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Sword Art Online took the trapped-in-a-game idea and made it a little more real by adding a mechanism to genuinely kill its players. Not to be outdone, BTOOOM! goes one step further by faithfully recreating its gameworld in real life - and by making its 'players' a group of people who have been determined as being worthy of death...
Autumn was a good season for shoujo, what with this, Say 'I Love You' and Kamisama Kiss - and that wasn't even all of them. But none of them managed to switch so easily between sweet, funny and disturbing as My Little Monster...
Fans of Fruits Basket may want to take particular note of this one, and Kamisama Kiss has more than a little in common with it. But it's at this point that I should point out just how hard it is for lightning to strike twice...
Take a MMPORG gameworld, trap its players there, and see what happens. On the surface, the idea of Sword Art Online is simple - but will the little twist of making in-game death just as terminal in the real world add a little spice to the mix..?
Love, Chuunibyou, and Other Delusions (hemceforth Chuu2koi, as that's the generally-accepted short form) was Kyoto Animation's contribution to the Autumn season, so you'd be forgiven for immediately running up a checklist of what the show will involve. But hold on there, you might not be entirely correct...
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