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- How does Rikka know Yuuta's first name while she's getting smacked around in the nurse's office in the first episode? I can't imagine that Tooka would go out of her way to tell her, since at that time the two families had nothing to do with each other. Also, even if she somehow knew his name, why use his first name right out of the blue? She refers to Shinka as Nibutani when they first meet, and she refers to Sanae by her last name even though they've known each other for years. And finally, why does she insist that Yuuta call her by her first name so soon after they meet, even though she's fine with other people calling her by her last name?
- My answer below:
Touka (in an aside during discussion with Rikka): That Yuuta kid below us is acting weird again...- Rikka moved in the night before they met though, and Yuuta hadn't done anything particularly out of the ordinary during that time. Plus Touka says in episode 9 that Rikka usually gives her the silent treatment and doesn't talk to her much.
- Corrected and answered as of Episode 12. Rikka had moved in with Touka for a bit after they left their house but before they moved to their grandparent's house, and Rikka was more or less stalking Yuuta for most of that time because she was impressed with his Dark Flame Master persona.
- Does Rikka have black hair or dark-ish blue hair, like Azusa in K-ON, only a shade lighter?
- It's black in the light novel, and while it's dark-ish blue in the anime, I think in-universe it's supposed to be black hair as well.
- Dekomori's bolas weights. I suppose her long hair should already have pulled off by now? Especially after episode 10...
- 1) I think normal hair is stronger than how you imagine it to be. 2) This is anime. 3) It also probably isn't as heavy as you think. Otherwise, Dekomori wouldn't be wearing them.
- Episode 7: Why was Touka so adamant about keeping Rikka away from the old house they lived in with their father? Only after Rikka finally gets there and sees that the house is up for sale does Touka lecture her about facing reality. Wasn't it Touka's intention from the beginning to make Rikka face reality? Wouldn't letting her see the house be the most effective way? Touka's not exactly the nurturing type so trying to protect her Rikka from what she wants Rikka to do makes no sense.
- What Touka was really trying to do was to stop her from running away from their grandparent's house, which Rikka found especially stifling due to her grandfather's presence. Rikka just decides to go to her father's house because she thinks there might be a clue as to the whereabouts of her father, and Touka probably took the opportunity to show Rikka the harsh truth by letting her find it instead of stopping her with the car.
- The house wasn't up for sale, it was gone. Rikka found an empty lot.
- How the hell did Yuuta show Rikka the Ethereal Horizon in episode 12? As cool as it was, in reality he really didn't do anything that would make Rikka's perception of the scene change, and it was shown in earlier episodes that other people's delusion world don't worm their way into surrounding individuals.
- It's supposed to play into the aesop that everybody suffers some form of "8th Grade Syndrome". Yuuta merely managed to reawaken emotions that Rikka had been suppressing up to that point.
- Plus in response to your comment that others' delusions aren't visualized by surrounding individuals, the girl that Touka brings with her in Ren is able to witness Rikka and Shichimiya's chuuni battle (though this could be because she's a child).
- What is with all the scenes of characters standing on really high places? The rooftop, climbing down the side of a building on a rope, standing on a bridge - it's scary to watch!
- Because Chuunibyou are well aware of Dramatic High Perching.
- Why do people keep calling it Chuu 2?
- 'Ni' can mean two in Japanese, and the two main characters are Chuunibyou.
- Chuunibyou is literally "Eight-grader syndrome"—or, in Japanese, "Middle School Second Year Syndrome." (emphasis added) Understand?
- To open it further, chuunibyou = chuugakkou ninen byouki, translating to the above.
- This is more just a Japanese language headscratcher, but how the heck does "May 7th" (五月七日) translate to "Tsuyuri"? Tsuyuri only has 3 syllables, how on Earth do you turn a four kanji word into a three kana word? It's in the dictionary so I don't doubt it's accurate, but nothing I've learned about Japanese so far explains it, I've never seen a word that has less kana than it has kanji...
- Tsuyuri is a festival that is held in May 7. Please check Alternate Character Reading to see more examples where the kanji and the meaning of the pronunciation are only tangentially related.
- Sort of late to ask this, but it's stated in the intro of the Season 1 OVA that the OVA itself takes place after Episode 12. However, this begs the question: does this take place before or after the recap movie? If it's the former, where is Rikka living? Her old room was shown to be for sale around the middle of episode 12, and there's much ambiguity as to whether or not she moved back in at the end of that episode (the only hint we get is the Call-Back to episode 1 where she descends to Yuuta's balcony implying that she moved back in). If it's the latter, then this causes more confusion. Rikka descends from the upper balcony at the very end just to tell Yuuta "Merry Christmas", but Shichimiya would have to have already moved in, so this leads me to believe that this took place before the recap.
- Rikka's imaginary weapon, "Schwartz Sechs Mark II" implies that there are at least 5 other "Schwartz" weapons. Have we seen them before? I only remember seeing an axe-variant of the weapon.
- No. Rikka made it up for Rule of Cool.
