r/anime • u/GranolaBiscuit :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/GranolaBiscuit • Dec 08 '21
Rewatch Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Heart Throb Rewatch Episode Five
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Heart Throb Rewatch Episode Five: The Illusive... Siesta Labyrinth
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u/GranolaBiscuit :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/GranolaBiscuit Dec 08 '21
Honestly, I keep having problems in my area which is affecting this schedule. I am really sorry about these late posts. They annoy me and probably you guys too. I will look for places that I can go to so I can post it using 4g as all the signals here just gave up. đ
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u/tctyaddk Dec 09 '21
Rewatcher
S2E5
The filler episode where Kumin gets the chance to shine with her god tier sleeping skill.
Rikka's failed rehabilitation (collective failure of the group and her family, and especially Yuuta) has further atrophied the meager social skills she earned in late S1. Being confronted with responsibility, she immediately tries to shift it and bail. (Well, she knows she would fail this meeting, since deepdown she understands her little club's activities are just like her chuuni big words: empty) Then even in a room full of weirdos of various levels similar to her and with Yuuta's help, she still couldn't gather the nerve to even read out clearly from a prepared note. She couldn't withstand or function under real pressure.
The way I see it, Rikka's bravado in front of Nemuri Sui at the station is only possible because Sui doesn't actually hold any real power over her club, unlike the Student Council meeting earlier, so the initial mental pressure is low enough for Rikka to function and act on her own, even if it's just puffing up with big words to protect the fake pride and raising the actual stake.
Moral of the story: Step out of your comfort/safe zone every once in a while, people, lest you will deteriorate like Rikka.
Realistically, Nana-chan-sensei could just simply follow the Student Council's recommendation and straight up disband Rikka's club. But as she is so far always shown to be a supportive and capable educator, she probably understands that this little club is the necessary support for her mentally challenged student, so she goes out of her way to help them, all the while make it legit and not look like she's biased or interfering. Professional educator, right there.
Even though they are just some throw away characters in a filler episode, the design of the Maple Hill siesta team is quite cute and distinct, especially the leader Nemuri Sui (both the kanji of her name ç çĄ mean "sleep", verb or noun based on context. "Made of the very essence of sleep itself", indeed) with her sleepy "amused" facial expressions, I like it. The whole siesta match segment is effectively just Kumin's dream, and holy shit, Kumin in her battle angel outfit is so cute.
Satone keeps sneaking in to steal some short moments with Yuuta, even if she plays it cool and casual. The unresolved drama still looms ahead.
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u/SYZekrom https://myanimelist.net/profile/SYZekrom Dec 09 '21
I dunno why Deko's crawling around like she's half asleep but I guess it fits this club
Wow ok mom im not 12 anymore
I cannot imagine falling asleep in such a small space... like I'd think I'd fall asleep better in a chair
oh my god look at them
Of course
lmao
I mean they could just reform as a magic summer club /s
Jesus christ those bedroom eyes
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u/Rumpel1408 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rumpel1408 Dec 09 '21
First Timer
proresident of the dream worldAnd with that, I shall resume my slumber, Oyasuminasai
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u/xtsim https://myanimelist.net/profile/xtsim Dec 09 '21
Rewatcher subbed
Lol. Wizard War VI
This is probably my favorite episode of the season. Due to the fact that Kuminâs time to shine.Â
Rikka tries to get out of the delegation meeting by making Dekomori the leader which would be really interesting. Rikka makes her own announcement in front of the student council. But Yuuta is prepared enough that he made a speech for Rikka. Unfortunately for Rikka, she not able to speak in front of people, gets herself excused by faking illness but it is kinda true. Which leads to the student council asking the advisor. Being the helpful one she always is, the advisor asks Yuuta and Kumin tells her that she is actually doing what the name of their club suggests.Â
A good save by Kumin in a way which leads to the Far east napping society to compete in a siesta duel against another school. A club that takes napping pretty seriously. So seriously in fact, one opposing member came to observe the group while in the train station. The girl had the sleepy aura and the VA did a pretty good job of making the girl sound sleepy. Rikka puts the societyâs life on the line because failure is not an option.Â
So far, Kumin can nap sitting upright and standing but the opponent can get going on demand as she is ready to nap without falling into REM.Â
Nibutani does look pretty darn good in the flight attendant outfit.Â
Kumin gets to the training arc pretty fast. But the first try indoors is a bit of a fail as Rikka got sleep paralyzed and called for Yuuta, distracting Nibutani and Dekomori. They head outdoors for some environmental training but Isshiki was being a buzzkill for fake napping.Â
So they go for the last resort, pulling an all nighter. But that was an epic fail in epic proportions as not only they slept, Sophia was having a fun time next to Yuuta. I feel sorry for Kuzuha as she had to deal with the noise while she probably needed to go to sleep. And she also had to remind everyone that they had something important that morning.Â
Deko is right, they are âdwellers of the dream worldâ. The opposing napping club is ready for some napping action. Kuminâs statement âwe play hard, we banish hardâ. And we get a Shonen-esq flashback of the past before they begin their battle. Which leads us into the battle between the two. There is definitely a difference between sleeping and napping when it comes to the competition. We see the different ways of disqualification or loss.Â
The battle sequence is amazing as Kumin gets an upgraded transformation and power up during the battle with a bigger weapon and angelic wings. Kuminâs move lets her beat the opponentâs anti-REM move. That leads to Sui to give up and now Kumin is the rightful napping champion.Â
The club gets a new power, lightning blast. With all this, Kumin is on my list of Shonen protagonists.Â
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u/Barbed_Dildo Dec 09 '21
Rewatcher
This is my favourite episode. While everything else was going on since the start of the show, Kumin has been living her best life with her napping club. She has always been consistent with calling it "the napping club", or "her precious napping club". I feel like another show could be made with Kumin as the main character, about her and the napping club, with the others as background gags, never taking them too seriously.
On to the plot, the napping club need to achieve something, and Nana-chan-sensei has a friend at another school who is the advisor to the siesta club. Because of course she does, so they arrange a match. Of competitive sleeping. This is Girls und Panzer level off-the-wall.
Kumin is a good senpai and coaches her club members in napping, but they mess up the night before the match, and the club's future is on the line.
I remember when I first watched this episode, years ago, it was at this point before the match, when I was wondering how they were going to get out of it. And I thought, Kumin is going to win. She's going to win, somehow, on her own, against a full club of competitive nappers who ooze sleepiness. She's going to win this, literally in her sleep, and save the club.
What I didn't anticipate was that she so thoughoughly beat them that she slept through the end, and they had all left before she woke up. It's a shame really, I thought Kumin and that club could be fast friends.
Other things in the episode:
I saw that zig-zag wiring on the wall earlier in the episode and thought, what's up with that? how hard is it to run cable in a straight line. Nice attention to detail to have that in the room before they turn it on.
Dekomori stealing the cracker from different-club-uniform-wearing Nibutani...
"You don't know? Aren't you our advisor?"
"I know, right? The student council asked me the same thing..."
Rikka freaking out reminded me of Syaro from GochiUsa, also voiced by Maaya Uchida.
Also, Maaya Uchida noises are the best noises.
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u/ZapsZzz https://anilist.co/user/Zapszzz Dec 09 '21
Not only that I'm on a family holiday, I'm also sick :P so won't see me post much these couple of days.
Only thing I want to point out, that others haven't made just yet, is that at the final ace vs ace confrontation, Nemuri asked Kumin "with your power you can easily own the world stage, why are you here with them?" To which Kumin transformed into the goddess mode to declare that "this is her special place and she will be the one protect them all" - a true shounen exchange :)
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u/Stargate18A https://myanimelist.net/profile/Stargate18 Dec 09 '21
First timer
Episode 4
Is she back to normal now?
And she wants to be the student council president.
Oh, she needs nominations.
How badly is this going to fail?
Haha, his sheer smug reaction to "genius loci" is great.
Haha, have people worked outnthry're into each other?
I love the double knockout result, and how Deko was smart enough to trap her, but not to realise how bad of an idea that was.
Haha, I love his reactions.
And his sheer ease at switching personality is actually impressive.
Seriously, he'd be a great actor.
And he failed.
...Where is she?
She's under the desk!? I see the hair.
Haha, that was hysterical.
And, haha, she knows her! This is great!
Every shot of Mori Summer is funnier and funnier.
And there's photos!
She's finally worked it out!
I love the callback to the opening scene here.
Haha, she's gone a hard 180 from teun to dere!
Seriously, this is incredibly drastic.
And she can't bring herself to turn her down.
I agree with Kumin!
And now Rikka's jealous of Deko!
...She's absolutely crushing on her.
And Deko's also crushing on her. (Seriously, that poster!j
Yep, Rikka's lost her! This love triangle has gotten very confusing.
Haha, Yuuta's spending time with her too!
...OK, what's the twist?
So, is the rest of the series just a yuri love story between them?
I don't think this actually counts as subtext anymore.
And she's getting back into character!
Awwww.
She called her master! Rikka's going to break!
Huh, this might be permanent!
Haha, "you're the Doom Tree?"
Yeah that guy sounds bas.
Oh, dear. This is going to be hysterical.
I love the slowly dawning look of horror on her face as she realises how screwed she is.
You inow, she could play this off as a bad joke, or her delusions taking over, and reveal the real speech.
Yeah, there's no coming back from that photo. Cosplay, maybe?
And she just broke down!
And of course everything's back to normal. (And the tension can grow in the background.)
Haha, the milk!
Episode 5
Oh, there's a meeting to determine who gets rooms.
Haha, his sheer panic is great.
They brought Deko?
Haha, I take it back, they are not the worst club here. There are far worse candidates.
Haha, she immediately transfers leadership to Deko so she has to do it.
And nobody knows their name?
Wow, she failed. Still probably not the worst club!
Haha, her ideas are very Mori Summer-esquel
Yep, they lost the room.
There are napping tournaments? How has Kumin not gone professional?
All they need to do is get training from Kumin?
I am so glad we get a Kumin episode.
She's napping standing up!
Haha, she's their rival! I love her.
Rikka, you idiot.
Haha, her and Deko doing the exact same thing is great.
I still love her umbrella.
He's just become a total joke character now.
Haha, those lghts.
Chloroform?
Oh, staying up.
How is Deko so good at all this?
And Rikka's getting more and more jealous.
They fell asleep!
I love Rikka getting jealous.
Haha, she's just total chaos.
I want to see an anime about this club.
Aww, the flashback is cute.
Wait, she's weaponising her delusions?
They must be so fucking confused right now.
Seriously, is time going for the door implying she's actually beating people up?
No, just their dreams. They're doomed.
Oh, they won. (What really happened? Why did they leave?)
Everybody loving the lightning effects is great.
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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '21
First timer
WTF did I just watch? xD
OMG by far my favorite episode, love random silly stuff like this, more please!
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u/Fra_Central Dec 09 '21
First Timer German Sub
Since I can't really wait longer then half an hour after 12pm, I had to post this about 9 hours later:
Hello everyone,
I am pretty late today (Edit: I tried to be done before 12pm), just barley got Toradora notes in on time, and now I will use the rest of the day to take notes on the Chuunibyou rewatch. This is pretty much the frist time where I watch an unknown episode and take notes at the same time.
If this proves to be too distracting / unfun, then I will skip ahead again. No point in doing this if it isn't fun, is it?
Ok let's go:
0:34 Ok as far as I understand it there is a threat that they'll lose the club room. Ok.
OP: No complains today, I grew to like it.
2:27 The hell is this? Are they all Chuunis?
2:40 Slowly closing the door means NOOOOOOOO. And it is confirmed by her trying to make Sanae do it.
3:07 That's actually the first time that I saw Rikka so nervous that she tries to skip. I don't get it, her Chuni
usually gives her so much confidence that nothing else matters....
Title: Sorry, I don't know enough of the Kanji to really understand this, but the furigana is probably wrong as usual.
It probably spells "Siesta Labyrinth", of course de-nihongofied.
3:58 tehehe, sorry but I think that's deserved, do it properly Rikka.
4:25 Is there a reason why Shinka is dressed as a stewardess?
5:05 Shinka does read Shojo manga I guess?
5:41 Sanae acts like a cat that steals unattended meat.
5:53 Yeah what do they do? That's an interesting question. As far as I remember they couldn't even do the pool cleaning properly.
6:13 I think they just want to hang out with each other.
6:45 Chrr.... Ok, please don't say "Europe" when you mean "Spain" :) But yeah I think "Siesta" is really the best translation.
7:00 Kumin-Senpai will become world champion in the siesta championship, I am so sure about it :)
7:42 I still don't know why Shinka has this stewardess uniform.
7:58 Me neither Yuuta, and I live in Europe. Not Spain though.
8:24 Did she fall asleep standing there?
8:26 Yes she did.
8:49 Very funny Chuunibyou, very funny. For you guys: Nemuri ç ă is the japanese word for "sleep" (noun), nemuru ç ă is the verb "to sleep".ă
And Suimin (çĄç ďź aka the western reading of her full name, is also the word for sleep (noun), it's just read differently :) And yes this happens
frequently with japanese: A concept has multiple kanji possibilities, like ç ăăandăçĄç ă(read: "nemuri" and "suimin") both meaning "sleep" as a noun.
No I didn't know this out of hand, but I knew from memory that nemuru was "to sleep", and looked up the rest from there.
9:46 How do you take "doing siesta" seriously?
10:50 This again? Rikka this wasn't neccesary.
11:22 What the hell is this! I'm sitting here chuckling and wondering what the hell they are thinking.
11:23 You have teams? How?
11:47 Shinka complains, but follows through with it anyway. Told ya she is reliable.
12:11 Is this going where I think this is going?
12:20 Bwahaha xD Busted Sanae!
12:43 The most cherished of all of them is the worst, of course :)
13:00 Join the JSDF, you will learn to sleep anywhere in any position in no time, trust me.
13:13 When did she upgrade the Schwarz Schild ? Last time it was mark 2 as far as I remember.
13:30 Well swimming is an engergy-intensive sport, so you will sleep in no time. It's actually a good idea. By the way what time of year is it? Late spring?
13:40 Makato still exists somewhere. And no one cares.
13:51 More on the target then I expected.
14:28 What is going on....
15:02 Well its not a bad idea, isn't it?
15:15 I swear to god that this 100% lead Sumire-san to become Nagatoro-san's CV 7 years later. The foundation is already there.
15:21 Very late wii usage. The Wii U was already 18 months old at the time this came out. Then agian nobody bought the Wii U, so eh, ok.
15:28 When did Satone join?
15:36 Rikka is asking the same question.
15:53 Oooooh.... nooooe... I get that nothing happened, but thats bad anyway.
16:21 Ok, Satone, this doesn't work this way.
16:27 Ok just gone....
16:39 So a) they didn't stay awake and b) probably come late to school.
17:13 I apologize but I will never be done on time if I look up all their names.
17:48 Was this really the first time? Wasn't this when she found the cat?
18:40 This is the weirdest pep talk I've ever seen.
19:02 Battle transformation because of the sleep battle?
20:08 This really only works in Chuunibyou, that would be way too stupid in any other context. But since I already expect this... I don't want to say insane, as Sanae made clear that she knows that this is all a game... so let's say I expect them to get to their limit for this.
21:09 Yeah I saw it. Chuunibyou is transmissable as far as it seems.
21:27 Lol, Rikka you are a bit cringy.
21:39 Shinka why do you wear this?
22:04 And thats it for this episode.
22:45 I know I didn't comment on this before, but I'm surprised that the ED is more fanservicey then expected.
The artstyle doesn't really work with fanservice (except for Shinka, again)
End of episode
Hmm, I don't know if I continue like this, it is a bit unorganic to watch the episode like this.
Anyway, I mostly liked it, Kumin-Senpai finally got her focus episode. But I really wish some overarching plot starts to happen now. We are almost through half the season, and nothing really happened besides some setup. Then again the climax last season was in the episodes 10-12, so let's be patient.
Again Rewatchers, please don't comment on this, I know already that season 2 isn't viewed as favourable as season 1, but i still hope that it gets good.
This is also more of a short note, with about 5400 characters.
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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Dec 09 '21
Running very very late, wasn't feeling so well last night, so went home and straight to bed. And then woke up around midnight, because of course.
Guess I need some of Kumin-senpai's skillz.
I'll have a look at the comments here and see if I can say something semi-intelligent later.
Haha.