Lmfaooo I get your point, it’s just that you’re flinging around the word pedophile too easily. Obviously weird, yes. And yes it’s weird for the author(s) to use that trope but I personally don’t see it as pedophilia, unless the older one actually takes interest in them when the younger one is so little. In short, I don’t see it as something to freak out over :]
It's suprisingly..not? Lmao, true it's a weird trope but he did not groom kotaro into anything, really, maybe if it was shown more that mizuki really had feelings for kid kotaro then yeah..that'll be grooming, but it was clear as day that kotaro himself was the one who liked mizuki that way when mizuki really just thought of him as some random kid that had a phase of liking him, he did NOT exploit, nor had any malicious intent towards kotaro into making him do weird shit

This looks so good but did THEY REALLY HAVE TO DO THE GROOMING TROPE??? why must you ADD PEDOPHILLIA??