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Manga: Poor Poor Lips

Okashi Nako is a poor orphan in the literal sense, living through life from one meal to the next since she isn't always guaranteed a meal the next time. Worse yet, the store she was working for had gone under thanks to the recession, so now she's lost her only source of income.

Thankfully, she finds a job in the want ads asking for a woman her age to work a cushy job as a sales clerk at $20 an hour. She's initially worried at first, wondering if the high pay is due to workers being expected to do questionable stuff by the boss, but relief settles in when she learns that the boss is a woman named Otsuka Ren.

Until Ren reveals that she's a lesbian.

Of course, despite her sexuality and position, she won't take advantage of her workers. However, there's a chance that while spending a lot of time together, feelings may develop, people may fall in love, and... oh look, all the applicants are leaving now.

Well, all the applicants save for Nako, who doesn't really care about that and is still wondering what the job will entail. After a few more talks, Ren decides that she likes Nako's personality and hires her. Oh, and Nako has no need to worry about Ren's sexuality, since Nako really isn't her type.

As an aside, the $20 per hour thing? Turns out that Ren is just bad at estimating the going rate for her sales people.

And so begins Poor Poor Lips, a Girls Love Yon Koma Gag Series by Hayako Goto about the life of a rich lesbian and her poor employee that manages to have a surprising amount of depth beneath all the puns and jokes.

The english version of the manga is licensed and available for worldwide purchase through Jmanga.


Poor Poor Lips contains examples of:

  • Arranged Marriage: Ren's mother keeps insisting this on her daughter. Yabe-san reveals that Ren's mother was also arranged for marriage, but she rejected it.
  • Big Eater: Ren, though she does it more out of habit.
  • Brain Bleach: Watase reaction to Nako commenting on how Yabe-san is not wearing a maid outfit.
    Watase: Please don't put terrifying images like that in my head!
  • Broke Episode: Volumes 2 and 3 for Ren, when her mother cuts her off.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: Both Ren and Nako. Both actually love each others, but neither is aware of others feelings and are afraid of losing their friedship.
  • Cure Your Gays: Talked about. Ren's mother sees her homosexuality as a phase or illness that must be removed.
  • Divorce Assets Conflict: Ren's mother assumes this is the case when Ren comes for her to ask for a lawyer. She is actually asking so that she can free Nako from her debt
  • Gag Series
  • The Con: How Nako got her debt. Her parents died in a car crash when she was just a kid. Her uncle said that it was her fathers fault and thus she is required to pay for the damages. He agrees to "loan" the money for her and that she can pay back later. In reality, Nako didn't have to pay anything and it was the uncle who had debts, debts he has been paying off with Nakos money. Ren is understandably outraged to hear this.
  • The Internet Is for Porn: Ren teaches Nako how to use computers. Make three guesses on what she first encounters when trying to use the internet.
  • The Ojou: Ren
  • Meido: Nako from Volume 3 onwards.
  • Older Than She Looks: Despite being 21, Nako looks young enough to be eligible for a children's train ticket.
  • Orphan's Ordeal: Nako is struggling in poverty partly thanks to her parents dying when she was young.
  • Perpetual Poverty: Nako used to live like this, even with the huge salary she got from Ren, thanks to her debt. Ren helps her fix the situation in Vol. 3.
  • Punny Name: Okashi Nako is a pun on "strange girl".
  • Rich Bitch: Played with. Furui assumes Ren is this, but changes his opinion later.
  • Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Ren. She gets better over time.
  • Too Much Information: The very first thing Ren says to the ladies interviewing for sales clerk is that she is a lesbian and may fall in love with them. They all flee except for Nako, leaving her with the job despite wearing clothes that are falling apart to interview for a jewelry store.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Nako really loves bread crusts.
  • Yonkoma
  • Yuri Genre


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