You Like Me, Not My Daughter?!note (娘じゃなくて私が好きなの!?, Musume Janakute Mama ga Sukinano!?) is a Romantic Comedy Light Novel series written by Kota Nozomi and illustrated by Giugiu, which was published from 2019 to 2022 for seven volumes. It was also adapted as a manga illustrated by Tesshin Azuma, which began serialization in Manga Park in 2020.
Seven Seas Entertainment started publishing the manga in English in November 2022, while J-Novel Club started releasing the light novels in July 2023.
Provides examples of:
- Always a Child to Parent: Ayako isn't Takkun's mom, but she still sees him as a child until the moment he confesses to her.
- Age-Gap Romance: The series revolves around one, with the 20-year-old Takkun in love with the 34-year-old Ayako. Refreshingly, no one really makes a big deal about it save Ayako herself; even Takkun's parents support it!
- Bland-Name Product: In a flashback in Chapter 10, Ayako and a young Takkun go to "Toy Zau Rus" to get a Christmas present for Miu.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In a scene early in the manga, Miu wants to have some wine, which Ayako vehemently objects to...since you can't show underage characters drinking in manga.
- Bridal Carry: Takkun carries Ayako like this when she drinks too much and can't walk straight.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: It has been stated by many characters, and shown many times, that Ayako has a very impressive bust size. Rivalled only by her own Hartman Hips, if she had a smaller waist she would have an Impossible Hour Glass Figure.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: Ayako tries to convince Takkun she can't be with him because she drinks all the time, but he knows she almost never drinks, and thus doesn't know her limits.
- Caught in the Rain: A flashback chapter shows a 10-year-old Takkun getting locked out of his house and Ayako taking him into her house to dry his clothes and warm up in the bath.
- Caught the Heart on His Sleeve: When Takkun says he'll try to stop liking Ayako, she grabs his sleeve and tearfully begs him not to.
- Changing Yourself for Love: Takkun fell in love with Ayako when he was ten, and resolved to better himself to become a person worthy of her love, who could protect her and help her raise Miu. He spent the next decade eating a balanced diet, becoming fit (he started swimming because Ayako mentioned "guys who swim are cool"), studying hard, and tutoring Miu, only confessing once he was in college.
- Childhood Marriage Promise: Subverted. While in kindergarten, Miu made one with Takkun. By the time she is a teenager, having grown up together, she says that she simply cannot see him in a romantic way.
- Date Peepers: After Ayako rejects Takkun, Miu tells her that he already got a girlfriend and has a date that day, telling her exactly when and where to make sure she follows them. Takkun spots her almost immediately, but it turns out he was seeing a movie platonically with his Crossdressing friend Ringou Satoya.
- Funbag Airbag: An embarrassed 10-year-old Takkun tries running out of the bathroom to avoid being naked with Ayako, but slips on the soap and falls into her breasts.
- The Gadfly: Miu frequently goes out of her way to taunt or goad Ayako about her feelings for Takkun in order to make her mother confront them. She's gone so far as to tell Ayako he has a new girlfriend or even declare she's going to pursue Takkun herself if Ayako won't.
- Guilt Complex: Miu feels a lot of guilt for Ayako having to give up her life in order to raise her after the death of her parents. She deeply desires to see Ayako do something in her own selfish interest for once. To this end she frequently goads Ayako towards facing her feelings for Takkun.
- Hartman Hips: Has quite a endowed butt to go with her colossal chest. Give her a smaller waist and she would have an Impossible Hour Glass Figure.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Though she considers herself an old maid, Ayako is really this. When she reveals the swimsuit she was wearing under her parka to Takkun, the latter tells her to cover it with the parka, as he knows that were she to go around the resort they are in wearing it, she would wind up attracting the attention of every male present.
- Hollywood Pudgy: Ayako invokes this in one of her attempts to dissuade Takkun, showing him how "flabby" she's gotten since she was younger (read: her belly is just a tiny bit softer than it used to be). Like all her Please Dump Me attempts, it doesn't work.
- Love Confession: Takkun does this in the first chapter, revealing his crush on Ayako, much to her surprise, setting off the series
- Motivational Lie: Near the end of volume three, Miu apparently changes her mind and does start pursuing Takkun...but it's just to get Ayako to go after him herself.
- Ms. Fanservice: Ayako is beautifully drawn, and very well endowed in the breast and butt department, as we see in the bath scenes.
- Ms. Red Ink: Ayako attempts to invoke this to make Takkun stop being in love with her, but her common sense wins out, and she doesn't go through with buying a purse costing hundreds of thousands of yen.
- Nephewism: Ayako adopted Miu, her orphaned niece, when no one else in her family was interested in taking her in.
- Older Than They Look: Ayako looks no different at age 34 as she did when she was 24; at most, her belly is just a tiny bit softer than it used to be.
- Old Maid: Ayako considers herself this, as an unmarried 34-year-old woman. Takkun doesn't care.
- Please Dump Me: More like "please don't fall in love with me". Ayako tries several times to make herself look unattractive and irresponsible to Takkun, but he sees through her every time.
- Popping Buttons: Ayako's ample breasts cause the button (and then the safety pin she replaced it with) on her Love Kaiser costume to pop off. In chapter 11, this happen again with a school uniform that was Miu's during a contest with her boss over who "looks off". A bit Justified since she is younger and they have completely different body types with Miu being thin while Ayako's bust is impressively large
- Precocious Crush: Takkun has had a crush on Ayako since he was a kid, but by now it's blossomed into real love.
- Romantic Spoonfeeding: When Takkun gets sick, Ayako takes care of him and feeds him rice porridge, even blowing on the spoon to cool it off.
- Sexy Santa Dress: In Chapter 9, Takkun has a fever dream of Ayako wearing one, based on a childhood experience when she accidently bought one instead of a traditional Santa outfit.
- Shipper on Deck:
- Miu is fully supportive of Takkun and her mom getting together, more so than Ayako herself. Takkun's parents are also supportive, as Takkun's feelings for Ayako prompted him to better himself throughout his life.
- At the start of the series, Ayako had fully expected and supported the idea that Takkun would get together with Miu. This is a big part of why Takkun's confession blindsides her so much. It's also the reason for the series' title.
- Show Within a Show: Ayako is obsessed with Love Kaiser, a Magical Girl anime series that she originally watched with Miu, but got more into it than her daughter, who lost interest as she got older. She wears a cosplay of her favorite character, Love Kaiser Solitaire, to try and convince Takkun that she's lame and he won't have fun with her, but he turns out to be a fan of the show too.
- Single-Target Sexuality: In chapter 11, Takkun admits he hasn't even been interested in other women except for Ayako for a long time
- Stacy's Mom: A smaller age gap than most, since Ayako was only 24 when she adopted Miu, and Takkun was 10 at the time.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: Ayako pops out of a slingshot bikini in volume three, though since it's soft ecchi her nipples are covered up by sound effects.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Takkun's friend Ringou Satoya simply wears whatever he thinks looks best on him...which is usually skirts and dresses.
