Iketeru Futari

Original Title: イケてる2人
Romanized: Iketeru Futari
Literal: Cool Couple

Plot Synopsis

16-year old Keisuke Saji is a normal high school student--rather stupid, very perverted and outrageously forward. After nicking his father's mobile, he gets a random but suggestive call from a girl who calls herself Alice, who claims to be offering her body in exchange for something she wants. He goes out to meet her, but is witness only to a number of dirty old men embarrassing themselves looking for 'Alice'. However Saji also finds the idol of his class, the petite Akira Koizumi, at the same place enjoying the spectacle, and makes the connection between her and the voice on the phone. To repay him for finding her out, Koizumi goes on a date with Saji for the evening. Falling for her instantly, Saji appoints himself her boyfriend, but at school the girl is cold towards him and won't even give him the time of day. As well, there are a number of disturbing rumours surrounding the mysterious Akira Koizumi--she gets around, she hates men, even that she sells her body. But no amount of rumour nor rejection--will discourage Saji from his love and he determines both to find out the real Akira Koizumi and to make her his.

Quick Review

Rating: 3.5 / 5
Reviewer: Arcane
Review Date: 2005-05-11

Short, sweet, uncomplicated and extremely dirty, Iketeru Futari is shonen love comedy in its purest, most highly concentrated form. With it's short running time there is no time for any messing around or side-stories, but there is a bit of surprising depth (not a huge amount). The bizarre relationship between the ridiculously perverted Saji and the capricious, hot-tempered Koizumi is a constant laugh as Saji glomps her in public, fantasizes about her out loud in class, loots her underwear draw and even picks her up and runs off with her in the street, but it can be surprisingly sweet as Saji's idiot dedication begins to (slowly) win over the cool Koizumi. Throw in Koizumi's friends Amakasu and Arigase who think Saji's presence is good for her, and Saji's hugely busty childhood friend Yuki and there's plenty of character to the series. The series is also extremely ecchi with loads of fanservice and heaps of sexual content, but despite Saji's massive number of dirty fantasies, the series is too immature for anything serious to actually happen. With it's winning combination of charm, ecchi, silly humour and bad english, plus the fact that it takes minimal effort to watch the entire series, you could do a lot worse than Iketeru Futari.

US DVD Review

None in English exists as of this writing.

Content Guide

Juvenile and immature, but it IS really dirty.

Violence: 1 - Just slapstick, even if it is a bit rough.

Nudity: 4 - Heaps of fanservice, a fair bit of nudity and it's far from innocent too.

Sex/Mature Themes: 3 - Lots of dirty jokes and sexual situations, but it isn't very serious.

Language: 1 - Hard to say.

Notes and Trivia

Based on a comic series by Sano Takashi.

Availability

Currently only available in English as a fansub.

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