Fuuka 37
Some further thoughts. This chapter was supposed to be a sad and depressing chapter but the only feeling I got from it was of shock and surprise, is what I came to realize later on. Was this the case for anyone else? I mean, Seo has done some sad moments pretty well in his other works so I wonder why it didn't occur here -- in what should be the most depressing chapter. It's not like we don't know anything about Fuuka. Her personality is a bit strange but there is a lot of backstory for her character that we can infer through the extra chapters as well as via Suzuka and her cameo appearance in KNIM.
I think the reason why I didn't feel sad was because her death kind of felt forced and perhaps because of the time skip. He's already done this jump to funeral thing once before but the time he did it then I felt had much more of an emotional impact even though I genuinely did not give a crap about that character in KNIM. Seo has been known to whore out his characters for sales so I wonder if this death was planned from the onset or if he just decided to kill her off to get people talking.
I mean when it comes to other works like Cross Game, you manage to feel sad for a character's death just 1 volume in. This is already 37 chapters and there was no emotional impact at all. For 37 chapters I expect to be bawling in tears.