Sora no Otoshimono has always been a manga series that I had followed since their anime series first aired, and it was one of the few that actually got me to continue tracking and reading the new chapters even after all those intense fanservice and meaningless chapters.
The reason was simple, when the chapters are being used as fillers and fanservice, the chapter really made no sense at all. But when the plot transits back into a serious tone, boy, that is where the series start to shine. For those who had ignored this series by having too much fanservice, I would say that this is a series worthwhile to follow to the end.
I was honestly amazed by how the last few chapters turned out to be, the plot twists which they frequently had stomped me once again at the end, especially the fact the manga only releases 1 chapter per month. Until the very end, it didn't actually feel quite rushed and ended just as it was supposed to. No hard feelings and not any abrupt ending that we've seen in hitman reborn, when a normal chapter just happens to be the end...
For those who wish to start reading the series again, spoilers are ahead and by spoiling this series, it would be absolutely meaningleas to continue it any longer since the series excels in their surprisingly plot twists.
What got me kept looking forward to the next chapter was the arc about Hiyori, which was animated as a movie. What it suggest to Tomoki was that the people living around him weren't all real. It was that moment that got me thinking, wow. So the world actually had something hidden like that?! They didn't immediately show exactly who was it that wasn't real after Hiyori was revealed to be one of them and they were clever enough to drop the bomb one shot near the end.
Basically in their world where angels and humans exist, the angel race had this thing called the Rule which grants anyone's desires and wishes. However since this always grant their desires, the people of synapse soon lose their will of living. They did not have any reason to continue living since they will never not able to achieve something due to the Rule. In the end, it was said that they created the human race as something they could watch from above, until they discover the human's abilities to dream and sought after that. As the people of synapse went to a dream state, a fake form of them end up on the surface and interact with the rest of the humans just like what Hiyori did. But once their surface form dies, they will awake back in synapse. When Hiyori first died and her body started flickering, Nymph told Tomoki about the truth of the world which slowly began driving the plot towards the end.
At the end, it was hinted that Sohara could be one of the fake people on the surface when Tomoki starts to have memories of Sohara differently and then she disappears just as how Hiyori did. It was that moment that 'bam', the one closest to Tomoki was actually not real?! I had guessed that it was the final twist they had in the end, until the final battle with Chaos and Synapse began where Astraea sacrifices herself in the fight and Nymph as well up in synapse. It was like all those fanservice chapters existed for another series, the difference was just too great! From a humour-like genre to such a dark arc at the end, and boy I was sad to see them losing their lives like that, especially Nymph who had sufferred to the very end.
As the final angeloid, Ikaros was not spared too as she brought Tomoki up to synapse at the cost of her life. It was at that last moment that she smiled, for the very first time, declaring her love for Tomoki as well. That really was such a sad chapter and painful to see Tomoki losing Ikaros. Immediately after that, the seriea drops their final bombshell, Daedalus, the angel girl who had sent Tomoki, Ikaros, was Sohara all along. Honestly I had never expected that and at the same time, I was pleasantly surprised. By linking all the previous chapters with the equation of Sohara = Daedalus, things started to link together. Up till the very end, we finally got to see Daedalus's face which was the familar Sohara we had always seen from the very beginning. It was later explained that the sad memory Tomoki had was actually of Sohara dying but that was the dream form of the real Daedalus. To compensate the loss, she created another Sohara and sent it to Tomoki. And that Sohara was the one that we have always seen from chapter 1.
Even though they pulled off kinda like a deus ex machina at the end, it didn't felt as forced as what Kyoukai no Kanata did where it would have been better if Mirai had stayed dead. Yes it was sad to see the Angeloids being taken off 1 by 1, but bringing them back wasn't just for the reason of merely reviving them, but in this case, it shows the final will of Sugata-senpai. Up to his last breath, he had written his desire on the last line of the Rule, to recreate the world but to him, he might've felt that his decision was wrong and left his laptop behind, allowing a new last line to be added to the Rule, which Tomoki did add in the end, wishing for his usual and peaceful life once again. And of course that was the best wish to make as it restores everything back to normal and it was definitely cute to see Daedalus bringing back Sohara and then acting all Sohara-like at the end. So that was the mysterious Daedalus we've always seen!
Didn't regret following this series to the end, and now I'm totally excited for their upcoming movie which will feature the last arc and the end of the SnO series. Time to head to kino to grab some volumes then! :)
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