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GIVEN | Hiiragi Mix Thoughts Part 1

So I haven't been super active on this blog not because I don't love Given anymore, but any ounce of brain energy dedicated to Given means I have to feel the agony of waiting for the two movies to release. BUT ALAS the time has come because @aarinfantasy is the GOAT thank you thank you thank you~~~ Spoilers and screenshots below the cut 👇👇👇

GENERAL NOTES:

How can Mafuyu be animated even cuter than before? Like I don't even know how but how can he look even more adorable???!!

I love the intentional placement of sound and music in Hiiragi mix, moments of silence are so effective in highlighting tension, awkwardness, release, nervousness. Like even 1 minute into the movie, you hear the boys breathing as Uenoyama is tuning the guitar and Mafuyu is sitting beside him. It's those little details that show the atmosphere between characters perfectly.

I like the balance of Hiiragi/Shizu's storyline and Mafuyama's storyline, it's following the manga closely and shows the complexity and intertwining of their stories. It's a good way to juxtapose the different struggles between the two couples and what they needed from each other to overcome their miscommunication! I think the team took feedback from the Given Movie 1 2020 and OVA broken up into two parts when it should have worked better as one longer movie.

I saw on reddit I think that Hiiragi's VA is still relatively new to the industry but I saw a HUGE improvement in his voice acting in this movie, the range he gave to Hiiragi is amazing!

SCENE REACTIONS

This scene was so funny I CACKLED Uenoyama and Hiiragi with their catty energy I LOVE THEM

2. I fell off my couch at this scene HHAHAHA

While Uenoyama's face is funnier in the manga, something about the animated rocket launch from earth JUST GETS ME HAHHAHA. Ok serious talk though how did I not notice that when Uenoyama got confessed to and when Haruki told him he's about to debut, his brain turns into astronaut footage? I think it's a very smart way to illustrate that for Ue, music = love and one cannot exist without the other.

3. OMG Uenoyama's face HAHAH awww man I know he's bummed as hell at Mafuyu's "I'll think about it later" (to the debut proposal) but his face, Ueki and Itaya's faces send me straight to heaven

You know how Ue feels? Our munchkin cat feels like he just proposed to his lover and his lover said, hmnnn I'll think about it. 😭 Chemical, emotional, physical, psychological damage right here>>>

4. The voice acting here from Hiiragi's VA Fumiya Imai SLAPS SO HARD

It's definitely giving deja vu, similar energy to Uenoyama panicking about Mafuyu, gosh I love Hiiragi and Uenoyama's baby gay panics it's so cute.

5. Kageyama is that you?!

6. The sound design and use of silence in this entire scene....incredible, showstopping, amazing, impactful yes yes yes

7. This scene animating Shizu's flashback to childhood was really well done.

It's interesting that in the movie they didn't speak too much about Shizu being transferred from foster home to foster home, or what he had to do to get by. But also, in the manga, I'm pretty sure that they didn't have this scene of a child Shizu closing his hands over "precious stone" but I think it absolutely elevated my connection to Shizu as a character. It really shows that he believes he has been selfishly holding Hiiragi back and that he has been trapping Hiiragi all this time. It gives so much more context to what he did next which if it wasn't clear already, he tried to push Hiiragi away in order to free Hiiragi from him. 8. HOLY SHIT wow goddamn I would not want to live where Akihiko is living oh my 💀💀💀

Watching this scene animated with the noise of the highway really highlights how bad Akihiko's living conditions are. I flagged this because in the Given Manga sequel 10th mix [SPOILER AHEAD], there is this whole thing of Akiharu's disparity with their living conditions so....this is interesting....just putting it out there.....

I also don't remember this scene in the manga, but I really appreciate it, it shows the contrast of Akiharu in the first Given movie vs. this one and how their love and care for each other has evolved! Very cute! I'll make a part 2 soon!

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Do you ever look at your favorites and think these characters have nothing in common? Like nothing??? 

I keep thinking about like my favorite characters over the years and the ones that I keep revisiting. And like they just seem random so I’m bored and doing a poll.

Please don’t be mean or insulting to any of them. This is all in good fun. I also ran out of spaces. So I left people out. 

Which one of these characters seems the most out of place?

Who is the most random in this list of characters?

Jiang Cheng from MZDS

Jin Ling from MZDS

Shang Qinghua/Airplane from Scum Villain

Adam Parrish from the Raven Cycle/Dreamer Trilogy

TK Strand from 9-1-1: Lone Star

Steve Rogers aka Captain America

Ruby from Oshi no Ko

Kent Parson from Check Please

Joe and Nicky from the Old Guard

Haruki from Given

Hiiragi from Given

Yamaguchi from Haikyuu!

Voting ended onJan 28, 2024

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Hiiragi Kashima (8th May)

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[oulkheir]

hi i know i'm late but given's ending feels so painful to read ahhh i can't.

!spoilers!

when i read it first i was surprised to see so many parallels between mafuyuki and uenomafu. imo the links were very well made and as usual kizu made it enjoyable to read!!

as almost all of the chapters of given were moving and emotional, i thought the last one was going to shake me. though it was so simple and relaxing and i think it made me even more nostalgic🥹

i love to see how uenoyama got so comfortable while hanging out with mafuyu as a lover (?!even kissing in public?!) but who was expecting mafuyu's last words? hahahaha! that's what i meant when i talked about parallels, u know this funny moment when yuki asked mafuyu if they could have sex while getting home.

mafuyu also got more confident towards his relationship with uenoyama after they went through a lot. they got closer and that was the funniest/healthiest way to show it <3

i love to see how mafuyu embraces music and is more experienced in this field. he's still friends with ugetsu and that's kind of adorable like?? who would've thought they'd get along even if they're so different? (btw french ugetsu gives me chills)

even kasai got to tell her feelings in the last chapters, though no one expected her to have a moment in this flow of emotions.

the only little disappointment i have is for haruki and akihiko not having much screen time, or no screen time at all. i can't really figure why kizu chose to show more of hiiragi and shizu than haruki and akihiko but i assume it's because she just wanted to not mix everything up so it'd be confusing.

AND AREN'T THEY LOOKING FOR A NEW APARTMENT TOGETHER HERE??

subtle details. we love u kizu. thanks for such an ending.

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Just two besties wearing matching shirts 🖤

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