You got a point, but you need to open up your mind to what a pedo actually is. They are predators that lust over young naive and powerless kids. Its not just about age gaps or when one of the other is underaged. The author did not write a story of a pedo to loli, he wrote a story about someone who feel for someone that was young and he waited too late but gained another chance to get her albeit closing to the end of his life span. But indeed, it would have been safer and preferable if the author did not push the flashbacks so far back.The romantic scenes of him remembering her when they were younger, him being in his twenties and her a young teen, are gross. Why the author insists on making the relationship go back that far is beyond me. Her being in her twenties would have been fine. All of the cute scenes are ruined whenever it's brought up
100%, i read a few chapters and was weirded out but i thought, surely he started liking her later on at like 25 and 35 right? but no.. 16 and 20 is already sketchy for me but something like 16 and 26 is considering very creepy and illegal in many places lol this manga is so unrealistic but it didn't have to be.. for a similar love-at-an-older-age kind of manga, i recommend Sanju MarikoI really love the idea of the manga but the pedophilia couldn't be over looked. When they met she was sixteen and he was twenty-six and her tutor. He was attracted to her light-hearted and encouraging personality, but she's sixteen, naive, and a kid that he was tutoring. I think he's more attracted to her clueless-ness and/or innocence because after three decades she doesn't pick up on his innuendos and doesn't hold herself like how a women who lived through a marriage and divorce should (which I expect to be mature, self-assuring, or at least knowledgeable). Instead her reactions and personality is reminiscent of her teenage self. It's as if she hasn't change in those three decades, which I find bland.
this manga had a lot of potential to be a slow-burn with intriguing conflicts because of their age gap and romance starting at an older age after experiencing life in their youth, but it didn't and problematically had their romance start at inappropriate ages.
I could go on complaining, and now have motivation to rewrite the entire story as a result.