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Lovely Complex (TV)

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[ adapted from Lovely Complex (manga) ]

Alternative title:
LoveCom
ラブ★コン (Japanese)
러브★콤 (Korean)
Themes: love, school life, sports
Plot Summary: Risa Koizumi, taller than the average girl, and Atsushi Ootani, shorter than the average guy - their constant bickering and comical love-hate relationship is well-known throughout the school. They act similarly and love the same music, and their friendship is full of laughing, shouting at each other, and of course, lots of jokes about one another's height. But when Risa notices her feelings for Ootani growing, she's worried. She doesn't know if he can ever see her as more than a friend. With her friends rooting for her, she struggles to make him see how she feels about him, and that a romantic relationship between a tall girl and a short guy can work. Oblivious Ootani doesn't make things easy for her, but she stubbornly perseveres in her own unconventional way, determined for her feelings to get through to him, and finally be returned. If only she could do it without driving herself and everyone else crazy in the process...
User Ratings: 1324 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 247 votes (sub:219, dub:15, raw:3, ?:1, others:9
6 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
1 Arabic subtitled
)
 Excellent: 460 votes (sub:428, dub:7, raw:5, ?:2, others:18
11 Spanish subtitled
3 French subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Very good: 353 votes (sub:328, dub:9, raw:2, others:14
8 Spanish subtitled
3 Russian subtitled
2 Italian subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 167 votes (sub:157, dub:5, others:5
1 Korean subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Arabic subtitled
)
 Decent: 58 votes (sub:51, dub:2, ?:1, raw:1, others:3
1 Arabic subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 So-so: 24 votes (sub:19, ?:1, dub:1, others:3
1 French subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Not really good: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 2196 users, rank: #298
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.399 (Very good+.39), std. dev.: 1.2848, rank: #228
Weighted mean: 8.268 (Very good+.26), rank: #232 (seen all: 8.37 / seen some: 7.62 / won't finish: 4.95)
Bayesian estimate: 8.263 (Very good+.26), rank: #120
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 24
Episode titles: We have 24
Vintage: 2007-04-07 to 2007-09-29
Releases: We have 3
Opening Theme:
"Kimi + Boku = Love?" by Tegomass
#2: "Hey! Say!" by Hey!Say! 7 (eps 14-24) 
Ending Theme:
"Kiss ~ Kaerimichi no Love Song (キッス~帰り道のラブソング)" by Tegomass
#2: "BON BON" by Hey! Say! 7 (eps 14-24)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 8
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 
Series Director: Kônosuke Uda
Episode Director:
Hiroshi Fukutomi (eps 4, 10)
Kazuyo Sasaki (eps 9, 14)
Kônosuke Uda (ep 1)
Shigeharu Takahashi (eps 2, 8, 15)
Shin'ichi Masaki (ep 11)
Toshinori Fukuzawa (eps 6, 18)
Yasuo Iwamoto (eps 5, 12, 20)
Yasuro Tsuchiya (ep 16)
Original creator: Aya Nakahara
Character Design: Hideaki Maniwa
Art Director:
Eiko Sawada (4 episodes
eps 5, 9, 14, 17
)

Takao Shimizu (eps 10, 12, 16)
Yukiko Iijima (7 episodes
eps 2, 4, 8, 11, 13, 15, 18
)

Chief Animation Director: Hideaki Maniwa
Animation Director:
Hideaki Maniwa (eps 1, 5, 9, 18)
Ken Sakuma (ep 11)
Masayuki Fujita (4 episodes
eps 3, 7, 13, 17
)

Suk Choi Kyoung (eps 4, 10, 16)
Yoshihiro Takeda (eps 6, 14)
Yukari Kobayashi (eps 2, 8, 15)
Executive producer: Munahisa Higuchi
Producer:
Hiromi Seki (Toei Animation)
Junko Abe (TBS)
Yoshiyuki Ikezawa (Toei Animation)

Art Advancement: Akihiko Yamaguchi
Color design: Tsutomu Tsukada
Editing: Masahiro Goto
Production Advancement: Dai Mihashi
Publicity: Mizuho Tanaka
Recording: Chikako Abe
Recording Assistant: Satoshi Matsuda
Setting Advancement: Yoshinori Omachi
Theme Song Arrangement:
CHOKKAKU (OP)
h-wonder (ED)
Masaya Suzuki (OP2)
Theme Song Composition:
Akio Shimizu (ED2)
BOUNCEBACK (OP2)
Kenhiko Iida (OP)
Kosuke Morimoto (ED)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Akio Shimizu (ED2)
Erykah (OP2)
zopp (OP,ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Hey Say (OP2,ED2) 
Takahisa Masuda (Tegomass)
Tegomass (OP,ED)
Yuya Tegoshi (Tegomass)
 
Akemi Okamura as Risa Koizumi
Akira Nagata as Atsushi Ootani

Fujiko Takimoto as Seishirou "Seiko" Kotobuki
Hiroki Shimowada as Kazuki Kohori
Junichi Suwabe as Kuniumi Maitake
Kae Araki as Mimi Yoshioka
Kazuko Kojima as Chiharu Tanaka
Kenjiro Tsuda as Ryouji Suzuki
Masaya Onosaka as Haruka Fukagawa
Saori Higashi as Nobuko Ishihara
Yasuhiko Tokuyama as Heikichi Nakao
Yuki Matsuoka as Mayu Kanzaki

Aki Toyosaki as Student (eps 2-3, 5)
Daisuke Kirii as Cain-sama (eps 11, 14)
Eri Nakao as Female student (ep 10)
Issei Kojima as Rickshaw Man (ep 8)
Kazunari Tanaka as
Basketball Club Captain (ep 4)
Secondary School Classmate (ep 10)
Student (ep 1)
Kazuya Ichijou as Principal (ep 1)
Kenjiro Tsuda as radio announcer
Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Basketball Club Consultant (eps 2-3)
Kokoro Kikuchi as Umibozu's child (ep 9)
Kouichi Nagano as Student (eps 2-3)
Kousuke Takaguchi as
Risa's younger brother
Secondary School Junior (ep 10)
Student (ep 12)
Kumiko Itou as Student (ep 4)
Kyoko Hikami as Stylist Nakahara (ep 24)
Mari Adachi as Female Teacher (ep 4)
Masashi Hirose as Nakano-sensei (eps 1, 8)
Mayumi Shou as Umibozu's wife (ep 9)
Niina Kumagaya as Risa's mother
Rie Nakagawa as
Female Student (ep 10)
Student (ep 2)
Satoshi Taki as Risa's father
Satsuki Yukino as Ootani's older sister (ep 13)
Shintaro Nakano as
Basketball Club Member (ep 5)
Dog (ep 13)
Secondary School Junior (ep 10)
Student (eps 1, 8)
Shunya Uchisono as
Basketball Club Member (ep 5)
Secondary School Junior (ep 10)
Student (eps 1, 3, 12)
Smokey Tetsuni as Umibozu
Yoko Nishino as
Lamb's Cry (ep 8)
Student (eps 1-3)
Yoshirou Matsumoto as Secondary School Classmate (ep 10)
Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Toei Animation
Animation Production Collaboration:
Magicbus
Mushi Productions
Background Art: Studio MAO
Broadcaster:
BS-i (2007-06-03)
CBC (2007-04-13)
KIDS STATION (2007-11-10)
MBS (2007-04-14)
TBS (2007-04-07)
Online Editing: TOVIC
Production:
Shueisha
TBS
Recording Studio: Tabac
Italian cast 
Italian staff 
Dubbing Director: Stefano Brusa

Authoring: Luca Gandolfi
Encoding: Luca Franciosi
Graphic Project:
Alex Corazza
Ivan Murgia
Post Production:
Alex Baldini
Luca Franciosi (OP,ED)
Subtitling: Alessandra Poggio
Alessio Nissolino as Atsushi Ootani
Valentina Favazza as Risa Koizumi

Beatrice Caggiula as Nobuko Ishihara
Donato Sbodio as Umibozu
Ilaria Giorgino as Chiharu Tanaka
Massimo Aresu as Ryouji Suzuki
Omar Vitelli as Heikichi Nakao
Stefano Brusa as Haruka Fukagawa
Veronica Puccio as Seiko Kotobuki
Vittorio Guerrieri as Nakano sensei
Italian companies 
Distributor: Dynit
Dubbing: Videodelta
Translation: Ad Libitum
 
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