Given has always worked by making you sit in the silence between two people before anyone says the honest thing, and then dropping a song on top of it. This is the back half of what Hiiragi Mix set up: Hiiragi Kashima and Shizusumi Yagi pushing syh into existence, Ritsuka Uenoyama pulled into someone else's band, Mafuyu Sato still carrying Yuki's guitar and everything that came with it. The adult thread stays just as brutal, Haruki Nakayama wanting Akihiko Kaji, Akihiko still orbiting Ugetsu Murata's violin like a bad habit he can't name. The music isn't decoration here, it's the confession, which is why the OST does the heavy lifting the dialogue refuses to. If you cried when Mafuyu opened his mouth on that live house stage, you already know what this is going to do to you.

The follow-up to given The Movie: Hiiragi Mix, this 2024 film carries on a drama built around music and romance. In the earlier film, the band Given misses out at a festival audition in Shibuya but still keeps attracting notice. Meanwhile, Mafuyu's childhood friends Shizusumi Yagi and Hiiragi Kashima get ready to launch their own band, syh. Left without a guitarist, Hiiragi asks Ritsuka to play with them at their important performance. To the Sea continues from that point as the next installment of the same story.