Nov 10, 2012
Love it! Love it! Love it!
Here is a riotously funny story that seems to come out of the blue. It's refreshingly self-mocking, mocking all of those adolescent fantasies about superpowers and good-vs-evil struggles (as in Fate Stay/Night) by not taking them too seriously, just reducing them all to mere childish otaku.
Despite their fantastic pretensions the characters are all very realistic, their relationships make sense and their motivations engender sympathy and affection. There isn't one here whom you won't like and who won't make you laugh. (Even the homeroom teacher is very cute.)
The humour is somewhere between poignant irony and over-the-top
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hysterics. The figures are all well drawn, with no oversized breasts and no pointless panty shots-- in fact the story, though some have classed it as a harem comedy, may be a little short on 'fan service'. It's much more realistic and fully appropriate for 12-year-olds or even younger.
And the music is absolutely top-notch; the opener is just touching enough to draw you in and at the closing credits 'Inside Identity' thoroughly rocks. Best of all the animated credits sequences are a perfect snapshot of the series matter itself, accurately illustrating all the characters and posing just enough questions to keep you interested. Deko's hair-twirlling and dancing on top of her hands is fetchingly cute; and Rikka's dual finger-spin (both going the same way!) has become a phenomenon (check out Japanese YouTube). The awkward unpopular-adolescent toe-banging dance Rikka does at the closing credits bespeaks her character perfectly (after all she wears wheelie shoes too!).
Don't miss a single episode this season as 'Chuunibyou' airs on Japanese TV and on the Web. It's too fun to resist.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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