Review of Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku

It's nice to see an office romance between adults instead of your typical high school drama. While common in live action romantic comedies, it's not a setting you find very often in anime. The fact that the main girl is a closet otaku/fujoshi is just icing on the cake. I love Narumi trying to hide her power level only to get outed by Hirotaka on her first day. Then it turns out that every other person they work with is some kind of otaku or another. Narumi writes BL, Hanako cosplays, Hirotaka is a gamer and Tarou is the resident lolicon. I like that many differentfacets of otaku culture are all represented, and in a pretty authentic way. It's not like western "nerd" shows where they take every opportunity to remind you, oh boy these guys are nerds look at how nerdy they are. It just shows the hobbies of these office workers and how they're still normal people.

My favorite pairing is the little brother and the reverse trap. It's cute how innocent he is and how much he wants to learn about gaming so he can better understand her. It's all the funny of him being gay with all the hetero a God-fearing Christian like myself can wholly support. All the romance in this show is delightfully wholesome and drama-free. It's a fun watch and an easy 8/10