Ichijinsha began publishing the manga in print in April 2015 and 11 tankōbon volumes were published. It began serialization in Comic Pool, a joint web manga publication project by Ichijinsha and Pixiv, in November 2015. It was first posted on Pixiv in April 2014. Their sweet innocence is a nice contrast to the jaded behaviors of the older characters.Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku ( Japanese: ヲタクに恋は難しい, Hepburn: Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii ) is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Fujita. They’re trying to figure out how to be more certain in their friendship, and whether to move to a different kind of relationship. She’s super-shy and he’s too good to be true. The couple on the cover, by the way, are Naoya, Hirotaka’s little brother who’s bad at games, and Ko, who’s great at them. It was a little odd to be reminded that my escapist reading was also copying with the pandemic, but it also made sense for them. That’s the kind of chapters this series has - each of the group does something similar with a different opinion or reaction. So I shouldn’t have been surprised that the second half early on had a virtual (on-screen) happy hour, with all the characters dialing in together. This volume, like the others, is two-in-one (double-length), and at the end of the first half, the author’s notes (circa summer 2020) make reference to how the world has changed. She wants to cosplay at the reception, because it’s a big part of her life that’s important to her. Their friends Hanako and Taro are also a couple… and the big conflict in this volume, #5, is that they’re getting married and arguing about how open to be about their behaviors. The first chapter, where they feel bad they haven’t done anything stereotypically summery, is one many adults can relate to, where you still feel that summer vacation should be a thing but in the working world, it’s not so much (and it’s often overtaken by events). All Hirotaka wants to do is play video games, and Narumi has been drawing BL. By now, though, they’re pretty much dating.
Hirotaka and Narumi began by pretending to date, as she was afraid no guy would be able to tolerate her fandom behavior. It’s not a manga series that inspires a lot of “must read now” emotion in me, but it’s probably the one that I can most relate to, as it’s about a small group of adult friends being geeky and fannish. It’s been a while since I’ve talked about Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku.
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