Despite his best efforts, Sakuta—like the rest of the world—has forgotten all about Mai Sakurajima’s existence. However, Sakuta’s love for Mai begins to allow his memories of her to return gradually over the course of episode 3 and he realizes the only way for Mai to be seen by others again is to make something happen in a grandiose way. Thus, our main man Sakuta goes out in the middle of the yard at school and yells at the top of his lungs how he loves Mai! This scene made us smile and gasp at the same time as we witnessed a truly emotional confession spewing from Sakuta’s usual lazy-like face. It was during this scene that we knew Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai was only going to have even more emotional moments to hit us with.

By the conclusion of Tomoe Koga’s arc, we begin to see that Koga has begun to gain love for Sakuta during their fake dating sessions. Due to this love, Koga causes July 18th to repeat constantly and while Sakuta plays along with it for a few repeats he quickly understands actions must be done. Sakuta takes Koga away from their repeated beach excursion and brings her to a shrine where he has her spill her true emotions for him and likewise how he feels about Mai. This moment almost—keyword “almost”—mirrored Re:Zero’s confession scene between Rem and Subaru with Koga being quietly rejected. Koga’s rejection allows time to revert back to June 27th and enables Sakuta to save his relationship with Mai—which had a rocky start due to Koga’s interference—and finally move on from the dreaded Puberty Syndrome that felt like groundhog day.

Rio Futaba was an interesting character initially in Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai as we wondered if she was always destined to be just another side character. By episode 7 though, we see that Futaba ends up being a Puberty Syndrome case herself as she creates another Futaba that acts quite differently from her original self. Episode 8 though is where we see the reunion of both versions of Futaba and she goes off to join Sakuta and Yuuma Kunimi—Futaba’s unobtainable crush—enjoying a fireworks session during the summer festival. It’s also here where we have a quiet confession coming from Futaba towards Kunimi but with her begging him to keep quiet about his answer to her feelings. Viewers know that Kunimi would most likely have to reject Futaba—seeing as how he’s dating another girl already—but felt the pain of the unsaid rejection. We here at Honey’s Anime won’t hide that some tissues were used during this scene…or maybe a box as our eyes magically filled with waterfalls.

The final arc of Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai has Kaede being the man focus as her original memories lost during her incident a while back return. Sakuta witnesses this moment of the true Kaede’s return and runs out of the hospital in dismay. We’ve seen Sakuta go emotional before in Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai, but when he breaks down on the sidewalk with rain coming from above, we couldn’t help but feel ourselves die a little. Sakuta, who has always been the strong character of Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai, finally shows a moment of weakness and it’s easily one of the most capturing moments seen in all of the 13 episodes.