Lovely Complex

170 cm tall Koizumi Lisa and 156 cm short Ōtani Atsushi have been quarelling ever since they entered Maido Academy, to the point that their feud is compared to the Tigers-Giants rivalry.\r\nLisa had falled for Suzuki Ryouji at first sight, Ōtani had a crush on Lisa's friend Tanaka Chiharu, so he arranges a merry triple date.\r\n\r\nHowever, they both get rejected because of their complexes ab...

Lisa and Ōtani both love the singer Umibōzu.\r\nSince they managed to get tickets for the christmas concert, they make plans to go together.\r\nThat's when Ōtani's ex-girlfriend Kanzaki Mayu hits him up with a request to meet her on christmas day.\r\nCue a flustered Ōtani.\r\nSeeing Ōtani like that, Lisa graciously removes herself and decides to go to the concert alone.\r\n\r\nThe day of the ...

The tall handsome guy who suddenly embraced Lisa was an old childhood friend of hers, Fukagawa Haruka.\r\nIt's Valentine's Day.\r\nLisa can't decide if she wants to give Ōtani chocolates.\r\nŌtani dismissively says that he'd take politeness chocolates.\r\nWhile she puts on a defiant front, Lisa's actually happy.\r\n\r\nHaruka then makes his appearance and gets in a fight with his love rival, ...

It's the new spring semester, which means being a sophomore.\r\nThe love rival Haruka ends up being in the class next door, and Lisa is relieved to be in the same class as Ōtani again.\r\nŌtani is pouring all his energy into basketball, so Lisa buys wrist bands for him.\r\nNot being able to be honest about her feelings, she can only give him the present as an extension of their usual quarelli...

After Seiko stole a kiss from him, Ōtani is absolutely smitten.\r\nOn top of that, Lisa has grown and is now 172 cm tall, widening the height difference to Ōtani even further.\r\nThen Ōtani sprains his finger during basketball practice and Seiko nurses him in the nurse's office.\r\nBeing all alone in there, Seiko throws herself onto Ōtani.\r\n...but then, Seiko is actually a boy named Seishir...

Even though all her friends are helping Lisa confess her feelings, Ōtani is so dense in that regard that he doesn't get it.\r\nEven worse, Ōtani doubles down on his cluelessness and asks her who she likes so he can help with the confession.\r\n\r\nIt's Lisa's birthday.\r\nŌtani asks Lisa to come to the station skyrise.\r\nAs his present, he secured two special seats just for them to watch the...

Ōtani takes Lisa's confession of her feelings as a joke.\r\nLisa is devastated that he doesn't even consider her a viable romantic partner.\r\n\r\nAfter the school festival is over, Ōtani finds Lisa in an empty classroom with tears streaming down her face.\r\nWhile he tries to console her, it only ends up making it worse for Lisa.\r\nRiled up, Lisa burst out asking why he can't realize that h...

Lisa is rattled by the fact that the nature of her relationship with Ōtani has changed.\r\nThe two of them can't even talk until the first morning of their school trip.\r\nŌtani requests a little time to think things over.\r\n\r\nTheir school trip takes them to Hokkaido.\r\nLisa and Ōtani end up by themselves in a gift shop where Ōtani gives her his answer.\r\nHe can't suddenly see her as his...

The rejected Lisa decides to go back to just friends with Ōtani in order to not worry Nobuko and her other friends.\r\nIt's the second day of the school trip.\r\nAs chance would have it, they run into Umibōzu who's on vacation with his family.\r\nBoth of them are awestruck.\r\nWhen Lisa asks Umibōzu's wife how they met, she reveals that they were highschool sweethearts who once broke up, \r\n...

Lisa and Ōtani are slated to go to a christmas party.\r\nThis party is a reunion of his middle school basketball team and Ōtani's ex-girlfriend Kanzaki is who invited him.\r\nHowever, she unexpectedly cancels and doesn't show up.\r\nAt the party, Lisa asks Ōtani's old teammates about Ōtani and Kanzaki's past.\r\nApparently Ōtani confessed his feelings to Kanzaki after being locked into the gy...

It's the new year and Kanzaki invites Ōtani to a basketball tournament.\r\nWhat's more, she's just broken up with her boyfriend, so their classmates scheme to get her back together with Ōtani.\r\nLisa does everything to prevent this.\r\n\r\nOn the day of the tournament, Kanzaki requests that she'd like to meet Ōtani by himself next time.\r\nSeeing that, Lisa leaves the gym, explaining she doe...

Ōtani's non-challant "Gimme some valentine's day chocolates" makes Lisa jump with joy.\r\nBut Ōtani still doesn't understand Lisa's feelings whatsoever.\r\nAfter Nakao explains to him how much effect a single word from him has on Lisa, Ōtani realizes what he did.\r\n\r\nWhen Lisa comes to hand him her crush chocolate, Ōtani says he's not in a position to accept them.\r\nThrowing the chocolate...

Lisa and Ōtani have plans to go to a concert together.\r\nBut the day of, Ōtani gets a fever and doesn't come to school.\r\nSpurred on by Nobuko, Lisa goes to his house.\r\n\r\nLisa and Ōtani are alone in his room.\r\nBut Ōtani critically wounds her by saying that despite being alone with her, he doesn't feel any urge to do anything.\r\nWhen she asks if she's really that unattractive, Lisa su...

Senior year of highschool.\r\nŌtani doesn't remember his kiss with Lisa.\r\nThat's when Lisa's epitome of the ideal lover appears, the teacher Maitake Kuniumi (Mighty).\r\nLisa gets excited.\r\nŌtani starts to remember the night of the kiss, but claims that he was just trying to pick \r\noff a grain of rice from Lisa's hair and fell over because of his high fever.\r\nBasically that kiss was j...

Lisa declares that she will celebrate her love with Mighty-sensei.\r\nBut in her heart, she still hadn't fully given up on Ōtani.\r\nMighty gently consoles the grief-stricken Lisa and she cries into his chest.\r\nSeeing this, Ōtani freezes in his tracks.\r\n\r\nAfter classes are over, Ōtani and Mighty meet, as he's become the substitue advisor for the basketball team.\r\nMighty muses that he ...

Twice Lisa's been rejected by Ōtani.\r\nMighty provokes Ōtani after basketball practice, to which he irritatedly replies "I'm the one Lisa likes!"\r\nIs Ōtani actually jealous?\r\n\r\nMighty pressures Ōtani by asking him if he doesn't care if someone were to take away Lisa, despite her undying devotion to him.\r\nŌtani has no answer.\r\nLisa, on the other hand, is wishing to get back to being...

Lisa and Ōtani have returned to just being friends.\r\nThough they are just friends, Lisa tries her best to keep her love inside herself protected.\r\nThe final tournament for Ōtani's basketball team draws near, but the first match is impossible, as they're facing last years champions.\r\n\r\nWhen Ōtani immediately gives up, Lisa yells at him!\r\nIn that moment, it dawns on Ōtani that Lisa's ...

Everybody is getting together for Lisa's birthday party.\r\nWhile Ōtani is absent from the party, Lisa is having a blast with her friends.\r\nShe remembers last year's birthday and that's when she realizes, no matter how much fun she's having, if Ōtani is not there, it's "just not right".\r\n\r\nRight that moment, a text from Ōtani arrives.\r\nUnbelievably, he'd been hiding behind a building....

Finally a happy couple, Lisa and Ōtani go on a date to the World Champtionship in Atheletics.\r\nBut the date is horrible, with being late, forgetting bags, and more.\r\nThen, Lisa randomly remembers Ōtani's graceful ex-girlfreind Kanzaki.\r\nAnd what a surprise, when she returns from getting drinks, Kanzaki is right there.\r\nLisa instinctively tries to run away.\r\n\r\nBut Ōtani introduces ...

The first time for Lisa to be in Ōtani's room!\r\nBut there, she's suddenly confronted by Mimi who declares that she will take Ōtani from her.\r\nHaving had a crush on Ōtani since she was a little girl, Mimi has always been acting like a godo girl in front of him.\r\nBut after having Lisa come crash into her world like that, Mimi gets flustered and shows more and more of her real self to Ōtan...

Lisa is surprised to find out that Ōtani wants to go to college.\r\nWill they be split apart by this?\r\nThe topic of the future was starting to cause subtle rifts amongst all the friends.\r\nNobuko plans to go to Hokkaido for junior college.\r\nThis means that it would put a big distance between herself and Nakao.\r\nWhen she realizes that Nakao really doesn't want to be separated from her, ...

Pursuing his dream of becoming a grade school teacher, Ōtani begins going to cram school.\r\nLisa is lonely as Ōtani is too busy with his studies, and she begins working at a family restaraunt.\r\nThat's where she meets and rapidly gets close with a Umibōzu fan called Kohori.\r\n\r\nOne day, Ōtani sees Kohori kiss Lisa!\r\nWhen Ōtani lays into Lisa, she calms him down with the explanation tha...

Ōtani told Lisa he wants to break up.\r\nLisa repents and admits that it was her fault.\r\nŌtani also admits that he's not without blame as he didn't make any time for her.\r\nAfter reconfirming that they still mean so much to each other, they make up on the night of a white christmas.\r\n\r\nSuzuki failed his entrance exams!\r\nStarting in April, Suzuki and Chiharu will be apart.\r\nSuzuki t...

The day of the entrance exams.\r\nLisa and Ōtani have overslept.\r\nWhat's more, a huge blizzard has shut down all traffic completely.\r\nLisa grabs Ōtani by the hand and by sprinting through back alleys, they make make it just in time.\r\n\r\nAfter the exams are over, Ōtani and Lisa go on a daate.\r\nThat's when they see Mimi working during a shoot.\r\nLisa is impressed by her professional a...