History Literature / RascalDoesNotDreamOfBunnyGirlSenpai

* LongTitle: It has ''eight'' words in English! In Japanese it's even longer: ''Seishun buta yaro wa bunny girl senpai no yume wo minai'' (eleven words).

* LiterallyLovingTheNeighbor: Mai lives in the apartment building that is right next door to the complex Sakuta lives in. Ironically, despite their close proximity, one of Sakuta's complaints about their relationship is that they don't get to spend much time with each other thanks to Mai's career as an actress constantly having her traveling across Japan. Though, things change later on and they manage to spend more time together and enjoy their days.

* AllLovingHero: Despite their reserved nature and essentially being social outcasts, both Sakuta and Mai qualify. They're both very kind and selfless individuals, ready to help anyone in need, and they respectively show it in the anime series and in the movie for the most part.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Of the dark-haired girls, Rio Futaba plays the trope quite straight as she's pretty much TheStoic and the most melancholic one. Mai and Shoko are very {{downplayed}} examples, as they are composed and polite but not exactly aloof. Mai is very professional, quite reserved and acts as a bit of a {{tsundere}} type B around Sakuta, but she's nonetheless a very friendly and affable person; Shoko as a child is pretty shy and reserved, but, while still composed, she's also become more extroverted and cheerful, being pretty much an aversion of the trope.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: [[DeadpanSnarker Snarky]] and [[TheStoic calm]] NiceGuy Sakuta is phlegmatic, [[note]]though he can be a bit melancholic at times[[/note]] (and kind, compassionate and quiet Shoko is phlegmatic as well); levelheaded and [[TheTease witty]] yet [[NiceGirl kind]] Mai is supine (blends sanguine and melancholic, as she's playful but also sensitive and sometimes pessimistic); [[TheStoic calm]] and [[TheSpock rational]] but [[DCupDistress secretly troubled]] scientist Rio is melancholic, and outgoing, [[IJustWantToHaveFriends too much people-oriented]] Tomoe is sanguine. Saki Kamisato, who isn't one of the main characters, is choleric.

** Saki Kamisato, Yuuma's girlfriend, is always hostile and dismissive of Sakuta because of his reputation without really knowing him. Luckily, Sakuta either ignores her complaints or answers with his trademark snark and verbal harassment. That said, as of episode 7, she is the reason why Sakuta finds out about [[spoiler:Futaba's secret Twitter account, where she anonymously posts lewd pictures of herself while wearing her high school uniform]]. While it could just be that she's protecting Yuuma's reputation, she doesn't mention or allude to him. She even asks Sakuta, "Isn't that girl doing something risky?" which almost sounds like genuine concern. Saki also ends up making notice Sakuta what it's like to live in the shadow of her older sister, helping him with this in Nodoka's arc.

** Then, the movie shows the full extent of the kindness of Sakuta, Mai and Shoko, since they're all ready to do it for each other when it comes to make a HeroicSacrifice.

''Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai'' (Japanese: 青春ブタ野郎, Seishun Buta Yarō wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai) is a light novel series written by Creator/HajimeKamoshida and illustrated by Creator/KeijiMizoguchi. It is published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint since April 2014 and has spawned 10 volumes so far. An AnimatedAdaptation by [[Creator/{{Aniplex}} CloverWorks]] premiered on October 4, 2018. The sequel film, ''Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl'', which focuses on Shoko Makinohara, premiered in Japan on June 15th, 2019 and premiered in the US at Anime Expo on July 7th while Aniplus Asia will be screening the movie in Southeast Asia. Creator/YenPress also announced at Anime Expo that the light novels had gotten licensed for release starting in 2020. The Blu-Ray and DVD for the film released in Japan on November 27th.

At Aniplex Online Fest September 2022, a new anime adaptation that will cover the events of Volumes 8 (''Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out'') and 9 (''Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Girl'') was confirmed.

A {{seinen}} manga adaptation by Creator/TsugumiNanamiya has run in ''Dengeki G's Comic'' since 8 October 2016. It was published in English by Creator/YenPress in two-volume omnibus editions beginning in August 2020.

* SnowMeansDeath: The movie sequel took place during winter and has a major arc revolving around [[spoiler:a Main/HeroicSacrifice]]. There's also [[spoiler:Mai's death on the day before Christmas, even showing her blood pouring out amidst the snow.]]

''Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai'' (Japanese: 青春ブタ野郎, Seishun Buta Yarō wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai) is a light novel series written by Creator/HajimeKamoshida and illustrated by Creator/KeijiMizoguchi. It is published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint since April 2014 and has spawned 10 volumes so far. An AnimatedAdaptation by [[Creator/{{Aniplex}} CloverWorks]] premiered on October 4, 2018. The sequel film, ''Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl'', which focuses on Shoko Makinohara, premiered in Japan on June 15th, 2019 and premiered in the US at Anime Expo on July 7th while Aniplus Asia will be screening the movie in Southeast Asia. Yen Press also announced at Anime Expo that the light novels had gotten licensed for release starting in 2020. The Blu-Ray and DVD for the film released in Japan on November 27th.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Being the only member of their school's science club, Rio dismisses Adolescence Syndrome as a myth or urban legend which has no factual basis though she does explain various pseudo-sciences behind the cases Sakuta personally comes across that often point him in the right direction. [[spoiler:Come episode 7, she's forced to concede that the phenomenon exists when a duplicate of her appears.]]

** More than one instance of Adolencent Syndrome seems to manifest in this way. [[spoiler:Such as Nodoka admitting that she wanted to be like her half-sister and accidentally becomes Mai.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: Consider Mai and Tomoe, as Sakuta is their love interest. Seems like short-haired and down to earth InsecureLoveInterest Tomoe is the Betty, while sexier and teasing Mai is the Veronica, right? {{Deconstructed}}. Mai actually represents UndyingLoyalty, and while she teases Sakuta, it's clear that she deeply loves him, and, as he does, she would do anything for him [[spoiler: (she even ''dies'' to save him).]] Tomoe, on the other hand, has rather selfish feelings for Sakuta. May be {{justified}}, as she's still very young, but remember her Laplace's demon role: in her arc, she had no qualms about Sakuta and Mai's feelings towards each other, and always reset the day, only caring about her personal gain. [[spoiler: She failed.]]

** Sakuta and his sister Kaede live together in an apartment, having moved out after Kaede's Adolescence Syndrome manifested.

* OneSteveLimit: When he was a middle school student and victim of Puberty Syndrome, Sakuta was helped by a senior at his future high school called Shoko Makinohara. After going to the school, he found that no such person existed, but later met a younger girl who had the same name. It's repeatedly enforced that this girl is an only child. [[spoiler:Ultimately revealed in "Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl" that both Shoko Makinoharas are indeed the same person. Young Shoko is fatally ill, yet she sometimes becomes a teenager for an unknown reason.]]

* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Kaede has a form of this, although we don't learn about it until episode 12. One day, Kaede woke up with no memories of herself, and started acting in subtly different ways. At the end of episode 12 when Kaede's list of goals was finally completed, she woke up the next morning and recovered her childhood memories but lost the last two years. Sakuta is devastated at having lost the 2nd version of his sister.]]

* NoPeekingRequest: Mai and Sakuta decided to stay at a hotel in Ogaki. Mai goes for a shower and asks Sakuta not to peek. Being a ChivalrousPervert, he replies that merely the sound of a girl showering would be "[[ADateWithRosiePalms enough for him]]". She promptly gestures for him to get out of the room.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mai seems surprised when Kaede does not know who she is despite being a well-known child actress. Sakuta explains it as her not watching much TV. [[spoiler: This is a super-early foreshadowing of Kaede's memory loss, since she does watch TV very frequently.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Saki Kamisato, Yuuma's girlfriend, is always hostile and dismissive of Sakuta because of his reputation without really knowing him. Luckily, Sakuta either ignores her complaints or answers with his trademark snark and verbal harassment. That said, as of episode 7, she is the reason why Sakuta finds out about [[spoiler:Futaba's secret Twitter account, where she anonymously posts lewd pictures of herself while wearing her high school uniform]]. While it could just be that she's protecting Yuuma's reputation, she doesn't mention or allude to him. She even asks Sakuta, "Isn't that girl doing something risky?" which almost sounds like genuine concern. Saki also ends up making notice Sakuta what it's like to live in the shadow of her older sister, helping him with this in Nodoka's arc.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Mai is a rather sarcastic and witty example, but she perfectly fits nonetheless: a really kind and polite person, an excellent cook, beautiful with long black hair, very selfless and devoted to the guy she loves, [[spoiler:sacrificing her life to save him.]]

* [[UnderstandingBoyfriend Understanding Girlfriend]]: Having been on the receiving end of his help at the start of the story, Mai is understanding when Sakuta hares off to the rescue of the next girl with Adolescence Syndrome. He gets caught up in a few harem protagonist shenanigans, like the above-mentioned SuggestiveCollision, but only needs proper explanation from her boyfriend to understand what's going on and, in the case of the latter, proceeds to live with them for the duration of the problem to prevent misunderstandings. It even gets lampshaded in the final episode, when Nodoka points out that Mai trusts Sakuta way too much to get angry at him for [[spoiler:meeting Shoko again without telling her, and that she's clearly mad at herself for not being by his side in his time of need to the point another girl had to pick up the slack.]]

* [[UnderstandingBoyfriend Understanding Girlfriend]]: Having been on the receiving end of his help at the start of the story, Mai is understanding when Sakuta hares off to the rescue of the next girl with Adolescence Syndrome. He gets caught up in a few harem protagonist shenanigans, like the above-mentioned SuggestiveCollision and InnocentCohabitation, but only needs proper explanation from her boyfriend to understand what's going on and, in the case of the latter, proceeds to live with them for the duration of the problem to prevent misunderstandings. It even gets lampshaded in the final episode, when Nodoka points out that Mai trusts Sakuta way too much to get angry at him for [[spoiler:meeting Shoko again without telling her, and that she's clearly mad at herself for not being by his side in his time of need to the point another girl had to pick up the slack.]]

* InnocentCohabitation:
** When Rio's Adolescence Syndrome triggers and creates a clone of herself who begins to live in the original's house, Sakuta proposes that she live with him and his sister for the time being. Mai initially expressed her skepticism by asking how he would feel if the tables were reversed, so to avoid any possible misunderstandings that could also happen in the future, she chooses to temporarily stay over for however long Rio does. The favor is returned by Rio's duplicate when she asks Sakuta to stay in her house after receiving unwanted advances in public.
** Mai, trapped in Nodoka's body, again moves in with Sakuta as staying in the same home as her sister is uncomfortable.

''Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai'' (Japanese: 青春ブタ野郎, Seishun Buta Yarō wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai) is a light novel series written by Creator/HajimeKamoshida and illustrated by Keeji Mizoguchi. It is published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint since April 2014 and has spawned 10 volumes so far. An AnimatedAdaptation by [[Creator/{{Aniplex}} CloverWorks]] premiered on October 4, 2018. The sequel film, ''Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl'', which focuses on Shoko Makinohara, premiered in Japan on June 15th, 2019 and premiered in the US at Anime Expo on July 7th while Aniplus Asia will be screening the movie in Southeast Asia. Yen Press also announced at Anime Expo that the light novels had gotten licensed for release starting in 2020. The Blu-Ray and DVD for the film released in Japan on November 27th.

''Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai'' (Japanese: 青春ブタ野郎, Seishun Buta Yarō wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai) is a light novel series written by Hajime Kamoshida and illustrated by Keeji Mizoguchi. It is published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint since April 2014 and has spawned 10 volumes so far. An AnimatedAdaptation by [[Creator/{{Aniplex}} CloverWorks]] premiered on October 4, 2018. The sequel film, ''Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl'', which focuses on Shoko Makinohara, premiered in Japan on June 15th, 2019 and premiered in the US at Anime Expo on July 7th while Aniplus Asia will be screening the movie in Southeast Asia. Yen Press also announced at Anime Expo that the light novels had gotten licensed for release starting in 2020. The Blu-Ray and DVD for the film released in Japan on November 27th.

* LongTitle: It has ''eight'' words in English! In Japanese: ''Seishun buta yaro wa bunny girl senpai no yume wo minai'' (eleven words).

* ShesGotLegs: Sakuta seems to be something of a legs man, since he openly checks out Tomoe and Mai's nicely shaped legs, even when they tell him to cut it out.

* AlwaysLawfulGood: Definitely a series with the majority of the cast being genuinely [[NiceGuy kind and good-hearted people]]. The only [[AntiVillain morally ambiguous (if not evil)]] character is Mai's mother.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness Well, this ''is'' a rather idealistic series, and pretty much every character is a genuinely NiceGuy. However, while you don't see many characters often enough, you can say Sakuta, Mai and Shoko qualify. No matter what happens, they're always compassionate and will always do the right thing and help others (even at the cost of life, as [[spoiler:Mai tragically did]]).

** Minor example, but Nodoka had a bit of this attitude due to her initial mutual hostility towards Mai, and her getting annoyed and whimsical at Sakuta's snark. However, she then becomes a genuinely NiceGirl and gets very close to her sister, as well as becoming good friends with Sakuta and Kaede.

* NiceGuy: Actually all the main characters fit. They're all pleasant and kind-hearted guys. Sakuta, Mai and especially Rio, of course, do have a snarky and witty streak, which just makes them more entertaining.

* SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: This series is quite on the idealistic side, especially if compared to its rivals ''Bakemonogatari'' and ''Oregairu'', which are rather cynical. Especially, the former has a surrealistic streak that often shows how [[AntiHero morally grey]] most humans are, while the latter is based on a pessimistic worldview and shows how often [[GoodIsNotNice goodness and a nice attitude don't get along]]. On the other hand, in ''Bunny Girl Senpai'' the characters are mostly pleasant and kind-hearted, and there's a more grounded, but also idealistic ​supernatural approach than in ''Bakemonogatari'', [[spoiler: especially in the movie: the main characters (namely Sakuta, Mai and Shoko) are purely heroic and just want to sacrifice themselves to save the other two, and it ends up with them traveling to another timeline where no one is going to die.]]

* SuggestiveCollision: While trying to hide from a guy repeatedly trying to make advances from her, Tomoe and Sakuta accidentally knock over a podium they were hiding in and wind up in this position. On one hand, the guy believes Tomoe was trying to make an advance on Sakuta, which breaks the GroundhogDayLoop that Sakuta and her had suffered through for three days. On the other hand, [[NotWhatItLooksLike the next person to see the two is Mai....]]

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: [[DeadpanSnarker Snarky]] and [[TheStoic calm]] NiceGuy Sakuta is phlegmatic, [[note]]though he can be a bit melancholic at times[[/note]] (and kind, compassionate and quiet Shoko is phlegmatic as well); levelheaded and [[TheTease witty]] yet [[NiceGirl kind]] Mai is supine (blends sanguine and melancholic, as she's playful but also sensitive and sometimes pessimistic); [[TheStoic calm]] and [[TheSpock rational]] but [[DCupDistress secretly troubled]] HotScientist Rio is melancholic, and outgoing, [[IJustWantToHaveFriends too much people-oriented]] Tomoe is sanguine. Saki Kamisato, who isn't one of the main characters, is choleric.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dear God, Mai's mother. Where to start with? While she's very beautiful and appears to be very polite, in truth she's a selfish, amoral GoldDigger, who has no qualms betraying her family for money. She is only interested in pursuing her desires and is an emotionally AbusiveParent towards Mai because of this, as she had no qualms using Mai to make money, making the poor girl feel very embarrassed and stop working as an actress. Fortunately, [[LikeMotherUnlikeDaughter Mai being the morally upstanding, selfless and genuinely kind and polite person she is, is her opposite]].

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Of the dark-haired girls, Rio Futaba plays the trope straight as she's quite TheStoic and the most melancholic one. Mai and Shoko are rather {{downplayed}} examples, as they are composed and polite but not exactly aloof.
* AlwaysLawfulGood: Definitely a series with the majority of the cast being genuinely [[NiceGuy kind and good-hearted people]]. The only morally ambiguous (if not evil) character is Mai's mother.

** Shoko counts as well, for practically the same reasons, and she's not as snarky as Mai is. She even tries to be as kind as possible, every day a little more.

At Aniplex Online Fest September 2022, a new anime adaptation that will cover the events of Volumes 8 (''Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out'') and 9 (''Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid'') was confirmed.

* FriendToAllChildren: Sakuta and Mai both seem to be fond of children, and they're very helpful towards younger people.

* NotGoodWithRejection: A popular basketball player spreads a nasty rumor about Tomoe, a first-year girl he wanted to ask out, being a “whore” after finding her with Sakuta.