Lovely★Complex (Lovely Complex)

Love is unusual for Risa Koizumi and Atsushi Ootani, who are both striving to find their ideal partner in high school—172 cm tall Koizumi is much taller than the average girl, and Ootani is much shorter than the average guy at 156 cm. To add to their plights, their crushes fall in love with each other, leaving Koizumi and Ootani comically flustered and heartbroken. To make matters worse, they're even labeled as a comedy duo by their homeroom teacher due to their personalities and the stark difference in their heights, and their classmates even think of their arguments as sketches.

Lovely★Complex follows Koizumi and Ootani as they encourage each other in finding love and become close friends. Apart from their ridiculous antics, they soon find out an unexpected similarity in their music and fashion tastes. Maybe they possess a chemistry yet unknown, but could love ever bloom between the mismatched pair?

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Koizumi, Risa

Main

Okamura, Akemi
Japanese

Ootani, Atsushi

Main

Nagata, Akira
Japanese

Ishihara, Nobuko

Supporting

Higashi, Saori
Japanese

Kotobuki, Seishirou

Supporting

Takimoto, Fujiko
Japanese

Kohori, Kazuki

Supporting

Shimowada, Hiroki
Japanese

Nakao, Heikichi

Supporting

Tokuyama, Yasuhiko
Japanese

Kuniumi, Maitake

Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi
Japanese

Umibouzu

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Smokey, Tetsuni
Japanese

Fukagawa, Haruka

Supporting

Onosaka, Masaya
Japanese

Yoshioka, Mimi

Supporting

Araki, Kae
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Seki, Hiromi

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Abe, Junko

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Uda, Kounosuke

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Fukutomi, Hiroshi

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Opening Theme

	1: "Kimi + Boku = Love?" by Tegomass (eps 1-13)
	2: "Hey! Say!" by Hey!Say! 7

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Ending Theme

	1: "Kiss ~ Kaerimichi no Love Song" by Tegomass (eps 1-13)
	2: "BON BON" by Hey! Say! 7 (eps 14-24)

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Sep 4, 2023

SammyBisOli

Recommended

A heart warming shoujo. I just loved the story. Koizumi and Otani are kind of the dynamic duo in high school. They start trying to arrange their friend for each other, but in the end Koizumi ends up in love with Otani and an arduous battle for his heart ensues. Otani has that tsudere style of being that is quite annoying at times. He's also dumb as hell and takes time to figure out Riza's feelings. The little fagot cried so much I almost walked into the show to smack Otani. But it all worked out in the end and I was super happy with ...

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Apr 18, 2023

xiecake

Mixed Feelings

Lovely Complex is good! Overall it's pretty cute at times and I really like the whole short boy/tall girl dynamic, ALTHOUGHHHHH there are a lot of things that I did fuss over while watching it.

1. At times, there were too many comedic relief moments throughout the entire show and it got reaaaally annoying at some point. There could be a really serious situation going on and then suddenly some goofy ass frame of Koizumi would appear and it'd totally ruin the suspense. If you're really not into dumb comedy segments that aren't really necessary, LoveCom has SOOOOOO many of those so watch out if you ... can't put up with it.

2. The animation/art really isn't all that good. I normally don't really obsess over whether visuals in an anime are good or bad, but at times the characters would be drawn so poorly that I found it hard to take some scenes seriously. Like, there was this one really suspenseful scene happening between Otani and Koizumi, and I COULD NOT TAKE ANYTHING SERIOUSLY because they drew Koizumi's face all crooked and the animation was so choppy that it distracted me from everything that was going on. I really only ever comment on the art in an anime if it's bad enough to DISTRACT me from the plot, and LoveCom just so happens to be one of those anime. I swear the animation and art reminded me of some bootleg early 2000s kids cartoon at some point... Very sorry!!

3. I love the dynamics between the main pairing, BUT THE WHOLE INSULTING AND YELLING AT EACH OTHER THING GOT SOOO IRRITATING THROUGHOUT THE SERIES... Like, I get it, that's their whole thing, that's their schtick or whatever, but come ooonnnn give it a rest at some point bro??? I swear Otani and Koizumi fought sooo much to the point where watching them interact and bicker with each other got so annoying I literally had to put the episode on 2x speed just to get it over with as fast as possible. It made the whole anime a bit irritating to watch, and it made it a tad bit painful, but on the bright side it made the times when they were nice to each other EXTRA nice to witness.

4. There were a lot of weird side stories, like, I swear if they just cut out all of the dumb goofy scenes the anime could be squished down to like 12 episodes... The anime starts off pretty slow and it takes a while for the whole romance between Otani and Koizumi to start out, and the episodes that mostly have to do with the side characters are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BORING LIKE I SWEAR I WAS ABOUT TO FALL ASLEEP DURING THEM... It's also another reason why I had to put the anime on 2x speed during the bits I wasn't very interested in. I mean, at least there's a lot of content??

All in all, I really like the anime. Also the last episode was so good by the way, I won't say exactly why because of spoilers but it was so cute it almost made me forget about all of the complaints I had about the anime! I love LoveCom, I'll def remember it in the future. If you're bored, please watch it it's great.

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Nov 7, 2022

iJocelyn

Not Recommended

This is the worst piece of shit ever made and I will forever hate it to my dying grave. Imagine if someone wanted to make a parody of all the tropes and cliches of romance anime then forgot to actually make it a parody; you're left with intentional tropes that twist the knife to see just how far you can make the audience suffer through bullshit while at the same time making the female lead suffer and cry that she's stuck with this piece of shit guy whom she loves but doesn't love back because reasons as this goes on for 26 fucking episodes. And ...

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