One thing that resonates with me is that how everyone seems to treat nagumo as disposable and a burden when they're the ones that drove him out. His parents rejected his love for sweets, his girlfriend walked out on him, and his workplace (the wagashiya) threw him out. And now when its convenient, when Itsuka needs a father figure and the shop needs some extra hands and kanoko needs someone to talk to when she stops by, suddenly he's wanted. Sickens me tbh. Itsuka, the bandmates, and the other apprentice girl are innocent but this is some ass backwards treatment of a man who just wanted a place to belong.