He sido una imbécil por no haberle dado una oportunidad antes. Ha sido llegar al 3-4 capítulo y todo me pareció tan tierno y tan bonito que no quería que se acabase. He devorado el primer tomo en menos de una hora. I'll keep.holding onto.this thing.you treasured.' Although I still.haven't found the words to say it yet. Sin embargo, poco a poco he empezado a leer otros géneros como este que vengo a reseñar ahora. Siempre lo digo, tiraba más hacia los shonen-seinen fantásticos/ gore salvo los de Inio Asano por muchísimas recomendaciones de mis amigos. Hace años cuando la gente hablaba de este manga-anime no le daba la más mínima importancia, sobretodo por el hecho que no es uno de los géneros que solía leer de manga. 'It's a story about a certain morning of certain winter'. (Good character work, if it has me speculating on their lives after the book is closed.) Possibly not another musician, but rather, someone skilled in their own art/thing. Being married to his music, I guess he needs a partner who can deal with the peculiar polyamory, and not be devastated by the competition with his formidable talent like poor Akihiko. Poor fellow really deserves his own sequel with a new and happier ending, if he's capable of one.

I found the treatment of the fifth party, Ugetsu the classical-violinist antagonist (but not villain) to be especially interesting, a nicely nuanced study of two people just not right for each other. I liked the exploration of what it means to make art, in this case through music though I think the tale has wider applications, especially the inarticulate (actually, silenced) kid Mafuyu who found that what he could not speak, he could sing. While the story mainly focused on the tangled emotions of our four protagonists, the necessary misunderstandings and snags weren't at all stupid, touching on some very real problems. Slice-of-life m/m romance in an aspiring band of a mixed group of highly talented high school and college kids. Have read all 5 volumes/watched all the anime. I was pleased to discover the anime followed the manga closely, in one season plus the so-called 'movie' that was actually a somewhat compressed version of the last parts, so, the story is complete in both versions. As usual, I tracked this manga back from its anime version, found on Crunchyroll.

ギヴン 1 [Given 1] by Natsuki Kizu