Creating an irresolute character might be one of the greastest challenges a writer can set upon themselves. Its tempting to just blame everything on the characters inability to act reasonably frankly its easy enough to do so with any kind of character and as it is too easy to derail the entire thing. At the end though Tetsuo was fleshed out enough that his aspirations demeanor and incoherent actions could be taken seriously. His impotence before his own art his incompetence at connecting with others his unaware selfishness and immaturity before everything all amounted to him as a character if it amounted to him as a person though its another story altogether. The only thing that felt out of place were his daddy issues brought up literally two times as if they were a big thing but entirely forgotten otherwise. I wouldnt say it was anything remarkable as a characterdriven story but everything was in its right place for it to work. I just wish I could say the same about Akira though. She was nice real nice I like her but I felt like her whole aspiration in the story was to love tetsuo and...not much else. The nottetsuocentred insights she had were too brief to grasp anything concrete about herself and I left her as if she were still a stranger. Even the fact that she apparently wrote articles for an art magazine which was something I was genuinely interested to hear about was mentioned once and never brought up again. I mean its a love story. Its supposed to have at least two protagonists so its kinda sad when only one of them remains in the spotlight while the other is allowed only to watch from afar. I get that her role was supposed to be that of an observer but its still not reason enough to suppress any character traits she might possess. All in all it was a fun read though its not something I wish to come back to. The art was messy sometimes but mostly agreeable but it doesnt stand up to other romance manga.