Bokutachi no Remake

Bokutachi no Remake is a disaster. Generic, tropey, pacing issues, and bland characters; it's a watered down version of multiple shows hamfisted together.

Story: There's nothing wrong with having a generic story that's well executed. The issue is that Bokutachi no Remake lacks execution. It's mainly hampered by it's pacing. The setting and relatable feeling of wanting a 'redo' in life are the main hooks of the series. It's a train wreck watching these college students 'work' as a team on projects when the show skips over the process of it entirely. One minute they're setting up equipment, the next they're done presenting in front of ... the class. You have to wonder how there's suppose to be any satisfaction watching the mc or other characters go through tribulations with pacing this quick. Oh and every episode throws in a random fan service scene just to make sure the viewer is awake. 2/10.

Art: feel. does an ok job with the art. There's a handful of scenes that look great but it's very safe and average for the most part. 6/10.

Sound: Nothing notable. Enjoyed the voice acting for the most part other than the mc and the baffling decision of having Aki Shino sound as annoying as possible. 3/10.

Characters: An abomination in this category. Mc who can do no wrong and everyone goes to for help (self-insert), the obnoxiously voiced character you would be surprised isn't a child, generic girl #2, and generic guy #2. Yes there's nothing more to them they're that simple and painfully shallow. 1/10.

Enjoyment: While a college setting is always welcomed, that's about all the enjoyment Bokutachi no Remake gave me. There's no time to care about the characters (who are for the most part extremely poor anyway), there's no satisfaction seeing them succeed, the execution is extremely lacking, and there's bad comedy to top it all off. 1/10.

Final thoughts: If you enjoy self-inserting, harems, and the occasional fan service scene, I'd give it a try. Otherwise avoid.

Note: The ep count is a mistake on my part. Currently up to date with the release.

This anime deals with themes that are supposed to be appealing to both men and women since both go through the qualms of regrets of our youth, academic and work decisions, and the choices we make along the way. Plus the anime doesn't have any harem, ecchi tags, right? So I walked into it thinking I'll have a nice show to watch with decent characters.

1. Misplaced fanservice:

Bokutachi no Remake is apparently a show about a man with underutilized creative potential getting a second chance at life, and he gets ... to intermingle with 3 of the most talented people in the industry in his new life. In his rewound timeline, after taking the road previously not taken, he finds himself in a dorm with 3 people. Hmm, I wonder who they are? By the way, the main cast comprises 2 males and 2 female characters.
3 episodes in, you explore the male characters' personalities, their strengths, and weaknesses.
But the first female is introduced by a boob shot, and the second one gets bra shots and has so little spatial awareness that the only way to file cans in a shelf in an empty room is from behind the male MC in a way that her chest rubs against his skull. Right after a ruminative moment.

It is disheartening that in an anime that is supposed to have themes most people can relate to, half of the main cast is sexualized in these immoderate manners which often break the immersion or ruin the tone of the narrative. What exactly does this anime want its viewers to do? Contemplate life while getting a hardon? Ofc if you only watch anime for fanservice, that's a different devil.
I will exclude harem, ecchi-tagged anime from this sort of criticism because they're what they're supposed to be.

2. Plot

This will be pretty short but here's the gist. What is the point of having an MC remaking his life if apparently, he's already so adept that he becomes everyone's saving grace? Is he a relatable MC or is he what we wish we could've been?

Some dialogues flow as if they were written by a preteen. Interactions are so mechanically emotional, it's akin to watching a melodramatic play. Why is X just frowning while Y (a stranger for all that matters) is spitting hostility towards him? Why does Z accuse X of doing something really specific only to casually take it back for pseudo-bonding after a "fight"?

My complaints would likely increase as I keep watching because the episodes keep declining in their consistency. Overall, the appeal of this anime seems to be on the themes that may be found as relatable to many, but for a lot of reasons, it falls short.

This could quite possibly be one of the worst takes on the idea of time travel I’ve ever seen in anime. You have anime like Steins Gate, Re:Zero, or Tokyo Revengers managing to add something new to the concept, and while not everyone might like them most people should agree that they’re all at least somewhat unique in their own way.
And then you have Bokutachi No Remake give its spin on time travel, following our main character after he gets sent back in time and decides to… enter an art college?

The story kicks off with the painfully generic main character, Kyouya, struggling to ... find a stable job in his current life. When life is looking worse than it’s ever been, he makes a wish to get sent back in time, and would you believe it? His wish conveniently comes true! Apparently, the only other possible choice he has to fix up his life is to enter an art college so that’s exactly what he does. I’m not sure why he doesn’t become financially stable using his knowledge of the future to win some bets or lotteries, but each to their own I suppose. Once he settles into the college, he enjoys making films and various pieces of media while being surrounded by his own harem, what a lucky guy. The aspect of time travel barely phases him, and rather than try to figure out the source of it he simply enjoys life as a 28-year-old in an 18-year-old’s body. Oh boy, it sure is great getting to project myself onto another pathetic main character who’s been put into a situation that others would only dream of.

Mr. Self Insert isn’t without his flaws, however. You see, he’s too amazing for his own good, often negatively influencing other people’s lives by simply being too perfect. This is a major issue that Kyouya is forced to overcome with each episode. Maybe his genius is from his extra 10 years of experience, or perhaps he’s naturally talented and wasn’t given the correct opportunity in his previous life. Either way there is very little attempt made to justify his amazingness, and you just have to accept that he is and always will be an incredible human being. They’ve made sure to give him the same character design as every other light novel character to ever exist, so you will have no problem imagining his experiences as your own.
“After all, no matter how amazing an individual is, they’re less interesting without some kind of flaw.” This is a quote taken right from the very first episode, and it is absolutely hilarious to look back on after having watched all 12 episodes. It dares explain basic storytelling techniques straight to the audience and then completely butcher it in practice. To state out loud the character needs flaws, then to proceed to write a main character without any, is one of the funniest ways I’ve ever seen an anime screw itself over. It can’t go an episode without contradicting itself in some way and it’s almost impressive.

But I don’t wanna bully the poor main character too much, as there are plenty of other characters to focus on as well. There’s a writer, a voice actor/singer, and an artist all living with Main Character-kun. They aren’t great, but when compared to the main character they are a massive improvement in terms of writing. They help provide a good insight into the struggles and hardships of various artistic industries while actually adding a sense of life to the anime. Granted it’s not perfect, but I can appreciate how the series at least attempts to show some of the struggles of real-life through the characters. An artist might lose their motivation to draw, a writer might be overwhelmed by how hard it is to become truly successful, or a singer might lack the self-confidence to truly work for their dream. These are all shown to some extent through the character decisions and various pieces of dialogue. It isn’t great, but at least there is something there in terms of character depth.

For a show that likes to ramble on about media and storytelling it really sucks at both. There’s one scene in the first episode where we get to listen to a characters explain some screenplay techniques. This was more for the sake of showcasing the characters’ intelligence than anything but seeing as the anime went out of its way to spend five minutes explaining it, I might as well see how well it goes when paired against its own advice. It brings up the idea of ‘complications,’ an unpredictable turn in a story that leads to the protagonist failing. In this anime, however, you’ll find that the ‘unpredictable turns’ are simply terrible. The twists make no sense as this anime is pack-full of plot contrivances. Our protagonist never truly fails, and small inconveniences are overdramatised to the point where they just looks silly. This anime will try to make you believe that minor incidents are huge failures when they’re obviously not. Also, in case you’ve forgotten the main character is a generic self-insert, and no one wants to insert themselves into a guy who fails at something. Seeing him effortlessly complete every task that comes his way is anything but a complication, and no, I don’t count the fact that he is too good at everything for his own good to be one.

Scenes will often feel incredibly forced, with numerous out-of-character moments that only exist to make something is happening on screen. There is never any sense of fluidness in the writing, and the entire anime is filled to the brim with ridiculous plot conveniences. The main character makes progression in a relationship? The love rival appears. The protagonist needs help doing something? Another character will appear with exactly what he needs. Multiple characters will act different to their usual selves in some scenes for the sake of the plot, completely ruining everything that had been built up about them previously. It’s lousy writing down to the core, and everything about it feels forced.

The art and animation are subpar for the most part. A decent amount of effort was put into making sure the girls were cute enough, then the bare minimum was done for everything else. Character expressions are surprisingly well done for the most part and you’re able to get a good understanding of the characters through them. The soundtrack was forgettable, and I still can hardly remember anything about the opening or ending after having finished the anime.

Bokutachi no Remake had the comedy tag when it began airing, but by the end was labeled as a drama with touches of supernatural and romance. Childish ideas are hidden behind failed attempts at a dramatic telling of a situation many people may wish to find themselves in. Because of this, this anime will never be anything more than another typical and forgettable light novel adaptation full of plot conveniences and lackluster characters. There are much better time travel anime out there, and there are other anime that manage to achieve what this anime attempts at a much better standard. If you want to see an adult re-live their school life, go read Re:Life. There’s no place for Bokutachi no Remake, and honestly there was never going to be.

All of us have looked back on our past and felt unfulfilled. It's natural to regret poor decisions. All of the missed opportunities, people you never met, mistakes you made. If you could change the years you regret the most, would you?

Imagine the most generic school harem anime possible: Remake Our Life is what comes to mind. Forgettable character designs, monotonous background music, and archetypal love interests compete for the everyman protagonist. Kyoya, the bland harem hero, is a failed adult who gets a second chance to relive his college years. After getting fired from his dream job at a game company, he mourns his ... wasted youth. He regrets not enrolling in an art university, then falls asleep. Upon opening his eyes, he is ten years in the past and instantly decides to go to college. Once enrolled, he immediately recognizes his roommates as successful artists from the future. His writing skills impress everyone—because he accidentally stole the idea from his only male roommate. Though he regrets benefitting from his friend's failure, he still reaps the rewards. Some of the rewards include ladies who quickly become attracted to him for his generic looks and filmmaking talents.

He is where he belongs: A place where people recognize his talent. Kyoya embodies the everyman trope prominently utilized in isekai light novel adaptations. A businessman in a dead-end job living with his parents, he yearns to relive his youth. Suddenly, an unknown power transports him to the past! He takes this monumental once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to... enroll in college. Now he can become the man he has always wanted, an artist and professional womanizer. Kyoya lacks discernable characteristics or individuality, making it easy for you to project onto him.

All the girls surrounding Kyoya are the same height and body type to be as marketable as possible. For this reason, I will refer to them by hair color first. Though three out of five of the main cast are women, their dialogue is mainly with Kyoya or about him. As the poster art suggests, this is a harem anime dressed up with melodrama. You'll see plenty of fanservice at inconvenient times, but they tone it down after the first couple of episodes. Shinoaki, the blue-haired girl, is a sleepy and airheaded artist. Her character arc begins and ends in one episode—she questions her talent, and Kyoya quickly reassures her that's not the case. This moment sparks a flame of love. There is no romantic progression or chemistry between the two, which just happens to us. We are helpless passengers aboard this slowly derailing train. The red-haired girl, Kawasegawa, is a little too confrontational for her own good. Frequently she harshly criticizes people for justified reasons; however, the direction frames it as a bad personality trait. Suddenly dark music plays or cuts out altogether, and they use close-ups to emphasize the anxiety she causes. She works through this flaw—which being critical isn't really a flaw at all, and that's the crux of her arc. She has a cute side that she only shows to the main character. Is it love? Watch to find out. Her primary purpose in Kyoya's story is to provide motivational speeches and assist him on art projects.

Nanako, the blonde girl, is stern and has character development—reserved for the show's first half. She becomes irrelevant afterward. As an actress conflicted about her future, she deals with self-doubt and insecurities. Although her turmoil seems exaggerated with melodramatic dialogue, she is more compelling than the rest. She, too, has a cute side that she only shows to the main character. Their romantic development is gradual rather than forced. If only Kyoya had the character depth to compliment hers. The dialogue, especially involving Nanako, is awful: they utilize her for fanservice and to fawn over Kyoya, only to sideline her shortly after that.

What the hell kind of friend are you? There's a recurring problem here: Kyoya assumes the wants and needs of his friends without actually asking them first, and the story rewards him for this. At best, it's presumptuous to believe you could solve someone's issues for them. Though the show pays lip service to this idea, it is ultimately a mistake it continues to make until the end. I wouldn't say I like the term "self-insert" because it implies the author wrote himself in the story as the main character. Instead, Kyoya is an avatar for the audience. He is an everyman—generic in every sense for us to project onto him. We can live our fantasies like a hot college film student surrounded by single attractive women. And no judgment if you want an ego boost. The ladies vie for his attention; one girl even says the classic "I won't lose" line, implying she'll never give up on her love. The other men are, of course, perverts, unattractive, or lacking the talent Kyoya possesses. There are a couple more recurring faces that leave little impression.

Attempts at self-aware humor fall flat without follow-up. Kyoya's friend says, "All of those girls, for no reason, are in love with me as soon as the game begins!" He shrugs it off, and then things move on to normal. Cue the fan service and girls fighting over him despite being thoroughly mediocre. Jabbing at the cringe-worthy nature of dating simulators is funny but woefully misguided here. Remake engages in the same harem cliches it mocks, and in the words of a better writer than me: "Self-awareness does not absolve anybody of anything." We've been aware of a show's problem, but there's no subversion. Shinoaki continues to dizzily follow Kyoya around like a lost puppy, and Nakano pines for him in the background. Tsurayuki, the aforementioned male roommate, has the unfortunate role of getting pushed around by our hero. Kyoya does his best to apologize and explain, and it works to keep him in order. Similar to the ladies, his insecurities manifest as imposter syndrome. He worries he's not contributing enough—and this is an intriguing theme that Remake cuts short.

The art is utterly forgettable—generic character designs, bland background art, and minimal animation. Of course, dynamic artwork is unneeded for a shallow harem LN adaptation primarily made up of tedious conversations. The music adds insignificant emotional impact because it's recycled repeatedly—kind of like a typical visual novel soundtrack. The catchy opening track sung by the leading ladies somewhat makes up for the lackluster OST. The outro is mellow and relaxing, shown on a movie reel to reference the film they created. Remake suffers from coming off as insincere in its portrayal of artists at times; during the film screenings, characters tell us how great the short films were, but the viewer rarely sees them. When we're supposed to believe these are super talented artists, you have to prove it. There were moments it did prove to us their talents, such as with Nanako's singing and Shinoaki's art, which fulfilled this potential.

In the ninth episode, the show evolves. It threw a curveball to grab our attention as it sunk into mediocre melodrama. The author finally used the time travel mechanic, though it was ultimately in vain. He attempts to confront the implausible fantasy premise of the show with a Butterfly Effect sort of twist. Credit where credit is due, Kyoya develops ever so slightly, but not enough to be relatable. The dialogue primarily consists of narration to catch us up on new information—similar to a recap episode. And you have to admit, recap episodes are pretty dull. Despite the balls it took to make drastic changes so late, this was ultimately the weakest part of the show. There needed to be a practical reason for forgoing the character development of the first eight episodes.

Ten years ago, the tacked-on-time travel premise would've been inventive. Today it's derivative. Better anime have done this premise before Steins;Gate, ReLife, Orange, and even Erased. Ironically, the main character travels to the past to relive his youth, never realizing our experiences—even the cringe-worthy ones—make us who we are today. Flawed, imperfect, but unmistakably ourselves. Like Kyoya's memories, mistakes, and poor choices, Remake Our Life should've stayed in the past.

Escapism isekai-level bullshit

It's a story about a guy who isn't special enough so he wishes to be reborn as a talented artist
only half of that works (being sent 10 years in time) and he decides to use that excuse to live his unfulfilled romantic fantasies around his idols from his original timeline.
So rather than using this as an oportunity to get good and grow as a character, he does what every other harem protagonist does best (simping every girl around him and avoiding the harsh reality)

The itself is super contradictive with the theme, the art life being something one should take with maturity, because ... anyone in the field knows the diference between those 90% who just screw around at parties during school and those 10% (sometimes 1%) who make it, with an idea like this I can't understand how it can be executed with the same old love-triangle-escapism-ecchi format.


I feel so weird watching this it feels like a total insult to artists in real life and whoever had to put so much effort working on this
This is a straight up insult to the whole anime industry

I have nothing against ecchi anime, it's not what I watch or consider good, but if it stays in it's own place I'm fine with it, just how I'm fine with reality tv and low effort zombie movies, I just don't watch it and pretend they don't exist, because they are part of a different market/demographic that will always exist.



This anime deserves the "what not to do in real life if you go back in time" award
The guy should have just bought bitcoin or something lmao.

I'll be blunt, ten episodes in and I do not enjoy this show one bit. Before I lose you all, allow me to explain: It starts off strong, undeniably. It has a slow burning, but well written 50 minute first episode to provide the setup for the MC Kyoya, and the quality is good for the next two episodes. From there, however, is all downhill.

This show has ZERO sense of pacing, scenes fly by and any conflict that feels like it should last for longer than an episode to develop characters who we should become very acquainted with are just dealt with ... in a matter of a few lines. It's a show that seems almost disrespectful of its side characters, we never understand them or their motivations. In fact, it’s even worse when they become completely irrelevant by the time you get to the last hurdle of the show — they proved to have no impact whatsoever.

Ironically for a show about creative arts students, it lacks creativity. The characters almost never do anything without Kyoya getting involved, and for a series with a teacher who seems to be teaching her students to think outside the box (aka like the stereotypical beret wearing art students), this show falls sinfully back on very tacky visual 'symbolism' that miss the mark entirely. The saddest part being that this show looks SO GOOD but is let down by thoroughly weak writing with many, MANY, plot holes and poorly written moments. Interestingly, some of what I mentioned IS something that is addressed, but good grief it's executed so horribly that it renders it pointless. Even then it explores a twist 10 episodes in the making with shocking levels of poorly thought out conversations, character logic, and a situation that’s hardly given the room to breathe.

Remake our Life!

Note I am not an english speaker therefore this review may contain some errors.


I had high expectations of this show. I have been interested for a few years in the art of photography and cinema. I thought that the setting of the show was written for me. The main character, Kyouya , after failing his first video game industry job is thrown back in time 10 years into the past. He then decides to enroll in an art college. The show has promising themes like regret , finding a creative voice or the struggle of creating art etc... Heck, maybe along the way ... we will learn more about technical aspects of art. Sadly, the show wasted its premise.

The show doesn't really use the premise to its advantage. The main character doesn't have a goal beyond doing well in school and he doesn't have anything that he misses or needs. That is how the show wasted the potential themes that it set up in the first episode. And in addition creates a boring character.

In addition, sequences in the show flash by in an instance which result in a feeling that things are just happening without any pay off. For example, in one of the episodes, “screenplay dude” gets the wrong camera for the filming. The solution is that the main character learns how to photograph. There are no scenes where the kyuya learns how to photograph or makes any mistakes. We aren't taught the basics of photography. We are only shown him getting dericons over the phone. And that is the only thing that the show does with the problem, other than more set up. There is no real depth/ build up /consequence to any of the problems. When it does try to raise an interesting personal problem, because of the pacing, the solutions feel unearned.

There is no reason why the story had to be set in the past. The main character could have just gone to college, found a new job related to video games or made his own game. The only reason was to make a power fantasy.I think the show is somewhat self aware about it. Episode 6(10:00-10:55 and 15:30-16:00) points out good meta points about the show. The fact that the main girls are in love with Kyouya for no reason and that nobody talks in real life like anime characters and that school romance anime sells well.

By sending Kyouya to the past he gets some kind of superpower. He is able to know what is successful and use that knowledge to his advantage. I wouldn't mind this superpower if they did something interesting with it but they only use it as a part of the power fantasy. I think that the show wants us to be aware that he is from the future but at the same time not. Because if you think about it you would realize that he is dating a girl that is ten years younger than he is.

Through our life we meet the constant sensation of what could have been, an always present feeling that our decisions of the past could have been different. Those feelings are intensified by the present times, constantly we are reminded that the path that we took could have been different by people that are successful in their fields, and even in success the sentiment is still there. Letting time go is nothing but a sacrifice that we do over our own sense of satisfaction, the future is so uncertain that the anxiety that comes with our actions is constantly there, looking at us like a tiger ... in the woods. Bokutachi no Remake is an attack to those remarks, to understand the consequences of the paths that we take and to explain to ourselves a final thought, that every action has its consequence.

The anime presents itself with such goal in mind. All the events that are presented have such goal in mind. The message is translucent, transparent, and somehow strong. Our lives are subject to every single action, the sensation of failing is nothing but nutritive to our future goals, a learning aspect that we should all face once, and that whatever path we take will have consequences on those who are besides us. Nothing that we do will work in vacuum, and to obsess with the what ifs is unhealthy, because if we put ourselves in such situation the branches of the destiny would completely differ from our beloved dream.

It is then a question of how you present such message, such relatable perception that is strongly human, likely a fate that we all must meet once in our life. The problem is that this anime doesn’t compromise itself with anything, it leaves itself to the path of the generic trails and bastardized troupes that we have all seen before. The message is obscured by the endless competition of who is the best girl, obscured by the extremely shallow and childish exposition of those issues that the main character is meant to tackle.

The feeling that is left from this anime is that the message was interfered by those desires and delusions of what humanity could do. The main character, someone who is pretty much reasonable, psychologically human and leave a huge impression in terms of emotional tact is set in a world filled with superficial issues and lacking the action and consequence of human relations. All events are presented in a grotesque fashion, a bitter sense of delusion and ignorance of how everything works, with comedy levels of resolutions.

This lack of compromise could have been solved easily by not exposing itself to the ignorance, or to investigate better and deliver a more credible execution. Like a short circuit in a ride, the moment we are hit with the unnecessary harem undertones and the lack of knowledge get us out of the whole experience, if you are thinking while watching this, of course. The almost pathetic dialogues and exposition, the childish solutions to everything, violates the clear principle of making something believable. It is an interference.

The most frustrating aspect is that it could have been prevented by focusing itself in the relationships between the characters, to obviate the boring aspects of the show and create a setting that leaves us in a scenario full of life and humanity. The most frustrating aspect is that there is a clear lack of love and interest towards creating a beautiful setting with an insight of the frontiers of human craft, and instead shows a superficial otaku perspective to just play forward into its intended message.

Bokutachi no Remake is nothing but a watered down downright pandering anime that leaves a trail of delusion and lack of real touch, the plastic feeling mixed with the pathetic intents to appeal the lower common denominator leaves the whole message in the dark after a boring set of events that are downright absurd to watch at. Because there is nothing more boring that watching someone having constant success by doing nothing special at all.

If you want to watch an extremely superficial harem rom-com, this is the one. As long as you approach it from that mindset and not one of an anime being about actually relevant and deep messages. In fact, I’d probably give it a 3-4 if it was just that: a tropey, fanservice-heavy rom-com. If you wanted to watch this series to learn about how we shouldn’t take the opportunities we have now for granted, you’ve come to the wrong anime.

While Bokutachi no Remake sets out with a strong first episode that aligns with what you think the core theme would be, it quickly flips ... to a rom-com instead. We have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok, and flat-out deceived by this show.

To keep it as short as possible, Bokutachi no Remake is a plastic attempt at its message about redemptions and seizing opportunities in life. Romance is randomly brought up and then dropped and ignored in the next episode with no further explanation. Every instance of drama we get isn’t natural but rather forced into the story for the sake of ticking off a box about “deep themes”. And the reason is that all the characters are so shallow and underdeveloped, it’s hard to find yourself genuinely rooting for them.

Potential spoilers ahead.

Let’s take Nanako’s singing arc for example. We get no background exposure to Nanako, hell, we don’t even know shit about her past or her character outside of a monologued backstory, having big boobs and going on a karaoke date once with Kyouya. But all of a sudden, we’re supposed to sympathize with and cheer for her decision to fearlessly confront her talent and get serious about it, even if it means she might have to swallow the bitter pill of failing despite putting in her best effort. Don’t get me wrong, this is a great message to preach and something I’ve been trying to fix myself for god knows how long. But hamfisting it into a story in the form of a character with 0 development until now is not the way to do it.

Also, after EP 5, I thought we’d be getting a generic romance drama arc but instead, that was a blue ball too and everything that happened at the end of EP 5 and beginning of EP 6 just seemed to vanish from all the characters’ minds. Only for this problem to return in EP 7. Double-sike. It’s as if the writer can’t decide between making this an anime about the work behind creating commercial media or a harem rom-com with over-the-top fanservice.

Outside of Nanako, the other characters are as shallow as you’ll get. You have the Mr. Perfect MC who can do no wrong and pulls all the chicks (self-insert), the big-boobed outgoing lady, the big-boobed tsundere, the big-boobed imouto template, the big-boobed childhood friend… Hmm, is it me or is there a weird trend going on with these female characters? I thought this was going to be a series about how we should get our act together now and pursue our goals but instead, I’m attending Booba Harem Girls 101. It’s quite ironic how an anime that’s supposed to be about the trials and challenges of creating critically acclaimed artistic media falls so short of the very teachings it preaches, that it has to resort to waifus and heavy fanservice for content.

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind as much if this was a harem rom-com type anime since I could write off the poor character development (50% due to bad writing and 50% due to poor pacing) as typical of harem rom-coms. All things considered, it’s hard to even say this show did well for a completely different genre than what it was advertised as and what many were expecting. I literally completed this series just so I could keep watching big tits bouncing around on the screen.

This anime had a decent amount of potential. The story is very similar to ReLIFE, in that the main protagonist is at a bad point in his life. In fact, it's almost a direct rip off of ReLIFE. He's lost a career he didn't particularly enjoy and is filled with regret that he didn't pick the art school he got into instead of going into business. He's somehow (it's not explained at this point) able to travel back in time to choose the art school. Honestly, I thought the idea was intriguing, even if I dislike the "If I just did one think differently, my ... life would be perfect with no roadblocks!" trope.

The problems start almost as soon as he travels back. This show is filled with cliche after cliche. The MC has three roommates; one guy and two girls. The guy is almost immediately built up as a somewhat difficult but passionate writer. The girls? One of them is just a "tsundere" that wants to be an actress and the other is... an artist that the MC was obsessed with before he travelled back in time with little to no personality other than "oh, she's sleepy."


Then, the MC sees yet another girl who he knew from his past life - his former boss, going to the same school as he is. Again, she's given little to no personality other than that she's a director.

The female characters are almost exclusively used for fanservice that feels incredibly cliche and out of place or for "comedy" (which usually amounts to one of the male characters getting hit.) None of this fits the dramatic setup the show seemed to start with.

I mentioned that the male characters are built up while the female characters are essentially just... there, but what's even more unbelievable is that they're somehow all dependent on the male MC. Even in the first 4 episodes, the other male character accidentally grabs a camera that can only take pictures instead of a video camera. The other three are about to give up while the MC has an idea that's portrayed as absolutely incredible and out of the box. I'm not going to spoil what it is because it's already too obvious and you can probably figure it out for yourself. This is only one example.

Nothing about this anime clicks to me, no matter how hard it tries to be "deep" or when it tries to be "funny." I think the show is trying to go for a comedy-drama, but it's obviously not doing a very good job.

If you like obvious cliches, derivative stories, and a world that seems to bend over backwards for the main character, this show's definitely for you. If not, you'll find yourself disappointed in another boring fanservice slice of life anime that tries to be "deep."

"The Embodiment of stupidity and idolization", "How to make OP isekai MCs look like properly written characters, "How to fail at the romance genre", "How to fail at the drama genre", "How to fail at time traveling", honestly you can call this anime many things but Good.

Bokutachi no remake is the most souless anime i ever watched in my life. An anime about robots (Casshern Sins) manages to feel more humanized than this.

Bokutachi no remake is an anime about a dude that gets a second chance to live his past and take another decision so he could change his life, yes it's those generic types ... of time traveling animes. Funny enough the first episode manages to make you somewhat interested in the anime, but then you ask "what's so bad about it" well lemme explain through MAL rating system.

Story: Starts showing Kyouya as a hardworker otaku that did a bad career choice but get's a second chance at working at his "dream career", and yes we haven't even reached the time travel part yet, he then properly does his job at a game industry even overworking himself to try to guarantee his chance of being accepted (it was a intership), but sadly the project fails because of reasons outside of his reach, and he gets fired, now enters the time traveling, he went back 10 years so he could do the right career choice and this is where the Good Bokutachi (episode 1) starts to fade away for the awful bokutachi (episodes from 3 to 12), even tho he changed his university choice, it doesn't even feel like it, kyouya can easily solve any challenge that's presented to him, but you could ask "well he has 10 years of experience makes sense" except that it doesn't, because it was never shown that kyouya had experience dealing with thoses challenges, it only shows like twice him using future knowledge to help with decision making and it never uses his degree on economic university as a advantage for his decisions, only showed that he's a hardworked, and he doesn't solve anything through hardwork he just knows what to do in any situation, oh i forgot to talk about that he partners with the younger version of the platinum trio, do they matter ? not really, as the anime potrays kyouya as their god saviour that carries them through any issue, making them underdeveloped and making their relataionship artificial, skipping ahead as the anime is just a replay of "Issue>Kyouya solves it>Kyouya gets praised for it in some way" kyouya manages to make the platinum trio never be a thing because he's just better than them in every way and we are forced to go to the new future, kyouya (that was praised by the platinum trio) manages to be a random worker at a game industry, because that makes sense, a guy better than a legendary trio didn't manage to get a relevant hierarchy but let's procceed, then he skipped 12 years including most of his university life and now has to work, do you think he struggled at a new job without having full knowledge on it (yes he doesn't have any memories of the 12 years he skipped) ? Nope, he managed to work so well that he repeated the old cycle, everyone always asked for his help, he solved the problems of all his co-workers, he even manages to do a better job than the company president itself, while skipping 12 years of knowledge on the matter, sounds dumb right? well because it is, this anime is just a huge stupid adventure of a OP MC solving all the issues the story provides without any struggle whatsoever, oh yeah and you know the whole university envyronment ? Do you think it was properly used in the story ? Nope, it got put aside around episode 5 or 6 we do not see the characters developing their skill through challenges provided by the university, as kyouya is already perfect and solves everything and all the others just ask kyouya to solve their issues, oh yeah lemme point out something else, this anime has 3 tags, slice of life, romance and drama, do you think he properly utilizes any of them? No, the slice of life tag is there for obvious reasons, its his life and we see slices of it, there's no "oh yes seeing moments of his life matters for character depth/development" no it doesn't, we just see his life because we are forced to, oh romance, i wanna talk about this tag, its gonna be a short talk tho, romance in bokutachi is pretty short, there's a episode for 2 of the girls getting interested in him because he did a single cool thing to them, like a compliment (i'm not even joking, a girl falls in love with him because he says he likes her art, that's it), and you're curious why i mean 2 with 3 FMC? Well that's because kawasegawa get's treated as a side character through 90% of the anime, and funny enough still manages to be better written than anyone else in this series, going back to the romance, one of the girls kisses him, we enter a single episode harem romcom style with the 2 girls "fighting" for him, he says he has no feelings for the girl that kissed him, we skip 12 years he's married with that girl, done, yes, i'm done, that's all the romance this anime has, it's like 2 episodes max focusing on some form of romance theme, and he's married, but you could argue "well a lot of things could've happened on 12 years" yes you're right, but that's a issue, you can't do something, not show it to the public, then force the public to accept/understand the result of it, it's like starting a romcom, and on episode 2 making both characters marry by skipping all their romance development, and wanting your view to feel the love that couple feels towards each other, you know what's funnier ? people voted a lot for this couple as the best of the season, a couple that went: Compliments her art, falls in love with him but doesn't show development on it, kiss him, marry him, that's all we see, nothing else, and has the romance tag, about the drama i don't need to say a lot, one episode they start arguing because of a decision kyouya made, 2 minutes later the guy just goes "well i'll believe in you since it's you kyouya" i'm not joking, that's how the discussions ends, and that's how most of the drama goes, issue happens>kyouya quickly solves it with the logic of being kyouya>everyone praises him>repeat.
To conclude my rating, the story of bokutachi no remake is superficial, artificial, poorly written, with childish/godly solutions to any problem presented, that does nothing towards progressing its characters, with no positive traits as everything you see on it you probably seen somewhere else. Oh yeah and most of the things you see on the opening/ending never happen in the actual anime, like they wanted to show to you "yes we skipped content wanna quickly see it?"

Additional final episode critic: 40 seconds into the episode and Keiko goes "Why do you wanna go back to that hard time", bro which hard time, Kyouya was a fricking prodigy back then, hard time lol nice joke

Additional final episode critic 2: 1 minute into the episode and Kyouya pulls a "i wanted to struggle", yeah, you wanted, because you didn't and won't lmao ( i loved his speech btw, should've been made by another character on a whole another story tho)

Additional final episode critic 3: FINNALY HE SHOWED SOME AFFECTION TOWARDS SHINOAKI AFTER 12 EPISODES AND 1 TIME TRAVEL, you know i'll be mad if this episodes ends up being good

Additional final episode critic 4: Kyouya actually used future knowledge to help him do some decisions in the past (it wasn't anything big or world changing but he did), the God Loli saying he didn't was a lie, also is he stupid "they trusted in me ?" the whole anime was about them repeating "if kyouya says so its right"

Additional final episode critic 5: "Welcome back main character", how to acknowledge your issues 101

Additional final episode critic 6: Says he won't use future knowledge to do stuff but knows that if people rely on him that's their downfall, honestly this anime says something and does the opposite "congrats on not taking advantage, now go take advantage this time you stupid"

Additional final episode critic 7: cliffhanger ? seriously jeez

Additional final episode conclusion: Fixed some small problems, managed to create even bigger ones, Keiko is god ? Why god is a loli ? Why god choose kyouya of every other human being on earth ? He was just a unemployed hadworking dude lol, that's not merit for a second chance in life, so yeah that's a new plothole, good job remake creating a problem on your last episode, also it's funny how this anime is so sure it's getting a second season it straight up ends with a cliffhanger, if it doesn't get one i'll laugh

So my rating is 1, it's easily the worst story i ever seen, also another reason, the anime butchered the source material and rushed it a lot, which means yes, most of those issues above could've been avoided or better developed to not be seen as issues, but the anime just decided to go dumb mode and just present the problem at minute 5 and solve it at minute 7, same goes for the love development which was extremely better and wasn't one-sided like it was in the anime, if you wanna write you own story avoid everything remake does with his

Art: It's a generic art style with no amazing scenarie, copy pasted faces mostly on the female side, you can just remove their hair, replace with the hair of another female character and it would look just like her, with simplistic animation (not as a positive trait) and lack of details all over it.

So my rating on art is 2, it's bad and generic, like the studio didn't even try to pull something unique or good to look at, just searched "how to make appealing simple faces 10 minute tutorial" and did it.

Sound: The opening is mediocre, the ending is mediocre, simple lyrics and the music itself wasn't catchy like other OSTs, the sound on the overall anime was either "generic city noises.mp4" or "generic loop of a beat.mp4", shonoaki voice was so high pitched you could go deaf and it hurts my ears everytime the VA opened her mouth, i don't think it's the VA's fault on this but i didn't research or her other works, oh yeah and there's the ep where they sing a Suzumiya Haruhi OST, because this anime enjoys reciclying content so why not, they could've at least made a reference on the manga like they did with other IPs but nope.

In conclusion my rating is 5, it's mediocre because it never mattered or just annoyed, but not bad enough to make me want to watch on mute and only read the subtitles.

Character: This one is gonna be as big as the story one because oh god there's A LOT of issues, so prepare your popcorn, Kyouya, the MC, i think i told you enough about the character issues on the story (since sadly the story 99% focus on kyouya and everyone else feels like a side character, so you're forced to judge kyouya when juding the story as it's driven by him mostly), but as you know, he's the perfect MC, solving any issue, having no development as he already starts by being to do anything, expressionless he literally reacts the same way through 90% of the anime, only showing some emotion near the end when he starts regretting that he's the perfect MC, we barely know his feelings and he barely portrays them, he's unidimensional, he's always working the same way, even when its on a subject unrelated to him he still solves it the same way he does with the others, and how perfection is a issue you might ask, well, if your character does everything, why would you care about the others, which is what happens on remake, kyouya makes everyone feels like a side character, barely having enough screentime for them and their personal issues, always relying on him to solve even their personal issues that got lucky enough to be brought up, and that's also how the plot goes, since he's perfect, they end up failing because they couldn't rely forever on him, is that a interesting message? yes, but kyouya portrayed it on such a artificial way that we barely got to feel their downfall, Shinoaki feels like i'm watching a 5 year old on the body of a 20 year old, she's overall dumb doing silly childish things, her voice is extremely annoying, her character is only about looks, she's even sexualized right on episode 1, she has no depth, she's also unidimensional always relying on kyouya and barely showing what's special about the character shinoaki, we barely see her doing what's she's known for, which is being a artist, which was supposed to be a big thing based on how much hyped kyouya created on her but it didn't live up, and the romance she has with kyouya feels so artificial that you don't even think they're 2 human beings, Nanako is the love rival, even tho this isn't a harem anime it has cringe harem moments with the other girls, which funny enough has some depth to her character that sadly gets outshined by kyouya being the saviour of all the burden she carried and making her emotionally dependant on him to the point of ruining her characterization, she's not interesting the drama related to her is a pretty simple and common subject that gets easily solved by kyouya and the character has no depth outside of said drama i mentioned, Tsurayuki starts of as smart guy, get's outshined by kyouya, starts relying on him for everything, and gives up because of that, his backstory is boring just saying he's the son of a rich family and has a arranged marriage that's it, his drama is solved without we even going in depth into it, by guess who, yes kyouya the savior of everyone, he feels like a side male character just so the author didn't get forced to add a harem tag to his work, because shinoaki and nanako get way more attention than him as characters and he's mostly a side kick for kyouya, Kawasegawa is a amazing example of wasted potential, the only character with development, the only character with depth and we see her on kyouya first future, on his second future (they work together) and on his new past, giving the best advices, being interested on him, smart, feels like a actual human being whenever her dialogue is playing, and what the anime did ? Treated her as a side character, and i mean it on this one, she BARELY appears on the past, we go through like 4 episodes forgetting she's a character, and there's 0 attempt on developing her or her relation with kyouya even as friends, then we skip to the new future, which shows kawasegawa as a ruined character that relies on kyouya to save her, that doesn't follow what she believed in and that went from a character that scolded kyouya for always finding easy way outs to everything into a character that created a weird love on him by praising him and saying its not his fault that he ruined the future of all the other 4 main characters (including hers), easily the most interesting character that got ignored on the series and ruined near it's end and has the best chemic with kyouya out of all the FMC, about the supporting characters, outside of Keiko being Hoouma Kyouin (steins gate joke) Loli version which is appearing as a relevant plot point all the other support characters appeared like thrice and got completely ignored around episode 6 or 7, the teacher which gave amazing advice never appeared again even tho it was still the school arc, the actual side kick they planned for kyouya also gone, the club members of the weird club they joined also gone, they barely do anything toegther with the other 4 MC, the new support characters on his other future also barely matter, like i don't judge support characters being just "whatever who cares" but i think it's offensive when a anime gives said characters a decent amount of screen time but doesn't properly develop them outside of the bubble of "im still appearing because kyouya will need me at some moment, after he stops needing me i'll never appear again" (not joking that's what happened with the teacher after she gave a advice to kyouya, she was constantly appearing, advice, gone), also i wanna point out something hilarious which is the character of sayuri aka tsurayuki arranged marriage wife thingy, she appears, she sexually assault tsurayuki, she gets sexualized, and on the other episode she's gone, thats it, thats ALL she does, like my god is this anime retarded, how can you introduce someone for NO REASON, literally his arranged marriage HAD NO REASON TO EXIST, same goes for Kyouya sister, she appears twice for 10 seconds, and that's it, why she's even a character related to the MC if she's not even going to matter at all like why just spam random characters that won't do anything for the sake of faking that you have a big cast when you don't, 90% of the support characters could be removed and no one would miss them that's how irrelevant they are. In conclusion every single character in this is superficial and forgetable because of kyouya stealing the spotlight on every situation, kyouya is the issue everyone is under developed and himself is also under developed and funny enough the intention of the anime was to show that kyouya made them worse, but if you intentionally make your characters worse in the benefit of your generic MC that's also bad, you'll still be ruining your characters no matter what logic you follow, it's like, "ill intentionally make my story bad, so people see that was my intention, and consider it good" like thats so bizarre and nonsensical it barely feels like it was made by someone that knows what he's doing, when it comes to looks everyone is generic there's no remarkable or special trais, to the point of the daughter of shinoaki and kyouya being a loli copy paste of shinoaki, A LITERAL COPY PASTE, how can someone be so lazy to not even try to give a child a little bit of character design, the characters are awfu, generic, unidimensional, poorly developed and written, forgetable, and all the other bad things you can consider about a character, that you literally do not care about them, even whenever there's drama, whenever they cry because of said drama you don't feel a thing, you don't care, because there isn't enough development and there isn't enough content for you to care about that character.

Additional final episode critic: Kyouya finnally feels like a real human being, took him the whole anime but ok, any + is welcoming, i won't be changing my score on this tho, lol imagine ignoring 90% of the anime with him being a perfect robot to give this a extra point.

Additional final episode critic 2: Kyouya recognizes his ego as a perfect dude is a bad thing, character development at the end of the anime folks.

Additional final episode critic 3: Cool the side characters are back, that still didn't address the issue i mentioned above tbh, this was more of a second season promotional episode than the end of a season

In conclusion my rating on character is 1, a door has more character development than 90% of the characters in this anime, because at least doors can be different unlike shinoaki and her daughter.

I won't rate enjoyment as it's a subjective rating unrelated to actual quality of the producting, but if you think i'm biased towards enjoyment you can check my Kanojo mo Kanojo review which i gave it a 4 called it bad for a number of reasons and still gave it a 8 on enjoyment

Overall don't watch bokutachi no remake, learn from all the mistakes that this anime made from the source material issues to removing pieces of the source material and creating even more issues, this doesn't deserve the high rating it currently has and i honestly don't get how you people manage to blind yourself to the inumerous flaws this has and forcing into reality inexistant qualities of it, if you wanna watch a anime that's somewhat better on the exact same topic go watch ReLIFE, if you still want to watch remake i reccomend doing so on 2x speed, AND IM NOT EVEN JOKING when i say it get's more enjoyable for some unknown reason, the pacing is just all over the place on the episodes themselves.

My overall score is 2, my eyes didn't deserve going through 12 episodes, but i did it so you don't have to if that's how the saying goes.

A time travelling romance slife of life is more a slice of life where everything our mc does ends up ruining everyone elses day.

Theme of Time: The story progresses well and I guess has an ending that does resolve most of the story. The general issue the protaganist deals with is of being too involved and relied upon by his peers. This is devolped throughout with all characters failing at some point and using him to resolve the conflict. As the ending comes along our mc dials back his involvement and the anime hints that he manages to resolve all the creative writer blocks he ... made over time.

Writer Blocks: Throughout the anime our mc takes on the role of producer, telling people what to do, giving them time frames, organising work schedules, all normal stuff a producer would do. Yet him doing this role uninspires and prevents the other characters wanting to be artists which is a stupid anime plot. People of course loose motivation when they have to budge on work ideas but the anime implys any budge/compromise leads to quiting the job...what?! All our mc wanted to do is be creative like the cool gen he looked upto but is unable to be a happy creator as everyone else looses all happiness from him doing just a normal director job. It baffles me beyond belef.

Romance: The romantic side of the anime is severerly lacking as our potential ships dont get any love from our mc. They pry for his attention and love but he is having none of it,even announcing to us the viewer he doesnt like them and its actually a pain that they like him. The one girl he might get with is left open at the end but not open in a they might get together way, more a as we hinted throughout the anime the girl likes mc just making sure you know that as the viewer way.

Overall anime looks great has nice music and all the characters are different and unique. The time travel is more of a story start then actual relevant and the ending made me angry due to the mc just not being allowed happiness.

finally oh god , finally one of the worst show this season already finished . if I'm going to give a simple opinion in my perspective , this show is a failed version of relife . that's it .

Starting with a fucking bad development characters for nanako , shinoaki and tsurayuki . and then how cringey the conversations were and it’s very easy for our mc to persuade others to do things like he wanted . and also the outplaced romance and love triangle scenes and screen time that should’ve been used for other shit .

I'm not going to talk about how bad it ... is . that's up to you to give your own opinion about it . what I'm going to talk about is much bigger issue .

the issue was the time travel concept . I've said about this a lot before , but they seems not to fix this one to the end of the series . I mean our mc just time travel three times , three motherfucking times , but not even a single question came out of his mouth .

for me this is their major flaw . at first I thought that it was okay , our mc sent to the past and just remake his life , oh okay cool , maybe we won't see the time travel shit again . but the major problem started from the second time travel .

when he get sent to the future , we need to know that this guy can't be that stupid . all the bizarre situation happened , ain't no way a normal human can comprehend this shit . in my eyes , they intentionally make our mc oblivious about the situation .

we don't even know who the hell is this keiko girl . who is she to him? why she send him to handful amount of time travel ? why they don't explain to us the reason why our mc get sent back and forth to the past and future?. in the end , we ain't getting any answer man holy crap .

my final words is , even a child book I've read when I was 5 years old had a better plot than this show . and I really hope this one won't be getting any more season .

I've got this anime recommended by my friend, and I kinda liked the whole anime from the start, but lemme explain why I don't like it anymore.

Story - 4/10 - A boy who is not okay with his present life and he is gonna be transferred in his past and he chose a different path.

The first 8 episodes, I guess, are very good and I was looking forward to the whole meaning behind it and how they will deal with it. But... out of sudden, they have changed the pace and the whole meaning behind it as well. And I was confused about why did ... it happen and why did they make it like that. I thought this anime has some back story and deep meaning but after all, it was only a rom-com slice of life without any bigger meaning even the anime seems many episodes like it might have something like that.

I guess it is a common rom-com but from the start, it seems like something more and that left me disappointed.

Art - 7/10 - Art was fine. It is not the best art but it serves its purpose for a rom-com.

Sound - 4/10 - I guess there's not even any music for this anime or at least I didn't notice the whole time and I'm a person who is looking for things like this.

Character - 5/10 - The characters are kinda flat and you don't know much about them at all. Only our main character has some "development" but from the start, it is a hero who can solve everything and he is super smart and kind boi.

Enjoyment - 5/10 - I was enjoying this anime from the start and I would have said 8/10, but with the last episodes, my rating went drastically down. I wasn't really happy with how did the story end and how it was developed at the end.

I've seen some poeple comparing this anime to relife. They're not comparable because unlike this anime Relife was actually good. Relife was engaging,it had some well written and enjoyable characters, it was an emotional story with deep messages about life, human reliationship, traumas and friendship. Bokunotachi no remake has none of those qualities.

I can tell you what it has. A boring main character with zero personality who the story tries to portray as some sort of underdog or as someone that you should pity when he's actually someone very talented right from episode 1. Does he face any difficulties in his study? Not really, he ... becomes quickly better than everyone at his school. Everyone becomes dependent of him and of course he has a harem of girls who almost immediatly falls for him.

The secondary characters are fine but underdevelopped which is a shame, I wish the story was about them instead of the boring mc. They had some potential. Art style, animation, characters designs and music are fine but it's nothing special. The plot is not engaging, I was totally bored when I reach episode 7. Don't waste your time with bokunotachi no remake, there are plenty of animes out there that does a better job with romance, slice of life and time travel

To be honest, I only watch this series just to enter lucky draws for a contest back in my region so you'll know the reason why I didn't want to take this series as my seasonal watch back then.

I've yet to see Re:Life; hence, I've no clue what Remake Our Life is gonna turn out. Now, slice-of-life genre can be great storytelling especially when the premise of youngsters wanting to create stuff can be related to the target audience. But unfortunately, ROL has its execution become poorly-made that it becomes unmemorable for me to remember though the main protagonist is one of the most despicable ... characters I've ever seen so far.

For starters, I'm well aware that many of the existing light novels are made up of self-insert protagonists writing style and that LNs are one of the mediums where escapism is prioritised. Nevertheless, it's always risky to write that kind of protagonist because the character itself will become an unlikeable one to several readers who views the protagonist as a ridiculous being despite the realistic stuff happening around the said protagonist.

Kyoya, being an obvious self-insert protagonist, has become one of the most condescending characters I've ever watched. Regardless of the contriving message on him evading a quarter-life crisis that's just been easily resolved with a time travel ability from one of the characters he meets later on, I see Kyoya being an actual villain at the end of the series. I know I sound ridiculous, but all I see from this adaptation are his words not matching up with his actions. Whatever Kyoya does in his "Reset Past" is somewhat patronising that makes him a hypocrite. The final episode has take the cake for he says he regrets doing this, but he still does the most despicable thing he has ever done: erasing someone's life from existence even though she didn't do anything wrong.

Also, the fanservice in the first half seems out of place that it somewhat makes it more obvious that there's a reason why self-insert protagonists, especially the male ones, are frowned upon in the writing department. Though I'm satisfied with the second half not having random fanservice scenes, the execution of a serious story that revolves around making/creating all kinds of mediums of the entertainment industry has been watered down, leaving me feel dull on how it's presented.

Its presentation of how each "creation of entertainment stuff" is explained with 90% of all the runtime made up of heavy exposition dump via the protagonist's narration. I don't understand how this kind of presentation can be making a valuable message be memorable in many viewers' minds feel fresh as long as it can be. Now I know why Japanese viewers' thoughts on this anime adaptation is poorly received because the storytelling elements are weak to deliver any emotional impact due to knowing Kyoya is a selfish protagonist with a savior complex despite in the final few episodes, he was saying out loud that he won't be that anymore. Nevertheless, I'm planning to read the LN someday just to know whether this adaptation is a very compressed one.

Still, having a one cour doesn't excuse poor execution of the intended storytelling for I've seen some one-cour series that has managed to get a high score from myself. In the end, I feel like ROL reminds me of that okay K-drama called "Start-up", but the former score being half of the latter one.

I can only recommend this if you don't care about the heavy exposition dumps that has led to 10% "action louder than words" frames feel unfulfilling, if you just like the female characters being cute waifus and/or if you just want an anime adaptation where the storytelling elements are very easy on your mind. I believe the only reason why I stick throughout the series is because of Kawasegawa whom I find likeable even though she's discarded without proper character development and that she's obviously a plot device, along with every supporting character, for a dull protagonist to develop into a hypocrite.

Despite my dissatisfaction of the execution of its storytelling, I've to give credit that the anime studio has made acceptable animation quality though the character designs are generic-looking and background art is just okay to look at. Still, I should appreciate that the animators (especially from the Key Animation & Animation Director teams) making a feel-good, escapism series that might cheer up/inspire for those who want to watch in a world where everything is filled up with uncertainty.

It is a time travel slice of life show, technically well done and mildly entertaining. For some reason author decided to screw it all up in the last two episodes.

Warning: plot spoilers ahead. I can't really explain what I didn't like without them.

The MC works in game industry. He had a couple bad projects and wondered if his life would be better if he went to art school instead of university. It's not that he has any passion for art or anything, it just seems to him that it would be more fun/easier.

So, for no apparent reason, he goes back in time, gets into art ... school and spends couple years there. Then he jumps 10 years forward.

It turns out his time leaps didn't help him much. He doesn't do anything creative, he is in the same exact line of work with only difference being that he is now a minor manager, one position up from the bottom. Three of previously successful and famous "platinum generation" artists who become his closest friends are completely screwed by his time travel. His fourth friend, Kawasegawa, is in worse position than before and about to get fired for mistakes of her boss.

Any half decent person would try to fix it - undo the whole thing and solve his own problems with his own efforts. What does MC do - "I want to go back to be with everyone". What a scumbag. Him "being with everyone" badly screwed up "everyone's" lives.

So, the guy got a time leap, screwed up the past, jumped ahead, looked at horrifying results and wants to continue? Why? How many more time leaps it would take for him to make something of himself? How many more lives he is willing to screw up in the process? Why on Earth he even given an option?

Before the last two episodes it was just a usual escapist SoL anime with MC reaping undeserved benefits of time travel gifted to him for no reason. He is just a normal guy who got lucky. And then he turns into a complete scumbag. I suppose author decided that SoL anime needs a message of some sort. "You can't really succeed in life without multiple time leaps" or "screw everyone, I got mine" - I am not sure which.

Damm that was a boring anime to watch, i endured it for 8 episodes but i cant keep going. Basically this very competent dude made the wrong choices in his life like most of us but he gets to redo it. And now knowing what he did wrong he does everything right helps everyone and has all the anwsers just by repeating his motto "there's always a way". How such a talented, diligent and competent person failed in his previuous life? He was still young. And now we get to watch he being a regular good worker, that's one of the worst idead i've ever ... seen. I dont dislike the main protagonist as a person, great for him being such a flawless perfected person but its not entertaining at all to watch how smooth his normal life goes without any real struggles because again his previous life somehow gave him all the answers. I'm 26 and i know much more than i knew 10 years ago but that is going way to far... Anyway this show is boring af

Terrible writing and generic bland-ass characters. When the main character opens their mouth and spouts out some common knowledge you learn in education when you're in elementary school, and the everyone marvels at him like he actually said something insightful, you know some dumb writing and self-jerking was put in here.

Main character has some shit tastes by the way, who actually likes Familiar of Zero? Literally the only thing about Louis people would like would be the fact that she's a loli? Clearly the author reeks of teenage boy fantasy tastes and have yet to grow past thirteen. The fact that they are in ... college should have saved it, but instead it still feels like education made for elementary schoolers. High education my ass.

They don't even get basic writing right. Did the author google this or something.