Does anyone else get irritated at the "a cold is a debilitating disease, life-threatening even, caused by getting wet" trope in manga?

A cold is a mild infection caused by a virus.

A cold is usually a mild infection, but it can be more severe and can lead to complications in the form of other infections. That's why it's important to take care of it properly. Symptoms this severe aren't common, but they're more likely than a 5'6" 10 year old with a d-cup.

I want to quote this from Elevown,

She also hadnt been taking medicine or eating and drinking properly- mighta been mostly dehydration.

I think that's an important factor that is mentioned in the story. As someone who has had various times where I haven't eaten or hydrated properly I can testify in my experience at least that it's no joke. Where the room spins and standing up is difficult, and most of these experiences were when I wasn't sick on top of it.

The famous visit of the sick woman ^^ cute chapter! curious to see until where the interaction of the two characters can go, at the end it will forcefully be necessary a jump in the time!

Thank you for keep translating this! I love every chapter T~T
I did see the cold thing coming but was still cute and fun!

^I expected it too- after the rain. But even without that, the person getting sick and looking after them chapter seems almost obligatory lol.

@Saskabush - I know being cold doesn't give you a cold- but being cold and wet DOES increase your vulnerability to catching one because it messes your immune system up- so if you are then exposed to the virus you are less likely to fight it off easily.

If things worked the way they do in comic, then Canada, Norway, Finland, Russia, Sweden, parts of the US, etc would become quickly become depopulated.

^I expected it too- after the rain. But even without that, the person getting sick and looking after them chapter seems almost obligatory lol.

I think also with this series especially, the age and height gap of the younger but bigger character taking care of the older but smaller character is a fun dynamic.

Everything in the story makes it feel like I'm wrong. But, it really feels like Mai Chan is some amnesiac who thinks they're a grade schooler and her parents taking care of her somehow got the school to go along with it.

^ To just paste my earlier response to this -
Unless you think her friends, the school, her parents etc are all in on some kinda grand conspiricy to pretend some adult is really a child.. for some improbable reason that is far less likely than a tall kid.

In america, from what i could find out, about 1 in 300 or so 11 yr old girls are 165cm. Mai is about 168ish cm- and Japanese are smaller on average too- and she wasnt even 11 yet in the earlier chapters- so maybe she is like 1 in 20,000 or something, but this kinda thing does happen.

And amnesiacs forget memmories- they dont revert to childhood. And Mai has shown no sign of confusion or that she doesnt remember her past.

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Asking to hold hands smh.
Marry her first. Damn pervert.

Wouldn’t be a yuri manga (or well any romance manga) without the requisite “nursing while sick” chapter.

Something is up with this.
Like
I've been reading this from the beginning and I get why people keep saying she must have amnesia or something, because there's just something bizarre happening here.
The writer is approaching the subject matter in earnest - at least, as much as any romcom with any other adult or similar-aged pair might - goofy background shenanigans included. You almost expect a "happy ending"? So there must be an explanation. Right?
But no.
I don't think there is.

I think I enjoyed this more when it was a dorky shortform comedy. It didn't make me think about the consequences. I could just laugh at the jokes and move along. However, the author is asking us to take into consideration that Mai is a giant who often seems perfectly aware of what she's doing and saying that, perhaps, this isn't as problematic because Tae couldn't possibly force Mai into anything. But that isn't how that happens all the time. It's why so many survivors of minor attracted adult lovers often blame themselves.

I don't know. I like the characters and I hope things work out for them. I'll probably keep reading.
But having a wee bit of a struggle here in my little corner.

Man I cannot wait until we get a timeskip with the both of 'em somehow living happily together.
Every big flirt Mai moments are darn great, but also make me feel a bit guilty inside smh

Man I cannot wait until we get a timeskip with the both of 'em somehow living happily together.
Every big flirt Mai moments are darn great, but also make me feel a bit guilty inside smh

Turns out Mai didn't stop growing and in this timeskip she's now 12 feet tall, now she carries around her wife in the palm of her hand.

@Mu I doubt it will get serious- its either gona stay unresolved and end more or less like it is now- with Tai having the odd guilt trips as they get closer but nothing develops as of the end. OR - we will get a time skip - or they will become a promised couple- i.e they learn they have mutual love but agree to wait till mai grows up.

We are not gonna get them hooking up in a physical relationship with Mai age 11 - im almost positive - so im pretty sure this manga will be safe to read and enjoy mostly lightheartedly.

In america, from what i could find out, about 1 in 300 or so 11 yr old girls are 165cm. Mai is about 168ish cm- and Japanese are smaller on average too- and she wasnt even 11 yet in the earlier chapters- so maybe she is like 1 in 20,000 or something, but this kinda thing does happen.

I'm 167cm and have been stuck that height since i was 12, back in the day i was considered to be super tall, but as you age it stops being weird, now id say i'm kinda short ;-;

I can't believe they just did pre-marital hand holding. How lewd

I think several people in this forum may need mental health help. This is first and foremost a manga. You don't have to question the setting and turn into a long thread of arguments. Too much of an age gap and you don't like it? Just read other manga and nothing is wrong with that. Why would you feel the need to spin a narrative that Mai is actually an adult? That's even more unrealistic imo.

@Saskabush - I know being cold doesn't give you a cold- but being cold and wet DOES increase your vulnerability to catching one because it messes your immune system up- so if you are then exposed to the virus you are less likely to fight it off easily.

@ SSJMadara not gonna happen sorry.. Unless you think her friends, the school, her parents etc are all in on some kinda grand conspiricy to pretend some adult is really a child.. for some improbable reason lol.

In america, from what i could find out, about 1 in 300 or so 11 yr old girls are 165cm. Mai is about 168ish cm- and Japanese are smaller on average too- and she wasnt even 11 yet in the earlier chapters- so maybe she is like 1 in 20,000 or something, but this kinda thing does happen.

Mai-chan is like 1 in never ever happening in real life but Author -san pulled it out of their very vivid imagination.

Man I cannot wait until we get a timeskip with the both of 'em somehow living happily together.
Every big flirt Mai moments are darn great, but also make me feel a bit guilty inside smh

Turns out Mai didn't stop growing and in this timeskip she's now 12 feet tall, now she carries around her wife in the palm of her hand.

I wanna read it

Man I cannot wait until we get a timeskip with the both of 'em somehow living happily together.
Every big flirt Mai moments are darn great, but also make me feel a bit guilty inside smh

Turns out Mai didn't stop growing and in this timeskip she's now 12 feet tall, now she carries around her wife in the palm of her hand.

Now this would be a fun turn of events

How can Mai-chan be so perfect...? ^_^

@Mu I doubt it will get serious- its either gona stay unresolved and end more or less like it is now- with Tai having the odd guilt trips as they get closer but nothing develops as of the end. OR - we will get a time skip - or they will become a promised couple- i.e they learn they have mutual love but agree to wait till mai grows up.

We are not gonna get them hooking up in a physical relationship with Mai age 11 - im almost positive - so im pretty sure this manga will be safe to read and enjoy mostly lightheartedly.

There's also the itou hachi route where a grown woman dates a grade schooler and the people around them supports and cover them
The possibility is low but never 0

I think a lot of readers don’t realize how often mangaka develop particular series simply because they want to draw some specific thing or things—not to tell a specific story or to develop a certain theme.

I’d bet money this series came from the urge to draw a small adult and a big really young person, with whatever hijinks ensue.

I may have found a new POOF to replace my profile picture.