Aoi-san wa 16-sai Toshishita.

[MangaDex]

 

[ThePaulBunyanTrophy]

I will not be uploading this title until I have scanlated all the chapters because I am very sure that people will speculate to the completely wrong direction and get all worked up about it, some quite mad, and the others, creepily happy. I understand. But it doesn't go that way. This is a short (130~ pages) single volume tankoubon, and it manages to be very fluffy and cute and not at all where some of the more prurient of you might think/want it to go. As of today (10/17/19), I have scanlated the first 2 chapters out of 8 chapters. 6 remaining one should be done in a couple of weeks.

 

[henkingu]

FBI is confused

 

[tettra]

@ThePaulBunyanTrophy thanks a bunch.
Still only reading 2 chapters so I just still cant believe you to the fullest. But I'll keep reading with "no romance" mindset for now.

 

[mangzom]

The fuck kinda 12 year old looks like that?

 

[chinskiebajki]

This is 100% romance, though.

 

[Kaarme]

Dude left his parents' home to open his own bakery. Didn't he take two cat girls with him?

 

[ThePaulBunyanTrophy]

@hungryzomby

Aoi has a school girl crush that's not reciprocated. That's not romance because there is no progression. The postscript explains it. It's an adult's reaction to innocent cuteness of a kid and a kid's admiration for an adult That's the intent.

 

[kalton]

mr. officer this one right here

 

[Elon-chan]

This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal his is not legal This is not legal This is not legal This is not legal

My peepee is confused.

 

[Jkoplo]

 

[RockoReado]

To make a long story short, the manga ends with a felony.

 

[Nyaaa]

Absolutely, wee woo xD

 

[DVeils]

NOT a romance

Yeah sure

 

[VINT64]

It's like to buy a 5-year bond.
If panya-san will wait until the maturity date (of the bond), he would be repaid in full.
Jokes aside, so far this work is innocent and lighthearted. Nice to read. I would like to see age progression, like, the girl consequently going with her feelings through middle and high school. If, of course, author would be able to pull this out. But if he would be, then I'll be delighted.
Looking forward to
P.S. don't forget to delete 4th ch. uploaded as 3rd

 

[DirkHardpeck]

Ha ha I made an fbi joke please laugh

 

[ThePaulBunyanTrophy]

Following is what I posted on reddit thread about this:

I wasn't sure myself until I translated the postscript. I see this as a pushback against the overt sexualization of young characters in manga. Aside from her physical maturity, there's nothing sexual about Aoi-chan. She's mentally exactly as old as she is, and how she sees her would fits completely within that maturity level. She has a childlike, idealized, and cliched (note all the shoujo manga tropes) view of what romance is, and it's closer to yearning to become adult/admiration for adulthood than romantic love. In the postscript, the author uses the word 憧れ (akogare) which is basically wanting something and admiring it, meaning that Aoi-chan wants to grow up, not necessarily by doing anything adult-like, but just an unspecified, undefined yearning for it. Not much different than wanting to be a mahou shoujo or a masked hero.

I think we as readers are conditioned to expect certain traits from the characters we see, and at least my initial discomfort came from that. Because I brought into this story those baggages, I saw things that were not intended. Reading it more closely (by translating it line by line) made that clear to me. So this title requires a little more investment than some others, I think.

In the MD title page, I was very adamant that this isn't a romance, and I still stand by that. There's certainly no romance from Natsumi, and any such feeling that Aoi-chan might feel is simply an infatuation toward something she doesn't have and doesn't understand, yet.

Sometimes, you have separate what is there and what you've brought in, and see the story for what it is.

In the literary sense, a romance story has two basic component: a central love story between two (or more) characters, and a progression toward an emotionally satisfying ending that consummates the love. This title lacks both.

 

[hiddentheory]

WTF
Where's chapters?

 

[Lymus]

@juicius
if there is a tag war, you can just contact us and we can lock a title so that people can't edit it willy nilly

 

[Hertert]

@ThePaulBunyanTrophy and that's reason enough to remove it? I don't get it to be honest.