Given, Vol. 1
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Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music—and to one another—always brings them back together again.
Ritsuka Uenoyama is bored with it all—with school, with his basketball club, and even with his one true passion: playing guitar. That is, until the day he finds his favorite hidden napping spot occupied by a strange boy cradling a broken-stringed guitar. At first, Uenoyama is nonplussed by Mafuyu Sato and his slightly odd behavior, but when, on a whim, he asks Mafuyu to sing, the power of that song pierces him to the core.
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Oh HECK YEAH!! I knew I should've gotten my act together quicker than this, damn, this is gonna be sooooooo gooooooood!!!!! Like, give me 17-22 year old music nerds, the loveliest set of temperaments, and throw them together in a band that shares so much YEARNING between them, you could cut it with a knife! Already lovely characterisations, really good set-up for backstory and possible conflict and just the right balance between "their last braincell"-moments and truly heartfelt stuff. This is gonna be so good! CW: mention of suicide, grief
Description
Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music—and to one another—always brings them back together again.
Ritsuka Uenoyama is bored with it all—with school, with his basketball club, and even with his one true passion: playing guitar. That is, until the day he finds his favorite hidden napping spot occupied by a strange boy cradling a broken-stringed guitar. At first, Uenoyama is nonplussed by Mafuyu Sato and his slightly odd behavior, but when, on a whim, he asks Mafuyu to sing, the power of that song pierces him to the core.
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Posts
Oh HECK YEAH!! I knew I should've gotten my act together quicker than this, damn, this is gonna be sooooooo gooooooood!!!!! Like, give me 17-22 year old music nerds, the loveliest set of temperaments, and throw them together in a band that shares so much YEARNING between them, you could cut it with a knife! Already lovely characterisations, really good set-up for backstory and possible conflict and just the right balance between "their last braincell"-moments and truly heartfelt stuff. This is gonna be so good! CW: mention of suicide, grief