Given

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From SuBLime:
Ritsuka Uenoyama is bored with it all - with school, with his basketball club, and even with his one true passion: playing guitar. That is until the day he finds his favorite hidden napping spot occupied by a strange boy cradling a broken-stringed guitar. At first, Uenoyama is nonplussed by Mafuyu Sato and his slightly odd behavior, but when, on a whim, he asks Mafuyu to sing, the power of that song pierces him to the core.

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English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese
Spanish: Mexico, Spain

Type

Manga

Related Series

Given: 10th Mix (Sequel)

Associated Names

GIVEN被贈與的未來

Дарованный

ぎう゛ん

ギヴン

吉缘

기븐

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Latest Release(s)

v.9 c.51 (end) by Spring Turtle Scans 2 years ago

v.9 c.50 by Spring Turtle Scans 2 years ago

v.9 c.49 by Spring Turtle Scans 2 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

9 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (TV) / Vol 4, Chap 17 (Movie)

Ends at Vol 3, Chap 16 (TV) Vol 5, Chap 28 (Movie)

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Forum

1 topics, 1 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.5 / 10.0 (278 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.29 / 10.0

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Last Updated

August 19th, 2024 10:53am PDT - 8 months ago

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Genre

Comedy Drama Mature Romance Shounen Ai
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

KIZU Natsuki

Artist(s)

KIZU Natsuki

Year

2013

Original Publisher

Shinshokan

Serialized In (magazine)

Cheri + (Shinshokan)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Sublime (9 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #726

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Monthly Pos #1382

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3 Month Pos #1887

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6 Month Pos #2251

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Year Pos #2186

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List Stats

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On 542 wish lists

On 275 completed lists

On 46 unfinished lists

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5 years ago

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A Story About Recovering From Grief

by CCheshire
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

As much as I like BL genre it's full of extreme melodrama and bizarre plot tropes so I wasn't certain how the story would work out but no regrets. There are many stories that deal with the deal of a LI but few that capture the feeling of loss and moving on from the event as well as Given. I like how there's more than romance though as it's about the band's struggles and achievements.

Art is simple and clean which translated well into the anime which is faithful to the original. Although I'm not that into music but I was moved by the lyrics and unique piece composed by the characters. There's less drama for the main couple vs the side couple which is nice for a change of pace. Some people may dislike the slow pace but it felt realistic and characters didn't spend 20 vol debating if they really liked someone.

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Omfg I am bawling

by Cocoabean
5 years ago

Rating: N/A

I love this manga so much but I can’t read it without almost crying because Yuki really was Mafuyu’s soulmate and it’s so heartbreaking🙁 it’s still really nice to see a story that talks about moving on like that at such a young age but wow.
And even though Mafuyu says he loves Ue now and Ue is also experiencing his first love idk, I just feel like Mafuyu can’t actually get over such a deep love that quickly(hasn’t it been less than a year? And it was only around 6 months when he met Ue? Compared to the 10ish years with Yuki). Their story is so so so so so soooooo deep compared to the other couples in the manga, and I can’t read it without thinking about YUKI AND WISHING HE WERE ALIVE UGH. not fair

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Made me cry

by alice00
6 years ago

Rating: N/A

I love the story so much!

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A keeper

by Kurarara
9 years ago

Rating: N/A

This one is a keeper. I really wish the scanlations were faster, but I am pretty sure they're doing their very best.
I can feel the emotions of the characters, and it had left me with a lot of feels.
This mangaka did a lot of Haikyuu!! dj's BTW. Check them out.

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Cute!

by Piarara
6 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

I read until chapter 29 far. It’s a cute story indeed but I kinda don’t sympathize with Mafuyu and Ritsuka so far. I like all the other characters a lot tho, especially Kaji and Ugetsu. Maybe the story isn’t anything new or special but what I really enjoy about this is Manga are the jokes that randomly appear. It made me laugh out loud a few times even when I was on the train.

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don't read this manga it's a waste of money and time

by MetalRose
2 years ago

Rating: N/A

Given manga ended and Uenoyama got nothing at the end 🤣 he wasn't even in kizu's radar for writing let it be known that she hated him so much that everybody in that manga got an arc and the spotlight except him because she didn't want him to overshadow her favorite character yuki yoshida she knew everyone would start to dislike him if Uenoyama was shown more but she didn't want that and let him be a stepping stone for everyone until the end and Mafuyama should've have broken up at least until Mafuyu decided he was ready to forget about his abusive ex dead boyfriend, Kizu didn't want to let yuki go because the last arc could've been more about mafuyu's trauma and Uenoyama career's life choices instead of making it again about the dead boyfriend, the manga had so much potential because it had great topics to chose about, like music, first love, coming of age, grief, depression and healing but instead to explore that Kizu decided it was good to use the main character as a therapist and stepping stone, making him fix everyone and be the shadow of an abusive man, because she realized that the fans don't care about Uenoyama, she truly hated him until the very end just like the fandom. I really wish I could snatch him from this ugly story😐 and now they are doing a movie about a side character instead of him lmaoo like it couldn't be more obvious how none cares about his character at all.

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Love, but still hate

by rukiamara
3 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

I really love this story, each couple is just perfect❤️ but I truly, deeply hate Yuki and Ugetsu, gosh, they were/are such manipulators and egoists... I hope Ugetsu won't piss me off again😒
And ending...yes...I'm disappointed...it seems very rushed, like the author forgot what this story was about...not enough panels of each couple...yeah...I expected something more

... Last updated 2 years ago

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Nice but nothing new

by yashihirou
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I always love Gusari works esp oiwa and kurobas dj, when I read her original character manga I was excited. The music is brought to life in the anime, so... I enjoy the anime more. But sensei way of telling stories are what makes it beautiful. And I love her art too.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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good if you can relate

by expectator
6 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

I'm writing this again so I just will make a short commentary.
It has some flaws but I could find myself in the same predicament as some of the characters and cry with them. Don't get your hopes up with the main couple as I think their relationship was the least memorable but I love mostly everything else. Overall a good read.

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Okay but just okay

by jufociden
6 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

This is a very meh manga overall. I started reading it because I'm a BL fan and enjoy stories about bands, but it's nothing special.

The main problem is that the main couple has no chemistry. Zero. The love story isn't very convincing and well, it's a BL, so that's a huge flaw. Uenoyama, the main character, is a good character, but his love interest, Mafuyu, is incredible bland and boring and a very generic character. You have seen that same archetype dozens of times.

On the other hand Haruki and Kaji, the secondary couple, were charming and fun characters and had an interesting relationship and struggles, I actually enjoyed their scenes, buuuuut then it went into a non con direction giving me a very sour taste. It's a shame. It gets better, but it's hard to ignore some of their previous problematic scenes.

The art and character designs are pretty generic too. It's not like it's bad, far from it, but it's very soulless. I have seen dozens of BL manga with this same art style. If you don't mind generic art styles, then it's good. But I like art to have a little more punch and meaning to it.

That being said, the scenes revolving around the band and music are good and compelling. But when the best thing about a BL manga is the band plot, something is failing for sure. It's aan okay read but there are better things to read.

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