Bokutachi no Remake / Remake Our Life!

[Ryllharu]

Ok then. Here's a rant. Maybe my final one, maybe not.

Episode 12
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Bullshit he went back in time because he, "wanted to struggle." He had that in 2016, he just didn't want to try from the failures. Kyouya wanted to "struggle" in the sense that he wanted to succeed amazingly with the people he "should" have been with had he made the right decision to follow his dreams in 2005. Kyouya is a coward who made a bad choice, regretted it, and did what he could do to repair it only to give up every time he hit a setback, because he was a coward.

Thankfully, he seems to have learned from that in the last few episodes.

I'll give him a pass on "not wanting to cheat" because he just spent a month being completely blind to two years of tech he's never seen before, and fixing that same break by relying on his team, even if he was basically working behind Kawasegawa's back.

He's still a coward for wanting to go back to 2006 though. I can give him some leniency because he did get to know them all, and did wish for their best interests, even as he was hurting them in the long run. Though he did at least confront giving up Maki. Keiko should have fucked with him and sent him back to 2016. Maybe that's the final arc for the unfinished novels, who knows.

I did like Aki going full art nerd on him though, getting back her spark and seeing the ideas flow and flow and flow. That's what a mental block getting cleared feels like. Excitement again.

Points for finally accepting his own ego and arrogance. But I don't trust Kyouya with his words. He's said before he'd stop giving up, starting with the wrong camera incident, but then he did over and over again anyway. I need to see actions before I can trust that his character development has finally stuck. He's right back to trying to guide them. Sure, undoing the things he did, but that's not exactly what he told Keiko right before she gave him another redo. Nudge Nanako into independence. Figure out how to get Aki over her block. "I need to help..."
That's literally what he told Keiko he wasn't going to do! I think it is safe to assume that this will be another failure loop. Hopefully, this infuriating trash doesn't get a second season and we'll never find out.

There's the answer with Nanako. She's famous for game OSTs and anime songs, particularly telling by her concert attire. She's basically a Kuribayashi Minami. She might even be modeled after her specifically, since Kuribayashi wrote the Kimi ga Nozomu Eien game theme songs.

Hold on. I did not expect Ayaka to be their age! I thought she was 5-10 years younger than the rest of them.