Review of Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku

TL;DR: Otaku romance, with many otaku references / content. Close to no character / romance development though. _______________ While it was pretty entertaining to watch and very well done, I can still "only" give this anime a 8/10 score. That's for 2 reasons; - The characters basically don't develop at all. And neither does their romance. They get together in the first episode and it stays as that throughout the whole show. There are some romantic scenes between them, but overall they still act like two otaku-friends rather than a couple. It would've been great to at least see them grow closer over time. I would've expected morecharacter / romance development over time. I would even go that far that you could arbitrarily shuffle the episodes and you wouldn't notice a difference (apart from those introducing new characters of course).
- The show doesn't have a real ending. I didn't know how many episodes it has while I watched it, so after watching the last episode I was pretty baffled.. "wait.. that's it?" No development in either of both couples, and the relationship between Nao and that otaku tomboy was left pretty much as is too. After all, the final episode could've just been an episode like any other.

Even with those two huge flaws I still decided to rate it 8, as I can't deny that I enjoyed watching it a lot. It covers a lot of otaku stuff, as each character is an otaku in their way.