Two office ladies fighing tooth and nail for every opportunity to best each other in the daily work of an consulting company. Drama and homoeroticism ensue.
This one has a very abrupt beginning, it just drops you into the action immediately. That is not a criticism: due to this, it manages to capture you immediately at chapter one, and it only gets better from there. It is incredibly fun to watch these two scheming and plotting against each other; seeing which lengths they'll go to and what underhanded tactics they'll use makes this a very entertaining read. Even though they'll go as far as manipulating others for their ends, you can't help but cheer for them. Shirokawa is so evil and I love her for it. The strong emotions are portrayed very powerfully and get accentuated further by the artstyle, which has a certain rawness due to it being a bit unrefined. If this was all that happens, it'd be a good 3/5 manga and that'd be it, but it manages to go even further. I won't spoil too much here, but the one character changing her goals and finding happiness outside the company, while the other keeps on her dark path, and all of that culminating in a fantatic ending ripe with symbolism which juxtaposes with the character's names quite nicely... wow. It was written by the same author who wrote Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko!, and even though I really liked that one as well, this is the better of the two.
Black and White - Tough Love at the Office is a very entertaining read with well-written characters while managing to say something about work-life balance and finding happiness. Even though it is (again) quite short, I find that it gets it's point across quite well in the limited time it has and wouldn't benefit that much from extra chapters.
Rating: 4/5