Not all romance drama mangas involve middle or high school students. Suppli is a well-written story of a professional woman, 27, with a boy friend she's been dating for seven years. She's a workoholic and very good at what she does, but it usually involves nonstop overtime, poor meals and often sleeping in the office. Her coworkers are just as bad off as she, so they are not surprised when her boy friend politely ends their relationship (she was thinking about doing the same thing, as well.) From there on, the story is about her and her coworkers (she doesn't have time for friends) as they go about their lives, dealing with losses and successes. By the end of the first volume the main character has a possible new love interest and even turned down the approaches of another male coworker. The author doesn't drag down the characters, but doesn't sugar coat their lives, either. There are some great lines about the differences in expectations for men and women in work place, told with a dry humor.

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