Aug 14, 2023
The Light Novel Boy is Unrealistic.
Straight off the back of a Spring season with good, compelling romcoms ranging from a middle or high school setting to work/married life, we fall straight back down to the hell hole we call reality as we remember romcoms based on light novels still exist for some reason, and The Dreaming Boy is a Realist might be one of the worst light-novel based high school rom-com’s I’ve watched in a while, and that is really saying something.
Our light novel protagonist is seen jovially by the people around him as a stalker towards his childhood crush, Orange Haired Tsundere, on account
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of him constantly pestering her, asking her out and making her feel uncomfortable in general. Suddenly he is hit in his stupid face by a football which dramatically and I mean, dramatically, changes his personality by giving him the epiphany that he is making her uncomfortable and maybe he should give her some space.
The way the anime depicts this football scene is so over-the-top and confusing, I genuinely thought that he either died and was in the process of being isekai’d or another person's conscience was being isekai’d into his mind. The change is so jarring and abrupt that it left me confused for my entire watch time of the first episode and there's no explanation for it.
Not that I would care even if the show did try to explain itself because the anime makes me feel nothing. It is, after all, another garbage light-novel rom-com anime with no personality. The writing is confusing, long-winded and boring, the stupid teenagers don’t act like normal-minded human beings and talk like they’re part of a club for philosophers debating the origins of cum, the show seems to suggest that Orange-Haired Tsundere girl actually enjoyed the protagonist's stalker behaviour towards her which suggests she strung him along which is pretty fucked-up, and the art and animation are on the same level as my early 2010 Deviant Art submissions, and no I’m not sharing a link to my Deviant Art account. I wouldn’t be surprised if the author took all the rom-com light novels and used their smegging contents to train an A.I so he can have it write his light novel series for him and this was the result.
Now I have to say something positive because MAL will take down reviews even if there is objectively nothing positive to say about anime like Kizuna no Allele for example because they are objectively bad anime so, I like the colours. I liked that The Dreaming Boy is a Realist anime uses colours to colour in the characters and backgrounds to make the world feel more lived in. There we are. Something positive.
The rest of the show is a complete waste of time though. I genuinely cannot conjure up the image of a hypothetical person who would enjoy this show in my head, and if you are that mythical person then I suggest buying a lottery ticket for the chances of you existing are slim to none.
1/10 The Worst.
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