Well i think chika was so desperate to see if hotaka gonna be attached to him or say have feelings so chika will leave evry thing and stick to hotaka,but hotaka didn't so chika saw no future and cleared the way for masato
My point is that Chika never had a way forward with Hotaka. He was pushing Hotaka to fall for him and say he likes him while also hoping that he won't because if he does, that's a deadend. Chika has no way forward. What is he going to do? Get married and have an affair with Hotaka? When he has no way of going against his family, he should have just let Hotaka be.
True if there is no way then there shouldn't be any start
Exactly what I think, I never liked Chika since the first time his pushy attitude showed up and I was totally going to throw my phone if Hotaka ended up with him, in fact in the first scene with Masato looking at the scar I was shipping them and then he starts a relationship with Chika, it was a total turn down. I'm sooooo glad the ml was Masato in the end.
Dude I feel you...
I'm really not seeing the forcing here. Aren't you people putting the MC yourself into your shoes instead of the other way round? I think this is a case of you guys thinking what would your situation be like if a guy did to you what Chika did to Hotaka. But, you've got to appreciate that Hotaka isn't you, his power dynamic with Chika is not nearly as slanted as it would be for you people. You are looking at it from your perspective. You are viewing this either as a girl who have grown up under the oppression of a highly unequal patriarchal culture or a young guy who's had a bad run-in with creeps who were in a superior position to you in some way, be it in age, social capital or professional capacity.
But Hotaka and Chika are not you. They are both men, close in age, and most importantly, they are friends among a bigger group of friends. Hotaka can refuse at any time without fear of any repercussions. It would've been force if instead of Chika, it had been a stranger, someone on a shady street or someone who was socially more powerful, being this forceful. In fact, if it was a girl, even a peer or younger, it could have been interpreted to be force in certain contexts where as a guy Hotaka could have found it difficult to refuse in fear of the consequences. But, here, it is a friend. A friend who can't threaten him in anyway. He could've even kicked him off every time Chika threw himself at him if he really wasn't interested, and nothing would have changed. His relationship with Chika would not be impacted in the slightest. Hotaka was compliant by choice, his emotional struggles, notwithstanding.
If your sibling is really, really begging you to come play with them, and you give in and decide to go along with them anyway, even when you'd rather be catching up on your studies, is it really the same situation as you not being able to refuse and having to comply when your scary, strict parent has ordered you to go out and greet their guests even though you're really awkward and will hate every moment of it? No means no, only when you have more power in a situation relative to the other person. But, otherwise, you can insist and whine. If that, turns a no into yes, it's because they have chosen to humour you, and not that you left them no choice.
There really aren't any bad guys between Chika and Hotaka. They just want different things, which are incompatible with each other. The only bad guy here is Masato, who chose to sacrifice his family and put his child through the pain of a parental divorce, for something as worthless as a sexual relationship. Unless Hotaka also participated by asking him to divorce, then he's also bad. But still not as bad as Masato who should've still chosen his family if he was forced to choose.
And the depravity of the whole thing is so ridiculousless. I mean, he's already irredeemably evil for even thinking about compromising with his child's interests in the first place. But, he also didn't get anything out of doing so. Bro sacrificed his own child just to keep a guy who he already had, who was already his close friend. He wasn't going anywhere. If this was just about him caring about Hotaka, he ain't the only one. Every one in the group cares about him. All of them care about each other. Or else, they wouldn't be taking time out of their busy lives and scheduling frequent get-togethers like they do. That's literally where the story starts. They were already friends. It's not like if Masato didn't divorce his wife and start fucking him, Hotaka would've gone away. He's sleeping with Hotaka now, but not the others. Doesn't mean that the rest of the friends will go away. He's been married for years and he still have all of his friends around him. None of them have gone away. And even on the unlikely chance that Hotaka left them, that still doesn't justify sacrificing your kid's well-being just to socially oblige someone to stick around.
The whole drama wasn't even about him caring about Hotaka, about their friendship in the first place. This is about both of them being sexually obsessed with each other. So, couldn't they just meet from time to time to fuck around! It's not like being married makes you physically incapable of sleeping around. The more responsible and the good human thing to do would have been to take the wife into confidence, tell the boyfriend to respect the boundaries of his family, and only once everyone was comfortable, they could have started their association. That way the adults could've had their fun and the kid got to live a happy, stable life with both the people it recognises as parents giving it full-time love and care.
So many paragraphs?? I'm not reading all that considering how twisted the logic in the first para is. I think your thinking is extremely weird but you do you!
I'm surprised to see people supporting Chika in the comments. I found his behaviour quite horrible actually. To begin with, he knew very well that he and Hotaka are not going to end up together. Since his older brother died and he is the only heir of his family business, his parents expect him to get married and take over from his father. Though he keeps rejecting the girls and pushing things off, both he and Hotaka know that he will eventually get married. Also, Hotaka is the sort who doesn't like creating trouble for others and would never try to hold Chika back from doing what his family wants him to do.
So basically, what Chika was doing was mild rebellion of living his life the way he wants for a short time and having a fling with the person he likes before taking over his family's responsibility. Then he confessed to Hotaka to keep him tied up in a relationship that was not going anywhere. Even though it was something that wouldn't last, he made a spectacle of the relationship in front of his other friends and broke up in front of them instead of doing it privately. On top of that, he wants Hotaka to feel lonely? How much more crappy and heartless can he be?
To begin with he was the one who liked Hotaka, not the other way round. He lured the guy who was uninterested into a relationship which was almost purely physical by being pushy and taking advantage of his kindness, then dumped him, and wants him to be lonely and miserable while he moves on and marries some girl??????
Imagine what would have happened if Masato wasn't around? Hotaka would have had to deal with the breakup all by himself without even being able to complain to anyone while Chika goes on to marry some girl.
It is just punishment that now he has to watch Hotaka and Masato being happy and lovey-dovey around him all his life. In fact, that isn't punishment enough.