Lukewarm Take: The manga shouldn't end with an epilogue chapter.

Heading into the final volume, there's been chatter about how things should end. Assuming there's no sequel (which I find likely, regrettably), I still don't think we should get an epilogue chapter.

The single most recurrent theme in the series is "don't be in a rush". We have an extremely long build-up focused around the small moments that the characters share as they slowly fall in love, and once that happens we even have a chapter that addresses how most manga would just jump to an epilogue where everything just sort of worked out. Going to an epilogue and being like "this is the end point, this is the final state" would just kind of be antithetical to what the series has been saying.

I think it should end on a victory, with a bright future ahead of the characters. Maybe Ishikawa and Yamada get to go public, and we get a couple of chapters and the finale is the release of the music video and we get something about how much they've grown and how excited they are for the future. But I don't think we should get to see that future. I think that we should have to look at it like our leads do: bright, beautiful, full of uncertainty, and with each other.