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I'm not reading all that but I'm 80% sure I agree
I get you but at the same time he’s never going to stop loving his first love, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean he loves his new love any less. I personally could never marry a widow because I’d always feel like a second choice, but that doesn’t mean I actually would be. You learn a lot from your first love, so I get the echoing of that may seem off putting but it doesn’t mean he should be looked at as a second choice. Of course, I never finished the story coz I had consent issues with the side couples and decided "no thank you" lol
I agree that loving a first love doesn’t automatically mean loving someone new less. ..
Carrying memories and lessons from a first relationship is completely natural, and I don’t think people should erase their past in order to move forward....
My issue isn’t with the existence of a past love, but with how the story frames it...
The narrative keeps centering the first relationship so strongly that the present one often feels measured against it rather than standing on its own...
So for me, it’s not about whether Uenoyama is a second choice in theory—it’s about how the story makes him feel like one. . especially through the ending, where borrowed words reinforce that imbalance...
When a romance emphasizes comparison over reassurance, it becomes hard for me to emotionally accept it.
And ..I really admire how you can drop what you don’t enjoy reading. ...
I, on the other hand, struggle with it
Omg. I never even thought of that. The way you explained it so beautifully I don’t even know what to say. I am at a loss for words to describe my feelings right now. But now that you’ve said it I see it, I see it so much that it hurts. The way Uenoyama’s feelings were never delved into. The way it wasn’t his sincere love and care that pushed Mafayu to his happiness and distance from the past but instead Yuki being the one that lead him. I mean I get that he was important to Mafayu but the story and Mafayu’s growth and involvement in music was too dependent on Yuki. I don’t know what do you guys think? Man……This is too much. Now I feel bad for Mafayu and for Uenoyama .
Yes, unfortunately that’s exactly how I feel too....
Uenoyama’s presence and his love were never truly given the spotlight they deserved...
As you said
What ultimately pushed Mafuyu back into music and helped him move forward wasn’t Uenoyama’s sincere care, but Yuki’s words—words that reached Mafuyu through Uenoyama.....
In a way, Mafuyu’s return to singing felt less like choosing the present and more like preserving the past...
Continuing to sing meant continuing Yuki’s existence and the memories they shared. ...
Music became a bridge to Yuki, not something born from Uenoyama’s love...
So it leaves me asking: what was Uenoyama’s role, really? Why was he there, if not to act as a vessel for someone else’s influence..
That’s why, even ten years later, I personally can’t fully believe in their love. ..
The main story failed to make me feel that Uenoyama was truly chosen—not just needed. ..
That’s simply how it feels to me...
The fact it's not even that long lol
It happens and it is ok to love someone while still grieving the loss of someone else you loved because nobody in this world can just move on just like that without thinking of that person, I can relate but anyway the whole reason why it focuses mainly on Mafuyu's emotional state is because he had lost someone dear to him so we get to see how this plays out later on in the story lol
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well that not good lol
I don't really agree because my mother was a widow when my father married my mother but I can see it very well my mother really loves my father she said to us her first husband was her first boyfriend and first love but it doesn't mean my father will not be her forever love., grieve and guilt doesn't go away in instant
For me, the issue with this story is not love itself, but the unequal emotional weight carried throughout the narrative. ..
Mafuyu’s bond with his former lover was portrayed as something whole, profound, and irreplaceable, almost as if they were two halves completing one another. .
This persistent emphasis placed that relationship on a pedestal, making everything that followed feel inherently lesser...
Uenoyama’s love is sincere and deeply devoted. Mafuyu is his first love, and that alone gives their relationship a sense of purity. .
Yet even when Mafuyu says that he loves Uenoyama, he still feels like someone in the process of healing, carrying wounds that have not fully closed. .
His transition into a new relationship feels less like a grounded choice and more like a way to escape the weight of the past...
What troubled me further is how the manhwa itself treated Uenoyama unfairly. ..
He was emotionally sidelined, while the former lover continued to be highlighted and emotionally centered.
The narrative repeatedly returned to the past, reinforcing its importance, while Uenoyama’s feelings, sacrifices, and inner struggles were never given the same depth or narrative respect...
This imbalance made it difficult to see him as an equal partner rather than someone standing in someone else’s shadow...
The original ending of the main story only intensified this discomfort. ..
Mafuyu’s final words echoed something his former lover once said on the beach...
Ending the story that way left a bitter aftertaste, as if the past was not merely remembered, but quietly prioritized. Instead of allowing Mafuyu to move forward with his own voice, the story closed on borrowed words, further diminishing Uenoyama’s place in that moment....
The extra chapters set ten years later suggest that time has passed and that their relationship may have deepened and matured. ..
Rationally, I can accept that love can grow stronger with time. .
Yet emotionally, I remain unconvinced. ..
The conclusion of the main story had already created a distance I could not overcome...
To the point that, at times, I found myself wishing they had separated—not out of hostility, but out of compassion for Uenoyama. ..
Watching him endure the role of a replacement, carrying a love that was never fully centered on him, felt more painful than the idea of letting go...
No one deserves to live in comparison to someone who no longer exists, especially not someone who loved so earnestly...
I am not seeking a perfect love story—only one where no one feels like a second choice, and where love is allowed to stand on equal ground.
Unfortunately, this story never fully gave me that sense of peace...