Thoughts on Sakanayagi after reading Y2 V12.

I feel like Kinugasa has lost the plot. This is just my understanding and a rant regarding the clown fiesta that occurred in the climax of Volume 12.

After Kamuro's expulsion in Volume 10 and Sakayanagi's heart-to-heart with Yamamura in Volume 11, I was led to believe that Sakayanagi's character had undergone major development. She no longer saw her classmates as mere tools for her amusement, but instead genuinely wanted to make friends with them. She even mentioned, on separate occasions, that she had changed.

However, all of that development was thrown out the window with her decision to intentionally lose the exam and withdraw from school. She betrayed her classmates for her own selfish reasons—to simp for Clownakouji. I could have accepted the ending better had the author not written about her trying to befriend and get to know her classmates better. Her actions cost her class 500 class points, and any hopes they had of graduating as Class A were all but destroyed.

The ending to this arc/book might be on par with the ending of Year 2, Volume 5 seeing how ass it is.

P.S. This is not the story I fell in love with.