“冬のはなし” (Fuyu no Hanashi, Winter’s Story) is the insert track performed by the band The Seasons (Later renamed to Given) in episode 9 of the anime adaptation of Kizu Natsuki’s manga Given.
The song started out as a vocal melody Mafuyu had invented. A year later, he meets Ritsuka, who is completely shaken once he heard Mafuyu sing it, asking him to be the vocalist for his band. Ritsuka composes a guitar riff for the track and now it was up to Mafuyu to complete the lyrics.
Mafuyu was dealing...