Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku (2018)

Animation · Comedy · Romance

When Narumi, an office lady who hides the fact that she is a yaoi fangirl, changes jobs, she is reunited with Hirotaka, her childhood friend who is attractive and skilled but is a hardcore gaming otaku. They decide to start dating for now, but being otaku, both of them are awkward so a serious romantic relationship is rather difficult for them...

IMDb rating: 7.5 (6,602 votes)
Episode average: 7.5 matches the IMDb rating
Seasons: 1
Language: JA
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (2018)

7.55 avg 14 episodes 7.2 → 8.6 23 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Narumi and Hirotaka Meet Again, and...	7.2	221
2	Are We Now Dating?	7.1	198
3	Sales Event and Gamers Meetup	7.8	181
4	Is Mature Love as Difficult?	7.3	173
5	Introducing Naoya and Gamers Meetup (Part II)	7.1	167
6	Bleak Christmas	6.9	163
7	Online Gaming and Their Respective Nights	7.1	160
8	Weakness is Thunder and Years of Insecurity	7.2	154
9	Go Out on a Date with Me!	7.8	164
10	Introducing Kou-kun and Online Gaming Revenge	7.3	156
11	Love Is Hard for Otaku	7.7	186
12	OVA 1	8.2	126
13	OVA 2	8.4	84
14	OVA 3	8.6	83