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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Jun Fukuyama
Yuta Togashi (voice)
24 eps
Maaya Uchida
Rikka Takanashi (voice)
24 eps
Azumi Asakura
Kumin Tsuyuri (voice)
12 eps
Chinatsu Akasaki
Shinka Nibutani (voice)
24 eps
Juri Nagatsuma
Satone Shichimiya (voice)
12 eps
Kikuko Inoue
Nanase Tsukumo (voice)
12 eps
Soichiro Hoshi
Makoto Isshiki (voice)
12 eps
Sumire Uesaka
Sanae Dekomori (voice)
24 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
As one of the thousands of Japanese students afflicted with "chunibyo," a state where they're so desperate to stand out that they've convinced themselves that they have secret knowledge and hidden powers, Yuta spent most of his middle school years living in a complete fantasy world. He's finally managing to overcome his delusions but his chunibyo have attracted the attentions of another sufferer, and she's decided that this makes him her soul mate.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 24 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
201234 episodes
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201212 episodes
9.1IMDbYuta Togashi has a problem. He used to be a "chunibyo," one of the thousands of Japanese students so desperate to stand out that they've literally convinced themselves that they have secret knowledge and hidden powers. But now that he's starting high school, he's determined to put aside his delusions and face life head on. The trouble is Rikka Takanashi, his upstairs neighbor, is just a little bit delusional herself. And she knows all about his past indiscretions.
Best episode · S01E08 Exiled... Just the Two of Them
Season 2 · Complete
Heart Throb
201412 episodes
9.3IMDbYuta and Rikka may finally be together, but things haven’t settled down just yet! The arrival of Yuta’s childhood friend, the extra-eccentric Satone Shichimiya, is about to take this couple’s relationship from delusional to downright crazy. Not only is Satone a full-time chunibyo sufferer herself, but now she’s claiming to be Yuta’s one and only soul mate. If Yuta and Rikka want to make their relationship a reality, they’ll have to break through Satone’s fantasies first!
Best episode · S02E06 Travelling to the Island of Tsukushi... of Hesitation
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E04
Regret of... the Mabinogion
Yuta is puzzled that Nibutani wants to join Rikka's club. He wonders if she could really like him back, but the answer he gets isn't the one he imagined!
- Directed by Eisaku Kawanami
- Written by Jukki Hanada
S01E05
A Binding... Hard Study
Rikka and Yuta face their low grades, and their club is fingered as the culprit! Rikka begins a new battle with her latest opponent: math! Meanwhile, Dekomori and Nibutani continue to butt heads.
- Directed by Hiroko Utsumi
- Written by Jukki Hanada
S01E06
The Atoned... Innocent
Rikka makes club uniforms for everyone, further humiliating Yuta; tension between Nibutani and Dekomori continues to grow. Isshiki receives a love letter, but his plans hit a snag before they even begin.
- Directed by Yoshiji Kigami
- Written by Jukki Hanada
S01E01
A Chance Encounter... with Wicked Lord Shingan
After recovering from adolescent delusions, Yuta transfers schools to begin anew. As he tastes the succulent fruit of normalcy, Rikka Takanashi discovers Yuta's delusional past and declares that they are soul mates, which makes things anything but normal.
- Directed by Eisaku Kawanami
- Written by Jukki Hanada
S01E03
The Heretical... Pigtailed Girl (Twin Tail)
Yuta tries to decide what club to join, but Rikka is already a step ahead of him. She creates the "Far-Eastern Magic Society" and manages to rope in two members. Given a provisional club status, Yuta revokes his membership... until Shinka joins the club, too.
- Directed by Noriyuki Kitanohara
- Written by Jukki Hanada
S01E02
Priestess... of the Melody
Yuta wants to crush on the beautiful Shinka, but Rikka's antics prohibit it. A visit to Rikka's house reveals how delusional she really is. Her eclectic collections are almost stranger than her behavior! What's worse: Rikka's sister knows about Yuta's past!
- Directed by Yoshiji Kigami
- Written by Jukki Hanada
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E30
Kotatsu Photo Session: ~A Parting… Dark Memoria~
S00E32
Kotatsu Photo Session: ~A New… Photogenicer~
S00E31
Kotatsu Photo Session: ~Mind Erosion… From An Alternate Dimension~
S00E29
Apocalypse of the Wicked Lord Shingan Reborn
S00E28
Supplementary Lesson in the Clubroom
S00E27
A Wandering Chimera
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Atsushi IsoyamaExecutive Producer
- Yoshihisa NakayamaExecutive Producer
- Shinichi NakamuraProducer
- Eharu OhashiProducer
- Yoko HattaExecutive Producer
- Shigeru SaitoProducer
Writing
- Jukki HanadaWriter
Direction
- Noriyuki KitanoharaDirector
- Yasuhiro TakemotoDirector
- Taichi OgawaDirector
- Eisaku KawanamiDirector
- Rika OtaDirector
- Taichi IshidateDirector
Cinematography
- Rin YamamotoDirector of Photography
Music
- Akito MatsudaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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