Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku is a slice of life web manga series that follows a female office worker trying her best to hide her fujoshi lifestyle.
She meets her old school friend, a handsome and capable company man who is an otaku. The two seem to be perfect for each other, but as the title itself states, love is hard for an otaku.
The franchise released a new visual in collaboration with the Meiji Chocolate company. A prize campaign has also been announced.
This is not the first time when anime characters are featured for the promotion of products. Even popular anime like Dragon Ball Z has released many visuals and videos to promote commercial products.
The visual features Hirotaka Nifuji and Narumi Momose, maintaining social distance as they play video games and read manga while enjoying Meiji’s chocolates and sweets.
Hirotaka bites Meiji Galbo, the chocolate-covered cookie candy, and Narumi has the Meiji Apollo My Style, the strawberry-chocolate.
The collaboration started this week and will continue till January 9, 2021.
According to the campaign, on purchase of one or more Galbo products or Apollo My Style, you can enter one of two drawings and win prizes.
One can win a Hirotaka Nifuji talking clock by purchasing five of the appropriate candies. The clock features the voice of Kento Ito, the voice actor of Hirotaka. This offer is for a limited time, and only five people will win the clocks.
The comedy manga series reached a milestone of 10 million printed copies on August 5, 2020. A special PV was also released to celebrate this news.
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku will ship a special episode on February 26, 2021, based on the limited-edition 10th compiled volume.
However, there’s still no news regarding a sequel of this lovable anime series.
About Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku is a Web Manga by Fujita launched on the image-sharing website pixiv in 2014.
The manga shifted to Ichijinsha’s Comic POOL digital manga magazine in November 2015 and has been publishing it since then. Kodansha Comics is releasing the series in English.
The one thing Narumi Momose worries about before joining the office on her first day is the disclosure of her identity as an otaku. Her worries come true when she meets her middle school friend, Hirotaka Nifuji.
Trying to keep her secret, she invites him for a drink. Later, while having drinks, she utters about her ex-boyfriend’s rejection of her being an otaku.
Listening to which Hirotaka promises to be by her side as a fellow otaku. And thus begins the awkward romance between two otakus.
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