like i am thankful to the fans who point out how wonderfully positive satomi is, anyone normal when faced with "i'll quit when kumicho is dead" would have responded with "wtf?" but instead satomi goes to have a think in the toilet and turns it into a "so he's saying there's a CHANCE..."

the way i just screamed

kyouji's sense of responsibility is so heavy... it isn't "i'll stay until kumicho doesn't need me anymore," it's "i'll stay until he passes." when he takes ownership of something, he'll do it to the end. he's afraid of forcing that on satomi. i get that... but i also want you to STAND UP, OLD MAN

there is nothing to forgive, mistakes are a sign that the creator is there and was so excited to share it with us that even the desire for perfection was not a barrier!!!!!!!

you know what kobayashi sensei would do in this situation.... time for an invigorating run

it is romantic to say "i'll be there for you, to clean up a murder / to pull an all-nighter / to stand up to your parents / to support you." but damn, it is staggeringly romantic to say, "call me anytime, to a mcdonald's late at night, to spend just a few minutes, of course those minutes are yours."

of course it's romantic to want to share someone's life with them, to want to hold them and touch them and support them. but it's a different kind of romantic to say, "can't you make just a little bit of time in your life for me? to meet up with me sometimes, so i know you are still alive."

it's not a bl manga where they're dating, it's not a shounen/seinen/josei manga where they're accomplishing anything together, they're not teammates or coworkers or even friends. they just want to be in each other's mundane (and not so mundane) lives.

kyouji expressing his love through food bc giving satomi fried rice at karaoke heaven was the only unambiguous gesture satomi ever accepted from him.....

i know it's supposed to apply to both of them but that line is so narita kyouji coded

kumicho is like "please take this dumbass off my hands.... i need him married and out of the house i can't handle hearing kurenai every quarter"

"anywhere is fine" is fine as long as one of you knows where you are going.....

"anywhere is fine, as long as it's with you" --> "it doesn't matter what kind of restaurant we go to, as long as you say yes when i ask" BUT ALSO "i will stay in this group with kumicho until he dies"

I CANNOT WAIT TO REREAD THIS THANK YOU FOR SHARING

[cue mj lenderman's "she's leaving you"]
it falls apart
we've all got saizeriya shifts to do
it gets dark
we've all got yakuza karaoke competitions to do

"when will kumicho die? "what kind of question is that..." "k i gotta go to work" "ok bye" right after a momentous soulcrushing confession... who else is doing that