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View Poll Results: Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! - Episode 11 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 33 | 33.33% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 31 | 31.31% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 20 | 20.20% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 9 | 9.09% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 2 | 2.02% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 1 | 1.01% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 1 | 1.01% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 2 | 2.02% | |
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2012-12-12, 19:21 | Link #21 |
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I love Rikka's enthusiastic "Woohhhh~" xD
I think normal Rikka is still pretty cute and it's interesting for those who vision how that would be like. Her struggle to act normal is certainly making the others a little shocked since it's not what they're used to seeing from her. And they've done a good job portraying that. One thing for sure is that Rikka wasn't embarrassed about her chuunibyou afterwards unlike Yuuta and Nibutani. After all that time in the same class, she still had the courage to make friends. You could see Yuuta feeling a bit down while he helped Rikka clean her room and it kinda echoed the first episode when Yuuta was moving his stuff out and Rikka feeling down about it. I can't wait to see how it ends. |
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her chuuni is not the issue. it's her ignorance about her father dead and reality is the issue
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2012-12-12, 19:33 | Link #23 | |
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Her acting "normal" would be her acting like a chuuni because as far as I am concerned someone is only acting normal when they are being true to themselves.
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2012-12-12, 19:34 | Link #24 |
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Yuuta almost looks like a bad guy here, but what are his options?
It would be trivial to, as he did in the beginning, continue helping Rikka search for the Unseen Horizon. That's the easy route. That doesn't solve anything. What, are they going to keep doing this when they're 50 years old, and Rikka will still be rejecting her mom? As a slight variation to the previous option, he can support her and hope that Rikka snaps out of it on her own. Still easy, still not solving anything. He can do what he's doing right now. He can make Rikka reject her old personality, reject her old life, accept the truth, and accept the normal. The rationale is that it will be better for her in the long term. Will it? Hard to say, but it's obviously an extremely painful option at the moment. So what's left? Ideally, Yuuta can help Rikka face her father's death without forcing her to reject her life/personality these past few years wholesale. The hard part is knowing how to do this. Yuuta sure as hell isn't in an enviable position.
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2012-12-12, 19:36 | Link #25 |
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I really like how Nibutani settled into the 'mother' role for everyone. Especially dekomori. Liked how she tried to comment to Yuuta about the situation without directly interfering since its ultimately something Rikka and Yuuta has to see through for themselves.
Also dekomori's role fit nicely as well, since she's the youngest of everyone, so her tantrums made sense. Another sudden small time leap. The scene with Tokka giving farewell to Yuuta was touching. The first few minutes of non-chuuni rika was cute, maybe gap moe or something. But definitely turned serious the rest of the episode. Dekomori's voice acting after Rikka leaves was very well done too. Lots of emotion. And Yuuta snapping at her was brutal. I don't really blame Yuuta much, its definitely a tough situation, and him being submissive to everything is pretty realistic. Looking forward to how all this resolves.
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2012-12-12, 19:50 | Link #27 |
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Poor Dekomori is getting a beating with the reality hammer. The kid has a imagination like her master, but since she's younger I guess she takes this fantasy more seriously. I wonder why Dekomori decided to go along with this fantasy run with Rikka besides her being a kid obviously, but were there other influences for to believe in a fantasy.
Oh well, once they're all grown up and seniors in high school they can look back all on this and have a merry laugh.
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2012-12-12, 20:01 | Link #28 | ||
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I said it before, and I'll say it again: Yuuta's a jerk. His lack of compassion for Rikka is mind-boggling. She's been like that for three weeks and he acts like nothing has happened? Like everything's fine? It makes me wonder if the real reason that he forced Rikka into a corner over her chunni ways was because Touka had promised to give him her voice recorder if he cooperated. I certainly wouldn't doubt it. And she did give it to him. Quote:
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2012-12-12, 20:11 | Link #29 | |
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2012-12-12, 20:17 | Link #30 | |
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There are other issues to. Giving up on something completely means you need to know when you have given up on it completely. When is it enough? It's not possible to give up on intangible things completely because you don't know that. It's possible to quit smoking completely, but it's not possible to quit addictive behavior altogether because there is no way to strictly delineate what's addictive behavior and what's not. That's why you follow your heart with those things but apply a reasonable standard as well. Unfortunately, despite the clear pain in their hearts, Rikka and Yuuta tried way too hard. Sadly, this is far too common with people who finally give up on something very obsessive. I came to Yuuta's defense last week and I still think what he did then was absolutely the right thing to do but I can't defend his actions this week. What's their to defend? He himself knows his actions were very much in the wrong, especially towards Dekomori. He had better apologize to her next episode, and it had better be a strong apology at that, because he was a total jerk to her even if he didn't mean to be and even if what he was presenting were real facts. Yes Dekomori was guilty of ignoring Rikka's attempts at being normal but if we were to defend Yuuta with that on the basis that Yuuta cares for Rikka then as viewers, we also know very well that Dekomori cared for Rikka just as much. Given that Rikka and Yuuta are misguided in thinking that Rikka has to go cold turkey on her behaviors to become normal, ergo better, it's arguable that Dekomori was the one doing the right thing. But the fact that Yuuta was mean to her is completely independent of this issue with Rikka. I understand that Yuuta isn't a bad person but he had better apologize to her else I will be strongly disappointed. Now I don't agree with the interpretation that Yuuta wants to make Touka happier than Rikka or even that Touka would be happy to see Rikka like this. Yuuta is just dumbfounded a bit and understandably so. Touka definitely wouldn't have wanted Rikka to go this bland but she was short on time and she chose to trust that her sister and Yuuta would work it out together somehow. Trusting people to work things out is better than meddling in, especially at the cost of self-harm. I am very sure Rikka's mom wouldn't mind Rikka keeping half the things she threw away from her room either. She would probably be very happy to join in with Rikka and Dekomori in the simpler of their antics in fact. But Rikka herself is dumbfounded and drawing irrational conclusions. Nibutani has shown some sense but I don't know what to make of her. On one hand, I can understand why she helped Rikka with being normal but wouldn't interfere to tell her to stop trying so hard because what Rikka does is Rikka's choice and not hers. She can only help Rikka with what Rikka seeks help with. But on the other hand, if I were Rikka's friend and I saw how misguided she was and how damaging her choices were proving to be, I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from giving her a piece of my mind. I suppose Nibutani's better with dealing people than I am on that regard ._. The episode was perfect btw, I don't see how they could have presented this material any better.
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2012-12-12, 20:20 | Link #31 | |
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2012-12-12, 20:21 | Link #32 | |
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2012-12-12, 20:33 | Link #33 | ||
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I can also speculate that maybe Touka did try this before, or haven't done so because it probably won't work unless it's someone Rikka really trusts. If I were to be honest, I'd say that's because it's just goddamn boring and wouldn't make for a story.
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2012-12-12, 21:01 | Link #37 |
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I really think some people should stop with the exaggerations and chill. Just saying.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sooner or later, Rikka will have to grow out of her delusions and accept reality. Her father is dead, that is the simple but harsh truth and she has to learn to deal with it in a healthy way, otherwise she will have big problems in the future. Personaly, I don't see any problem with her delusions as long she clearly knows that they are just delusions and that she knows that there are times when it's necessary to be serious. |
2012-12-12, 21:05 | Link #38 |
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Ah, conformed Rikka. She's so adorable. It's like I've fallen in love with her all over again. xD
And I loved the last scene at the train stop. Not gonna lie, I started to laugh when Dekomori started to bawl. I don't think it was in a ridiculing way, though. |
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