Nisekoi

Nisekoi or Nisekoi: False Love in English title, Nisekoi is a manga story written and illustrated by Noshi Komi. Anime adaptation of Nisekoi is created by a studio from Shaft and here’s some popular titles under Shaft Bakemonogatari, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, Arakawa Under the Bridge and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. The Nisekoi series consist of 20 episodes, 24 minutes per episode and aired from January 2014 till May 2014. Opening song “CLICK” and “STEP” performed by ClariS. Ending song “Hearth Pattern” performed by Nao Touyama, “Recover Decoration” performed by Kana Hanazawa, “TRICK BOX” performed by Mikako Komatsu, “Hanagonomi” performed by Kana Asumi, “Souzou Diary” performed by Nao Touyama, Kana Hanazawa, Mikako Komatsu and Kana Asumi. Nisekoi anime series is directed by Akiyuki Shinbo and Naoyuki Tatsuwa. 

Raku Ichijou, a first-year student at Bonyari High School. Raku is not your regular high school student because of his family background, a yakuza family. Ten years ago, Raku made a promise to his childhood friend and the only thing Raku has is a pendant with a lock. The only way to unlock the pendant is to find the girl who took the key when they parted away. Now years later, Raku is a typical teenager who wants to remain uninvolved in his yakuza family as much as possible. 

Raku enjoys his high school days along with his crush since middle school Kosaki Onodera. One day the American Bee Hive gang invades his family territory. Raku’s romantic dream is almost gone because of the family conflict he is experiencing. Raku needs to pretend to be in a relationship status with the beautiful daughter of the Bee Hive gang Chitoge Kirisaki. A reality they really hate each other when they first meet up on school grounds because of a minor accident. Raku and Chitoge pretend to be in a romantic and lovely relationship to stop and gang war in the territory. 

Nisekoi is a romantic and comedy story of Raku and Chitoge when they pretend to be a lovely couple at school and whenever they are outside of the house, a bit forceful because of the family background that they have and to prevent a spill of blood on the members. Both fathers of Raku and Chitoge decided that they pretend to be dating to stop the war of the two groups and it’s in the hands of Raku and Chitoge to show everyone around that they love each other, but the truth is they really hate and annoyed to each other when they first met. The start of a new love team at school but in reality, they accepted it to stop the both groups fighting every single day. 

Nisekoi anime adaptation is great quality in terms of the story and a bit of improvement of the story flow to suit well in anime series. Shaft the studio who made things into a reality of anime series for Nisekoi, an entertainment of romantic comedy with harem at the same time. The music choice is well matched for the anime series for the opening song to hear the ClariS performance is a great set list of songs and for the ending song a lot of song list to listen and most of them performed by the seiyuu of the main character.

Nisekoi deserves a good anime recommendation in terms of genre of romantic and comedy this is one of great anime to start within. Anime or manga? First of all, I only learned the title for the anime adaptation and read the synopsis and got my attention. After watching the whole series, I decided to read the manga story. The manga story is good in terms of shounen level a weekly manga series. The comedy part is the real deal. It's one of the reasons why I continue the story by reading the manga and it is interesting till the end of the whole story. Is this another harem series? Yeah harem but in a good reason for Raku got the attention of the girls around because of the involvement from his childhood days and the locket that he always wear on his neck and character maturity at the same time is like knowing yourself more or what you really want to do into your life a thing Raku always follow what is really good thing to do but also he accept his own fault of mistakes. Is the anime an underrated series? Nope not at all, because of the story there’s some part feel a bit lost I think that’s one of the reason for most who read it before watching the series it feels the story got a more filler story that almost lost interest for some readers, but for the anime part is like follow the path because the main story and the start of character development is also involve at the same time. Nisekoi is a good love story with the romantic comedy part or romcom for short, for most people this is a great genre of story it balances the whole thing not too serious but to enjoy the whole series is most important of all.

Information:

Title:

• Nisekoi
• Nisekoi: False Love
• ニセコイ

Type: Series (20 episode)

Aired: January 11, 2014 to May 24, 2014

Studio: Shaft

Source Story: Manga

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Song:

Opening:

• "CLICK" by ClariS (eps 2-14)

• "STEP" by ClariS (eps 15-20)

Ending:

• "CLICK" by ClariS (ep 1)

• "Heart Pattern" by Chitoge Kirisaki (Nao Touyama) (eps 2-7)

• "Recover Decoration (リカバーデコレーション)" by Kosaki Onodera (Kana Hanazawa) (eps 8, 10-13)

• "STEP" by ClariS (ep 14)

• "TRICK BOX" by Seishirou Tsugumi (Mikako Komatsu) (eps 15, 17)

• "Hanagonomi (はなごのみ)" by Marika Tachibana (Kana Asumi) (eps 18-19)

• "Souzou Diary (想像ダイアリー)" by Chitoge Kirisaki (Nao Touyama), Kosaki Onodera (Kana Hanazawa), Seishirou Tsugumi (Mikako Komatsu), Marika Tachibana (Kana Asumi) (ep 20)

Director: Akiyuki Shinbo, Naoyuki Tatsuwa 

Character and Voice Actor:

• Kirsaki, Chitoge (Touyama, Nao)

• Onodera, Kosaki (Hanazawa, Kana)
• Ichijou, Raku (Uchiyama, Kouki)

• Tsugumi, Seishirou (Komatsu, Mikako)

• Tachibana, Marika (Asumi, Kana)