Aida ni Hatachi

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One of the first manga I read, maybe that's why I liked it so much, but despite my lack of experience at the time, I'm sure it's done well.

(recommended for +18)

To summarize the story ... Takae Reona is a 3rd year high school student who is going to take an entrance exam. One day he meets a very beautiful woman in the middle of the night in a park, desolate and alone, Misa, and he falls in love instantly, but she is 38 and he is 18, so Reona decides to pretend to be his older brother in order to be able to relate to ... Misa, but he is not the only one who is keeping a secret ...

As we know, the author writes about very controversial subjects, knowing how to take the drama to the maximum, taking the reader to the feelings of the characters and enjoying a lot how each one develops, especially with Reona's brother, Itsusaku, a guy very normal, funny, but very smart in relation to the situation of his brother (and without being talarico, respect kkkk). Besides Misa being a beauty kkkkkk. As we can also understand the despair of the young Reona who is always after Misa, no one loses his love, not because of excuses, not because of taboos, or even not for not trying, a protagonist that is certainly taken by his emotions, but that does it makes you weak, not always, it shows how love is something impossible to explain and that can break barriers.

In conclusion, Aida ni Hatachi, is a good drama for those starting out in manga, as well as for anyone who likes a novel, as well as having a controversial and attractive story. Read if you are in the mood for "forbidden love"!

I would love to recommend this, because I love age gap romances with an older female lead. That said... I just can't with this one. The two leads pursue a friends with benefits situation, with him having to juggle his grades and her, and her just trying to get a baby out of him because she secretly just wants a sperm donor. In the two volumes out that are full translations, there's no real chemistry, other than the occasional "I think of him/her a lot"; instead, it's him repeatedly being worried about either premature ejaculation or getting caught, and her telling him to clear his ... schedule around her cycle.

The writing here is... pretty awful. I understand the male leads in these things are oftentimes wish fulfillment for the authors, but it's dialed up to the point where it genuinely feels like a teenager wrote it. Almost right off the bat it compares the female lead's youthful looks to a teacher at the boy's school who is the same age, throwing the words "FUCKABLE" / "UNFUCKABLE" over each's head.

It's really a shame, because when the female lead is first introduced she feels so pretty and intriguing! It's just... so horny, and not even in a fun way, if that makes sense. I started reading for the female lead and only continued out of obligation. Once I hit the end of volume 2, which was the last fully translated volume, I was freed from my shackles.

You might like this if:
• You're just here for the milfs and do not care about cringy writing
• you're literally a teenage boy (no offense meant)
You might hate this if:
• You're in it for the plot / romance, or hate redundancy in this genre
• You don't want to hear the word 'sperm' at least 47 times per volume.