Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions

## Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions *Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions* (*Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!*) is a KyoAni romantic comedy that treats its premise — adolescent delusion and the embarrassment of middle school fantasy role-playing — with unexpected warmth and emotional depth. Yuuta Togashi spent middle school as the "Dark Flame Master," an embarrassing chuunibyou persona he's desperate to forget as he enters high school. His fresh-start plan collapses when he meets Rikka Takanashi — a girl who has taken eighth-grader syndrome further than most, constructing an elaborate personal mythology involving an "Ethereal Horizon" and the "Tyrant's Eye." Rather than dismissing her, Yuuta is gradually drawn in. Beneath the fantasy, *Chuunibyou* is about grief, coping mechanisms, and the complicated question of when imagination stops being protection and starts being avoidance.