oh I definitely know that this is romanticizing pedophilia and I'm really happy about it ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~ you know that kind of kink isn't so bad, because it mingle two of my guilty pleasure : fluffiness and little kid, sometimes I prefer that to plain shota that are just hentai... and please don't say this kid is manipulated... have you seen his seme ? this guy is a 15 years old in his head... so yeah unrealistic, stupid and immoral, but still super cute (▰˘◡˘▰)
sorry I didn't mean to be this aggressive... in fact I understand what you mean but I just think most readers aren't oblivious to the pedophilia, they're just happy about it (⌒▽⌒)
oh and strictly speaking it's called ephebophilia (and it only is if seme-chan dump uke-kun once he is 20... wich I hope he won't)
I though this mangas was like the first one. this one is a spin off. the first one the father manipulated the brother into that. this one the kid was the aggressive one. but he did what he learned from his father, so. pedophilia and ephebophilia is the same. just age predilections, in general they are called pedophiles. attraction to kids. as someone who worked in human rights for more than 15 years and dealt with sexual crimes. it's a real problem the romanticizing of this crap. but I'm not going to even bother to explain why to people that are naive about the problem of this.
If anything this manga is using all efforts to refrain from being seen as such. He's drawn to look like high schooler and acts mature for his age, taking the lead as if he is the experienced one. Remember they could have drawn him to like a ten year old. He wasn't manipulated into it either.
Pedophilia is an attraction towards children, period. These two are obviously gay or bisexual in the least. The uke isn't out there hunting children. He was attracted to the seme's father in the prequel and had little interest in his children. He hated them both.
Age gaps are good , but only if both are adults ! Otherwise it makes me uncomfortable