Ai Yori Aoshi Chapter 141 "True Blue"

about $178, 17 volumes, 141 full chapters (and also to or three "mini stories" per volume) and I finally get to the end of this love story. The payoff? 1. The most wholesome sex scene in the history of manga 2. a maudlin ending 3. sadness that women like Aoichan don't actually exist 4. and the resolve to never start another manga series this long and expensive ever again.