Update: re-read this story, gave it a 1/10 for the second time. :-)
Why is this rated so highly? People must be feeling thirsty...
This manga is an unfinished, sloppy rough draft. It has all the ingredients, but didn't mix them in a good way. Instead, the mangaka just hastily tossed everything together, creating something that is shallow and one dimensional. If i wanted to look at a detective-themed sexy art book, I'd have done that instead. Author-san shouldn't market this as a manga when there's no story...
If you wanting hot guy + teenage girl posing suggestively page after page, yeah this might be the one.
But if you want substance? Don't waste your time.
**** the Romance ****
Every chapter, there's something that would make girls go KYAAAA gleefully. Stuff such as the girl suddenly being pressed to the couch happens within the first few pages of Chapter One. I'm not saying that such a thing is bad, but it's just totally unrealistic. (I'll mention more about this in characters)
From chapter one, the initially unnecessary and totally unrelated to background "romance" suddenly became splattered across the pages with little reasoning behind them. But that's not the worst of it. Given the characters' situations of an adult and a teenager, zero consideration was shown from either side.
Basically, it seemed like the author just wanted to create a cool girl and a cool guy and place them in steamy positions. There was no actual ROMANCE. Just fan-service.
Character
The girl is supposedly a pretty teenager w/ big balls + reasonable foresight/brains.
We are told the main dude is aloof/scheming/alert/young adult. While I love the two combinations, these two's characteristics were never fully explored....
Also, if we were told from the get go that the guy is supposed to be very RESERVED and paranoid as the police officer that he is, WHY would he randomly press the girl into his arms when he was woken up suddenly? Normally, ppl in these professions tell their families not to scare/surprise them physically because their instinctive reaction is disabling the potential attacker. I would've thought that he would just wake up and glare at her, not get in some cringy & rapey position with a pretty stranger.
To be more general, the author totally forgot to consider the two main characters' personalities when setting up "romantic" scenes. It was just ignored.
I don't have much to say for the girl, as she made more sense as a human being, but the dude was totally random--which I doubt was supposed to be part of his personality.
Plot
Mark my words, the individual crime scenes are retarded. No intelligence was required for any chapter, as the main girl was able to use her magic to escape all the complex problems of writing a detective-based story.
In fact, the whole plot is pretty much non-existent. The smaller arcs were just kind of there so that the two characters can flashily sit on one another and act like couples when they clearly have an age gap that should keep them from acting that way in public.
Others
Aside from all the above atrocities, there are actually more negative stuff about this manga.
The ONLY redeeming quality of the manga was its art style. I pretty much read up to chapter 22 just to see the main guy's face.
But, the body anatomy was PREEETTY bad. The guy's head was way too small on that kind of bulking shoulder---it just doesn't look pleasing to me as a portrait artist. (That didn't really bother me though compared to the other stuff.)
There are sexy and well-told stories out there I swear (kimi wa pet is pretty good imo). This one isn't it.