I absolutely hated kimi. I hated it so much it kept burning, and growing. Ironically you can find that I kept trying to defend it and have hope for it long past a lot of other people. I honestly consider it worst than pastel now... by a lot. I gave up on fuuka around the beach part early on when they decided to make a band.
Seo isn't a good writer. He really isn't. Suzuka and his one shot about the love letters were his prime. He's the M.Night shamalsallasdfasdfad of manga.
I knew he didn't have the skill to make a band story or anything close to it(his basketball story was a snooze). He just doesn't have the skill for much. And he's too stuck on the idea of OTP. I usually like that but HE SUCKS. Kimi was like a bad strawberry 100 percent, because it lacked what made ichigo special.
His only decent manga is half and half. Even his other manga about a demon is lackluster and unenergetic(apparently not a word, lethargic then) for the type it's suppose to be. And even half and half was ruined by kimi. Shameless plugging he did.
Honestly him killing off the heroine sounds interesting or it could be him grasping at straws that he sucks at, cause he sucks. But I haven't followed.
Hearing this today I just watched a movie where both the main characters are inexplicably killed(murdered) at the end. An incest-ish story about some siblings that dind't grow up together called Delta(it doesn't have that kinda feel to it though). There was a rape early on but it was just about them meeting, not talking much(very little dialogue), and building a house that the guy was gonna build anyway but she wanted to help him and live there.
You got this feeling from kimi that he just does things to shake them up instead of focusing on a good story because that concept might fly for the action series he's incapable of, but not for dramas. You end up with something out of a soap opera if you operate like that.
It's hard for me not to think he's not just relying on these because he can't tell a story. It never feels like a logical/reasonable progression. I read a manga about a guy deciding to murder someone that felt like that(it was within the character and we followed his thinking), and his crap lacked it. I've read a seinen or josei thing were a girl's boyfriend died when she was pregnant, and it somehow made sense. But his crap never really does, when he tries it.
The inexplicable deaths in the movie I mentioned still happened because of other characters.
I'LL ALSO ADD THIS!
This plot sounds very similar to
What's There to Know Tthis is a good story that is immediately good(this started before fuuka too). It's much better than fuuka upto what I read, in every possible way. The story telling is good too. It uses better storytelling techniques from the beginning. It's because this guy isn't a good storyteller and has to rely on crap that people couldn't see what would be unique about fuuka early on.