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. Lisa 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. However, they both get rejected because of their complexes about their...

Lisa and Ōtani both love the singer Umibōzu. Since they managed to get tickets for the christmas concert, they make plans to go together. That's when Ōtani's ex-girlfriend Kanzaki Mayu hits him up with a request to meet her on christmas day. Cue a flustered Ōtani. Seeing Ōtani like that, Lisa graciously removes herself and decides to go to the concert alone. The day of the concert, Lisa is a...

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

It's the new spring semester, which means being a sophomore. The love rival Haruka ends up being in the class next door, and Lisa is relieved to be in the same class as Ōtani again. Ōtani is pouring all his energy into basketball, so Lisa buys wrist bands for him. Not being able to be honest about her feelings, she can only give him the present as an extension of their usual quarelling. Anno...

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

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

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

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

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

Lisa and Ōtani are slated to go to a christmas party. This party is a reunion of his middle school basketball team and Ōtani's ex-girlfriend Kanzaki is who invited him. However, she unexpectedly cancels and doesn't show up. At the party, Lisa asks Ōtani's old teammates about Ōtani and Kanzaki's past. Apparently Ōtani confessed his feelings to Kanzaki after being locked into the gym equipment ...

It's the new year and Kanzaki invites Ōtani to a basketball tournament. What's more, she's just broken up with her boyfriend, so their classmates scheme to get her back together with Ōtani. Lisa does everything to prevent this. On the day of the tournament, Kanzaki requests that she'd like to meet Ōtani by himself next time. Seeing that, Lisa leaves the gym, explaining she doesn't belong the...

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

Lisa and Ōtani have plans to go to a concert together. But the day of, Ōtani gets a fever and doesn't come to school. Spurred on by Nobuko, Lisa goes to his house. Lisa and Ōtani are alone in his room. But Ōtani critically wounds her by saying that despite being alone with her, he doesn't feel any urge to do anything. When she asks if she's really that unattractive, Lisa suddenly feels his l...

Senior year of highschool. Ōtani doesn't remember his kiss with Lisa. That's when Lisa's epitome of the ideal lover appears, the teacher Maitake Kuniumi (Mighty). Lisa gets excited. Ōtani starts to remember the night of the kiss, but claims that he was just trying to pick off a grain of rice from Lisa's hair and fell over because of his high fever. Basically that kiss was just an accident. ...

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

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

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

Everybody is getting together for Lisa's birthday party. While Ōtani is absent from the party, Lisa is having a blast with her friends. She 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". Right that moment, a text from Ōtani arrives. Unbelievably, he'd been hiding behind a building. When they're a...

Finally a happy couple, Lisa and Ōtani go on a date to the World Champtionship in Atheletics. But the date is horrible, with being late, forgetting bags, and more. Then, Lisa randomly remembers Ōtani's graceful ex-girlfreind Kanzaki. And what a surprise, when she returns from getting drinks, Kanzaki is right there. Lisa instinctively tries to run away. But Ōtani introduces her as his girlfri...

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

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

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

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

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