
When people say things like "you're throwing your life away", I really want to say "yes, because my ENTIRE LIFE revolves around this one part of many that makes up my social and professional lives. Because this ONE PART doesn't fit with the others, I am automatically sentenced by the universe to death."

After rereading it, I'm finding a lot of inconsistencies. For one, Souya's mother's marriage into the family. Souya mentioned that Kazuki's father married into his mother's family and had to fight tooth and nail to stay. But that his kother wasn't a good person????
So, if Kazuki's father married into the family, then if the mother isn't in the picture anymore, how is he still the head of the family? How did Souya's mother marry into the family when her husband isn't blood related to the family?
Secondly, how far apart in age is Kazuki and his real brother????? They're making it seem like the two are 20 years apart in age or something.

Because he took his wife family name and became part of her family... in some countries you belong to the family you marry and many times is the most powerful family the one you become part... in other words, he doesn't belong to his original family once he married but to his wife family!!!
Because also many cultures men are seen as head of the family and not women, many times a family that only have a daughter marry her to a man to become the head of the family, because a marriage is like an adoption, he became part of the most powerful family and will become the head of the family, so he is still seen as the son of the family after losing his wife!!!
And now, when he marry again his new wife will also belong to the most powerful family including her children, that is why children whose parent who took custody marry again also change their last name...

Maybe it's just me but I feel like his sudden inner struggle came out of nowhere. Sure, his business partners dismissed him when he said he wanted to go out on sales as well but Yoshinaga never really dismissed his intellect. He seemed pretty welcomed to Takao reading the books he had on wine and even asked if he was going to study with him. That's not something someone says to someone else if they were doubting their intellect.

I personally don't find it sudden. It's likely that the tone just changed slightly for this new installation. I think it was appropriate, considering that most relationships, especially the long-standing ones, do come to points like this. It's also probable that Takao's always had this in his subconscious, just now everything's coming to surface when he's met with the adult responsibilities. Hes met with more chances to face himself more. It worsened with how Yoshinaga seems very dedicated to adulting. Yoshinaga unfortunately has always been incapable of really fleshing out the right words for such sensitive times.
Ok, Kaji is way out of character????? Wasn't his entire character based on the fact that he's stone faced???? Why is he smiling at other people who aren't Yura?
character development
Maybe he was talking about yura and thats why smiled ^^
That's exactly what's bothering Yura