| Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku | |
 First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Hirotaka Nifuji (left) and Narumi Momose (right) | |
| ヲタクに恋は難しい (Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii) | |
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| Genre | Romantic comedy[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Fujita |
| Published by | Ichijinsha |
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| Demographic | Josei |
| Original run | April 17, 2014 – July 16, 2021 |
| Volumes | 11 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yoshimasa Hiraike |
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| Written by | Yoshimasa Hiraike |
| Music by | Akimitsu Honma |
| Studio | A-1 Pictures |
| Licensed by | Amazon Prime Video (streaming) |
| Original network | Fuji TV (noitaminA) |
| Original run | April 13, 2018 – June 22, 2018 |
| Episodes | 11 |
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| Produced by | Kazuki Ōshima |
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| Released | March 29, 2019 – October 14, 2021 |
| Episodes | 3 |
| Live-action film | |
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. It was first posted on Pixiv in April 2014. It began serialization in Comic Pool, a joint web manga publication project by Ichijinsha and Pixiv, in November 2015. Ichijinsha began publishing the manga in print in April 2015 and 11 tankōbon volumes were published. It tells the story of Narumi Momose, an otaku and fujoshi trying to keep her secret at a new job, who ends up rekindling a friendship and starting a romance with her old classmate Hirotaka Nifuji, a fellow 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.
By August 2020, the manga had over 10 million copies in circulation, including digital editions.
- ^ Ressler, Karen (February 22, 2018). "Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku Anime's Ad Reveals Opening Theme by sumika". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on March 5, 2018. Retrieved January 5, 2020.