Iketeru Futari
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Iketeru Futari | |
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イケてる2人 (Cool Couple) |
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Genre | Comedy, Romance |
Manga | |
Author | Takashi Sano |
Publisher | Shōnen Gahosha |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Young King Comics |
Original run | 1997 – ongoing |
Volumes | 25 |
TV anime | |
Director | Hideki Okamoto Takeshi Yamaguchi |
Studio | Geneon Entertainment |
Network | TBS |
Original run | February 2, 1999 – February 26, 1999 |
Episodes | 16 |
Iketeru Futari (イケてる2人/? trans. The Hot Couple) is a Japanese anime created by Takashi Sano. The series has 16 episodes, with about 5 1/2 minutes per episode. This anime features fan service and panty shots. It's also a basic anime love story.
[edit] Plot
16-year old Keisuke Saji loves to fantasize about young beautiful women. He hopes to land the object of his affection, Koizumi Akira. However, Koizumi hates Saji (as well as all men) to the point of assault. While most guys take Koizumi's cold shoulder as a hint, Saji pursues head-on without having rejection faze him.
[edit] 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. When the young and cute Koizumi came into school, Saji made it his mission to get Koizumi into bed with him and not give up. His lecherous actions on Koizumi are unintentional or on purpose. Despite getting beat up by Koizumi multiple times, Saji is never giving up his dream. 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) 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 clam, 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 considred as a Venus with purple hair due to both well endownrd shape and her sexiness.
- 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 thoughout 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 sho is a policewoman and a mother. Both elder sister and mother are very well-endowned women and both of them attract lots of men.
- Kuroki Misa
- Koizumi's lesbian friend/ apparent former lover. In manga, she is actually half sister of Koizumi since they share the same "father".
- 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.
[edit] External links
- Iketeru Futari (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- AnimeWorld review