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Iketeru Futari (イケてる2人
?, trans. The Hot Couple) is a
long running Japanese manga created by Takashi Sano.
The 1999 animated TV series series has 16 episodes, with about 5
1/2 minutes per episode. This anime features significant fan service.
A live action theatrical movie version has been announced for
release in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2009.
Plot
16-year old Keisuke Saji loves to fantasize about young
beautiful women. He hopes to land the object of his affection,
Koizumi Akira. Koizumi is a classic Tsundere, swtiching between
violence towards Saji and affection. While most guys take Koizumi's
cold shoulder as a hint, Saji pursues head-on without having
rejection faze him.
The plot of the anime covers the early portions of the manga it
is based on (the manga currently being at over 30 volumes in length
in Japan). There are, however, a number of alterations. Most
obvious is the removal of Saji and Koizumi's sex life. Their first
night together is implied rather than explicit, and other times
they were intimate instead end with Saji being kicked or punched
into space.
Additionally, for the sake of time most likely, many side plots
of the manga are ignored. An example being the exclusion of
Arigase's boyfriend, a shy young man named Konoe, and the tale of
how they met.
Lastly the anime has several events in the story occur in a
different order than they did in the manga.
Characters
- Keisuke Saji (佐次京介 , Saji
Keisuke
?)
- Voiced by: Shigeru
Shibuya
- Saji is a 16-year-old high school guy with spiky hair who loves
everything about women. In the beginning the series Saji was just
your average sex-crazed, teenage boy; but one day he steals his
father's cell phone and gets a message from the mysterious girl
named Alice promising to do sexual things to the first person to
meet her. The next day at school, he bumps into Koizumi and learns
from his friends about her and all the rumors surrounding her life.
Later that night he goes to meet Alice and finds out that there are
a bunch of other old guys there harassing all the young girls
fitting Alice's description. He then sees Koizumi sitting on a
bench laughing at how many perverted old men there are in the city.
He immediately recognizes her voice as the one that called his
dad's phone claiming to be Alice. When he exposes her, she takes
him on a date stating that "Alice doesn't lie." The next morning
Saji meets Koizumi again, much to her dismay, to talk about the
previous night. When Koizumi immediately denies it to save face in
front of her friends, Saji begins to think it was only a dream, but
he decides to wholeheartedly dedicate himself to making his dream
reality once more (whether or not they had sex is never fully
confirmed nor denied; the manga confirms their sexual act as well
as showing future sexual acts which leads to Koizumi's
embarrassment many times). Over time he soon begins to realize that
even though he may act extremely lecherous, Koizumi is the only
girl he wants to be with. At one point, when he thinks that Koizumi
may be attracted to another guy, he tells her he loves her. Despite
being in love with Koizumi that is still not enough to stop his
perverse actions, in which he often apologizes to Koizumi in his
head while performing lewd acts. It should also be noted that Saji
is on the basketball team and is actually quite good at it.
- In the manga it is revealed by Saji's mother that he was
actually once a very shy person. This all changed when he had to
stay home as a child due to getting sick and returned to school to
find out that a girl he liked but had never confessed to had
transferred schools while he was gone. She was his "first love" and
he never got the chance to tell her so. This put him into a period
of depression from which he emerged as someone who never held back
his feelings.
- Akira Koizumi (小泉明, Koizumi
Akira
?)
- Voiced by: Kae
Araki
- Koizumi is a young girl with blue hair and red eyes. Her looks
and figure has the guys in school turning their heads, including
Saji. However, Koizumi expresses her rejections from the proposals
of the boys by physically assaulting them. Out of all the guys she
meets, Saji is her favorite target to take her frustrations out on.
In the beginning of the series rumors go around saying that she is
a lesbian and has sex with older men for money. But soon after that
is found out to be untrue as far as her being a prostitute is
concerned. She still hates men and apparently had a former lesbian
lover (hints suggest that she started those rumors herself to keep
people from getting too close to her). As time goes on, in her
interactions with Saji she eventually starts to open up. Although
she doesn't hold back from attacking Saji when he does something
perverted she will often state that she acts differently when he's
around. At some points she will get jealous of Saji doing perverted
things to other girls which promptly leads to a sound beating from
her or she will often shout out her inner feelings revealing her
growing fondness of Saji. It should also be noted that despite the
fact that everyone thinks that her and Saji are a couple she does
nothing to dispel these rumors and doesn't really seem to care.
Deep down she really cares for Saji and credits him along with her
friends Ryoko and Maki to being the reason she decided to stay in
Japan.
- The manga details that her habit of engaging in prostitute-like
behavior stems partly from low self esteem. She has admitted a
number of times that she does not like herself very much, which
perhaps is one reason she is reluctant to accept Saji's adoration.
She is prone to thinking the worst of people and early on usually
accuses Saji of having ulterior motives for any kindness he shows
her. She is quite touched as she over time accepts that while Saji
does indeed desire her, his devotion is not dependent on what she
gives back.
- Saji's lack of shame and straightforwardness in his words and
actions are at the same time an annoyance to Koizumi and one of the
things she likes most about him. For while Saji never hesitates to
show his feelings, Koizumi is easily embarrassed when it comes to
admitting her own. Because of this, especially in public, she is
prone to loudly denying that she cares about Saji at all. The truth
however is that she is much more perverted herself than she would
like to admit and often has trouble (or simply fails to) control
her own desire for Saji.
- Yuki Umemiya (梅宮悠樹, Umemiya
Yuki
?)
- Voiced by: Yamada
Miho
- Yuki is Saji's busty childhood friend and somewhat an
unintentional rival to Koizumi. Yuki has grown well-proportioned
and shapely. However, her charm and body, while still able to make
guys drool, are not as effective as Koizumi grace and mystery.
Throughout the series Yuki finds ways of putting her towering
breasts on Keisuke's face. Towards the end of the series her nerves
get the better of her and she repeatedly tries to seduce Keisuke,
eventually succeeding with the help of her enormous breasts.
Despite her appearance she has very low self-esteem because guys
like the smaller more, petite Koizumi and the fact that her old
boyfriend, who was the captain of the basketball team, broke up
with her because she was better than him.
- Ryoko Arigase (蟻賀瀬涼子, Arigase
Ryoko
?)
- Voiced by: Ayumi
Furuyama
- One of Koizumi's friends, Ryoko has long purple hair. She tends
to remain calm, despite whatever is going on around her, she will
usually put on a face to match the situation, as well as saying
something to go with it. In manga, she is considered as a Venus
with purple hair due to both well endowed shape and her sexiness.
In the manga she also has a boyfriend named Konoe, a friend of one
of Saji's friend's older brother. His shyness results in her
usually taking the initiative in the relationship, which seems to
suit her just fine.
- She has a habit of somewhat discretely supporting Saji and
Koizumi's relationship, putting them in compromising situations and
making various short comments concerning her take on what Koizumi
really means when the girl expresses frustration or hatred for
Saji. At one point in the manga she counseled Saji (who was trying
to learn from Konoe how to control himself better) to be himself,
as that is what Koizumi likes even if she won't admit to it.
- Maki Amakasu (甘糟真希, Amakasu
Maki
?)
- Voiced by: Tomoe
Hanba
- Another of Koizumi's friends, Maki has brown hair either short
or in pigtails. She tends to be a bit more high-strong than Ryoko,
leading to her to act to match the situations. Several times
throughout the series she states that she thinks Saji and Koizumi
are a good match and wants them to be together. In manga, Maki has
an elder sister who is a policewoman and a mother. Both elder
sister and mother are very well-endowed women and both of them
attract lots of men.
- Kuroki Misa
- Koizumi's lesbian friend who behaves as if they were former
lovers. She is part of a small circle of friends who sell
themselves to men with usually perverse intentions, Koizumi having
become a part of the group for a while in her search for
acceptance. Misa does not actually engage in sex with her
"clients," instead teasing them and using her own method to ensure
the men never get too far with her.
- In the manga Koizumi makes it pretty clear that they were never
lovers, the attraction being fanatically one-sided. Still, Koizumi
does value Misa's friendship and the protection the girl afforded
her when she was a part of that lifestyle.
- Noboru Hitachi
- Apparently an old friend of Saji and Yuki. Both him and Saji
joined the team at the same time to pick up girls. He once asked
Koizumi out and she shot him down saying that it would just be a
waste of time. It is because of that, that he often gets furious
with Saji and tells him to stop acting like Koizumi's boyfriend. He
shows up near the end of the anime trying to make Saji come to
practice and ends up challenging him to 3 on 3 basketball with
Koizumi being the prize. Even though Hitachi and his team won
against Saji, Koizumi still rejected Hitachi and left him
heartbroken again.
- Pao Sakurai
- Pao is a young boy who is the same height as Koizumi. When Saji
saw Pao talk to Koizumi, he assumed he was Koizumi's boyfriend.
However, Pao revealed to Saji that he was a homosexual. He only
talked to Koizumi because he saw how happy Koizumi was with Saji
and that he had a crush on Saji, which freaks out Saji. Now, Pao
dresses like a girl to get Saji's attention, but it scares Saji to
the brink of insanity.
- Urawa and Kuwabara
- Urawa and Kuwabara are Saji's classmates. Urawa wears glasses
and Kuwabara has brown hair. They both encourage Saji to go forward
with his declaration of love for Koizumi, despite everything
backfiring on Saji.
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