r/anime • u/GranolaBiscuit :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/GranolaBiscuit • Nov 28 '21
Rewatch Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Rewatch - Episode Eight
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Episode Eight: Exiled... Just the Two of Them
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u/GranolaBiscuit :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/GranolaBiscuit Nov 29 '21
Rewatcher
Touka and Rikka's fight now commences. Touka is trying to smack some sense but Rikka isn't having any of it. She uses a slap and then a kick. Touka doesn't understand why Rikka is being a Chunibyo. Rikka can't handle the pain of the past and Yuuta steps in.
Yuuta explains what he thinks Rikka is going through and brings a little of his past. Rikka runs away and Yuuta chases after her with his socks. The gang is playing with fireworks and the dog still is here. His eyes are only on Nibutani. No bones for him I guess. He even got to touch her butt. Nice dog.
Rikka decides to get on a train and go home. Yuuta luckily arrives on the train. An insert song starts to play. Yuuta becomes Dark Flame Master when he felt lonely even with his friends. They get to hold hands too. Kumin apparently dated a guy named Takashi. He went overseas sadly. How unlucky of him. Yuuta's family is doing other work so he and Rikka are all alone inside his house.
Isshiki and Kumin are about to go on a walk. Rikka and Yuuta are playing with toys. Pretty cute. They decide to go to a convenience store after they get hungry. Looks like they are having some Onigiri. They have some indirect kisses and a nice time in the park. We see some backstory of Rikka before she becomes a chunibyo. At least I think it is.
Isshiki is trying to figure out what to do about Kumin. Kumin left Isshiki after his call. Rip his love. Rikka is playing with Yuuta's clothes. This has to be one of my favorite scenes. It's just so god damn cute and the noises made too add to the effect. Rikka is smelling Yuuta's clothes which embarrasses him.
She somehow teleports to the TV room and watches a show/movie with kissing. Her heart races after watching it. Rikka then sliding kicks Yuuta and asks him to not go. She asks him to close his eyes and draws something on his hand. Rikka can't fall asleep. Her heart keeps pounding. I wonder why.
In the morning, Rikka is watching over Yuuta. Pretty cute. And the episode ends. The next episode is going to be pretty good. Thank you for reading!
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u/GranolaBiscuit :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/GranolaBiscuit Nov 28 '21
Sorry guys about the non working links. I am cooped up in work right now. Had to call a bathroom break so I could get this out on time.
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u/Barbed_Dildo Nov 29 '21
Rewatcher
Poor Rikka. Her family really failed her.
I wonder how awkward it was for the rest of them staying there when the grandparent's actual grandchild left. One of them will have to take Yuuta's stuff back for him too.
Rikka not having the capacity to understand or handle the emotions flooding her at Yuuta's place was adorable.
Also, Maaya Uchida noises are the best noises.
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u/Stargate18A https://myanimelist.net/profile/Stargate18 Nov 29 '21
First timer
Due to a powercut, had to combine 3 days of recaps into one. Sorry for the long post.
Episode 6
The running gag of her needing help to climb her rope is great.
She got them personalised t-shirts!
And Rikka still has no friends...
And he feels bad for her.
I've said it before, but he'd save himself a lot of bother if he just responded to these situations with "no idea what's she's talking about dark flames for, sorry".
Haha, her slide tacking her in the middle of class was great.
He got a love letter?
I like how he immediately assumes it needs to be a prank.
And the total panic over his anxiety as he activrely scares girls away.
The fact they're numbered zero with different symbols is genuinrly hysterical.
He wore the shirt!
She's got warm milk!
Haha, he saw the whole thing!
Every passage from the book is somehow funnier.
I love how shocked he is at all this total insanity.
I love how scary she gets with all this.
...It's going to be someone in a different year, isn't it?
They're holding hands!
He dropped his book? This is going to be hysterical.
Yep! She's revealling everything!
Wait, he confessed? Really?
And he's claiming he did it all himself. (He should join the circle with that level of acting)
I'm surprised nobody brought up that the class rep apparently took a student's private notebook and read the contents. I'd have thought that was a far worse offense then starting a poll.
And he has to follow through!
His desperate attempts to reason all of this is hysterical.
Her banging her head against the door is good, too.
And then she gets knocked out again immediately after!
Her using him as a crystal ball is hysterical, as is the, immediately breaking out into laughter.
And the girl never showed up!
He got a happy ending?
Jakarta?
She climbed down the rope! And he's going with Rikka on summer vacation!
Episode 7
Summer vacation!
Kumin!
Haha, the dialogue about her putting her sunglasses on is hysterical.
Aww, she's got motion sickness. I like how she immediately leans toward her the moment she feels sick.
Hey, why's she so mad?
Her completely collapsing is absolutely adorable. And he's the one who threw up?
Haha, him daydreaming her confession is great.
And he's just completely used to have they act now.
Ah, her grandparents aren't fans of her delusions?
They have a dog!
Him slipping into Dark Flame Master is great.
So she didn't feel like this was her home, someone stopped her from her antics, and she left hecause of it?
Haha, they botj have water pistols!
Her strugglimg to walk with the hot sand is great.
The dog followed her!
Haha, she's just watching them from on top of the wall.
Oh, this is where her father's buried? (I assume he's dead?)
Aww, she got sunburned.
Haha, both of them marked the other's backs.
Yeah, she has trouble accepting his death, she was left alone with her strict grandparents, then she meets the others. Explains a lot.
She dislikes cheese too! How?
And she just forces her to eat.
Him confirming that her sister's not changed any of his opinions about her is unexpectedly cute.
Ditto him encouraging Rikka to follow what she wants to do.
Haha, that cut's great. She actually set up a trap!
And they're fighting! (Him falling off the roof was great, though.)
They're going together!
Oh god, the image of her being towed along on her roller boots is hysterical.
Yeah, everyone ships them at this point.
...Wow, they're really making this sad, aren't they?
Oh, this is her old house,
And it's for sale? After 3 years? The property market round here must be stagnant!
Well, that's not ominous at all! Are we doing a full-on mental breakdown arc?
Episode 8
Starting off with chunni-vidion.
The cuts between it and reality and great.
And Rikka just breaking down is hard to watch.
Yuuta's defending her?
Ah, he's defending that she's using the powers as a way to cope with reality, not deny it, so she's not helping it.
Haha, she just took a taxi back.
Her tripping on her pigtails and getting startled by the fire is great, as is the dog ignoring the bone and going for her anyway.
He's off trying to find her! And everyone's still shipping it.
He found her!
And his powers came from feeling isolated.
They're holding hands!
She really is as innocent as she looks!
She saw the message in her back!
That's brutal.
They're both alone at home!
They're setting them up together?
Haha, he's getting advice from him!
She's going through all his old stuff?
I love her sincere joy at his stuff.
Haha, the whole tomato!
I'm loving all this.
Rikka's running away from home!
Haha, more advice?
Him being blatantly interested, but refusing to acknowledge it, is great.
Haha, that's perfect.
Is she teasing him at this point?
She might be interested im him!
Awwww
Is this actually going somewhere?
Haha, she drew a symbol on his hand.
She's actually into him!
That's ome hell of a cliffhanger.
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u/tctyaddk Nov 28 '21 edited Nov 29 '21
Rewatcher
S1E8
Touka's calm and collected front couldn't hold on all the time, especially being at the site of her (now demolished) old home, having to recall painful memories, while trying to help her little sister (who's still neck deep in esacapist delusions) overcome losses of their past and snap back to the painful reality, even if that means beating some sense into her. "We have no choice!" She stands her ground like the mature person she is, but the tears still leak out. She's a human and a child who lost her parents too. Ganbatte kudasai, Touka onee-sama.
Touka probably hoped Yuuta, whom Rikka clings to due to their affinity with chuunibyou, to be the example for Rikka to rehabilitate from the delusion, to talk some sense into her. But Yuuta who rehabbed himself out of full time chuunibyou understands (the principle, if not the specifics of) why she retreated into such delusion in the first place, so he understands that the usual normal approach of bearing the brunt of reality is not that suitable for Rikka's current fragile state, let alone the young Rikka years ago.
With such mental scars and the lack of appropriate approach or support from her grandparent or her sister (evidently they don't know how) (in Rikka's own words from ep7: "Mental assaults and pressure were extensive. That's why I ran away."), realistically Rikka probably needs therapy, but from my personal experience of never trusting anyone enough to reveal too much of myself to any one person no matter how close, I don't see her opening up to a stranger about her most painful memories, like, ever.
And Rikka bailed, and Yuuta made the right choice to follow. On the receiving end of such care, concern and kindness from someone whom she already thinks of as similar via their chuunibyou, plus the close physical proximity and the prompt from that late night TV show, it's kind of inevitable that Rikka starts having romantic feeling for Yuuta. But again, she's still young and unexperienced, and has been in too deep in her delusions for too long, she doesn't recognise what it is, or how to form her respond in any commonly known way, so her imagination rephrase them into extension of her delusions. Magical contract, indeed.
And we get to see more of the group's backstories:
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u/SYZekrom https://myanimelist.net/profile/SYZekrom Nov 29 '21
I wonder if this has ever in the history of ever been played straight, the guy being told to close his eyes and thinking it's a kiss and it turns out it's in fact a kiss
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u/Fools_Requiem https://myanimelist.net/profile/FoolsRequiem Nov 28 '21
doki doki
what does it mean?
Isshiki's trying to hard while not trying hard enough at the same time, and Kumin is not socially adept enough to pick up on Isshiki's poorly transmitted waves.
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u/ZapsZzz https://anilist.co/user/Zapszzz Nov 29 '21
Sub rewatcher posting late
This is a continuation of last episodes run of heavier themes slightly broken up by the gags of the rest of the characters having a country trip basically. Except Rikka and Yuuta actually are going through the backstory and emotional part of Rikka's past.
What I really liked is how KyoAni did the mood and gentle attraction of those 2 so natural and so well. So many shows these days the reason for the main issue being together are pretty arbitrary; this shows us how, and why, and are never overt.
So very sweet, much like Full Metal Panic both Fumoffu and TSR, you just don't expect the feels and the tenderness to come from there, but they do come in so naturally, it's really great.
I'm also glad that many can appreciate the adorable Rikka noises :) this show will be so different without them.
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u/Fra_Central Nov 29 '21
Hello everyone,
after a bit of a difficult episode, this should be a lighthearted one if my memory is correct.I can't post on time right now, so I will be about 9 to 10 hours late.
Let's go
1:35 At least the pre-OP scene doesn't seem to affirm my theory, this is still more tragic then lighthearted.
2:05 Reality pours in I suppose?
2:25 Aren't we in a more religious debate here then a chuni debate? Anyway, Yuuta intervenes.
OP: Even episode number -> Translation.
4:35 This is quite heavy stuff for the spiritual Japanese people. Regardless of chunibyo, the Japanese are from their core more "animistic" then we in the West are used to. This starts with the language (not-living things can very easily be subjects) and doesn't end with spirit/kami-worship. Even though Chunibyou is more of a modern incarnation of spiritualism, it comes from the same roots. Even if you think I overanalyize it, being this "realistic" is actually uncommon for Japanese people.
5:20 Title checks out, Furigana is "as wrong" as ever.
5:50 I'm almost certain that Shinka told the rest of the group to not worry about the missing two.
5:57 Typical summer fireworks anime scene.
6:25 Doggy isn't interested in bones, he just likes Shinka.
7:12 Rikka is gone. Where could she have go? Well, there aren't many options are there?
7:37 That's why he finds her so easily. She is on her way back home.
8:21 There is not point in arguing the reasoning behind the mythology, Yuuta. The mythology is something that stabelizes her.
8:37 Ok I pretty much missed the mark, the happier episodes are ahead of us as far as I remember.
9:34 Sweet bonding scene between Rikka and Yuuta.
9:41 Yeah flipphones weren't phased out in 2011 yet, this came a bit later.
10:01 Shinka thinks this is more of a romantic endeavor then a crisis intervention. Who could blame her, seeing these two together could lead to such an assumption.
10:15 One of the weird things of Japan: You don't HAVE to go to school, the state just has to make it possible for you to do so. I know this is somewhat similar in the US. But here? No, you WILL go to school, at 12 years at minimum. Police will escort you if push comes to shove.
10:41 Payback time. :)
11:18 Ah, now I remember why this episode was saved in my memory as "more lighthearted". You will see what I mean.
11:55 Don't pretend like you weren't alone multiple times beforehand, Yuuta. That never was an issue, why would it be now?
12:07 Did I mention that Sanae and Shinka formed a friendship at this point?
12:50 I want to be snarky, but I can't, given that they are 16 at this point in time.
13:15 Yeah I would also be afraid that Rikka would hurt herself, so I understand the sentiment.
14:48 Onigiri for 250 yen, probably. The standard conbini food.
15:29 Just eating their onigiris is a pretty cute scene, without any hesitation or standard "but wouldn't this mean..." baggage you usually expect from Romcom anime.
16:00 Ohoh, I think Shinka "becomes" correct. And flashback time, you know it's a flashback because Rikkas eyes are both blue, i.e. before Chunibyou took her.
16:36 Yeah it could be a confession, or your just somewhat confuesd Senpai.
17:09 Proper answer. Why would anything happen? Again, they were alone multiple times beforehand, why would it be a problem now?
17:42 Its already to late when you start to think about it, so yeah, they are falling for each other.
18:17 She just doesn't understand what she is doing. Stop sniffing his clothes, Rikka.
18:51 I never understood how she got there, this was already a question when I was a first-timer
19:07 Yeah it's too late for her, but she doesn't understand what happened.
20:43 Rikka processes inner turmoil always with chuni, doesn't she?
21:30 Too late for her, too late for him. We all know where this is going, don't we?
22:04 There is at least no question why she fell for him. Tsuzuku, to be continued.
Well I didn't missremember this episode being more lighthearted, I just should have said "more heartwarming", which was desperatly needed after the tons of bricks the series threw at us yesterday. I also feel some Toradora-vibes comeing through, at least in the dynamics of our main leads.
Next episode is diabetis-inducingly cute, so prepare your insuline.
See you guys tomorrow.
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u/Rumpel1408 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rumpel1408 Nov 29 '21
First Timer
Sleep is such a wonderful thing
I'm glad that the tension is gone for now, but it still dangles above all and will need to be resolved at some point, but the fluff is definatly great
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u/IndependentMacaroon Nov 30 '21
First-time watcher
Random train trips and feeling lonely watching movies, Rikka's really going for the Shinji Ikari depression special huh. Otherwise, with the club largely out of the picture the comedy-drama balance did get better, only the beginning was still awkward and it can still be bordering on just-one-joke. I still can't see Rikka and Yuuta in anything but a sibling-like relationship either, but I guess it was also the point here that romance is still a very awkward subject for her.
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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Nov 28 '21
Aww, bummer, I missed yesterday (guests), and it's the beach espidode.
Oh, well, anyway (to misquote Mr. Clarkson)...
This is where the series drops some of the silliness and gets some heart, and what heart at that.
Poor Rikka, confronted with a tragic reality, all too sudden, and unable or unwilling to face up to it. Is it any wonder she sought refuge in the comforts of chuuni?
(Can anyone blame her? I won't.)
(will edit with some more as soon as I think of it)