Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku Manga 7th Volume Includes OAD Featuring High School Days

A special feature is to be added to the upcoming seventh volume of Fujita’s love comedy manga “Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii”/“Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku.”

According to the Japanese publisher Ichijinsha there will be a newly-produced 20-minute anime Blu-ray with the volume to be released March 29, 2019. The volume is priced at 3,704 yen (about 33 US dollars) and the OAD with it will be on “Youth.” “Youth” is one of the manga’s popular episodes and focuses on Hanako Koyanagi and Taro Kabakura’s high school days.

For the OAD the cast will be making their return:

Arisa Date as Narumi Momose
Kent Itō as Hirotaka Nifuji
Aoi Yūki as Kō Sakuragi
Miyuki Sawashiro as Hanako Koyanagi
Tomokazu Sugita as Tarō Kabakura
Yuuki Kaji as Naoya Nifuji

Along with the announcement, a rough version of the package illustration done by anime character designer Takahiro Yasuda was released.

The “Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku” manga was written and illustrated by Fujita first released and released in April 2017. The series was first posted on Pixiv then on November 6, 2015, the manga began serialization in Comic Pool (a joint web manga publication project by Ichijinsha and Pixiv). The series is currently running and has around 6 volumes released so far.

“Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku” follows the tale of Narumi Momose and Hirotaka Nifuji. Narumi is a cute young woman who loves idols, games, and everything anime or manga-related, especially in the boys’ love genre. However, after ending up in a breakup because of her interests, she makes the decision to quit her job, join a new company and fervently hide her otaku side.

Hirotaka, on the other hand, is a blunt, cool and mature-looking young man who is into games and doesn’t care whether people know he is a gaming otaku. When Narumi enters her new company, she discovers that she and Hirotaka, who was her childhood friend, are now co-workers.

The two catch up and Narumi ends up going to him to bemoan the difficulties of getting into a relationship as an otaku. One night after having drinks, Hirotaka proposes that they become a couple. Thus begins the relationship of two otakus.

Source: Crunchyroll News