Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii OVA

Tarou Kabakura, a third-year high school student and captain of the boys' volleyball team, is constantly being harassed by his underclassman Hanako Koyanagi, who is in charge of the girls' team. Koyanagi insists that since the girls have a match coming up, Kabakura should give up the courts to let them practice. When he refuses, she pulls out photographic evidence exposing his secret hobby.

With the danger of his entire team finding out about his otaku interests looming over him, Kabakura agrees to hand over the volleyball courts to Koyanagi, giving her some private coaching as well. As the two grow closer, they begin to forge an everlasting bond.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Third OVA—covering the "employee trip" chapter(s) from the sixth tankouban volume—will be bundled with the special edition of the 11th and final volume of the manga which ships on October 14, 2021.

(Source: MAL News, edited)

Nifuji, Hirotaka Main

Itou, Kent Japanese

Koyanagi, Hanako Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Momose, Narumi Main

Date, Arisa Japanese

Kabakura, Tarou Main

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Sakuragi, Kou Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Nifuji, Naoya Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Mitsui, Kensuke Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Baba Supporting

Terashima, Takuma Japanese

Aiba Supporting

Yashiro, Taku Japanese

Ichijou, Yoshiki Supporting

Akabane, Kenji Japanese

Suzuki, Kenta Producer

Nagayama, Asami Assistant Producer

Shibata, Misaki Assistant Producer

Hiraike, Yoshimasa Director, Series Composition

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Mar 24, 2025

Seizure_Party

Recommended

Yea so tomboy wife and boymoding gf, yea this OVA goes hard.

Wish this series got a second season, watching this OVA has me wishing for more since the main couple that the first season focused on was pretty bland for my liking. If I wanted socially inept guy and outgoing girl couple I'd just reread 'You and I are Polar Opposites', shade thrown, shots fired.

Stories included in this series were really cute, I'm definitely satisfied with what there is in content, just not super familiar with the romance anime genre, and I've yet to really find much that is familiar to this series. Wotakoi ... is the right level of wholesome and mushy, that is to say not really mushy whatsoever, but still with enough substance to not feel like a waste of time.

Maybe romances with characters primarily in their late 20s/early 30s is the answer, or at least when they're written by writers who are familiar with that sort of business!

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Feb 16, 2025

griddyweeb

Recommended

Somehow these OVAa are better than the main series itself, it's disappointing they couldn't make the rest of the series like this.

Ep1 and ep2 in particular were really good, focusing more on romance while maintaining everything that was good about the series. Ep3 was a nice touch too but I'd say it wasn't better or worse than the original episodes.

If you felt like Wotakoi didn't have enough romantic elements you will have a blast watching these OVAs. Ironically it won't be about the main couple tho, except for ep3 which isn't very romantic, but they have some moments too.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Sep 21, 2023

CyanCheetah

Mixed Feelings

A nice ending for Wotakoi.

This shows the origins of the green haired girl and the orange haired boys origin of their love story.

The first and third episodes were really nice. Second one misses the mark.

I gave Ep. 1 a 3/3

2nd Ep. a 0/3

... 3rd Ep. a 3/3

And synergy of them all a 0/1 cuz of that 2nd episode

So totally a 6/10

OP same and animation style same so it wasn't too bad.

6/10 could use a lot more content and while Kou's story is somewhat complete the rest of the stories are left hanging.

Thanks!
-CyanCheetah

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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