But honestly this is probably the most realistic depiction of love I've ever seen in manga.
People don't move on quickly, or cleanly. Not always, not when they really loved someone. Having feelings for someone lingers, forever in some form. You can still love that person, long for them, miss them, and still not want to be with them anymore. Those feelings don't just disappear even if you want them too. What you want and how you feel aren't always on the same page. And even when you're over it, even when you know there's nothing left with that person, there are still feelings in some shape or form, and those will never disappear.
That is life. This is what love is, in most cases. It isn't grand, it isn't dramatic, it's not the be-all and end-all and it's not fate written in the stars like we wished it would be. It is much simpler than that, because emotions are complex. Feelings come and fade and change, and young people navigate them very poorly at times, but that's how they learn to be better people and to love better.
This story is about young people navigating genuine heart break and new love for the very first time, and how that process is messy and imperfect.
I know this is not why we came here. We came here to read about a fantasy of undying devotion and my-one-and-only love. This story is more human than that. Simply human.
"It was easier to breathe in a place where human life was light as a feather" has to be one of the single, most heart-breaking lines I've ever read. Kudos to the author.
But honestly this is probably the most realistic depiction of love I've ever seen in manga.
People don't move on quickly, or cleanly. Not always, not when they really loved someone. Having feelings for someone lingers, forever in some form. You can still love that person, long for them, miss them, and still not want to be with them anymore. Those feelings don't just disappear even if you want them too. What you want and how you feel aren't always on the same page. And even when you're over it, even when you know there's nothing left with that person, there are still feelings in some shape or form, and those will never disappear.
That is life. This is what love is, in most cases. It isn't grand, it isn't dramatic, it's not the be-all and end-all and it's not fate written in the stars like we wished it would be. It is much simpler than that, because emotions are complex. Feelings come and fade and change, and young people navigate them very poorly at times, but that's how they learn to be better people and to love better.
This story is about young people navigating genuine heart break and new love for the very first time, and how that process is messy and imperfect.
I know this is not why we came here. We came here to read about a fantasy of undying devotion and my-one-and-only love. This story is more human than that. Simply human.