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Princess Jellyfish

Kuragehime

2008, Manga, 94 ch, 80%

Recommended by 5 My Lovesick Life as a '90s Otaku fans on AniList. Both have Otaku Culture.

Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She’s loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from…

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About My Lovesick Life as a '90s Otaku

2021, Manga, 19 ch, 75%

Otaku culture has finally become mainstream, and Megumi can't quite get used to it. Divorced, with a teen daughter, Megumi thinks fondly back to her days as an anime and manga otaku—in 1995. That year, she transferred to a new school and decided to start fresh by hiding her otaku interests. She found herself taken under the wing of a basketball ace named Masamune, who's got a kind heart and looks just like one of her favorite characters. But, though Megumi catches a whiff of destiny in the air, she's crushed to learn that Masamune detests otaku...

(Source: Kodansha USA)

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