Katsubou no Manazashi
Ok so this is one of those stories that I read when I was 15 (11 years ago) and I was like "an 18-year-old and a 29ish year old who was dating his mom... doesn't seem too weird they're both adults kinda." But now that I am 26 I look at it and I am horrified! UGH! Like WTF!? This is grooming?! And when I was 15 I was too dumb to understand and thought that because they are both legal it's fine? But now that I'm 26 the idea of raising a kid from 7-18 years old and then having sex with them is REPULSIVE to me. ***These are my personal opinions, there is something weird about changing some kid's pants after they shit themselves and then years later fucking them. I understand this is a kink, everyone is different, and this is a work of fiction!***
End Game
Heartbreaking, no other way to describe this quiet story of longing.
Home (TSUYUKI Yuruko)
A very interesting romance told from a perspective I have not often encountered. Very well done. ***SPOIlER THOUGHTS*** It leans just this side of not pedophilia. But I gotta be honest, this cuts very, VERY close. The urk writes a book about a man falling in love with a CHILD then sends it to the seme and says "I wrote this about us." It's never clear if the urk had sexual thoughts about a child but he said he was in love with the seme when he was still a child?... And the urk continues to have a pen-pal relationship with the seme for 10 years after he left which idk about you but that sounds a lot like GROOMING!!!! But nothing happens till the seme is an adult and moves back to Japan by his own choice. And even after the seme moves back nothing happens for a while until it is very clear it is what they both want etc. etc... So that's why it just barely squeaks by the "This time its not pedophilia" quota for me.
Utsukushiki Kemono-tachi