15 Agonizing Quotes from Given

Given isn’t your typical romance story with a cliche plot and a predictable back story. It’s about healing and discovering yourself, along with an overwhelming ending, and it all began on a certain summer night.

Mafuyu and Yuki had been childhood friends, but the formation of a band by Yuki and Mafuyu’s seclusion, along with assumed communication issues, led to a huge fight. These were Mafuyu’s last words to Yuki.

Uenoyama had been confused about his feelings for Mafuyu, but he had eventually Mafuyu, with all his dorkiness and lost eyes, was the one for him.

You handle a guitar’s strings with care. You tighten them to keep the tunes together, but once they’re pulled too hard, they snap. You tend to the heart similarly, or it because if played with continuously, it might break too.

Yuki’s mother had gifted his guitar to Mafuyu after her son passed away. To Mafuyu, that guitar was a constant reminder of what they had and how it was destroyed, but it was also the only thing left of Yuki he had.

Yuki had saved Mafuyu from his father and had stuck by his side forever. His absence had not only left Mafuyu confused and hollow, but it also restricted him from showing his emotions.

Uenoyama understood the fact that Yuki had been everything to Mafuyu, and the grief he held inside him was almost unbearable to look at. But he only wished that someday, Mafuyu would come to love him too (and maybe write the next song about him?).

Yuki had become such an indomitable part of Mafuyu that even after he was gone, he saw him everywhere. He couldn’t forgive Yuki for isolating him, and he couldn’t even dream about forgiving himself for what he said, but that didn’t erase the fact that Mafuyu loved Yuki. He still did.

Akihiko and Ugetsu did love each other, but their love was tearing Akihiko’s dreams apart, who had stopped playing the violin. He loved Ugetsu’s music and his very presence, but the closer he got to him, the more he hated his incompetence.

While it’s essentially a hyperbole, it’s one way of saying that one accepts their circumstances, no matter how inconvenient they seem.

Mafuyu was starting to have fun again, and Uenoyama and the band had played a big part in it. But Yuki had not only been Mafuyu’s lover, he was also the boy who saved him. They had been childhood friends, and even though he was starting to find himself again, Mafuyu’s heart still longed for Yuki’s presence.

Haruki had been in love with Akihiko, and the latter was well aware of this fact. But Akihiko and Ugetsu’s complex relationship wasn’t only wrecking themselves; it was also pulling Haruki into its storm and hurting him.

Ugetsu’s emotions were reflected in the music he played. They were overwhelmingly apprehending, and the fact that his chords were the reason Akihiko started hating music was unbearable to him.

Akihiko loved Ugetsu enough to hate the music he created, and Ugetsu loved music more than Akihiko. They were both hurting each other while they were together, so Ugetsu had no choice but to free both himself and Akihiko from this toxic relationship.

Composing the song for their first stage appearance not only helped Mafuyu in coming to terms with his feelings, it also acted as a channel to let go of everything he had been holding within.