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Toxic Yuri Manga 'Tough Love at the Office' Omnibus Collection Released

On Tuesday, Seven Seas Entertainment released the single-volume complete collection of Sal Jiang's office Yuri manga Black and White: Tough Love at the Office (Shiro to Kuro ~Black & White~). The omnibus, entitled Tough Love at the Office: The Complete Yuri Collection, contains all three of the original bound volumes.

The publisher describes the series:

Shirakawa and Kuroda are more than just rivals on the corporate ladder--they're fire and gasoline. When these female power players are assigned to work with each other, they trade barbs and intense glares at every turn, until their tempers flare and tension ignites! Their animosity transforms into something far steamier--an undeniable physical connection they can't resist. Jealousy, ambition, and passions collide in this scorching yuri manga, where every power play threatens to unravel their careers--and each other.

Tough Love at the Office was serialized online via Comic Ruelle from March 2020 until its conclusion in 2023. Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha publishes three collected volumes in Japanese. Seven Seas previously licensed the series and released the first volume in English in 2022. The second and third volumes were not published in English prior to this omnibus' release.

The manga is translated into English by Alexa Frank, with lettering by Brendon Hull and & Danya Shevchenko.

Tough Love at the Office received positive reviews from critics, who praised the more adult and violent love-hate relationship between its main characters in contrast to more traditional schoolgirl romances. Erica Friedman of Okazu scored the first English volume as 10/10, remarking "[Black and White] is so frickin' nasty, I literally grinned my way through it."

Sal Jiang is a Japanese Yuri mangaka who, in addition to Tough Love at the Office, is known for her fantasy series Wicked Spot, which Kodansha USA will release in English in Spring 2026, and the office romance manga Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko! (licensed by MangaPlaza and Tokyopop) which was adapted into the 2024 television drama of the same name.

Tough Love at the Office contains adult content and mild nudity, reader discursion is advised.

Check out Tough Love at the Office: The Complete Yuri Collection in English digitally and in paperback: https://amzn.to/44KcJ1p

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I don’t understand how some ppl see Friendly Rivalry as queerbait. It feels like a very black and white, lowkey westernized way of viewing it. You need to remember this is Korean media first and foremost. By sk standards this is undeniably a GL. Plus at no point do any of the actresses, writers or jaeseulgi deem their relationship as only platonic. Subtext ≠ queerbait when will we be free…

If this ended with Seulgi liking a guy while monologuing about how she misses her dear friend yeah I would’ve seen FR as queerbaiting. That never happens, the only people who call them friends are those around them who have no insight to their relationship. Not to mention the queer themes of a girl being controlled all her life by her hyper-religious father who falls in love with a girl who inspires her to break free and live as her true self.

And Hyeri literally said this when the show ended so why be so obsessed over kisses.

“Jaeyi, I hope you find happiness with Seulgi! I support your freedom.”

There was so much emotional depth and love portrayed between jaeseulgi. Their story is just as valid and queer as other gl shows who have makeout sessions or sex scenes.

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