Manga 159768 Misato-san Wa Amasugi Joushi Ni Chotto Kibishii

I've read the first seven chapters and must say that it's a pretty good, no-bullshit office romance manga. The plot is not excessively romantic and strikes a wonderful balance. The major plot simply centers around a 25-year-old serious office worker falling in love with a 55-year-old workmate. Overall, it's an excellent read; but, before deciding whether it's worthwhile, I advise you to read the first five chapters. A solid 7 out of 10.

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I've read the first seven chapters and must say that it's a pretty good, no-bullshit ... office romance manga. The plot is not excessively romantic and strikes a wonderful balance. The major plot simply centers around a 25-year-old serious office worker falling in love with a 55-year-old workmate. Overall, it's an excellent read; but, before deciding whether it's worthwhile, I advise you to read the first five chapters. A solid 7 out of 10.

In a genre dominated by teenage high school romances, anything with an adult cast and literally any other setting is automatically something worth checking out. Unfortunately, if this is the best we can manage outside of the norm then we might as well just go back to the teenagers.

As of chapter 17 there's literally no rom in this rom-com, and at the current rate of progress there'll barely be any in a hundred chapters time. There isn't even the slightest hint that the older male love-interest sees our MC as anything other than a co-worker and possible surrogate daughter, which means that there's zero sexual ... tension, and all we're left with is a slightly pathetic MC pining after an older man simply because he's kind to everyone. This guy is going to require a complete personality transplant if we're going to see any kind of progress, because the pained lengths that he'll go to in apologising for possible sexual harassment - for things that don't even begin to warrant any kind of apology - are so ingrained into his mode of being.

Honestly, if this is an even slightly realistic representation of how things are in the modern Japanese workplace then it's no wonder birth rates there are so low. But realistic or not, what it provides is a decidedly frustrating read. Yes, a slow rate of progress is the norm in rom-com manga, but there's usually at least some hint of things to come, a good reason the MC is interested in who they're interested in, a hint that those feelings are returned, really just anything that keeps the reader coming back. It's a struggle to find any of that here, and it doesn't seem worth sticking around in the hopes that they might appear at some distant point in the future.

Artwork in the manga is mostly decent, the MC in particular is really nicely drawn, but the same cannot usually be said of our wet blanket of a love-interest. When he's being drawn as an attractive older man he sometimes looks ok, but the more comedic faces he's given are horrible, and just add to the sense that this is a guy with utterly zero rizz, who quite honestly the MC has no business being so attracted to.