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"Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai"
There is something about this show that is much deeper than I or anyone else can see and that is the entire point of this show.
The fictional universe where “Puberty Syndrome” controls the physical world through a bridge of emotions is the closest I have seen an anime get to the realism of a high school world. The new events caused by Puberty Syndrome which I will refer to as “PS” in this review are what keeps you watching, you stay to find out what each character's unique common struggle is and how it will be solved. For Mai Sakurajima she wants to have a private life away from acting and show business that she tries to become figuratively invisible and becomes invisible and rapidly fades from the world as nothing more than a spec of sand on the beach, this is till Sakuta Azusagawa realizes he is the only one who can still see “Mai San” and does his best to hold on to her as he is the last one keeping her from flying away from the world forever but his efforts do not last long and soon he too forgets about Mai san the famous actress but in the few days he knew who he found the one girl who he can connect with because Mai San is exactly what Sakuta is deep inside and Sakuta is exactly what Mai san is deep inside and they understand that about each other without having to say it directly. To save someone from PS you must stop what is causing their internal struggle and Sakuta does this by confessing in front of the whole school that he “Loves'' Mai San and once again Mai san is brought back down to earth not as an invisible speck of sand but as the famous actor that everyone knew before. It's moments in the series like the ones mentioned before that make this series so wonderful, it's knowing each character's struggle and how to help with that.
Sakura's sister Kaede Azusagawa is a young girl who dropped out of school because of bullying and PS, out of the entire series this is the clearest example of PS because Kaede being bullied online shows up in the physical world as of deep cuts all over her body causing extreme trauma and memory loss of anything before that moment, this is hard for Kaede’s older brother Sakura as he built up a relationship with his sister and just like that she forgot everything and he gets three large open wounds across his chest as a sign of his pain. Many months later Kaede and Sakura begin to try to heal their past struggles together and work towards a better future them both becoming more attached to each other as family Kaede even becomes brave enough to go back to school where her struggle started and Sakura is there to support her but with this change, the PS begins to disappear and with that, any events before her cuts are restored and any memories during her cuts and with her brother are lost. Sakura is dealing with this all over again his sister that he built a relationship with disappearing from him once again this extreme loss causes Sakura's wounds to open up once again and only with the help of all his friends does he come back to reality.
So what does this all mean you may be asking, it means everyone has struggles that they are hiding and this story portrays that in a beautiful yet sad masterpiece and that is why this story is so much deeper than what is directly shown to us it's because everyone in the series has their own unique common struggle, struggles that will never be explored and resolved and while PS is a fictional syndrome in everyday life real peoples struggles affect the world around you in ways you will never notice.
-youAmuse
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