Overprotective? Buddy, if this was America most dads would be reaching for their shotguns if their middle school daughter was going out with a boy in college, and not just to scare him either.
I change my mind about this. No amount of gaslighting will convince me that it is the pure love story that I thought it was before I learned about the age gap. But at least the author is aware that this kind of relationship isn't okay, and it seems like Renji kind of fell into this situation by...
When I saw that he was in college, I thought, "Oh, so she must be attending one of those English-language programs that Japanese universities have to attract foreign students, and that's how she's been able to get by living there despite not knowing Japanese!
How naive of me :fml:
Half your age plus seven is just a rule to abide by, but they missed it by three whole years. That's an entire Japanese school level. It's a college student dating a middle schooler. I don't think you understand what the psychological effects of grooming are, so I'd recommend looking into it.
I'd still be a lot more comfortable if it just SAID that she was not 5 years younger. You don't even have to draw her any different. It's not the story it's going to have flash backs of them meeting each other in the past that only the girl remembers which is why she is secretly in love with...
Weird, that 18 kind of looks like a 13 there! It's weird how those numbers look so similar! There's nothing wrong with this story! I just can't read numbers! 😰
If I was Takehashi right there, I would have gotten myself killed immediately. When she said, "Takehashi was with Yayoi last Sunday," my immediate reaction would have been, "But I was with Yayoi last Sunday, and I didn't see the other Takehashi."