I Love You So Much, I Hate You
Japanese manga series
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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 office worker 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; it 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 |
| Original run | May 10, 2019 – July 19, 2019 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Synopsis
Saori Fujimura is a rising star employee in her company's planning department who has a great working relationship with her boss, Ayako Asano. One evening after assisting Saori with work that she has been struggling to finish, Ayako invites her out for drinks at a bar. After Saori drinks too much and confesses she's in love with Ayako, the two spend the night together despite Ayako being married.
Publication
Written 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
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 manga. 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]