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These pages make me tear up. So simple but powerful.

Waku's the very first one, looking straight ahead, separated from the others by a small gap. He didn't know anything about their situation and was so happy piloting Zearth. Kanji, Kana, and Machi are the ones who knew the most about what was going on. They're at the end. The space between Kanji and Kirie separates those three from the rest. The gap between Ushiro and the rest is the largest, but Machi, Kanji, and Kana turn around to invite him. And then he joins then.

The ending itself was quite anti-climatic but expected. My favorite chapters where the ones before these when Ushiro and Machi visited everyone's families. Those chapters felt like the wrap up for me. These last chapters have really shown how Ushiro has changed though, with how he fought for his companions who came before him and how he finally changed into the clothes Nakama made that he had been unwilling to wear before.

It did not even cross my mind that Dung Beetle would be the last pilot. (Even when I saw his name as the chapter title, I did not think we'd actually see how he looks like!) He's changed a lot too. I daresay this Earth's battle affected him even more than his own. I can't imagine how he would haven able to go through the battles a third time, but I guess this is it for him too. He was...quite frank with those newly contracted kids. They must be frightened out of their minds.

I think I'll give Kitoh Mohiro's other works a try too. Might try picking up Narutaru again.