ideal boyfriend
Zettai Kareshi (Absolute Boyfriend) is a six volume manga series by Yuu Watase, first serialized in Shoujo Comic. Chuang Yi licensed it for an English language release in Singapore, with the first volume released in March 2005. Viz Media licensed the series for an English release in North America, serializing the series in its Shojo Beat manga anthology as well as releasing the volumes.
The manga series was adapted into an eleven episode live-action drama series.
Zekare : The Plot
Riiko Izawa has never had a boyfriend and she has been rejected by every boy she has ever had a crush on. When she returns a lost cell phone to an oddly dressed salesman, she mentions wanting a boyfriend so to thank her, he directs her to his company's website. When she visits the site, Riiko finds it's a site to create your own lover. Thinking its a game, she customizes and accidentally orders one. The next day, her new lover arrives. Following the instruction manual, she kisses him to wake him up and configure him to be in love with only her. She names him "Night." Three days later, she is shocked to learn that she only had him for a free trial. The salesman, Gaku Namikiri, tells her that she must now pay 100,000,000 yen for Night!
The drama series
A live-action adaptation of the manga began airing on Fuji TV on April 15, 2008 and ran for eleven episodes until its conclusion on June 24, 2008. In the live-action version, Riiko Izawa is an office lady in search of a boyfriend, and she ends up in possession of a "robot" known as Night Tenjo, who is programmed to be the perfect boyfriend. However, this creates a love triangle with a distinguished young man at her company who also has feelings for her. Riiko is played by Saki Aibu, Night is played by Mokomichi Hayami, and Soshi Asamoto is played by Hiro Mizushima.
IZAWA RIIKO
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TENJO NIGHT
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ASAMOTO SOUSHI
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RELATIONSHIP
Izawa Riiko
Izawa Riiko is a high school girl who has bad luck with boys. When she helps a strange salesman named Gaku, she ends up ordering a cybernetic boyfriend. Though initially shy around her new boyfriend, Riiko begins to fall in love with him, while also finding herself struggling with her newfound feelings for her best friend, Soshi. Riiko is rather naïve, clumsy, and simple-minded, but kindhearted and hardworking.
In the drama series
Izawa Riiko is a temporary office lady who also has a bad luck in getting a boyfriend. All the way since high school, the guys she fall for says that she is too serious as a girlfriend. At one of her friend's (also "personal consultant") bar, Gaku Namikiri overheard Riiko's conversation about the difficulties to get herself a partner and gave her a 5-days free-trial robot, which she then names him Tenjo Night.
Tenjou Night
Tenjou Naito (Night) is a cybernetic doll custom ordered by Riiko. As such, he is the "perfect boyfriend": charming, dependable, intelligent, athletic, good-looking, sensitive, devoted, and completely loyal. At first he is perfect for Riiko because it is in his programming, however as the series progresses, Night develops true emotions and a genuine love for her. It is partially because of this, he develops a technical problem. He is pretty much the same in the drama series.
Asamoto Soushi
Asamoto Soushi is Riiko's childhood friend, who has also been in love with her for a long time. He left his feelings unconfessed, instead quietly watching over her after promising Riiko's mother that he would always protect her. Realizing he may be losing his chance after Night arrives, he confesses his love and becomes Night's rival for Riiko's heart. Soushi lives alone with his younger brother, Masaki, and is an excellent cook. He frequently shares meals with Riiko, and helps her study.
In the drama series
Asamoto Soushi is the younger son of a big dessert company. Though he is the head of the project department, he is a very lazy and laidback person, who barely lifts his fingers to help out around in the company. He has an elder brother, who is the vice of the company, Masaki (who Night calls Ma-kun *rofl*). Riiko is working under him and despises him at first, but soon a certain baked dessert, the cream puff, brought them together.
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