#ootani

[nekoisora]

Yuri Ootani (Alien 9). I did this model long ago, my first attempt at 256fes but i got kinda frustrated midway. Might finish her someday

[lunarenjoyer]

When the complex is lovely also I feel like these look like 2 different styles but I promise they’re both me (left one is my first csp drawing!)

[takaki2]

MLB　大谷&デコピン

[lunisaka]

Another episode clip dubbed!!!

Voices

Asuto&Hiroto: Me. Haizaki: Cruz. Ootani: (would like to stay anonymous)

[shingenori]

koizumi doodles

[mimikyuno]

all of anna’s smooches in ep1 🫡

bonus:

[lammienade]

[source]

[hothotmiso]

[mokacheer]

♡ 14 Days to Fall in Love ♡ with: @apparently-artless

⤿ Day 4: It's not what it seems • Lovely✰Complex

[tetrix-anime]

Megami Magazine September 2024 Issue (#292) - Na Nare Hana Nare (Narenare -Cheer for You!-)

[kurayamineko]

[dailydose-of-kazemaru]

Kazemin #78 ★*⁠.⁠✧

Today's Kazemin is from the Inazuma Eleven Orion ED, Summer Zombie! Gouenji is reading a story to him, Anna and Ootani!

[kurun-a]

[takaki2]

セカンドゴロの速報はいらんやろ

[aisuruyuuji]

Suni talks: Lovely Complex and toxic masculinity...

Recently I've seen quite the number of people displeased with how Lovely Complex has unraveled as a shoujo series and some its of characters. This was all happening on TikTok so I'll take it with a grain of salt...

The complaint was regarding the series' male lead, Ootani Atsushi, and especially his behavior towards the female lead, Koizumi Risa.

(Could be) Spoilers!

Lovely Complex (also shortened as Love Com) is exactly what you'd think it is; a rom com series. The shoujo manga was written by Aya Nakahara and later animated, all happening in the early 2000's.

The series tries its best to capture the relationship between 1.72 cm tall Koizumi Risa and 1.56 cm tall Ootani Atsushi. The heights bring sorrow to their every day life already. No one sees Risa as a girl and Ootani, as a boy. Although something changes when they sit next to each other.

They start off as friends, naturally. Their friendship seems to be genuine as they share a big interest in the same artist, Umibozu. They go to concerts together and talk to each other about this quite a lot. However what makes them so popular, even at school, is their fights (and trust me, there are lots of them). They call each other insults and names, they make fun of each other's heights and misfortune in love. It's their thing whether it's mean or not.

Somehow Risa develops feelings for Ootani and she rapidly confesses to him. However Ootani can't seem to get over their height difference and tells her the truth; for now the feelings are not reciprocated. Risa doesn't give up on Ootani and for the rest of the series, she fights to receive Ootani's love...which she does.

To people's surprise (and i mean the readers/ viewers), Risa and Ootani's fights never went away. Even after Ootani learns about Risa's feelings, he doesn't change a bit and he sometimes even teases her for the crush. What people seem to miss is that Risa doesn't change that much towards Ootani either. But I suppose that was the key to Ootani's heart. If Risa had changed and became someone "more to Ootani's liking", he would have never ended up falling for her as hard as he had. And same goes for Ootani since Risa fell in love with him as he was from the start.

People are quick and mostly eager to judge. Nothing will be enough or well done. In this case, poeple were just as quick to label Ootani as 'annoying' and 'toxic'.

Is he annoying? Personally, he reminds me of my boyfriend and he's truly dear to me as a character so no, he's not annoying at all. He can be for you! But is he toxic? Let's talk about it!

First and foremost, it all comes down to the fights and the name-calling so we'll talk about this aspect first. It's true that fighting, name-calling, insults are NOT a 'love language' and they aren't 'cute' or 'aesthetic' either. They should never be romanticized. But is it toxic in this scenario? I don't see it as such. They're teenagers, they're new to the concept of love and relationships and especially to such a 'taboo' height difference. They insult each other as a defense mechanism to all the years they've spent being insecure about their heights. They grow and learn together, as we see later in the manga, they learn to love each other and themselves together with their heights. They accept it and that's when the fights die down. I could not call this 'toxicity'.

But what was upsetting to see was this supposed 'toxicity' being label as Ootani's doing. Mind you that they both fight, argue and insult. People tend to pity Risa for having to fight so hard for Ootani's love, but I find Ootani's refusal respectful towards Risa. He knew there was a gap in the intensity of their feelings so he never gave up on Risa and her feelings. Even when Risa was about to lose all faith, he was the one to bring her back on track. There were moments when Ootani believed more in them than Risa had. He loved her, he just wanted to love her enough and appropriately.

Ootani is a prime example of 'fragile masculinity' which is in fact not the same as 'toxic masculinity'. Ootani is insecure about his height, that'a a given. He gets defensive when Risa makes fun of him and feels upset when others don't take him seriously. And funny enough, Risa does the same.

I don't think Ootani is in the case of having 'toxic masculinity', especially since he's had no problem dating the girl who makes fun of him the most about his biggest insecurity who is also tree heads taller than him. And not only did he date her, but he loved her, in his weird gremlin way, but he cherished her.

What is your opinion about this? Is Ootani really a bad-written character or are people just never going to be satisfied with the content they're being provided?

[shouritsu]

Happy Inazuma PV Day! To celebrate, have my work so far for GO designs for those that didn’t show, part 1 of ??? whenever I get inspired again haha

Quick rundown of the concepts, Rika is working to take over from her mom and is coaching the GO gen of Osaka gals as well, of course! She and Touko are too busy to meet up a lot as adults, but when they do it’s as fun as ever. I like to think they could’ve tried dating for a time, but the distance was too much. Still besties tho.

Yagami has become a detective, so that she can mind cases that are important to kids who felt hopeless as the Sunshine Garden did before. Although as cool as ever while working, she makes sure to use her salary to buy the kids in the orphanage nice gifts.

Domon and Ichinose are pro players in America! At least one of them is dating Aki canonically. Non canonically maybe they’re polyamorous. I like to think they do road trips and have a travel blog.

Ootani feels like she could be a very pleasant flight attendant to me and I’m not sure why. The alternate thought is she could be another teacher at Raimon. Tamagorou I feel didn’t stick with soccer to become a pro himself, but it would be neat if he was a manager! I imagine he’s a lot more confident now but still has bouts of nervousness.