Ayaka-chan is fashionable and cute. As a result, she’s super popular with her male colleagues. Unfortunately for them, she isn’t interested. Ayaka only has eyes for her cool, competent sempai, career woman Hiroko.

Hiroko is put out greatly by Ayaka’s flirting. The problem isn’t that Hiroko isn’t interested…the problem is that she is. Very interested. And this apparently straight girl is driving her out of her mind. Poor Hiroko drinks away her pain every night at a lesbian bar, screaming at how vexing this all is!

In the meantime Ayaka amps up her seduction techniques. It drives her crazy that Hiroko never seems to notice her, no matter what she does. There is a punchline of course: What Hiroko will do when she finds out, is the subject of Volume 2. ^_^

And so their days go, each driving each other crazy in Sal Jiang’s office romance, Ayaka-chan ha Hiroko-sempai ni Koishiteru, Volume 1 (彩香ちゃんは弘子先輩に恋してる).

As usual with a Jiang story, the art is stylish, the characters feel completely real and the collision that’s coming is set up in a way that could be amazingly fun or bad (or both at the same time!) and still be equally entertaining.

Ratings:

Art – 8
Story – 8
Characters – 10
Service – 5 Ayaka is not above using her assets to get Hiroko’s attention, so mostly T&A.
Yuri – 7
Lesbian – 9

Overall – 8

I’m interested and pleased that this book is a Futabasha book. I’m always glad when Futabasha puts out openly queer work. You can read sample chapters in Japanese on Web Action, if you’d like to get a feel for this – I know there are plenty of Jiang fans reading this blog.

I’m going to hope that if her Black & White (which I reviewed here earlier this year and has since been licensed by Seven Seas,) does well, we’ll see this goofier story in English as well. ^_^ Normally, I wouldn’t assume, but Seven Seas already licenses stuff from Futabasha, so it’s not a stretch.