Trope: age gap

10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40

40までにしたい10のこと (40 made ni Shitai 10 no Koto)

MAMITA

Three months from forty, a manager writes a private bucket list, and his junior colleague finds it.

A Kiss for the Innocent

Senmu Sakishita

Ren Suwa, a legendary former host who now owns a host club, falls in love at first sight.

A Lustful Older Guy Took My Virginity

Kanata Souma

A veteran at a shop for first-timers meets a young customer who turns the tables on him.

A Virile World

Kaneko Nakagawa

In a king's palace garden, a black leopard is asked to raise a timid young white lion who grows up adoring him.

About a Love Song

Hiroko Natsuno

A band frontman who cannot write love songs meets a warm, honest part-timer and then learns he is still in high school.

And They Were Roommates…!

あの日の恋と暮らしたら (Ano Hi no Koi to Kurashitara)

Nica Kitabeppu

A former delinquent moves to Tokyo for work and finds his old tutor, and first crush, waiting at his new address.

Anyhow, the Rabbit Is Infatuated with the Puppy

なんせうさぎは子犬に夢中 (Nanse Usagi wa Koinu ni Muchuu)

Nie

A shy office worker who plays a bunny girl online meets the young man behind his favorite party member.

Approximal Guide

어프록시말 가이드

art: 핗 (PiHing)

A burned-out S-class guide dies on a mission and wakes up years later as a D-class guide who happens to share his name.

Bacio Dolci: Lips Sweeter than Cream

Satomichi

Chef Saejima runs his own Italian restaurant, which is not doing well. Someone has taken a keen interest in him.

Bitten and Bound

Sadol, K-FireTinkerBL

A retired guide takes a one-day job and lands the arrogant young esper nobody else can handle.

Come and Take It

Tale, Dolphin

A patron meets again the violinist he once sponsored, whose playing has changed.

Dead Or Alive

IAGO

A bounty hunter's final catch swears he is innocent, and bets a million on proving it.

Delivery Hug Therapy

Toworu Miyata

A burnt-out 29-year-old wakes from a drunken night to a 20-year-old student and agrees to weekly hug sessions.

Do or Die: Work On Hold

KJY (Kang Jiyoung), CYJ (Choi YuJin)

An intern finally old enough to ask out his longtime crush is given a deadly deadline to do much more.

Don't Let Anyone But Me Make Your Heart Race

SUIYOUBI

College student Rio wins his first boyfriend through sheer persistence: Chiaki, a suave bartender.

Eat Me Up, My Husband

yukiharu

A married-life story about a younger husband with the energy of a puppy and the spouse who adores him.

Engage

Yuu Minaduki

A young chef confesses to the handsome stranger who visits once a year and learns they are tied by family history.

First Call: A Virgin Surgeon, About to Be Made the Wife of a Younger Gangster!

Toruku Tanizaki / U-min

Star orthopedic surgeon Sota Takara saves a young yakuza boss's leg and gets a marriage proposal for his trouble.

Generation Z is outside of Chief Sakura's understanding

Michi

Sales chief Sakura is a divorced Millennial who cannot work out his new Gen Z hire, Aoi.

Hate Me, but Let Me Stay

嫌いでいさせて (Kiraide Isasete)

Hijiki

A single father who has feared alphas since his teens meets a teenage alpha who insists they are fated mates.

Hidden Heart

IKUSA NAKAGOMI

Photographer Minori Hinata is asked for by name to shoot Riu Fujisaki, the hottest young model around.

His Little Amber

ヒズ・リトル・アンバー

Kazki Natsume

The leopard cub a former yakuza rescued five years ago has grown into a young man.

Hitorijime My Hero

ひとりじめマイヒーロー (Hitorijime My Hero)

Memeco Arii

A teenager stuck running errands for street thugs is pulled out by the man they all fear, who turns out to be his math teacher.

How a Mage Raises a Child

마법사가 아이를 기르는 방법

이미누 (Iminu)

A socially hopeless young mage rescues a boy buried alive as a sacrifice and decides to raise him as his apprentice.

I Didn't Mean to Fall in Love

恋をするつもりはなかった (Koi o Suru Tsumori wa Nakatta)

Minta Suzumaru

A man about to turn thirty walks into a gay bar for the first time and meets a college student who does not do serious.

In Over My Head With A 23-Year-Old

sakumi hanada

Police officer Ritsu has been short-tempered ever since he ended things with his friend with benefits.

Let Me Be Your Dog

LEE MANSE

A boiler repairman who volunteers at a dog shelter gets adopted himself by a very insistent younger man.

Love Me Like You Owe Me

채귀

Munmujin

Woo Minjo works off his mother's debts delivering coffee in heels, and the job lands him at gangster Chu Gio's construction company.

Love Tractor

트랙터는 사랑을 싣고

HmmYongYong

Burned-out law student Sun Yool heads to the countryside for a quiet summer and keeps colliding with Yechan, the tractor-loving farm boy next door.

Love, a Kitten, and a Salty Dog

恋と猫とソルティドッグ (Koi to Neko to Salty Dog)

Nenko Nen

A gruff veterinarian and a college student are brought together by a stray kitten.

Lover Boy

사랑하는 소년

story & art: ZEC

Eunho has been in love with the man next door, Jaeha, since childhood, and now that Jaeha is divorced, he is done waiting.

Lullaby of the Dawn

Yoake no Uta

Ichika Yuno

A warrior priest slowly dying from the sea monsters he fights is followed by a boy who swears to save him.

Mastering the Secretary

INGZIG

Secretary Han doted on the young master for years; now the young master, grown, intends to handle him.

Middle-Aged Cinderella

Kou Mizutani

Tomohisa Sasaki is a 41-year-old CEO who looks far younger than he is and has almost no romantic experience.

Minato's Laundromat

みなと商事コインランドリー (Minato Shouji Coin Laundry)

story Yuzu Tsubaki

A burned-out office worker takes over his grandfather's laundromat and gains a very determined high school admirer.

Miscreants and Mayhem

Brothers Without a Tomorrow

The boy who once called Nanmu his dad comes back grown, deadly, and obsessively in love.

My Hopeless Dreamer

Nerima zim

In his forties, Shinobu Aizawa works part-time as a security guard and still means to become an archaeologist.

My Housemate

snob

Unemployed at twenty-nine, Jinwon takes a housekeeping job in his sister's rich new in-law family, for the young man of the house.

My Sweet Secret Lover

Yamawomi

At 37, Kosuke loses the job he gave everything to, drinks himself numb, and goes home with a stranger.

My Younger Knight Takes Care of Me in Another World

異世界で年下騎士に世話を焼かれています (Isekai de Toshishita Kishi ni Sewa wo Yakareteimasu)

Nekonomori Shima

An overworked office worker in his thirties is pulled into another world and placed under the care of a younger knight.

Necessary and Sufficient Condition

필요충분조건

art: 고럐

Buried in loan-shark debt and his father's hospital bills, Yeonwoo agrees to treat a dominant alpha's pheromones, with a no-sex clause in the contract.

Notes for a C-Class Esper

TaaRO, Sakagami, KimPhilip

A grieving C-class esper close to losing control is assigned an S-class guide much younger than he is.

Old-Fashioned Cupcake

オールドファッションカップケーキ (Old-Fashioned Cupcake)

Sagan Sagan

A 39-year-old in a rut is dragged to a pancake shop by his blunt younger coworker, and it wakes him up.

On or Off

온 오어 오프

A1

Yiyoung is pitching his college friends' startup to a major corporation when the executive across the table turns out to be exactly his type.

Pendulum: The Beastmen Omegaverse Saga

ペンデュラム 獣人オメガバース (Pendulum: Juujin Omegaverse)

Hana Hasumi

An abandoned human omega grows up in the house of a wolf beastman and dreams of becoming his mate.

Raising a Wolf

Itachineko

Ino is an expressionless office worker. Taichiro is a younger man who follows him around like a devoted dog.

Raul and His Vampire Prince

ラウルと吸血鬼

Ataru Sonoguchi

An orphan raised by a gentle vampire grows up strong enough to protect him, and the vampire still sees a child.

Sahan

사한

Gru (novel)

Sahan, stranded in space for a year after his Moon-bound ship crashes, comes home to find eleven years gone and the neighbor kid grown up.

Sugar & Mustard

NAMIO HANASAWA

In a society that officially matches partners by temperament, office worker Masachika is paired with college student Seiji.

Tasty Part-Time Jobs are Twofold

Susan

A broke, muscular college student takes a well-paid job posing for a sculptor.

The Dangerous Convenience Store

위험한 편의점

story: 945

A broke college student working nights at a convenience store in a rough area keeps getting rescued by a gangster regular named Gunwoo.

The Old Suit And The Roughneck

Shogo Ikegami

A timid office worker is in love with a construction worker ten years younger who says he is not into men.

The Vampire Dreams of a Heart

Mihara Okawa

A college student in love with the vampire who raised him sets out to become the soulmate the vampire longs for.

Trap? Trap!

트랩? 트랩!

Arcus

An omega marked after a one-night stand learns the alpha was his friend's uncle, an ex-gangster who doesn't remember him.

Two Guys at the Vet Clinic

動物病院のおふたりさん (Doubutsu Byouin no Ofutari-san)

Sinonome

A veterinary student rushes a stray kitten to an animal hospital and falls for the director at first sight.

Under My Skin

Iroha Usui

A successful office worker who has never known real love meets a bold young carpenter.

Yoichi and Tsugumo

与一とツグモ (Yoichi to Tsugumo)

Hayate Kuku

A fox cub reborn as a young god falls for the tanuki guardian who takes him in.

You've Got Mail: The Perils of Pigeon Post

飞鸽交友须谨慎 (Fei Ge Jiao You Xu Jin Shen)

Blackegg

A shy clerk pushing forty joins a secret pen-pal club for gentlemen and starts collecting very explicit drawings by pigeon post.