Amai-san wa Tsumetakute Amai - Ch. 17

[MonsieurQuack]

And is no-one else going to comment on the maid otaku giving the thumbs up?!

 

[wallsg]

Doesn’t class 1-2 mean she’s like 15-16?

I thought she was closer to 18 so this wouldn’t be weird 🤦‍♂️

No bueno

That hit me too. I think this the first time her grade has been mentioned. I was assuming she was a Third Year. She is indeed 15 or 16. Japan is fairly strict on your age starting at Elementary School Grade 1.

Assuming normal progression:

High School Year	Age at End of Year
1	16
2	17
3	18

(I don't know how to resize this table...)

 

[wallsg]

Coffee, tea, or Wa-ta-shi?

 

[wallsg]

In the US (which I know thanks to one of the Transformers movies having an incredibly cringe-inducing scene where they literally grind the plot of the movie to a halt to discuss this very issue) I believe that it's OK if the age gap is relatively small (like less than 5 years), and the relationship started when both parties were minors (under 18) and therefore it wouldn't have been potentially illegal.

So that wouldn't work in the case of these two. But I'm OK with that because it's a manga and Amai is adorable around him.

Age-gap Safe Harbors vary by state in the US, as well as age of consent. Pretty complicated. This is an interesting table.

Ages of consent in the United States (wikipedia)

The lowest "unrestricted" age of consent is 16 in 18 states, 17 in 5 states, 18 in 27 states including DC, and 21 in the State of Washington. Washington and several other states have lower (16 or 17) ages if there is not an Authority conflict, and it is as young as 13 based on age gap (Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Tennessee).

Get this from the History part of that Wikipedia page:

While the unrestricted age of consent is between 16 and 18 in all U.S. states, the laws have widely varied across the country in the past. In 1880, the ages of consent were set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7.[104] The ages of consent were raised across the U.S. during the late 19th century and the early 20th century.[105][106] By 1920, 26 states had an age of consent at 16, 21 states had an age of consent at 18, and one state (Georgia) had an age of consent at 14.[104] Small adjustments to these laws occurred after 1920. The last two states to raise their age of general consent from under 16 to 16 or higher were Georgia, which raised the age of consent from 14 to 16 in 1995,[107] and Hawaii, which changed it from 14 to 16 in 2001.[108]

Age-of-consent laws historically only applied when a female was younger than her male partner. By 2015 ages of consent were gender independent.[108] Until the late 20th century many states had provisions requiring that the teenage girl must be of "chaste character" in order for the sexual conduct to be considered criminal. In 1998 Mississippi became the last state to remove the chastity provision from its code.[109]

 

[wallsg]

So let's be real, at youngest he could be 17 in first year of uni so i don't really see any such problem when ya use real world logic. Like a 3 year gap is fuck all, specially considering it might not even be that much.

Based on Japan's age-to-year rules he would have been pretty much guaranteed (assuming he's a normal Japanese) to graduate high school no earlier than age 18.

Table here:
https://www.realestate-tokyo.com/living-in-tokyo/education/school-grades-ages/

 

[Jakeh24]

Based on Japan's age-to-year rules he would have been pretty much guaranteed (assuming he's a normal Japanese) to graduate high school no earlier than age 18.

Table here:
https://www.realestate-tokyo.com/living-in-tokyo/education/school-grades-ages/

Yeah totally get that, however as someone who themselves was 17 when accepted tk uni and left school, it's totally possible. If ya born right at the cut off it's possible to be almost a year younger than some classmates, I have some that have their bdays a month after mine. Say I turn 17, they wpuld turn 18 a week later. Yet we are same school year 😤

 

[wallsg]

Yeah totally get that, however as someone who themselves was 17 when accepted tk uni and left school, it's totally possible. If ya born right at the cut off it's possible to be almost a year younger than some classmates, I have some that have their bdays a month after mine. Say I turn 17, they wpuld turn 18 a week later. Yet we are same school year 😤

I'm in the US and my birthday is in July. I graduated high school in May at 17 and only turned 18 nearly two months later. If I had been born in September I would have been 18 almost my entire senior year.

 

[Scipo0419]

One of my three top tier manga is a boy-meets-girl involving a middle schooler and a 30-40 year old woman that's as socially stunted as he is.

I can never remember the name of that one, but it's definitely a top tier manga.

 

[draxdeveloper]

So... Unless he have, don't know, 18 I probably will drop this one. Anyone knows his age?

 

[draxdeveloper]

He's 19-20. Not odd at all.

We don't know for sure

 

[ivv]

The color is fantastic!
her face was red down to her neck! She was really embarrassed being so cute does she.