Up until this point, I've been acclimated to the slow burn, will they won't they genre of romance, and it's been nice, but it has gotten me used to crushes treated as a unwatched pot of water. The moment it spills out onto the stove and is overflowing with pure love, you realise how long it's been boiling inside of you, and now you cannot contain it.

In the case of やがて君になる、there are two concepts that get explored thoroughly, identity and love. Identity is what defines all of our actions, and love is the action we take in response to another's identity. Yuu struggles with trying to understand what love means, but love isn't a thread placed down by the heavens above. Love is created by ourselves, and it's the actions we take that push us closer to others. Touko struggles with a loss of identity, feeling like she's nothing without her masks, and the only honesty she can find is to become those masks.

I think that this manga is pretty amazing. Not everything is perfect, but the imperfections are so outweighed by everything else, and that's 10/10 for me. Characters who maybe don't stay true to themselves, but they stay true to each other.

There's a selfish part of me that would've hoped that the manga ended in a tragedy repeating past history, forcing characters to fight on for their predecessors, but I'm much more content with the ending given.

One of the things I really liked was that for the most part, there wasn't crushing -- instead, it started out as a complicated, nebulous relationship that refused to be defined. It showed that sometimes, love does not have to be perfectly reciprocal. Sometimes we let others love, because we don't know what we ourselves truly want.

Here, the interpretation of love is a very raw and intimate one. It can be physical, it can be one way, it can be passive, it can be quiet, but as we grow and change, we don't have to worry about our love waning, becuase love isn't static. Love changes on its own as well, and sometimes it just takes breaking a promise for a waterfall to burst. Even if we try as hard as we can, we can't help but fall for the people that we told we wouldn't do it for, because that's the flaws in our soul.

If you want a personal recommendation, then please read this story while listening to 80s Cantopop, it gets me in the mood incredibly so. Bye! From here on are just some scratch notes I took while reading: