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** The ending proved...polarizing. Even setting aside the obvious shipping, the fan base essentially split over whether they felt it was too rushed and thrown together or just right for the story. The subsequent epilogue that was written almost at the last minute and intended to wrap up the dangling plot threads from Kazuo's storylines caused similar contention, with some at least being happy his plotline was resolved and [[spoiler: he has completely moved on from his first relationship, has a new flame and career, his mother has left her abusive husband, and Kazuo doesn't hold ill will towards his father]], and others being dissatisfied with the breakneck pacing [[spoiler: as well as Kenta being EasilyForgiven in the final published page for his years of terrorizing his family.]] Furthermore, even many of Makoto's fans expressed disappointment[[spoiler: in the lack of any meaningful character development or proper resolution, let alone how bizarrely paced his total victory came out to be.]]
*** The only one officially acknowledged by the author. Biggs actually wrote a long apology for the quality of the ending on the old official forums, and admitted to several failures in the execution, including Makoto's identical proposal to Miharu and Miharu's passiveness. She has since promised an expanded cut of the ending, though the key plot points (namely, the resolution to the love triangle) will not change.
*** The only one officially acknowledged by the author. Biggs actually wrote a long apology for the quality of the ending on the old official forums, and admitted to several failures in the execution, including Makoto's identical proposal to Miharu and Miharu's passiveness. She has since promised an expanded cut of the ending, though the key plot points (namely, the resolution to the love triangle) will not change.
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** [[spoiler: Miharu has made her decision: Makoto.]]
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* BrokenBase: Makoto was initially an extremely popular alternative to Kazuo after Kazuo broke Miharu's heart. However, multiple instances of him being ''extremely'' possessive of Miharu, combined with an overall lack of apparent flaws, his earlier instances of basically stalking and romantic pursuits of Miharu when ''both of them'' were engaged to ''different people'' and in spite of Miharu being so upset that she started hiding from him, and later basically getting Miharu through no actual effort of his own beyond Miharu finally realizing he was "perfect," caused his popularity to nosedive with a growingly vocal section of the fanbase. This heated up by the end of Chapter 50 when he dragged Miharu away from Kazuo because Kazuo was being too close to Miharu for his comfort, yelled at her, and yet received no dressing down or repercussions for his behavior (Miharu, in fact, had to apologize to ''him'' due to plot contrivances) or even the acknowledgement of his blatant hypocrisy towards Kazuo vs. how he never respected Kazuo during the entire time he was engaged to Miharu. Miharu later [[spoiler: chose her relationship with Makoto as being more important than ''the financial future of her family'' because after three whole months of dating, they were "too serious."]] It didn't get much better when in Chapter 52, Makoto, insecure about his relationship and fearful of Kazuo, [[spoiler: secretly confronted him at work, threw his suicide attempt and troubled home life in his face as reasons why he wasn't good enough for Miharu, and then suddenly the story took pity on him when Kazuo rightly pointed out his insecurity was the only reason this was happening. He then proceeds to make a huge decision (resigning from Ogawa-ya) without consulting Miharu about it and then springs upon her that he's leaving and wants her to leave with him. He makes the same offer Kazuo made to her, thinking that she will obviously pick him. Mind you, due to his own stupidity, he now has no income.]] In spite of all this, Makoto still has a dedicated fandom who feel he sufficiently reformed himself and is getting a bum rap for actions that are getting blown out of proportion.
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* BrokenBase: BrokenBase:
** Makoto was initially an extremely popular alternative to Kazuo after Kazuo broke Miharu's heart. However, multiple instances of him being ''extremely'' possessive of Miharu, combined with an overall lack of apparent flaws, his earlier instances of basically stalking and romantic pursuits of Miharu when ''both of them'' were engaged to ''different people'' and in spite of Miharu being so upset that she started hiding from him, and later basically getting Miharu through no actual effort of his own beyond Miharu finally realizing he was "perfect," caused his popularity to nosedive with a growingly vocal section of the fanbase. This heated up by the end of Chapter 50 when he dragged Miharu away from Kazuo because Kazuo was being too close to Miharu for his comfort, yelled at her, and yet received no dressing down or repercussions for his behavior (Miharu, in fact, had to apologize to ''him'' due to plot contrivances) or even the acknowledgement of his blatant hypocrisy towards Kazuo vs. how he never respected Kazuo during the entire time he was engaged to Miharu. Miharu later [[spoiler: chose her relationship with Makoto as being more important than ''the financial future of her family'' because after three whole months of dating, they were "too serious."]] It didn't get much better when in Chapter 52, Makoto, insecure about his relationship and fearful of Kazuo, [[spoiler: secretly confronted him at work, threw his suicide attempt and troubled home life in his face as reasons why he wasn't good enough for Miharu, and then suddenly the story took pity on him when Kazuo rightly pointed out his insecurity was the only reason this was happening. He then proceeds to make a huge decision (resigning from Ogawa-ya) without consulting Miharu about it and then springs upon her that he's leaving and wants her to leave with him. He makes the same offer Kazuo made to her, thinking that she will obviously pick him. Mind you, due to his own stupidity, he now has no income.]] In spite of all this, Makoto still has a dedicated fandom who feel he sufficiently reformed himself and is getting a bum rap for actions that are getting blown out of proportion.
** Makoto was initially an extremely popular alternative to Kazuo after Kazuo broke Miharu's heart. However, multiple instances of him being ''extremely'' possessive of Miharu, combined with an overall lack of apparent flaws, his earlier instances of basically stalking and romantic pursuits of Miharu when ''both of them'' were engaged to ''different people'' and in spite of Miharu being so upset that she started hiding from him, and later basically getting Miharu through no actual effort of his own beyond Miharu finally realizing he was "perfect," caused his popularity to nosedive with a growingly vocal section of the fanbase. This heated up by the end of Chapter 50 when he dragged Miharu away from Kazuo because Kazuo was being too close to Miharu for his comfort, yelled at her, and yet received no dressing down or repercussions for his behavior (Miharu, in fact, had to apologize to ''him'' due to plot contrivances) or even the acknowledgement of his blatant hypocrisy towards Kazuo vs. how he never respected Kazuo during the entire time he was engaged to Miharu. Miharu later [[spoiler: chose her relationship with Makoto as being more important than ''the financial future of her family'' because after three whole months of dating, they were "too serious."]] It didn't get much better when in Chapter 52, Makoto, insecure about his relationship and fearful of Kazuo, [[spoiler: secretly confronted him at work, threw his suicide attempt and troubled home life in his face as reasons why he wasn't good enough for Miharu, and then suddenly the story took pity on him when Kazuo rightly pointed out his insecurity was the only reason this was happening. He then proceeds to make a huge decision (resigning from Ogawa-ya) without consulting Miharu about it and then springs upon her that he's leaving and wants her to leave with him. He makes the same offer Kazuo made to her, thinking that she will obviously pick him. Mind you, due to his own stupidity, he now has no income.]] In spite of all this, Makoto still has a dedicated fandom who feel he sufficiently reformed himself and is getting a bum rap for actions that are getting blown out of proportion.
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* DesignatedHero: Yosue Makoto, yet again. After doing consciously selfish acts throughout the comic, such as cheating on Karen, casually dismissing a man's mental illness, being overly possessive of his girlfriend and making dumbass decisions that he is rewarded for, we are meant to see him as the true hero of the story.
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** Yosue Makoto, yet again. After doing consciously selfish acts throughout the comic, such as cheating on Karen, casually dismissing a man's mental illness, being overly possessive of his girlfriend and making dumbass decisions that he is rewarded for, we are meant to see him as the true hero of the story.
** Yosue Makoto, yet again. After doing consciously selfish acts throughout the comic, such as cheating on Karen, casually dismissing a man's mental illness, being overly possessive of his girlfriend and making dumbass decisions that he is rewarded for, we are meant to see him as the true hero of the story.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite Kikuko's initially rough introduction as a spoiled rich brat, she quickly gained fans after she was the only one to call out Kazuo plainly in Chapter 32. Since then pretty much anything she does is heralded with cheers, even though she ''still'' acts like a spoiled rich brat the rest of the time.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Despite Kikuko's initially rough introduction as a spoiled rich brat, she quickly gained fans after she was the only one to call out Kazuo plainly in Chapter 32. Since then pretty much anything she does is heralded with cheers, even though she ''still'' acts like a spoiled rich brat the rest of the time.
** Despite Kikuko's initially rough introduction as a spoiled rich brat, she quickly gained fans after she was the only one to call out Kazuo plainly in Chapter 32. Since then pretty much anything she does is heralded with cheers, even though she ''still'' acts like a spoiled rich brat the rest of the time.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: The entire ending of Red String can be summed up with this. We're supposed to think that [[spoiler:Miharu and Makoto being together/engaged]] is a great, wonderful thing and there is nothing wrong with it. But what will they do for income? Where will they live? What happens if [[spoiler:Miharu]] gets pregnant? What are their long-term goals? [[spoiler:Makoto just quit the restaurant Miharu's family owned, costing them a great deal of time and investment in their training of him...and now he's marrying into their family anyway, which means he screwed over his future in-laws ''and'' has no job plans besides apparently just blowing all his savings and his parents' money on going to Europe and eating at expensive restaurants. Miharu has absolutely no plans for her future, or any sort of job skills besides being a waitress, which doesn't bode well for them financially.]] As for the new in-laws, given their already openly expressed cynicism of the relationship's long term prospects, it's doubtful they'll be supportive even if Makoto ''hadn't'' left them in such a bad spot. Adding to that, what happens when Makoto's savings run out? Will he/they sponge off his ridiculously wealthy parents from then on?
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* EsotericHappyEnding: EsotericHappyEnding:
** The entire ending of Red String can be summed up with this. We're supposed to think that [[spoiler:Miharu and Makoto being together/engaged]] is a great, wonderful thing and there is nothing wrong with it. But what will they do for income? Where will they live? What happens if [[spoiler:Miharu]] gets pregnant? What are their long-term goals? [[spoiler:Makoto just quit the restaurant Miharu's family owned, costing them a great deal of time and investment in their training of him...and now he's marrying into their family anyway, which means he screwed over his future in-laws ''and'' has no job plans besides apparently just blowing all his savings and his parents' money on going to Europe and eating at expensive restaurants. Miharu has absolutely no plans for her future, or any sort of job skills besides being a waitress, which doesn't bode well for them financially.]] As for the new in-laws, given their already openly expressed cynicism of the relationship's long term prospects, it's doubtful they'll be supportive even if Makoto ''hadn't'' left them in such a bad spot. Adding to that, what happens when Makoto's savings run out? Will he/they sponge off his ridiculously wealthy parents from then on?
** The entire ending of Red String can be summed up with this. We're supposed to think that [[spoiler:Miharu and Makoto being together/engaged]] is a great, wonderful thing and there is nothing wrong with it. But what will they do for income? Where will they live? What happens if [[spoiler:Miharu]] gets pregnant? What are their long-term goals? [[spoiler:Makoto just quit the restaurant Miharu's family owned, costing them a great deal of time and investment in their training of him...and now he's marrying into their family anyway, which means he screwed over his future in-laws ''and'' has no job plans besides apparently just blowing all his savings and his parents' money on going to Europe and eating at expensive restaurants. Miharu has absolutely no plans for her future, or any sort of job skills besides being a waitress, which doesn't bode well for them financially.]] As for the new in-laws, given their already openly expressed cynicism of the relationship's long term prospects, it's doubtful they'll be supportive even if Makoto ''hadn't'' left them in such a bad spot. Adding to that, what happens when Makoto's savings run out? Will he/they sponge off his ridiculously wealthy parents from then on?
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Kikuko of all people, in Chapter 32, delivering the smack down to Kazuo that the fans were craving for months. And she did it again in Chapter 38.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** Kikuko of all people, in Chapter 32, delivering the smack down to Kazuo that the fans were craving for months. And she did it again in Chapter 38.
** Kikuko of all people, in Chapter 32, delivering the smack down to Kazuo that the fans were craving for months. And she did it again in Chapter 38.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: While Kazuo is portrayed as being in the wrong when he earlier complains about Makoto being a terrible person and later points out to Makoto that he's had an easy life and never had to work for anything, he's dead right. Makoto is a terrible boyfriend and had no respect for Miharu, Kazuo, or his old fiance Karen when the engagements were still active. Furthermore, despite Makoto's complaint that he's "worked hard", Kazuo is dead right - Makoto is never actually shown working for anything in the comic. His parents or Miharu's parents do everything for him. Even Makoto's resolution to his dilemma that is supposed to show Makoto is in fact a great person is to just call his parents and have them solve his problem for him. We are intended to think Makoto has made a noble, difficult sacrifice, but he came out in a better position instead. Kazuo is completely right that Makoto lives a charmed, easy life, and he's right to be upset.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: StrawmanHasAPoint:
** While Kazuo is portrayed as being in the wrong when he earlier complains about Makoto being a terrible person and later points out to Makoto that he's had an easy life and never had to work for anything, he's dead right. Makoto is a terrible boyfriend and had no respect for Miharu, Kazuo, or his old fiance Karen when the engagements were still active. Furthermore, despite Makoto's complaint that he's "worked hard", Kazuo is dead right - Makoto is never actually shown working for anything in the comic. His parents or Miharu's parents do everything for him. Even Makoto's resolution to his dilemma that is supposed to show Makoto is in fact a great person is to just call his parents and have them solve his problem for him. We are intended to think Makoto has made a noble, difficult sacrifice, but he came out in a better position instead. Kazuo is completely right that Makoto lives a charmed, easy life, and he's right to be upset.
** While Kazuo is portrayed as being in the wrong when he earlier complains about Makoto being a terrible person and later points out to Makoto that he's had an easy life and never had to work for anything, he's dead right. Makoto is a terrible boyfriend and had no respect for Miharu, Kazuo, or his old fiance Karen when the engagements were still active. Furthermore, despite Makoto's complaint that he's "worked hard", Kazuo is dead right - Makoto is never actually shown working for anything in the comic. His parents or Miharu's parents do everything for him. Even Makoto's resolution to his dilemma that is supposed to show Makoto is in fact a great person is to just call his parents and have them solve his problem for him. We are intended to think Makoto has made a noble, difficult sacrifice, but he came out in a better position instead. Kazuo is completely right that Makoto lives a charmed, easy life, and he's right to be upset.
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* FanNickname: A girl who appears in Kazuo's epilogue [[spoiler: as his [[HookedUpAfterwards new flame]]]] is never named on panel. The forums dubbed her "Bernadette Donette Croissantwich" due to how stereotypically French she is.
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* AccidentalAesop: Red String has given us such messages over the years, the most breathtaking being:
** Pretending to be someone's friend just so you can get closer to her and hope that she sees you romantically somewhere down the line is okay, because you'll get rewarded in the end
** A four month old relationship that consists mostly of making out, dry-humping, sexting and avoiding any and all complications is more worthy than an actually serious year long marriage engagement that had both parties doing other things than ogling one another.
** You can treat other people badly because of your low self-esteem over and over again and not get any comeuppance from anyone.
** Not having any other interests or desires other than dating a girl isn't a bad thing; it's romantic.
** Growing up in an abusive home really does make you a pathetic, weak person and you're better off isolated where you can't hurt people.
** Accepting a marriage proposal from a boy that you, in reality, don't know much about isn't a bad idea in the slightest.
** Your happiness in your love life trumps the financial future of your own family.
** Why bother being friends with your awkward loser of an ex when you have a flawless, personality-free new boyfriend to obsess over?
** If you've finally worked up the courage to leave an abusive situation and start a new life, you should unquestioningly welcome your former abuser back into your life the second they show up on your doorstep and look sad.
** If your girlfriend repeatedly doesn't trust you and emotionally abuses you time and again with no reason, the best solution is...offer to marry her when she graduates. Don't waste time actually getting her to admit she has a problem and that she needs help working through it! Marriage solves everything!
** Pretending to be someone's friend just so you can get closer to her and hope that she sees you romantically somewhere down the line is okay, because you'll get rewarded in the end
** A four month old relationship that consists mostly of making out, dry-humping, sexting and avoiding any and all complications is more worthy than an actually serious year long marriage engagement that had both parties doing other things than ogling one another.
** You can treat other people badly because of your low self-esteem over and over again and not get any comeuppance from anyone.
** Not having any other interests or desires other than dating a girl isn't a bad thing; it's romantic.
** Growing up in an abusive home really does make you a pathetic, weak person and you're better off isolated where you can't hurt people.
** Accepting a marriage proposal from a boy that you, in reality, don't know much about isn't a bad idea in the slightest.
** Your happiness in your love life trumps the financial future of your own family.
** Why bother being friends with your awkward loser of an ex when you have a flawless, personality-free new boyfriend to obsess over?
** If you've finally worked up the courage to leave an abusive situation and start a new life, you should unquestioningly welcome your former abuser back into your life the second they show up on your doorstep and look sad.
** If your girlfriend repeatedly doesn't trust you and emotionally abuses you time and again with no reason, the best solution is...offer to marry her when she graduates. Don't waste time actually getting her to admit she has a problem and that she needs help working through it! Marriage solves everything!
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* ArchivePanic - The comic ran for ''ten years''.
* BrokenBase - Makoto was initially an extremely popular alternative to Kazuo after Kazuo broke Miharu's heart. However, multiple instances of him being ''extremely'' possessive of Miharu, combined with an overall lack of apparent flaws, his earlier instances of basically stalking and romantic pursuits of Miharu when ''both of them'' were engaged to ''different people'' and in spite of Miharu being so upset that she started hiding from him, and later basically getting Miharu through no actual effort of his own beyond Miharu finally realizing he was "perfect," caused his popularity to nosedive with a growingly vocal section of the fanbase. This heated up by the end of Chapter 50 when he dragged Miharu away from Kazuo because Kazuo was being too close to Miharu for his comfort, yelled at her, and yet received no dressing down or repercussions for his behavior (Miharu, in fact, had to apologize to ''him'' due to plot contrivances) or even the acknowledgement of his blatant hypocrisy towards Kazuo vs. how he never respected Kazuo during the entire time he was engaged to Miharu. Miharu later [[spoiler: chose her relationship with Makoto as being more important than ''the financial future of her family'' because after three whole months of dating, they were "too serious."]] It didn't get much better when in Chapter 52, Makoto, insecure about his relationship and fearful of Kazuo, [[spoiler: secretly confronted him at work, threw his suicide attempt and troubled home life in his face as reasons why he wasn't good enough for Miharu, and then suddenly the story took pity on him when Kazuo rightly pointed out his insecurity was the only reason this was happening. He then proceeds to make a huge decision (resigning from Ogawa-ya) without consulting Miharu about it and then springs upon her that he's leaving and wants her to leave with him. He makes the same offer Kazuo made to her, thinking that she will obviously pick him. Mind you, due to his own stupidity, he now has no income.]] In spite of all this, Makoto still has a dedicated fandom who feel he sufficiently reformed himself and is getting a bum rap for actions that are getting blown out of proportion.
* BrokenBase - Makoto was initially an extremely popular alternative to Kazuo after Kazuo broke Miharu's heart. However, multiple instances of him being ''extremely'' possessive of Miharu, combined with an overall lack of apparent flaws, his earlier instances of basically stalking and romantic pursuits of Miharu when ''both of them'' were engaged to ''different people'' and in spite of Miharu being so upset that she started hiding from him, and later basically getting Miharu through no actual effort of his own beyond Miharu finally realizing he was "perfect," caused his popularity to nosedive with a growingly vocal section of the fanbase. This heated up by the end of Chapter 50 when he dragged Miharu away from Kazuo because Kazuo was being too close to Miharu for his comfort, yelled at her, and yet received no dressing down or repercussions for his behavior (Miharu, in fact, had to apologize to ''him'' due to plot contrivances) or even the acknowledgement of his blatant hypocrisy towards Kazuo vs. how he never respected Kazuo during the entire time he was engaged to Miharu. Miharu later [[spoiler: chose her relationship with Makoto as being more important than ''the financial future of her family'' because after three whole months of dating, they were "too serious."]] It didn't get much better when in Chapter 52, Makoto, insecure about his relationship and fearful of Kazuo, [[spoiler: secretly confronted him at work, threw his suicide attempt and troubled home life in his face as reasons why he wasn't good enough for Miharu, and then suddenly the story took pity on him when Kazuo rightly pointed out his insecurity was the only reason this was happening. He then proceeds to make a huge decision (resigning from Ogawa-ya) without consulting Miharu about it and then springs upon her that he's leaving and wants her to leave with him. He makes the same offer Kazuo made to her, thinking that she will obviously pick him. Mind you, due to his own stupidity, he now has no income.]] In spite of all this, Makoto still has a dedicated fandom who feel he sufficiently reformed himself and is getting a bum rap for actions that are getting blown out of proportion.
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* ArchivePanic - ArchivePanic: The comic ran for ''ten years''.
*BrokenBase - BrokenBase: Makoto was initially an extremely popular alternative to Kazuo after Kazuo broke Miharu's heart. However, multiple instances of him being ''extremely'' possessive of Miharu, combined with an overall lack of apparent flaws, his earlier instances of basically stalking and romantic pursuits of Miharu when ''both of them'' were engaged to ''different people'' and in spite of Miharu being so upset that she started hiding from him, and later basically getting Miharu through no actual effort of his own beyond Miharu finally realizing he was "perfect," caused his popularity to nosedive with a growingly vocal section of the fanbase. This heated up by the end of Chapter 50 when he dragged Miharu away from Kazuo because Kazuo was being too close to Miharu for his comfort, yelled at her, and yet received no dressing down or repercussions for his behavior (Miharu, in fact, had to apologize to ''him'' due to plot contrivances) or even the acknowledgement of his blatant hypocrisy towards Kazuo vs. how he never respected Kazuo during the entire time he was engaged to Miharu. Miharu later [[spoiler: chose her relationship with Makoto as being more important than ''the financial future of her family'' because after three whole months of dating, they were "too serious."]] It didn't get much better when in Chapter 52, Makoto, insecure about his relationship and fearful of Kazuo, [[spoiler: secretly confronted him at work, threw his suicide attempt and troubled home life in his face as reasons why he wasn't good enough for Miharu, and then suddenly the story took pity on him when Kazuo rightly pointed out his insecurity was the only reason this was happening. He then proceeds to make a huge decision (resigning from Ogawa-ya) without consulting Miharu about it and then springs upon her that he's leaving and wants her to leave with him. He makes the same offer Kazuo made to her, thinking that she will obviously pick him. Mind you, due to his own stupidity, he now has no income.]] In spite of all this, Makoto still has a dedicated fandom who feel he sufficiently reformed himself and is getting a bum rap for actions that are getting blown out of proportion.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse - EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite Kikuko's initially rough introduction as a spoiled rich brat, she quickly gained fans after she was the only one to call out Kazuo plainly in Chapter 32. Since then pretty much anything she does is heralded with cheers, even though she ''still'' acts like a spoiled rich brat the rest of the time.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - Kikuko of all people, in Chapter 32, delivering the smack down to Kazuo that the fans were craving for months. And she did it again in Chapter 38.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Kikuko of all people, in Chapter 32, delivering the smack down to Kazuo that the fans were craving for months. And she did it again in Chapter 38.
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* TheWoobie - Reika attracts an insane amount of romantic tragedy in her story lines, though this seems to have ''finally'' abated once she and Eiji finally hooked up. [[spoiler:Of course, now that she's decided to visit her father, she's found out that he's already remarried, and has a child old enough to be from around the time of the divorce (with another one on the way) and she was an unplanned pregnancy.]] Ouch.
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* TheWoobie - TheWoobie: Reika attracts an insane amount of romantic tragedy in her story lines, though this seems to have ''finally'' abated once she and Eiji finally hooked up. [[spoiler:Of course, now that she's decided to visit her father, she's found out that he's already remarried, and has a child old enough to be from around the time of the divorce (with another one on the way) and she was an unplanned pregnancy.]] Ouch.
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* SeasonalRot: The entire final year of the comic saw previously in-progress character storylines drop out entirely or get only simple one-page resolutions. It was also marred by erratic drops in art quality, and to some fans, unnecessary and pointless drama with certain characters that contributed nothing to their arcs. This was partially due to Gina's second pregnancy, which she decided meant she needed to have the entire series completed by August of 2013, partially due to her eagerness to start a new series after the pregnancy was over, and partially due to Gina having taken on ''multiple'' additional projects which all showed more effort on the art and storytelling than Red String did. In early July, Gina even announced that the ''full'' ending to the comic would only be available in a paid Red String volume released well after the comic was completed online - leading to the online run having an ending where suddenly a previously ignored love triangle became the ''only'' focus of the comic. In addition, as there were only 15 pages left at the time of the announcement, that love triangle became extremely rushed and unfocused, with plot developments happening instantly and with no reason. Couple this with the CreatorsPet evolution of Makoto, and Kazuo, who was literally one of the main characters for the first eight years, getting a rushed and sloppy epilog ''after'' the main storyline was resolved, and the entire ending left a lot of folks with a very bitter taste in their mouths.
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* SeasonalRot: The entire final year of the comic saw previously in-progress character storylines drop out entirely or get only simple one-page resolutions. It was also marred by erratic drops in art quality, and to some fans, unnecessary and pointless drama with certain characters that contributed nothing to their arcs. This was partially due to Gina's second pregnancy, which she decided meant she needed to have the entire series completed by August of 2013, partially due to her eagerness to start a new series after the pregnancy was over, and partially due to Gina having taken on ''multiple'' additional projects which all showed more effort on the art and storytelling than Red String did. In early July, Gina even announced that the ''full'' ending to the comic would only be available in a paid Red String volume released well after the comic was completed online - leading to the online run having an ending where suddenly a previously ignored love triangle became the ''only'' focus of the comic. In addition, as there were only 15 pages left at the time of the announcement, that love triangle became extremely rushed and unfocused, with plot developments happening instantly and with no reason. Couple this with the CreatorsPet evolution of Makoto, and Kazuo, who was literally one of the main characters for the first eight years, getting a rushed and sloppy epilog epilogue ''after'' the main storyline was resolved, and the entire ending left a lot of folks with a very bitter taste in their mouths.
