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Say "I love you" (2012)
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Say "I love you" (2012)
Original name: 好きっていいなよ。
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Friends suck, and trusting someone is just setting yourself up. That's the lesson Mei Tachibana learned after her heart was ripped out and only a shell was left where a girl used to be. But unlike so many, she found an easy solution: she'll never make another friend. Ever. Okay, maybe that's not as easy as it sounds, but it's worked for Mei. Or at least it did. Until handsome, charming and annoyingly popular Yamato Kurosawa came along. Because for some freakish reason, he seems to like Mei. He even gave her his phone number! As if she would ever call him. Except she did. But only because she needed help. Still, he came. He actually came. And now things are getting way too complicated. Mei's no princess in a tower. She's not waiting for a knight in shining armor to rescue her. So why did he have to kiss her and confuse everything? And why are those three little words so hard to say? Between heartbeats, behind trembling lips, and unspoken with every breath, the specter of betrayals past, future and present now haunt them both in SAY "I LOVE YOU."
Style: anime, shoujo, touching, emotional, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, manga, romantic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school life, friendship, first love, teenage love, troubled past, friends, fall in love, school, teenage life, youth, haunted by the past, love and romance, social relations, high school, slice of life, love triangle, freak, unrequited love, boy, meaningful kiss, school life, romance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia

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