Oct 2, 2025
Bait-and-switch manga, don't read this if you are expecting a cute relationship between an old hag and a young man. This story isn't wholesome, the "mature" woman doesn't behave like an emotionally mature person and from Japanese comments people are just hate-reading this manga.
Let me point out some of the early problems, this manga is supposedly about a 35 years old recently divorcée and how she doesn't believe people would be interested in her, it doesn't take long until her 22 years old trainee, Mitsui, falls in love with her. Now, Ono's problem isn't being a divorcée, it is her age gap of 13 years
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with Mitsui. So far so good, right?
On volume 2, now, supposedly in a happy relationship with Mitsui, Ono starts enjoying when a new man is flirting with her, and yes, he knows she is in a relationship. Here, a normal person would start to frown upon Ono's conduct, sure everyone wants to be desired, specially if you think your marital status would be a negative in the dating market, but she decided to start a relationship not that long after her divorce, if she wasn't ready to commit, why settle down?
Forward to volume 3 and things start in the worst way possible, it is clear that Ono is some sort of pushover and this isn't necessarily bad if we were in a wholesome story, but this isn't one, so a special moment is spoiled because of a decision Ono took, the rest of the volume whoever pretends to be wholesome and things get lighter, so there isn't really a major problem - besides the one in the first chapter of the volume -, it is a volume to show Ono and Mitsui's relationship.
For the 4th volume, Ono gets jealous of a past relationship of Mitsui and once again their age difference creeps on her mind, despite him consistently reassuring that shouldn't be an issue, this one I read with google translate help and it seemed like Ono was unfair towards this past relationship Mitsui had since he doesn't have feelings at all for her, Mitsui only cares about Ono. Besides, doesn't that make you wonder why Ono didn't have the same stance towards that man that flirted with her? Either way, much like the previous volume, this one ends on a light note, despite Ono's not substantiated insecurities.
Now volume 5 is dangerous territory, you could even hear through the grapevine that by the end of it they changed the writers of the story and that lead them to fiddle while Rome burns, here's the thing, this volumes tricks you from the get go because it shows Ono and Mitsui in their best moment so far, they've been together for four months, things are going great at the office, their relationship is blooming, there were talks of getting married - despite Ono once again asking Mitsui to calm down, after all, she divorced not that long ago - and she looked as happy she could, she met his parents and they also helped ease up her concerns about her being a divorcée and their age gap and we finally have a moment where Ono stands up for herself and it feels like she broke free from something that was dragging her down, those first three chapters are peak content, but then comes the iceberg that sank the Titanic, chapters 34 to 37, 34-36 aren't necessarily bad, they deal with a serious issue, however the outcome we get to see on chapter 37 is unnerving and negatively impacted on the story as a whole.
The character's art is pretty and cute - which makes the lack of wholesomeness even more infuriating -, scenarios aren't common so there isn't much to comment, personality wise Mitsui is a believable 22 years old immature young adult, but Ono - as you can tell from the previous paragraph - isn't a very convincing 35 years old woman, or maybe she just is a very immature old hag that keeps telling she has to act mature, but never does.
This manga disgusts me, but I am a hopeless romantic for old hags finding love, I want to believe that this leachate well can still be purified by obasan's pure love.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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