A/N: Hey there, friends. I happen to be a little bit annoyed with our connection tonight because I want to watch something on Youtube and it won't load fast. I guess I have to wait for a while. So while waiting I thought of writing about this thought that's been creeping and has always been in my head. You'll soon find out why I titled this cravings. Well, I think I should post in some pictures first.
So, what do you see friends? Of course, I do not mean the exact name of the anime. Well, I just gave you the answer. Anime.
Another picture coming up.
Okay, again, what do you see? I supposed some of you know them because they are really, really popular world-wide now. Well, the anime I posted above is popular, too, but it's popularity was at it's peak years ago already so it's okay if you don't know it. I don't know if you are an otaku like me as well so it's okay. Getting off the topic and going back now, the second picture I posted is a Korean girl group called Girls Generation or So Nyuh Shi Dae or SNSD (most commonly known).
(It's been so long since I started this post, I think two weeks ago, by the way. And I just have to finish this. So yeah, let me continue this, friends.)
Why did I post this two pictures? It was because I love anime and K-pop. I also do love Japan and Korea, the two countries I absolutely want to go someday. I really, really want to see cherry blossoms and the famous Jeju Island.
Anyway, many people who don't know anything about this are always asking why am I obsessed and addicted to anime and K-pop. Answer: Those things make me happy. That simple. If I were to answer if I could live without anime or K-pop, I certainly could. God, I live for an entire week with anime or K-pop if it's exams week. I could even live without the both of it all my life if something certainly called for it. But I will not be happy. That's the bottom line there. Sure, anime and K-pop are not something necessary for you to live. But those things make me happy. Those things somehow complete me. Those are the things that feeds my soul, not something in physical. Those things are what helps me to be happy and to cope with the different bullshits (sorry for the word) in life that can't be escaped and is impossible to eradicate all. Those things help me survive.
Ichigo Kurosaki, from Bleach, is my top anime guy. (And by saying this, I really, really feel sorry for Natsu, Gray and Laxus from Fairy Tail, L from Death Note, Naruto and Sasuke from Naruto and many, many more from shoujo mangas such as Usui from KWMS and of course, Otani from Lovely Complex, even Maiti-sensei from LC. But you see, if I have to choose only one, I'll choose Ichigo. ♥) Ichigo taught me never to give up. He taught me that if you want to protect something, someone, those people you love, your friends and your family, you have to absolutely give your best in order to do so. He taught me never to give up when you want to protect those you love.
Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto and Naruto Shippuden taught me like "I don't give a crap about how everyone thinks about me. That is my dream and I will accomplish it." He taught me that no matter how big the monster is in you (and by that, I do not mean the Kyuubi only), you have the power and you have to have the will to suppress it. He taught me that no matter what, you must not give up if you want to accomplish something. He taught me that you must not give up on your dreams. He taught me that there will always be people coming on your way but it doesn't mean that you have to be stopped by those people from reaching for your dreams.
Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail taught me the value of friends and families that it doesn't have to be your blood-relative, it doesn't have to be your biological father, grandmother or siblings that you can only can your family. He taught me the importance of friends and families that you must never, never let them get hurt. Actually, it wasn't only him. Gray, Erza, Lucy and everyone from Fairy Tail taught me that.
Conan Edogawa or Shinichi Kudo taught me, besides from his usual "There is only one truth." that you don't have to be exactly anybody to protect those you love. He doesn't have to be Shinichi to protect Ran or anybody. As long as you have the will to protect them, even if he is on a child's body, he will protect them.
L Lawliet from Death Note taught me never to be afraid of the truth and of the things you will learn. He taught me that even if truth might hurt you, you mustn't be afraid of it and face it.
Now, those are just the few things I've learned while remembering anime. There are many more that I've learned. Surprisingly, I learn many valuable things in life when watching anime rather than when I am watching the usual drama in the television. And I am not being biased here. Seriously, I learn more things while watching anime than when watching drama series.
Now why I love K-pop? As simple as anime, it makes me happy. SNSD is like my role model for me. And I really, really want to meet them someday. I want to say to them thank you because I am striving hard today because of the dream to meet them. No matter what people/haters say to them, I am proud to say I am a S♥NE.
You might already now why I say cravings as the title of this post. Cravings aren't exactly necessities in life but those cravings (as long as not addictive drugs or alcohol) are what makes me happy. They complete me as a person and they feed my soul.
A/N: This time around friends, I'm writing the Author's Notes first and foremost. I just want some change. It's been a long time since I wrote something, right? I think the last one I wrote was about Haruno Sakura and things I don't like about her. Well, guess what? Our internet was down for more than two weeks and we just got it back. So I know I will not be able to finish Naruto Shippuden this summer. That's why I am watching shoujo anime just like Lovely Complex. And here's my review for such fantastic anime.
Well, for starters, this anime has the weirdest plot for shoujo animes, for me, I mean. This was the first time I'd heard and seen an anime that has this weird plot. As you can see on the picture, it's a love story (as usual, being a shoujo) of a girl named Koizumi Risa who is taller than an average girl with 170cm height and a boy named Otani Atsushi who is smaller than an average boy with only 156cm height. So their difference in height is 14cm (16cm actually since in one part of the anime, Risa-chan grew another 2cm, which by the way I may add she despised).
Weird, isn't it? That was the first time I'd seen such plot and I think that wouldn't work on viewers since it was very weird. For all I knew, ever shoujo anime I've watched that gained so much popularity such as Special-A, Maid-Sama, Ouran High, Yamato Nadeshiko and their similars, the lead boy and the lead girl has normal height. The boy is taller than the girl. Just normal and perfect, right? But Lovely Complex is such love and so wonderful that it really got me even more than those popular shoujo I mentioned.
So anyway, Koizumi and Otani are good friends even though they always fight all the time. And they are partners of a comedic duo that entertains everybody in school. And to shorten things up, before she knew it, Koizumi falls in love with Otani. (They always walk home together because their houses are in the same direction and they are always together since they have the same group of friends.)
As you can see, Otani is just a little bit taller than the average height of a girl and Koizumi is just a little bit smaller than the average height of a boy. Those are their friends, Nobu-chan (the farthest on the left), Chiharu-chan (the other girl beside Koizumi), Suzuki-kun (beside Chiharu-chan), and Nao-chi (the farthest on the right). They have the same group of friends that's why it's no wonder they're always together.
Their friends realized that Koizumi is in love with Otani and decided that she should confess to him. Koizumi agrees and no matter how she confess to him, he doesn't have a single clue that it's him whom she loves. He is the densiest (is there such word? but you got the meaning) guy in the entire world. Even though Koizumi literally tells him that she likes him, he took it as a joke and thought she was just playing a trick on him. So when Koizumi finally reaches her limit, she finally said it angrily. It's such a scene full of emotion it's seems to me like I'm watching them there in the anime world live.
Otani rejected her after thinking about it so hard because he said they've been friends and a team for so long so he can't just see her as his girlfriend suddenly. He rejected her, right? You should be thinking that after that he realized that he likes her, everything would be alright, right? But no, no matter how sad it may be for me to say this, Koizumi got a second rejection. It's so sad that I remembered what she exactly said: "Is that right? I got rejected by the same guy twice?" It's so sad. But Otani isn't sure of his feelings.
Finally, after much happenings and Koizumi almost giving up her feelings on him (but she couldn't, she tried to so many times but it always ends up with she can't give up her feelings because she likes him so much), they ended up with quotes saying they can't really do without each other.
And this is my favorite scene of the anime. Don't get me correct, it's not that they kissed here. For heaven's sake, they kissed already two times before this moment. But this time, it's so perfect. I really, really liked it. This just made the anime 5stars for me. So yeah, they ended up together.
That's just the anime's summary and a little bit of my review. Here's my real review of it:
Do you know why I like the anime? It's because it's so weird it felt so real. Many shoujo anime's I've watched, it's perfect girls meets perfect guy and they end up together. In Lovely Complex, it's not perfect girl and perfect guy. Koizumi can be really and idiot and so is Otani. Koizumi cried so easily and Otani is so insensitive. They aren't perfect and their height, God! You get my point, the plot is so weird it almost felt it's true and by example, I know it's really true. You see, not all guys are blessed to have monstrous height and girls can be so much more blessed in terms of height than boys. And some of them do fall in love. Only, in this world of so much criticism and discrimination, not all have their happy ending. They are too afraid to see questioning looks of criticizing smirks. They are too afraid that they forget what they feel and concentrate on what the world say This Should Be. They loses their love because of such simple reason as height.
Have you ever heard of the saying: In love, number's don't matter, age, weight, or height. I believe in that. If you love a person, you love him. Not because he has millions in his bank account. Not because he is taller than you. Not because he has a good body shape. Not because of those trivial reasons. You love a person because you love him. Isn't it weird? Yes I know it's weird but that's the truth. When you love a person, either you can give so many reasons (and never end up of reasons) why you love him or you can't give any reason why. You love because you simply love that person. Damn the reason.
You know what I love about Koizumi and Otani? It's that they swore not to fall in love with any guy shorter than her or with any girl taller than him but when they learned that they do love each other, they couldn't care much about that. Koizumi didn't think of that when she confessed to him and Otani didn't reject her because she is taller than him. When they learned they love each other, they love each other.
If I fell in love with a guy shorter than me, I hope he will be just like Otani and I can be just like Koizumi. Then I'm sure we'll have our happy ending. That would end my review. This anime is such love I suggest everyone must watch it. It's really a must-watch.
As a bonus, I want to tell you that it has a live action movie played by Fujisawa Ema as Koizumi and Koike Teppei as Otani. That movie time is so short that they have to squeezed several scenes on the anime on one movie scene together. It didn't really follow the real sequence on the anime but nevertheless, if you loved the anime, you will surely loved this, too. (And Koike-kun is so cute, by the way. He's so perfect for Otani.)
And another bonus, here's a video of Otani and Koizumi. It's a beautiful video and I give all the credits to the owner. I got this from Youtube and I just want to post it here on my post.
