Kodoani.com – A promotional flyer for the television anime adaptation of the light novel Yumemiru Danshi wa Genjitsushugisha (The Dreaming Man is a Realist) by Okemaru at AnimeJapan 2023 revealed on Saturday that the anime will premiere this summer.
Kazuomi Koga (Rent-A-Girlfriend, Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible) is directing the anime at Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ. Michiko Yokote (Shirobako, Prison School, Cowboy Bebop, Rurouni Kenshin) is in charge of the series’ scripts. Masaru Koseki (World’s End Harem, Demon King Daimao) will be adapting Sabamizore’s original character designs into animation. Hajime Takakuwa (Rent-A-Girlfriend, Spice and Wolf) is the sound director. Pony Canyon is producing music.
In the story of “one-sided love”, high school student Wataru Sajō falls in love with his beautiful classmate Aika Natsukawa. Aika finds him a nuisance, but he dreams of her mutual love daily and continues to approach her. However, one day, he suddenly woke up from this “dream”. In order to regain his sense of reality, he realized his place and moved away from Aika. But now for some reason Aika was completely shaken.