love*com live action
Yes, that's right! Lovely Complex was such a best-selling manga that it was made into a "live action" movie! It was released on July 15, 2006, and since then, many Love*Com fans have loved it. The movie stars Teppei Koike as Atsushi Otani and Ema Fujisawa as Risa Koizumi! The actors were very fit for their parts - even J-pop singer Nami Tamaki stars in it, as Nobuko, Risa's best friend. Anyways, like any series that was made into a movie, the movie kind of.. packs all the important events in the one hour time frame it is given, skipping out on alot of characters, and just focusing mostly on the development between Risa and Otani. I'm not really a fluent in Japanese, nor do I know any of the dialects, but from what i've read (and observed from reading), the movie speaks in a Kansai dialect. Buuut since i'm only fluent in english, it just goes over my head like nothing xD;. I really adored the acting of the characters, as well, and I was particularly impressed with Teppei (Otani). Though the movie was trying to portray Teppei as five feet (Otani's height), it didn't quite work out, since Fujisawa (Risa) was most of the time, on heels. I think Teppei is seriously the real deal when it comes to Otani, no other Junon boy (japanese pretty boys) could've pulled it off as well as he did. If I had to rate the movie from 1 to 5 stars, i'd totally give it a 4. Why not a 5? It's not really bad, but it wasn't the "oh man best movie in the world!" -- I found some scenes completely unnecessary. Like the scene with Risa's "older sister" (which was actually a really fat guy crossdressing?), it was... not needed. Not to me, at least. I also think Maity (the really "pretty boy") should've been played by another Junon boy, instead of an older man. That really didn't make much sense to me, since Maity was supposed to be sort of young? Other than those two things, I thought the movie was very, very good. It was also really drop-dead hilarious! My favorite scenes in this movie were some of the final moments between the two, where Otani goes on his tippy toes to kiss Risa, and when she replies, she says something like, "Ah! What was that? It tasted like yakisoba!" I also enjoyed the scenes with the summer festival - it was really cute and heartwarming to see Otani and Risa begin to spark together. Even better - he did something quite unexpected, much different from Love*Com's anime/manga counterpart, he faked being Risa's boyfriend because Kanzaki was annoying him! How's that for some more drama? Anyway.. the movie is worth the time of any fan of Lovely Complex, and i'm not just saying that to promote the series ;).