Your heart will melt.

On a cold and rainy day, you may look for Itazura na Kiss -1996. I found it quite by accident. Once, I suddenly saw a familiar name: Takashi Kashiwabara. My first movie crash from Love Letter. In the late 90s and early 2000s, movies based on Japanese manga were rarely heard of. But Japanese movies were my weakness. Of course, I will watch, - I decided - and I was right.
You probably already know the plot, so I present it as I saw it back then: the two accidentally collide lips-on-lips in the corridor on the first day of high school. She raises her (by the way, beautiful!) eyes to him and - blurs into a dreamy, satisfied smile. And the male lead says what I would have said here: Disgusting. After all, his heart broke down. It was an honest answer. Two years later, the same girl gives him a love letter in front of his colleagues, and he again reacts accordingly. He leaves everything as it is and does not react. All girls are the same.
Then, people, their prejudices, and some evil circumstances break them everywhere. Everything is just as the boy (alias, who keeps to himself, is supersensitive, and skeptical) had thought. And even worse. Both suffer, torture, and give up on each other more than once. But fate desperately brings them together. Every time the boy sees a new positive side of the girl (and a bunch of the shortcomings!) and receives one more ray of sunshine in his heart. And each time, his protection from her emotions becomes thinner. And it's getting harder and harder for him to contain himself.
After all, the main thing is to find the one who shines for you. And even more: to take a step and talk to him in his language. In order not to lose him.

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My dear, my betrothed, appear!

This sweet and romantic story began on a snowy night in a shelter for social phobias, idlers, and other untrustworthy personalities, namely, an Internet cafe, when a dark, scary magician inadvertently fell under the killer sight of a kawaii white silly kitten. Our magician, let´s call him a pentester, loved to conduct his experiments in a purely professional field and, in general, on everyone who caught his eye. Every once in a while, very rarely, as such is the nature of all the grand masters of the dark arts. The kitty, on the contrary, seemed so inexperienced and not burdened with any intelligence, like many teenagers her age, that the magician lost his vigilance and allowed himself the luxury of looking like a kind and not-at-all-scary wizard. In fairy tales, as everyone knows, all black magicians are bewitched princes. Who could have known that in such a lost corner, under the guise of a cute and stupid cat, there was an insidious and annoying Face-Id programmer (and not only!) with a progressive mania of sticking up for an object of interest?
Similar to their professions, their mating game is also a complex and multi-stage process: detection, authentication, script testing, system monitoring... and, finally, optimization itself:)
Who is the hunter, and who is the prey? Who won, who lost?!
You decide.

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