Koi ni wa Mukanai Shokugyou
The lead member of an idol group falls for his former manager, who is reluctant to date him because of their age gap and positions at the company. When the idol decides to practice kissing for an upcoming movie role, he inadvertently confesses to his manager, who pushes him away for a little bit and then decides they can be together anyway. I love this author so I expected that this would have the same sort of emotional impact as my favorite of hers, which is about the two coworkers. Unfortunately this felt flat. I didn’t care about either character. I had zero investment in their relationship. The tension was manufactured around a slight age gap and the fact that one used to manage the other, but we didn’t really get to see much suffering during the brief time they were a part. They don’t seem to bring out anything great in one another. So while it was very pretty and it looked like the story I enjoyed by the same author, I would probably not read it again.
S+ Rush!!