I Love You So Much, I Hate You (Japanese: 憎らしいほど愛してる, Hepburn: Nikurashii hodo Aishiteru) is a Japanese yuri manga series written and illustrated by Yuni. The series follows an affair between Saori Fujimura and her boss Ayako Asano. I Love You So Much, I Hate You was published online on Enterbrain's Comic Marche on the Pixiv Comic website and on Kadokawa Corporation's ComicWalker website from May 10, 2019 to July 19, 2019 and was collected into a single tankōbon volume the same year. It was licensed for an English-language release by Yen Press.
| I Love You So Much, I Hate You | |
 Cover of the Japanese bound volume | |
| 憎らしいほど愛してる (Nikurashii hodo Aishiteru) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Romance, yuri |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yuni |
| Published by | Enterbrain |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Comic Marche |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Original run | May 10, 2019 – July 19, 2019 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Synopsis
editSaori Fujimura is an upcoming star in the planning department who has a great working relationship with her boss, Ayako Asano. However, after assisting her with work that she has been struggling to finish, Ayako invites Saori out for drinks at a bar. After Saori drinks too much and confesses she's in love with Ayako the two send the night together despite Ayako already being married.
Publication
editWritten and illustrated by Yuni, I Love You So Much, I Hate You was published online on Enterbrain's Comic Marche, on the Pixiv Comic website and on Kadokawa Corporation's ComicWalker website from May 10, 2019 to July 19, 2019.[1] It was collected into a single tankōbon volume on July 30, 2019.
It was licensed for an English-language release by Yen Press.[2]
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 30, 2019[3] | 978-4-04-735714-3 | August 18, 2020[4] | 978-1-97-531424-8 |
Reception
editThe series has received positive reviews. Rose Bridges of Anime News Network gave I Love You So Much, I Hate You an overall A rating, noting that it was one of her new favorite yuri mangas. She summarized that "the big honest feelings, clever humor, and just-right amounts of drama and sexuality come together into the perfect romantic package."[5]
Erica Friedman of Yuricon commented that the series was a "very decent guilty pleasure read" noting that "in real life, Fujimura and Asano and their hidden-in-plain-sight affair, would probably be absolutely intolerable separately and together, but as a fiction, it all feels, well, kind of sweet…and, with an epilogue that ties the story up, satisfying."[6]
References
edit- ^ "憎らしいほど愛してる ～不倫×百合＆上司×部下～". Pixiv. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
- ^ Sherman, Jennifer (November 16, 2019). "Yen Press Adds Bestia, Carole & Tuesday, 11 More Manga/Novels". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
- ^ 憎らしいほど愛してる (in Japanese). Enterbrain. ASIN B07V4J3BPT.
- ^ "I Love You So Much, I Hate You". Yen Press. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
- ^ Bridges, Rose (September 10, 2020). "Review: I Love You So Much, I Hate You". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
- ^ Friedman, Erica (September 4, 2020). "I Love You So Much, I Hate You". Okazu. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
External links
edit- Official manga website at ComicWalker (in Japanese)
- Official manga website at pixiv Comic (in Japanese)
- I Love You So Much, I Hate You (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia