Also, just that you can read the last part in different ways. Either he was training his voice again, as he knew they would meet and he wanted to sound good as the ex-doctor remembered. Or that the yakuza man was simply holding onto something that made him and his ex partner feel good, to recreate the memory, like how people make the favourite foods of their dead relatives.
Strangely enough, I’m pretty satisfied with the ending. He said that he would sing the Mona Lisa to him whenever he wanted so the manga ending with him going to karaoke to strengthen his voice is a pretty cute ending. It also eludes to the fact that he is preparing to for the next time he gets to see/sing to him. I’m mostly curious about how long the ex doctors sentence is for. Also the doctor has a yakuza tattoo because he was working with and selling drugs to the yakuza.
http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/yasashii_anata/uu/yasashii_anata-chapter-1/190/ shows that Harumoto has grown his hair. Prisoners are allowed to grow their hair if they've got 3 months left in their sentence (p. 32 of https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/JAPAN953.PDF--also info I got from reading a prison-themed Japanee LN lol)--so that means Mizuta was released first, with Harumoto going after him.
Re: the tattoo, I read it as an allusion to the rod of Asclepius (the god of medicine & healing)---but without the rod and just the snake to signify he's got looser morals re: being a doctor and not at all related to yakuza. But that's my own interpretation.
I meant Mizuta grew his hair, not Harumoto. =_=
Thanks for explaining things. It makes a lot more sense now and that tattoo sounds pretty cool. The fact that he carved that tattoo into his body signifying that he was a low life into his skin for the rest of his life speaks volumes about his character. It’s as if he thought that he could never be redeemed and just off’d himself as a crappy person altogether. You’re probably right about the having no relations to the yakuza part. I just assumed for some reason when I read that he was selling prescription meds, I just assumed that it was to the yakuza.
Oof, right at the kokoro. Well said. It's not far off to assume that people who'll see his tattoo will think he's part of the underworld, anyway. So, I thought there was a deeper meaning to it since Nishida-sensei loves (excels on) silent storytelling to expound on a character's psyche.
I'm in total despair why none of her works has seen any kind of adaptations. She already does her panels like they were movies (this one especially so), so like half the job is done lol.
There's a color page with the two of them of the boat with Titanic pose so it's safe to say they got back together (づ￣ ³￣)づ
It would have been nice if it didn't end with sch a cliffhanger. Did they ever meet again? If so, were they able to rebuild a relationship? Were they able to travel to that island despite now having criminal records? Would they ever be be to switch things up or would the yakuza be stuck in the old yaoi cliche of being the "neko". Why did the ex-doctor have a tattoo associated with the yakuza?