When she was mean and snobbish to Adachi, I even felt like siding with her. When she was miserable and crying over Rita, I felt my heart break as well. Plus, Heroine Shikkaku was highly enjoyable to watch.įirst, I want to give high praise to Kiritani Mirei, who was spot on on Hatori’s reactions, expressions – everything. Whether the live-action adaptation stuck closely and faithfully to the storyline of the manga, according to my current memory, I’ll say it did 70% of the time. I even remember writing a short post on it after reading its first few chapters, thinking to myself, “Wow, this is amazing, it is so relatable” because who hasn’t had a longtime-crush who was taken away from us right under our noses because we were too shy to confess? Everyone okay, EVERYONE. I have absolutely no complaints about the story itself because no matter how ridiculous it did seem later on, I really liked how the premise of the story was. Things have only just gotten a lot messier and complicated than it should have. And to top it off, the school’s pretty boy has taken a keen interest in Hatori and has his eyes set on her. Shocked at the sudden turn of events that she had never taken into account before, Hatori begins to experience heartbreak and with encouragement from her stoic but wise best friend Nakajima, she begins to work on winning back Rita’s heart.īut things aren’t so easy when Adachi begins to become prettier from being with Rita. Finding no reason why he shouldn’t date her, Rita agrees to go out with the girl, named Adachi. However, things do not go as planned out in her head and when Rita saves a nerdy-looking girl in their class from being picked on by some bullies, the girl becomes infatuated with him and confesses to him shortly after. As she is Rita’s childhood friend, she believes that she will get him one day and that it is destined to be. Hatori has an interesting view of the people around her, seeing herself as the “Heroine” of the story and her childhood friend and crush Terasaka Rita as the “Hero” while everyone else as “Calefare” or “Supporting Characters”. Heroine Shikkaku follows protagonist Matsuzaki Hatori as she chases her childhood love in high school. You can click here to read my original thoughts and reflections of the story when I first read it but here’s a brief summary anyway! I’m not going to delve too much into the story because I’ve already reviewed Heroine Shikkaku back in 2014. To my surprise, I found Heroine Shikkaku there! I’ve been wanting to watch it ever since I discovered its existence during AFA 2015 so here was one great opportunity since it’s really hard to obtain Japanese movies in English subtitles. Last month when I went on holiday to Japan, I had the opportunity to choose from a whole selection of Japanese movies in the in-flight entertainment system on the way there and back.