However, after encountering Rikka, his past delusions come back to haunt him. He attempts to bury his past by enrolling in a high school far away from his junior high classmates. After Yūta agrees to help Rikka search for the "Ethereal Horizon" ( 不可視境界線, Fukashi Kyōkaisen), which she believes will lead her to her father, she becomes romantically interested in him and vice versa.Ĭharacters Yūta Togashi ( 富樫 勇太, Togashi Yūta) Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese) Leraldo Anzaldua (English) The narrator of the light novels, Yūta is a first-year high school student who used to be delusional, calling himself the "Dark Flame Master" while in junior high and becoming alienated from everyone as a result. When Yūta joins Rikka on her summer vacation, Yūta learns that two years prior, Rikka's father, to whom she was very close, died unexpectedly due to a terminal illness, causing her to fall into her delusions. The club in question, the "Far-East Magical Napping Society - Summer Thereof" also includes current chūnibyō Sanae Dekomori former chūnibyō Shinka Nibutani and the constantly sleeping Kumin Tsuyuri. He helps Rikka with a number of things, including founding and maintaining her club and tutoring her. This proves to be difficult, however, as a delusional girl in his class, Rikka Takanashi, learns of Yūta's past and becomes interested in him.Īs the plot progresses, Rikka becomes more attached to Yūta, who, despite finding her delusions irritating and embarrassing, accepts her.
Finding his past embarrassing, Yūta attempts to start off high school where he does not know anyone, free from his old delusions. Yūta Togashi is a boy who, during junior high school, suffered from " chūnibyō", believing that he possessed supernatural powers and calling himself the "Dark Flame Master", therefore alienating himself from his classmates. The former Kyu Kaikage Elementary School in Hino, Shiga, used as a model for Icho Private High School. A second animated film featuring a new story, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take on Me was released in 2018. An animated film was released in September 2013, and a second anime season, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb-, aired between January and March 2014. The anime is licensed by Sentai Filmworks for release in North America. As their relationship progresses, Yūta and Rikka form a club called the Far East Magical Napping Society Summer Thereof with classmates Shinka Nibutani, Kumin Tsuyuri and Sanae Dekomori, who each have their own unique delusional behaviors.Ī 12-episode anime adaptation by Kyoto Animation aired in Japan between October 4 and December 19, 2012, with six six-minute Lite episodes streamed on YouTube.
The series follows a high school boy named Yūta Togashi, who tries to discard his embarrassing past grandiose delusions, until he meets a girl named Rikka Takanashi, who exhibits her own signs of chūnibyō syndrome. The work won an honorable mention in the Kyoto Animation Award competition in 2010, leading the company to assume its publication starting in June 2011. Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions ( Japanese: 中二病でも恋がしたい!, Hepburn: Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai!, "Even with Eighth Grader Syndrome, I Want to Be in Love"), also known as Chū-2 for short, is a Japanese light novel series written by Torako, with illustrations provided by Nozomi Ōsaka.