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I shall act as if I never heard that, and that he is a college student.
But I also don’t understand why it needed to be a high school
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Seriously, wtf is going on? He was supposed to be 20 years old. They have a 12 year age gap, which should make him 20, and a uni student. But it turns out he's in high school. I'M SO DISAPPOINTED. The story could play out exactly the same way - and I LIKE the way it's playing out - with him in 2nd year of university.
I don't like it that he's in high school, I don't care if it's actually 18yo/30yo and there was just a bit of a mistranslation. Turns out he's correct in describing himself as "a kid." Sorry, high schoolers. The vast majority of kids in high school just don't have enough experience of the world for it to be okay for adults to have a relationship with them. There's a big gap in experience, and the understanding that comes with time and experience, which means the relationship is intrinsically unbalanced. I can't actually understand how a grown-ass adult *could* "fall in love" with a high schooler (being a grown-ass adult myself). Having said all that, I still think "grooming" is inaccurate. People are throwing that term at a lot of manga lately. Sometimes it's true, but imo grooming is different from what is going on here.
...But fuck's sake, keep it in your pants until after he graduates and has started life after high school.