due to popular recommendation, I picked up this show called "Love, Chunibyo, and other delusions." Chunibyo, which is Japanese for "middle schooler's syndrome" or something like that, can be described as a state of mind someone enters where they live out fantasies, or something like that. Don't quote me on this. Imagine someone who is really into LARPing, I mean, REALLY into it. Now, that is their life, that is their reality, which they desperately hold to be true, or something like that. That is what chubibyo is, kinda, but its more like a phase, an incredibly embarrassing phase, usually experienced in middle school.
so the plot of this show follows a young man who has grown out of his chunibyo phase and wishes to have a normal life as a normal high schooler. it shows moments where he is reminded of how he behaved in the past, which causes him to explode in embarrassment. The first time it showed this, I nearly slammed my head on my desk, because I knew EXACTLY how that feels. That's right, I was that kid. The ultra-literal, over-imaginative, socially awkward weirdo, that was me in a nutshell.
wait, was?
who am I kidding, I STILL AM!
in all seriousness, this show speaks to me on a very personal level, because I feel it. Every time the main character freaks out and frantically rolls across the floor in embarrassment screaming "NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!" I'm right there with him, because all it takes for me to send myself in a fit like that is to look through my old work that is posted on DeviantArt.
it also makes me want to write a paper on what sends people into these delusions, maybe I'll get the chance to in my psych class...
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