Summary: Togashi Yuuta wakes up and gets ready for school, along the way trying to wake up Takanashi Rikka who for reasons is living in his apartment. Fortunately while Yuuta fails at waking her, the [...]
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Jao Shingan awakens once again! Like its first season, I’m treating Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren as a nice break from the more serious stuff I’ll be watching/reading this season. That isn’t to [...]
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With a new school year starting, Rikka finds herself living with Yuuta? While it’s nice to finally have this show back as we get reintroduced to all the characters, I wonder what happened to Shinka’s [...]
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Chu2Koi Ren may well be another beautifully animated KyoAni guilty pleasure, packed with pretty characters, goofy situations, wry quips, and the occasional magical battles, but that doesn’t diminish [...]
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IT'S TIME. Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren Episode 1 Review Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Season 2 Episode 1 Review "The Revival of... the Wicked Eye" "Fukkatsu no... Jaō Shingan" (復活の・・・邪王真眼)The [...]
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Initial impression – youthful silliness vs mature rationality Autumn 2012 (12 episodes) (English title – Regardless of My Adolescent Delusions of Grandeur, I Want a Date!, title literal translation – I was Sick, but Now I Want Love!) (more info) A boy named Yuuta Togashi has abandoned his childhood fantasy just in time to meet a [...]
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I don’t know if it’s a side-effect of being an anime fan or playing too much Japanese video games, but if I were the MC of an anime and met an eccentric girl (in a cute way) that thought she was the envoy of the dark abyss and yelled out her “attacks”, I’d join in [...]
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If there's one word which can be used to describe the emotions which went through my head while watching Chuunibyou, I would say it'd have to be the word nostalgia. How many of us have waved our hands at an automatic door shouting "open sesame" in hopes it will open magically open (which, it does...sort of)? I'm sure the majority of us, if not all of us have done so. So what do automatic doors and shouting open sesame and this show have in common? Absolutely nothing, and absolutely everything.Read more »
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Episode 01 - Kyoto Animation, as a studio, has always been known for it’s super-cutesy “moe” anime series. Whether it be K-on, Lucky Star, etc, the studio has always created series that were excessively cutesy and goofy (and their merchandise often sold like hotcakes in stores). At this point, it seems that Chuunibyou’s setup won’t [...]
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Since summer is finally over, it’s time to focus on the first show I’m watching this fall. Just like Hyouka, it seems that Kyoto Animation was busy working on another project that got announced last year. This show is Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai (中二病でも恋がしたい, lit: I have Middle School Second Year Disease, but I [...]
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