it's pretty good, need more shota tho
It's pretty good, need more shota tho
Charles Lewis
Cameron Gutierrez
>it's pretty good
No, it was "pretty good" as a oneshot or MAYBE 2-3 chapter mini-story. That's how it won its awards back in 2016. But, because it got awarded some artsy crap, they decided to make dozens more chapters. And it's trash because of it.
>need more shota, tho
I agree to what I think you're saying, here. It should've STAYED shota, really. And it should have ENDED shota. Time-skipping and "growing up" was pointless and, in the boy's case, poorly done. In the woman's case...it wasn't done at all.
Levi Collins
>I super hated the manga I was previously working on and I told my editor "I'm not doing this anymore."
>So, then, I told my editor, "I want to make a story about a sexy single office lady and a cute little boy."
>I had no idea everyone really liked that first chapter. Turns out, everyone really likes a story about a sexy single office lady and a cute little boy!
>But, then I realized, "oh shit, this is making people look at me, the author, and they're starting to think I'm some sort of pedophile!!"
>And I got scared.
>So, I decided, "I won't make this about a story of a sexy single office lady and a cute little boy anymore" despite, obviously, I wanted to.
>Instead, I just wrote a story about a little boy who started to handle stress and responsibility like a normal person and wrote his family beginning to respect him because he was meeting their expectations.
>I made it a "numbingly peaceful manga."
>Now, I'm going to answer all the rest of this interview as "I never intended this to be romantic" when I actually intended this to be romantic. Please don't think badly of me.
This should never have reached even 1 volume.
Cooper Johnson
Don't fucking remind me of this
Connor Green
It ended. The English release came out, today. It's literally an ENTIRE chapter, post ANOTHER time skip, where the office lady stands around a train station on her way to a fireworks festival.
I'm not joking. She's texting on her phone.
The final pages, she sees fireworks explode and coincidentally so does Mashuu. The End.
I'm not joking. That's literally it.
Jacob Baker
I'm talking out of my ass here but time skipping was required in my opinion so that the shota literally grow and develop a brain for the stuff the series is talking about.
Gabriel Kelly
What? Hang on,
>I feel that adults should protect children, and a child should not be reliant or dependent or LEAST OF ALL be in love with an adult.
>But at the same time, I feel that that would be akin to restricting and suppressing children's right to speak and act, as well as failing to acknowledge them as individuals.
>I want my readers to look past whatever preconceptions they might have and think of Watshi no Shounen as a story of interpersonal relationships.
So
"I believe that children and adults are to be viewed equally. Each are just as important."
"But, I also believe that it's an adults role to protect a child. A child's views are not safe or mature, and they aren't equally important.
"BUT ALSO, to all my readers, look past your social preconceptions of the relationship between an child and adult! This story is totally about exploring beyond that restrictive idea!! But, uh, it's not a romance story. Please don't think it's a romance story. It's not about these two growing to love each other. I mean, it is, but not, uhh, sexually. Or romantically. Because that's wrong. Believe me. I didn't write this to be a story of love. I mean, I did, but not, you know...oh shit, look, TIMESKIP THE END!"
So the author is a hypocrite and admits she had no plans for this beyond "a little boy and an office lady are friends for 40 pages." When it became volumes of pages, she had no idea what she was doing, and it shows.
Isaac Morgan
I remember dropping this right when the interview came out and the author said they won't end up together. Is it worth to read the rest, even if people dislike the ending?
Levi Sanders
Not at all worth reading. Nothing happens. You can read this spoiler, but it's not like it spoils anything.
The story gets a timeskip and Mashuu is well-regarded at school by his teachers and peers. He's smart and handles responsibility. But, his family seem to shun him for some reason. Turns out, it's because the dad is just kind of shy and a bit of a jerk about his own responsibilities while the brother is a little jealous his "barely home" brother became well-received and doesn't have as much reason to be shunned, so the bro's angry.
Satoko continues her office job. She remains concerned that people will think she's a pedophile if she dares express friendship with a stranger boy (Mashuu). Mashuu is upset by this and spends the entire time saying, "it's fun, like share a ramune and watch fireworks together" and "I want to spend time together with you, Satoko." She's 100% correct: people will think of her as a pedophile and do judge her poorly everytime they witness some sexy single woman in her late 30s spending time with a middle school boy and having a good time, Mashuu's just being a naive child about how the world works.
Final Chapter: another time skip, Mashuu is (maybe) an adult now and Satoko looks no different. They separately attend the same fireworks festival while texting each other, not really saying anything except that it's nostalgic. They never meet. The End.
Xavier Harris
Guess I'll get my fix with shachiku OL to akuma shota then, thanks frien.
Oliver Howard
It was fun at the start!
Mashuu, the nearly homeless cute little boy who is lonely and afraid to be home due to a stressful family environment is playing in a park alon. Satoko, the gorgeous single office lady who's also feeling a bit alone sees the cute little boy and is enamored by him. She buys him a soccer ball, she buys him drinks, she buys him all sorts of stuff and they talk about all the things he wants to talk about. They have a good time, he's feeling better, she's feeling important to someone. The story gets some twists for conflict every so often when Satoko is scared that people will think this is enticing a child and its her trying to avoid that and Mashuu defending her.
But, then... it's just... nothing. Every expectation Satoko ever has is true, Mashuu suddenly becomes more mature and isn't at all the same lonely, shunned cute little boy, he's just a mildly above-average nice-guy going to school. And then the story ends.
Benjamin Bailey
Still mad she cut her hair.
Hudson Williams
Yeah, I read the beginning, but I was always hoping for more fluff or a fulfilling ending.
Chase Taylor
did it get canceled or did the author just give up
Jayden Jenkins
The author gave up. She had no idea what she was writing anymore. She had no idea after about chapter 3.
Christopher Carter
>Satoko Tawada is an office worker. She's almost 30 years old, but she still hasn't been able to find happiness in her life. Fate brings her with Mashu Hayami, a beautiful 12-year-old boy whom she finds practicing soccer all by himself in the park. Out of a whim, she decides to help Mashu with his practice, with her knowledge of soccer at her disposal. As they practice together on an everyday routine, the two eventually develop an emotional bond. When Satoko's ex-boyfriend deceives her, Mashu gladly comforts her. And when Satoko learns of Mashu's mostly absent parents, she starts to concern herself with his personal life. The two lonely souls find common ground and develop an emotional bond that transcends their age difference and circumstances. With this newfound bond, new feelings start to sprout within Satoko. Are these feelings that of maternity? Or is it something else?
Time skip, Mashuu wants more time with her, she says no: people would think she's being immoral, getting so close with a young boy. She's right. Mashuu pouts. Also, zero of Mashuu's problems exist anymore and Satoko is over her ex-boyfriend.
Time skip, they're texting each other, separately, about nostalgia while at a fireworks festival. The End.
Nolan Hill
>This was never a story about romance
Bullshit, Hitomi Takano. The first image is shapely breasts looming over a gorgeous young boy on her lap with words reiterating what you're seeing.
Ryder Wright
No it should have ended with the shota grows up and claims the old lady pussy. That will be more satisfying than a long period of middle school to high school leads to fucking nothing.
Nathaniel Foster
>kid didn't even bang the cake
>childhood friend moved on from him
LMAO what a KEK
Jaxon Nguyen
Well that was a waste of time.
Beautiful first couple chapters, but then completely went nowhere. How did that reach 5 volumes? People hoping it was a romance story, I guess...
Zachary Cooper
Let's all be honest here. We all thought the timeskip was meant for Mashuu man up and force Satoko to fall in love with him.
If anything, the timeskip isn't the problem, the writing is. The author is a fucking retard.
Connor Gray
Yeah.
Plus, I think Satoko already fell in love with him, she just convinced herself, "I shouldn't" so she didn't. And that was really, really, really boring writing.
Nathan Campbell
So the author got cold feet and then felt the pretentiousness creep on her?
Isaiah King
Oh my god are you kidding me?!
So nothing mattered?
Ethan Edwards
What did the japs say about it?
Daniel Jackson
Seems like it.
>Got tired of doing requested work so drew her fantasy (OL + SS).
>First chapter was a huge success with audiences, even won her awards.
>"Cool!"
>"No, wait, uh, not cool! Everyone's looking at me now! Um! Haha, it's not what you think, I guess? But, I like the money, so let's roll with the ambiguity for 5 volumes."
>"Okay, I can't really get away with this, it was just supposed to be chapter 1 and that's it. So, they don't get together. The end."
Joshua Hall
"Artsy."
Yeah, nothing happened. Mashuu never confronted his feelings, she never let it get out of hand, they both stayed text-buddies.
Samuel Garcia
I think the best word to describe the route this manga took is "mundane". The interesting premise is brutally pulled down by the author refusing to let anything interesting happen. OL is accused of grooming an innocent shota, his dad and her coworker are positively horrified, and she is forced to leave the city? JK she's back after a short time skip and nothing really changed.
Also I found it funny that she refused to show signs of age in satoko while everyone else visibly got older after each time skip. Felt like she was a vampire sucking out everyone's life force
Nathaniel Miller
I legit didn't understand the ending.
Chapter 42 implies that the two will stay together in some vague mother-girlfriend-friend way. In chapter 43 he's older, and they are not together, saying they finally saw the fireworks together while texting through their phones.
Luis Stewart
What an underwhelming final chapter.
Michael Davis
The point of the chapter is that they, and others, have their own lives going on. They're not trapped, as they easy could've been, in some kind of unhealthy, codependent relationship, cut off from everyone else.
I'm also disappointed that there wasn't a more explicit, romantic aspect, but as disappointments in this genre go, it's one of the best. The story directly approaches their relationship and Mashuu growing up and Satoko overcoming her own traumas. Them recognizing how important they are to each other emotionally, even if they don't make out. There's none of the typical "actually it was just some kind of mistaken emotion, they moved on and got with other people." Satoko and Mashuu come to terms with who they are, their lives, and their own relationship. Which is perhaps a little too vague and romanticized as this kind of intensely platonic love, but so it goes.