#given headcanon

i don't know if i should call that an unpopular opinion or another analysis of my fav baby in given (still a lie, they're all my favs) but i felt the need to write about shizusumi's character. lately, i've been reading a lot of fanfictions about hiiragi and shizusumi and something always felt off to me, even when the stories were so enjoyable and overly sweet. i had a great time reading most of them.

i realised that what was missing was simply shizusumi's idiocy. i mean, even hiiragi called him something like that, once. shizusumi is often portrayed as a sweetheart (which he is, deep inside), a kind of gentleman who knows everything hiiragi needs and who always has the perfect timing regarding hiiragi's demands. i think he tries to be all of this, genuinely, but it's a bit delusional to think he is already.

i love how given character tend to be realistic and above all, as mature and experienced as their age indicates. that's why i decide to see shizu as a 17-year-old idiot in love, who's never had a partner before and who can't deal with romantic interactions more than hiiragi, if not clumsily. no one will make me believe that shizu can plan proper dates and read the mood perfectly to choose the right moment to kiss hiiragi. during the summer festival he was literally late for his date(?) with hiiragi, he probably just overslept during his nap or something. he thinks confessing is about saying overly dramatic stuff like in silly romcoms and that eating together or making out is going to solve any small argument. he's really good to take hundred pictures of his boyfriend and post them on his instagram to implicitly brag as any teenager would. he says whatever comes to his mind when he thinks it's what hiiragi wants to hear, but it's mostly just embarrassing him.

of course, he's still the perfect man to hiiragi because he loves him and he sees him as his most precious friend before other feelings completed this. but i swear shizu wouldn't fit any other people than hiiragi, because he's the only one who gets him.

so i'll still be enjoying fanfictions about shizu being the boyfriend material anyone craves to have, but i'll keep in a corner of my mind that, duh, he's such a blockhead.

I know that the movie was about AkiHaru and Ugetsu, but I just want to point out these character developments on Mafuyu:

- he has achieved "personal closure" after writing and performing their first song

- he is more expressive of how he feels; he even mentioned to Uenoyama that he felt scared before their next performance

- he became more aware of how the people around him feel. he noticed how Haruki felt towards Akihiko

- he actually reached out to listen, because he felt that Ugetsu needed someone whom he can talk to, since Akihiko has been gone

- he's no longer just singing for himself. he is now using his music to help the people around him figure things out

- and I personally think that he is putting in effort to get closer to Uenoyama, but the virgin boi just wants to take it slow 😂

My point is; Mafuyu is more than just his talent, and his character development proves that ❤

and an unpopular opinion is that i think ritsuka is actually way hornier than mafuyu, cos bro is talking about his virginity since the very beginning of the series and craves to put an end to it, wonder why? dude's horny. even if mafuyu is the one to take initiative by the end, ritsuka was really the one waiting for this.

make you...

or break you.