I’m so ready for Wakui to debunk what I’ve written out because next chapter of GL will just be Shin’s backstory lol.
It’s neat that Grandpa Sano and Mikey have the same kanji for their names.
Sano Mansaku: 佐野万作
Sano Manjiro: 佐野万次郎
Sort of makes sense in a way because Mikey’s more attuned to martial arts, like his grandfather. If that hints on anything between their relationship at all.
Oof it didn’t really hit me until you brought up that Makoto could’ve cheated on Sakurako between conceiving Mikey and her illness/death… (The small age gap between Mikey and Emma makes this really plausible.) Yeah, from Wakui’s offhand remark about Makoto, I’m leaning towards the cheating theory too tbh.
This would most certainly have affected Shinichiro. We don’t know how expressive / non-expressive Makoto was to gage the level of influence he had, but regardless Shinichiro having daddy issues is entirely natural and really interesting to explore! You’re right, he could’ve picked up his Casanova traits from his dad
About their names—Shinichiro (真一郎) literally translates to ‘Makoto[‘s] First Son’. Sure, it’s kinda traditional naming custom but it made me wonder if perhaps Makoto was especially proud of Shinichiro when he was born, and therefore named him as such. Would this be another layer to Shinichiro’s relationship to his dad?
