Turns Out My Online Friend is My Real-Life Boss!

by Nmura

Genres: Manga, Romance
Pages: 326
Series: Turns Out My Online Friend is My Real-Life Boss! #1
Rating:

Synopsis:

Hashimoto is your average office worker—young, and prone to being pushed around by his demon boss, Shirase. His only escape is his favorite online game, and the friends he’s made within. But when he plans an offline meetup for his party, he gets the surprise of his life…!

Nmura’s Turns Out My Online Friend is my Real-Life Boss! is really cute. The reason I’m giving it such a low rating is more to do with me than with the manga itself, which I know other people can enjoy, and it’s because I have a very low threshold for embarrassment squick and the story frequently triggered it. My wife had to listen to me whimpering “oh no, oh no” so often, and suggested more than once that maybe this wasn’t the book for me…

Thing is, it is cute. And as an avid player of Final Fantasy XIV, who has met up with a friend from it, the scenario is perfectly familiar. The problem (for me) is that I cringed so hard at the misunderstandings and the sheer obliviousness of one of the characters. Few people are truly that oblivious…! And the highschooler’s crush was just — well, a highschooler’s crush, those are often pretty excruciating by definition.

So it just wasn’t really for me, but if you have a higher tolerance for characters getting into weird and embarrassing situations, making silly assumptions, etc, etc, then you might well enjoy it very much.

Rating: 2/5