Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai

Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai
Cover of volume 1.
ダメな私に恋してください
Genre	love comedy
Manga
Written by	Aya Nakahara
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Josei
Magazine	You
Original run	April 2013 – present
Volumes	9

Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai (ダメな私に恋してください, lit Please Love the Useless Me) is an ongoing Japanese love comedy josei manga series written and illustrated by Aya Nakahara. It's published by Shueisha, with serialization on You magazine since April 2013 and with the chapters compiled into nine volumes so far.^[1][2] The series has been licensed in France by Delcourt under the name Please love me.^[3] The manga has been made into a Japanese live-action drama by TBS, which was broadcast from January 12, 2016 to March 15, 2016.^[4]

Plot

Michiko Shibata is a woman who is thirty years old, and yet she has no job, no money, and no real boyfriend. She was let go by her former employment after it went bankrupt. She meets her former supervisor Ayumu Kurosawa, who offers Michiko a job at his cafe "Himawari" until she gets back on her feet. With Ayumu's help, Michiko slowly gets her life back on track.^[5]

Characters

• Michiko Shibata: The main character of the series. A 29-year-old woman who loses her job and starts working for her former supervisor in his café until she finds another job.^[2] She is played by Kyoko Fukada in the live-action drama.
• Ayumu Kurosawa: Michiko's former supervisor and now current employer at the Himawari cafe. He used to be a former gangster and seems formidable, but he takes it upon himself to look after those who are in trouble, such as Michiko.^[6] He is played by Dean Fujioka in the live-action drama.
• Daichi Mogami: Michiko's colleague at her new place of employment. He is her first real boyfriend, and is younger than her.^[6] He is played by Shohei Miura in the live-action drama.

Volumes

• 1 (August 23, 2013)^[7]
• 2 (December 25, 2013)^[8]
• 3 (April 25, 2014)^[9]
• 4 (August 25, 2014)^[10]
• 5 (December 25, 2014)^[11]
• 6 (April 24, 2015)^[12]
• 7 (August 25, 2015)^[13]
• 8 (December 25, 2015)^[14]
• 9 (May 25, 2016)^[15]
• 10 (Nov 25, 2016)

Reception

Volume 4 reached the 16th place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of August 31, 2014, had sold 56,282 copies;^[16] volume 5 reached the 43rd place^[17] and, as of January 4, 2015, had sold 69,150 copies;^[18] volume 6 reached the 25th place and, as of April 26, 2015, had sold 34,567 copies.^[19]

References

External links

• Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai on you.shueisha.co.jp (Japanese)