Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii
Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku

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Honestly im just here to say that i really enjoyed this manga, i feel like i appreciated it more since i actually got to read it in physical form, which i havent been able to do with any other manga before. I feel like it made me appreciate the art alot more than just reading it online, and I must say that the art is incredible. All of the illustrations between the ''episodes'' as the author calls them, are really well made and just add to the characters.

This isnt a heavy romance manga. It's more lighthearted, theres no drama and everything goes in the way ... you think it will. It's a very relaxing manga. It's also very funny. (at least for me) If you have nothing better to read then I definitelly recommend that you give this a read. Personally I really liked it, and i think you should give it a shot as well. It's not very long either, only 105 chapters. Shouldnt take you too long to read it.

Theres also alot of talk about ''BL'' or ''Boys Love'' which kind of weirded me out at first, but you get used to it. There isnt actually BL going on in this manga, its just being talked about between the two main girls.

This manga (and the anime) is a romance that was a nice change of pace from the typical high-school stuff seen. It is one of the first manga I have ever read, and it is nice to look back on what has happened. Honestly, its a very cute and wholesome show with alot of feel good vibes, but it really is style over substance. The main romance with Hirotaka and Narumi seems much more like a friendship, and even the end doesn't feel very genuine. The cast is decent and varied enough, but in my eyes, the romance aspect feels somewhat forced for all the ... couples. I guess my biggest problem with it, is that everything is just perfect. All of these characters are meant to be attractive, and fit some kind of trope or category. The workplace setting also doesn't really add much to the story. It's not a very deep manga, and is pretty repetitive, so if you don't like the premise it's probably not for you.

I was excited to read something that finally had working adults as the center of romance. But after reading through the 3rd book I wasn't finding hardly any romance anywhere. Hirotaka and Narumi feel like a couple in name only, Koyanagi and Kabakura do nothing but fight and neg each other, and Ko and Naoya are barely feeling each other out.

The manga is also a bit annoying to read, as it'll have several unconnected plots going simultaneously, but not sequentially. So you'll have an A plot, follow by gags or one shots, followed by B plot, gags, then A plot again, B plot again, more ... gags, but then surprise, back to B plot, even though A plot hasn't finished. It's rather confusing so sometimes I would think a scenario had wrapped up, only for it to come back at the end of the book or in the next volume.

The otaku aspect is fine and all, nothing too cringe, and thankfully the books have a sort of translation guide to explain jokes, but honestly since there's no romance to speak of and none of the characters are that interesting, it's mostly a comic about nerds being nerds, but in a boring way. If I wanted to just revel in being a nerd, I can go talk about my own doujinshi interests with friends. Art's decent, although I have to wonder why the artists bothers drawing some things when they just cover up all the character's faces with speech bubbles. You can definitely tell it's an ascended amateur work from pixiv is all I can say.