A show that tricks you into laughing at delusion, then ambushes you with genuine tenderness when two people recognize each other's scars. The animation doesn't just serve the comedy, it is the comedy, every exaggerated transformation and eye-flick earning the punchline before the dialogue does. By the end, you're not watching a romance; you're watching two people quietly choose to stop performing for the world and just be seen.

Yuuta Togashi starts high school determined to reinvent himself. In middle school he played the "Dark Flame Master," a role that now makes him cringe, so he chose a school far enough away that no one would know him. There, he's convinced he can finally be normal. For a while, it works. Enter Rikka Takanashi, his new classmate, who calls herself the bearer of the "Wicked Eye" and is still deep in her chunibyo phase. An unlucky incident binds Yuuta to her in a contract and drags him back toward the past he wanted to bury. What unfolds is a comedy and romance about two teenagers stuck between who they were and who they're trying to become. Awkward, earnest, and often funny.