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Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

2014, Manga, 115 ch, 83%

Both have Otaku Culture.

Narumi Momose has had it rough: every boyfriend she’s had dumped her once they found out she was an otaku , so she’s gone to great lengths to hide it. When a chance meeting at her new job with childhood friend, fellow otaku , and now coworker Hirotaka Nifuji almost gets her…

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  3. Cover of A Condition Called Love
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    Ame to Umi

    2024, Manga, 22 ch, 69%

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    Blue Sky Complex

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Anime for fans of The Otaku Love Connection

I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class2026, TV, 12 eps, 79% Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 22026, ONA, 10 eps, 84% Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju2016, TV, 13 eps, 84% JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death – The Movie2025, Movie, 1 ep, 84% The Apothecary Diaries2023, TV, 24 eps, 88% Chiikawa2022, TV short, ongoing, 85% Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting!2000, TV, 75 eps, 87% NANA2006, TV, 47 eps, 85%

About The Otaku Love Connection

2023, Manga, ongoing, 71%

Life has its simple joys, and for geeky fanboy Wataru Otonari, that’s admiring his gorgeous classmate Yuzuru Kakoi and her equally gorgeous boyfriend, Chihiro Kawai Luckily for Wataru, his classroom seat next to Yuzuru gives him a perfect view of his OTP. But this self-professed NPC doesn't seem to know he's just as beautiful himself! As Wataru encounters other students who stan his favs just as much as he does—although some have very, very different takes on their dynamic—every day turns into a rollercoaster of emotions for this obliviously beautiful boyfailure!

(Source: Square Enix)

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