F-TIER: Love Chunibyo and Other Delusions
Premise:
The show Love, Chunibyo, & Other Delusions is a romantic-comedy about Yuta Togashi, a high schooler who used to be a chunibyo (pretty much a nerd who can't tell the difference between reality and their favorite fandom) meets Rikka Takanashi, who is going through her own chunibyo phase. As their relationship progresses they, along with those around them, create the Far East Magical Napping Society Summer Thereof. Each of the members deals with their own chunibyo tendencies and mishaps.
Animation:
The first thing I would like to talk about with this anime is the actual animation. Animated by Kyoto Animation (Violet Evergarden, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid) the animation and imagery is what drew me to this particular anime. Most of the time-and especially during the chunibyo delusions-the anime it top tier. It has some beautiful shots and you can tell that the animators cared a lot about what they were making.
Story and Other Critiques:
The reason that this is anime is so low in my list and why I would never recommend it to someone unless they like wastes of time is because of the story. Instead of a meandering slice of life, this show is more like a disjointed dream sequence. As obvious as it is that the animators liked the shots they were illustrating, it feels as if the author didn't know what the motif of their story was.
The next reason is that the characters are about as unrealistic as an anime character can get. The motivations of each character is shallow, and they don't really stick to their guns on already established character traits. It feels as if the each character is brought into the show with a lot of energy and interesting character traits, then as the show progresses the author got bored with their character and decides to introduce a new one, instead of deepening already established behaviors and relationships.
On the topic of character traits, all of the characters are stupid.
I mean that kindly, but each character reacts to situations and decisions in completely unrealistic ways that made it incredibly hard to connect or have any emotional investment in the story at all, which is why I ended up not watching the movie, because I had no interest in it anymore. The most emotion that this anime got out of me was the anger I feel when I realized I watched all twelve episodes of this show.
Conclusion:
So if you enjoy a show that is more about petty misunderstandings, toxic/unrealistic characters, and a theme-less underdeveloped show, then you should watch Love, Chunibyo, & Other Delusions.
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