Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!

中二病でも恋がしたい！

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Ongoing

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Status

Finished

Published

May 24, 2011 to Dec 22, 2017

Authors:Ousaka, Nozomi, Torako

Comedy

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First thing for those who watched the anime before: Novel story is completely different from the anime. Rikka and Yuuta are a pair of chuuni and ex-chuuni. Some background stories about them are different but some are same. Story: The story took us to Yuuta's school life and how he got involved with Rikka through daily encounters. The story is in Yuuta's first person POV focused on how they met, interact every day in school, and finally became a lover. The story is quite straightforward without many sudden plot twists. Art: Sadly, there are very few illustrations so it quite hard to grasp the story visually. It's up to yourimagination how they are doing things. But the splash images isn't disappointing at all. Character: We can see in Yuuta's POV how he doing every day and how he feel about every encounters. Character developments aren't drastic ones, as there are no very eventful conflics. The main attraction of the characters I guess if from how the people interact with a chuunibyou girl who see the world from a different perspective and how cute she is. Enjoyment: I found it very enjoyable because it's very relatable. It just like we experience how we met and fell in love with someone, in this case a chuuni girl. We'll see how a pair of chuuni found each other, involved with each other, fell to each other, how they spend time as a couple with their own way, and how they resolve their problems as a couple.

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Synopsis

Yuuta Togashi is a high school freshman who chose a new school far away from his middle school, due to his mortifying past there. Yuuta was what people would classify as a chuunibyou—a "disease" that causes people to fantasize about themselves and their surroundings—with him using the alias of "Dark Flame Master." He enters high school looking to start anew or, at least, that is what he hoped for. Everything had been going smoothly, and Yuuta was relishing the feeling of a normal high school life until he met Rikka Takanashi—who despite being a high schooler, is still a chuunibyou—subsequently crumbling Yuuta's short-lived regular high school experience. It would seem that his chuunibyou past is not leaving him just yet. Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! follows Yuuta and Rikka's relationship as they experience an eccentric high school journey, with chuunibyou constantly haunting Yuuta. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

This novel was very good up until the last novel. I have only read it up until the 4th novel up until the 5th chapter since I do not have the Japanese novel and I am only reading an online translation that is still being translated, therefore my opinion will be based on that. I love this novel a lot, the story was very nice and I love the idea of it... But, when Kyoto animation made the anime they changed the story completely. Then the story started going downhill around Novel 3, but it was still okay. My idea of it is that Torako didthat because of the anime's story and the anime being praised more. Therefore they tried to adhere to the anime's story, but that didn't work, because the story is nothing like the anime. Their story was better than the anime, so it is upsetting to see them doing this. The novel is still better than the anime by far, but the 1st novel and 2nd novel are the best, because they were not influenced by the anime adaptation. (Since the anime hadn't come out until the 2nd novel was made?) Dekomori seems very very very forced in the novel, which Torako said in the afterword of the 3rd novel, "Deko-chan’s appearance was quite forced though…" Online, I see so many people say that they think the novel is bad because Dekomori isn't there, or Kumin, or Tooka. Imagine being told that a horrible adaptation of your novel is better because they had 3 other characters added that were completely useless to the story. That's horrible. His adaptation of Kumin was good in my opinion, but Dekomori was quite annoying. I might have a "biased" opinion on Dekomori, since I hate her in the anime too, and she hates Yuuta, which is my favorite character. But her personality is overall annoying. I barely have any complaints for the 1st or 2nd novel. They were outstanding.