Apr 3, 2017
As a huge fan of the older guy/younger girl thing (in manga, not real life - in real life, run as fast as you can), this story inherently doesn't work. It dodges a lot of the traps that works in genre fall into - disrespectful, domineering boyfriends who don't acknowledge the fact that they need to treat their significant other with care especially because of the age difference - but it tosses those aside for a rarer, but huge and glaring flaw: complete unreality.
If you want to be generous, you can call this story fast-paced, but to be honest, it just doesn't make sense. I
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read oneshots and one-volume shoujo manga a lot, so I've read stories where they fall in love in the second chapter and it's fine, but this is absolutely not one of them. The main guy (a hot, rich corporation owner) falls in love with her (a pretty but ultimately average college student) for seemingly no reason, and I MEAN falls in love with her. First date on, it's immediately "everything that's mine is yours" and "I'll never let you down" and it's like... you've known each other how long? The author provides a backstory for him meeting her to try to rectify this, but it just makes their relationship make even less sense.
Like, I was waiting for him to fuck her over. Not because I don't like her, because this story goes beyond "too good to be true" all the way to "this story takes place on a different plane of existence where logic is reversed." Shoujo manga doesn't need tons of conflict, but it needs to have at least some semblance of realism. And I know that's a crazy claim to make, considering I read a ton of shoujo manga, and a lot of the plots are completely insane, but there needs to be SOMETHING, even if it's really small, tethering the story to the real world, and this story has absolutely nothing.
This doesn't mean there's no merit. If you can get past the beginning, and maybe find some way to imagine they had a realistic backstory, I'm sure you could find some value in their healthy relationship, though I did find it more boring than most healthy relationship shoujo (and did eventually drop it). I'm really not sure how far that'll take you, though; this story seemed right up my alley, from the older man/younger woman part, to the ingenue protagonist, to the cocky love interest, but... It didn't click for me, and I honestly do have low standards when it comes to finishing shoujo manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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