>>281519401
Focus more on Rea and Chihiro. They are the core of the story, the main pairing and there is no need to pretend otherwise. Wanko and Darin would work well as supporters. Cut the filler chapters with the second line characters, instead give us more of Chihiros and Reas Antics. Make it a love story worth Chihiros final sacrifice, if you want to be a bittersweetfag about it or embrace beeing a happy ending chad with them finally getting together - perhaps Chihiro accepting becoming a half-zombie like his grandfather to stay with Rea as long as he can. Or, for a middle ground both accepting that their lifes might be shortened. Rea might rot, Chihiro might suffer the effects of the poison, but both promising to live together as fully as they can - if you want to make it a positive message about life and so on.
>>281520494
The best, actually. Both of them, actually. Not joking here - I think, while Sanka Rea is an awfully flawed work, one of the key aspects why its still beloved and the former awfully frustrating, is its main characters and their dynamic, both beeing multilayered and their interactions just beeing a lot of fun. Rea, as rightfully pointed out by many wise anons, is no helpless princess once taken out of her prison, Chihiro is a fucking dork, but no doormat and you can't help but root for him to succeed in caring for the zombie he made. He perhaps is the best execution of the otaku getting the ojou gal archetype I have seen so far.