Lovely Complex

Lovely Complex (ラブ★コン, Rabu★Kon) is a 2007 anime series based on the manga with the same name written andf illustrated by Aya Nakahara. It was serialized and published in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine from August 11, 2001 to August 11, 2007, with a total of 17 volumes.

The anime series was directed by Kōnosuke Uda, animated by Toei Animation, composed by Hironosuke Sato, and it aired in Japan between April 7, 2007 and August 29, 2007, consisting in total of 24 episodes.

On October 17, 2023, Discotek Media announced that an English dub of the series by Sound Cadence Studios would be included on the Blu-Ray release which was released on January 30, 2024.^[1]

Synopsis

Everybody in school knows the very tall Risa Koizumi and extremely short Atsushi Otani – their constant bickering is basically comic relief for everyone else in class. But things between them take a turn during the Christmas of their freshman year, when Otani comforts Risa during a rough moment. Otani is too dense to notice, but by the time their Sophomore year cultural festival rolls around, Risa is ready to confess love! Will these two manage to get together by the time they graduate?

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Main Characters
	Risa Koizumi	Akemi Okamura	Amber Lee Connors
	Atsushi Otani	Akira Nagata	Howard Wang
	Nobuko Ishihara	Saori Higashi	Hayden Daviau
	Heikichi Nakao	Yasuhiko Tokuyama	Alejandro Saab
	Chiharu Tanaka	Kazuko Kojima	Sarah Wiedenheft
	Ryoji Suzuki	Kenjirō Tsuda	Aaron Dismuke
Secondary Characters
	Haruka Fukagawa	Masaya Onosaka	Tom Laflin
	Haruka Fukagawa	¿? (young)	Elsie Lovelock (young)
	Seiko Kotobuki	Fujiko Takimoto	Siv Ryan
	Kazuki Kohori	Hiroki Shimowada	Kdin Jenzen
	Mimi Yoshioka	Kae Araki	Marissa Lenti
	Mayu Kanzaki	Yuki Matsuoka	Elizabeth Quedenfeld
	Kuniumi Maitake	Junichi Suwabe	Gianni Matragrano
Minor Characters
	Umibozu	Smokey Tetsuni	Brent Mukai
	Kazuko Matsubara	¿?	Natalie Van Sistine
	Takato Koizumi	Kōsuke Takaguchi	Brendan Blaber
	Risa's Mother	Niina Kumagaya	Kayleigh McKee
	Risa's Father	Satoshi Taki	Mark Allen Jr.
	Otani's Mother	Michiyo Yanagisawa	Dom Dinh
	Murochi	¿?	Christopher Guerrero
	Abe	¿?	Mike Haimoto
	Endo	¿?	Aaron Campbell
	Lida	¿?	J. Michael Tatum
	Omachi	¿?	Kevin Thelwell
	Ueno	¿?	David Matranga

Episodic Characters[]

Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Ep(s).
Kiyoji Nakano	Masashi Hirose	Marc Swint	1, 8
Mrs. Umibozu	Mayumi Shō	Corey Pettit	9
Umibozu Jr.	Kokoro Kikuchi	Caleb Morphy	9
Cane Osugi	Daisuke Kirii	Charles White	11, 14
Otani's Sister	Satsuki Yukino	Ciarán Strange	13
Akechi	Madoka Yonezawa	Anairis Quiñones	19
Nobuko's Grandma	Makoto Kousaka	Kay Eluvian	21
Nakahara	Kyōko Hikami	Meli Grant	24

Additional Voices[]

Multimedia[]

Cast Reveal[]

Previews[]

Lovely Complex- English Dub Preview

Clips[]

Lovely Complex- English Dub Clip with MoistCr1TiKaL

Notes[]

The dub for this anime received a lot of controversy when Brendan Blaber, the translator for this anime along with Marissa Lenti, wrote on social media that he and fellow writer Marissa Lenti hated the original show, criticized its writing and voice acting, and changed the script and character personalities in an attempt to make the show watchable. He also stated they re-wrote transphobic parts of the show. Due to this, Discotek and Sound Cadence Studios would later fire him and Blaber's said changes didn't even appear on this anime at all.