[Manga] Lovely complex: a story of sabi and bonbi

I stumbled across this manga while looking for couple cosplaying ideas for Halloween..... I could not believe it! The main characters' height difference is exactly the same as me and hubby! o.O These characters overlap with us in real life sooo much!! @-@; I'm really glad that someone's actually written the comedy and awkwardness that a tall girl short guy couple has to go through.... :3 And funny enough.... bonbi and I are more of a comedy couple just like the characters rather than to act all lovely dovey towards each other~ 

sabi and bonbi.... um.. i mean koizumi and otani

 (Warning: some spoilers below the cut line~ :3)

The usual~ plot from Wiki ;p

Love★Com is a love story between a boy and a girl in Sakai, Osaka written by 

 Aya Nakahara

. The girl, Risa Koizumi, is 172 centimetres (5 ft 8 in) tall—much taller than the averageJapanese girl. The boy, Atsushi Ōtani, is 156 cm (5 ft 1 in)—way below the height of the average Japanese boy. Because of this, they are called the "All Hanshin Kyojin" after a popular comedy duo that has a similar height difference.

During summer school, a very tall student named Ryouji Suzuki (from another class) shows up and Risa immediately falls for him because he is tall. There is a girl that Atsushi likes as well, so Risa and Atsushi decide to put aside their differences and help each other get their love interests. But as they get to know each other better, Risa's feelings for Atsushi begin to blossom, and her love life gets complicated from there on.

14cm isn't very much on paper... but can seem like a giant leap in terms of height... :'(

I haven't finished manga yet... (up to Chapter 36) but story-wise it's a pretty upbeat funny romantic comedy....

Some of the scenes that made me giggle like an idiot... (because that's what it is like for us in real life~) X3

Nobu's sketch of how Otani would have to stretch to try and kiss Koizumi~ XD LOL~ 

Standing a few steps higher in order to reach Koizumi~ X3 we do this on escalators all the time! XD

however there were arcs where I felt the author was trying to drag it out and make it more dramatic than it really needed to be... :T
Like when Koizumi confessed to Otani.... and Otani absent mindedly DID NOT REALIZE she's talking about him..... (=.=;) forcing Koizumi to confess multiple times on multiple occassions... gahhh... how dumb can you get.... . >:( It was as if the author DIDN'T want them together yet... :T GAHH!
Like-wise the arc where Otani's neighbor/ childhood friend Mimi... suddenly appearing and becoming the love rival... was a little unnecessary... it was as if they were trying to balance out love rivals since Otani had gotten jealous over Maity sensei earlier.... anyways... the Mimi arc wasn't as long as the first.... so I guess it's not too bad... X3


Koizumi and Otani are a very cute couple~ X3 and I do like the story overall~ They say that because the manga is set in Osaka they all speak in the Kansai accent! and the voice actors/actresses in the anime all speak like that~ X3 It'll be interesting to watch the anime sometime... there is also a live action movie, from looking at the poster the characters seems very well cast! XD (the actor playing Otani looks SO cute! X3) will also be interested to check that out sometime~ (^^*)/