Fark I really thought the series was gonna end here with them both dead but I'm glad the author pulled a fast one and let ao-kun survive even if it was bullshit, too many manga with just blatantly sad endings trying to be unique and deep and sh** to the point where it's become repetitive and annoying nice to have an actually deep and thoughtful manga without all the bs of every fuc**** character and their mom dying for the sake of another character or the stories development, when it can easily be done without the pointless heartache is produces, not saying that everyone should always be alive and happy in a story but a lot of the time's nowadays authors just go way over the top and ruin the story for the sake of being different and when it's so overused just having this sort of story where out mc can enjoy their lives after hardships is refreshing, sorry for the rant lo