🇪🇸 ¡Hola, fans de The Dreaming Boy is a Realist! 👋 🇯🇵 こんにちは、「夢見る男子は現実主義者」のファンの皆さん！ 👋 🇺🇸 Hello, fans of The Dreaming Boy is a Realist! 👋

🇪🇸 Aunque esta serie ya terminó hace un tiempo, muchos de nosotros seguimos con la esperanza y el deseo de que tenga una segunda temporada. Hice esta publicación en varios idiomas para que todos los fans puedan entender y compartir sus opiniones sin importar el idioma que hablen. Esta historia tocó el corazón de muchos, incluyendo a mí, que no suelo ver mucho anime, pero esta fue especial porque fue la primera que realmente me atrapó. Estoy convencido de que si nos unimos y mostramos nuestro apoyo, podremos demostrar a los creadores y productores que hay demanda para continuarla. Por eso los invito a comentar, compartir sus pensamientos y ayudar a que esta publicación llegue a más personas.

También publiqué este mensaje en la cuenta oficial del anime en X (Twitter), como @ninja_galo28, para que más gente pueda verlo y unirse al movimiento.

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🇯🇵 このアニメはもう終わってからしばらく経ちましたが、多くの人が続編を望み、期待しています。 すべてのファンが言語に関係なく意見を理解し共有できるように、この投稿を複数の言語で作成しました。 この物語は多くの人の心を動かし、普段あまりアニメを見ない私にも特別なものでした。初めて本当に夢中になったアニメです。 私たちが団結して応援を示せば、制作側に続編の需要があることを伝えられると信じています。 ぜひコメントをして意見を共有し、この投稿を多くの人に広げてください。

このメッセージは公式アニメアカウントのX（Twitter）でも、@ninja_galo28として投稿し、より多くの人に届くようにしています。

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🇺🇸 Although this series ended some time ago, many of us still hope and desire a second season. I made this post in multiple languages so that all fans can understand and share their opinions regardless of the language they speak. This story touched many hearts, including mine—I don’t usually watch much anime, but this one was special because it was the first that truly captivated me. I’m convinced that if we unite and show our support, we can demonstrate to the creators and producers that there is demand to continue it. So I invite you to comment, share your thoughts, and help this post reach more people.

I also posted this message on the official anime account on X (Twitter) as @ninja_galo28, so more people can see it and join the movement.

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🇪🇸 Español: ¿No les gustaría ver una continuación de este anime? No soy alguien famoso ni influyente, pero creo que si todos los fans mostramos nuestro apoyo, podemos hacer que nos escuchen. Esta serie fue muy especial para mí, fue mi primer anime y me ayudó a descubrir un nuevo mundo. Si eres fan, por favor comenta y comparte tu opinión para que más personas se unan a esta causa. Juntos podemos lograr que los productores sepan que queremos más.

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🇯🇵 日本語: このアニメはもう終わっていますが、多くの人が続編を望んでいます。 私は有名ではありませんが、ファンが一緒に応援すれば、需要を示せると信じています。 この作品は私にとって特別で、初めてのアニメでした。新しい世界を発見するきっかけになりました。 ファンの皆さん、ぜひコメントして、意見を共有し、この投稿を広めてください。 一緒に続編の制作を後押ししましょう。

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🇺🇸 English: This anime has already ended, but many people are hoping for a sequel. I’m not famous or influential, but I believe that if fans come together to support it, we can show there is demand. This series was very special to me; it was my first anime and helped me discover a new world. If you’re a fan, please comment, share your thoughts, and help spread this post. Together, we can encourage the creators to make a second season.

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TheDreamingBoyIsARealist #YumemiruDanshi #Anime #Season2 #AnimeFans #RomanceAnime #続編希望

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Welcome to This Week In Anime for Summer 2025 Week 3 a general discussion for any currently airing series, focusing on what aired in the last week. For longer shows, keep the discussion here to whatever aired in the last few months. If there's an OVA or movie that got subbed for the first time in the last week or so that you want to discuss, that goes here as well. For everything else in anime that's not currently airing go discuss that in Your Week in Anime.

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I'm 14f have watched my hero academia and toilet bound hanako kun and am looking for a new one to watch. Any recommendations?

Dear ONIMAI,

Thank you.

It has been a rough week.

Some of the most intense days for me,

Even though it might seem so from the outside.

But,

It is often in these quiet moments of life,

That we grow.

For life is but a sequence of these moments.

These moments,

No matter how small, big, bad, good, painful, or enjoyable,

Leave marks on us.

Shapes us.

No matter how silly the anime is.

I have been dreading and waiting for this moment to come.

I don’t want this to end.

But, as a fox and a writer once said,

Love is about letting go,

It’s about establishing relationship,

It’s about finding meaning,

Mourning it when it’s gone,

But getting something out of it.

Emerging as a different person.

“You have grown,

But what’s in the mirror,

Is still you.”

Have I changed?

I think so.

Like Mahiro,

I have been presented a choice,

Of identity.

Well, the choice has always been available.

I am just a little bit slow in figuring out.

I still haven’t,

But I know it is coming

Soon.

Yes, you are a cheesy, fanservice show made for otakus.

But to me,

You will always be a safe place.

You will always reminds me of that day I cried.

My bed.

Warm blankets around my shoulder.

Bitter medicine.

Alone in a room.

Yes, you are fictional.

But to me,

You offer a glimpse into a world that is a little bit nicer,

A little warmer.

And that possibility,

That hope,

That fantasy,

Means something real to me.

Something valuable, unique, irreplaceable.

But now,

It has ended.

And soon,

My writing will end.

In closing this chapter of my life,

I will try,

To bring what I felt in ONIMAI,

To others.

To make this world a bit better.

A bit more ONIMAI.

Genuinely this anime was good but the story was wayy too simple. Any recommendations for rom-com anime? (Not 18+) and must be on high school

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Welcome to This Week In Anime for Summer 2025 Week 2 a general discussion for any currently airing series, focusing on what aired in the last week. For longer shows, keep the discussion here to whatever aired in the last few months. If there's an OVA or movie that got subbed for the first time in the last week or so that you want to discuss, that goes here as well. For everything else in anime that's not currently airing go discuss that in Your Week in Anime.

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Kiritsugu is a edgy emo CRAWLING IN MY SKIN dumbass his Kiritsugu's entire philosophy about killing one person to save two is fucking retarded in two sentences.

Healthy person has a heart, a liver, 2 kidneys and a pair of lungs which could be transplanted to save 5 lives. In Kiritsugu's perfect world, we would routinely kill random citizens for their organs. It took Kiritsugu 4 volumes and 24 episodes to realize how fucking stupid and edgy this shit his It was all unnecessary and too forced, to the point it was ridiculous. His father wasn't at fault at what happened in the island, the only dumbass here is Shirley who against all warnings decided to go full retard and try to test something that was merely a research that barely got some progress. Even at that, Kerry had a friend, he seemed a happy normal kid, I don't know what was his relationship with his father but it didn't seemed like he hated him until the zombie outbreak, normal father/son relationship. And he doesn't seem to have any significant feelings about his biological mother.

Killing his dad looked forced and unnecessary. Why did he had to do it, out of all people? He was just a kid, why didn't he hated Natalia, the person that forced him to do something so inhumane? Oh, that's right, we have to make him love someone and then kill said someone in order for more pointless SUFFERING.

Iri is just another pointless female whose entire life revolves around Kiritsugu, only to bring him more pointless manpain in a desperate attempt to gain the audience's sympathy. It's all plot devices used to justify his shitty personality and shitty manchild ideals. I didn't feel bad for him in the slightest, he's just a big hypocrite. and fuck his shitty heroes are murderers bullshit after lancer's death saber complains about Kiritsugu's evil actions in the grail war, out of stupidity she forgets that he will use the grail to end war.
then Kiritsugu claims that honor and valor are the cause of war and bloodshed, yet any one with half a brain can tell how stupid that claim is, the people who got honor from war did it by not commiting war crimes against anyone during war and did what it takes to reduce the losses and hatered of war after it was over, the war itself was not caused or started by them ,The people who cause or start a war usually do it for other reasons without bothering to think of the consequences, they can't do it because of honor since it has no way of starting a war by itself, there is always another reason behind it, if the writer knows of significant bloodshed caused by honor he should mention and explain it, otherwise it comes of as pretentious and stupid, another fact is almost everybody nowadays knows that war itself is bad and nobody think's that war itself is honorable or anything, yet Kiritsugu acts like he figured out something special, it's as if the writer lives in his own small world and keeps including topics in the anime that he himself doesn't even understand. and fuck this bullshit killing is wrong and all killing is equal this motherfucker think all wrongs are equal? A pregnant woman killing a man in self defense, if not her own then for her baby's sake, is just as wrong as that man killing the pregnant woman for fun?Because they are both killing, so according to this bullshit logic, they should be the same it doesn't work like that. That's why treaties still exist during war. Two consenting oponents who are ready to kill each other can still agree to be humane to the defeated and not prolong the horrors of war beyond what is needed to conclude an engagement. Caster & his master(Gilles de Rais & Ryuunosuke): both of them don't even care about the grail, they simply spend their time killing kids and talking about how they enjoy killing kids, they're too delusional to even see the possible consequences of their actions like being the first ones killed in the grail war, which actually happens, but why are these characters in the anime anyways? oh yeah because they need SHOCKING scenes in it to attract viewers who only care about SHOCK FACTOR.
actually the whole sakura/kariya subplot was tragic for the sake of tragic. fucking urobushit
Shoehorned philosophy & themes.
The writer adds unnecessary philosophy & themes to the anime with a very bad handling of them.

- the anime wasted time by having rider and archer talk about how they think saber was not a good king, her life as a king was not shown in the anime and wasn't even part of the anime story in the first place, so why are they discussing it? It makes no sense, even if it made sense it still wouldn't matter because it doesn't affect the anime story, and why are they referring to her as king? she's a woman which makes her a queen. and Fate's philosophy, ideals etc.. are just shallow pseudo intellectual ramblings like most Japanese media when it tries to sound deep and serious.
fate zero is overrated garbage and fuck the fate series. shit ass characters harping on about shit ass ideals
only reason it's still relevant is because of gachashit
makes a mockery of historical and mythological figures by turning them into animu waifus and husbandos
2deep4u rhetoric, especially in Fate/Zero and UBW
If Saber never existed this shit would've never gained any form of popularity

I used to watch anime on Saturday mornings on the Sci Fi channel (90s). I have a vague recollection of a scene where (I think) a brother and sister were fused together in some way. They may have been involved in an evil student council? I think mecha were involved. That's all I've got.

This has been driving me insane. Any detectives out there want to help me figure this out and stop wondering what that was all about?

These are my top picks for psychological/dark anime. I’m not into surface-level edge or gore just to be gritty. I want more shows where the real horror is emotional. Shere the “villain” might be your own mind, morality, or memory.

Now and Then, Here and There

The Alchemist

To your eternity

Re: zoro

Monster

Berserk

For me older anime I rewatched a lot

UFO Grendizer

Plawres Sanshiro

Izenbourg Dinosaurs wars

And one piece

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Hey! I’m working on a YouTube video where I want to talk about an anime that’s truly disturbing or horrifying — but not something super popular.

If there’s an underrated anime that really messed you up or stuck with you, drop it here. I’d love to check it out.

I’ll also give you credit in the comment section if you want — just let me know!

It's that time again! Welcome to the end of this season (in anime)! Did you think it was good? Or did you think it was unremarkable? Tell the rest of us what you think!

Feel free to post one for something I missed. :)

Here's last season's in case you feel like reminiscing about last season. :P

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My personal annoyances are chibi style, visual 'gags', extreme facial distortions, nose bleeds and similar - they can work in an outright comedy if used carefully, but otherwise they don't belong in any anime and if they're too obvious and used too frequently they can easily put me off watching a show (three examples out of many: Apothecary Diaries, March Comes In like a Lion, and Aria). Not only does their use take me out of the narrative, but it 'cheapens' shows where it's used; in many cases it's as if the animators think that the audience are too dumb to realise that an emotion is being portrayed so it needs to be highlighted, often for 'comedic' effect.

A lot of the time they appear in adaptations of manga - because the manga uses them the anime producers think it's necessary to replicate them.

Are there any of these visual tropes which you really don't like?

Are there any shows that you won't watch because they use a visual trope which you dislike?

Funnily enough, my favorite anime (Mushishi) uses them, but in that they are very subtle and only used very rarely and very briefly.

Why does modern anime feel so dull? Most new series lack proper storytelling—even adaptations of popular manhwa or manga come off as flat and uninspired. The overwhelming focus on isekai and bizarre, often childish plots feels like it's targeted at toddlers rather than a broader audience. I still remember rewatching anime like Oregairu multiple times—not because of flashy visuals, but because the characters and story genuinely resonated. Older anime and movies had a way of touching the heart through meaningful narratives, but now everything just feels off. Honestly, someone needs to put an end to this isekai overload.

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the fact that we keep getting god tier animation while the staff is reportedly overworked to exhaustion is a crime. we praise the visuals but ignore the human cost. if the industry doesn't change, we're just rewarding exploitation with hype. maybe stop demanding "peak fiction" every season and let these people breathe

Am I crazy or is everything just flashy fights and trauma dumps now? I miss shows that made me think instead of just react. What’s the last anime that actually stuck with you?

I just feel like I need to share this. it’s been a while since an anime made me feel so many things. I feel a mix of discomfort and admiration. I’m kind of in shock, like I haven’t fully processed everything I just saw. I rlly need to share these feelings with someone right now🫠