first of: i would've KILLED Nicchi if he concealed the fact that a girl is pregnant with my child.
calling him "best friend" is the authors misguided attempt of irony, i think.

and now to Nozomi:
it wouldn't surprise me if she eventually shows up with a third child from jet another guy that she worked with while being away this hole time raising money to pay off her debt, also being pregnant with a fourth child from the money lender whom she was paying off. in the Hentai genre this is called NTR, which this series has had its share in the past (with the landlady and her being married the hole time, while Kouta was falling in love with her...)
the worst thing is that the author is presenting this as funny

My name is Hans. Drinking has ruined my life. I'm 31 years old!

I've just read it through the last chapter, and it did make me mad since the twists came up one after another. But when I think about it again, it should be making a sense to us. I mean, from the start this wasn't an easy-going subject, telling a story about kinds of people who are usually unfit in society. I think we should be prepared of what is going to happen, given the circumstances. It is maddening, but I think if there isn't something like that, this story would just be another Maison Ikkoku (in some way, it resembles before it turned out like now). Maybe the twist isn't something you would want to see, and you'd give a better option over the matter. That's clearly understandable, considering how much we loved this manga in the first place. Some said it is unrealistic, others said it isn't funny at all (about the twists around the females). But then what is the most realistic, other than what could happen as now? Thinking that the author probably wants to kill his female characters, or getting rid of unwanted ones, that's absurd (I've read whinings about this from the other thread). Money-milking? Everybody needs money; even Jesus needs money to build His church. Complaining about how a story progresses and relating it over the matter of money is completely stupid, I think. As long as we like it, we don't complain. But then it gets irritating, and we would be bitching about it all over the place. That's childish. I don't think there are people under sixteen (should be) reading this manga, so why get so worked up? All we can do is follow it through, as it seems to be closing to final (maybe). After that, we can then rate it good or bad, based on our perspective on the whole story, not just on its under-developed plot. This is my first time reading this kind of manga, so I'm sorry if I said too much. 😁

The woman I love, Kozue, burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries and turns to ice, but when she laughs..the world is mine.

I'm with Kris Kelvin.

Someone on another thread said this:
"*This isn't about how he thought a girl liked him but she didn't. This is that a girl had very simple problem that has happen to EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING. She took that problem and made a black hole that ruins lives. She could have just gotten over her crush but instead she dragged someone else, didn't use contraception, and had a child. And she wasn't any more careful the second time. Not to mention the smaller things like not telling the fathers."

The above is a very good point. The inexplicable evil of the mom makes her a classic melodrama villain.

Someone else made the point that this wasn't originally the kind of manga in which such awful things could happen (so they were furious that such things did). I grant that, but the writer of this thing always had the option as long as it was ongoing to get a little closer to life. In life, as I think all of us over 12 know, unexpected awful things happen to people quite frequently. Because that is so, whenever a storyteller starts making them happen in his story, that story is veering toward being literature, rather than just light reading; because literature is about the serious business of trying to help people deal with the very intense, almost unmanageable, feelings that life tends to give rise to. Through literature, you get a chance to discharge those feelings without your heart actually breaking.

So some of us got to discharge our measureless revulsion at the idea of an old guy getting a young wife. Funny, that didn't bother me at all, possibly because I'm an old guy.

And others of us (me included) got to vicariously discharge the outrage and heartbreak that would come to a lonely and immature young man who had finally gotten to experience the joys of parenthood, only to have that experience ripped away from him out of nowhere by a MAJOR BITCH.

Yet to me it also seems clear that those horrible surprises made this manga do it's two jobs--excite us, so that we got a lot of emotion for our money--and thereby sell more magazines for the publisher. Look at how much we're writing and discussing about this now for evidence of that.

P.S: Did the end HAVE to feature that wretched long-nosed lolicon who betrayed his friend still doing his old shitck of sniffing around young girls? He didn't deserve to be forgiven as easily as he was, and his non-funny antics shouldn't have still been in this manga at its very end, given the serious turn it had taken.