Dec 21, 2025
I picked this one up because I'm interested in slice-of-life manga that's got adults in it, rather than highschoolers, and it deals with problems of adulthood in Japan. the main source of conflict is between the heroine's need to act like a proper lady and conform to the societal standards for a 30-something Japanese woman, and her need to have real emotional connections with the people around her.
Because she's so caught up in role-playing her own life, our heroine gets sexually harassed by her boss, can't make time to see her family, finds herself on dates she can't say no to, eating food she doesn't
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like, drinking when she doesn't want to, and in danger losing touch with her work bestie who is quitting to be a full-time mother.
Our heroine's life is at all times slipping away from her as she lacks the will power to say "I want this" about anything.
Enter: Takahashi-kun.
Our main love interest is a much younger, very attractive lower-class man working in a bike shop. He speaks roughly, was raised by his grandpa because his parents weren't around, has several piercings and tattoos, drives a beater kei truck, and his friends are a young father who runs a ramen shop, and a mangaka who needs help doing screentones.
This is a man who is, on paper, all wrong.
But, he is forthright about what he wants and expects our heroine to be too. As the story progresses he's been teaching her how to say "yes, I want this" from life, even when it might inconvenience other people. (usually the "inconvenience" just leads to a genuine emotional interaction and the characters become closer after being able to be genuine with each other for once) it's a bit of the classic "manic pixie dream girl" tropes but with a guy with a truck as the dream boy instead. There's only three volumes out so far in english and I am excited to see where things are going to go.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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