Beautifully put, but these people will never understand. They're so entrenched into their little cultural pockets they don't even realize anything exists outside of it and they believe they have an absolute right over truth and morality.
Find if pretty hilarious to be honest as it's usually the 'woke' US audience that has the biggest issues ignorantly blaming Japan culture. By 'cultural' comparison across Europe, age of sexual consent is on average 14-16 years old. Across the middle east and large chunks of Asia polygamy is still widely practiced. Incestual relationships to maintain 'bloodline purity' have been a core element of ruling dynasties across the whole World until not that long ago. And somewhat hypocritical, child marriage is legal in at least 34 US states (and as young as 12 years old in 4 of those States).
Amen to that. If you can't enjoy a make-belief setting because it's different from your reality, then why bother with fiction?
I mean for crying out loud, one of the most celebrated 'fantasy' romances of all time, Romeo and Juliet wasn't far of this with Romeo being the same age as this MC and Juliet being canonically 13 years old!
I SEE HER BONES FEED THAT GIRL
Was gonna call that out. Shame there's so much focus on the controversial topic. Props to the artist for not making her purely "cute" and actually illustrating what a decade of abuse will do. The Art here which let's be honest is a large part of why we read manga, is being sadly quite overlooked.