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“Unemployed Michiko survives on cabbage, splurges on boyfriend, reunites with ex-boss Kurosawa who rehires her.”
Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai
ダメな私に恋してください
7.79
1,525 rank · 25,571 readers · 412 favorites
Josei
Workplace
Comedy
Romance
Adult Cast
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Synopsis
Unemployed Michiko survives on cabbage, splurges on boyfriend, reunites with ex-boss Kurosawa who rehires her.
Recently unemployed, 29-year-old Michiko Shibata has barely any money left and so must survive solely on cabbages. With no qualifications and little experience for her age, all of her job interviews have been unfruitful. Despite this, she continues to splurge on expensive gifts for her young "boyfriend" in the hopes that her romantic interest will someday marry and support her. At the lowest point of her life, she unexpectedly reunites with Ayumu Kurosawa, her strict former boss whom she resents. Feeling responsible for her unemployment, Kurosawa agrees to help Shibata and once again becomes her employer, setting the stage for a new chapter in both their lives.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 15 sampled reviews
8.5
/10
What 15 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 8
σ 1.31
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.31 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.53
Running avg · Apr 2016 → Aug 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “I red this long time ago but I can still remeber the fun that I had reading it, I really found myself in Michiko's clothes as I was a girl in the mid twenties myself strugglinn with jobs and boys...”
- 9 “This is a lovely josei manga. Perfect for the twenty-year old me who can relate to the MC's problems. And, I haven't laughed so hard while reading manga in a loooooong time. Almost every other...”
- 9 “For those folks out there that enjoyed "Lovely Complex" (myself included) this manga is pretty good! Although the characters are older I find it wonderful to relate to myself! The main character is...”
Verbosity
Short · 47%
Medium · 27%
Long · 27%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 43 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 5h 44m approx
- Published Apr 2013 – Aug 2016
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M23019 catalog