#haruki x akihiko

[yaoi-islife]

name: GIVEN

[anewdaywilldawn]

🧡✨Given Hugs✨🧡

Words can’t express how much these hugs mean to me.

So tight you feel nothing bad will ever happen to you, a shield against the world.

So meaningful that not even a whole volume could say as much as they do in one frame.

They are regretful and apologetic, thoughtful and caring, envy and pity, sadness and love, embracing and understanding.

[hello0person]

[sheepyboo]

Watched Given and they stole the show

[wolfwoodthekid]

Do you guys think Kizu will announce a sequel? A side story? Do you guys think she’ll come back. Oh, she is will announce another project.

[lekopoofball]

thisis so cool

[miyakuli]

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[lovelinuseu]

Get a room 🍁🌸

[roger-maylor-brian-tay]

Mafuyu has a new hairstyle! 😍 But his old hairstyle is cute too. Ritsuka probably has a new hairstyle too, or maybe it's just the wind blowing his hair and styled it 😁

Akihiko kissing Haruki melted my fozen heart 💕✨

[traineraino]

Obsessed with Haruki and Akihiko ♡

🌸🍂

[soph-yagami]

[thoughtssvt]

given - lost in translation

we know that when the band was just uenoyama, haru and kaji the band was named "the seasons" because they all have the kanjis for the seasons in their names, but here's the breakdown :

uenoyama : 立夏 (rikka - given name) meaning first day of summer

haruki : 中山 (haruki) ; 中 (haru) meaning spring

kaji : 秋彦 (akihiko) ; 秋 (aki) meaning autumn

they could've kept "the seasons" with the inclusion of mafuyu, too, since

真冬 (mafuyu) -> 真 (ma) - true ; 冬 (fuyu) - winter

but did you also know that pain is endless 🥲 because

although yuki's name uses the kanji 由紀 (yu - reason, cause ; ki - chronicle) it is also a homophone for 雪 (yuuki - snow)

so

"just like the snow in the shade that hasn't completely melted, i continue on with these feelings inside me" (first line of fuyunohanashi / a winter story / mafuyu's song)

winter can exist without the snow but snow can't exist without winter ദ്ദി ꒦ິ꒳꒦ິ )

i do not claim to be a translator - lost in translation disclaimer

[anewdaywilldawn]

[magicpotatoobsession]

NEW OFFICIAL ART ALERT

I’d like to think that they all planned to be in neutrals for a photoshoot then ritsuka just about had it with Hiiragi because he came in pastel blue (the calico cat wants to stand out) only for him to then give Hiiragi a free pass seeing that he is just wearing both of the bands’ merch for extra promo 😂😂😂 Ritsu is absolutely thinking “Hiiragi don’t ruin the fucking photo” and there is our cat boi being cheeky with a little RAWR 🐯 Shizu’s and Mafuyu’s little smile like “ah yes we’ve had to deal with years of this behaviour”

It’s canon in my head that Take-chan is just relieved that they are all acting natural and not pissing themselves laughing like their first shoot

This is the design of the shirt Hiiragi is wearing from a previous Kizu official art release

Masterlist of my Given Metas

[i-cant-sleep-thinking-of-bsd]

So, I've recently been attempting to learn Japanese, and one cool detail I noticed that probably everyone else already knows is that in Given, it's decided to change the band's name from "the seasons" to "given". Even tho it is stated that they also wanna change it because loads of other bands have similar names and because it was chosen before Mafuyu had joined, it is mentioned that it was a thing because all Haruki's, Ue's and Kagi's name have an element that references a season. So, Kagi's given name is Akihiko, and "aki" means autumn; Haruki's name has "haru", which means spring; Uenoyama's name means "the first day of summer".

Now, what I find really interesting is that, even tho the decide to change the name partly because Mafuyu wouldn't be included, Mafuyu's name also checks the boxes, since it contains the "fuyu", which means "winter" . So, had they kept the name, not only would they all have checked the "name after a season box", but they all would be representing a different one, and they'd cover all of them.

Again, I'm pretty sure loads of other people had noticed this before and I'm super late, but I thought it was worthy mentioned because I find it funny that they went through all the trouble of finding a new name even tho the one the already had was actually perfectly suited.

[murasaki-cha]

So I just read the last chapter of Given and

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITHOUT MY ONCE EVERY 2 MONTH MENTAL BREAKDOWNS NOW!!?? I've been following Given since my second year of highschool I can't move on it's literally a part of my soul!

I'm gonna be spending the next 5 days listening to Fuyu No Hanashi and Yoru Ga Akeru on loop and cry

Ok ok but that ending

FUCK YEAH!!! UENOYAMA MY BOY YOUR TIME HAS COME!!!

God I hope there's an epilogue with a time skip just to see them again please it's crucial to my mental health and stability