Kawaii Joushi wo Komarasetai (I want to annoy the pretty boss.)

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Japanese: 可愛い上司を困らせたい

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 8

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 22, 2015 to Jul 26, 2024

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Serialization: Manga Time Special

Authors: Tachibana, Roku (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #7487²

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7.10

Ranked #7487Popularity #956Members 20,795

MangaManga Time SpecialTachibana, Roku (Story & Art)

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Shun Aoki is an outgoing and well-liked 23-year-old new employee who catches Megumi Ira's attention for all the wrong reasons. In her eyes, he is sluggish, disrespectful, and rarely seen being productive. Therefore, 31-year-old Megumi—who sacrificed her youth to study and work—decides to supervise Shun and set him straight.

Against all her plans, Megumi wakes up completely naked next to Shun in her apartment. However, he insists there is no need for panic and helps her recall the events of the previous night to make sense of the unfortunate predicament. A company outing, alcohol, a walk home, and a stripping game all led Megumi to one final trouble: a drunken pinky promise to go out with Shun.

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Ira, Megumi

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Aoki, Shun

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Tada, Kasumi

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Tomiyama, Nene

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Aoki, Shiori

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Kuroki, Luna

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Nov 26, 2024

GoroTusk97

Recommended

The first section of this review will be spoiler free.

I’m on a kind of streak of reading romance manga this year.
THE REVIEW FOR THIS MANGA IS PART 3 OF IT.
PART 1: Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san
PART 2: Koi wa Sekai Seifuku no Ato de

SPOILER FREE TERRITORY
Kawaii Joushi wo Komarasetai (translated as “I want to annoy the pretty boss”) is a 4-koma romance manga by Roku Tachibana, who is also kinda famous for making ero-manga (you know, the extra-spicy ones).

As for the story: Shun Aoki, a 23-year-old starts working in a new company and shortly after finds itself in love with his boss, a 31-year-old ... Ira Megumi. The thing is, while the handsome Aoki already had plenty of girlfriends, Megumi, despite her age, is completely inexperienced on anything related to romantic relationships. From chapter 1, the story develops around this concept and how they, but especially Megumi, can learn to grow and change.

As I’ve said in earlier reviews, I found it very curious how japanese authors usually don’t write romance off high school settings. It may be because romance manga readers are usually high schoolers, at least in Japan.

But this is an office romcom, which is way more relatable to any working adult, so I went to check it out. And was honestly surprised. I’ll use this first section to recommend it to anyone who wants to dive in completely blind, although it doesn’t make any difference because the story itself is pretty simple.

If you like romance stories with some character development, cute art and character design and a sprinkle of comedy on top, I would recommend this to you, specially if you’re tired of all the high school tropes and want to see topics more related to adult relationships, like sex, financial life, living together, etc. Give this a try, and if you’re into more down to earth romance about these topics, I think you will enjoy AT LEAST some aspects of it.

SPOILER TERRITORY
There’s not much to say in regards of some big surprises, but maybe some people would like to discover the paths the story takes by themselves.

The strong point of this manga is how Megumi learns to be in a relationship, from accepting being in love to understanding how to communicate her feelings and desires to her partner. Aoki’s, although a charismatic fella, doesn’t have the same development as his girlfriend, but that is simply because he’s already way more experienced than her in that regard.

The dynamic between the two only gets better as the story progresses, from Megumi first questioning herself if she even wants to be in a relationship, to her accepting there is nothing wrong or immoral about sex, to finally deciding that she wants to live together with Aoki, even if it may cause problems to her on the company she worked so hard to climb up the ranks.

Speaking of which, a big part of the comedy also resides in the fact that they are dating in secret, being, well, a boss and her subordinate and all that. One very good aspect of Megumi’s development is that she is very workaholic and didn’t have any interest in romance or almost anything besides work prior to meeting Aoki, really. Seeing her change so much as to accept exposing her relationship even if it may jeopardize her professional life shows how much she changed as a person by the end of the story.

Although small, the cast of characters are good enough and some are really unique.

As for the art, I find it very good, but I also think that the 4-koma format harms the author’s potential, because sometimes they make a detailed illustration that needs to fix a tiny box on the panel, and that makes it kinda hard to appreciate the tiny details, which is not absurdly top-tier, of course, but good enough to make you want to see the care they put on the clothes, character designs and scenarios.

In conclusion, a solid romcom manga, with an interesting setting, good characters, good pacing, good art and the right dose of comedy. Recommended to anyone who likes romance manga and especially to the ones tired of all the High School tropes of 90% the genre has.

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Aug 14, 2020

Proto57

Recommended

Preliminary (41/? eps)

This manga is a light hearted 4-koma about a young couple. The synopsis is clear. Ira Meguma, a 31 year old will wake up, after a party where she finished drunk, on her bed with a boy, Aoki Shun, her "junior" colleague that is still in his twenties. There is not any mentions of sex, I dont believe they did it, despite being a seinen, it's not enough "mature" to freely talk about sex.

The story is not that deep but enought interesting to keep you reading if you like the characvters and romance. It's basically MCs's daily lives at work and not only. They try ...

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Aug 10, 2020

kurokagemo

Not Recommended

Preliminary (47/? eps)

My initial love for this manga was high. If you had asked me to rate it when I was 20-ish chapters in, I would probably give it a 7 or 8. But, I've reached this point and have changed me outlook. Some slight spoilers. Do not read past this point if you have yet to reach chapter 47.

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