I don’t like coming of age stories and consequently didn’t expect to enjoy this.
I was glad to be proved wrong.
Kurosawa’s development is what makes this great, but I thought what made this manga different was how raw it was. Detailing his apathy, isolation, self-hatred....to even just the...
it’s always interesting when the broken one isn’t actually hated but instead supported by their peers. through their arrogance/aloofness/isolation or other character flaw, they end up rejecting things that can help them. it’s awfully tragic.