I Want Your Mother to Be with Me!

I've wandered around MAL forums today, looking for a new romance manga to read, and I've come across a spreadsheet a certain user has made. Poking around a bit, I randomly picked a name and started it, thinking I'd just binge something for fun and forget it a few minutes later. But damn, I didn't expect that. Kimi no Okaasan wo Boku ni Kudasai! or "Please Give your mother to me!" might have a really weird name, but I'd ask you not to judge the manga by its title. It sounds something trashy, but hot damn I was wrong. This is an age gap story about awidow who has a kid, and a college student, slowly opening up to each other and falling in love deeper and deeper with each other. The character development here is really good. You can see at first how each character just takes everything upon themselves, with their worries and problems, but slowly characters change thanks to them supporting each other, opening up to each other and working towards their dreams. The character relations are also extremely cute. From our MC to our FMC, or from our MC to her kid, or to his niece, etc. etc. Everything feels wholesome, yet serious enough to hold a proper plot development, and everything feels "just right". It comes in a nice whole package, and was very satisfactory in my eyes. Unfortunately, I think the art is kinda meh, it feels very "sketchy" and kinda rough. Although I don't think it really takes the manga that much down, it's doable. Overall, I've enjoyed it quite a lot, and it left a much more impact than I thought. Enough that it made buy the last volume RAW on Bookwalker and spend hours just reading a few chapters with my slow Japanese. 8/10, I recommend if you're looking for a wholesome yet serious balanced romance series with an age-gap.

the story was good but was slightly cliche. art was better than expected but those eyes are pretty annoying to look at because the eyes would normally help you feel and understand the character but the way they drew it kinda made it difficult to understand even though you can easily extrapolate from the story and easily understand the situation. the characters were good. I enjoyed it quite a bit and it was a very wholesome manga to read. overall it's a good slightly different cliche wholesome manga and would recommend it to anyone who likes the type of art or the story.

Okay, this manga is good. It's got what I have been craving for in a mature romance slice of life. A story about a widow moving on from her late husband, something that Natsuyuki Rendezvous had but didn't do as well as this one. Check. A wholesome romance without unnecessary drama and rivals? Check. A story with the same vibe as Chichi wo Hige? Check. A protagonist who starts off innocent and ignorantly naive, grows to be a more mature, and thoughtful person? Check. The best hook in this story is when she said "Can a freeter like you, possibly raise a child?" That hit me so hard, thatI'd just had to read it, and it was so good. The art style isn't really the best, but it delivers the story well and is just the right slice of life that satisfies my taste. Though, the fanservice is kinda out of place at times, since instead of making me cry, I unironically laugh when that happens in a scene. The slow yet simple progression of the story makes me so happy to look back at what happened at the start, and it's so satisfying to see how the male lead developed as a character. The dynamics of each character are so cute to see, and how they support and help each other is so wholesome. Yet, even with that, they don't shy away from the mature stuff, and deal with themes, like grief, passion, raising children, maturity, college, and love. Both familial and romantic. I wish there were more chapters though but I don't think I could end the story better myself, as this ending is very satisfying and open enough to imagine.

I rarely give 10/10 reviews. I give it to this series with absolutely no hesitation whether it's a 9 or 9.5. It's a 10/10. This series not only heals the soul but it fills it up and satisfies it. This is vital reading for anyone wanting to take a dedicated single parent seriously. Not only does this have the main character grow progressively. You feel like you are really growing too as a person right alongside him. Yes, I was expecting ecchi and cheap laughs given the premise, and then the occasional romantic and dramatic moment. But this wasn't like that at all. It was slice of life throughand through that had a fervently genuine touch that makes you contemplate about the basics of life again. Strangely, I felt this same touch when I watched ReLIFE for the first time. Nothing is heavy-handed or complicated here. Just a gentle and steady pat on your head as you read every chapter. Thank you for writing this story. It has truly touched me deeply.