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May 18, 2024
It's amazing how overblown and exaggerated it was, the way people would always describe the fan service in this show to me. The only point I could agree on is that it's out-of-place a lot of the time. Sure, tits don't tend to jiggle like spanked jello every time a girl stands up or sits down, and bullets will not fly dynamically around one boob, through the grand canyon and back out past the other. But I gotta say, for how much people told me this show is ruined by fan service, I feel deliberately misled. There was plenty of action scenes, and like I
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said the fan service is placed into moments where it's pretty goddamn distracting, but the amount of it?
Ecchi, to me, is when plot elements are REPLACED by jiggling tits and panty shots - that or those ARE the plot - and nothing more to be seen. A girl with gravity-warping beanbags walking up to the guy, leaning forward, seductively creating a plunging asscrack of cleavage through the maid's outfit, then slapping him across the face and calling him a pervert for staring... that IS the entertainment value you get from an ecchi series. This series, conversely, just felt like it had boobs and pantsu as side attractions meant to make you look twice. So yeah, fuck anyone who says this show has too much fan service, because for what it is and how people describe it, I think it needs more.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Feb 3, 2023
You aren't meant to "enjoy" this one. You aren't meant to like pretty much any character. Very few moments in this one will make you smile. Every episode is a mental rollercoaster that you *need* to ride to the end. And that's exactly why I can't rate it any lower than a 10. For something like this to reach out, grab you, and make you feel every emotion with a name, for characters you wish would trip and fall off a high bridge so often - there's only one way that can happen, and that's by being a masterpiece.
If you aren't good with sadness, depression
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and poetry being woven into the very fabric of a story, don't watch this one.
Because if you do, no amount of pain is gonna make you want to stop.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 10, 2022
This anime is as generic-rom-com as it gets, with mostly-predictable plot lines and little excitement other than the will-they-won't-they of its relationships. It's got everything you'd expect, from the beach scenes to the misunderstandings to the sudden-and-contrived dramatic elements that they overcome to stay together.
And Lovely Complex didn't let any of that irrelevant bullshit stop it. I loved this series. The characters are portrayed so beautifully and lovably, their interactions are so natural yet dynamic, and in the end I was very satisfied to watch it, cheering them on from the comfort of my chair.
There are absolutely times in this 24-episode saga that I thought
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to myself, "Oh boy, not this again" - some things in the story repeat themselves ad nauseum and after a few episodes of it you just want to see them finally get through/past it, and yet none of them truly felt like filler. Regardless, the characters are charming enough that in the end I completely forgot all of that and just wanted to watch more. And when it started to drag on, there was enough perfectly-timed funny stuff to make me chuckle and keep watching. I'm actually sad there isn't more to watch.
The only thing that bugged me and I never really got past is the art style. It's hard for me to put into words, but I'm definitely more suited to things that were animated later than this. But it was charming in its own way. It wasn't bad enough for me to stop watching, that's for damn sure.
The premise is simple: Guy short, girl tall, that's strange, what will they do? It won't win any awards for innovative scripting or M Night Shymalymadingaling plot twists, and if you gave two shits about that you wouldn't be looking in the rom-com section for it. Lovely Complex is just an enjoyable, wholesome experience to watch. I'm happy to give it an overall 10 because I was overall happy to watch it and finished it completely satisfied. I recommend this to anyone who likes romance and/or comedy anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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May 14, 2022
A nice, simple story about a pretend couple who slowly build a real relationship over time. So many of the reviews treat this like a bad thing. I'm here to have my say that this is exactly the kind of thing I love to watch. If you're the kind of viewer who just wants some nice characters with room to grow and wants to watch them do it, go for it. You'll know within an episode or two if it's your kind of thing. If you've somehow blundered your way into the SoL rom-com/rom-dram department expecting an edge-of-your-seat thriller action drama suspense murder mecha mindfuck
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(the likes of which I'd also say have been done the same way countless hundreds of times) to be there on the shelves, you're in the wrong place. If you don't mind that sort of thing and treat this like what it is (and for what it never once pretends to be), you'll likely enjoy it as I do.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Mar 26, 2022
An adorably energetic, refreshing, wholesome, pretty anime with a fun premise themed around cosplay and two very well-written, well-acted, and easily-attachable main characters. The animation quality of this series stands out above all, and Marin is an infectiously bubbly waifu that you just smile toward reflexively. The show does get pretty heavy with its "ecchi" elements at times, but honestly if that's not your thing you should easily deduce that by looking at it.
There's not much story - I'm not about to type up a synopsis here - it's centered around Marin's desire to cosplay and Wakana's ability to help her do so, and they
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develop a bond in the process (things get freaking intense at times, oh man). Again, you could probably figure that out by looking at it. The story isn't the driving force behind this series - that would be the characters, which are remarkably portrayed and hit it out of the park. The art and scenery's phenomenal - I'd say a show like this depends on it. The sound/music was OK, the OP is decent though nothing very special IMO, the ED is a cute softer melody, and the rest of those elements simply feel environmentally natural and appropriate. In my opinion, background elements like scene scores are like makeup - the goal isn't for it to be what stands out.
This was everything I look for in an anime. It's not for everyone, but give it a shot, you'll know pretty damn quick if its strengths are enough for you. I look forward to a 2nd season with the childish impatience of a grade-schooler the week before summer vacation.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 5, 2021
This is the How I Met Your Mother or Game of Thrones of anime for me. It's a romcom slice of life with a gamer gimmick, expectations for the genre are perfectly precedented, and generally what makes that type of show good are character development, pacing, and satisfaction. To that end, the first 11 episodes are great. They nailed it IMO. The love triangle invested me enough for me to want to pick a side, and the romances for the side characters were good too. And then they proceeded to butcher, destroy, and betray it all in the final 20 minutes. The 12th and final
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episode had absolutely nothing to do with anything that happened before it, pacing wasn't just bad but completely irrelevant, and what this shitstain of a finale left you with was an overdone, labored debate on the price of games, 10 minutes of jiggling out-of-place ecchi fan service (for which it seems they all got tit implants off screen), and no resolution to the love triangle at all. Perhaps I'm lucky to have been thus far overall spoiled by other anime actually wrapping up their stories in the end. This one started strong and in the end was a huge let down, just like HIMYM and GoT. The first 11 eps are 9/10 for me, and then the final episode squeezes out like a goddamn fart, it's so goddamn shitty it brings the whole thing down with it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Jun 8, 2021
I enjoyed this anime. I'm not interested in spoiling anything, just in offering a few bullet-point perspectives to counter all the ones I'm seeing that I feel are misguided. Maybe I'll change a few minds, though probably not.
First off, yes, the MC is cringy quite often. His motives are pretty clear (to us as viewers anyway), yet his decisions are not. But if "character development" is a line item on a list of things that make an anime enjoyable for you, then that's the whole point, isn't it? If he had nothing to improve on his character, then development wouldn't be necessary in the first
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place. If you DIDN'T want to smack the MC for some of his dumb choices, hesitation and debauchery, he'd arguably be less interesting for it. It's a very interesting hypocrisy in this matter - so many people want to see good character development, strong interactions, lessons learned, etc., which is fine until that same subgroup of viewers give up on a series because the MC hasn't already gone through good character development and lessons learned before he shows up on the screen. I get the attachment people form to characters and the strength of the emotions effected by that, but to think it's somehow a design flaw in the show itself is misguided. Time to adjust perspectives, if you fall under both (but not only one) of those categories.
Second, I'd like to offer that the title of the show *almost* had me not wanting to watch this at first. I think it's fair to say that most people in the world have had romantic relationships with a person whose intentions did not ultimately line up with our own - what you might call "being led on" in many cases, and that usually leaves a sour taste in a person's mouth for shows like this. I assumed that "rent-a-girlfriend" would ultimately use that very concept as a primary plot point. In a way that's accurate with this anime, but it's also clear there's more to it than that, there's an attachment on both sides that starts to take shape and grow, but neither of them are willing to admit to it... yet. What I'm saying here is this: the "Rent-a-Girlfriend" basis for this story seems to be secondary to what's really going on, and that's more of that good old "character development" I mentioned.
If you dismissed this anime because of its unattached "your girlfriend isn't your girlfriend and you agreed to that" premise, or if you found the MC repulsive because he's not already a fully-developed character with his lessons and moral code fleshed out, I'd personally push you to give it a second chance with all this in mind.
I enjoyed this 1st season and am excited for the 2nd season.
As for the template categories most reviews cite, I'm not a hyperanalytical person in any of them really, so I just assigned numbers based on what I felt. I gave this show an 8 overall, mostly because I think it gets undeserved hate at times for the reasons I've tried to counter here but also because I genuinely enjoyed it. It's not perfect, but it was good. Great, even. Romcoms and romdrams make up almost all of my most-enjoyed series. I'm a casual watcher of anime, it doesn't dominate my life, and generally speaking if a show is enjoyable I will watch it and give it a chance even if its core concepts can be found in hundreds of others.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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