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You might not think that such a large, awkward age gap manga isn't for you just like I did, but I think you'd like to know that I was sorely mistaken. It's about two people forced into a marriage, one with stronger feelings about it all than the other, and how their very different background and personalities work together and make their new life together work.

The fact that Fuuma is ten is always in the back of my mind, but the fact that by halfway through this manga the reader tends to push that aside and focus on the character development and story tells me ... that the plot did its job and its focus is the dynamics of a relationship of opposites.

That isn't to say that the gap isn't addressed. But the point is that Fuuma and Satoko and any feelings they have for each other and how the other reacts and how things happen would work out similarly in any other shoujo manga. Fuuma has moments where he realizes that despite his mental age, his physical age inhibits him at times, but they reflect on his mindset and who he is as a person rather than his age. Anyone who has read a "tall girl, short guy" manga trope will find similar problems. Age ends up being a minor obstacle in the grand scheme of things, but is shown throughout kind of as a distraction for the character building.

That being said:

I have minor issues with ART. There's a lot of dramatic expression drawing with chin-absorbing mouths and no noses and orbs and rivers for tears when I would have preferred it more seriously drawn. Satoko expresses things differently than your average heroine due to her droopy eyes. It takes a bit to get used to, but they help with her personality to contrast Fuuma's upward slanted eyes and his sharp features to show just how different these two are and how much they need to work together and overcome.

CHARACTER is fine. Fuuma is the most developed, mentally and backstory. Some side characters are more mentally developed, others, their backstory. Satoko, is a mostly mental/emotionally developed character, so a lot of backstory is desired on her end and some supposedly "major" side characters get hardly anything. It didn't keep me from rating this story a 10 though.

The story is written by Hana to Yume.
It's about 17 years old high school girl Satoko. She's optimistic and cheerful girl who lives a normal life. School,friend and love. Her Father died when she was younger. After the dead of her father her family became poor. But this doesn't stop her from being happy. She goes true life with a smile and try to make the best out of it. Her mother works for a company that's own by a old friend of the family.
However one day when she was eating bento with her friend a wild dog attacks ... her. And that day she meets with 10 years old boy named Fuuma who save her from the dog.
She then offer him some of her bento as a thanks for saving her.
She doesn't know that this boy is the head of Wakudera Corporation and her finance witch was decided by there parents.
She goes home later and finds the boy outside her house. The apartment is empty and her mother is gone.. A guy comes to pick her up. Telling her that her mother is waiting for her at there new home. She follows the guy and they arrive at a mansion she then meets with Fuuma again and learn the truth. Her mothers friends company went bankrupted and her mother friends is nowhere to be found.
This makes her mother responsible for the dept. However the dept is payed by Fuuma.
And by the end of the day she finds herself moving in to the mansion with a 10 years old boy as her finance.
Can she still live happily? How will she accept the boy?
Well the story may seem out of the ordinary, But It's light ,cheerful and funny.
The character and the setting is fair draw. I think the story is good but i miss some detailed on the character.
But the enjoyment of this manga was very good. To see how the character grow and how they struggle to find an answer to there feelings.
(When i was reading the manga i actually find myself forgetting that the boy Fuuma was only 10 years old.) and again i really enjoyed this manga:)