Godly Artist High School Girl and Fujoshi Office Lady is not good.

The art, pacing, character designs, comedy, and the overall personality are pretty good, and I assume that's why it's seemingly won a lot of people over. The idea of a relationship between an untalented super fan and an artist who feels inspired by them seems like it should be great, after all. It would be very easy to try not to think too deeply about what's actually going on and just enjoy what's presented uncritically.

The problem is that it's really disgusting and I can't just not see it for what it is.

Godly Artist High School Girl and Fujoshi Office Lady (henceforth just called JK+OL) is about the romantic relationship between a woman in her mid-late 20s and a high school girl who is a minor and is about 10 years her junior. Everything else about this manga is ultimately moot in the face of this.

JK+OL does not just use the age gap as set dressing; it loves the dynamic that it knows is wrong. Multiple side characters repeatedly point out the immorality and literal criminality of the relationship, but they are never taken seriously and most end up supporting the protagonists. The POV character herself, the titular Fujoshi Office Lady, is fully aware through the entire run of the manga that it's both weird and wrong to be romantically involved with a minor. That never stops or deters her, to be clear, but boy is she aware of it!

Everything about JK+OL from front to back centers the criminal age gap between the protagonists in a spotlight and simply says "cool lmao." There is no criticism and there is no nuance. The reader is expected to root for the hebephile to get with the child and cheer when things go their way. I really can't stomach it.

This manga is not good. If you're interested in age gap yuri that's handled well, check out If I Could Reach You. Please pass on this gross groomer-bait.

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I had so many laughs reading this manga, which I enjoyed a lot. The story follows an amateur illustrator developing romantic feelings towards her diehard fan. The story would continue as they try to validate and figure out this newly-found love towards each other, as their relationship seems to be rushed and sounds "too-good-to-be-true".

I like how the author acknowledges that their relationship seems to be rushed (they were truly starstrucked by each other), and then chose to revolve around that topic. I personally picked-up a lot of insights from this manga about myself as I somewhat relate to Aizawa-san as she tries to find any good qualities about herself for Misumi-san to like her, but their relationship taught me that love is something that is unconditional. When a person truly has feelings for you, you do not need to show an inappropriately extravagant amount of love, status, power, and skills to prove yourself to that person because love is simply unconditional. It is more of a decision that you chose and a decision that you commit yourself despite the uncertainties that lies ahead of it.

I am not going to lie that the plot would seem predictable from there on (hence the 7 rating), as the story would sometimes twist the readers expectation (Misumi decides to stay away from Ai to not foster a sense of extreme dependency towards her), but I still liked it anyways. Ai's office scenes were extremely funny alongside with her co-worker, and the jokes about Ai and Misumi's relationship is a crime really gets me every time (Ai is 10 years older than Mismumi, and Misumi is a 2nd year HS student). I am really looking forward to read more of this.

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