I will not say the movie is bad, but a single movie is not sufficient to present what makes the manga great. There is not any doubt in the movie about who the protagonist’s final choice will be, but in the manga it is much less clear before the end. In the movie, the simplified truth is revealed very early. The manga keeps what happened in childhood as a key mystery that is not revealed until the end. The complexity of multiple fake key holders in the manga is also reduced to only one real key holder in the movie. The secondary love interest in the movie has much less screen time, and the tertiary one gets so little to the point that she can be eliminated without affecting the story. Most importantly, the defining element of harem in the manga is mostly vanished from the movie. The manga has 229 chapters, so the movie has to drop many things and most of the subplots from the source material. Viewed as a standalone movie, it is a safe romantic comedy that has a complete story and is enjoyable with manga style exaggerations. Nisekoi: False Love (Blu-ray release ) is a live action adaptation of a manga, about the protagonist pretending to be in love with the daughter of a rival gangster family in order to prevent wars.
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