Close Range Love

Close Range Love

Magazine
Close Range Love

Yuni Kururugi (Nana Komatsu), an exceptional high school student struggling with English, begins one-on-one tutoring with her school’s English teacher Haruka Sakurai (Tomohisa Yamashita). As they spend time together, a romantic connection slowly develops between them. Her relative and math teacher Kazuma Akechi (Arai Hirofumi) senses their growing intimacy and attempts to stop the tutoring. Complicating matters further, Yuni’s new homeroom teacher Mirei Takizawa (Asami Mizukawa), who harbors her own feelings for Haruka, discovers their relationship and resolves to intervene.

Streaming Services:

Rakuten Viki

Available with English subtitles.

Movie Details:

Title (Japanese)近キョリ恋愛
Movie Length118 minutes
Original LanguageJapanese
Original Japanese Premiere DateOctober 2014

Prequel:

Prior to the movie, a “Season Zero” (近キョリ恋愛 〜Season Zero〜) Japanese TV series aired for 12 episodes between July – October 2014 featuring some of the characters that would later be in this movie.

Manga Details:

An adaptation of the Love’s Reach manga which also goes under the name Kinkyori Renai.

AuthorRin Mikimoto (みきもと凜)
Manga Length10 volumes
Availability in EnglishThe entire series is available in English digital editions from Kodansha.

An on-going monthly shojo manga magazine published by Kodansha.