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Japanese: あせとせっけん
English: Sweat and Soap
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 11
Chapters: 104
Status: Finished
Published: Jun 21, 2018 to Jan 7, 2021
Genres: Comedy Comedy, Romance Romance
Themes: Adult Cast Adult Cast, Workplace Workplace
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Morning
Authors: Yamada, Kintetsu (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.161 (scored by 1869018,690 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #5502
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #382
Members: 50,577
Favorites: 1,512

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At Liliadrop, a high-class manufacturer of women's cosmetics, employees are just as outstanding and glamorous as the variety of their products. In contrast stands Asako Yaeshima, a worker formerly nicknamed "Aseko"—"ase" meaning sweat—due to her unusual problem of excessive perspiration.

To deal with her crisis, Asako develops a morning routine: she mixes different scents of Liliadrop soaps and unscented deodorants to mask her body odor. But her effort does not fool Koutarou Natori, a genius fragrance developer at the company with a sensitive and infallible sense of smell.

Koutarou, astounded by Asako's natural smell combined with the soap, insists on sniffing her every day for a week to save their company's reputation by creating new Asako-inspired fragrances. With such an important reason at stake, Asako consents but never imagines how close she and Koutarou would soon become.

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BackgroundAse to Sekken placed second at the third annual Tsutaya Comic Awards in 2019. In the same year, it ranked ninth in the Web Category of the Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards. In 2020, the series placed sixth on the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2020 by Honya Club's online bookstore. In 2021, it was nominated for the 45th Kodansha Manga Awards in the general manga category.

The series was published in English as Sweat and Soap by Kodansha Comics USA from February 25, 2020, to January 11, 2022. It was also released in Polish by Waneko from November 3, 2021, to February 15, 2023.
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Characters

Natori, Koutarou
Natori, Koutarou
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Yaeshima, Asako
Yaeshima, Asako
Main
Ookura, Jin
Ookura, Jin
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Yaeshima, Keita
Yaeshima, Keita
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Takarada, Kensuke
Takarada, Kensuke
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Tsubaki, Reika
Tsubaki, Reika
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Natori, Shintarou
Natori, Shintarou
Supporting
Natori, Tsumugi
Natori, Tsumugi
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Ichise, Korisu
Ichise, Korisu
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Michinari, Ameku
Michinari, Ameku
Supporting

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21 Recommended
3 Mixed Feelings
2 Not Recommended
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Nov 2, 2021
dadnaya
Recommended
This manga is one huge journey, one that shouldn't be brushed off due to its weird first few chapters.

What we get throughout this manga is a somewhat slow yet steady development between our main leads. They start going out rather early and hit the "relationship goals" once in a while, in a very satisfactory manner.

On top of that, both characters really do feel like proper adults.
They communicate their feelings and their problems. They also sometimes can get annoyed with each other or even fight, but I love it that they will always seek to fix it by talking things out, saying everything out, and ...
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Apr 20, 2025
Tharr
Mixed Feelings
Hmmm. This is a tough one. "Recommended"? "Mixed feelings"? I don't know. It is barely fine. And I'm talking about the story/writing, not because of "the weird kink" aspect.
I'll start with an easy one. The art style is good. Really nice designs, expressions and all that. At some point, digitally drawing gets mixed it. As a personal opinion, not the same quality, but most of the time you won't even notice it.
So now, the story. The pacing is ok. Halfway through it becomes kinda boring, makes you impatient, too much filling, you want the end already, but it goes back to "normal" (maybe even rushed ...
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Jan 3, 2023
tyrandriel
Not Recommended
Preliminary (6/104 eps)
I went in with high hopes after seeing the glowing reviews but dropped it in just 6 chapters though I would’ve dropped sooner…I wanted to stick it through for a bit first.

It was a weird read. Hear me out, I love josei romances set after high school (though fem MC acts & looks like a high school girl IMO). I’m down for steamy scenes. But it was just too weird and the pacing was not great.

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When I read the premise & saw the cover I thought it was going to be some fetishy smutty stuff (and from what I read it was) but ...
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