This may have single-handedly changed my life.
The first time I read this manga, there was this weird resonance between me and everything mori did, the more I read the more I felt similar, it felt as if I had found a mirror and it was staring at me, and that first read was incredible, I don't have words to describe what I felt. in my life I've always been partially mentally not present with people, but this was one of the few things I was truly present for. However, when I went in for a second read, it was different., I started my 2nd read after a big gap between my firsts, and in that gap, a lohappened. I started climbing again, and just started being okay with being alone. When I started my 2nd read, it felt really beyond measure. I'd see the mountains, I could feel the cold. I felt as if I was there with Mori, both of us blind to each other, yet we felt the same. During this time, I suddenly remembered, ever since I was a kid, I had a dream where I was buried in snow, and when I saw myself mori completely engulfed in snow in that one chapter, my eyes widened. I felt alive. I felt seen.
I could talk so much more about this. This manga fundamentally changed me as a person.
To me, this is the greatest manga ever written.