I didn't like this one tbh. Sure, it was supposed to be poetic or whatever, but the thing between the grandfather and Misaki was just strange. It's weird for an old man to be blatantly projecting his romantic feelings for an old friend onto his friend's grandson, and I really dislike how they delivered that by portraying a younger version of the grandfather pining after Misaki. I also felt like Misaki was very inconsiderate of the other guy's feelings. Just the fact that he went along with the grandfather's whims, despite being fully aware of his (the high schooler, whose name I don't remember) feelings, was bad enough. And the scene where he wiped food off the grandfather's face - while he was being portrayed as his younger self - and ate it was so gross to me lmao. If he was doing it because the grandfather was financially useful, that wasn't emphasized in the story NEARLY enough. Shit like that can't just be contextually implied - a scene where he's like "I can't afford to care about superfluous things like romance right now; I need money," would have sufficed. But more importantly, if he actually liked the other guy back, why would he wait 10 years to say that? A decade wasted in what was believed to be unrequited love... most people would've hopefully moved on by then
I didn't like this one tbh. Sure, it was supposed to be poetic or whatever, but the thing between the grandfather and Misaki was just strange. It's weird for an old man to be blatantly projecting his romantic feelings for an old friend onto his friend's grandson, and I really dislike how they delivered that by portraying a younger version of the grandfather pining after Misaki. I also felt like Misaki was very inconsiderate of the other guy's feelings. Just the fact that he went along with the grandfather's whims, despite being fully aware of his (the high schooler, whose name I don't remember) feelings, was bad enough. And the scene where he wiped food off the grandfather's face - while he was being portrayed as his younger self - and ate it was so gross to me lmao. If he was doing it because the grandfather was financially useful, that wasn't emphasized in the story NEARLY enough. Shit like that can't just be contextually implied - a scene where he's like "I can't afford to care about superfluous things like romance right now; I need money," would have sufficed. But more importantly, if he actually liked the other guy back, why would he wait 10 years to say that? A decade wasted in what was believed to be unrequited love... most people would've hopefully moved on by then