Lovely Complex, or Love*Com, for short (5 stars). Plot-wise, it’s traditional shoujo, but where it really shines is in its humor. Now, I actually got interested in the manga because it was adapted into, IMO, the best anime of last season (also 5 stars). Artist Aya Nakahara has a pinpoint instinct for comedy, though I must say it loses something in the translation.
Some of the brilliance of its humor owes itself to the fact that it’s set in Osaka, and the dialogue is in the heavy, humorous dialect of that region. Though the manga’s translation is of course very good, that extra dimension gotten from the language is lost.
the emotional pumpkin » Netflix update: said:
[...] was first introduced to Love*Com through last season’s anime adaptation of the manga, which was far and away the best show to be released that season, as well as an excellent show, [...]
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 pm