Quote from Criminal Intent
Yeah, it was the ending I wanted but it's kinda wtf b/c a 85% of the series is dedicated to the other guy.
Totally agree with that. It was the ending I was praying for, but what a lousy way to do it. Now that I've seen all the raws, I'm honestly shocked. A better mangaka wouldn't have had it so
heavily stacked in "the other guy's" favor ALL the way through. Even a
semi-competent mangaka would've kept it 50-50 between both guys up until the point that "the other guy" announced he was leaving and then given us a number of volumes developing the intended couple's relationship.
Doing it this way shafts all the characters as it makes Midori look flighty, like she doesn't know her own heart and is driven primarily by her hormones, it makes "the other guy" look bad as he got all that screen time but still ended up with nothing (a faceless wife doesn't count for a whole lot), and it hurts the intended guy as he never got the spotlight or the development he needed.
Well whatever. It was a brain-numbingly stupid manga all the way through, so I shouldn't be surprised that the ending was simply more of the same.