After going through a devastating break-up, 30 year old Sae decides to hire a sugar baby.
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Info about this series (ongoing)
This series is currently ongoing. There are three volumes out in Japanese.
My thoughts on this volume (Spoilers!)
I had so much fun reading this one! We follow 30 year old Sae as she’s still suffering from the aftermath of the most embarrassing day of her life. It was so embarrassing, that it pushed her to hire a himo, something similar to a sugar baby. What could be so embarrassing, you may wonder? She proposed to who she thought was her boyfriend of a year, but was turned down with a “what? we’re just friends who sometimes sleep together.” Yikes.
As Tarou, the titular himo, makes his entrance, it’s not all that surprising why he chose a life that involumes catering to women—he’s absolutely adorable. He’s the type of adorable that forces you to want to take care of him. He does a very good job of buttering Sae up all throughout their first meeting, but just as it was looking like she was going to adopt him as her himo…her common sense came flying back. Watching her snap and insist the man she hired for company for the night get a real job was really something.
It clearly had a big effect on Tarou as well, as all of her lecturing caused him to drop the sweet and innocent act, letting the real Tarou out. And real Tarou is anything but cute. Why should he have to get a job, he asks. He hates working, that’s why he lives as a himo, he says. The sweet and innocent Tarou from just a few pages ago vanishes without a trace as he begins replying to her lecturing.
While this could be cause for disaster, it actually ends up being exactly what Sae needed. Rather than have a cute innocent man to have light conversation with, it’s more beneficial to have someone you can have an actual conversation with, right? Someone who will call you out when you’re being dumb, and who will actually give genuine advice is difficult to come by!
The two quickly become very comfortable yelling at each other, somehow allowing them to grow close enough that Sae actually decides to take him in..! It’s a very good thing she does, as it isn’t long before that “friend she sometimes slept with” tries to force his way back into her life.
While Sae and Tarou’s relationship does start out in one of the most superficial ways possible, the two of them quickly grow close. To me, it seems like Tarou genuinely develops feelings for Sae by the end of the volume. It was incredibly entertaining to watch him provoke the man who embarrassed Sae so badly when he all but broke into her house, and again when he coerced her to meet him alone. What a slimeball.
While the slimeballs whole character is shrouded in miscommunications, once it’s been stated that a girl has a new boyfriend, that should clue you in that she’s off the market! The fact that his first thought is to invite Sae to a restaurant alone, without the man said to be her new boyfriend, just further proves he’s a ball of slime. One who doesn’t deserve to even be in the same room as Sae.
Here’s hoping that Tarou will continue to embarrass him as the volumes go on.
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