Bukiyou na Senpai.
My Awkward Senpai
不器用な先輩。
Azusa Kannawa, ace of the publicity department, is known for her unmatched reliability. Her coworkers, on the other hand, find her no-nonsense demeanor intimidating. Yet, unbeknownst to them, a socially awkward woman hides underneath the facade, simply struggling with casual communication and masking it with a strong attitude. However, her mask begins to crack when a promising rookie, Yuu Kamegawa, joins the team and Azusa gets assigned as his mentor. Determined to guide Kamegawa just like how her senior once trained her, Kannawa puts utmost effort into showing him the ropes. But as they grow closer, she slowly lowers her guard, gradually revealing that the seemingly rigid department ace might actually be far kinder than anyone initially thought. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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Azusa Kannawa, ace of the publicity department, is known for her unmatched reliability. Her coworkers, on the other hand, find her no-nonsense demeanor intimidating. Yet, unbeknownst to them, a socially awkward woman hides underneath the facade, simply struggling with casual communication and masking it with a strong attitude. However, her mask begins to crack when a promising rookie, Yuu Kamegawa, joins the team and Azusa gets assigned as his mentor. Determined to guide Kamegawa just like how her senior once trained her, Kannawa puts utmost effort into showing him the ropes. But as they grow closer, she slowly lowers her guard, gradually revealing that the seemingly rigid department ace might actually be far kinder than anyone initially thought. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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Chuy_diazz
December 21, 2025
An office romance that makes the same mistake as other anime in this genre: putting a school romance in an office setting. If you like these kinds of stories, that's fine, and I respect that. But if you tell me that the anime is a good representation of adult life and workplace problems, then I have my doubts. Let's break it down because there are a lot of things that bother me. First, Kannawa, the female protagonist. The story portrays her as someone who struggles to communicate and is always misunderstood. This leads to everyone being afraid of her because she tends to be quite aggressivein her responses. Up to this point, there's nothing wrong with that, until you learn her job title. She's in charge of a Marketing department, which involves many meetings with clients, and she's very good at managing them. This is where it doesn't make sense: how can someone who knows how to communicate with clients not be able to communicate with everyone else? The girl communicates perfectly, so it's a bit contradictory. In the final part of the anime, they explain the reason why, and it's somewhat resolved, but at the beginning, it doesn't make sense, and it ends up looking like a teenager afraid to talk to her classmates, even though they're adults. Second, despite being set in an office, this aspect of the work environment is barely explored. The problems are always personal and rarely professional. In an anime that initially focuses on a boss training a new employee, you'd expect them to show how complicated it is to integrate into adult professional life. It doesn't have to be something complex; it just has to be problems that adults commonly face. The male protagonist, oh my god, he's a piece of furniture. He contributes nothing and lets Kannawa carry the entire story. He's incredibly slow in both his actions and reactions. The story tries everything to put him in situations to develop their relationship, and he doesn't take advantage of them. They make them share a room, walk under the same umbrella in a hurricane, work on a cafe project together, and he does absolutely nothing. You reach a point where you ask yourself, "What more do you need, you jerk?" The anime improves significantly as the episodes progress. The introduction of two secondary characters breathes a lot of life into it. It allows the girl to have a wider range of expressiveness and interactions beyond the romantic. They make you appreciate her and even develop a little affection for her. The problem is that so much focus is given to the girl that the boy is neglected for long periods, making him easily forgettable. The boy has to be there because a romance requires two people, but if it were an office slice-of-life anime, he would be superfluous. Although the anime improves somewhat, it still suffers from the same underlying problem: it still feels like a school romance. Adult issues are absent; they simply don't exist. There are no problems that a worker can empathize with. Because the girl, as a trainer, does the bare minimum, and the boy spends more time trying to win over the boss than actually working. The anime had a lot of potential in this regard because the company is a marketing firm that works with all kinds of industries. It was an opportunity to use the story to explain how anime collaborations with cafes work or how advertising is done in Japan. Instead, they chose to portray the protagonists as if they were 13 years old again. When an office romance is announced, it's expected that professional challenges will be included in addition to romantic ones. If you don't, then why even bother thinking about an office setting? This romance, if you extrapolate it to a school, can be told in the same way without any changes.
