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Counting titles in EHOF's catalogue, doujin manga carrying words such as zako or mesugaki in their titles begin to multiply noticeably in 2019. Zako Inma-chan wa Seieki ga Hoshii no! is one of the earliest of them, and it stands in the hall as a romantic comedy that draws its laughs from an overconfident heroine spinning her wheels.

A succubus who graduated at the top of her class from a school for succubi comes down to the human world and appears before a bespectacled student cramming for entrance exams. Her plan goes awry: she is the one who ends up bound by an exclusive contract, living in his house. It is a fantasy romantic comedy, and some readers place it in the lineage of mesugaki stories.

The comedy rests on how the two are set against each other. He is unflappable and never lets anything displace his studying, her single-minded scheming keeps sliding off him, and reviewers agree on the pleasure of their exchanges and the timing of the gags. The ending is a bright one. The art is praised again and again for its charm, and one close reader traces how the paneling gives the jokes room to breathe, with empty panels, lettering set outside the balloons and abruptly simplified faces.

From 2018 Ichinose Land had been producing a run of fan works whose titles begin Kashima to Love Love, and this third release, appearing between those instalments, was an original. The line of nonhuman heroines and romantic comedy continues afterward, into later series about elves and succubi.

It came out in November 2019. An English-language manga database carries an entry for it under an English title. It stands 118th among the hall's doujin works.