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REVIEW: First Love Monster GN 1

Shota alert! Is it one where "he's very mature for his age" is a all too often repeated phrase? Couldn't get past that factor in The World is Still Beautiful either, even if the anime did claim he was 15 & not 11 as in the manga.

The only comedy of this type I've got a chuckle from was Recorder to Randoseru since, for the most part, it got its laughs from a) having the characters act their age despite looking older/younger than they are & b) having the guy repeatedly get arrested when concerned strangers see him walking with his elementary school classmates & call the police. Went down the creepy rabbit hole in the 3rd season, but hey that's Japan for you.

Lemonchest wrote:

Shota alert! Is it one where "he's very mature for his age" is a all too often repeated phrase? Couldn't get past that factor in The World is Still Beautiful either, even if the anime did claim he was 15 & not 11 as in the manga. The only comedy of this type I've got a chuckle from was Recorder to Randoseru since, for the most part, it got its laughs from a) having the characters act their age despite looking older/younger than they are & b) having the guy repeatedly get arrested when concerned strangers see him walking with his elementary school classmates & call the police. Went down the creepy rabbit hole in the 3rd season, but hey that's Japan for you.

While I'll never read First Love Monster because of the whole Older Female Younger Male genre, I did enjoy Recorder and Randsell because the boy, Atsushi, had a girlfriend, Hina, his own age. Despite looking like a grown ass man, he acted like a 5th grader. His sister's friend, however, pissed me off for crushing on him like he was an adult, trying to look pass the fact that he's 11 years old.

animechic420 wrote:

Lemonchest wrote: Shota alert! Is it one where "he's very mature for his age" is a all too often repeated phrase? Couldn't get past that factor in The World is Still Beautiful either, even if the anime did claim he was 15 & not 11 as in the manga. The only comedy of this type I've got a chuckle from was Recorder to Randoseru since, for the most part, it got its laughs from a) having the characters act their age despite looking older/younger than they are & b) having the guy repeatedly get arrested when concerned strangers see him walking with his elementary school classmates & call the police. Went down the creepy rabbit hole in the 3rd season, but hey that's Japan for you. While I'll never read First Love Monster because of the whole Older Female Younger Male genre, I did enjoy Recorder and Randsell because the boy, Atsushi, had a girlfriend, Hina, his own age. Despite looking like a grown ass man, he acted like a 5th grader. His sister's friend, however, pissed me off for crushing on him like he was an adult, trying to look pass the fact that he's 11 years old.

Yeah I didn't much care for it when they had characters look at him like he was an adult who just happened to be 11, as opposed to an 11 year old who just happened to look adult. Same with that new teacher who just couldn't get over how attractive he was & they just had to make the recipient of a few "oh look I just fell over & grabbed your boob" jokes. 3rd season lost me when they introduced that guy whose into the sister precisely because she looks like a child. That crossed the imaginary line.

Once more, we have the familiar ANN hyper-moralism, American style, that condemns everything that comes from Japan that is not Moral in the American Style.

This is so tiresome that normally I avoid ANN like the plague so as not to be subjected to it, but I stumbled on it in this case. You people are nuts. You go after Japanese media, presumably at least in part because it comes out of a view of the world a bit different from that of the USA—and then you insist that its morality strictly adhere to that of the USA, or you won't read it.

So narrow! It makes me sad to see it.

Once more, we have the familiar ANN hyper-moralism, American style, that condemns everything that comes from Japan that is not Moral in the American Style.

This is so tiresome that normally I avoid ANN like the plague so as not to be subjected to it, but I stumbled on it in this case. You people are nuts. You go after Japanese media, presumably at least in part because it comes out of a view of the world a bit different from that of the USA—and then you insist that its morality strictly adhere to that of the USA, or you won't read it.

So narrow! It makes me sad to see it.

Exactly. The same people on here that adore Sailor Moon (where there's an age difference between Usagi and Mamoru too) hate on age differences in every other manga/anime they review. I too avoid reviews on here (since the news is okay, but the reviews are bias and I remember a really negative one from a while back that enraged me).

Also, guys, it's fiction. Obviously no one would be okay with this in real life. It's just a story. You all need to go outside.

melmouth wrote:

Once more, we have the familiar ANN hyper-moralism, American style, that condemns everything that comes from Japan that is not Moral in the American Style. This is so tiresome that normally I avoid ANN like the plague so as not to be subjected to it, but I stumbled on it in this case. You people are nuts. You go after Japanese media, presumably at least in part because it comes out of a view of the world a bit different from that of the USA—and then you insist that its morality strictly adhere to that of the USA, or you won't read it. So narrow! It makes me sad to see it.

Exactly. The same people on here that adore Sailor Moon (where there's an age difference between Usagi and Mamoru too) hate on age differences in every other manga/anime they review. I too avoid reviews on here (since the news is okay, but the reviews are bias and I remember a really negative one from a while back that enraged me).

Also, guys, it's fiction. Obviously no one would be okay with this in real life. It's just a story. You all need to go outside.