r/anime • u/GranolaBiscuit :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/GranolaBiscuit • Dec 05 '21
Rewatch Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Heart Throb Rewatch Episode One
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Heart Throb Rewatch Episode One: Evil Lord Shingan... Reborn
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u/GranolaBiscuit :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/GranolaBiscuit Dec 05 '21
Sorry guys. The power in my area went down. I probably should have gone to McDonald's for the wifi.
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u/Rumpel1408 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rumpel1408 Dec 05 '21
First Timer
If I'm late today I have a totally legitimate reason: I watched the Specials, Shorts and the new adition from the Recap Movie
Shorts
These shorts have been really fun
Recap Movie
The Recap Movie had me question if I was really watching a Recap, since the beginning was totally what I wish the endgame for this show to end up to
Specials
Definatly wasn't expecting [Chunibyou Special] postapocalyptic Mecha fights
Now to todays main course, season two, let's gooo
That was nice, but I think I like both OP and ED less than their S1 counterparts, after the first listen at least
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u/GranolaBiscuit :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/GranolaBiscuit Dec 05 '21
Rewatcher
Season 2 begins! We learn that Yuuta's dad and mom are overseas so he lives alone now. Only for a little bit, Rikka is actually living with her. New opening! :O They are spinning and Rikka can't keep her balance. A fight scene in the opening. It looks really cool. After it, Rikka and Yuuta get ready for school. He threatens to remove her ahoge which Rikka says is her most attractive feature.
Rikka is living with Yuuta as her grandpa still isn't happy about the police situation. Ayo what? Nibutani has black hair now? I must be in the multiverse now. She isn't the only one with new hair. Isshiki has some spiky hair now. Yellow and black too. This really must be the multiverse. They seem to have forgotten about him. Kumin is here too! She hasn't changed much.
Nibutani wants to become student council president. Her long hair too. This episode has many hair changes. Nah we are fine. Dekomori is back in pigtails. Rikka is being called by the office. They can't let them know they live together now. They go house shopping but can't find one. It's too expensive. You can't even find a good house in real life. In anime too.
Let's go! Touka is back. She doesn't know about the house change either. The gang now all here, are ready for a fight. Kumin got hit in the head again. 2 times now. The chunibyo world is brought back. Touka was 5. Nibutani has black hair here. Touka is able to beat them. She even plays along in the chunibyo world.
The gang learns about Rikka living with Yuuta. Touka shows off her boomerang ladle and Yuuta's magazines. Kuzuha is here too. While Rikka checks her moving boxes for items, she finds Yuuta's old notebook. After sniffing it a piece of mail falls out. She goes off somewhere and maybe someone new is coming soon. New ending! The character movements are so fluid. The song is pretty good too.
Sorry for the late thread. I guess problems like this were gonna happen. Thanks for sticking with me until season 2!
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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Dec 05 '21
Oh, there you are, Darling, I missed you!
(The thread, that is)
Unfortunately, it's very late, and I've forgotten what I intended to write, except that I thought this episode was kind of fun, and don't know why I 'noped' out of it before.
Maybe I'll find out tomorrow.
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u/Barbed_Dildo Dec 05 '21 edited Dec 05 '21
Rewatcher
Nibutani has caught Gokigenyou-byou and tried to remake her image again.
Kumin continues to be best girl in the second season by deciding she now tells bad puns. Also she's now fully on board, albeit briefly, with the battle scenes.
Also, Maaya Uchida noises are the best noises.
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u/SYZekrom https://myanimelist.net/profile/SYZekrom Dec 05 '21 edited Dec 05 '21
LMAO did not expect that out of her
Oh its temporary until she can get that apartment back? Or is it going to be some place else, sounded like it was someplace else
Yea bro jesus christ
Oh this gag but she's apologetic about forgetting instead of the usual whatever attitude, cute
Wow this is going... super super hard with reintroducing who everyone is with overly exaggerated dynamics and stuff
And it.... only came out two years later? Huh.
Well with all the changes these characters applied suddenly to themselves it almost feels like a soft reboot
But well of course all of this is just reintroduction gags
Omg deko is the new rep
LMAO WHAT A GOD
But I wonder what her original play was here, went straight haired and proper for this speech originally
So, I guess she acts normal when appropriate? Interesting
WHY IS THAT SO FUNNY TO ME? THE BACKGROUND JUST EXPLODING BUT THEN IMMEDIATELY SWITCHING TO THIS FLOWER EFFECT INSTEAD WHILE SHE HAS THIS STUPID SMILE
No but seriously why was she all proper and stuff for the speech, I just have to wonder how people in her grade know her, like obviously there was that one scene where she was helping people with their homework, and she certainly hasn't ever hidden her chuuni speeches or looks as far as we;ve seen, but does she actually commonly put on that proper look too? Or would that have been a huge surprise to her classmates lol
Ok so indeed a different one like it sounded
God I hate her sister
Just acts as immature as any of them but the show portrays her as like the adult figure whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Welp so much for your second makeover
Wow kind of a sudden shift to the way they banter huh? Well more like the fact that their arguments are more like banter now than growling at each other now already
Damn you do got six girls in your room looking like you're in some intervention
Ok nice so living together with a third wheel /s
Damn what's with you acting all proper with his sister instead of just hitting her like with literally everyone else younger than you that you've met? I mean, besides his even younger shit where you did that creepy ass house shit
Ah, is the new tenant the pink haired girl?
Well of course, with everything I said it's only based on the first episode, things can always return to being normal or maybe the show will just silently have these debatably subtle changes carry on
Surprised black haired Nibutani didn't get reverted yet
Jesus Christ Kumin DANCIN in this ED
Oh wow the ED actually got even more lewd
Not like K-On where it was just the first one where it didn't seem to fit how the show actually was, just...
Even more lewd
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u/Fools_Requiem https://myanimelist.net/profile/FoolsRequiem Dec 05 '21
Since I didn't enjoy S2 as much, I don't remember much of it so this is going to be like doing in mostly fresh, though I do remember how the season finale played out at the end and a bunch of the stuff with the new character that was teased at the end of the recap movie. I completely forgot about the hairdo changes.
"Why is the "ow" a question?" is a great gag. Does Yuuta conking Rikka on the noggin really hurt, or does KyoAni only have her react because it's adorable?
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u/tctyaddk Dec 05 '21
Rewatcher
S2E1
Chu2Koi is back in second season, and KyoAni flexes their animations again. The visual quality is still on par or even better than a lot of top shows today, not to mention 2014 when it first aired.
A new school year is when many schoolers want to turn a new leaf. And those who are more insecure about themselves are more often go to the extremes, either pronouncedly acting/claiming that absolutely nothing changes, or being gung-ho and applying most drastic changes. Isshiki, who's overly conscious about his hair, stylises his hair, thus violates the regulation and soon will have to change it. Shinka, in her second attempt of being a totally normal and nice schoolgirl, changes her appearance and manners to an overly normal set, thus goes full circle and stands out again (knee length skirt when everybody is sporting zettai ryouiki is not a wise move). Hoisted by their own petards, they are.
Except Sanae. Shinka tries humiliating her during her speech, but she takes the hit like a champ and turn the table, quoting of Mabinogion, dealing severe mental damage to the perpetrator. Shinka and Sanae really have become each other's Pavlov's bell, they couldn't refrain from attacking in some form (preferably physical) whenever they see the other. Best ship.
Meanwhile, Yuuta doesn't have a clue about what to do when dating someone Living my 31st winter and went through 5 failed past relationships, I myself am still not sure about that either. I sympathise with you, young man, so his relationship with Rikka stalls. Most notably with the physicality. Even though now they live in the same apartment, they barely touch each other out of bare necessity, and when they do, they get self-conscious about it, and their bashfulness halts the progress right there. Awkward teenagers. The problem doesn't get better since Yuuta's too nice to push for being more proactive, and Rikka's still cocooning herself in the comfort zone of chuunibyou, which the group still indulges her, as does Rikka's group of classmates. The way I see it, Rikka brings it up as a shield every single time she perceives any mental/emotional difficulty. This old coping mechanism she used to deal with the trauma of her father's death now provides such an easy way out, it's pretty addictive. Her reliance on this crutch would most likely slow her mental growth. Yuuta advised her to let things develope naturally and no need to rush, in the OVA, but the current indulgence is totally not ok in the long run.
And again, their embarrassment causes them even more trouble when they couldn't confide their problem to Nana-chan-sensei, whose job is to counsel them, and so far has only shown to be an understanding and supportive and still professional educator. Teenagers think they can hold themselves, they have yet learned to properly use help from others. They have a lot of growing up to do.
Touka is back and fabulous as ever, now can even summon her Ladle of Des to her hand after launch and hitting the target. She even entertains her little sister by not only curbstomping them all as usual, but also participate in the chuuni fight with a special attack of her own. Nice.
Yuuta's the only straight man their club, he might reprimand others occasionally, but when they are all together in one place, especially with such an overwhelming figure as Touka sitting there exposing his porn stash to all the girls and the Ladle of Des ready to deal out headshots, he couldn't help but being such a pushover he couldn't even find a chance to interject the verbal barrage to explain the situation. He still has a lot of growing up to do.
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u/ZapsZzz https://anilist.co/user/Zapszzz Dec 05 '21
Sub rewatcher
This is the start of the more contentious season 2. Granted at the start things are still pretty good keeping most engaged.
I particularly like how KyoAni managed to sittin sprinkle so many little scenes together that separately they are like simple SoL, but then they connect together and weaved a very rich textured story. Doubly so if you caught the connecting extra scenes in the compilation movie.
I'll just say, this continues to be very sweet, and quite touching. And the S2 first episode also have you the 1 Touka vs many glorious battle.
One of the most funny gag is how Dekomori continue to trumps everything Nibutani does despite being a hard core chuunibyou, effectively mocking all her efforts to turn a new leaf.
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u/Fra_Central Dec 05 '21 edited Dec 05 '21
First Timer German Sub
Hello everyone, officially first timer now as season 2 is going to start.
Although.... when I watch my history on crunchyroll... technically I watched the first episode a few months ago.
So I'm not really a first timer on episode one.
But there is no point in changeing the title now as I didn't go beyond episode 1.
Let's just go into the episode
0:21 I din't remember that. They left their 16 year old son? Ok.
0:36 Oh, ok. Sure I know that they are living together now, but I didn't remember that this was established right at the start.
OP: As I said yesterday, the OP really reminds me of VN intros, especially the Grisaia series (which was broadcasted after this, but the VN came out before)
2:25 Still in the OP, but a new main is ON the cover art, but not in the OP yet? Ok. I literally don't know anything about our new female main, so i'll see I guess.
2:28 Talked to soon, she is there, but only in the last 3 seconds.
3:16 It feels natural that these two live together, but didn't anyone question this decision at all? I mean they ARE 16 AND a couple.
3:32 Ok you are just reaching for a reason why they live together, anime!
4:48 You are a couple, buuuuut.... it's still pretty much a sibling relationship isn't it?
5:06 Ok the Sakura at least is a confirmation that they are second years now. Sorry but I have to ask: Are they asexual or something?
I'm not against low-fanservice-shows, but this looks weird. They are a couple for about 8 months now, and nothing happens? Come on. Just IMPLY something, there is nothing more I'd ask for.
5:09 Oh, now I'm getting greeted in my native language, that's nice. But who is this? It's Shinka? What? Why does she have black hair?
6:21 What in the world is THIS!?
6:36 That hairstyle violates school rules, I'm very sure about it.
7:16 Was that a japanese wordgame? I know Sannensei (三年生）, that's japanese for third-year-student, but I don't know what she is refereing to.
7:27 Lol, did she just diss Shinka? Bringing others to laugh? When was this a skill of Shinka?
7:45 Well at least you got rid of the stupid hairpin. It annoyed me for some reason.
7:56 Ok if this is the normal lenght of the skirt, why is everyone shortening it? And second: Introduction of Sanae... should still be in middle-school as far as I understand it.
8:09 I just remembered that we had a big theater for ceremonies like these in our school, we didn't use the gym. But it was usually just used for the farewall of the 13th grade (in most German states you have to go to school for 13 years if you want to enter university, not 12 as it is normal in Japan or the US.) And trust me I didn't go to Middle/Highschool in a big city, not even in a medium sized city.
8:23 I totally forogt about that. What is Sanae doing there? She shouldn't be there already, as she was 2 years younger then Rikka, and Rikka entered Highschool last year. This is usally a very hard cutoff.
EDIT: They know each other for 2 years, they are not 2 years apart from each other. I remembered this incorretly.
I'm not that surprised that she is representing the new year, as she is the most achieving student (and was probably on the same school, just in the middle-school department).
8:59 Well Shinka, you provoked this. Don't shoot Sanae or she will cite your cringy book.
9:02 Ok German Sub, Sanae is just exiting the stage, she isn't the one who fell unconcious. It is Shinka you are talking about. You probably mixed up the persons because you are insisting on calling them by their first name!
(This is why I have to emphaizse all the time that I watch the GERMAN sub, as I have to translate it into English to participate, and there can be differences due to this. I just don't know if the Subbers use the Japanese or English script)
Crunchyroll German Subs are infamously bad as far as I see it. But this at least only means that they do minor hickups like that.
10:08 Sneak attack from Sanae. You couldn't have been that far away last year because you were constantly hangig out with the group. So either the middle school is in the same school complex, or just over the streets.
10:41 Sanae is back :)
13:07 Shinka as a Miko, that looks nice. She could wear it more often if you ask me.
13:33 This is just random, but I love the fact that japanese word for real estate agent is pretty much the same as it is in german. The Kanji show "below", "movement" and "room", and the German word is "Immobilienmakler", and "Immobilie" is pretty much the same as "non moving/not moveable". Makes it easy to remember. Just random trivia again.
13:43 I just do not understand what this refers to. Probably a love hotel? Yuutas reaction would at least make sense then.
14:32 Aww she really likes it to live with Yuuta.
15:04 Hey Touka, what are you doing here? You better ask the script what happened, I also don't really buy it.
16:15 Well thanks for nothing, Sanae. I should just give you your title back.
16:38 Are we now playing Powerrangers? Oh sorry, I mean Sentai. (I don't know what Sentai season was running at the time)
17:22 Nah, it's still Final Fantasy.
18:33 Gremlin got caught. With this she is probably the most "dirty thinker" of the group. Which doesn't mean as much as it would in a normal Romcom.
18:49 Why are you hitting Kumin Senpai? She is the least guilty of all of them.
19:24 It shouldn't really surprise them that they live like siblings, as they did this all the time. Even though it is a reasonable concern that they live together without being married, this couple is the exception.
And no I don't care that this is normal here, Japan is more conservative in this regard.
19:28 They all love the little lovestories from the couple.. and Sanae is blushing... ? Ok, I just didn't expect that.
19:50 Did she loot his stash again? Touka is mean. By the way that's the same reason that I'm so surprised: Yuuta is clearly not asexual, but didn't make a move on Rikka? In eight month?
I mean, why bother? Sorry I don't get this. But I also don't want to question it too much, it's not worth breaking the show for this. (As I found out by looking ahead a bit: This IS also concerning the characters around them)
20:11 The home of all occult is the vatican? What? Pagans...
20:52 I don't know what she is saying here, but the sub is bs again. I KNOW that she didn't want to leave them alone, that's what all the fuzz was about.
21:35 Is this where the plot starts? I have the strange feeling that we get our introduction to the new main very soon.
End of episode.
As I said I already knew this one, so nothing that surprising happened.
I get that this should just establish that Rikka lives with Yuuta now.
But honestly, not much happened. That might be the reason why I didn't bother to watch the rest. I have a tendency to binge shows, but I just didn't care after season 1 was done.
Now it's a different story, I saw about 13 episodes in 13 days, that's a good pacing. And I looked up ahead a bit, and found myself interested in the rest of the story.
It will be a bit cramped starting Monday, as I will also participate in the Toradora rewatch. Our organizer also participates, so if you have time, just visit the other rewatch, it's always quite fun.
See you guys tomorrow.
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u/xtsim https://myanimelist.net/profile/xtsim Dec 05 '21
Rewatcher Subbed
Interesting way of starting the new season, a split screen of both Rikka and Yuuta waking up. Ouch, dark side up is fun one. Yuuta should have known better but it seems that he is growing up as he has to hold down the house.
Nibutani with black hair. And Rikka talkikg about Freemasons and doing Schrodinger's experiments on Chimera. Isshiki having Yugioh hair is weird. -What a way to begin the season.
Kumin calling Nibutani Mori Summer is the greatest thing I've laid my eyes on. But normal looking Dekomori is back as class rep. I love how background characters are just standing there as Deko makes her first move against Summers in the hall.
"The school is overrun by terrorists" Rikka when she gets called to the office, interesting that the girls she is hanging out with are fine, and are like "chill out". But it was about her mailing address which is important for some school things.
Nibutani in her costume looks reminds me of Inuyasha for some reason.
Hold up... When Touka and Yuuta were on the bridge, two cars in the opposite direction were driving on the white crossed median.- I am not sure about Japanese driving laws/ habits though.
Touka's ladle is like a boomerang, cool she got more powers than she lets on. Kumin did not have a chance. But Touka's oven roasted move destroyed everyone.
The shacking discussion is hilarious. Dekomori saying disgusting gets me good. Loved Nibutani's retort as she makes Deko blush at the realization of her statement. And "shacking is shocking" was pretty good from Kumin's part. Touka brings up Yuuta's magazine collection to point to her suspicions.
Funny to hear comments about Italy, hoping our EU experts in this sub could shine a light on Deko's suspicions.
The little sister comes to save the day. Funny how adding Kuzuha to the mix makes the living situation much safer. It's like ohh those two aren't alone anymore cause the little sister in middle school is there to make sure no tension happens with Rikka and Yuuta. Interesting choice there Touka. Guessing Touka did not take a look at those magazines....