Review of Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku

Girl, DTMFA and find someone better - he's either got diagnosable intimacy/social anxiety issues you can't help him with or is just asexual. Either way you can do better and find someone who will fulfill you romantically and sexually and who you will not have to mother as a way of gaining any sort of attention or intimacy. People praise this for featuring adults, these are not adults. They act like platonic friends and not even particularly close ones. In any other romcom the main guy would be the villain, the romantically useless boring guy the main character realises she needs to dump because hecan fulfill none of her needs emotionally or sexually.

I initially quite liked it, 6 out of 10 and quite watchable if nothing special. However in episode 10 I realised I'd completely misread the situation. I assumed when at the end of the first or second episode she stayed over and they were in pajamas in bed and there was an awkward accident that led to a kiss. I assumed that broke the ice and after that they had sex and it was behind closed doors but broadly they were having sex. I mean she's staying over in his room loads in this show. I didn't realise when they said sleepover they meant sleepover like teenagers have, I assumed it was a euphemism. They are in their late 20s!

But oh no. The big thing in episode 11 is he goes to hold her hand for the first time after months of dating, and wimps out.

I though cause japan and manga can be a bit funny about sex in certain publications you definitely have to read between the lines and broadly it's going on but just not part of the story. Nope. He's lusted after this girl since he was a teenager, they are going out for months and he's still not properly kissed her.