Trope: office romance

10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40

40までにしたい10のこと (40 made ni Shitai 10 no Koto)

MAMITA

Three months from forty, a manager writes a private bucket list, and his junior colleague finds it.

A Future With You

Shimako Wan

A customer support worker buried in stress is offered an outlet by the office cleaner.

A Handsome Price

Kang sun (story), JB (art)

Getting chewed out by his unfairly handsome team leader does something to Assistant Manager Lim that he would rather die than admit.

Anyhow, the Rabbit Is Infatuated with the Puppy

なんせうさぎは子犬に夢中 (Nanse Usagi wa Koinu ni Muchuu)

Nie

A shy office worker who plays a bunny girl online meets the young man behind his favorite party member.

Ask and You Will Receive

Niyama

A mild office worker who is a playboy after dark finds the stuck-up star of the sales team sitting in his gay bar.

Bathe Me in Your Voice

Tomo Nakami

Rui Hotaka is a Switch, able to be Dom or Sub. On a dating app he meets Reo, a Dom with a voice he cannot resist.

Beautiful Things: The Complete Manga Collection

美しいこと (Utsukushii Koto)

story: Narise Konohara

After a breakup, Matsuoka starts going out at night in his ex-girlfriend's clothes, and a kind coworker falls for the woman he appears to be.

BL First Crush Anthology: Five Seconds Before We Fall in Love

僕らが恋する5秒前～うぶ恋BLアンソロジー～ (Bokura ga Koisuru 5 Byou Mae ~Ubu Koi BL Anthology~)

Ken Homerun, Shoko Rakuta, Azusa Banjo, Kotobuki, Mito, Kaori Tsurutani

A short story collection about the first moment a heart skips, from the soccer field to the office.

Business as Unusual

LHYEON, DG, MOSCARETO

Minjun's monotonous office life cracks open when his ex walks in as the new coworker.

Can You Kiss Me First?

お前のほうからキスしてくれよ (Omae no Hou kara Kiss Shite Kure yo)

Yamayade

The star of the sales team learns his stern friend from accounting is gay, and is oddly annoyed to hear he is not the man's type.

Candy Color Paradox

飴色パラドックス (Ameiro Paradox)

Isaku Natsume

A straight-laced magazine reporter is teamed with a photographer whose methods drive him up the wall.

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!

30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい (30-sai made Doutei da to Mahoutsukai ni Nareru rashii)

Yuu Toyota

A shy office worker turns thirty a virgin, gains the power to read minds by touch, and learns his handsome colleague is in love with him.

Contract Signed: Irreversible

이 계약은 파기할 수 없습니다

Unineo

A secretary who has loved his alpha boss for years helps arrange the man's engagement, then spends one rut-fueled night with him.

Cosmetic Playlover

Sachi Narashima

A top beauty consultant is paired with the junior who took his sales crown and then learns his secret.

Cupid in the Rainbow Trap

An Eunjin, RottengreenT

An office matchmaker who can see auras has never had a romance of his own until he kisses the new recruit.

DANKY NIGHT

YAGOH

Office worker Umesawa has never got over Haze, the stubborn colleague who quit without a word.

Day Off

Dailygreens

An office manager and his sunny subordinate are dating and trying to keep it out of the workplace.

Do or Die: Work On Hold

KJY (Kang Jiyoung), CYJ (Choi YuJin)

An intern finally old enough to ask out his longtime crush is given a deadly deadline to do much more.

FAKE FACT LIPS

Machi Suehiro

Two rivals since high school now work at the same company and will turn anything into a contest.

Far From Romance

ロマンスには程遠い (Romance ni wa Hodotooi)

Amamiya

Arata's new British coworker says they have met before, and he is right: he was the girl Arata liked in high school.

Generation Z is outside of Chief Sakura's understanding

Michi

Sales chief Sakura is a divorced Millennial who cannot work out his new Gen Z hire, Aoi.

Hatsujo Playroom

Shiramatsu

Ten years on, Moriya still loves a high school classmate, and that classmate has just joined his company.

HEALING PARADOX

Hirune Cyan

An overworked ad salesman visits a chiropractor his own age whose friendliness is almost too much.

I Can't Resist Those Lips

Laila Katagiri

Yuichi is the top salesman at a cosmetics company and is forever at odds with Kotaro, who manages the beauty consultants.

I Don't Give a Damn About Pure Love

Wasabi Ochazuke

A man who moonlights as an escort is hired by the new guy from his day job.

I Need to Suck Blood Tonight

Amidamuku

Upright office worker Minoru Sayo wakes up a vampire and, on principle, tries to live on cat blood.

I SAY

アイ、セイ

Nemui Asada

A 36-year-old who keeps love at arm's length has his rules upended, in a collection of short stories.

I Want to Spoil You

Nobiru Hoshi

Wataru Manaka lands a job at his dream company and is assigned to the department run by Reiji Kenzaki, known as the devil.

If You Love Me, Kneel Down

Tsubame Sato

Matsuda and Kato joined the bank's elite sales floor on the same day and have been competing ever since.

If You Want Me, Beg

Hachiko Sato

IT salesman Miyama lands his biggest job yet, and the only engineer free to help is the office loner, Odagiri.

Kitayama and Minamiya

北山くんと南谷くん (Kitayama-kun to Minamiya-kun)

Sugar Satoh

Minamiya can picture anyone's most heated expression at a glance, except his cute coworker's.

Look At Me

룩 앳 미

Tansan

A superdominant alpha's ideal omega from a one-night stand turns out to be a beta who works at his company.

Manly Appetites: Minegishi Loves Otsu

峰岸さんは大津くんに食べさせたい (Minegishi-san wa Otsu-kun ni Tabesasetai)

Mito

A respected salaryman has one consuming desire at the office: feeding his grumpy co-worker.

My Annoying Boss Is... Kinda Sexy?!

Ebi Umino

His boss is arrogant, condescending and always on his case. So why can he not stop thinking about him?

My Boyfriend is a Dog

犬系の彼氏 (Inukei no Kareshi)

KADIRO

Kentarou is a gruff dogman whose tail gives him away every time his boyfriend walks in.

My Inner Voice is Loud Enough

Eiko

Nozaki and Nishida are a capable boss and subordinate, each entirely unaware of how the other feels.

My Invincible Vitality

Ikuyasu

A businessman with a secret passion for admiring muscles tries to ignore a well-built colleague he envies.

My Pudgy Co-worker Is a Snack

Haikin

A man who does not think of himself as attractive is startled when a male coworker makes a move.

No Love Zone

연애제한구역

story & art: Danbi

An office worker who falls hard for good looks gets the boss of his dreams, who turns out to be a workplace tyrant.

Old-Fashioned Cupcake

オールドファッションカップケーキ (Old-Fashioned Cupcake)

Sagan Sagan

A 39-year-old in a rut is dragged to a pancake shop by his blunt younger coworker, and it wakes him up.

On or Off

온 오어 오프

A1

Yiyoung is pitching his college friends' startup to a major corporation when the executive across the table turns out to be exactly his type.

One-way Crush

Mindzap

A CEO hopes never to see the bar singer who clung to him again. Then the singer starts work as his assistant.

Patchwork

jayjay, Doran

A copywriter furious at an account that parodies his ads falls into bed with his attractive neighbor.

Pending Approval

DanamuEun, Dimang, Dansokang, GUGU, JINTAE, Samdukong

A circle of college friends end up at the same company, and every department is hiding a romance.

Perfect Buddy

퍼펙트 버디

story: Lash

A design team lead who wants a quiet routine catches his cheerful rival in a compromising moment, and the rival won't leave him alone.

Please, Melty Theater

Chiaki Kasai

An office worker in love with a colleague on a one-month posting finally asks him out on his last day.

Punch Drunk Love

펀치 드렁크 러브

story: MOSCARETO

Office worker Seon-woo falls for his new manager Tae-moon, then a glimpse at Tae-moon's phone convinces him they want the same kind of sex.

Reality Lover

YP

The picture-perfect boss is secretly a BL superfan, and his assistant has started resembling his favorite lead.

Stay By My Side After the Rain

雨上がりの僕らについて (Ameagari no Bokura ni Tsuite)

Shoko Rakuta

A closeted salaryman who has given up on love runs into the classmate he secretly liked in high school.

Suzushiro, a Tsundere, Can't Hide His Love!

Hamachi

Cool, capable Suzushiro is secretly in love with his boss, Kuramochi.

Sweet As Hell

SSAK

Nine years of casual sex between friends works fine, right up until it does not.

Sweet or Bitter Love

Con Ro

A gloomy office worker goes on a blind date and finds the colleague he has loved for years sitting across from him.

Tell Me When You're Full!

Pokerou

Chief Togawa is the most admired man in the company. He has also just been possessed by an incubus.

The Company's Star Couple Still Hasn't Gone All the Way!

minato hatsuharu

The whole office believes two coworkers are a couple. They are not, though each has a crush on the other.

The New Recruit

신입사원

story: MOSCARETO

A late-blooming intern finally lands the job he wanted, then learns his reserved, handsome new boss runs the team.

The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter (light novel)

異世界の沙汰は社畜次第 (Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai)

Yatsuki Wakatsu

The original novels about a workaholic accountant who audits a fantasy kingdom and catches a knight commander's eye.

The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter (manga)

異世界の沙汰は社畜次第 (Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai)

art Kazuki Irodori

An overworked accountant is dragged into another world by accident and immediately asks for a job.

The Second Alpha

2番目のα (2ban-me no Alpha)

Yofune Shibue

An alpha finds his fated mate on his first day at a new job, and the man is wearing a ring.

The Truth Is...

Tamaki Kirishima

Noguchi thinks his crush on colleague and childhood friend Misaki is a secret. Misaki can read every bit of it.

The Unquenchable Mr. Kim

MORAK

Quiet Mr. Kim is half vampire, cannot drink blood, and has to live on sex he is very bad at arranging.

The World's Greatest First Love

世界一初恋 (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)

Shungiku Nakamura

A manga editor starts a new job and discovers his boss is the first love who broke his heart ten years ago.

Top-Rated Omega

Fox Woof Studio

Left alone in his heat by a careless boyfriend, shy omega Aster gets help from the last person he expected: his aloof alpha boss.

Training Mister Sakurada

桜田先輩改造計画 (Sakurada-senpai Kaizou Keikaku)

Kaya Azuma

A fading office playboy wakes up tied to a hotel bed, with his perfect junior colleague walking through the door.

Under My Skin

Iroha Usui

A successful office worker who has never known real love meets a bold young carpenter.

Under that Grumpy Face, My Boss Is Just a Cutiepie

setsu

Everyone at the office is a bit scared of Mr. Mano, who scowls constantly and hardly speaks.

Unexpectedly Naughty Fukami

やたらやらしい深見くん (Yatara Yarashii Fukami-kun)

Ayaka Matsumoto

A man who scores every partner out of 100 writes off his plain coworker, until a business trip shows him another side.

Unromantic Office

언로맨틱 오피스

story and art: 누누 (Noonoo)

Sunwoo lands a big-company job and lectures a deadpan rookie on day one, only to learn the man is his superior.

Up to My Neck in Love

Nanjing Popular Netbooks Culture

Designer Dale Pearson calls CEO Bradley Wilkins a friend. What happens between them in private says otherwise.

Wails of the Bound

Keri Kusabi

A new hire at a top company learns his boss climbs the ladder by using an unusual power over people.

Wanna Be My Dress-Up Lover?

ねえ、おんなのこにしてあげる (Nee, Onnanoko ni Shite Ageru)

MAMITA

A stressed manager unwinds by working at a cross-dressing cafe, and one night his sarcastic subordinate walks in.

Want More Than Just A Peek?

izuki nao

A hard-working senior employee offers his moody subordinate a chance to make amends for spying on him.

We Are NOT Expensing the Hotel to the Company!

kuroki enuko

Kikuchi is a painfully serious accountant at an ad agency, secretly in love with the firm's most laid-back designer.

When It Rains, It Pours (Light Novel)

ふったらどしゃぶり (Futtara Doshaburi)

Michi Ichiho

Two co-workers, each unhappy at home, start confiding in an anonymous email pen pal without knowing who is on the other end.

Will You Take a Bath with Me?

GOOD NIGHT ・ ROUTINE (Goodnight Routine)

Maki Marukido

Mika keeps house for a senior colleague in return for a place to stay and learns the man hates taking baths.

Wish Me Love

once

A new hire asks his charismatic boss for a huge favor when debt collectors come after his father.

Worst Soulmate Ever

Unmei no Tsugai ga Omae da Nante

Haruta

An omega looking for his perfect match goes into heat alone with the coworker who cannot stand him.

XXX Buddy

Lash, daki

A misanthrope transferred to a new department catches his relentlessly cheerful coworker in an awkward moment.

Yes, No, or Maybe? (Light Novel)

イエスかノーか半分か (Yes ka No ka Hanbun ka)

Michi Ichiho

A TV newsreader with a flawless public image and a foul private temper is found out by a stop-motion animator.

Yes, No, or Maybe? (Manga)

イエスかノーか半分か (Yes ka No ka Hanbun ka)

story Michi Ichiho

The manga version of the newsroom romance about an anchor with two faces and the animator who meets both.

You Should Be The One To Come Kiss Me

Yamayade

Kou from Accounting is cool and a little feared. Eito is the company's sunny top salesman. Each is quietly in love with the other.

Your Treacle Affects At Night

Sachi Murakami

A drunken confession at a bar gets Minami a boyfriend he does not believe he deserves.