If you liked On and Off: Work-Life Imbalance
12 manga like On and Off: Work-Life Imbalance
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with On and Off: Work-Life Imbalance (romance, slice of life), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Manga like On and Off: Work-Life Imbalance
Readers also like it1. Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku
by Fujita
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Narumi, a secret fangirl, takes a new office job and runs straight into Hirotaka, her childhood friend and a devoted gamer. They decide dating another otaku might be the easiest option there is. A funny, warm romance about two adults who are much better at games than at feelings. Shared interests remove one kind of embarrassment without making a relationship effortless. Office life, hobby time and different ways of showing affection provide the daily challenges, as the couple discovers what changes when a trusted friend becomes a partner.
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Readers also like it2. Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
by Jinushi
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Sasaki, a tired office worker, lives for two small pleasures: a cigarette behind the supermarket after work, and the shy cashier who smiles at him every day. Then a stranger starts joining his smoke breaks, and she looks oddly like that cashier. A warm, funny romance about two grown-ups who each show the other a different face. A short break becomes a space where conversation feels easier than it does during the working day. The pair's different public and private mannerisms sustain the gentle misunderstandings, while familiarity grows through meetings that neither initially treats as a major change in life.
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Readers also like it3. The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All
by Sumiko Arai
- Girls’ Love
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Aya is drawn to the stylish employee at a local CD shop, whose taste in rock music matches her own. She has no idea that the person she assumes is a young man is actually Mitsuki, the quiet girl who sits beside her at school. Mitsuki knows about Aya's crush and struggles to decide how to respond. Music gives them a connection that their usual school lives have not offered. As conversations grow more personal, the mistaken identity becomes harder to maintain, opening a romance about shared enthusiasm, self-expression and the fear of changing a relationship that already matters.
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Readers also like it4. Horimiya
by HERO, Daisuke Hagiwara
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Kyouko Hori seems to have everything together at school, while quiet Izumi Miyamura is easy for his classmates to overlook. Away from their classroom, neither fits that familiar image. When Miyamura appears at Hori's home with piercings and tattoos she has never seen, the two discover a private side of each other's lives. Sharing those secrets gives them a place to feel understood, and their unlikely friendship begins to change. Through awkward conversations, teasing friends and small acts of care, this school romance follows the intimacy of being known beyond the role everyone expects you to play.
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Crossdressing · Slice of Life5. How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer
by Nana Aokawa
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Tokiwa and two college friends arrive at a mixer expecting to meet three women, only to find three striking men waiting for them. The explanation lies in their hosts' work at a crossdressing bar. As the six spend more time together, awkward first impressions make room for three very different romances. Once the initial confusion clears, each pair discovers a different rhythm of attraction and hesitation. The relationships develop through shared outings and small adjustments, allowing the comedy of appearances to lead into more personal forms of understanding.
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Office Workers · Slice of Life6. My Awkward Senpai
by Makoto Kudo
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Kannawa has a reputation at work for being severe, but expressing herself is harder than her colleagues realize. Training new employee Kamegawa puts her good intentions and clumsy delivery in constant conflict. His willingness to see past her intimidating manner gradually changes their working relationship into a tentative office romance. Professional competence does not make personal feelings easy to express. Their daily interactions reveal the care hidden behind Kannawa's stern exterior, allowing a relationship to develop through patience, misread signals and a junior colleague who is willing to keep listening.
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Office Workers · Slice of Life7. The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl
by Miyuki Tonogaya
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Supernatural
Himuro descends from snow spirits, and when his feelings run high it starts to snow, which is awkward because he has a crush on his calm coworker Fuyutsuki. A soft office romance full of small gestures, slipping temperatures and colleagues who notice far too much. Keeping a professional exterior is difficult when emotion can change the office weather. Fuyutsuki's understated kindness and Himuro's visible reactions make small exchanges carry unusual weight, allowing the romance to advance through attentiveness rather than grand declarations.
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Office Workers · Slice of Life8. Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan
by Gaku Kuze
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
Uramichi Omota is the cheerful exercise host of a children's TV show. Off camera — and sometimes on it — he is a tired, cynical adult who cannot stop telling small children the truth about grown-up life. A very funny comedy about burnout. Bright studio smiles sit uneasily beside exhaustion, insecurity and workplace frustrations. Uramichi's inability to keep those feelings out of the programme creates an awkward gap between what adults promise children and what they can honestly say about their own lives.
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Office Workers · Slice of Life9. Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost
by Imari Arita
- Comedy
- Slice of Life (shared)
- Supernatural
Fushihara spends far too many nights at her desk, working long after everyone should have gone home. The office has a ghost, but frightening her is the last thing it wants to do. Little Yurei-chan worries about the exhausted employee and tries to persuade her to rest, offering help and treats instead of terrifying apparitions. Their encounters turn an oppressive workplace into the unlikely starting point for a comforting friendship. This everyday supernatural comedy follows the contrast between relentless adult responsibilities and a small spirit's determined kindness, finding humor in attempts to care for someone who has forgotten to care for herself.
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Slice of Life · Romance10. My Clueless First Friend
by Taku Kawamura
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Akane Nishimura keeps to herself at school, where an unkind nickname has made her an easy target. New transfer student Taiyou Takada hears the same nickname and thinks it sounds amazing. His cheerful curiosity turns awkward encounters into an unlikely friendship, slowly giving Akane a chance to come out of her shell. Takada's sincerity disrupts the assumptions that have kept Akane isolated. Ordinary school days gradually offer room for laughter and companionship, with the story finding its warmth in how a child's uncomplicated acceptance can change another child's experience of the same classroom.
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Slice of Life · Romance11. The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses
by Koume Fujichika
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Kaede Komura has fallen for the girl in the next seat, but talking to Mie is enough to send his heart racing. Mie's poor eyesight creates an unexpected opening: she keeps forgetting or breaking her glasses. Helping her through the school day brings Komura much closer to his crush than he ever planned. Shared books, mistaken impressions and tiny moments of kindness gradually turn an awkward arrangement into a bond. This gentle romantic comedy finds its excitement in everyday proximity, as two classmates slowly discover what their growing comfort with each other might mean.
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Slice of Life · Romance12. The Otaku Love Connection
by Chu Amairo
- Comedy
- Romance (shared)
- Slice of Life (shared)
Wataru Otonari is perfectly happy watching his favorite couple enjoy their high-school romance. He considers himself a background character, even as his own good looks and enthusiasm attract attention. Meeting other devoted fans turns his quiet hobby into a lively tangle of friendships, rival interpretations and unexpected feelings. Watching a romance is comfortable because the stakes seem to belong to someone else. Wataru's growing circle makes that distance harder to maintain, turning fan enthusiasm into a school comedy where the people observing love can become part of it themselves.
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