Sunday’s Aniplex Online Fest 2023 livestream event revealed new visuals for Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid, the second of two films in the upcoming anime project of the Seishun light novel series Buta Yarō (Rascal Does Not Dream).
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The film will open in Japan on December 1.
The next anime project adapts the eighth and ninth novels in the series: Rascal Doesn’t Dream of a Sister Venturing Out and Rascal Doesn’t Dream of a Kid Wearing a Backpack.
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister ventured out in Japan on June 23. The film sold 118,108 tickets in the first three days and earned 175,648,924 yen (about US$1.28 million) in ratings. Wednesday during its opening weekend.
Kadokawa published the first novel in Hajime Kamoshida’s series, titled Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai (Seishun Buta Yarō wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai), in April 2014. Yen Press is releasing a series of novels in English.
Source: Press release, Aniplex Online Fest 2023 livestream
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