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.
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.