Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
青春ブタ野郎はゆめみる少女の夢を見ない
In Fujisawa, where the skies are bright and the seas glisten, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. His blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted with the appearance of his first crush, Shouko Makinohara. For reasons unknown, he encounters two Shouko's: one in middle school and another who has become an adult. As Sakuta finds himself helplessly living with the Shouko's, the adult Shouko leads him around by the nose, causing a huge rift in his relationship with Mai. In the midst of all of this, he discovers that the middle school Shouko is suffering from a grave illness and his scar begins to throb... (Source: Aniplex USA)
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl is a movie with 1 episode, from Spring 2019, produced by CloverWorks, rated 8.4/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
In Fujisawa, where the skies are bright and the seas glisten, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. His blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted with the appearance of his first crush, Shouko Makinohara. For reasons unknown, he encounters two Shouko's: one in middle school and another who has become an adult. As Sakuta finds himself helplessly living with the Shouko's, the adult Shouko leads him around by the nose, causing a huge rift in his relationship with Mai. In the midst of all of this, he discovers that the middle school Shouko is suffering from a grave illness and his scar begins to throb... (Source: Aniplex USA)
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Tags
- Time Manipulation — Prominently features time-traveling or other time-warping phenomena.
- Coming of Age — Centers around a character's transition from childhood to adulthood.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Tragedy — Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
- Urban Fantasy — Set in a world similar to the real world, but with the existence of magic or other supernatural elements.
- Female Protagonist — Main character is female.
- Heterosexual — Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.
- Alternate Universe — Features multiple alternate universes in the same series.
- Primarily Teen Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of teen characters.
- Age Regression — Prominently features a character who was returned to a younger state.
- Urban — Partly or completely set in a city.
- Afterlife — Partly or completely set in the afterlife.