#AAAAAAAAAAAAAHW Mitsuya's profile is always spectacular.

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𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐲𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 | 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟑𝟗

Tɑkɑshi Mitsuyɑ & Drɑken friendship (pt.2)

- my analysis -

This new chapter has divided me in half, because I'm not sure I understand where Wakui is taking Mitsuya's character now, but my mind hasn't changed since the previous post. Draken and Mitsuya have the most beautiful friendship; so deep, so unique, so painful now. Sorry, I know so few people who follow the manga that I have to use tumblr as my personal diary.

The tribute to Draken was awesome.

The clothes and their fabrics, the colour association, the story of the two dragons....it was all so beautiful. I hadn't seen any spoilers before the chapter came out and when I saw this scene I cried. Everything was studied down to the smallest detail, from the models who looked like Draken and Takashi to the meanings of the related words. The white dragon seeking fame to the sky and the black dragon falling to earth in search of love. I think the meaning was double, because the white one searching for fame should be Mitsuya but in reality emotionally he is the black one. While, the black one who has fallen and can no longer shine is Draken but paradoxically he is freer than Takashi who struggles with himself. Takashi saw in Draken a point of reference, he would follow him anywhere and this has not changed, like the yin that cannot exist without the yang, one part of Takashi cannot exist without the other half. Takashi preferred to follow Draken's last wish, not the one told to him but Draken's own wish: to continue in the gang world for Mikey. 

Wakui has always had a talent, drawing emotions on his characters and Mitsuya in this chapter is a great example of the painful decision he made at the end. 

It had been said, Mitsuya doesn't like competitions and awards but he could have accepted the award and helped Takemichi anyway. But, Takashi has always had a great quality (or defect, depending on your point of view) of wanting to help and put others first before himself. It was a foregone conclusion that he would help Takemichi, but that doesn't justify refusing the award. 

The judge who yelled at him angrily was right: Takashi is ruining his future with that decision. Yes, talent is not conditioned by an award but his irreverent approach to such an important event will taint him for life. If at first I didn't understand such a choice of Wakui, reading the chapter again I got a different idea.

Takashi is aware of the consequences.

This panel expresses that.

Takashi knows this but has agreed to ruin everything in him life in order to confront Mikey and in a way do justice to Draken. In the second half of the chapter he changed his attitude, it was as if Takashi was no longer Takashi. The rejection and the apology bow were still his but the next sentences, that way of smiling, that way of talking didn't belong to his character but to the friend who is no longer there. 

Takashi reminded me of Draken in the ending.

Offending a public event so blatantly...no, it wasn't him.  Takashi went back to hiding behind his cheeky smile, I think the insult to the award was to convince himself that he wasn't making a mistake going down that road. Because he has always been divided between two realities, the delinquent one and the "good" one in which with his forces alone he could have obtained a lot of success. Takashi wanted to eliminate that dividing line by suppressing himself for a friendship that changed his life. He insults the world that would have welcomed him as a successful designer for not rejecting his second family, the gang guys. He insults the jury to make his choice less painful, a way to follow Draken as he always wanted to do.

But at the end of it all, Takemichi realized something that Draken had realized many years before: Mitsuya does not belong in the world of dilenquents, and I am now afraid.

Wakui I know you're going there.

Please don't kill him.

Tɑkɑshi Mitsuyɑ & Drɑken friendship (pt.1)