I don’t think I’ll ever forget about this manga. I know it’s cliche to say this, but this manga felt more like an experience than just manga. There was something inherently realistic about these two main characters, and I loved how the author captured the complexities of their personalities and their relationship with one another, their insecurities and fears, their love for another and their ability to stand up for themselves and their relationship. I teared up a little reading this last chapter. Unlike other time skips, this time skip actually felt meaningful in the way it reminded us of Maki and Midori’s love; it didn’t show us the main characters in the present, but you can feel their presence in Kon. You can feel the impact that the two main characters have for Kon, to the point where Kon secretly hated herself for not standing up for them. Unlike other time skips, we are reminded of how Maki and Midori ended up finally married as Kon’s running away parallels theirs, and through the act of inheriting this memory of theirs through seeing the photograph of them together, Kon sees that no matter how big the world is, no matter how much society will reject them, their love is so big, so defiant, so durable that it does not matter how society perceives them as long as they have their family.
