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these mfs better end up together or else imma throw myself

I understand how many of you want uenoyama x mafuyu development, but you need to understand that they have not been together for so long and there are many thing they don't know about each other. And i hope yall won't hate Yuki for that.
Yuki and mafuyu were best friends for years. Mafuyu needs more time to move on. Given is not your typical romance it breaks all those common tropes of shoujo and yaoi like- how your first love is always going to be your last love, and how they show all the struggles before entering the relationship and once they do, it's the so-called "happy end". But in reality it is the start . You have to do your best to understand your partner because a person is a complex human being which is hard to understand.
Given highlights many problems in a relationship and we get to see how the characters deal with those problems. If mafuyu and uenoyama were to become a couple with no problems this quickly, won't it defeat the very purpose of this manga? And falling in love doesn't magically heal you. In order to understand and love another person, you have to understand yourself first.

The way i see it, it's mostly about mafuyu's character growth. Before, he couldn't
express himself well. But then he found his voice through music. He will slowly learn to express himself. Give him time.
When yuki was by his side, he didn't have to express himself because they were like perfect halves of one person. Yuki had expressive personality. After Yuki's death, he had lost his 'voice'. But on that fateful day, he met Uenoyama who helped him fix his guitar and he found his voice through music. In my opinion, for mafuyu, uenoyama is not a replacement for yuki. When Mafuyu sang and cried on the stage for the first time after losing yuki, during the performance he looked at a smiling uenoyama and realised that he is in love with him and how he wanted to tell yuki that he is in love with someone else now and that he missed him so much.
Now that Mafuyu has Ritsuka, a loving boyfriend, Hiiragi and Shizu, his childhood friends and Akihiko who is such a good senior by his side, he will surely overcome his fears.It's going to be worth the wait.