Worse, she recently moved into the same apartment complex and overheard Yuuta's last days as the Dark Flame Master, ensuring that it is not a past he will escape so easily. Her name is Takanashi Rikka, a current chuunibyou, representing everything that Yuuta used to be and desired to forget. It may have been a successful plan, too, if not for the unusual appearance of a beautiful girl on his balcony. To ensure victory and start anew, Yuuta applies to a high school where none of his middle school classmates are attending. After suffering from chuunibyou throughout middle school as the "Dark Flame Master", he makes the decision to move on from the past and attempt to live his highschool years as a normal student. It's an experience that he knows all too well. Certainly, behaving this way in public would make for some embarrassment, and recovering from such a past even more so. a child when there was a TV character you found appealing and you pretended to possess their superhuman abilities in real-life? A chuunibyou is a teenage or adult form of that, but to such an extent that the fictional persona defines their entire lifestyle. "Chuunibyou", or more literally "Eighth-Grade Syndrome", refers to matured individuals with an absurd self-created persona. There's a strange term used in Japanese internet culture. But is there anything wrong with that? It's hard to say. Are the people who remain true to their childhood interests not grown up, then? Perhaps. One might ask what it is that truly marks the transition into adulthood: the ability to live independently, or maybe the conformity and adherence to social norms. Growing up is not an easy process, and there are always moments that one looks back upon with a sense of embarrassment and regret. In this hilarious and heartwarming story of a boy who just wants to leave his embarrassing memories behind, the delusions of old are far from a thing of the past. Unfortunately, he hasn't escaped his past yet: enter Rikka Takanashi, Yuuta's new classmate and self-declared vessel of the "Wicked Eye." As this eccentric young girl crashes into Yuuta's life, his dream of an ordinary, chuunibyou-free life quickly crumbles away. Putting his dark history behind him, he longs to live a normal high school life. Having posed as the "Dark Flame Master" during his middle school years, he looks back at those times with extreme embarrassment, so much so that he decides to attend a high school far away where nobody will recognize him. This "disease" is known as "chuunibyou" and is often the source of some of the most embarrassing moments of a person's life.įor Yuuta Togashi, the scars that his chuunibyou has left behind are still fresh. They might go as far as seeing themselves capable of wielding mystical powers, or maybe even believe themselves to have descended from a fantasy realm. Everybody has had that stage in their life where they have thought themselves to be special, different from the masses of ordinary humans.
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