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Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai episode 11 review - While this episode is definitely focused on Kaede, it doesn't do this to the exclusion of the other stories bubbling away. I think that is something of a strength of this series that even when it has a clear focus it manages to balance a range of ideas in the background so that the world continues to feel rich and lived in.
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai Episode 9 Review: Mai's in it again, but this time the source of her problems is her younger half-sister who for whatever reason is now in her body. And just when Sakuta was looking forward to going to school with Mai.
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai Episode 8 Review: Time and time again I think about how great Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai has been. The characters are solidly constructed and while they are most definitely character types they are each treated respectfully, the interactions and dialogue between them are golden, and the overall story never allows itself to get bogged down for too long as we move smoothly from one arc to the next.
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai Episodes 6 and 7If I needed any more convincing that Bunny Girl Senpai was an anime worth watching this season, episode 6 which concluded the Laplace's Demon Arc and episode 7 which introduces a new problem for Sakuta to solve and adds two new additions to his … Continue reading How To Build A Fascinating Harem Starting With A Bunny Girl
There's something fairly brilliant about this show when it delivers what I worried it would do and yet manages to make me appreciate it anyway. Sakurajima Mai is in fact sidelined quite substantially this episode, being sent off to film on location elsewhere after an early scene with Sakuta and then literally just getting to phone it in for the remainder of the episode. And yet, this didn't hurt the show as much as I feared it would.
I was kind of intrigued by the idea that Bunny Girl Senpai was going to move onto a story using Laplace's Demon. It seemed like the thought experiment could yield a fairly interesting premise. Which mean that it was kind of a disappointment to see them turn what should be an incredibly interesting look at … Continue reading Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai Episode 4: Time Loops and Laplace’s Demon – Not Sure About That
Outside of just how great spending time with this pair of characters is, this episode gave a very satisfying, if slightly cringe-worthy, conclusion to the mystery of Mai's disappearance. There's enough emotional tension built up and while you could get quite critical of Sakuta's solution if you wanted to be really jaded about the whole thing...
The weirdly compelling first episode of Bunny Girl Senpai turned out not to just be a fluke as episode 2 delves further into the weird mystery of Adolescent Syndrome and the growing relationship (not quite sure what relationship) between Sakuta and Mai. It's a pretty fascinating journey so far even as it remain strictly low … Continue reading Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai Episode 2: When Life Makes You Disappear
Its an intriguing beginning with our dead-pan protagonist noticing a bunny girl wandering around a library and he knows she is his senpai from school and a child-actor who is on hiatus.