Ebisu-san to Hotei-san

Description

'Ebisu-san and Hotei-san' is about two female office workers. Initially Hotei is not pleased when Ebisu is transferred to her branch, but gradually those feelings begin to change.

Type

Manga

Related Series

Tsubomi (Anthology) (Main Story)

Associated Names

Ebisu and Hotei

Ebisu-san and Hotei-san

エビスさんとホテイさん

惠比寿小姐和布袋小姐

Groups Scanlating

Lililicious

Latest Release(s)

c.Extras by Lililicious 15 years ago

c.5 (end) by Lililicious 15 years ago

c.4 by Lililicious 15 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

1 Volume (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

Ebisu-san to Hotei-san by Lesbiyankin

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User Rating

Average: 8.1 / 10.0 (284 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.93 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 4th, 2025 12:44pm PDT - 2 weeks ago

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Genre

Drama Shoujo Ai Slice of Life
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Original Publisher

Houbunsha

Serialized In (magazine)

Tsubomi (Houbunsha)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #737

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Monthly Pos #2003 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3833 (No change)

6 Month Pos #4892

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Year Pos #6874

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amazing short story

by riko_dewayne
6 years ago

Rating: N/A

amazing how in a volume there is enough introduction of important characters, conflict, resulution, and some extra story. a good example how to make use of limited number of pages

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A great, short romance

by plotrobert
9 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

An absolutely adorable romance, in the end it's about two women finding each other and one of them kind of growing up in the process. I really just enjoy this title and recommend it strongly to everyone. It should only take you less than an hour to read anyhow.

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great development

by whitespade
11 years ago

Rating: 8.3 / 10.0

i think their developing feeling is handled very well. we can their feeling turn from hate to love, and it is nice that both party discover each other almost at the same time without rushing. it may be a bit ambiguous, but the ending pretty much sealed the deal.

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Cute and short, but maybe a bit .... TOO ambiguous?

by Aadieu
12 years ago

Rating: 8.9 / 10.0

In the bonus ch 5.5, as an afterword, the authors pretty much come out and say that the magazine ordered 'yuri' and the editors hammered home the points "ambiguity, between friendship and love" + "no sex" (sweatdrops shown on authors at this juncture) into them, time and again...

...but, really, not even any hot'n'heavy making out between the main couple? Does contain

a peck on the cheek, an almost-kiss...and a full-on French kiss, forced and unexpected no less, BUT - coming from the Shrimp Mayo's SISTER, and only done to drive home the point that the yuri route does exist and is an option. NO real kissing between the MCs, though.

No flat-out confession, either (although an implied one does occur, and the receiving end does go "HUH?!" and blush like crazy). And they do end up

living together, they do get closer (the kid calls the lead the "aunt's ...friend"), and it lasts for a few years at least, as the bonus chapter shows.

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Excellent

by Verix
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Easily one of the better shoujo ai I read, the build-up is excellent, the characters and their situations believable. Someone said it might give off a bit of a shoujo vibe.. might be true, didn't really matter though. It's a shame they left the ending with implications rather than a concrete ending. But it's all good, great read.

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Immensely rereadable

by Nouveauk
14 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I've found that I can reread this manga every couple months and it still gives me the same fuzzy feelings as it did when I first read it.

The pacing is excellent and the development in the plot and the characters' relationships is pleasantly structured. The problems with it are so minute that they aren't worth pointing out, especially in comparison with a lot of other short manga. Compared with other manga of similar style, it's great, and as a yuri manga it's brilliant (as an aside, I don't get why this site still differentiates between shoujo-ai and yuri; yuri would be the correct term for it anyway, and shoujo-ai actually carries connotations of pedophilia in Japan).

The end isn't particularly ambiguous at all, at least to me. The implication is very obvious.

It'd be a joy if the authors kept going with this somehow, but as it is it's already polished and in a good finished state. Give it a try.

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Wow. That was something

by Trimutius
14 years ago

Rating: 9.2 / 10.0

Even though it seems a bit too simple in the beginning I really liked the plot. And it is kinda cool. But it is really not your regular overly romantic manga. But because I don't really like stereotypical mangas the fresh ideas here were really interesting for me.

And you may say that here we have an example of lesbian parents, I really liked that.

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Nice

by akari_mizunashi
14 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

I really liked Kizuki Akira's short story Needles and Oranges and so was interested when I found out Lililicious would be translating another one of his/her works, although I was a little wary about the commercial-sounding "love between OLs" plot. Ebisu-san to Hotei-san is definitely many times more commercial than the indie-esque Needles and Oranges, and the hulking breasts sported by most of the characters are a distraction, but Kizuki's talent in storytelling is still evident here.

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Great!

by roxslide
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

This manga's put together really well, more so than a lot of BL and shoujo than I've read... needless to say that makes it a pretty decent GL. I think this was one of the most poignant and naturally progressing depictions of bad-impressions turned couple that I've read. I liked how neither of the characters were flawless, honest goody two shoes, because despite all the press on them, most people aren't. I did wish that their story went on a little further, rather then ending with just an implication. I really liked this couple, hearing a little more of their story would have been nice.

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Typical style of Akira Kizuki

by Communist_Rob
14 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This is something a little more sophisticated than the average yuri romance story in that it's more reflective on reality than what's idealistic.

There's no milestone confession or heavy drama scene and because of that, readers have to draw their own conclusions from the interactions between the two characters. Though the ending does pretty much clear all ambiguity.

And even though the author makes it pretty obvious, most people are not used to thinking when reading romance: they prefer to be spoon-fed by overt confessions that are quintessential of the shoujo genre.

This is not for everyone, but for those who like josei and want a change of pace or something more casual, give it a try. There's only 5 chapters after all.

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