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It starts off with a time skip and a brief explanation that Kiyo’s old agency has been struggling it, we meet his grandma, whose sprite is clearly recycled from an older title (which already feels like foreshadowing for how this story will go). They finally achieve their goal, only for it to be snatched away almost immediately because Kiyo gets affected by his old agency's prostitution scandal. Then they have to meet the MC’s parents to convince them that the MC won’t get hurt again and before you know it, it’s wedding day and that’s it.

Speaking of the wedding day, it’s just a montage of his old CGs while the other characters talk amongst themselves before the screen cuts to the new CG. You don’t even get to see all of Kiyo’s outfit for the wedding because they didn’t create a new sprite.

You skip ahead again to a few years in the ending set when the siblings finally get onto that billboard in New York, MC tells Kiyo she's pregnant, cut to her struggling during the first trimester so Kiyo decides he's taking a break and then MC gives birth to their daughter who you don't get to see. His mother never appears at any point throughout this story and I feel a little disappointed by that because Kiyo once said the MC and his mother weren’t alike despite both being divorced so I thought it would have been an interesting interaction.

The pregnancy could’ve been a story on its own. Keep the time skip and show Kiyo and Hikari doing well when the MC discovers she’s pregnant. Rather than having Kiyo announce a hiatus and skipping straight to the baby’s birth, they could have explored the tension of this period further:

Kiyo becomes too busy to notice how much MC is struggling, while she tries to quietly deal with the symptoms on her own. Maybe she tries to prove that she can handle managing his and Hikari’s careers because she’s afraid of holding them back when their careers are thriving. Her parents could’ve reappeared to say “we warned you this would happen,” pushing that emotional conflict even further.

In the unlikely event that Voltage is reading this, they’re probably thinking “Damned if we do, damned if we don’t 🙄”. But they’ve had three years to put something together and THIS is what they came up with. You can tell that Voltage just wanted to get this title done and over with.