Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai
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Synonyms: Please Love the Useless Me
Japanese: ダメな私に恋してください


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Type: Manga
Volumes: 10
Chapters: 43
Status: Finished
Published: Apr 15, 2013 to Aug 12, 2016
Genres: Comedy Comedy, Romance Romance
Themes: Adult Cast Adult Cast, Workplace Workplace
Demographic: Josei Josei
Serialization: YOU
Authors: Nakahara, Aya (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.781 (scored by 90639,063 users)
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Ranked: #14562
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Popularity: #829
Members: 25,390
Favorites: 411

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Recently unemployed, 29-year-old Michiko Shibata has barely any money left and so must survive solely on cabbages. With no qualifications and little experience for her age, all of her job interviews have been unfruitful. Despite this, she continues to splurge on expensive gifts for her young "boyfriend" in the hopes that her romantic interest will someday marry and support her. Eventually, Shibata finds out that her feelings are one-sided, for her boyfriend has been lying and using her for money.

At the lowest point of her life, she unexpectedly reunites with Ayumu Kurosawa, her strict former boss whom she resents. Feeling responsible for her unemployment, Kurosawa agrees to help Shibata and once again becomes her employer.

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Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai was adapted into a Japanese live-action drama TV series directed by Hayato Kawai, Ryosuke Fukuda and Sho Tsukikawa that aired on TBS from January 12 to March 15, 2016.
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Characters

Kurosawa, Ayumu
Kurosawa, Ayumu
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Shibata, Michiko
Shibata, Michiko
Main
Akira
Akira
Supporting
Kadoma, Yuki
Kadoma, Yuki
Supporting
Kurosawa, Hajime
Kurosawa, Hajime
Supporting
Mogami, Daichi
Mogami, Daichi
Supporting
Junta
Junta
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Haruko
Haruko
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14 Recommended
1 Mixed Feelings
0 Not Recommended
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Aug 22, 2025
Omega_Keiichi
Recommended
I came in with lower expectations, but MAN I was wrong. This is a phenomenal work that should be talked about far more often!

Both of the main characters are fantastic in their depth and growth in the series, but every character is amazing in their own right. Shibata is a very stupid girl that has had one of the roughest nontragic lives, but she keeps moving forward. Watching her struggle with her weakness and find happiness is as equally entertaining as her natural silliness and expressions. Of course Shunin/Kurosawa is the perfect counter to her character, as he is able to keep up with her ...
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Jan 2, 2025
lala_lxlx
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I'm not the type of person who would like love triangle type of things (yk when someone gets in the way.) but I learned from this manga that it takes patience! I ended up being satisfied after reading the manga (ᵕ—ᴗ—) if you liked the anime/manga of Lovely Complex then I'm sure you'll love this one! although it was quite overwhelming when I read the first couple of chapters, it was worth it in the end! this also teaches me a lesson, that not everything is too late even though you're an old 30-something and a four-eye pervert ꉂ (≧ヮ≦)

Characters: 5/5 the characters are not ...
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Sep 4, 2022
OG_Otaku
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Preliminary (2/43 eps)
If you liked Lovely Complex, then you will probably like Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai. This should be the kind of story I really go for: corporate cog Shunin quits his conventional job to take over his grandma's cafe, with the ambition of recreating a neighborhood hangout where all kinds of people could come for peace, comfort food, and a restful respite from the stresses of their lives. It all sounds very Iyashikei.

But it is the delivery that I can't get into. There is a sort of romantic tension between the main characters, but the focus is not on the potential romance, ...
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