Anime · MBS
Lovely★Complex
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Akemi Okamura
Koizumi Risa (voice)
24 eps
Akira Nagata
Ootani Atsushi (voice)
24 eps
Saori Higashi
Ishihara Nobuko (voice)
24 eps
Yasuhiko Tokuyama
Nakao Heikichi (voice)
24 eps
Masaya Onosaka
Fukagawa Haruka (voice)
24 eps
Fujiko Takimoto
Kotobuki Seiko (voice)
24 eps
Yuki Matsuoka
Kanzaki Mayu (voice)
24 eps
Kazuko Kojima
Tanaka Chiharu (voice)
24 eps
Hiroki Shimowada
Kohori Kazuki (voice)
24 eps
Junichi Suwabe
Maitake Kuniumi (voice)
24 eps
Kenjiro Tsuda
Suzuki Ryouji (voice)
24 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Lovely★Complex actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Lovely★Complex reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Love is unusual for Koizumi Risa and Ootani Atsushi, who are both striving to find their ideal partner in high school—172 cm tall Koizumi is much taller than the average girl, and Ootani is much shorter than the average guy at 156 cm.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E24
Together Always
S01E23
Various Directions!! Everyone Embraces Their Own Circumstances
S01E22
A Catastrophic Declaration from Ootani!!
S01E21
Premonition of Separation?! Risa and Otani Walk Seperate Paths
S01E20
Declaration of War!! The dangerous Beauty Burns with Envy!!
S01E19
Sudden Downturn!! The First Date is the Beginning of Disaster
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Hiromi SekiProducer
Direction
- Konosuke UdaDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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