If you loved Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me, try Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved has roughly 3.5× fewer votes than Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem, playful, tender mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Comedy / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved is

Dragons just want love too, apparently. Kanna's father demands she return to the Dragon World. It's a family reunion, with war looming.

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