The most unique part of this relationship is that there is a very significant age gap and that the way these characters met involved 1 character going through various stages of early mental development/maturity while the other character witnessed this growth but goes through completely different life stages. IMO the author glosses over the difficulty that

wholesome, that my hopeless romantic heart can not handle. And the other best character is the femboy. The art is very adorable, and cute as well, and I like how they put some depth into the characters, and the reasoning as the male lead loves her is very sweet. And I think the sexy boss lady is pretty cool too. COVER Corporation Announces hololive English VTuber Gawr Gura Collaboration with Sendai Umino-Mori AquariumThe final few volumes introduce a love triangle that adds some much needed drama to the work. While i wont spoil it here, what starts out feeling forced or shoehorned in and out of character eventually culminates into one of the most satisfying “confession” chapters i’ve read in quite some time, which retroactively reveals all of the players here were actually following their hearts and true to their characterizations. Its quite cathartic, and elevates the entire work from the genericness it had been suffering from. Hollywood Pudgy: Ayako invokes this in one of her attempts to dissuade Takkun, showing him how "flabby" she's gotten since she was younger (read: her belly is just a tiny bit softer than it used to be). Like all her Please Dump Me attempts, it doesn't work. Sexy Santa Dress: In Chapter 9, Takkun has a fever dream of Ayako wearing one, based on a childhood experience when she accidently bought one instead of a traditional Santa outfit.

I could write a lot more but all in all, this story falls flat. There is no depth in either the characters or the story and all potential material to provide depth has already been written over with cupcakes and rainbows. All of the interactions instead feel forced and extremely uncomfortable. The only excuse you can make for all of these flaws is... because such a relationship based on realism would be quite unhealthy and toxic otherwise. Therefore the only possible way to write such a story is to gloss over all potential problems to create the most nonsensical and self-gratifying fantasy.The manga adaptation of the light novel: with art by Tesshin Azuma. It was serialised in Hakusensha's Manga Park and released under their Young Animal Comics imprint from May 2021. Story is about thirty-something woman that raised her sister's daughter after her sister and sister's husband died in an accident. It is standard story - serious, gorgeous looking woman devotes her twenties to raising a kid and have a good career and thus misses on her romantic life. And when her nephew comes of age she sees her in relation with the neighbor, [as it was supposed to be otherwise] good looking early twenty member of swimming team (did I say mushy, this is so eeeeeekkk for me, its like watching those romantic soap opera TV movies :)) Megami Paradise: Astro Star wo Sagase! - Monster Police - Final Countdown - Kyou Kagaku Hunter REI - Hayate no Ken: St. Claymore - Majikuu Densetsu Garukiba - Xibalba - Jagi ga Kuru! - Oka Hoshin - Duan Surk - Kekkon Itsuka Anata to... - Hoshikuzu Eiyuuden - Tensei Tennoboru Hiki: KIRYU! Age is a funny thing. We've all read manga that equates being over thirty with being middle-aged, and that really drives home the idea that along with being a simple set of numbers that delineates how long you've been alive, age is also very much a social construct and just what that construct is depends on the culture in question. Plenty of manga dance around this idea, either playing it for laughs or titillation and in the case of age-gap shoujo manga, it's often a sign that the heroine is perhaps more mature than her peer group. In the case of You Like Me, Not My Daughter?!, pretty much all of these things are true in one way or another. You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! is about 30 something-year-old Ayako. After her sister and brother-in-law pass, Ayako (who was in her twenties at the time) decides to take care of her five year old niece Miu when no one else would. Ten years later Ayako and Miu are living next door to twenty year old Takumi, a childhood friend of Miu, who helps Miu with her school work etc. On Takumi's birthday Ayako finds out that her suspicions of Takumi and Miu liking each other are wrong: Takumi is in love with Ayako and has been for years.