blimarch:
Me too! Sorry to interfere in your post but I thought that I could use it and not reopen another one (fear of spamming).
There's a drama that I've been looking for : it's about a woman in her 20's being employed as a mangaka or an assistant (I can't remember) among a team of male mangakas. I remember the girl was shy and naive (probably even dumb).
It's a comedy and it probably have been released in early 2000.
Two titles that come to mind (though I'm not 100% sure) are:
Gakeppuchi no Eri
Egao no Hosoku
"Gakeppuchi no Eri" is from 2010, but I remember the main character (portrayed by Yamada Yu) wasn't, ehm...really the brightest...anyway, she wanted to become a mangaka so this could be it;
"Egao no Hosoku" had Takeuchi Yuko working as the assistant/editor to Abe Hiroshi, though her character, iirc, wasn't dumb - shy and naive, could be...though I must confess not remembering them so clearly, I've watched 'em ages ago...