Age is a funny thing. We’ve all read manga that equates being over thirty with being middle-aged, and that really drives home the idea that along with being a simple set of numbers that delineates how long you’ve been alive, age is also very much a social construct and just what that construct is depends on the culture in question. Plenty of manga dance around this idea, either playing it for laughs or titillation and in the case of age-gap shoujo manga, it’s often a sign that the heroine is perhaps more mature than her peer group. In the case of You Like Me, Not My Daughter?!, pretty much all of these things are true in one way or another.
The story follows a woman named Ayako, whose sister and brother-in-law died in an accident when their daughter Miu was only five years old. At the memorial, all of the relatives argue over who will take in the orphaned little girl, and…
