Feb 26, 2024
I've never given a series a review before, but for this, I feel like I have to.
The first season of Love Chuunibyou was, to me, a brilliant show, it had a defined and playful sense of humour (even if it wasn't for everyone), an overwhelming sense of atmosphere granted by KyoAni's incredible animation and a loveable cast of characters; but above that, all of this was in service to a deeply touching message about growing up, facing trauma and and embracing your childish side. we got to watch our favourite characters get challenged in a meaningful way, forced to evolve and mature as people. I
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understand that it wasn't a show that everyone could enjoy, but it meant something and made itself one of my all time favourite shows. It was also a show with an ending. A definite one. One which needed no sequel.
Season 2 of Love Chuunibyou feels like an insult to that show.
All character development is stripped away in favour of harmless marketable waifus; the show becomes absolutely obsessed in completely trivial developments in the main relationship; the side characters become parodies of themselves. The show, in essence, has been turned into a moeblob. The show no longer has anything meaningful to say, characters don't develop in any way, instead simply going through the motions of benign slice of life bullshit and relationship melodrama.
From the moment you start watching, it is obvious why this season exists- it's a cashgrab; blatant as anything.
It takes the love people had for the story and characters of the original and attempts to cash in on it with twelve episodes of filler crap. It's an insult to the author, it's an insult to the emotions that the entire team working to adapt it poured into it and it's an insult to any audience member who felt a connection to the first season.
This is a stain on the reputation of the first season, it was frankly painful to watch and I wish it had never been greenlit.
I hope the executive who did so stubs their toe.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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