In Volume 1, we met Okabe-san, a new manager for top model Yuria-san. Yuri appears cool and remotes but that may well be because she’s so beautiful no one will talk with her. Okabe-san genuinely likes Yuria and is absolutely also intimidated by her beauty, but slowly, Yuria asks, cajoles and need Okabe to be a friend to her.

In Volume 2 of Model-chan and Kimi Mane-san (モデルちゃんと地味マネさん) Okabe-san’s feeling are running ahead of her and Yuria-san isn’t helping by being in serious need of a kind and caring friend. Yuria-san takes her job very seriously, even to the point of not caring for herself. As Okabe-san gets to know her, she find she wants to take care of her charge.

Yuri-san asks Okabe to address her less formally. Okabe-san hesitates, not because she doesn’t like Yuria-chan, but but because she does. At a celebratory party for Yuria’s photograph book, Okabe is waned about becoming too close with her client. It all comes to a head on a winter night at a annual star-gazing event, where the lights go off so city dwellers can make out the night sky. Yuria is recognized and her poor manager is assumed by the Internets to be a boyfriend. Luckily, Yuria-chan is blithely unconcerned with the Internet and neither is their agency.

The omake is a short sweet story in which Okabe gives Yuria a present for her birthday. And that is where the story comes to an end, with Yuri and Okabe smiling and laughing with one another.

This whole story is making something from very little. For all of Okabe’s zOMG! reactions, little happened.

Ratings:

Art – 7
Story – 7
Characters – 7
Yuri – 5 Yuria’s trying
Service – 3 a bit of skin

Overall- a solid 7

In between that nothing, a story that might have been problematic – a manager and her client becoming an item – ends up sweet and harmless instead. Sure they might be a couple one day, but not today.