Get your
tissues ready, because puberty syndrome is about to claim its last victims.
It's already a fact: the production committee finally released a new
promotional trailer for the film Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend (Seishun
Buta Yarou wa Dear Friend no Yume o Minai). This material throws us
straight into the unfiltered school drama and confirms that the outcome of the
main story will land in Japanese theaters this coming October 16.
In order
not to ruin the winning streak right at the finish line, the team decided to
play it safe. The feature film is still under the production of the same
animation studio and has the return of the staff that has been in charge since
the television series. This basically guarantees that the visual identity, the
heavy rhythm of the dialogues and that melancholic atmosphere so characteristic
of the franchise will remain intact to give a dignified closure to the
narrative.
About
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend
If you're
kind of lost with the chronology, this film is in charge of directly adapting
the 15th and final volume of the light novels created by Hajime
Kamoshida and illustrator Keji Mizoguchi. The plot puts us
back in the shoes of Sakuta Azusagawa, who must deal with the last ravages of
his high school life, imminent goodbyes and, as usual, supernatural anomalies
linked to the emotions of the people around him.
The entire
franchise has always shone for using science fiction and quantum physics as an
excuse to explore psychological problems and very raw adolescent traumas. Now,
the real unknown is how Sakuta will manage to close her own cycle and what will
happen to her relationship with her ultimate waifu, Mai, once the anomalies are
completely gone from their lives.
