How the fuck is ml a paedophile? A paedophile feels sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Mc is not nor does he look like a prepubescent child. At the time this was made, the legal age for sex was 16 in Japan so he can fuck someone in their 20s or 30s or even 60s if he wanted to.
legality doesn't equate morality. the law is still that, here in the UK but the majority of the population knows that it's wrong. whining about what's legal or what's not legal or specific definitions( you know damn well what it means in a colloquial sense) isn't actually a good argument when their point was not about that to begin with.
MC is literally a HS student… if u wanna get technical, it would be ephebophilia as opposed to pedophilia.
A student and a working adult relationship is just wrong. Morality aside, the gap in mental age, financial independence, and manipulation ability automatically makes it questionable. Anything above 20 would be gross.
Because, even if the seme is gentle, responsible, and isn’t strictly attracted to school boys/ targets teenagers (aka even if he isn’t a creep), MC deserves someone who’d understand him and be on the same mental wavelength. If he’s with someone who’s at least 5+ years older they’re not ganna be in the same stage of life until at least 10 years from now. That’s how huge the difference in their development, mentality, and life stages there is.
That’s the least of the problems. The bigger problem would be if ML is a creep and is inherently attracted to teen features, and innocence/ childish personality, cuz that means, realistically speaking, he’d turn toxic and show his true colors as soon as MC starts growing up.
Luckily this is fiction and it doesn’t function as irl so… we can pretend they can both be happy and healthy and have their happily ever after.
Irl though it’s extremely unhealthy and unrealistic.
grown men preying on teenagers to start with.. mc's trauma is used as such a focal point, yet goes completely unaddressed.. instead, he falls in love with another pedophile, and he's happily engaging in masochism!?? that's literally a direct result of trauma. it happens to a lot of victims. This story just trivialized and romanticized everything. The second couple also got together after seme's friend kept sexually harassing mc's friend.