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“Nerdy otaku helps popular gal with hobbies, bridging social gaps in a high school romantic comedy.”
Otaku x Gal
ギャルに優しいオタク君
6.99
9,796 rank · 7,098 readers · 20 favorites
School
Comedy
Romance
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Synopsis
Nerdy otaku helps popular gal with hobbies, bridging social gaps in a high school romantic comedy.
Otakura is a nerdy otaku and Narumi is a popular gal—two students from complete opposite ends of the high school social hierarchy. Their paths unexpectedly cross when Narumi asks Otakura to use his crafty skills to help with her many hobbies! An otaku comes to understand a gal's interests in this high school rom-com! (Source: Square Enix)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
5.0
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
50%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 3
σ 2.00
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.00 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.0 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 3.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 2.00
Running avg · Jan 2024 → Aug 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “7.7/10 Well, well, well… if it isn’t my old friend: the “gal x otaku” trope. Sometimes I wonder to myself why I read so much of these same carbon copy premises, but I can’t lie, the trope is...”
- 3 “When I first found this manga I thought I'd already figured it out to be one of these sorts of "introverted loser discovers the power of love by being approached by an absurdly popular gorgeous...”
Verbosity
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Medium · 50%
Long · 50%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Dec 2022 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M67352 catalog