Beware of spoilers. You have been warned Lovely Complex is a typical rom/com with a lot of unnecessary drama made by Aya Nakaharahttps://anilist.co/staff/96896/AyaNakahara Main Characters The first main character Risa Koizumi Risa is a very tall character compared to most of the other characters 172cm. Shes a very happy cute kind and probably a smart girl surrounded by a group of supportive friends. She also really likes to pick on the second main character and one of her best friends Atsushi Ootani. She just loves to call him an idiot but she also is really short tempered when it comes to him. What she also loves is the popular rapper Umibozu. Although Risa is happy most of the time she cries way too easily I swear there were at least 810 episodes of her crying trying to make it seem like a very serious and dramatic thing when it only seemed unnecessarily over dramatised. Other than that she was also really over reactive when it came to her loving relationship with Ootani. I really didnt like these aspects of Risa and in my opinion she could have been so much better as a character. https://i.yt.com/vi/3ha3kbdUWUM/hqdefault.jpg The second main character Atsushi Ootani Ootani compared to Risa was a shrimp with a height of 162 cm. A short tempered and seriously dense character. Hes a good and popular captain of the basketball team despite his height often having girls standing at the sports hall entrance cheering him on. Just like Risa Ootani loves to pick on the main character partner and just like RIsa hes a big fan of the idiot word and the rapper Umibozu. Now about his density. Its unbelievable how dense this character is when it comes to Risa and her feelings for him. Its like the amount of density Ootani holds has been given to him just to create the unnecessarily over dramatised scenes giving Risa the opportunity to cry over and over again over the same thing. Honestly I didnt like this character all that much. https://i.pin.com/originals/46/9f/70/469f70975dd7687bdb02541d0a6fd897.jpg Relevant Support Characters Nobuko Ishihara Fairly short and probably most mature and supportive character in this show. Nobu did her 100 to support Risa in confessing her feelings through the whole show. She would give her various tips on how to confess used her boyfriend Heikichi Nakao to talk with Otani and make him think more about Risas feelingsshe would go and kick Ootanis ass whenever he makes things worse she would give Risa the push when she really needed it and she was always there to hold Risa when she was down. Risa was really lucky to have a friend like her. Definitely my favourite character from this show. https://pm1.narvii.com/5745/2b0a9a018ecead870a6a99a0850948f7fb53286chq.jpg Maitake Kuniumi A tall cool and hot looking teacher than has transferred into Risas school through the series. At first he seemed like an obstacle standing between Risa and Ootani with Risa making a fanclub together with the other fan girls becoming the clubs leader and cheering on Maitake sensei while he was whooping Ootanis ass in basketball but with the progressing story it was becoming more and more obvious that Maitake indeed had no intentions of stealing Risa away but instead gave the couple his support when he could. Maitake sensei was a nice character to see. https://pm1.narvii.com/5705/8eafcdc87068cb17cec36f2816a70373caa8901f00.jpg Seishiro Kotobuki A trap. https://i.pin.com/originals/ab/74/bd/ab74bda164b4c30321466e34e4135091.png Mimi Yoshioka Mimi Yoshioka was introduced to us somewhere at the near end of the series. Shes Ootanis neighbour that used to have a crush on Ootani and doesnt like Ootani having Risa as her girlfriend. Shes one of the types that acts cute and nice in front of the person that she likes but as soon as she gets some time alone with Risa she starts acting like a real bitch towards her. It was sad to see tho with how they could relate to each other with their height problems. At some point it really seemed like these 2 characters could be friends. https://cdn.anisearch.com/images/character/screen/22/22665/full/170207.jpg The last character Im going to be reviewing Kazuki Kohori Kazuki Kohori just like Mimi Yoshioka was introduced to us somewhere during the last 53 episodes of Lovely Complex the final threat to the couple. Hes a coworker at Risas new parttime job at a family restaurant. A fairly nice guy with the height of 165 cm. Other than that hes just another big Umibozu fan. https://i.pin.com/originals/04/4a/84/044a8445b55beaac93d2236f71c34bd1.jpg Story The story was....not impressive but not that bad I guess? It started with introducing the 2 main characters and a few supportive characters to us. Strangely enough the first episode was straight up a beach/public pools episode type. Anyway the story was about Risa trying to find herself a fine tall boyfriend and she found a guy just like that at the very first episode Just so he could be stolen away by one of her friends Chiharu Tanaka. These 2 characters then began to go out with eachother. Risa eventually gave up on him and moved on. While she moves on her hidden feelings for her comedian partner Ootani start revealing themselves and Risa bit by bit starts realising it. Her friend Nobuko Ishihara after finding out about this starts building up a plan that would take place on a beach during summer vacation. The plan is busted by Risa giving Ootani too big of a hint just for him to not realise she was being serious and says something mean making Risa cry. Risa then starts working even harder on building up the courage to confess when a sudden unexpected obstacle appears. The new transfer student Seishiro Kotobuki that later on goes and gives Ootani a smooch in front of the rest of the gang just so we could later on find out....that it was a trap. With the story progressing Risa finally has enough courage to properly confess to Ootani during the firework display....just so she could be brushed off cus Ootani is too dense to realise Risa is being serious and just made her cry again. 1 or 2 episode later the 2 main characters meet during the evening in an empty classroom during the schools cultural festival. Even tho this time Risa hasnt confessed properly she game Ootani enough hints for him to finally realise just that it took him way too long and Risa.......was once again crying. Few episodes passed on with Risa crying in every single one when we finally get to the point where Ootani starts showing his feelings for Risa. Yes finally Just that half of the series are already gone with so little new things happening and the same things getting repeated over and over again. Almost at what could be considered the near end of the series and the 2 main characters have a proper smooch during Risas birthday on a roof top behind their friends back while they are watching the firework display. From this point I have actually finally began to enjoy the series. The next new character that the series would introduce to us was the tall and pretty Ootanis neighbour that used to had a crush on him and is a 2 faced bitch Mimi Yoshioka. Just like I said earlier in her character description for some time it seemed like Risa and Mimi could be friends having their height problems despite Mimi threatening her behind Ootanis back every single time she has the chance to do so but she went too far with it and Ootani has witnessed Mimis true face thus was the end of the threat. The next and final threat in the story was Risas coworker at her new parttime job at a family restaurant Kazuki Kohori. They had a thing in common and that was their love for the rapper Umibozu. One day during her parttime job Risa fell asleep while trying to memorise the food menu. Kazuki saw Risa when passing by and was tempted by her cute face so he went in for the kiss just for Risa to wake up moments before her lips touched with Kazukis and see her boyfriend Ootani standing outside of the window watching them. A typical plot twist in the romance genre really. Risa did her best explaining to Ootani and her friends just to later on go and mess things up again by going out with Kazuki to an Umibozu event meeting Ootani on their way back. In the end everything got resolved and they lived happily ever after. Imo the story could have been better if its pacing wasnt so slow. I mean taking it slow is nice but this was too slow even for me and thats rare. As for the relation ship between Ootani and Risa just like I said I few times before it was over dramatised during the first half and a bit more. Nothing much was really happening. The comedy definitely did more than the romance here. Anyway that was my very first review based on my own opinion. Any type of feedback appreciated even toxic