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[KidCongo]

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haru
Dec 02 2011 07:54 AM
I have issues with reading this. Usually I don't have a problem with age gaps (my boyfriend is 8 years older than me and we started dating when I was only 17 so I can't really complain about under age relationships...) but this series is stretching too far for me.
However, it is very well written and I find myself not wanting to continue reading it and yet coming back to it anyway. I'm very conflicted about this but I also recognize that as a sign of brilliant writing.
The saving grace is Uchikai. So far his responsibility and inner turmoil from his own childhood has given me faith that this series will not take a turn for the criminal and while their future may get blurred eventually, I feel that presently I shouldn't worry (then again, I'm only in the middle of chapter 10)
I really hope I won't have to stop reading this because even though it makes me uneasy, a story that can stir such emotions and reactions in a reader is truly one to be commended.

[bumblebee310]

Have just finished chap1 and I.... I feel like I'm tiptoeing over some sort of line here hahaha
But I think I'm going to enjoy this manga extremely enjoyable to read =)

Oi, Akio.
You...
Do you have someone you like?

kyaaaaaaa :">

[Insania.Fox]

I wonder if the story is turning too fast? The change in Haru between chapter 15-16 seem too big for me...

[aneal]

when dose next chapter comes out?

[Skydreamer707]

it is really hard to read. if only she were a bit older i wouldn't feel like a creeper for reading it. (around 13-15) and at first, i didnt. the girl is very mature for her age, while the guy is pretty immature still. so it wasnt like an old man was manipulating the younger girl. it was quite the opposite. In fact, on an emotional level, theyre very similar in age and experience. and since they share similar childhoods, i feel like she can help him more than anyone else. but whenever a new chapter comes up and the caption is "a love story between a 10yr old girl and a 31yr old man!!!" i feel kind of sick to my stomach. i keep Dropping it and returning to it like Haru said. it's oddly compelling and makes me feel like i should reevaluate my beliefs. which is in part why it disturbs me. perhaps a relationship as innocent as this (with such a large age gap) can really exist in the world WITHOUT anything repulsive going on. There is always an exception i guess.

Im looking forward to a time skip though ^__^; if anything, because i feel like we'll see some serious development emotionally in the characters. Uchikai will finally accept her as more than just a "brat" and move past some of his issues.but, I think this author will pull it off tastefully too. In a way that, while making me uneasy, is also somehow sweet and totally acceptable if only their ages weren't so different.
GAH.

Edited by Skydreamer707, 05 April 2012 - 11:11 PM.

[Insania.Fox]

It might not be good for the story if haruka grew up now, i think. The only time the author will draw a grown up haruka is when she and the old guy finally understood their feelings, which can be love or just parental feelings.

[svines85]

Great new chapter, I'm glad we're starting up after the time skip, I was really wondering where the story would go at the end of the last chapter. Even though he'd already developed feelings for her, whether romantic or paternal, it definitely looks like those feelings have done nothing but get stronger. No matter how much he's struggling with them.

[lynxie]

I love this inner fight we see in Shinichi.

I really loved chapter 26. It really moved me.

I wonder what the mangaka will do.
While the right thing to do is to sent her back to her dad, I would prefer to read that they stay together...

[Purple Library Guy]

Well, well. The fuse has been burning all this time and now, finally, we have detonation. It was interesting and different to have it happen because of his vulnerability rather than hers.
Funny that if it weren't for the kiss overshadowing, ch 26 would have been notable just for what it revealed about Shinichi's past (We didn't already know that, did we? We had a couple of hints, but I don't remember finding out this much before).

[AndTheHawk]

That kiss..

Come on, Shinichi! She's in MIDDLE SCHOOL! ):

[svines85]

I think probably the majority of what we saw in chapter 26 about Shinichi's past has been told to us before, but definitely never in this complete and "start to finish" of a way......and yeah, his father being abusive being what lead to the fire and suicides I honestly don't remember at all either. And everything else has always been in bits and pieces, some of it needing some assumption on the readers part to explain why and how his personality had become the way it is.

I personally don't think the "right thing to do" is to send her away, back to a father who already agreed that with Shinichi was the right place for her to be. Haruka has been more mature than many of the adults in this manga from the very start, I can't imagine separating them would change her feelings. She's been set on having Shinichi for herself from the start.

[MrFeatherFang]

Haruka going in for the kill as Shinichi is mentally weakened . It seems as the years went on Shinichi has opened up a lot more and I think the lastest chapter (26) had him talk more than ever before (especially about his past!).
I guess Shinichi is in conflcit with his duty as Haruka's guardian or lover now I suupose.
Sorry if my post doesn't make too much sense. Not too good at critical analysis, but I felt like writing what I wanted to share.

[Sancrea]

Eh, i'm not lolicon but i liked better the first arc when she was in elementary school, story was more innocent the very reason why i started reading it, now you see kissing n' s...t if i wanted kissing scene i would choose other manga but still pretty interesting, there aren't very manga/manhua out there who as plot take characters with such age gap.

[svines85]

Great new chapter, so he's now realized he's in love, good deal, next chapter should be even better to see how the two of them deal with each other. I wonder what's going to happen with his latest book too, that's likely to come into play in the story as well.

[inzaratha]

But if people read his book, won't they look at them even more questioningly than before?
Anyway, now that he's realized his feelings he can only hold them in.

[svines85]

Ahhh, true, with the excitement of her attack and then the time skip, I'd kind of forgotten the book and his using her as a "model". Yeah, he really is in a situation where he can't afford to appear to be doing anything improper.

[svines85]

Wow, that was a great new chapter...........though he's still resisting, seems like he's totally given  up on denying it to himself anymore. 

[MrFeatherFang]

Ch. 29
Well I don't have much to say, but when they were walking and Shinichi was going to hold her hand I was like "wait, haven't I read this already?" then when I kept reading the chapter reminded me that they went and did something similar to this a few years prior. Damn, I feel like it's been a long time too lol

[inzaratha]

I liked that chapter -  his feelings are there but this seemed to put some some of the akwardness behind them. 

[svines85]

Wow.........well, I guess it was a no-brainer that things just couldn't be smooth sailing. He sure is fighting the inevitable xD