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Saw this at a bookstore, thought "oh hey, I'm a tall girl, this seems to be be a cute romcom/slice of life with a tall girl! perfect!" It, however, throws this away almost immediately in favor of hentai. And listen, hentai is totally fine. But the short protagonist sleeps with the entire volleyball team all within the first volume, and any feelings he has are almost immediately tossed away in favor of more banging, to the point where it just kind of makes him look like a bad person. Actually. There's a bit of B-plot surrounding Kaoru's feelings that I found really sweet and compelling, ... but it wasn't enough to balance out the sheer amount of content that is just "girls showing their boobs and talking about the protag's dick". Give me a manga following just Kaoru's story and I'd be down, but otherwise... I dunno, I have no real reason to pick this back up until that thread is resolved.

If plot doesn't really matter to you, and you're mostly just looking for pretty anime girls and raunchy gags, it's perfectly fine. Personally, though, I just expected (and wanted) much more.

Don't leap to conclusions about the age gap content-- 'Aoi-san' is short and sweet at only one volume, and a comedy 'romance' in the simplest form: after their initial misunderstanding, both of the leads are just trying their best to navigate an extremely weird situation in their own way. It's about a young girl's idea of love, having an innocent crush on an adult-- and just how uncomfortable it can be to navigate that delicate situation as the older party.

I rated this as a 7, but think I may bump it up to 8. It's brief and doesn't go anywhere crazy, but it's very earnest ... in its execution, and I feel like that's kind of rare to see.

I would love to recommend this, because I love age gap romances with an older female lead. That said... I just can't with this one. The two leads pursue a friends with benefits situation, with him having to juggle his grades and her, and her just trying to get a baby out of him because she secretly just wants a sperm donor. In the two volumes out that are full translations, there's no real chemistry, other than the occasional "I think of him/her a lot"; instead, it's him repeatedly being worried about either premature ejaculation or getting caught, and her telling him to clear his ... schedule around her cycle.

The writing here is... pretty awful. I understand the male leads in these things are oftentimes wish fulfillment for the authors, but it's dialed up to the point where it genuinely feels like a teenager wrote it. Almost right off the bat it compares the female lead's youthful looks to a teacher at the boy's school who is the same age, throwing the words "FUCKABLE" / "UNFUCKABLE" over each's head.

It's really a shame, because when the female lead is first introduced she feels so pretty and intriguing! It's just... so horny, and not even in a fun way, if that makes sense. I started reading for the female lead and only continued out of obligation. Once I hit the end of volume 2, which was the last fully translated volume, I was freed from my shackles.

You might like this if:
• You're just here for the milfs and do not care about cringy writing
• you're literally a teenage boy (no offense meant)
You might hate this if:
• You're in it for the plot / romance, or hate redundancy in this genre
• You don't want to hear the word 'sperm' at least 47 times per volume.