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At 35, It's Too Late For Love

USD 1.50 / 150pt ~ USD 2.00 / 200pt
At 35 years old, Mariko Kimoto is a single woman working hard as a freelance writer. After a long dry spell, she hits it off one night with the head chef of a little restaurant and spends a passionate night with him. Naturally, she felt she had no energy to put into a potential romance with a man she just met in passing. She had every intention of making it a one-night stand, but fate seems to bring them together again when he winds up being the interview subject of her next assignment. So much for 35 years old being too late for love...!
At 35, It's Too Late For Love

Customer reviews

MangaPlaza User Reviews

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4.4 (14)

  • Feb 20, 2024 (PST) | Total Reviews: 3
    Amazing story!
    For someone in a similar stage of life, this story was awesome. It goes through realistic scenarios and asks the same questions that float around us when we take a moment to self-reflect. The difference is that im still asking the same questions, yet see the end of the protagonists’ story! This serves as a good reminder that it is ok to question yourself, to forget your initial objective, to come back to what you originally aimed for when you’re ready, and also that it’s okay change your mind. Because what ends up happening may be better than what you thought. Love it!
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  • Mar 21, 2024 (PST) | Total Reviews: 9
    Convoluted, contradictory, and cute (?)
    I started the book rather enjoying its realistic takes on life and love especially at an older age but somewhere towards the later half it just got muddied and convoluted. At some point there wasn't any realistic chemistry between the leads because they only work and fck. Like mans can't go a single interaction without taking his clothes off to the point that he openly admits multiple times he only ever thinks about her body. The last few chapters were particularly annoying as our fl struggles with her identity vs love, marriage and kids. However any choice or determination she makes is almost immediately written over and changed or she has the same struggle over again without much change. All of her decisions and choices are almost exclusively made just over the s*x the two leads have. It felt like fl had taken a back seat in her own story. I'm all for interesting, flawed, and dimensional characters, however there was little to no genuine character development. Perhaps I'm being too harsh, it was a decent story, I liked the art and her character wasn't the worst, but after such a good start to the book I was left annoyed and disappointed upon completion.
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Reviews from Japan

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4.7 (352)

Japanese reviews were originally posted on Comic C’moA. Some reviews may contain spoilers for unreleased content or topics unrelated to MangaPlaza services.

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    Posted by Readers in Japan

    Feb 08, 2026 (PST) | Translate to English
    「今さら」ではなく「今だからこそ」の恋
    This review contains spoilers. 性欲と勢いだけで突っ走りがちな若者の恋と違って、ある程度の人生経験を積んでいて甘くない現実を知っているアラサーたちの情熱はありつつもそれに飲み込まれていないどこか落ち着いた大人の恋を描いた作品はリアリティーが感じられて引き込まれました。もがきながらもきちんと仕事や人生と向き合って頑張っている二人にすごく好感が持てたし、そんな二人の行く末を応援しながら見守っていきたいと思います。タイトルは「35歳、今さら恋とかありえない」だけど、この二人の恋はそれまでの人生を積み重ねてきた「今だからこそ」紡げる特別なものなのではないかな〜☺️TLらしい濃厚さもありながらただそれだけではないきちんとしたストーリーもある作品で、とてもよろしかったです??
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Mangaplaza staff reviews

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nami

Love knows no age
Really enjoying this one. When you're in your mid-thirties, there's a lot of pressure regarding relationships, regardless of gender. "You should find yourself a boyfriend/girlfriend." "Hurry up and get married." It all makes you feel like you're not wanted anymore. What these characters go through is so raw and relatable. Can't wait to find out where they end up!

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