Aura: Maryuuinkouga Saigo no Tatakai - Dark Chuunibyou Movie

Has anyone else seen this movie? Basically a darker, more realistic view at Eight Grader Syndrome with nearly the same setup as Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai.

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

Just finished watching it. I know "Love and Delusions"(cant recall the name completely) has a slightly more comedic tone, but I kind of preferred how it was handled there than this film.

It's a good watch, but as a movie it can't really flesh out the motivations as thoroughly. Maybe it's just me but Satou just seems uncharacteristically harsh towards any Chuunibyou people. That's not meant to speak lightly of the bullying he faced, but perhaps if we saw more about his past, it would provide better insight as to why he's bitter. Yeah I know it's hinted throughout the movie with his isolation with his parents, but I just find it jarring considering how strongly Satou reacts(like, he'll go on fairly detailed rants against Chuunibyous, and we're just meant to assume that he's in denial rather than it being demonstrated how much pain he was in).

Overall, I'm wondering why these chuunibyou related works seems so anvilicious.

edited 29th May '14 8:43:38 AM by blueflame724

I treat all living things equally. That is to say, I eat all living things

Japanese culture has characteristically always valued social conformity and cohesion, and since the end of the War has made use of this to direct its advancement into one of the most advanced late-capitalist societies on the planet. Forms of individual self-expression that don't fit into established modes of economic participation tend to get the short end of the cultural stick in that regard; the anviliciousness you see often expresses that. Look at how NEE Ts and hikikomori get portrayed and you'll observe something similar at work. The word 'chuunibyou' itself is pretty telling; as far as I know, Japan's the only the country where they refer to as an illness (病, byou) that which in any other country would be referred to as children having an imagination.

Michael Zielenziger has an excellent book on hikikomori which discusses this at length. The title is Shutting out the Sun if you're interested.

edited 27th May '14 2:25:35 AM by RiotousRascal

I enjoyed the movie for the most part, but for something trying a take a more realistic tone about the whole chuunibyou thing... That whole part on the roof at the end was just way too ludicrous to take seriously.