A Timid Woman Longing For Her Delivery Girl (Okubyou na Takase-san wa Kyou mo Kanojo o Machiwabiru) is a Yuri Genre manga by Haiji Sanada.
After being sexually assaulted by a male coworker and backstabbed by her female coworkers, Kei Takase quits her job and begins working freelance, wanting to minimize her contact with other people. Due to working from home, she often gets many packages delivered, and eventually meets Rinko Komine, a cheerful young woman who replaces the old man who used to deliver to her. Takase is initially wary of Rinko, but as time goes by, a bond slowly develops between them
The series lasted for three chapters in 2018 and can be found on Renta!
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The series contains examples of:
- Affectionate Nickname: In the Renta! translation, Rinko's grandmother often calls her "Rin."
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Aida acts like a good senpai to Takase, but later privately says she wishes Takase had left the company instead of Kazama. In a later meeting, she acts superficially pleasant to Takase while insulting her.
- Blaming the Victim: After Kazama is fired for sexually harassing Takase, Takase's coworkers accuse her of exaggerating the incident, and Aida believes Takase should have been fired instead.
- Blatant Lies: Aida claims she and her coworkers were worried about Takase after the latter left their company. Takase, who'd overheard them badmouthing her, isn't fooled for a moment.
- Book Ends: The series begins and ends with Rinko delivering a package to Takase.
- Country Mouse: Rinko and her grandmother are from the country.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Takase is cold and withdrawn at first, but warms up as Rinko comes over on a regular basis.
- Downer Beginning: Takase gets sexually harassed, and while the perpetrator gets fired, her reputation at the office is ruined, and she is forced to quit.
- Dub-Induced Plot Hole: In the Renta! translation, Rinko says that Takase had called her by name for the first time, which contradicts how earlier, Takase had used her first name. In the JapanStandard translation, this is avoided, since everyone refers to Rinko by her surname prior to that point.
- Excellent Judge of Character: Rinko quickly realizes from her dealings with people like Takase that city folk aren't as scary as she thought and gets a Gut Feeling telling her that Aida is bad news.
- First-Name Basis: Rinko is delighted when Takase calls her by her first name, since Takase is the first person to do so since she moved to Tokyo.
- Gut Feeling: Rinko has a "bad feeling" from Aida, so she extracts Takase from the conversation with her.
- Hate Sink: The two coworkers responsible for driving Takase to quit her job are completely despicable and have no redeeming qualities.
- Kazama makes remarks toward Takase that count as blatant sexual harassment. Later, when the two are in private, he grabs her by the wrist and fondles her. His firing is well-deserved, but sadly brings little in the way of catharsis to his victim, instead making her a pariah in the office.
- Aida readily badmouths Takase behind her back, expressing a preference that she leave the company, rather than the man who sexually harassed her. When they meet up again, Aida appears outwardly friendly, but makes thinly veiled insults against Takase, reopening her old emotional wounds. Rinko then intervenes and extracts Takase from the conversation, having concluded based on her Gut Feeling that Aida is a bad person.
- Informed Ability: Kazama is apparently so good at his job that his sexual harassment is treated as a harmless quirk, but we never see his skills in action.
- In Medias Res: The first scene of the story shows Takase getting a delivery from Rinko after she's warmed up to Rinko. It then shows when Takase first met Rinko, and a flashback to her leaving her old job.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Aida appears to be a kind senpai to Takase, but privately reveals she resents her and only stood up for her out of concern for her own professioal reputation. She later shows up to badmouth her.
- Jerkass Realization: After several days of Rinko coming over to deliver and being nothing but friendly throughout,Takase realizes that Rinko has done nothing to deserve the cold treatment Takase has given her.
- The Klutz: While Rinko is competent in her delivery job, she falls on Takase on a few occasions, and her grandmother has fond memories of all of Rinko's amusing mishaps.
- Last Episode, New Character: Tanaka, the man who temporarily replaces Rinko as Takase's delivery man shows up late in the third of three chapters.
- Last-Name Basis: Apart from Rinko and a handful of minor characters who don't get names, everyone is referred to by their family names. Rinko continues calling Takase by her surname for the entire story, despite Takase calling her by her first name early on.
- Nice Girl: Rinko is nothing but pleasant to others, and her genuine friendliness helps Takase defrost.
- "Not So Different" Remark: In the JapanStandard translation, Takase laments that judging Rinko harshly despite not knowing anything about her makes her no different than the coworkers who hated Takase. In the Renta! translation, however, Takase instead makes the point that Rinko is not like the coworkers Takase hated.
- Shrinking Violet: Takase was shy ever since she was young, but she had friends in the past and didn't become completely withdrawn until the incident with Kazama.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Kazama only appears in Takase's flashback, with a total of four lines of dialogue, but he plays a large role in Takase becoming withdawn by virtue of sexually assaulting her. If he hadn't, she might not have realized how rotten Aida's personality was.
- Spell My Name With An S: The JapanStandard translation uses "Kazama" and "Aida," while the Renta! translation uses "Kazema" and "Aita."
- Talk About the Weather: Takase and Rinko often talk about that, with Riko cheerfully remarking on the weather and Takase tersely replying, until Takase realizes they're having the same conversation over and over.
