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I am writing my first review, so you may find that my format will not be what you would consider as conventional, but nonetheless I will express my thoughts on this. I will keep it short and stick to what I think is necessary. Bluntly, I want to address the reception of this anime, especially after having followed it during its first episodes, I even found an instant lowest rating just for the fact of the age gap even if at the time only the first episode aired.

Now, the plot or story is definitely not original, especially if you grew up in Asia, where there ... are a handful of rom coms/drama of this type. Regardless, I still enjoyed this series. It was fun being able to see how the characters' relationship towards each other and towards their own selves grew.

Having mentioned that, such age gap circumstance should be kept in mind throughout the series. The anime provides a perspective covering this controversial topic, and I found it nice that the main ship still had to go through the usual bumps of a more normal romance story while still acknowledging that age gap issue at the same time.

Having a 27 year old working man and a 17 year old jk (This ain't paedophilia because Ichika isn't really "prepubescent", which is the technical description required for paedophilia) the 10 year age gap does raise a societal issue. And given this, I like how the anime gives a different perspective in viewing this age gap.

This brings me to my main point; ***I don't know how to explain this without hinting spoilers at this point, so take this line as a warning***

Think about it for a moment: how would you perceive an 18 year old man being attracted to an 8 year old girl? I would subconsciously see this 18 year old as a paedophile.
Now then: how would you perceive a 45 year old man being attracted to a 35 year old woman? It would be more acceptable to the social eye, wouldn't it? Still, when you think about it, it's the same 10-year gap.

This anime had got me thinking about these things, and some of us may still be against this type of relationship, some may arrive at a more complex opinion after watching. This anime did a good job in addressing such a dilemma, that regardless of how you think afterwards, it can't be denied that the anime does make a fair point as the plot progresses (still trying to avoid spoilers here haha)

Having said all that, I'd like to close my review by stating that if you have an instant negative judgement after reading the plot description, it is a completely normal reaction, but I would like you to least watch this for yourself in order to gain a new perspective in age gap topic and how one can possibly handle such a situation. Genuine love is present between the characters in this anime and I really love how it handled the age gap issue, how the characters arrived at a way to address such an important factor.

P.s. I rated this one point lower in the review since my taste seems to be lesser than the others in this community. What can I say? I enjoy life haha