Musume ja Nakute Mama ga Suki nano!?
You Like Me, Not My Daughter?!

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yes yes yes yes,
I don't know, but I really like this show, give me more like this !! I'm one of those MILF lovers ;3

Story - 5/10
yeah nothing special here, I give 5 because it is more than good in my assessment.

Art - 8/10
The art is so cool, i like something like this.

Enjoymoment - 7/10,
... I enjoy reading this manga soo much.

character - 8/10
Well, you don't need to ask why I gave it an 8
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Overall - 8/10.
because it's good ;]

After all, this is just my opinion whatever to agree or not, it's up to you, well I know my judgment is bad, so I'm sorry and sorry if I overreacted

Imagine your childhood friend asks you for a time alone on a secluded place. Then they'll say, "I love- your mom." This is how I initially imagined it. And that got me baited into reading it.

STORY:
It's an age-gap rom-com between a boy and his childhood friend's foster mother. It's funny and full of ara ara vibes.

ART:
Two words... ara ara.

CHARACTER:
Nothing special aside from the attraction to another person who differ a lot in age. Ayako is trying to be a serious mother. Takumi is trying to look like a serious adult. They're failing at it in a funny way. You can figure out the rest.
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ENJOYMENT:
I enjoy reading it. The story isn't really deep and that satisfies my curiosity on what can happen with a scenario like the manga.

OVERALL:
Very good. Much ara ara. I approve.


Thanks for reading my review and God bless.

When confronted with the fact that Miu was left an orphan, Ayako jumped in and took her in as her own. Now she is a single mother. 10 years later, her daughter has been friends with the next-door boy and been tutored by him too. He is in university now and Takumi has always been around the two. Ayako was sure that the two kids were meant for each other... until she began to see him in a different light

After some alcohol came into the mix, she finds out that... Ayako has been in love with her since her was 12. ... That's when she realizes that 'You like me(mama), not my daughter? (Roll credits). Now she must confront her own growing feelings and he asks her to respond to his confession and date her as a man. Even her daughter knows his feeling towards her mom...and encourages it! Now the two of them try and navigate the age difference and the fact that he has seen her naked in the tub when they bathed together... rom-com ensues!

You Like Me (Mama), Not My Daughter! Is another rom-com series that plays up on the Older woman younger man thing but throws in a daughter into the mix. That sets up all sorts of sub-plots on how she gets ahold of her feeling and seeing him as an adult and not the kid that use to come over all the time. With a series setup like this, you know there will be lots of misunderstandings, tears and laughs as you know she will eventually get with him...maybe... in a Manga Rom-com, you never know.

I went into this manga from the unusual synopsis, and i love milfs. I also just finished the weird ending of usagi drop, and since this is a pseudo-inversion of that, with the younger boy falling for the mother figure, i wanted to see how they tackled this particular taboo.

I will say right off the bat, this series handles the romance elements much better than in usagi drop, namely how the older lead actually addresses the elephant in the room. Which is to say, “isnt it bad to date someone ten years older than you? How will this effect my family? How will my peers ... see me?” Etc etc, which is something that usagi drop completely ignores (which earns it its notorious reputation).

This concept of a young adult dating someone much older than them is novel, and is explored quite well here. The first third of the story deals with the repercussions of such a relationship from a conceptual level, with the older lead trying to rebuff the younger leads advances. Her specific reasonings for it are revealed over time and are rather grounded. Nobody does things out of nowhere, and motivations make sense. This isnt incest or milf-shota bait, these are actual characters, which is refreshing. This makes the first part of the story quite enjoyable.

However, in the middle of the story, the manga becomes more of the run-of-the-mill romantic comedy, ensuing all of the tropes and scenarios you’ve seen a hundred times before, down to your typical shy bikini reveals and hot springs trips. This generic middle section also reveals weaknesses in our main cast. While they are likable and generally agreeable for a romcom cast (including a crackerjack wingman in the daughter, Miu, second only to Sunakawa from Ore Monogatari), they also lack many defining traits, especially the male lead, Takkun. This lack of characterization makes following these generic rom com tropes even less exciting than it already is(n’t), making the bulk of the latter half almost entirely skippable.

The 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.

However, the most recent volume (22) introduces some more annoying backtracking and will they/wont they nonsense seemingly just to extend the manga’s runtime. If the story had ended with volume 21, with volume 22 just being a resolution, i would have rated this a point or two higher.

As it stands, this is a rather unique rom com that takes its concept seriously, but is bogged down by your typical romcom tropes and thin characters. The art is nice though, and at its worse it is only inoffensive if not very interesting. This isn’t rent a girlfriend territory. If you like milfs and want something of a different take on the genre, you could do worse.

Age gap romances seem to be quite a rarity these days, and it's even harder to find a good one. That is, until I read Musume Janakutte Watashi ga Suki nano. The name might sound silly, but the story and characters behind are fantastic.

It started from a throwaway manga that I read when bored, to one of my favorites of all times.

The manga is a rather slowburn romance so it does take some time for things to actually move, but we do get a lot of development, and seeing how the characters evolve throughout the story.

We're also presented with various challenges and dilemmas, especially when ... it comes to such an age gap. Insecurities of Ayako (FMC) regarding her age, but on the other side faced with unbreakable bond of experiences and love with the male lead.

I also really like the side characters, all being very supportive and great wingmen and wingwomen for the main duo to push them together.

Although I do feel like I wish the main characters had a little more agency in them without falling back into insecurities every time, but it is understandable.

The art is also very clean and I like it, plus just recently we've gotten actual nudity for those who are into it, so that's a plus!

All in all, I'm eager to see the story unfold further, because it's just been a delight to read, and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

6.5/10


This manga is a bundle of disappointment: A manga that relies on its trope too much, not much progression, and random plot points/transitions that in theory should have helped the manga in enjoyment and engagement, but it did the opposite effect.

It must be noted that whenever a manga has a somewhat promising premise, there must be an even greater responsibility for it to expand on the set premise and add new and interesting plot points, which this fails to do. Instead, each chapter resembles the previous chapter with the same-old arcs and progression: The progression is as if you took two steps forward but ... 1 1/2 backwards — that is how cumbersome and annoying the progression is.

Besides for the premise and its progression, the plot itself is tiring and basic. Like noted before, each chapter follows the same script, quickly becoming disengaging as nothing much happens. However, there are cases where the author adds descriptions and plot points to add drama, but it’s done in a forced manner that it isn’t even remotely emotional or interesting, as the plot is predictable.

The characters are all one-dimensional — they have a motive and act on said motive, never changing from their set-design. Despite each character being set up specifically for a singular purpose, the author attempts to add in monumental understanding and depth to the main cast by including a variety of flashbacks; instead, the flashbacks contributed virtually nothing to the plot or characters, rather, it was more similar to filler fan service than anything.

With all of the wrongs this manga does, it should be much worse than it actually is, but the main cast of characters have a relatively wholesome/enjoyable chemistry, no matter how basic or annoying they can be at times. The experience of this manga is similar to many webcomics: There’s a solid premise and start, however, it loses its charm as the chapters move on, since the mangaka can’t help but draw out the resolution as far as possible or not having one in mind in the first place.


Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”