GAKU MANABE
He is fascinated by kissing, sex, rumors and whatever piece of supposed adult knowledge is circulating among the class that day. His confidence routinely exceeds his understanding, which makes him a good fit for a series full of children trying to interpret adulthood from fragments.
Gaku is usually paired with Masashi along the riverbank or at school, commenting on Naota's increasingly impossible life without ever receiving enough information to understand what is actually happening.
He does not need a larger arc. Gaku helps establish the ordinary twelve-year-old world Naota keeps insisting he has already outgrown.
GAKU THROUGH THE ARCHIVE //
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