(JMovie Review) Real Girl

Kano

Original title: 3D Kanojo Riaru Garu (3D彼女 リアルガール)

Director: Tsutomo Hanabusa

Writer: Mao Nanami (manga) Minato Takano, Tsutomo Hanabusa

Producer: Takuya Ito, Yasushi Udagawa

Cinematographer: Takashi Komatsu

Release date: September 14, 2018

Runtime: 114 minutes

Genre: Teen romance

Distributor: Warner Bros

Casts:

Ayami Nakajo as Iroha Ikarashi

Hayato Sano as Hikaru Tsutsui

Hiroya Shimizu as Mitsuya Takanashi

Moka Kamishiraishi as Sumie Ayado

Takahiro Miura as Shingo Mabuchi

Yutaro as Yuto Ito

Who still watches this kind of triangle love story that the ending can be predicted from the beginning? Not to mention with the typical kind of otaku guy with a popular yet sick beauty? Well, I can say, it’s like a guilty pleasure for me. It’s kind of watch then forget soon. Lol.

Hikaru Tsutsui is an otaku of anime and video games. His world is divided between school and fantasy of anime he loves watching. He doesn’t exist in his school. He is invisible to anyone in his school but to his otaku friend, Yuto Ito. Yuto even has a weirder performance with extra ears sticking on his head. Well, I think that’s true that an otaku makes friend with another otaku and create their own world together. And they are happy forever. LOL.

The typical figure of an otaku :D

The good looking brat who bullies

The story is not complete when there is no antagonist who bullies the otaku. Mitsuya Takanashi is kind of figure who actually notices Tsutsui but in negative ways. One day, he orders Tsutsui to replace him to clean the pool. Who would have thought that Tsutsui’s life would change after that?

In the pool, he meets a beauty, Iroha Ikarashi. This popular girl is every guy’s dreams to make her as a girlfriend, including Mitsuya. But the luck goes to Tsutsui to be proposed as Iroha’s boyfriend. Whaattt?!!! So, minna-san. It’s just OK to propose your dream guy as your boyfriend, even in the public. There are so many scenes in other Jmovies showing this. 

The beauty who proposes the otaku.

What about Tsutsui? Would he accept Iroha’s proposal? For all this time, he only knows girls in 2 dimension, his animation. Never have thought he gets a 3D girlfriend in his life. Assuming this is just a prank, he accepets her offer. The proposal would end soon and Tsuitsui would go back to his own world, 2D.

The girl should be a great partner for an otaku if she’s not sick. It just reminds me of Closest Love to Heaven (Kyo no Kira-kun) with the popular guy who suffered from lethal sickness who dated an unpopular girl. Therefore, you can predict the next plot: the sick would die or leave the partner and asked him to forget her. 

The manga cover

The duration of the movie is too long for me with such typical plot. The camera keeps zooming on Tsutsui’s confused look as he was proposed, then miserable look since the girl would never stop asking him out, plus another otaku girl who falls for Tsutsui. Well, it seems that to become an otaku has many benefits, though. Otaku might be a magnet for popular girls to approach, and leave later, or fall for later. Do you want to be one? LOL. I can say I am one of a kind with otaku speaking about Japanese drama and movies.

If you are fans of Hayato Sano, or Ayami Nakajo or other casts here, this movie is for you. But if you need deeper plot, this one is quite disappointing. I’d prefer deeper plot with characters looking for their identity, or deeper friendship, not merely teen romance. The comedy is quite light with some super dramatic comical scenes. Oh yeah, if you have watched the anime or read the manga, you can try to compare. I did try to read the manga, but it seems that shoujo manga is not really my thing if it is pure teen romance with some stuttering otaku and sick characters.I don't read the manga, but when I was looking for the cover of the manga, I found some hot scenes. Let me spoil you, you cannot find those scenes in the movie. Well, now I want to read the manga 😂😂😂😂

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