Seishun Buta Yarou wa Randoseru Girl no Yume wo Minai

This movie felt like an old friend. It's been years since I've watched the ending of the series, and I've skipped two movies in between, but watching it was an easy return to what I enjoyed about the Bunny Girl senpai. (I refuse to call it the Dreaming Rascal series, I only do watch it for Mai.)

This movie had an air of finality around it. Sakuta's family arc has come full circle, and Sakuta is ready to move to the next level with Mai. I really like the poetic echo of the call back to the first arc of the series, with Sakuta experiencing Mai's ... "adolescence complex". Switching places meant Mai got the chance to save Sakuta, if she wanted it.

Really, this was a good place to end the series, even if it has several novels remaining and it is ongoing.

Let me just start by saying that "Bunny Girl Senpai" is one of the most realistic shows I've ever watched. I know it's funny to say this when the show deals with "Adolescence Syndrome," but it's so grounded in reality that it makes you feel as if it were true.

Having said that, I feel like the movies didn't quite get me as attached as the first season, and in my opinion, they are completely useless and add nothing to the series itself. However, I did end up enjoying them quite a lot.

The production is suitable for the scale of the movie, the characters are constantly ... moving, and they never really feel static.

The story itself was decent; I actually related to a lot of things related to family problems, but overall, I don't know if it was necessary at all. I think this was the weakest out of the three movies because the real story doesn't start until the latter half of the movie and was resolved quite quickly.

In the end, I enjoyed this and would give it a 6.5 or a 7 since we have to round the scores up.

The previous two movies on this series were great however this one just falls flat on its face. If you are reading this you are probably already familiar with how this series works, it's a character driven drama, where the climax is very important. So I'll be straight with why this movie is not as good as its preceding two: It's anticlimactic.

First 25 minutes of the movie is just entirely slice of life. Only around the 30th minute we're actually introduced to the main premise of the movie. And what I mean by 'slice of life' is entirely 'slice of life'. During Dreaming Girl, ... the slice of life portion of the movie was filled with build up for the premise of the movie. However, in this one there is barely any build up and we're suddenly hit by the adolescence syndrome out of nowhere, completely unannounced.

In Dreaming girl, we're shown compelling character drama after the very important revelation (that actually had build up). After that, we're shown two clear options: MC dies to save that girl or MC lives and stays with Mai. It puts us, the watcher, at the edge of our seats. However, in Knapsack kid, the MC just runs around talking to people and cries for no fucking reason for like 25% of the movie. No drama, no nothing. Nothing impressionable happened during the runtime of the show. I was like "is it already over?" when it finished.

The entire character arc is also just so shallow that the series would be the same if this movie never existed. This is the first time we're shown his mom and she's the cause for the adolescence syndrome. And the reason for the adolescence syndrome is actually way too unreasonable because the MC's feelings are hard to understand towards his mother. There could've been something else to give his adolescence syndrome some reason.

And the climax man, the MC just says a few lines while crying and then suddenly, the adolescence syndrome is cured and they start hugging while crying. This interaction took around 1 minute and that was the entire climax of the one hour movie.

To conclude, there was no character drama in this movie and you probably won't miss anything from not watching it. Waste of time.