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The manga is not your usual lovey dovey romcom, as it is set in an adult world. I would say this is mixture of light romance, comedy, and slice of life. The concept is pretty simple yet unique. 2 adults interacting with each other (as their coping mechanism, sharing their day while smoking together) that still makes sense in normal logic, but yet it is cute and heartwarming in their own way (not in a creepy way). If you like a romcom with not much drama and some sugar, would recommend to read this. It's still at chapter 21.2 as per time of writing.

The ... story is about working age man who went to a supermarket everyday to see young lady who works as cashier. It brightens his day to see her. The cashier who eventually realizes what happened, decided to go undercover and interact with the man using her alter ego persona. Eventually, the lady also talks to the man, sharing her story and day, while smoking together at night after they both finish working.

In psychology, there are several shape of love. Looks like the way the man see the lady is admiration or simply he is a fan of her, like a normal person have their own favorite artist/musician that brightens his/her day when he/she saw the person. The case is like this. So it is not lust, but simple admiration, which is a rare thing in romcom

SPOILER:
While yes their age gap is quite big, it is legal and just try to not think about it if you are the type of person who find it weird in regards to wide age gap romance. Or at least just see it is 2 acquaintance being friendly to each other

This review is for the manga version of Gimai Seikatsu. I read until chapter 7 (which covers whole vol 1 of LN) as per time of writing.

First of all the background is not your typical type of romance and slice of life as it brings two people from broken home family together. The story is slow paced as this is SoL and for sure it will take time for 2 people to adjust in new life.

There is not much to talk about here since these 7 chapters (all vol 1 of LN) is simply more towards to introduction of what the future story will ... shape and might happened, so not much happened.

If you are looking for typical romance slice of life, this might be not one for you as this also to a certain degree have some psychological in it since it have some roller coaster of emotion.

But, i highly suggest to read the LN to know the stories. if you are lazy to read the LN but interested about how romance of step siblings unfolding, this is the one worth to wait.

This review is for the LN. As per time of writing, i finished all until vol 5.

As you can see in the synopsis and the tags that stated that this is "Romance" and "Slice of Life", there is not much to laugh in this LN. Also it is not the comedically dirty type of interaction between step siblings.

Personally, i would add "psychological" to this as it really gives roller coaster of emotion, and it shows how people feel and think when facing problems. For the slice of life part, the story really give an image of how a person thinks and acts, growing up ... in a broken home condition. While the story uses high school student as the main character, i do think that the story makes more sense towards young adults and adults. For romance part, it's not the type of big romance with big act, but more towards small simple daily routine things that actually matters and it's wholesome in it's own way.

Character development is a thing here and it takes time. I like that the author did not rush things up as it surely takes time for two strangers to develop feelings between them, and especially to do things. I also like how the characters slowly change their way of thinking, adapt and actually do something to achieve what they want.

Artwork is cute and beautiful. Sometimes the art makes character looks more mature or adult that it should be (high school), but it is not a big problem.

if you want to read about SoL Romance that is realistic and different background story, you should give this a shot. But if you are looking for a fast paced story, this might not be the correct one for you as the writer gives some hint that this will be a long story