Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku to Ship Special Episode in 2021

Otakus love reading or watching a slice of life genre material. Following your favourite characters’ lives, one day at a time is extremely appealing to the audience. It is a special bonus when these stories have some romance involved.

Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku is a series that can be termed as a bunch of bonuses tied together with a pretty bow. It’s a slice of life, rom-com about an otaku. What more might one need?

Fujita’s ninth compiled book volume of Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku revealed today that a limited edition 10th volume would be shipped for the series.

The limited-edition 10th compiled volume will bundle the manga’s second original anime disc in 2021. This original episode will focus on Naoya and Kō.

Fujita also drew an illustration to commemorate 10 million copies in circulation.

Ichijinsha, who publishes the series, also released a promotional video online to commemorate the same.

The outdoor AINZ & TULPE Shinjuku East Exit Multivision store screens in Tokyo will also show virtual fireworks every day from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m between August 5 and 9.

Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku had previously received an anime adaptation by Yoshimasa Hiraike at Studio A-1 Pictures. The anime later received an OVA in 2019.

Both the adaptations had received only average reviews even though it was adapted from a well-received Web Manga.

The announcement of an original anime episode has fans intrigued about what it’ll bring to the franchise.

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.

Source: Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku Volume 9

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