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New Manga Read - Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Volume 2

After feeling uncomfortable about the age gap in Volume 1, when I saw Volume 2 at the library, I decided to give it another shot.

It's cute. It's a slow burn, pun intentional. It's still weird, to me, the strange obsession with our female lead in cashier mode.

But, it's well written, love the art, and the characters are engaging.

So, even as I find the age gap dynamic a little odd and unsettling, I still enjoyed the second volume.

We'll see if I read 3.

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Show threadCT2h ago

@mdmrn Not a fan of huge age gap stories either, but when it is a slow burn, started when the younger is well an adult rather than “teens/in school” and entirely under their control and at their discretion, it is at the very least much more on the “how to write a relationship like that well” than on the problematic side.

It is overall very cute, and weird, even if I’m not terribly invested in the going on.

One of the few titles I keep up with on Manga UP!

Show threadMDMRN2h ago
@cthellis That's the big thing - they're both adults when they meet, so that part is less weird, but still - the dynamic where he's obsessed with her as a cashier is still...odd to me.
Show threadCT2h ago

@mdmrn Hard to recall the earliest chapters at this point, but as I recall it came across as “person identified as cute, who has a cheery demeanor that is appreciated at the beginning or end of a bleak work day” not terribly different from stopping by a usual coffee place and seeing a particular barista, or appreciating “the muffin guy” in the lobby of your office building. Knows he’d be seen as creepy if initiating anything.

The dynamic I find weirder is “smoke-breaking with a girl you believe works with the other girl, and talk about her a lot.”

Infatuation or no, that’s weird on any level, unless you’re chatting about mutual friends.