The way this honestly could have been peak if the mangaka spent more time on developing the relationship between the two and not on random insignificant subplots.
Sentarou’s conflict with his job could have at least been made into a bigger thing, like maybe he starts to wants to become Megu’s dad which makes the conflict between him needing money and not being passionate about what he’s doing more prominent. Instead it just feels like he likes music but is unknown, feels conflicted, and then quits and that’s it. No sort of stakes or real resolution and you just kind of wonder why it was a plot at all.
Then Touma’s yakuza connection plot was also way too prominent for something that didn’t matter. You get a bit of an interesting insight into Ririko, and it’s used as the ‘final conflict’ (Megu being ‘kidnapped’), but nothing that particularly makes the story more interesting or important.
This could have easily been two guys who ’dated’ the same girl, raising a kid, falling in love, and becoming a somewhat family and it would have been 100x better because of the pacing. Or at least if the mangaka wanted to commit to the subplots then it could have been made longer to expand on those stories.
Anyways, not particularly bad, just feels rushed and weirdly paced because of all the different plots going on.
Also anyone who thinks Megu’s language doesn’t suit her age clearly didn’t grow up around my area. Was getting flashbacks to when 12 year old me was in the park with my friends and a 6 year old just started cussing us out with language even i didn’t know. Kids are scary man.
The way this honestly could have been peak if the mangaka spent more time on developing the relationship between the two and not on random insignificant subplots.
Sentarou’s conflict with his job could have at least been made into a bigger thing, like maybe he starts to wants to become Megu’s dad which makes the conflict between him needing money and not being passionate about what he’s doing more prominent. Instead it just feels like he likes music but is unknown, feels conflicted, and then quits and that’s it. No sort of stakes or real resolution and you just kind of wonder why it was a plot at all.
Then Touma’s yakuza connection plot was also way too prominent for something that didn’t matter. You get a bit of an interesting insight into Ririko, and it’s used as the ‘final conflict’ (Megu being ‘kidnapped’), but nothing that particularly makes the story more interesting or important.
This could have easily been two guys who ’dated’ the same girl, raising a kid, falling in love, and becoming a somewhat family and it would have been 100x better because of the pacing. Or at least if the mangaka wanted to commit to the subplots then it could have been made longer to expand on those stories.
Anyways, not particularly bad, just feels rushed and weirdly paced because of all the different plots going on.
Also anyone who thinks Megu’s language doesn’t suit her age clearly didn’t grow up around my area. Was getting flashbacks to when 12 year old me was in the park with my friends and a 6 year old just started cussing us out with language even i didn’t know. Kids are scary man.