Lovely Complex
| Love Com | |
Cover of the Japanese edition of volume 7 with Risa (left) and Ōtani (right)
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ラブ★コン (Rabu★Kon) |
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| Genre | Romantic comedy, slice of life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Aya Nakahara |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Bessatsu Margaret |
| Original run | September 2001 – December 2006 |
| Volumes | 17 |
| Game | |
| Developer | AQ Interactive |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Platform | PlayStation 2 |
| Released | 13 July 2006 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Kitaji Ishikawa |
| Studio | Tohokushinsha Film Corporation |
| Released | 13 July 2006 |
| Runtime | 100 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Konosuke Uda |
| Produced by | Junko Abe Hiromi Seki Yoshiyuki Ikezawa |
| Music by | Hironosuke Sato |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TBS, CBC, MBS |
| Original run | 7 April 2007 – 29 September 2007 |
| Episodes | 24 |
| Manga | |
| Love Com D or Love | |
| Written by | Aya Nakahara |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Deluxe Margaret |
| Original run | May 2009 – July 2012 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Love Com (ラブ★コン Rabu★Kon?, sometimes spelled Love*Com), also known as Lovely Complex, is a romantic comedy shōjo manga by Aya Nakahara. It was published by Shueisha in Bessatsu Margaret from 2001 to 2006 and collected in 17 tankōbon volumes. The series is about the romance between a tall girl and a short boy who are treated as a comedy duo by their classmates. In 2004, it received the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo.
The story has been adapted as a live-action movie released in 2006, a 24-episode anime television series broadcast in 2007, and an adventure game released for PlayStation 2 released in 2006. Two drama CDs have also been produced. The manga and the live-action movie are licensed in North America by Viz.
A sequel series called Love Com D (or Lovely Complex Deluxe or "Lovely Complex Two") began serialization in the May 2009 issue of the bimonthly shōjo manga magazine Deluxe Margaret, focusing on Risa's younger brother.
Love Com is a love story between a boy and a girl in Sakai, Osaka. The girl, Risa Koizumi, is 172 centimetres (5 ft 8 in) tall—much taller than the average Japanese girl. The boy, Atsushi Ōtani, is 156 cm (5 ft 1 in)—way below the height of the average Japanese boy. Because of this, the pair are called the "All Hanshin Kyojin" after a popular comedy duo that has a similar height difference. The difference in their heights is extremely exaggerated (in the opening credits of the anime, for example, the top of Ōtani's head doesn't even reach Risa's chin when it should be approximately level with her mouth.)
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