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Originally Posted by Sheba

Spoiler for Save space:

Now I have my lighter and softer show to balance out my weekly Mabu Rabu.

Chuunibyou, a word to describe that embarrassing moment in our life. I indeed could recognize myself in some of the things described in this episode. Like I have said earlier, for me, it was a mix of Lovecraft and Michael Moorcock with a dash of Clamp (especially RG Veda and X/1999). Add to that my first incursion in gothic metal (read the lyrics of that song, you can understand why it would appeal to a chuuni), and King of Fighters when Iori Yagami appeared to me as a totally awesome character.

In the light of this, you can understand why it was both funny AND embarrassing to watch this episode. And I think that self-deprecation in regard of our younger selves IS the point of this anime. To me, it worked.

15/20 for the first episode.

Originally Posted by rulfo

Spoiler for Save space v2:

I dunno if this counts as Chunibyou or what but back then I used to imagine fight scenes in my head with silent blows of winds as sound effects/explosions and fingers that represent anything. As if the fingers weren't enough, I would roll around my bed and enact the damn thing out of sheer engross.... This stayed up until I was a highschool freshmen.

So it reached to some point when I realized it's embarrassing and a little too childish but still I continued to do so in a much more discreet manner. God I can remember the awkwardness when someone enters the room and I switch to stretching immediately. I still have some tendencies but thankfully I don't enact them anymore instead I go into a very passive daydream.

Ahhh.. Those were the days...

Are you guys trying to start a chuunibyou confession session? Let me join you then. Forget the past, these are some of the things I still do today.
- Dragging my toes on the ground pretending I'm about to dash.
- Grabbed my left arm, sometimes with a Pringles tube on it, pretending I have a Rockbuster.
- Riding my bicycle, when I grabed the Aero bars, mumbling to myself "Aero mode." When going off the road/path, "Rally mode." And when get back to normal position, "Circuit Mode." Then once in a while I will grab an imaginary boost lever with, of course, "Boost on."
- The said bicycle, with three upgrades since I brought it, is named "v-Tikit TSW-0." Do I have to say what are the names of the first two models?

Damn, now that I typed that out, it's really embarrassing, isn't it? I did all this when (hopefully) no one noticed though. So yeah, this show is really embarrassing to watch, but at the same time it is fun precisely because it remind me of why I still doing those.