Two episodes in, I’m still not sure if there’s a reason this season of Chuunibyou exists apart from the obvious commercial one. Chuunibyou 2 – 02 I remain on the fence about blogging this season of Chuunibyou. There was nothing especially wrong with this week’s episode, just as there was […] Read more
Whether it was necessary or not, the second season of Chuunibyou arrives with the same broadside that ushered in the first. I liked 2012’s Chunibyou pretty well – better than thought I would at the mid-point, anyway. It didn’t hit my Top 20 for the year, but it didn’t miss […] Read more
While Chuunibyou never achieved real profundity in its final episode, I think it crafted a finale that was true to itself. In a sense, I think this series had written itself into a corner going into the last episode, but not necessarily in a bad way. The fact is that […] Read more
It seems only fitting that there’s no middle path to be found in Chuunibyou. It would be wrong of me to criticize this episode of Chuunibyou for being heavy-handed, because this series has never postured towards having a light touch in anything it does. When it was a comedy it […] Read more
I’ll say this much for Chuunibyou – when it decided to make a transition to serious mode, it didn’t pull any punches. I personally would have preferred a more balanced recipe from the beginning, with the obvious implications of chuunibyou – which were always the elephant in the room – […] Read more
If there were any doubt that Chuunibyou would be pursuing the romance angle in its final arc, I think it’s safely dispelled now. Chuunibyou has been a study in extremes for the most part. In the first six episodes it was very silly and pretty funny a good percentage of […] Read more
This was a very effective follow-up to last week’s game-changer episode, and I can offer Chuunibyou no more straightforward compliment than that. I still find the writing with this show a little clumsy at times – and given the experience of the anime staff I assume that’s a function of […] Read more
So this was the week Chuunibyou finally crossed the unseen horizon and went serious. And all in all, it did a pretty darn good job of it. When a comedy goes serious, you can look at it two ways. You can judge it by the vehicle it chooses for the […] Read more
There are few shows doing idiocy as well as Chuunibyou, and there’s definitely something to be said for that. It occurs to me that this show would get a lot more interesting if it were revealed that Rikka (or even Yuuta or, God forbid, Dekomori) actually had magical powers. I […] Read more
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later – Chuunibyou gives us what by its standards is a serious episode. So – was it any good? As I’ve said, I think Chuunibyou – at least in theory – wants to work as both a completely frivolous screwball comedy and as a […] Read more