It’s Minato who decided to wait. Some people just take real slow to move on, I guess. Naoki probably just wanted to show up as an old friend and had no expectation that Minato still loves him all the same.
I understand waiting for Minato to move on before making a move, but 9 damn years is way too long. Akiyoshi is a coward (which is understandable, though, just stating the fact) if he has never ever at least got his feeling acknowledged by Minato. He was probably scared of ruining their friendship.
Yes, I agree. Nicely put!
I dont think its bad to like someone for 9 years, but i think its pretty retarded to have a mindset *i like this person and i cant like anyone else* that mindset as a single person is quite bad and its how everyone are in mangas, for the purpose of drama, of course.
Also the 9 years thing, i guess that for Naoki to ever have feelings for Minato, Minato had to be an adult first, so It was a good move. Also, if i was im Naoki’s shoes, i would have thought that Minato would fall put of love after a few months max. Now, somehow Naoki didnt come at the coming of age ceremony, BUT after that, Naoki went to Tokyo so Minato probably didnt have a way to get to him even if he wanted to.
I totally agree. Minato chose to wait for Naoki (and that's right, he was really young and with the age gap it's better this way atm). 9 years aren't so long if you consider Minato's age (and the fact that there's an age gap of 15 years). I think Naoki just give time to Minato to live his own youth to the fullest ^.^ and probably he also want resolve his own problem with his memories first (just my opinion, of course ^^).
Yeah see...I'm not unloyal, but ....
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if I have to wait six freaking years and then another three? Hell no. It's time to move on. You have to think about yourself, and it's okay to be a selfish in a relationship you are involved in. He better have a good darn excuse. I honestly would rather ship Minato with the Akiyoshi, but reading other people's comments makes me sad.
Edit: I guess it's true that Akiyoshi had nine years to make a move, but maybe he saw Minato wasn't ready to move on or something? If he did have something to do with Naoki not showing up...well, it's still not a good excuse for waiting all those years. Maybe Minato is better off loving only himself lol