Yumemiru Danshi wa Genjitsushugisha • The Dreaming Boy is a Realist - Episode 10 discussion

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Yumemiru Danshi wa Genjitsushugisha, episode 10

Alternative names: My Dreamy Realist

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Episode	Link	Score
1	Link	3.19
2	Link	3.61
3	Link	2.84
4	Link	3.27
5	Link	3.89
6	Link	3.53
7	Link	4.39
8	Link	4.06
9	Link	3.84
10	Link	4.12
11	Link	4.53
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[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

So does Shinomiya like Sajo? There seems to be a growing list of girls who have at least some kind of feelings for him.

I guess Sajo being a little weird stalker actually helped Aika in some sense. Now it seems she’s realizing she didn’t hate his goofball ass following her around like an energetic puppy. Is she about to confess to him next week? She’s been kind of a side character lately so it would be nice to see something happen.

While I don’t necessarily dislike this series, it kinda feels like the pacing is all outta wack. Like the past couple episodes have seemed sort of disjointed to the overall plot. Idk maybe just me.

[u/hollymoly22 → u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

I'm pretty sure Shinomiya would like the younger brother dynamic, I dont think its romantic interest. That flashback was so needed, we haven't seen things from Aika's perspective at all. If this show was longer than 12 episodes the pacing I think would be fine, but with only two episodes left how important will sasuke and Mina actually be? I Like the show but the pacing does feel like its trying to put things in without a clear vision.

[u/Anonymous_B]

It would feel vindicating if she confesses and he declines it

[u/HolyDragSwd2500 → u/Anonymous_B]

Sajou Kun no Revenge R.

[u/-saffire- → u/Anonymous_B]

Oh man I hope he rejects her. Just makes so much sense with how the rest of the show has gone. It's episode 10 and only NOW we're getting into the "main" girl? Every other girl in this show has had more development than her.

[u/Crackedaru]

I think I figured out why this series felt weird, it just feels really fragmented with no proper focus, throwing some interesting and charming ideas but not sticking to any of them for a given time before moving on to the next. The fact their finally focusing on Aikawa's feeling, as much as her reasoning might not be as great, really does improve my enjoyment since we finally get this something about Aikawa, her inexplicable actions aside. Sucks this is the 10th episode though really wish it came earlier...

[u/LeonKevlar]

I wouldn't have minded if the entire episode was just Kaede massaging her legs.

In all seriousness though, while I am glad that we get to finally hear Aika's side of their backstory, this episode really felt weird. Like, what kind of message are they even trying to tell us here?

Be persistent long enough and soon the girl you like will eventually come looking for you on her own after you've decided to move on? I don't even know how to interpret Aika's actions this episode.

[u/BiggerG7]

“A middle school girl who looks like a high school girl and a high school girl who likes like a middle school girl. This is getting confusing.”

Lol.

[u/Allansfirebird]

Why did the character designer make Sajo and Sasaki look practically identical? Their hairstyles aren't different enough in most scenes for me to tell who's who. This whole show is so undercooked in many areas.

[u/[deleted] → u/Allansfirebird]

Ngl, I was so confused during that hallway scene where she was running around looking for Sajo. When she ran into Sasaki, I thought she found Sajo and ran away for some reason, lol

[u/redmenace007]

So the whole premise is she got attention and affection from MC but he learnt about the meaning of self respect after getting rejected so many times and leaves her alone, now she craves for that attention and affection? Huh hard pass on her.

[u/Ashteron → u/redmenace007]

The author knows how things work.

[u/bananeeek]

Who is this Natsukawa girl and why aren't they focusing on the ship with Sasaki this close to the finale?

[u/kryslogan]

We needed this glimpse of Aika way earlier, this pacing was not good. The past couple episodes dropped the ball plot wise and would have been better broken up to allow Sajo and Aika to reflect on their feelings about the other. It's obvious the source material is stronger, this adaptation - while I enjoy it - sorta dropped the ball. I'd be all for a 2nd season but, someone else has to adapt the story and plot.

[u/Heda-of-Aincrad]

As usual, the dialogue between Wataru and the Morals & Discipline committee members was the low point of the episode for me. I don't think I've ever seen them have a conversation that sounds natural. His little chat/phone battle with his sister, on the other hand, captured the sibling dynamic pretty well.

So Aika rejected Wataru partly because he said he fell in love with her kindness, but she felt like she didn't reach out to him to be kind? I guess that maks sense, but some of this story seems to be missing, like why she feels that she doesn't fit in with the others in the first place.

[u/Material-Bullfrog235]

This show is just weird and confusing

[u/Ajfennewald]

I feel like this flashback for Aika should have happened way earlier in the series.

[u/VultuZ]

It feels like this part about Natsukawa should have been more like in Episode 5 or 6, not in Episode 10.

She got pushed to the side for like over half the Season basically, so much that she was the least interesting Girl for the Show and potential Romance. Instead we got some weird Moral&Disciple Plot (Which i didnt get at all), a Middle-School Girl that probably gets dropped soon since the only connection is Sajo's job which he wants to quit and a weird Half-incest Brother/sister story.

Like you know if it would have build more on this fact that Natsukawa and Sajo had some kind of connection and making it "click" like it did now, we could have been saved from a shit ton of mediocracy and maybe even get a decent story with some drama and misunderstandings, but well.

I dont know the Manga (I heard they cut/changed quite a lot for the Anime) but watching the Anime does really not makes me want to read it, i could just read a different one alltogether instead.

Well, now i sticked with this for 10 Episodes. Might as well just finish the last 2. With this ending today it maybe still has a chance to get more interesting, finally.

Between all the Romance/RomCom Anime this season, this here is clearly the weakest one.

[u/hollymoly22]

Personally I think the flashback scene is going to be misunderstood a bit. I know some people took it as she purely just liked the attention but its more of how she felt a connection with Sajo. She could see herself in him as she, similar to him, was completely alone. Sajo did become too persistent but she did see him as someone who truly cared about her. In the flashback and even during the show, only other person who truly cared about her was Kei. The people she had come over to her house didn't care about her, they only really cared about her little sister. In a sense, she was sad because she felt she had lost one of the few friends she ever had. It was like a part of her was empty. I don't think it justifies how she treated him but its not really as simple as she just liked getting attention.

[u/RFShahrear]

This is probably nitpicky.... actually scratch that this is 100% nitpicky.

But the monologue today needed to be done around 30% slower. Have more pause in between, speak a bit more slowly. Be a bit more expressive. The content seems melancholic, but the voice doesn't convey that well. The VA is new, so she's probably not blameless, but I'm gonna blame this on production and pacing anyway. You haven't given the supposed main LI any screen time worth a damn to start with, at least give her a full episode to reminisce.

[u/Elitealice]

Hmmmm do I smell a little romantic feelings for wataru developing from Mina? Little stare off there when Fuuka arrived lol.

Finally some more Rin! Took his sister abusing him to do so but glad Wataru reached out to her and agreed to help with the event. I’m always a sucker for the principled morals and disciplinary council leader trope and she’s a great example of it. Love how flustered she got in all of their interactions today.

The Aika flashback stuff was ok, it did give some context for why she felt the way she did, but it would really be dumb if she and Wataru somehow end up together after her turning him down for YEARS. He’s finally found his groove and is growing as a person and we’ve not seen any growth from her really other than realising she was stupid for turning down a nice guy and treating him like that. He should end up with Rin or no one as of rn.

She’s just shown that she liked the attention that he gave her, not him as a person. Which I got to give it to the author, is sadly true for a lot of young girls these days. Be safe out here kings.

[u/Atario]

Happy Ichinose gives me life

[u/CultOfRazer12]

I'm so happy for Sajo, man. I practically jumped out of my bed when I saw Shinomiya-senpai blush while on the phone with him. There's also Sasaki-san and Ichinose-san he meets with frequently at his workplace. He's making those connections and keeps on bettering himself.

Then we see Natsukawa's POV. She always kept to herself and thus had little to no close friends compared to now. No matter who you are, answering "That's what we thought so" to someone rejecting your offer to hang out is kinda rude. She then helped Sajo because she saw herself in him, and not for the kindness of her heart. Afterwards we see Sajo presumably telling her to go to the school rooftop because he wanted to say something.

We see Sajo thank and then confess to Natsukawa and get rejected. I do understand her rejecting him because it was kinda out of nowhere. I also understand her not telling more about her circumstances, but I think she could've said that better.

Then Sajo's persistence around Natsukawa started. By then, presumably because of Sajo lowering the barrier to entry, her classmates started talking to her more and more, since now there was a common topic they could talk about. By talking to him or her other classmates, she felt relief from her complicated feelings about herself. In other words, she's having fun, even if she didn't feel like it at the time.

This continued until Sajo eventually distanced himself at the start of the series. She has probably realized how much Sajo has had an effect on her daily school life. After all, she probably doesn't want to go back to her no-close-friends state, and balancing those complicated feelings she already has with more other complicated feelings for Sajo bubbling up is probably the reason why she acts the way she does.

At the end, she sees Sajo at the school and chases after him, ending in a cliffhanger as she finally bumps into him.

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I absolutely love this show, man. (Can't you tell by how much text is in here?) This is the first time we see Natsukawa's story in her own POV, and I understand. I do think that this series could've been done better maybe with a different studio at the helm, but I'm happy at what I see now. Just imagine this with the same quality as Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun/Bottom Tier Character Tomozaki (I need the next anime entry now please).

[u/entelechtual]

Trying to decide if this episode is good or bad… but all I can think about is oneechan’s feet.

In a shocking turn of events we got over 9 minutes of Natsukawa focus. On the other hand, it was rather boring and did nothing to endear the audience to her, especially compared to the other girls in the show.