Senior and Her (2015)

The plot is just like the manga (and I love the manga in the first place). Well, there's 1 or 2 scene(s) that missing, but it's okay. Negative point for me is ... Shishon Jun's voice is too sweet for a male (^_^;) That's a little bit ruin my image of Minohara-senpai (^_^;)
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"If you stop loving someone because it'll never be requited, then it's not the real thing."
I agree, but sometimes we need to pull back, - just like Rika did - so that the other person realize our presence. Just like another phrase, "We only value that one thing only by that time and only realize it when it's too late."

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I watched this movie solely for Shison Jun. And I didn't realize that Kojima Riria - who starred with him in ToQger - was in it, too! And that she played the object of his unrequited affection. Ha!

I must say that I didn't like the main heroine, Rika, all that much. She simply rubbed me the wrong way with her behavior, her borderline obsession with Mino. I did like her character progress throughout the movie, though. I mean, she was - what? - 15 at the beginning of the story so you really have to account for that. And it took her a while to accept that you can't force anyone to love you. They either do or they don't. So when she then secretly sent Mino the charm to wish him good luck at his exams, I honestly teared up.

And Mino. He was in the very same position with Aoi. He loved Aoi but she didn't love him back. But she liked going back to him to and back in his affection to, I don't know, re-affirm her self-worth, I guess, because her boyfriend was a big jerk. So whenever it looked like Mino might actually move on, Aoi popped up again and he started thinking again he might have a chance. But I don't think she even realized she was doing, that she was using him...

It's an odd movie. Nothing much happens, the seasons just flow in it and life happens along the way. I've seen it compared to Strobe Edge but, to be honest, I liked Strobe Edge much better. The proverbial saving grace here was Shison Jun and his character's relationship with his best friend, what little we've seen of it.

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**Note: I'm writing this review as I watch the movie to keep up with thoughts that are plaguing me.**

I am going to go out on a limb here and assume this was written by a 12-year-old on wattpad.

There was no storyline.... whatsoever. The flatline of this movie was FL likes ML who likes someone else. So what does she do? Pines. When that doesn't work picks a fight with the other girl... who isn't mean at all. She's actually a sweet girl. Did I like her? No. Lol because (OF COURSE) she is with some other guy that is "terrible" and so she keeps Mino on a string knowing he likes her, so any time she has troubles, she knows she can run to him. "but what if she really needed him" people may ask.... if she wasn't dangling him, she would have been more active in his life and wouldn't have cut out so quick after Rika slapped her.
Which by the way, was fucking stupid. Like you're really going to attack her because Mino doesn't like you? That is some hella childish shit right there and is exactly why he would be better off without either. Can just imagine someone glancing at him in a market, next day news would say the woman is dead and missing her eyeballs because Rika got triggered or something.
que up "I WON'T BE IGNORED, DAN!" (Fatal Attraction, if anyone is curious about that line) lol or worse... she would tie him to the bed and break his ankles like in Misery.
You get what I mean though. If she is going all this not long after just meeting him, that is some messed up shit.

And can we just talk about when she was "drunk" (honestly, I still don't know how that happened. I rewatched that part over and over and must have kept blinking at the part I needed to see) anyway, Mino tells Rika that Aoi rejected him.... AND SHE CHEERS!! Bro, are you freaking serious right now? After all that cheering she says for him to date her. O____O I felt like my head was going to explode.

Ah yes, because someone who has been in love with someone for YEARS can just stop instantly and date someone else. *dramatic eye roll* THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS, YOU PSYCHOPATH!!!! I really really REALLY don't get how this girl is almost an adult. Everything she says, does, acts -- is a 12 year old. Not college age. And I will never understand what is the point of dating someone if you're going to keep bringing up the person they like(d) or their exs? I don't get it. If they are with you (finally) -- why are YOU stuck in the past? shouldn't this time be happy and about y'all?

In all honesty, I get it sucks ass when you like someone and they don't like you back, we have all been there before, I'm sure. But when you push and push and push and beg and beg and beg for them to date you, when they finally do, don't be shocked when the person they do(did) like comes around and their eyes light up. You should never have to pressure someone into dating you.

Fast forward to the ending, that was cute. Not gonna lie. I'm happy they made it out that way but I'm still not a fan of this movie. I wanted to cut it off so many times. I gotta learn it's okay to cut things off. lol. But yeah, this just wasn't it for me. I'm not into the the no plot theme. Not into characters having to beg to be in a relationship with someone then getting mad at a whole ass different character that the one they like doesn't like them. It was a mess. This movie was a mess.

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