“Two otaku coworkers navigate dating while balancing work, hobbies, and their secret fandom lives.”
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku
ヲタクに恋は難しい
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Synopsis
Two otaku coworkers navigate dating while balancing work, hobbies, and their secret fandom lives.
Narumi Momose is a petite and cute young woman who loves idols, games, and everything anime or manga-related, especially in the boys' love genre. In other words, she is a closet otaku and more specifically, a fujoshi. After a breakup due to these kind of interests, she quits her job and joins a new company. At her new workplace, the only colleagues who know about her secret are her childhood friend Hirotaka Nifuji, a blunt gaming otaku; Hanako Koyanagi, a cool and mature-looking beauty; and Tarou Kabakura, an attractive guy with a scary face who always gets into fights with Hanako. While having drinks to catch up, Hirotaka advises Narumi to date someone who would understand her hobbies. But she is hesitant—otakus are typically perceived as gross, and the only ones who can understand them are otakus themselves. Or could a relationship between two otakus work? Following the relationship of Narumi and Hirotaka as they begin dating, Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii is a light-hearted story about those who try to balance work, relationships, and hobbies.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 20 sampled reviews
What 20 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.69 · some divergence
5.1 pts
Recommenders 9.1 · others 4.0
↓ 0.50
Running avg · Jan 2016 → Aug 2024
- 10 “Story: 10/10 Art: 10/10 Character: 10/10 Enjoyment: 10/10 Overall: 10/10 I really liked the characters they had lot in common but different personalities i really loved kabakura and hanako. I...”
- 9 “Finally ,a romantic group I can route for .And their all otakus. So this is basically a story of two workers meeting for the first time since middle school working in the same company and through...”
- 9 “Story: 10/10 Art: 10/10 Character: 10/10 Enjoyment: 10/10 Overall: 9/10 (because the story has yet to advance far enough for me to give a perfect score) As of Chapter 4.5: This story is really...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 105 × 11 ch × vol
- Total read 14h 00m approx
- Published Apr 2015 – Jul 2021
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M34104 catalog