The comedy hits because Risa and Otani are genuinely trapped together, forced to fake-date their way out of humiliation, and every single scene proves they have more chemistry than anyone else in the school. Watch them bicker and accidentally fall in love at the exact same pace you do, which is the only way a shoujo romance actually works. By the end, their height difference stops being a joke and becomes the thing that makes them impossible to separate.
Koizumi Risa stands 172 centimeters tall, well above the average girl, while Ootani Atsushi is only 156 centimeters, well below the average boy. When their crushes fall for each other instead, both are left flustered and heartbroken. To make it worse, their homeroom teacher labels them a comedy duo, and classmates treat their arguments like staged routines. The two begin cheering each other on in the search for love and grow into close friends, discovering along the way that they share surprisingly similar tastes in music and fashion. Their constant bickering keeps the laughs coming, but as the friendship deepens, so do Risa's feelings for Ootani. A comedic high school romance about a mismatched pair who may have more chemistry than anyone realized.
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