Unlike his brother, Naoya is not an otaku, and is very bad at video games. Naoya cares very deeply for his brother, and quietly worries about him and his introverted nature. Naoya Nifuji ( 二藤尚哉, Nifuji Naoya) Voiced by: Yūki Kaji Naoya is Hirotaka's cheery younger brother a university student.

Tarō Kabakura ( 樺倉太郎, Kabakura Tarō) Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita Portrayed by: Takumi Saitoh Tarou is Hirotaka Nifuji's coworker at the office and a less intense otaku he likes heroes and bishojo. She also plays games and reads yaoi manga. Hanako Koyanagi ( 小柳花子, Koyanagi Hanako) Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro Portrayed by: Nanao Arai Hanako is Narumi Momose's senpai at the office, she is secretly a famous cosplayer otaku who usually cosplays as male characters. He is also considered to be very attractive by the ladies, although he doesn't seem to care.

Hirotaka is a gamer otaku who spends most of his free time gaming and unlike Narumi, he does not care if everyone knows that he is an otaku. Hirotaka Nifuji ( 二藤宏嵩, Nifuji Hirotaka) Voiced by: Kent Itō, Mutsumi Tamura (Young) Portrayed by: Kento Yamazaki Hirotaka is Narumi Momose's otaku friend and boyfriend, who has been in love with her ever since childhood. She is also the childhood friend and girlfriend of Hirotaka Nifuji. She blames being an otaku for difficulties in her life and attempts to keep it a secret, especially at work. The two seem perfect for each other, but love is difficult for otaku.Ĭharacters Narumi Momose ( 桃瀬成海, Momose Narumi ) Voiced by: Arisa Date Portrayed by: Mitsuki Takahata Narumi is a fujoshi otaku, who also likes otome games, and idols. The main characters are Narumi, an office working woman who hides her fujoshi lifestyle, and Hirotaka, a handsome and capable company man who is a game otaku. An anime television series adaptation produced by A-1 Pictures aired from April to June 2018 on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block, while a live-action film adaptation premiered in February 2020.īy August 2020, the manga had over 10 million copies in circulation, including digital editions. Ichijinsha began publishing the manga in print in April 2015 and 11 tankōbon volumes were published. It began serialization in Comic Pool, a joint web manga publication project by Ichijinsha and Pixiv, in November 2015. It was first posted on Pixiv in April 2014. Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku ( Japanese: ヲタクに恋は難しい, Hepburn: Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii ) is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Fujita.

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