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* AdultFear: The first few chapters discuss children getting abducted by predators. When Satoko first meets Mashuu, he was being coerced by one.


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* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: The first few chapters discuss children getting abducted by predators. When Satoko first meets Mashuu, he was being coerced by one.

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''My Boy'' (''Watashi no Shounen'') is a manga written and illustrated by Takano Hitomi and was published in ''Monthly Action'' magazine from December 2015 to November 2020.




The manga concluded on November 21, 2020.

''My Boy'' or ''Watashi no Shounen'' was written and illustrated by Takano Hitomi and was published in the Monthly Action magazine beginning in December 2015.
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* RealityEnsues:
** Satoko meets Mashuu's father and he is quickly suspicious of her relationship with his son.
** In Chapter 14, Mashuu gives his father a full explanation of what he was doing with Satoko and as an immediate consequence, Satoko gets relocated.
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As they further come to understand each other, Satoko sees that Mashuu's home life is unstable. They grow closer when they realize that they are NotSoDifferent.

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As they further come to understand each other, Satoko sees that Mashuu's home life is unstable. They grow closer when they realize that they are NotSoDifferent.
aren't so different.
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The author is a woman.


* WillTheyOrWontThey: The manga ends with ambiguity on whether Mashuu ended up with Satoko. However, the author, who already clarified that he did not have a romantic scheme in mind, does state that whatever choice they decided, they nevertheless were happy.

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* WillTheyOrWontThey: The manga ends with ambiguity on whether Mashuu ended up with Satoko. However, the author, who already clarified that he she did not have a romantic scheme in mind, does state that whatever choice they decided, they nevertheless were happy.
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Written and illustrated by Takano Hitomi, the manga concluded on November 21, 2020.

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Written and illustrated by Takano Hitomi, the The manga concluded on November 21, 2020.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: The manga ends with the ambiguity on whether Mashuu ended up with Satoko. However, the author, who already clarified that he did not have a romantic scheme in mind, does state that whatever choice they decided, they nevertheless were happy.

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* WillTheyOrWontThey: The manga ends with the ambiguity on whether Mashuu ended up with Satoko. However, the author, who already clarified that he did not have a romantic scheme in mind, does state that whatever choice they decided, they nevertheless were happy.
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Written and illustrated by Takano Hitomi, the manga concluded on November 21, 2020.



* VomitIndiscretionShot: Ogata vomits from an anxiety attack during lunch.

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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Ogata vomits from an anxiety attack during lunch.lunch.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: The manga ends with the ambiguity on whether Mashuu ended up with Satoko. However, the author, who already clarified that he did not have a romantic scheme in mind, does state that whatever choice they decided, they nevertheless were happy.

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* AdultFear: The first few chapters discuss children getting abducted by predators. When Satoko first meets Mashuu, he was being coerced by one.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Nao has a crush on Mashuu ever since elementary school, but unfortunately for her, he is interested in Satoko, is 16 years older than him.



* GenkiGirl: Satoko's younger sister Mayu is more lively and preppy.
* GreenEyedMonster: Satoko angrily yells at Mayu when she asserted that she knew more about Mashuu than her despite knowing him for about a week. Satoko even questions why she became jealous all of a sudden.



* MissingMom: Mashuu's mother is absent from his life.

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* LoveConfession: Mashuu admits to being in love with Satoko to which she replies that she "didn't mind" that he was. However due to their relationship being too complex to list under black and white terms, Satoko's response is ambiguous.
* MissingMom: Mashuu's mother is absent from his life. It is revealed later that she is deceased.
* ParentalNeglect: Mashuu's father tends to get buried deep in his work. This was one of the main reasons as to why he would go out to play soccer by himself.

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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Mashuu is mistaken as a girl by Satoko at first glance.

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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Mashuu is mistaken as a girl by Satoko at first glance. He has his hair cut when reuniting with Satoko two years later.


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* JerkassHasAPoint: While he is negligent with Mashuu, his father is in the right to deny Satoko from seeing his son because it does come off as creepy from an outside view.

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* RealityEnsues: Satoko meets Mashuu's father and he is quickly suspicious of her relationship with his son.

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Satoko meets Mashuu's father and he is quickly suspicious of her relationship with his son. son.
** In Chapter 14, Mashuu gives his father a full explanation of what he was doing with Satoko and as an immediate consequence, Satoko gets relocated.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Satoko, a 30-year-old woman, befriends Mashuu who is 12-years-old.
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* MissingMom: Mashuu's mother is absent from his life.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Mashuu is very tenderhearted and gets easily astonished by mundane things.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Mashuu is mistaken as a girl by Satoko at first glance.
* PoolEpisode: Satoko goes with Mashuu to the public pool during one of the chapters.
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Thirty-year-old Satoko Tawada is an office worker for a sporting goods company. Finding herself isolated at her job, fate would have her meet a 12-year-old boy named Mashuu Hayami when he was playing soccer by himself. After saving him from a potential predator, Satoko decides to coach him.

As they further come to understand each other, Satoko sees that Mashuu's home life is unstable. They grow closer when they realize that they are NotSoDifferent.

''My Boy'' or ''Watashi no Shounen'' was written and illustrated by Takano Hitomi and was published in the Monthly Action magazine beginning in December 2015.
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* RealityEnsues: Satoko meets Mashuu's father and he is quickly suspicious of her relationship with his son.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Ogata vomits from an anxiety attack during lunch.

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