Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions II Episode 12 (Finale) | TFP Review
Momoka Kibi: So there you have it, Chimera made more progress off screen than Rikka & Yuuta made on screen. Sorry someone had to say it. Heck Sanae & Shinka made more progress as well.
The second season had some good moments to it, but this whole “lack of progress” thing is getting tiring. Then again this is anime. Even in anime where two characters are married they might as well be platonic friends.
EmperorBrandon: I figured what was probably going to happen with Chimera since they first focused on her. A bit annoying the kiss got interrupted still, after Rikka and Yuuta were finally going into it so naturally.
Hah, I love Dekomori and Nibutani ended up sparring over embarrassing thoughts of what the new “contract” would mean. That was so adorable.
Well, the highlight of the ending episodes this time for me was Rikka’s relationship with her friends. Some good girl bonding there in the bath house, and I like how much they support her. What really impressed me was Satone, when she was there with Dekomori to keep Rikka from running away. It was such a very sweet scene.
Buckeye: Must like the first season, it’s ends with a message that changes need not to be forced. They must happen, but they can happen gradually. On that note, the season ends with a romantic moment interrupted by a phone call and pretty much, Rikka is as much a chuunibyou as she has been all this time.
Overall, while this season was good to watch, I felt like it didn’t really accomplish much compared to the first season. Other than introducing Satone as a character, I didn’t see much development in this season. Too many side stories, and not enough of getting to the matter that remained from the end of last season. After a strong first two episodes, things started to lose sight of what it set out to accomplish for the most part. Despite that, it’s still KyoAni and it still maintains the fun atmosphere from the first season. It’s just that it got watered down by fillers and stuff that does not exactly advance the plot.
GingaDaiuchuu: Fucking cell phone. Saw that coming from a mile away but it still pissed me off.
You know, I was pretty excited about this getting a second season, but I guess I should’ve guessed from how conclusive the first season seemed that it probably wasn’t going to be that worthwhile an endeavor in the long run. Even so, I’m pretty disappointed in how it turned out. Is it bad? Not by any means, and I’ll still take it over Tamako Market any day. But compared to the first season, especially given KyoAni’s usual tendency to make sequels much better, I was hoping for much more, and for Ishihara I’m actually quite disappointed. Ah well, these are all comparisons and it was still certainly a good series overall, even just looking at this lesser season alone.
Mateo: Like most others, I didn’t think this season was as good as the first. If Rikka and Yuta had kissed in the end, I would’ve actually liked Rikka’s stalling. I know kissing is a big deal in Japan, but sometimes I wonder if there’s a censorship note to prevent on screen mouth to mouth. Still I think Yuta should’ve done what any normal person would do when they don’t want to be interrupted, don’t answer your phone.
Overall I thought this was okay. I’ve seen worse anime and worse KyoAni second seasons *cough*Haruhi*cough. In fact, you could easily skip the episodes focusing on the side characters and have the same enjoyment.
bctaris: That may have been the most unremarkable show I’ve watched this season. Coming after its first season I’d be disappointed if it didn’t surprise me, having feared a little, like others, that it could be a letdown. (And I tried not to look for it to be, until the end.) There were still some clever moments here and there, but they lacked, in retrospect, the charming originality of what that first season accomplished. And the charm of first love was fine for a dozen episodes–but a dozen more of much the same thing? I should think of it for newer, younger audiences, where anime’s fundamental quality of being confounded by sex can be welcoming. But for me, I just can’t take it anymore, at least not when it’s wrapped up in KyoAni’s cute packaging, with all of its well-tread conceits. It’s annoying, actually, because it seems to know it, like it’s all a farce: you have the forced humor to a kiss being interrupted–again, and again–when you also have a character earlier in the episode actually reference average sexual activity rates of high school students. (And what’s with the now lamentable portrayal of the stalking, oversexed gay guy thrown in for no reason to finish off, lamely, Makoto’s character? Really, anime, we’re still doing this?)
It reminds me of the inherent conservatism of most school-based anime, so many characters, unlike their real life peers, in fact prudish and chaste, like proper young adults. I overlook it when the story isn’t running it, and its characters, into the ground.
