#lovecom

[animefeminist]

Unlovely Complex: Social Justice, Misogyny, and the Lovely Complex Dub

I had never heard of Brendan “JelloApocalypse” Blaber before February 11, 2024. Until that day, he was best known by the general public for the webseries Epithet Erased, plus his “So This is Basically…” Youtube series commenting on and parodying nerd media culture tentpoles like Tumblr and Pokemon and had a burgeoning career as a voice actor. However, my introduction to his work was a lengthy public Patreon post he made entitled, “Marissa and I Wrote an Anime Dub,” in which he wrote 5,000 words about the localization process for the dub of Lovely Complex, which included in-depth discussion of his hatred for the series, the protagonist Koizumi Risa, and the artist, Nakahara Aya.

Frankly, Blaber’s post infuriated me. It started with him stating confidently that Lovely Complex, a series I’ve loved since it first aired in 2007, “is considered a grandmother of the shoujo genre, mostly because it’s old,” and only got worse from there. Each paragraph brought a fresh insult as he revealed details about the dubbing process that doubtless was never meant to be public knowledge and insulted the characters, story, and artist, and threw fuel onto the blazing tire fire that is current localization discourse with his brags about how he had altered the characters. Most baffling of all was his inability to understand the story and heroine of this fairly straightforward romantic comedy, who he proclaimed to be “psychotic.” The way Blaber talked about the show and his inability or refusal to unpack even its most basic themes spoke to the sort of misogyny that pervades critical analysis, in which female characters and creators don’t get even the slightest grace for being messy, imperfect beings.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[mokacheer]

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

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

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

GUYS

GUYS

DISCOTEK MEDIA IS RELEASING A LOVELY COMPLEX DUB

Hearing this news literally Right After I watched it subbed for the first time is so funny. Talk about timing!

[readtilyoudie]

LOVE*COM VOLUME 3

[lisard148]

I feel like they would be friends

[lichdolly]

I think Lovely Complex did a great job humanizing and displaying the emotions of a teenage girl. Even to the point of her hair always being differently styled and her clothes being diverse, just like a real teenager.

They humanize her to the point of letting her be unattractive and make ugly faces in front of her love interest. Letting her be silly. Not hyper-sexualizing her. Having her friends be supportive people. Letting her cry. Letting her yell and get mad.

She doesn’t always have to be perfect and beautiful and emotionless like so many romance (yes even the other romcom ones) animes portray teenagers.

LoveCom is just… so good for so many reasons, but Risa is the top one.

[volleypearlfan]

my condolences to all the epithet erased fans out there

[paperbagedhead]

That’s a LC line, if I’ve ever heard one.

[umbrellascribbles]

the anime couple ever <33

[shoujo-josei-anime-poll]

Favorite Shoujo / Josei Anime (Round 3)

[burgers-in-anime]

Lovely★Complex, chapter 1 (2001)

[blog-withcass]

“Everyday, there are many unremarkable encounters, but…later on, there will be an encounter big enough to change your life. That’s why, I want to treasure each of those. I started thinking that…when I first met Otani.” ラブ★コン

[diathadevil]

Three weeks later and this fanart is finally complete. 😭

Recently I've been rewatching Lovely Complex for the second time so I wanted to share my love for these two 🧡Just two absolute dumbasses in love, your honor.

[readtilyoudie]

LOVE*COM VOLUME 4

[carrotcouple]

Still love All Hanshin Kyojin so much!

Went back to my roots and drew lovely complex. Risa and Otani have a chokehold on me to this day. When I first started out seriously drawing I actually tried to imitate Nakahara Aya's art style. And here we are again.

[pearlietomb]

God, he was so clueless.