Why would people think of a high schooler when they read sugar baby? You're weird
It's not that you have to think of a high schooler, but it's clear as day that there'll be a big age gap due to the "sugar baby", so the MC being a student (high school/ university) is not shocking at all + in high school you're old enough to decide who you want to date
So until now there's 0 problems with this story
i mean, technically you're right, but i think people are perfectly within their rights to be weirded out by the idea of a love story between a high schooler (aka 16-18 y.o.) and a guy who's probably 25+ years old, possibly in his thirties... this is not a sugar baby story (according to the summary), but even if it was, no one is taking an issue with there being an age gap, but rather the fact that the main character is teetering on the line of being legal :v
Nobody is having a problem with an age gap. It's the fact that one of them is a minor. MC being a high school student is shocking because no adult in their right mind would think of a kid when they think of sugar babies. I thought it would be a college student in their 20s tbh.
Also, let's not sit here and defend adults trying to date minors. Most High schoolers/teenagers are not developed enough to handle any type of relationship with a full grown adult.
High schoolers are not kids anymore, I mean they officially can start drinking with 16, are of legal age with 18 and have to decide what to do with their lives (if or what to study and work etc). It's not as if the MC is only 10 years old and they start dating, as I said before the MC is old enough to make is own decisions and even if he notices later that the relationship is not his thing, he can just end it, no problem.
Maybe it's because of different countries, but where I'm from most high school students are already independent, think about work, money, what to do after graduation and just wait with packed suitcases to move out to already
Okay, but that's your own individual perspective and not applicable to everyone else in the world, not even to the manga you're talking about. Very few countries allow high schoolers to drink legally at 16 (Japan certainly doesn't, the legal age limit is 20, so two years out of high school in the setting of this manga in question). You being technically right about age of consent when it comes to sexual relationships doesn't mean that many people think it's any less weird for a 16-18 year old kid to be dating someone with a decade more life experience (and yes, a 16-year old is a kid, in every definition of the word).
The high schooler is not a legal adult (unless he is a senior and 18, which we don't know), and just because young teenagers in your own culture can't wait to leave the nest and be independent doesn't mean they're adults yet, either. If you're fine with ages in this manga, great, good for you, but you're acting like other people are unreasonable for being uncomfortable with the thought of a grown man dating a minor. They're perfectly allowed to feel that way.
Well if these people don't like these stories, why do they read them? Just because they want the authors to change them and write something different? All in all there's nothing wrong with the story, if you don't like it don't read it, easy as that. No need to complain about it
These topics and comment features are literally intended for readers to share their opinions. Many people are saying they're dropping the story after realizing how young the high schooler is, aka doing exactly what you suggested and taking the "don't like don't read" route, but you're the one that seems to have a problem with it, based on your original comment. If you're of the mindset that one should never complain, then maybe practise what you preach and don't complain that people are expressing their opinions. Or is it only fine when you do it?
It's ok to complain about a plotline once, but why do the same people have to complain about the same plot in all these stories?
That's what I mean with you don't like it, don't read it, if they read a story with this plot once and don't like it, ok fine. But why do they have to continue to pick up this kind of story? It's just so that they can say the plot is bad. And the "they only found out while reading" doesn't count, summaries exist for a reason, just read it and you'll know where the story is going
Agree with you
This right here. You said everything I wanted to say.
Except this particular story specifically does NOT have a summary available on this website. I had to type the Japanese title into google, copy-paste the summary into google translate and find out that way that this is meant to be a romance between a "patient office worker and a pure high school student" (not a sugar baby story as you interpreted from the title alone). The only way to find out what the story is about, without jumping through hoops, is to read it. And again, if they want to express their opinion, they're allowed to do that, even if you don't like it. Again, follow your own advice: if you don't like the comments, don't read them.
People complain that he's in high school, oh please you should really learn how to read. I mean the words "sugar baby" are included in the title, it's no surprise that there's a bigger age gap