#snakeadam

Like Miya's issues with being left by his friends for being better at skating and Reki leaving. Reki still needs to apologize. And in that same vein I'd like to see how he rekindles his friendship with his ex best friend and what gets his ex best friend to start talking to him again

Then there's the thing with Adam and his aunts. Does he secretly resent them? Is he gonna tell em off or go directly against his wishes? Is something gonna happen to them since they were a part of Adam's abuse and forced supression of his queerness. And what of the marriage thing? Does he just come out and marry Tadashi? Does he make excuses to his aunts and the public while secretly (but probably not so secretly) date Tadashi? We're still missing a lot with Adam, Tadashi, Joe, and Cherry's past. It's still not clear exactly why Cherry has a grudge. We don't know if Cherry and Joe have always been that way to each other or if something happened back then (probably after ADAM left for America). We don't know what happened in America and we haven't gotten much of a chance to see how teenage Adam was before his father found him and Tadashi out. Tbh I'd like to see more of when Cherry, Joe, and Adam became friends aside from a flashback that sorta summarizes it from Cherry's end

What of that after credits scene in episode 9? That whole scene with Joe and Cherry showing us that Cherry trusts Joe enough to be able to fall asleep in his presence. Joe going "but we're not alone. Right Kaoru?". The symbolism of Joe filling up a glass for both of them and clinking his wine glass with Cherry's stationary one. It's an intimate scene towards the end. One of those where someone is asleep and the other softly gazes at them, saying soft things they might not dare confess to their face. Watching feels like you're intruding on something. Personally I interpreted that scene showing Joe's unrequieted love and even how he feels different about Cherry than how they act in front of each other. Not to mention there's a possibility that women isn't really Joe's happiness and that money isn't Cherry's. I mean it's entirely possible they're just distractions for something else.

Then Adam doesn't believe the way he wants to live and loving Tadashi is bad anymore, but what of Tadashi? I'm sure it was so reassuring to hear straight from Adam's mouth that he wanted them to be together forever too and that maybe he'd still cared for Tadashi all this time. But while Adam's relationship with skating and queerness has been addressed, Tadashi's has not yet. We got to see more of him being vulnerable and expressing emotion in the final episode, but we haven't gotten to see him completely move on from societal pressures and his feelings on skating. He hasn't realized onscreen like ADAM yet that whether you think "skating" is a childish want, you have the right to live your right however you want. Queerness- I mean skating isn't inherently bad. That being said, we also haven't gotten to see onscreen why the intertwined hearts at the bottom of the pool mean so much to him. I assume it definitely symbolizes his relationship with Adam, but we haven't gotten to see either when it was put there or the exact feelings he and Adam put into it. Not to mention Tadashi's original decision to stay by Adam's side

Then at the end of episode 12 it's also sort of implied that Tadashi and Adam joined the found family, meaning at some point Adam fixed his relationship with Joe and Cherry. Tbh I'd like to see how that happened. How did Adam go about apologizing and rekindling his friendship with them?

What's up with Reki’s ex best friend? We got to see some flashbacks, but just how important was he to Reki? They obviously don't hang out anymore after his friend ended up in that accident, so how did their falling out go? Is he gonna show up in the future? If he's still around, will Reki try to fix his friendship with him even if he doesn't do skating anymore? Or is Reki over it?

Then there's small things. Reki and Langa have been friends for a while now, and Reki’s mom knows they hang out and has met Langa more than once. But as far as we know, Langa’s mom only knows that Langa sneaks out with "someone" every night and there's someone he really cares about and maybe has a crush on. Reki still hasn't met Langa’s mom? And Shadow learned his crush has a boyfriend already and cried about it? What does he do next? Obviously he skates for himself and to blow off steam, but since part of his reason for skating was to get strong for his crush, what does he do now? Then Miya obviously likes skating, but if there might be a theme in sk8 about finding your true happiness, what is Miya's true happiness if not getting into a good school or being the best skater? Tbh I bet it has something to do with his ex friend or friendship in general

Langa teaching Reki how to snowboard

Joe finding out his unrequited feelings for his childhood friend are mutual

Tadashi and Adam getting married

Shadow hanging around Manager Oka more

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And then at the end of episode 12 when Adam and Tadashi came together after the beef the moon was full!

The heck you're not! Jesus Christ, Tadashi!

I love you, Tadashi, but it literally has to be you who makes ADAM love skating again. You were the one who made him love it in the first place after all

Plus if ADAM even gets Langa nothing will change. He won't love skateboarding like he used to. He'll still be all alone because he keeps waiting for one person to join him where he is rather than joining other people

If we use Reki as a skating parallel here, I think even if ADAM thinks he's taken Langa as his EVE he won't be truly happy, just like when Reki thought everyone would be happier if he was alone and just cheered people on. In the end, Reki had to seek out Langa (the person he can skate with that makes skating much more enjoyable no matter what) and then his friends on his own. Reki had to be in charge of making himself not alone and figuring out where and how he gets love out of skating.

I think ADAM has to do the same, and to do that he needs to remove himself from the mindset that the only people worth skating with are people you're "a good match" with