Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

Name: Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii
Rating: 8.35

Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku
ヲタクに恋は難しい
It's Difficult to Love an Otaku

Manga8.355040 votes11 volumes · 105 chaptersFinished

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Synopsis

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. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Publication notes

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii is a web manga released on the author's pixiv account from April 17, 2014, to February 24, 2015, and published in print by Ichijinsha as part of volume 1 on April 30, 2015. Official serialization started in Comic POOL on November 6, 2015. The series ranked first in the 2016 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Female Readers division. It was also nominated for the 41st Kodansha Manga Award in the Best General Manga category. The series was published in English as Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku by Kodansha USA as 2-in-1 omnibus volumes from April 17, 2018, to June 14, 2022. It has also been published in French by Kana since April 20, 2018; in German by Altraverse since April 26, 2018; in Spanish by ECC Ediciones since November 27, 2018; in Polish by Studio JG since May 13, 2019; and in Russian by Istari Comics since 2019.

Published

Apr 30, 2015 to Jul 16, 2021

Authors

Fujita

External links

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Main characters

Hirotaka Nifuji3296 fan favorites
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Age: 26 Birthday: March 20 Zodiac sign: Pisces Height: 184 cm Blood type: B Sake: He is cautious about drinking and knows his alcohol tolerance; he is rarely found tipsy or drunk. Smoking: Practically a chain smoker, often smokes at work and at restaurants. He specializes in video games, but he also reads a lot of manga and watches a lot of anime. (He likes all kinds of games, but he's especially fond of FPS games, fighting games and action games, where it's not necessary to level up.) He goes for one person in video games and finds everything from visuals to status as being important. He prefers e-mail for communication as the tension isn't as high as it is otherwise. Hirotaka is also better at showing his feelings when he types from the help of emoticons.
Hanako Koyanagi1366 fan favorites
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Age: 27 Birthday: August 28 Zodiac Sign: Virgo Height: 167 cm Blood type: AB Sake: She has a low tolerance, so she doesn't bother to drink much. Smoking: Very rarely. She likes things like drama, stage theatre, and 3D. She also has a soft spot for anime and manga, as well as BL. Wifely characters who love someone with all their might are the type of people she admires and for some reason, feels similarly about minor characters.
Narumi Momose1270 fan favorites
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Age: 26 Birthday: May 3 Zodiac sign: Taurus Height: 154 cm Blood type: A Sake: She actually has a pretty strong tolerance. Smoking: She doesn't smoke, but likes guys who do smoke. Manga, comics, and cosplay are up her alley, and at one time she had a superficial knowledge of the fashion scene. She's a fan of multiple genres, loving many of them at the same time. She's known Hirotaka since childhood (he's the one responsible for getting her into the otaku life), and is the only one who really knows about her being an otaku.
Tarou Kabakura705 fan favorites
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Age: 28 Birthday: November 9 Zodiac sign: Scorpio Height: 180 cm Blood type: O Sake: When he drinks too much, he gets sleepy. Smoking: When he heard about the tax increase, he stopped. He's majorly into manga and anime, which he has good taste in. He also has good taste in the merchandise he owns. Compared to the typical otaku, however, he falls a little short. Before he gets into new characters, he takes into consideration the guilty feeling he has about crime fiction and married life genres, former wives and current wives meeting genres, and the system type of wife-donos entering temples.