The project on sham marriages involving top employees serves as an excellent example of Japanese business speech.
社長、恋人のフリをして私の父に会ってください。
In this blog, we present manga that are not only highly captivating but also ideal for Japanese language learners. Studying Japanese through manga is both fun and effective. Manga allows you to understand the subtleties of keigo (honorifics), teineigo (polite speech), and casual conversation in Japanese.
Today's featured manga
Story overview
The vice president of RHX Sakonics, a precision equipment company, Shinichiro Sakon, has a highly competent subordinate, Nonoka Soejima. However, her father has proposed a marriage that could be detrimental to the company. To break off this engagement, Nonoka proposes a fake relationship to her boss! A situational romantic comedy about a fake relationship between the company president and a career woman!
Why this manga is suitable for learning Japanese
This work, which depicts the comedic chaos of an extremely competent female employee enlisting the help of her respected boss in a fake relationship to avoid an unwanted arranged marriage, is suitable for Japanese language learners for the following reasons.
The protagonist's use of business speech（business keigo) is impeccable.
The protagonist, Nonoka Soejima, is portrayed as a highly competent business professional, and she uses business speech（business keigo) flawlessly. Throughout the story, there are many scenes featuring interactions between Nonoka and Sakon. Nonoka consistently maintains perfect keigo when addressing Sakon, providing readers with numerous examples of high-quality business speech（business keigo) patterns in Japanese.
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Shacho, KoibitonoFurioShite WatashinoChichini AtteKudasai
/ Etorouji Shiono / Shonengahosha
Above all, the story is captivating.
There are very few manga that feature conversations serving as exemplary models of business honorific language. Therefore, a work like this, which is both engaging as a story and highly valuable as a Japanese language learning tool, is quite rare. On this blog, we typically only introduce works that are compelling in content, and among them, this particular work ranks highly as an excellent situational comedy.
Another recommendation point is that the series is compact, concluded in just two volumes.
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Shacho, KoibitonoFurioShite WatashinoChichini AtteKudasai / Etorouji Shiono / Shonengahosha
Shacho, KoibitonoFurioShite WatashinoChichini AtteKudasai
/ Etorouji Shiono / Shonengahosha
Some points to note
It’s best not to mimic Sakon’s way of speaking.
Sakon, the president, speaks in a rather haughty manner, likely to emphasize his character. If you imitate Sakon's speech in everyday life, people might think you are arrogant, so please be careful.
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Shacho, KoibitonoFurioShite WatashinoChichini AtteKudasai
/ Etorouji Shiono / Shonengahosha
A Challenging Work for Intermediate Learners and Above
Set in a business environment, this work features relatively advanced vocabulary and a lot of dialogue. Therefore, it might be challenging for beginner Japanese learners. It is recommended for intermediate learners and above who find simpler content unsatisfactory.
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Shacho, KoibitonoFurioShite WatashinoChichini AtteKudasai
/ Etorouji Shiono / Shonengahosha
Data
* Title : Shacho, KoibitonoFurioShite WatashinoChichini AtteKudasai
(社長、恋人のフリをして私の父に会ってください。)
* Author : Etorouji Shiono
* Publisher : Shonengahosha
* Latest volume : Vol.2
（Sep.2021 / Completed）
* Text volume : plentiful
* Challenge level : ★★★
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