Love, Chunibyo, & Other Delusions! Rikka Version - Reviews

Alt title: Takanashi Rikka Kai: Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!

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Wyr3d's avatar
Sep 17, 2014

There's really no need to watch this if you've seen the first series recently, as for the bulk of the film, its a simple recap. There's a bit of new footage in the first 10mins, which is mostly dream-sequence anyway, and another 10mins or so new footage at the end of it. which does have a lead-in for the second series.

I would reccomend you watch this movie if it's been a while since you saw the first series, as the recap does serve well to jog the memory of the events which unfolded, and is much shorter than sitting through the entire first series again (like I did)

Personally, I would have liked a self-contained new story like a lot of films do, as these recap ones aren't really my thing. Other than the 20 or so mins I already covered, the bulk of this is hashed together clips, a truncated version, supposedly from Rikka's viewpoint, with the (rare) commentary as she she tells her story to Deko and the sleeping princess.

However, the flashback does deviate from this conviction at points, such as the highlight of Yuuta's cheerleader dream come Deko wake up call - something which Rikka would never have had privy to.

Anyway, despite it's small flaws, and the bulk of re-used material, the additional 20mins are certainly worth the watch - the first part being fun, the second part giving reference to the next season content. 

?/10 story
?/10 animation
?/10 sound
?/10 characters
5/10 overall
PSNick's avatar
May 1, 2020

Watch until the recap starts, then skip to 01:19:20 and watch until the end for the new footage. Unless of course you need the recap, but if you recently watched Season 1 you won't be missing anything.

It says it's from Rikka's perspective, so I was hoping we'd get some new footage in the middle dedicated to that, but there's nothing.

8/10 story
6/10 animation
6/10 sound
8/10 characters
7/10 overall
ACrankyOldMan's avatar
Sep 26, 2019

The only interesting thing about this movie is the last few minutes where Yuuta offers to have a talk with Rikka's grandfather about her living situation but other than that, the movie is a really bad abbreviated version of the season. Nothing flows, scenes are cut really short and certain scenes are out of order.

4/10 story
9/10 animation
8/10 sound
8/10 characters
4/10 overall
MassDistraction's avatar
May 26, 2022

They really missed the mark by not actually making this a retelling of the story from Rikka's delusional perspective. Now all it does is be an over extended recap of the first season, cut so that if you haven't actually seen the show from beginning to end you will have no idea what's happening half of the time. This is because while it does include all the major situations from the show it omits almost all of the setup, making it feel like it's just jumping all over the place and time. Of course, this is all just "Rikka explaining to her friends what happened during season 1" but it still feels rather unfinished and lacks the soul of the series itself. You will not get the feeling you should, considering what Rikka must be feeling at this point in the story. It just feels like a lazy recap with no voice over commentary or anything that would add to the story, just clips lifted straight from the show with no reanimation whatsoever. Getting back to my first point, I know it would have been a looot of work to create an entire fantasy world and everything to ACTUALLY show everything from Rikka's perspective but seriously, how cool would that have been? Very cool, I'd say. And I'm sure Rikka would agree. Maybe additionally have us briefly dropped back to normality every time she gets hit just to remind us what's actually going on. Just my two cents.

The movie does have one redeeming quality: the opening and closing animations that look fantastic and are completely new for the show. The finale also briefly introduces a character that will be a (somewhat) major player in the show's second season. In the end they should have just had the opening and closing parts with some additional animation as a special 20 minute episode instead of dragging it out on a non-coherent fast forward version of the series itself for an hour and a half. Too bad too, since I feel that the original stuff that was there was still important to the show as a whole and will go unseen by most people not willing to watch through the entire thing. Of course, and this is what I recommend, you can just watch the opening and skip to the end to get the important bits.

2/10 story
5/10 animation
5/10 sound
5/10 characters
4/10 overall
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MightyCucumber's avatar
Feb 5, 2021

Can i watch this movie on here? if i can someone plz tell me how

?/10 story
?/10 animation
?/10 sound
?/10 characters
10/10 overall