Makita reminds me of my own dad sometimes. Whatever I was interested in as a kid, if it was something we couldn't afford it would be made with his own hands. A wooden moon prism, a wooden bow (and arrows!), one time he'd carved out a lovecraftian symbol on bovine bone for me. And when I started watching anime religiously he'd made sushi rolls at home - they were huge
This care also extends to his students, as dad lives at work, only visiting for weekends because students live there too and oftentimes prefer to come to him for advice rather than their parents or other teachers.
Even though I'm already nearing 30s, he still makes little wooden netsuke for me that I carry around as good luck charms and gifted me an ostrich egg for birthday this year.
It's so heartwarming to see a character so similar to him when in a lot of media dads are usually kinda terrible -_-