They have already released the S2 heroines' solo versions of Fukashigi no Karte attached in the blu-rays, so I'm certain that we'll most likely get [Santa Claus LN] Miori's solo version for the movie's blu-ray.
Hot take, but I'm not as enamored with the film as some others due to how convoluted it was. I watched it twice and just barely understood how the [Dreaming Girl spoilers]time travel works. That concept can get real messy real fast and it takes a deft writing hand to introduce the viewer to how the author's version of it works, and I don't think the film pulled it off well. I'd loved to feel the emotional highs but all I was thinking during watching was 'wait how did that happen again?'. Here's hoping the finale's structured better, and maybe rely less on the 'only the MC can see said person' gimmick.
I can certainly do with less/none of the pseudo-science explanation, but I'm talking about basic stuff here. E.g. [Dreaming Girl spoilers] The MC travels back in time and can't be seen by anyone because ... why again? That's not how time travel works, at least not in the iterations of it that I'm personally familiar with. It just seems contrived, another reason so the MC can break down again. I'm happy to be emotionally manipulated, but its effects are lost on me when the in-universe logic has to bend over backwards to fit in the emotional scenes.
I welcome any attempts to correct my (mis)understanding.
the psedo science explanation from what you said is [dreaming girl spoiler] an object doesnt behave until observed according to (pseudo) quantum physics which is why hes invisible until koga sees him. all the weird conepts you see are quantum physics applied at a macro level which cant be true so thats why it dordnt really make sense
Wasnt that the explanation for the first arc, not the movie one? It also thematically doesn't relate at all to the movie plot. [Rascal arc 1 spoiler] The invisible thing stems from Mai starting to cripple under pressure from being recognised constantly and wanting to escape to a world where she's incognito. Afaik that has nothing to do with Shoko's syndrome.
its been more than a year since ive seen it so i cant really give you that great of an answer but [dreaming girl and season 1] the invisible thing is being used more than just someone crippling under pressure, it doesnt limit itself to happening only in the state of mind mai had. it happened because sakuta didnt really time travel but hopped time lines and nobody was able to observe him in this timeline since he is completely new to it where he couldnt interact with anything or be observed at all, which relates to that quantum physics thing i mentioned earlier.the show uses the plot device in more than one way because it is a quantum physics concept, a very broad concept that can be applied to multiple things, not just one. i know its a really shit explanation but thats because i forgot after a long time. i do remember it making total sense once everything clicked for me though since a lot of plot holes that might not make sense are deliberately filled by the author which is why i love the series as much as i do
it made no sense at all wheni first watched it but it left a giant impact on me. after i thought about it for a while it started to make sense and once i understood the like meanings behind shit it made it seem so much better to me
I consider the time travel in the Rascal series to be plot devices, and I try not to overthink them. I know people don't like to brush off things as "oh it's magic!" but I feel like Rascal Does Not Dream is basically Haruhi with some added explanations which really aren't needed tbh.
I just consider it a series about a couple where weird universe shit happens to and around them.
I think it’s possible they’ll never put this on streaming, they had to put up the three previous movies to make season 2 make sense, there’s no incentive to put the series finisher on streaming if they can sell $50 discs of it. You still can’t see I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, they want that Aniplex of America bluray money.
Then what about us who are living in a third world nation, heck neither crunchyroll or any company has official B ray disc or any sort of merchandise store in my country :(
I wonder if not putting stuff on streaming does increase blu ray sales. I guess that it makes sense that it should but I feel like most people would just go to piracy
My whole body just tensed up from the thought of what level of trauma this movie is going to subject us to.
I don't think I'll ever fully recover from the first movie. The entire time I was watching season 2, I was always stressed and scared, and that'll carry on until the credits roll on this series.
Really loving the mystery aspect of the latest season. And I was buzzing at how it just felt kinda off at the end there. Especially when we thought we had solved the Touko Kirishima mystery only to learn it’s still unknown
kinda, basically people are dealing with some sort of personal issue (bullying, feelings of inadequacy, jealousy, etc) and the feelings are so strong that they manifest themselves as sorta supernatural "illnesses" (becoming invisible to everyone, cuts opening up on their body, personality splits, jumping to an alternate timeline, etc). the mc helps the person understand their feelings better and talk out the issue to "cure" them
There is at first but after the main girl's arc is done there is less romance as the series goes on. If you're in it only for the romance you will be disappointed.
Gotcha. Thank you! I kinda was wanting to watch it for the romance. Sry just one more question: so do the mc and love interest break up or what happens with them? Do they just not like each other anymore?
They don't break up but they don't spend a lot of time together after the girl's arc is over because of her career and because the guy spends time with other girls helping them with their problems. They still like each other and have occasional flirty conversations.
...and here I thought Mai and Sakuta were finally going to get some peace... I don't know if I'm ready after Dreaming Girl. Santa Claus felt tame and kind of like a wind down for the series, I guess I have to prepare myself for one last movie.
I have semi high hopes for this one. I actually liked the movies more than the 2 TV series, with Knapsack Kid being the real standout for me. It cleverly inverted the "absentee parents" trope in a lot of these teenager stories and turned it into something quite moving.
Sister Venturing out is also notable for being the one Rascal installment with almost no fantasy/time travel/magic in it from what I recall. It gave "normal" Kaede a chance to tell her side of the story after fans had mostly fallen in love with the "kawaii" third-person speaking Kaede of the first TV series and may have been disappointed by her departure. It's this kind of sensitivity to its cast members where Rascal is at its best. Just a slow character focused short story and I feel this was when the franchise finally started distinguishing itself as being its own thing and not just a Monogatari/Haruhi homage/copycat.
[Rascal Doesn't Dream Novels]They actually kiss multiple times in the novels, that should have been shown in the anime, including in Season 1 when Sakuta is sleeping on the living room floor and they bump heads. In the novel, they kiss there. Amongst others.
Damn I haven’t seen this in forever, I thought the show had already concluded ? Last thing I remember watching was a movie where the young sick girl’s future self is living simultaneously with her young self and she resolved her adolescent syndrome and everything in the movie, was there more to it ? I thought it pretty muched tied the loose ends
I only watched a few episodes of the first season, before it fell on the "some time later" pile.
Please tell me this title is just some inside joke or sth? Because it really sounds like "we're together, no we're not, yes we are, no we're not, we're married, no we're friends..." etc. and I can't watch romance stories like that anymore.
The stuff after the "Rascal Does Not Dream of a..." part (ie., Bunny Girl Senpai, Dreaming Girl, Sister Venturing Out, etc) just refers to the main heroine of that particular arc.
The finale of the Rascal Does Not Dream series...
I'm not ready to say goodbye to one of my favorite anime couples...
Idk how you were able to even watch past the first season. What happened to the mc's sister was straight up fucking diablocal.
Ill never understand why anyone is ok with that
Jarvis, pull up an image of Spongebob on the little rollercoaster and post it.
Ima need to rewatch all of card captor sakura AND aria just from reading that post
How'd you find your way here!?
Im not sure what you're trying to say
Same. I feel or felt this way but time has dulled the wounds and I want to see more of the characters and world.
They should bring back Fukashigi no Carte as the ending theme for one last time
That would be devastating
They have already released the S2 heroines' solo versions of Fukashigi no Karte attached in the blu-rays, so I'm certain that we'll most likely get [Santa Claus LN] Miori's solo version for the movie's blu-ray.
Nah I mean playing in the movie itself. Imagine a complete all heroine version for the final credits
They better
The Dreaming Girl film could be said to be the proper finale of the first season, and we know how emotionally devastating that had been.
Wonder if this film, which serves as the finale of the second season and the series as a whole will match that level of pain – or even top it.
Dreaming Girl fucked me the hell up when I first watched it because I went in blind after finishing the first season.
Wait, good pain or bad?
Yes
🫠
Hot take, but I'm not as enamored with the film as some others due to how convoluted it was. I watched it twice and just barely understood how the [Dreaming Girl spoilers]time travel works. That concept can get real messy real fast and it takes a deft writing hand to introduce the viewer to how the author's version of it works, and I don't think the film pulled it off well. I'd loved to feel the emotional highs but all I was thinking during watching was 'wait how did that happen again?'. Here's hoping the finale's structured better, and maybe rely less on the 'only the MC can see said person' gimmick.
The entire premise already relies on chuuni high school misinterpretation of science in general so just ignoring it is allowed.
I can certainly do with less/none of the pseudo-science explanation, but I'm talking about basic stuff here. E.g. [Dreaming Girl spoilers] The MC travels back in time and can't be seen by anyone because ... why again? That's not how time travel works, at least not in the iterations of it that I'm personally familiar with. It just seems contrived, another reason so the MC can break down again. I'm happy to be emotionally manipulated, but its effects are lost on me when the in-universe logic has to bend over backwards to fit in the emotional scenes.
I welcome any attempts to correct my (mis)understanding.
the psedo science explanation from what you said is [dreaming girl spoiler] an object doesnt behave until observed according to (pseudo) quantum physics which is why hes invisible until koga sees him. all the weird conepts you see are quantum physics applied at a macro level which cant be true so thats why it dordnt really make sense
Wasnt that the explanation for the first arc, not the movie one? It also thematically doesn't relate at all to the movie plot. [Rascal arc 1 spoiler] The invisible thing stems from Mai starting to cripple under pressure from being recognised constantly and wanting to escape to a world where she's incognito. Afaik that has nothing to do with Shoko's syndrome.
its been more than a year since ive seen it so i cant really give you that great of an answer but [dreaming girl and season 1] the invisible thing is being used more than just someone crippling under pressure, it doesnt limit itself to happening only in the state of mind mai had. it happened because sakuta didnt really time travel but hopped time lines and nobody was able to observe him in this timeline since he is completely new to it where he couldnt interact with anything or be observed at all, which relates to that quantum physics thing i mentioned earlier.the show uses the plot device in more than one way because it is a quantum physics concept, a very broad concept that can be applied to multiple things, not just one. i know its a really shit explanation but thats because i forgot after a long time. i do remember it making total sense once everything clicked for me though since a lot of plot holes that might not make sense are deliberately filled by the author which is why i love the series as much as i do
it made no sense at all wheni first watched it but it left a giant impact on me. after i thought about it for a while it started to make sense and once i understood the like meanings behind shit it made it seem so much better to me
They left too much out from the light novels. That movie seriously should have been 2 hours long, heck even 1h45m instead of only 90 minutes.
I consider the time travel in the Rascal series to be plot devices, and I try not to overthink them. I know people don't like to brush off things as "oh it's magic!" but I feel like Rascal Does Not Dream is basically Haruhi with some added explanations which really aren't needed tbh.
I just consider it a series about a couple where weird universe shit happens to and around them.
man
Series finale in Japanese theaters Fall 2026
"Search for Kirishima Touko, Mai-san is in danger"
https://ao-buta.com/dearfriend/
I can't wait for Crunchyroll to take numerous years to make it available for streaming.
Doesn't that depend on Aniplex?
I think it’s possible they’ll never put this on streaming, they had to put up the three previous movies to make season 2 make sense, there’s no incentive to put the series finisher on streaming if they can sell $50 discs of it. You still can’t see I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, they want that Aniplex of America bluray money.
They didn't put two of the movies up until after the second season aired.
Then what about us who are living in a third world nation, heck neither crunchyroll or any company has official B ray disc or any sort of merchandise store in my country :(
as Gabe Newell said: Piracy is a service problem
Well yeah, there are some recent shows which I can't even watch legally here, like Girls band cry
I wonder if not putting stuff on streaming does increase blu ray sales. I guess that it makes sense that it should but I feel like most people would just go to piracy
It can be on VoD, I'll pay to stream it if it means I don't gotta wait. I don't think this will be carried in any theaters near me.
My whole body just tensed up from the thought of what level of trauma this movie is going to subject us to.
I don't think I'll ever fully recover from the first movie. The entire time I was watching season 2, I was always stressed and scared, and that'll carry on until the credits roll on this series.
Oh boy, I can't wait to watch this is 2035 when it's finally added to streaming platforms... /s
Super hyped for the movie, not ready to let Sakuta and Mai go but I’m glad we get to finish the series out
Really loving the mystery aspect of the latest season. And I was buzzing at how it just felt kinda off at the end there. Especially when we thought we had solved the Touko Kirishima mystery only to learn it’s still unknown
I am not ready for 2026 to be done with my and this series
Deer friend
SHIII-KA!
That’s where my head instantly went as well!
"Rascal does not dream of an electric sheep" when?
I’m already attached to these characters so yeah I’m 100% watching this and probably getting emotional again 😭
So is this series just about people who have out of body experiences??
no, it's a monogatari clone without the smart, quick paced dialogue and unique visual style. instead it has long winded exposition and bland visuals
So they’re dealing with curses and stuff?
kinda, basically people are dealing with some sort of personal issue (bullying, feelings of inadequacy, jealousy, etc) and the feelings are so strong that they manifest themselves as sorta supernatural "illnesses" (becoming invisible to everyone, cuts opening up on their body, personality splits, jumping to an alternate timeline, etc). the mc helps the person understand their feelings better and talk out the issue to "cure" them
I gotcha. Is there any romance or nah?
There is at first but after the main girl's arc is done there is less romance as the series goes on. If you're in it only for the romance you will be disappointed.
Gotcha. Thank you! I kinda was wanting to watch it for the romance. Sry just one more question: so do the mc and love interest break up or what happens with them? Do they just not like each other anymore?
They don't break up but they don't spend a lot of time together after the girl's arc is over because of her career and because the guy spends time with other girls helping them with their problems. They still like each other and have occasional flirty conversations.
BGS has a slightly better main girl though than Monogatari
...and here I thought Mai and Sakuta were finally going to get some peace... I don't know if I'm ready after Dreaming Girl. Santa Claus felt tame and kind of like a wind down for the series, I guess I have to prepare myself for one last movie.
LFG!!! Time to get the last few books
I have semi high hopes for this one. I actually liked the movies more than the 2 TV series, with Knapsack Kid being the real standout for me. It cleverly inverted the "absentee parents" trope in a lot of these teenager stories and turned it into something quite moving.
Sister Venturing out is also notable for being the one Rascal installment with almost no fantasy/time travel/magic in it from what I recall. It gave "normal" Kaede a chance to tell her side of the story after fans had mostly fallen in love with the "kawaii" third-person speaking Kaede of the first TV series and may have been disappointed by her departure. It's this kind of sensitivity to its cast members where Rascal is at its best. Just a slow character focused short story and I feel this was when the franchise finally started distinguishing itself as being its own thing and not just a Monogatari/Haruhi homage/copycat.
My wife Mai looks so fine❤️
I wasn’t a fan of s2, but hopefully the movie finishes the series strong.
Aw man, why is everything ending
That's too far away
[BGS]Will they finally kiss in this movie?
[Rascal Doesn't Dream Novels]They actually kiss multiple times in the novels, that should have been shown in the anime, including in Season 1 when Sakuta is sleeping on the living room floor and they bump heads. In the novel, they kiss there. Amongst others.
I'm so angry at the studio for cutting those scenes out
so excited. hope they bring this to us theaters for more than 1 day
Can’t believe we’re at the endgame already 😭
Damn I haven’t seen this in forever, I thought the show had already concluded ? Last thing I remember watching was a movie where the young sick girl’s future self is living simultaneously with her young self and she resolved her adolescent syndrome and everything in the movie, was there more to it ? I thought it pretty muched tied the loose ends
2 more movies after that one and 13 episodes of season 2.
Now I need to finish the books 😢
Here she looks the girl once I really liked, could only see her in Full HD in a group of people.
I hope it's good.
is it releasing in india
We got demon slayer
It will, the 2 recent movies: knapsack girl and the other one did release in India.
im tired boss
i swear this anime has the most spinoffs ever
The titles may be weird out of context but there are no spin-offs. It's all been one continuous story.
So 2027 and 2028? That’s troubling.
well, the series was getting to be a bit boring
I only watched a few episodes of the first season, before it fell on the "some time later" pile.
Please tell me this title is just some inside joke or sth? Because it really sounds like "we're together, no we're not, yes we are, no we're not, we're married, no we're friends..." etc. and I can't watch romance stories like that anymore.
Nah, the main couple stays a main couple.
The stuff after the "Rascal Does Not Dream of a..." part (ie., Bunny Girl Senpai, Dreaming Girl, Sister Venturing Out, etc) just refers to the main heroine of that particular arc.
Based on the poster it just looked like her, but that's a relief then.
It's true that they stay a main couple but don't expect much romance between them after the first arc.
Not much romance between them though after Mai's arc is over.
Yeah, unfortunately Mai doesn't appear too often so as a couple, the romance scenes are pretty rare lol.
Dear friend? Where is the bunny girl?
Utter woke nonsense 😠
What is the name of this anime ??
It's literally in the title. Why did you ask this?