Grooming bastard blegh

i don't think you know what that word even means they're the same age so this is most definitely not grooming, however it's very manipulative and borderline rapey

Grooming is the process of manipulating a (usually underage) person into doing sexual favors for self gratification. There is no age restriction on when an individual can manipulate and coerce another person into sex.

i implore you to use google or do further research on the subject because it's not the case of usually underage but it's a case of always underage. an adult cannot groom another adult, a child cannot groom another child and two people of the same age cannot groom each other. grooming is punishable by law precisely because it's a relationship where an adult is praying upon a minor, in this doujin both characters are teens of the same age therefore i repeat it's not grooming

It depends on where you live for the legal definition. But the general non-legal definition doesn’t include age, just coercion. Most legal definitions include the age disparity but some don’t. Legal definitions can be far different from general definitions, each big case won or lost with a specific word changes that words meaning. I do understand that in most cases children are not liable to any crime especially sexual, but that doesn’t preclude them from committing that crime. Thank you for trying to correct me but I still disagree with you after reading up on it. Thankfully words can have multiple definitions so we may use the same word in as many different ways we want.