Okay… caught up now, so… yeah.

First, I’m presuming it’s ending soon. And as far as that goes, I’m actually sort of hoping it’s ending soon, since at this point there have been so many “this is ending soon” flags that if it doesn’t actually end, that’s going to feel like all of these last chapters have just been cheap theatrics and deception. And I expect better of this mangaka, Kotoyama.

So I’m assuming it’s ending soon, and I’m okay with that.

It’s really, assuming that it’s ending, pretty much the dream manga ending. All the other loose ends are tied together, all of the people have come to terms with whatever was troubling them, all of the goodbyes that needed to be said have been said - it’s now wrapped all the way back around to where it all started, with just Nazuna and Kou.

And I expect it’s going to all work out satisfyingly. That’s a thing I’ve learned reading this - I don’t know how Kotoyama is going to resolve things, but I’m confident that it will make sense, and be appropriate, and I’ll be at least satisfied, likely impressed and possibly even amazed.

The key, I think, is that neither one of them are normal. The drama and doubt and fear and everything comes from the apparent rules regarding vampires and humans, but those rules almost certainly don’t apply to them, because they’re both already exceptions to the rules - the fact that they exist at all is already exceptional, so what happens beyond that is anyone’s guess.

And I’m looking forward to finding out.

At the moment, I can’t say.

I actually discovered this right before I posted that. I saw this chapter among the latest updates and read it and though I had no idea what was going on, I thought it looked interesting, so I went back to the beginning and read a few chapters and was very impressed by them, so I went ahead and posted it.

Now I’m in the middle of catching up on it, and I’m currently on chapter 38. So I’ve got another 160 or so chapters to go before I get back around to this one. :)