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I doesn't feel like grooming, it is.
I will say this to many whom feel this same way as this is just creepy grooming vibes. I don't like the vibe its putting on as well too much a pedo theme. Yet keep in mind this same mindset is in fact used in the Twilight series the book/movie Braking Dawn when the new born baby Renesmee half vampire half human was imprinted upon by Jacob the werewolf. I always saw this as just creepy to be allowed and not seen as wrong in the movie.
This just gives me bad vibes. Like I get that right now there is supposed to be no romantic attraction, but the ML will feel romantically attracted to her when she’s older and he is knowingly initiating a relationship with her while she is still a child, so it just feels like grooming. And the fact that the author is writing the story purposefully this way, when they could have met when she older. But rn this reminds me of those isekai stories based around the father daughter relationship, except we’re going into this expecting the father and daughter to get together, because at the moment he is a father figure to mc. I really like the art, and the story will probably be very cute/healing, I just don’t think I’ll be able to get over the underlying themes of grooming.