I Have a Crush at Work

📖 SYNOPSIS

Working at the same confectionery company, Yui Mitsuya in planning and Masugu Tateishi in accounting are the pair everyone in the office thinks can't stand each other. The bickering, the cold shoulders, the passive-aggressive email chains. Except it's all an act. They're actually dating and desperately trying to keep it that way without anyone finding out. So naturally, every attempt to hide it just creates more chaos. A near-miss in the break room, an accidentally tender moment during a meeting, coworkers who are way too perceptive for comfort — the 12-episode TV series is basically a slow-motion game of "how long can two adults pretend to hate each other before someone catches on." What makes it work is that it nails the specific awkwardness of being in a relationship you can't acknowledge at the place you spend most of your waking hours. The comedy comes from situations that feel genuinely plausible rather than over-the-top anime nonsense, and the romance has that warm, lived-in quality where you're rooting for a couple that's already together instead of waiting for a confession. If you liked the adult workplace energy of Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku or the office dynamics in My Senpai is Annoying, this hits a similar sweet spot — cozy, funny, and grounded in the reality that being a working adult with a love life is its own kind of comedy.