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REVIEW: Lovely Complex Sub.DVD [2013-08-15]

I disagree. To me all romantic comedies should aspire to be like Toradora! because it is funny, entertaining, sad and has a great story and great characters.

Anyway tl,dr if I had to choose between a romcom like Lovecom or a romcom like toradora, it'd be Lovecom all the way without even batting an eye. The fact that the box set sold out the day it released has to say something doesn't it?

In fictional terms, it means they'd get together whether the series continued or not, it was only a matter of time.

My first problem when looking for the series was that I kept for getting the title which gets shortened to Love*Com which presents so many generic problems.

My second problem was accepting the notion that our leads in this romantic comedy were already an established duo, even if it was a Osakan comedy act. In fictional terms, it means they'd get together whether the series continued or not, it was only a matter of time.

Third problem? Series stretching plot obstacles of opposing female love interests that introduced new female character one at a time. Very tiring especially since the lead dynamic was already established prior to the first girl showing up.

Fourth problem? It's not comedic, dramatic or romantic enough for me. It's inevitable as an old pair of slippers, comfortable I guess but hardly durable or entertaining. It's there, that's it.

Animegomaniac wrote:

My second problem was accepting the notion that our leads in this romantic comedy were already an established duo, even if it was a Osakan comedy act. In fictional terms, it means they'd get together whether the series continued or not, it was only a matter of time.

That seems rather nit picky especially when you take into account that according to you your favorite romcom is toradora. The OTP is advertised in the anime title. It doesn't get more blatant than that. But even putting that aside, most romcoms make the OTP obvious from the start as the main grab is not really seeing who gets with who but the likability of the characters and seeing how the relationships progress.

Toradora on the other hand builds up all these fun side characters with a lot of depth without doing the same for its lead. Let's face it, Ryuuji is not that interesting of a lead, and his "gimmick" is even more played. So he looks like a gangster but really he's sweet and likes to clean. Ok....and Taiga is just a tsundere who's even less likable, and that's even without mentioning how played out romcoms with tsunderes are (I don't need to watch another one of those, please!). One could argue that not focusing too much on their inevitable romance for the first 18 episodes is what made the show more interesting up to that point. Then come episode 18 suddenly they remember they need to develop the shit out of them and you get what's left of the series, i.e. everyone losing except our uninteresting leads.

Not that I want to start a LoveCom vs Toradora war here, but I totally agree with you regarding the problems you had with Toradora. I'm amongst the minority here who didn't really enjoy the series as much as everybody else (although I wonder if a rewatch will change my mind)...
And for everyone who's saying Otani is a jerk most of the time in the anime with the way he treats Risa, I don't think anybody could argue with that much, but he redeems himself a lot in the manga where the story continues after the anime left off.