Aida ni Hatachi · review
I would love to recommend this, because I love age gap romances with an older female lead. That said... I just can't with this one. The two leads pursue a friends with benefits situation, with him having to juggle his grades and her, and her just trying to get a baby out of him because she secretly just wants a sperm donor. In the two volumes out that are full translations, there's no real chemistry, other than the occasional "I think of him/her a lot"; instead, it's him repeatedly being worried about either premature ejaculation or getting caught, and her telling him to clear hisschedule around her cycle.
The writing here is... pretty awful. I understand the male leads in these things are oftentimes wish fulfillment for the authors, but it's dialed up to the point where it genuinely feels like a teenager wrote it. Almost right off the bat it compares the female lead's youthful looks to a teacher at the boy's school who is the same age, throwing the words "FUCKABLE" / "UNFUCKABLE" over each's head.
It's really a shame, because when the female lead is first introduced she feels so pretty and intriguing! It's just... so horny, and not even in a fun way, if that makes sense. I started reading for the female lead and only continued out of obligation. Once I hit the end of volume 2, which was the last fully translated volume, I was freed from my shackles.
You might like this if:
• You're just here for the milfs and do not care about cringy writing
• you're literally a teenage boy (no offense meant)
You might hate this if:
• You're in it for the plot / romance, or hate redundancy in this genre
• You don't want to hear the word 'sperm' at least 47 times per volume.