Hiroaki continues to drink constantly so he could stop feeling so much guilt. Instead, it only made him fantasize times where he could be happy with them. No killing game, no deaths.
Ojima spaces out a lot more in his room, trying his best to move on.
Hiroaki has nightmares of Wada being all happy, then dying right in front of him. Ojima has to comfort Hiroaki afterwards.
Tamba has times where she cried to her girlfriend about the incident, but doesn't mention the exact context of it or how she's close with Masa.
Yanagi tries to forget about the whole thing to cope, but any times he relaxes, memories of Masa will come flooding back again.
None of the survivors could find Masa's grave, and no one dared to. Being filled with too much grief and guilt.
Only Masa's fans and the people they worked with had visited their grave, being the only ones to leave flowers and gifts. Even if no one personally knew them.
Hiroaki's the only one who imagined Masami. A life if Masa could be happy.
Yanagi gets uncomfortable when he's gifted a white lily.
Tamba had planned to reach out to the other survivors, just a simple, 'hey', on the exact day where Masa was found dead. After she found out, she immediately changed her mind.
One of Ojima's brothers adopted a cute puppy and named it 'Wada', simply because the name is popular and easy to remember. Because of that, Ojima can't help but call the puppy by something a bit different.
Yanagi still regrets not keeping his promise during the time they met the Blue survivors.
Yanagi's grief of Masa's death started with distress, but now it's slowly starting to feel different. Not total peace or happiness, something more in the middle. He's still deeply upset about Masa's death, but all of his energy with it has already been used up months ago. He's tired, but doesn't exactly feel hope either.
Tamba is the one to move on from Wada's death a little quicker than the others, being the one who's the least closest to them after all. However, she is also the one who is the most sensitive about it.
OK OK SOOO I honestly don't know much about Kazuya's or Fuyuki's characters, like really paid all that attention to it, I just skimmed the voice lines a bit and saw some official arts. As well as some other facts about them, I think? Buuut
I remember one of the creators stating that Kazuya's personal are obviously not excusable, but he isn't exactly a bad person, nor is he a good person. I think that's really interesting. I feel like Kazuya's probably someone who was raised very Christianly, forced to know which was right or wrong, therefore he grew up to learn that way. That doesn't mean that he's a totally good person though, because I believe that even with the knowledge of knowing how bad it is, he continues to act the same way he did. A truly cocky person who thinks highly of himself, but still feels sympathetic for people in a way, due to putting himself first so constantly. Maybe like his whole secret is guilt. Maybe because of his arrogance, he never made a real friend, since he never tried to.
Fuyuki sounds like the complete opposite of Kazuya. Just someone who gets bullied by people a lot and resents them for it. I don't have that much thoughts for him, as much as Kazuya's. However, I do think that the reason why he learns to love Kazuya is because of how much braver he is than him, even with his scumbag personality.
Fuyuki seems like someone who falls for nice things pretty quickly, like give him one single praise and he'll fall for it. Kazuya seems like the guy who'll do that sort of thing, but in a sarcastic manner, this can be seen in the 'who's the most attractive guy' post on the official twitter. I have a feeling that Kazuya slowly starts to like Fuyuki as a friend, someone who doesn't understandably lash out at him. So he starts to feel very happy about that, having a real friend.
For Fuyuki's case, he sees Kazuya much more as a friend, obviously. Just the amount of bravery, and the fact that someone genuinely wants to hangout with him, would probably make him very happy. It doesn't take a lot for someone to fall in love, just something that the person has never received before.
I think that when Kazuya starts to realize this, or if Fuyuki somehow confesses, he'll be disgusted. Being homophobic and all, but I feel like he'll also gain an amount of heavy guilt or awkwardness too. This can be seen in one of the official arts, where both of Fuyuki's and Kazuya's picture fit together, however Kazuya just looks grossed out. However, he isn't angry. Why? Besides that it could just be the art style, it's really surprising to me that Kazuya isn't like straight up pissed. Like any other stereotypical misogynist, homophobic guy. Fuyuki's probably going to be one of his closest friend throughout the entire game, cause no one likes assholes, so I think that the whole guilt thing plays into that. He can't just cut off their friendship or anything, otherwise he'll be all alone again. Like some homeless, drunk guy yelling at people walking by. He feels too attached to Fuyuki, but not enough to not be disgusted by him.
I have a feeling that Kazuya surprisingly just lets Fuyuki feel the same way, not wanting to ruin their close friendship. My reason for this is the puzzle artwork again.
Looking closely, they both look awkward, however Kazuya looks the most uncomfortable. Fuyuki is more flustered. I see it as if he's waiting for something, like for Kazuya to make a move or something. Not being aware that Kazuya doesn't intend to do any of that in the slightest. In a way, it actually looks like Kazuya's scared, like he's grossed out but still doesn't want to let Fuyuki go. Even if he's hurting Fuyuki in the process, just for the sake of saving himself, he'll do anything. I think it really shows how selfish he is.
Fuyuki doesn't really look like he's all that aware of it, like he's just flustered and confused. Waiting.
Another thing I'd like to note is that Kazuya is actually leaning away from Fuyuki a lot more than whatever Fuyuki's doing. Maybe I'm just looking at the details wayyy too much, but I think it really confirms a one-sided relationship in a way.
Other than his awkward and insecure personality, Wada's a really emotionally strong person. He never got truly mad, which really shows what type of person he is. He's known to grieve in a respectful way, instead of choosing anger to show his feelings, and I think it's really admirable. He isn't as weak, shy, or stupid as the majority of others would assume he would be, he was just himself. Even in staffside, when it comments about Wada and why he did what he did, he never blamed his friends. Rather, himself. I think if someone encouraged him how to be stronger earlier in the episodes, when he had no one, he might've been alive. After all, if he was just a little bit more confident, if he didn't worry about the Hiroaki or Yanagi being disappointed in him, I think he might've answered one of their calls.
In chapter 5, I don't think anyone really understood Wada all that much too. In my opinion, I think to really be a friend of someone, you should at least make sure they're doing okay. But if they're not, would you really not do anything about it? Are you really not able to care about another person, other than yourself or your close one? Even Yanagi, who said he was going to care for Wada, ended up forgetting about the whole thing. (Confirmed canon). Hiroaki himself commented on Wada's state, only when they had an argument or in the trial. I saw the chapter 5 cast as bystanders when it came to Wada, I think that's why I don't really favor them as much. I wasn't angry or anything, just disappointed. But I can understand their perspective too, because of the amount of stress they were in.
From both the beginning and the end of life, Wada was alone.
I think after his death, in staffside, was when I really hated the writing. There was absolutely no hints, no sort of anything that would've shown that he would've transfem. I guess the closet thing is that he liked slight feminine things? Either way, the representation sucked. Like the creator just dropped it in there in staffside. I like Masami a lot, but I really wished she would've been represented better.
It's been awhile since I've watched Tetro, so this is just what I remembered from the time when I was watching it, which was a few months ago.
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