Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions

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Episode 1 Oct 3, 2012 As Yuuta Togashi throws away his past delusions of grandeur in order to start high school with a clean slate, he encounters a curious girl climbing down his balcolny. On the first day of school, the same girl, Rikka Takanashi, approaches Yuuta, exhibiting her own signs of 'chuunibyō syndrome'. Having eavesdropped on Yuuta getting his delusions out of his system, Rikka declares him his soulmate, despite him having no interest in reentering his delusions. However, he is asked by the teacher to walk Rikka home, as she had only moved in with her older sister, who lives above

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Episode 2 Oct 10, 2012 Rikka finds a stray cat, which she claims is a chimera, though cannot keep it in her apartment due to Touka's allergy to cats and Yuuta refuses to take it in himself. Meawhile, Yuuta finds himself nervous around the class president, Shinka Nibutani, which becomes more awkward when Rikka shows up. Later, another student named Kumin Tsuyuri inquires about the cat they found, as she had been looking for her own who ran away. Both Yūta and Kumin go to Rikka's apartment, filled with all sorts of oddities, though the cat turns out not to be Kumin's. After Touka swiftly punishes Rikka for bringing the cat in, she asks Yuuta to get rid of it, threatening to expose Yuuta's chuunibyou behaviour if he refuses. As Rikka runs off with the cat, Yuuta runs off with the audio evidence and they both try to escape Touka, but are eventually caught. Afterwards, Yuuta agrees to take in the cat.

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Episode 3 Oct 17, 2012 As Yuuta becomes curious about what club to join, Rikka decides she wants to start her own 'Far Eastern Magic Society' club, roping both Yuuta and Kumin to join. After trying out a few other clubs, Rikka calls on her similarly delusional friend from the school's middle school department, Sanae Dekomori, to join as well. Despite lacking a fifth member, the teacher offers them a provisional clubroom on the condition that they clean it up and recommends them as a circle. As Yuuta denies wanting to join the club himself, he resolve soon falters when Shinka also decides to join the group.

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Episode 4 Oct 24, 2012 As Yūta becomes curious about why Shinka would want to join the hobby group, she asks to go to his home on Sunday. Yūta attempts to get Rikka out of the way on that day by sending her and Sanae off on a wild goose chase. As Shinka arrives at Yūta's home, she frantically ravashes his room searching for a book of Sanae's that Yūta had in his room. Yūta soon discovers this 'Mabinogion' is in fact Shinka's journal from her chūnibyō phase, when she called herself Mori Summer, which she wanted to destroy before anyone found out about her embarrassing past. As she burns the book, revealing her true nature that she only joined the club to get rid of it, she is shocked to learn Sanae has multiple copies. With Sanae unwilling to listen to her as she doesn't believe her to be the true Mori Summer, Yuta suggests she appeal to her delusions, but ultimately cracks under the pressure. Shinka reluctantly decides to stay in the group until she can finally destroy all of the evidence.

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Episode 5 Oct 31, 2012 After scoring a dreadfully low score on her maths test, Rikka is faced with her circle being disbanded if she fails her next one. Rikka tries to improve the circle's status by volunteering to clean the pool but, due to playing around, it backfires, with the maths teacher deciding Rikka will need to match the class average to keep her circle. Yūta attempts to help Rikka study, but she keeps getting distracted. After learning a bit about how lonely Rikka gets sometimes, Yūta offers to come up with an e-mail address for Rikka should she pass her test, using various bribes to get her to study hard. After the maths exam, Rikka ends up scoring relatively poorly, but manages to land just above the class average, so Yūta awards her with a new e-mail address.

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Episode 6 Nov 7, 2012 Yūta's classmate, Makoto Isshiki, comes to Yūta for advice after receiving an anonymous love letter, thinking it might be from Shinka. When he comes across Rikka's clubroom to talk to Yūta, he bears witness to Shinka's true nature as she feuds with Sanae. As Makoto is promptly told by Shinka to forget what he saw, he accidentally drops his notepad, containing a ranking of the girls in school. It is soon found by one of the girls and is brought to the class' attention, which Makoto reluctantly owns up to in order to protect the other boys, unintentionally offering to shave his head in apology. After being forced to go through with it, Makoto goes to the meeting point, but the writer doesn't show. Later that night, Yūta is approached by Tōka, asking him to join her and Rikka on their summer vacation.

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Episode 7 Nov 14, 2012 As Yūta and the others join Rikka on her summer vacation to visit her grandparents, he notices Rikka seems awfully quiet. As the gang goes to the beach, Yūta learns from Tōka that their father passed away from an illness three years ago, pointing out that Rikka still has not accepted her father's death and had refused to visit his grave. Wanting to help Rikka, Yūta helps her escape from the house and takes her to a place where she believed she saw her father three years ago. They arrive at the place where Rikka grew up, only to find her house long gone, as Tōka catches up with them to remind Rikka about the reality of the situation.

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The Revival of... the Wicked Eye Jan 8, 2014 As the new school year begins, Rikka ends up having to move out of her apartment, since Tōka no longer lives there, and is temporarily living alone with Yūta whilst they search for a new place. Meanwhile, Shinka, who has dyed her hair black in pursuit of a non-chūnibyō second year, continues to be at odds with Sanae. Tōka soon catches on about Rikka lacking a new apartment and confronts her and the others, promptly defeating them. Whilst Tōka initially objects to Rikka living along with Yūta, the issue is soon resolved when Kuzuha returns home for the new school term to supervise them.

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Dolphin Ring Striker Jan 15, 2014 Interested in their relationship now they are living together, Shinka, Sanae, and Kumin keep an eye on Yūta and Rikka, the latter of which has ended up spending nearly all of her monthly allowance. After Yūta reveals they had yet to even get to even hold hands, Shinka takes him to meet her friend Kazari Kannagi, who arranges for Yūta and Rikka to go on a date. Yūta decides to take her to the aquarium to see the dolphins, where they start holding hands. As Rikka states her uncertainty over what lovers should do, Yūta decides that he is fine with their relationship staying the way it is for now. Later that night, Rikka meets a peculiar girl that had moved into her old apartment, in much the same way Yūta first met her.

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Magical Devil Girl... In Pursuit Jan 22, 2014 After Yuta is left reeling from a lewd dream about Rikka, he ends up losing a bet against her and is forced to dress up as a magical girl. Later that day, Rikka encounters the girl from before, who is revealed to be Yuta's old friend during middle school and the one who led him to enter his chunibyo phase, Satone Shichimiya. As Satone is invited over to dinner that night, Rikka becomes over her getting awfully clingy to Yuta, particularly when she does her old habit of rubbing her nose against Yuta's. After seeing Satone off, Yuta reassures Rikka by initiating a 'contract' of his own.

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Queen Maker Jan 29, 2014 Shinka decides to run for student council president, but her candidacy campaign proves difficult due to Sanae constantly interfering. Later, it is also revealed that Satone had gone to the same middle school as Shinka and was well versed in her identity as Mori Summer. Sanae, now convinced that Shinka is the genuine article, starts acting more polite and affectionate towards Shinka, who has her help out with her election campaign. However, this soon turns out to backfire against Shinka when Sanae uses notes from her chunibyo days as an endorsement speech. As such, Shinka fails to get elected and Sanae goes back to believing she is a fake, bringing their relationship back to the status quo.

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The Illusive... Siesta Labyrinth Feb 5, 2014 When a Hobby Group Representative Meeting is held to determine which hobby groups should be allowed to keep their rooms, Rikka's failed presentation of what the 'Far Eastern Magic Napping Society in Summer' does exactly leads their supervisor, Nanase Tsukumo, to investigate what they actually use their room for. Nanase points out the 'napping' part of their group is actually a notable pastime, suggesting they have a 'siesta match' against Maple Hill High School's Siesta Club to serve as an official activity for their group. On the way home, they are approached by Maple Hill's Sui Nemuri, who sparks a rivalry with Kumin, with Rikka rushingly adding she will disband her society if they lose. Thus, Kumin begins training the others in the art of napping, teaching them to sleep in any situation. Finding sleeping at will to be much harder than they thought, Yuuta suggests they stay awake the entire night so they'll be more tired on the day of the contest, with Satone joining their activities, though they end up falling asleep anyway. Despite their disadvantage against the other school, Kumin encourages the others to give it their all, and together they win the match, allowing their group activities to continue.

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Hesitant... Tsukushi Island Tour Feb 12, 2014 Yuta, Rikka, Shinka, and the other second years, go on a class trip to Tsukushino Island, where Yuta and Rikka are notably shy about their relationship. Feeling Rikka can't handle the romance aspect well, Yuta asks Shinka to keep watch over Rikka. Later that night, Rikka comes down to Yuta's room and ends up having to hide in bed with him, where they almost kiss, until Shinka gives them the opportunity to get her out safely. Before returning to her room, Rikka gives Yuta a kiss on the cheek, and the next day they go sightseeing together.

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Volcano Triangle Feb 19, 2014 Yuta and Rikka's sightseeing date is interrupted when they come across Satone, who had gotten separated from her own class trip after losing her purse. They manage to help her find it, but Yuta and Satone end up getting chased by a wild monkey in the process. When Rikka spots Yuta receiving an arcade token from Satone, she runs off feeling Yuta had betrayed her, eventually coming across Shinka. As Yuta goes to search for her, Satone calls Kuzuha up, before calling Rikka to meet up with her so they can talk. Satone explains that she once fell in love with Yuta, but threw her feelings away to hold onto her chunibyo identity, leaving Rikka with the question of whether she intends to keep her identity forever and revive Yuta's. After Satone takes her leave, Yuta reunites with Rikka and gives her a new umbrella and charm for her birthday.