

I think the show has received positive reception mainly because it’s a fresh take on the whole romance genre.įor years, the formula has always included the classic high school setting and all the other tropes that make the whole idea of romance within an anime seem particularly annoying. Every episode is a new thing for these two characters to deal with, occasionally with the help of the other otaku couple, Koyanagi and Kabakura. The show’s plot is fairly simple: two adult otakus, Narumi and Hirotaka, are dating and the results are hilarious. The two seem perfect for each other, but love is difficult for a nerd. Narumi, a female office worker who hides her fujoshi lifestyle, and Hirotaka, a handsome and capable company man who is a game otaku. The show was worked on by A-1 Pictures known for other popular shows like Sword Art Online, Your Lie in April and many others. It was an adaptation of a webmanga series authored by Fujita and was published on Pixiv and later on, got serialized on Comic Pool. Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku was a romance-comedy anime series that aired from last April up to June 2018. The series is a rather different approach to the rom-com genre with the office setting and it has been a blast watching it. A lot of shows are ending at this point and I must say, we’ve been spoiled with some pretty good titles – one of which would be Wotakoi : Love is Hard for Otaku.
