Sep 15, 2022
I'll start this review off by saying that first page of every chapter of this manga should have a disclaimer that warns people that they shouldn't do anything they saw in this manga. I started reading this because I just finished reading My Girl and I thought this was a manga with different premise but similar themes, but boy was I wrong. Yes, this is wholesome manga, BUT (and I can't stress this enough), the behavior of the female mc is UNDER NO CURCUMSTANCES ACCEPTABLE, EVEEEEER. I haven't read the whole manga because I had to stop at the half way point since I couldn't
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shake off the uncomfortable feeling I had while reading it and I will explain why.
*What the female mc is doing is simply wrong*
There is no excuse for what she is doing. Yes, we know that she had no malicious intent behind her actions but that doesn't make them justifiable in any way. And the worst part is, she is aware of it. *Spoiler alert* When the father calls the company to report the fmc and her boss confronts her about it, we finally get to see fmc realizing the whole situation. Yes, she was aware before that what she was doing isn't really ok, but now she experiences a break down because she finally understands the severity of her actions and the situation. And almost losing her job and being transferred to another branch didn't seem to had as strong of an impact on her because she goes back to square one. After she gets into contact with the kid again, she becomes determent to explain to him the situation and how what they were doing isn't right or acceptable and that they shouldn't be in contact anymore, but seeing the kid in person again was enough for here to forget all about it.
*She is an adult and should know better*
She is 30 years old. He is 12. He is A KID. He doesn't know anything and you can't explain these stuff to him. She on the other hand is a fully fledged adult and a functioning member of society. She knew that she shouldn't have developed the relationship between them, and even if she did do it, once she realized that it was wrong, she should have acted as a responsible adult and ended the whole thing even if the kid didn't really understand it and not what she actually did. She even said to him that her actions could be interpreted as the actions of child abductor and after he said "So what if other people think that, that's just normal for us" she should have just ended things then and there. The whole thing even started with her misunderstanding his circumstances thinking he is mistreated by his father and that his father doesn't care about him, and apparently her realization that she got the whole thing wrong about everything wasn't enough. She as an adult had the responsibility to cut off contact with the kid and allow him to forget about her and stop being depended on their relationship which was completely inappropriate.
*Yes, I read the ending*
I had to because I had to give my mind peace. They didn't end up together (YET, and the ending is also kind open so they could have ended up together) but even if they didn't, that doesn't make whole thing any better. Honestly, it makes it mildly less worst. They shouldn't have developed the relationship that they did in the first place and at the half way point, she should have ended it and that's it. And to people who actually shipped mmc and fmc, I'll just remind them that, best case scenario, this was borderline paedophilia. I don't want to rate this manga because I didn't finish it, so my rating is purely arbitrary for the sake of posting this review.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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