F R I E N D
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Height is never a hindrance


We all have our own preferences in love. Some say that love is blind, there are no boundaries when you’re in love or that age doesn’t matter in love. How about height? Does height matter when you’re in love?

There’s an anime wherein the girl is as tall as many guys at her school and a boy short or rather the same height as many girls. Yes, folks LOVELY COMPLEX!


Risa Koizumi, taller than the average girl, and Atsushi Ootani, shorter than the average guy—their constant bickering and comical love-hate relationship is well-known throughout the school. They act similarly and love the same music, and their friendship is full of laughing, shouting at each other, and of course, lots of jokes about one another's height. But when Risa notices her feelings for Ootani growing, she's worried. She doesn't know if he can ever see her as more than a friend. With her friends rooting for her, she struggles to make him see how she feels about him, and that a romantic relationship between a tall girl and a short guy can work. Oblivious Ootani doesn't make things easy for her, but she stubbornly perseveres in her own unconventional way, determined for her feelings to get through to him, and finally be returned. If only she could do it without driving herself and everyone else crazy in the process.

In contrast to the story Hiyokoi is about a girl shorter than most girls and a guy taller than most boys yet these two fell in love despite their huge height difference.


Hiyori Nishiyama is a 15-year-old girl who is extremely shy and short. After being hospitalized for a year, due to a car accident, she starts going to high school as a freshman, along with her best friend Ritsuka. In her class there is a boy who is very tall and seems to have a lot of friends. His name is Yuushin Hirose and becomes Hiyori's friend (even if at the beginning Hiyori is not very happy with his habits). After an accident where her panties were shown to the class, she starts making friends and falls in love with Yuushin, but due to her shyness, she does not know how to confess to him.

So yeah, height doesn't matter when you're in love, sure we have our own ideals on our partners but soon we'll just see how much different it goes once we truly love a person different from our expectations. :)
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