Gigant volume 10 - Hiroya Oku

 This is it, the final instalment of the battle between adult actress Chiho and the alien invading AI.

And we left in the previous volume as the spacestation was attacked by a nuclear strike, everyone seemingly caught in the blast.

 

According to analysis of the wreckage, her DNA traces have been found in the wreckage and she is confirmed deceased. Depressed by the loss of his love and their unborn child, he goes to her appartment, watching her movies as he comes across the disc of the initial time traveller she encountered.

When Mochi reappears, he finds the time travel device the dog swallowed.  He ingests it himself, in order to travel back in time and stop the professor that created the AI's from dying in an accident, saving humanity as a result.  But this also means he and Chiho never met and became a couple.

Years later, Rei has graduated and became a young, award winning star of a director.  He invites Chiho, no longer an adult star, for a role in his newest movie.  The movie actually tells the story of how they got together and how their love grew.  But as the filming goes on, she gets deja-vu ideas of the events.

She remembers, and the promise they made to each other as the filming ends, falling into Rei's arm crying of joy...

So that was actually a pretty cool ending to a manga series I liked.  The middle parts of the series where perhaps at time to bland, but all in all it was a good series, and the first one I decided to collect completely when rebuilding my collection.