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Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2019)

★ 8.3 · 587 ratings on TMDB
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl poster★ 8.3

In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.

DirectorSoichi Masui
CastAsami Seto, Atsumi Tanezaki, Inori Minase, Kaito Ishikawa, Maaya Uchida, Nao Toyama
GenresAnimation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The emergence reading

Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, memory, sacrifice.

zero-distanceJPlovememorysacrifice
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timecausality is mutable via a Dream World that lets individuals travel back and alter past events (physics · personal)
Also inFilms about memoryFilms about loveFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

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Also bends a rule of reality

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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