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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! REN To Start Streaming in Australia On Thursday

The announcement was made via press-release and on Madman's website. Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! REN (Season 2) will begin streaming on Thursday the 7th of January from 3:30am AEDT on Madman's Screening Room.

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! REN

Season 1 of Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! (Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai! / Regardless of My Adolescent Delusions of Grandeur, I Want a Date!) followed High School Freshman Yūta Togashi as he tried to bury his embarrassing adolescent thoughts of grandeur only to have his classmate Rikka Takanashi discover his past as a "Dark Flame Master" and force Togashi to make a contract with her.

The same staff return for season 2 with production by Kyoto Animation and Tatsuya Ishiara (Air, Clannad, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) directing at the helm with Jukki Hanada (Rozen Maiden) editing the scripts. Chief anime director and character designer is Kazumi Ikeda (Clannad, Kanon, K-ON!). The same voice cast returns with Jun Fukuyama (Grell in Black Butler, Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass) and Maaya Uchida (Hiroyo Hakase and Aoi Ichikawa / Z-Cune Aoi in Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger) providing the voices of Yūta Togashi and Rikka Takanashi respectively.

ZAQ and Black Raison d'être are returning to perform Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! REN's opening and ending themes with ZAQ's "Voice" for the opening and "Van!shment Th!s World" for the ending.

Season 1 was released on the Madman Screening Room in 2013 and the series will receive a home video release in 2014. In North America Sentai Filmworks acquired Season 1 and Crunchyroll is streaming Season 2 online.

Image ©Torako/Kyoto Animation/Chu²byo – Production partnership