed feelings about this manga. While I really liked the art and the faces drawn by the author, while I found the plot interesting, I'm just fed up with the drama in this.

I mean it is too much... everytime for every little things it's just frustrating. In my opinion, drama is a genre that require a good balance, a balance with drama and happy times. The main problem with GE was the fact that you have just a new forced drama every 3 chapters that ruin the entire story. Basically GE had a big part of drama which was just... forced, you know those drama where, as a reader, you are just frustrated by how the characters are stupid and create drama because of their own stupidity and because of their lack of communication skills that leads to misunderstandings...

To conclude : the art is great in my opinion, story seemed interesting but everything has been leveled down by frustrating cliffhangers at the end of chapters and by the over representation of non necessary drama. I do not recomend if you seek for some realist relationship and if you like coherent well-paced drama. In those kind of stories, drama permit to add depth into characters to make them more likable not to ruin them and to make us hate them for their lack of logic. At some point, you could clearly see that the author was making the characters take some bad decisions only to create bad drama...

Let's talk about the characters ( BIG spoilers to read only if you are masochist or if you have finished GE) :

Seiji (MC) is probably the only character who has grown up since the chapter 1. During the whole plot he was a coward and a cuck, yes a cuck the best instance is when he tried to defend the boyfriend of Shô when this one had SEEN her boyfriend talking to his ex and saying to her "i want to get back with you" or something else. MC just said the biggest speech of his life to defend the boyfriend whose, i remind, cucked the MC at the beginning of the story. At least he was quite more brave throughout the story. Oh and i have forgotten. If Seiji has been dumped, it's only because of him because this idiot has made the relation tense by delaying the problem with yuki's ex AND because he was stubborn and he decided to live a relationship without any sexe. I mean he could have lived his relationship at his own pace like every normal man but he decided to be stupid and yuki has noticed he was forcing himself...

Yuki (main Girl) : at the start of the story, she was interesting and i really liked her. She was smart and she helped MC to grow up + she was mysterious with her past. Then there was this part where MC was conscious of liking her, he showed her that he liked her ( i mean you have to be blind to not see that...) and this idiot yuki did what ? She thought that MC was talking about an other girl..

It was just frustrating Yuki was smart at the begin and good to read emotions so WHY i just dont understand. Anyway the worst part about her is when she broke up with MC. Her reason ? "I give you too much trouble" just what the fuck ? You think leave him alone will make his problems vanish ?? If you want a relationship without taking your responsabilities then you buy a robot or a pillow with a waifu printed on it..

Then she was denying that she had still feeling for MC when MC asked her BUT she decided to confess that she still has feelings for him when the MC goes out with Shô. It's a joke ? What is she trying to do ? I could at least understand if MC didnt give her any chances but he just gave her a bunch of chances after they broke up and she litteraly rejected everything coldly but now that he's dating with an another woman she confesses. It was a joke, i have never seen a character that bad, Yuki in my opinion has regressed since the beginning of the story. She went from a very good character to an illogical character who only acts to force the drama into the story...

Shô : Well... She is the same from the first chapter to the last. She has cucked MC with her senpai who only used her because this one was sad after a breakup then (logic) it didn't finish well. Then she dated with MC anddd. Yes once again she dated with a guy that has just been dumped by his initial girlfriend and (drum roll) she, once again, has been dumped by the MC because this one was still loving yuki. At the end of the story she started dating again with this moron of senpai who cheated on her. The author tried to say to us that it was a good end for her but i'm not stupid I know how relationship works... She would have been better single at the end.

Risa : well she's a pity. It was sad to see her forcing with MC. Risa is the cliche of the beautiful girl who instantly fall in love with stupid and virgin MC because this one has been nice and kind for a stupid reason once in the story after their meeting. She is sad to see, she only serves to cause misunderstanding ( drama are you there ?) but at least she has been once in the story smart by talking to yuki to "defend" MC.

Good Ending starts slowly but then becomes frenetic. Personally there were parts that almost took me out some tears, the author explores very well the feelings, desires, reflections of the characters. Maybe something bad about this manga are some little ridiculous parts but they do not affect too much.

It is strange to know that there is not an adaptation to the anime of a pretty decent manga.

If I compare it with Domestic Na Kanojo (which is the recent work of the author) I would say that Good Ending is better because it seems to me that it has a more complex plot and because it feels more the drama, the suffering of the characters also that does not lend itself Much of the echii as Domestic Na Kanojo.

Yes, yes ... Good Ending could be little cliche in some parts. As a conclusion: GE is a manga that is worth reading and enjoying. 9/10

Good Ending (End) 8.5/10

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.

Ge-Good ending is an outstanding manga !

I have to say it's one of the best love mangas i have ever read and i have read many of them .One of the best parts about this manga is the story .Nowadays romance manga repeat everything we already know but to me Ge is like a fresh breeze of romance so passionate that i wish i was in the main characters role in real life .

I highly recommend you read this manga if you're into romance manga like me but warning if you like drama and romance get ready for some tears.

I GIVE IT A 9/10

I have read quite a lot of stories about romance but I must say that GE: Good Ending is the most realistic romance story that I have ever read. The characters all have their own personalities that the audience can get attached too and the relationships between the characters are very emotional driven, especially the two main characters. Easily the best anime/manga couple out there for how real the relationship develops between these two and how the audience are allowed to see it progress and how they both change and develop as characters because of the relationship they have with each other. A powerful story that has made me cry on more then one occasion.

When you pick up this book
You will surely be hooked
A shounen, drama, romance about a guy
Who is scared to try.

But don’t judge a book by the beginning story
Otherwise you’ll be sorry
A tale of one’s determination and grit
You will keep your eyes lit

A beautiful girl with a troubled past
Now that’s something that will make it last
Characters are weird, but humorous and playful
There are developments along the way

While it may be a typical plot
You will like it a lot!
Enjoy the ending this manga offers

(you can tell how much I like this manga if I was this bothered to write a poem)