Itazura na Kiss Ending Not Dead With Author

Aside from being considered the "bible of romance" for shoujo manga due to its influence on later authors, Itazura na Kiss also gained a morbid reputation when its author - Kaoru Tada - died in early 1999, before she could finish the manga. But all was not lost. Even though the manga itself remains unfinished to this day, Tada told her husband how she wanted the manga to end, shortly before meeting her proverbial creator.

The husband, Shigeru Nishikawa is a music producer, and he made this revelation in a Mainichi Shinbun interview published earlier this month (via ANN), saying that the ending imagined by his late wife will finally be shown in the ongoing anime adaptation.

The Itazura na Kiss anime was announced back in January of this year, and began airing in April. Currently there are 26 episodes planned, and assuming the entire story will be condensed in a single season, fans will finally find out how it all was meant to end this September. Although I wouldn't bet on that, since the original manga ran for nearly 10 years, so there's more than enough material to push the anime into a second season...