BUT he doesn't reflect on himself, so he doesn't understand WHY he wants it so much :
It would finally make him happy too and he wants them to always be together, otherwise he'd feel lonely without him, because he loves Mikey more than anything or anyone else.
These pages exist, and people still deny the fact that Takemichi isn't always aware of what HE really wants. At bonten tl, he had fully established that Mikey's happiness is his priority and that he doesn't want Mikey to be alone,
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(like why is that the only moment when 🌾 finally had enough courage to express himself explicitly and reveal his true feelings ? Why would he think he has a chance at the worst possible moment ? The setup is very weird and suggestive 👁)
I can't be the only one who thought that at that moment in bonten mtk's meeting, when there's a cut and we see his fiancée innocently cleaning his apartment and her necklace breaks, we were about to fully dive into the cheating trope
The crazy thing is that it'll happen again in 278 with that strange scene where they're alone in the room before his wedding while he's adjusting his suit
I suspect that the abuse inflicted in the circus is neither inconsequential cartoony violence nor completely literal to real life experiences but a secret third thing. Can y’all handle that?