Broski it's fiction who cares. It's all arbitrary either way, author could've made one of them 6 trillion years old and it would make literally zero difference.
yes fiction can do anything, that does not mean anything fiction do is great, idk you do you I am not judging because at the end of the day who care it is a silly little manga but also people can feel tired of this trope
Like the 800 years old loli, yes it is fiction they can do that, does it make it good ? dunno not for me are any non weeb, I am not even imagining showing maid dragon to a non weeb
And yeah pretty sure toaru is a lot older but at least kobayashi isn't barely a teenager and probably has seem more of what life as to offer and more mistake to do better decsion / chose what is right for her
Now I dropped this a long time ago so no idea where the plot did go
One is stronger, richer, and wants to murder the other.
The other is a gold digger trying to seduce her for her money.
Seems par for the course for an age gap story.
On a rereading its more of a master slave dynamic
I mean yeah it is not out of place does not make it better no ?
It could be worse that for sure, as in male isekai where the ML buy an actual slave teenager
Again I am not raging on it heck one of my favourite GL
My Food Seems to Be Very Cute has multiple age gap, tbf the main duo age gap one of them just sleep it off and did not act / live has long as her age indicate, the other duo is way more limit, so yeah it is more of being tired of it being so prevalent that anything