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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
Start here. Twelve episodes introduce Yuta, Rikka and the club that forms around them, and end with the two becoming a couple.
11 titles
Updated Oct 6, 2026
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Watch Order (2026 Guide)
Yuta Togashi starts high school determined to bury his middle-school years as the self-styled Dark Flame Master. Then he meets Rikka Takanashi, a classmate who still wears an eyepatch and insists her eye holds a sealed power. Kyoto Animation's romantic comedy follows the two through two TV seasons and a final film.
Recommended Order
Quick answer
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb-
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me
Plus 8 optional extras.
3 titles · 24 episodes + 1 movie · ~11 hours
The story is three pieces: Season 1, Season 2 (Heart Throb) and the film Take On Me, watched in that order. Everything else is a bonus episode, a set of shorts or a retelling of Season 1, and sits under Optional Extras.
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb-
Season 2, twelve episodes. Yuta and Rikka are now dating, and Satone Shichimiya, a girl from Yuta's chunibyo days, arrives in town.
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me
A new feature film, not a recap. It continues from the end of Heart Throb and is the most recent anime in the series.
⚠ A theatrical film released in Japan on January 6, 2018, listed separately from the two TV seasons.
Optional Extras
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Lite
Six comedy shorts of about six minutes each, released on Kyoto Animation's YouTube channel starting a week before Season 1.
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Depth of Field
Seven three-minute shorts, one per Season 1 Blu-ray/DVD volume, built around a mecha battle between Rikka and Dekomori.
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Glimmering…Explosive Festival (Slapstick Noel)
The unaired 13th episode of Season 1: a Christmas party at Dekomori's house, set just after Yuta and Rikka start dating.
⚠ First released on the final Season 1 Blu-ray/DVD volume in June 2013, not broadcast with the season.
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Rikka Version
A compilation film that retells Season 1 from Rikka's point of view. The new material is a wedding-dream opening and a closing scene that leads into Heart Throb.
⚠ Covers the same events as Season 1. It is a retelling, not a continuation.
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Rikka Version Lite
A five-minute short bundled with the Rikka Version Blu-ray/DVD.
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb- Lite
Six shorts of three to four minutes from Kyoto Animation's YouTube channel. The first came out before Heart Throb began and the rest during its run.
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb- Specials
Seven three-minute shorts from the Heart Throb Blu-ray/DVD volumes, most of them set around a kotatsu table.
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb-: The Rikka Wars
The unaired 13th episode of Heart Throb. It follows Season 2 and comes before Take On Me.
⚠ Released on the final Heart Throb Blu-ray/DVD volume in September 2014, not broadcast with the season.
Why This Order
Season 1 and Heart Throb are the two TV seasons, twelve episodes each, and Take On Me is a new film that continues from the end of Heart Throb. Those three carry the whole plot, so they are the only entries above the line. Each season also has an unaired 13th episode that shipped on its last Blu-ray/DVD volume. Both are full-length and worth watching, but neither is needed to follow the next entry, so they are marked skippable. Rikka Version is the one that causes confusion: it is a compilation of Season 1 told from Rikka's side, with a new opening and a closing scene that points toward Heart Throb. If you have just watched Season 1 you can skip it; it works best as a refresher before Season 2. The remaining entries are short comedy pieces from YouTube and the disc releases. They do not move the story and can be watched at any point after the season they belong to.
How Many Episodes and Seasons Does Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Have?
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions has 2 seasons and 1 film in the main run — 24 episodes altogether.
Main Run
| Title | Type | Episodes | Aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions | TV Series | 12 episodes | October 2012 |
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb- | TV Series | 12 episodes | January 2014 |
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me | Movie | — | January 2018 |
Optional Extras
| Title | Type | Episodes | Aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Lite | ONA | 6 episodes | September 2012 |
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Depth of Field | Special | 7 episodes | December 2012 |
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Glimmering…Explosive Festival (Slapstick Noel) | OVA | 1 episode | June 2013 |
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Rikka Version | Movie | — | September 2013 |
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Rikka Version Lite | Special | 1 episode | February 2014 |
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb- Lite | ONA | 6 episodes | December 2013 |
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb- Specials | Special | 7 episodes | March 2014 |
| Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb-: The Rikka Wars | OVA | 1 episode | September 2014 |
3 titles · 24 episodes + 1 movie · ~11 hours
Source Material
Light Novel
Completed
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
The anime is based on Torako's light novels (four volumes, KA Esuma Bunko, 2011-2017), which have no English edition. The adaptation is loose: Sanae Dekomori, Kumin Tsuyuri and Toka Takanashi were created for the anime, and Satone Shichimiya comes from the second novel. There is no point in the books to pick up from after the anime.
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Watch Order FAQ
Where should I start with Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions?
Start with Season 1, the 12-episode TV series from October 2012. The Lite shorts began on YouTube a week earlier, but they are comedy sketches and do not set anything up.
What is the correct order to watch Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions?
Season 1, then Season 2 (Heart Throb), then the film Take On Me. If you want the bonus episodes too, watch each season's 13th episode right after that season.
Do I need to watch the Rikka Version movie?
No. Rikka Version is a compilation film that retells Season 1 from Rikka's point of view. Its new footage is a wedding-dream opening and a closing scene that leads into Heart Throb. It is useful as a refresher before Season 2, and skippable if Season 1 is fresh.
Is Take On Me a sequel or a recap?
A sequel. Take On Me is a new story that continues from the end of Heart Throb, released in Japanese theaters on January 6, 2018. Rikka Version is the recap film; the two are easy to mix up because both are listed as movies.
What are the episode 13 OVAs?
Each TV season has an unaired 13th episode that shipped on its final Blu-ray/DVD volume: a Christmas episode for Season 1 (June 2013) and The Rikka Wars for Heart Throb (September 2014). Both are full-length episodes and are included in Sentai Filmworks' English dub.
Do I need to watch the Lite shorts and specials?
No. The two Lite series are YouTube shorts and the Depth of Field and Heart Throb Specials are Blu-ray/DVD bonus shorts, all a few minutes long. Two more sets are not listed here: promotional clips posted on Twitter before Take On Me, and three Kotatsu DE Photo Session shorts shown in Japanese theaters with the film.
Is Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions finished, and will there be a Season 3?
Take On Me, from January 2018, is the most recent anime, and no third season or new film has been announced as of October 2026. The light novels it is based on ended with their fourth volume in December 2017.
Can I read the light novels to continue the story?
Not in English. Torako's four light novels were published by Kyoto Animation's KA Esuma Bunko label and have never been licensed in English. The anime is also a loose adaptation, so there is no volume that picks up where it ends.
Is there an English dub?
Yes. Sentai Filmworks dubbed both TV seasons, both 13th episodes and both films. Margaret McDonald voices Rikka in both seasons and both films, with Leraldo Anzaldua as Yuta, Maggie Flecknoe as Nibutani, Brittney Karbowski as Dekomori, Emily Neves as Kumin and Christina Kelly as Satone. The Season 1 dub came out on disc on February 24, 2015.
Are there any filler episodes?
The term does not really apply here. The anime is a loose adaptation of the light novels: Sanae Dekomori, Kumin Tsuyuri and Toka Takanashi were created for the anime, and Satone Shichimiya comes from the second novel. There is no manga-style chapter list to measure filler against.
Where can I watch Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions?
In the US, HIDIVE streams Season 1, Heart Throb and Rikka Version (checked October 2026). Take On Me is sold digitally on Apple TV and on Blu-ray from Sentai Filmworks. Availability differs by country.
How long does it take to watch Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions?
The two seasons and Take On Me come to 24 episodes and one film, about 11 hours. Adding the two 13th episodes and Rikka Version brings it to about 13.5 hours, and all the shorts together add less than two hours more.