Bokutachi no Remake Episode 12 Discussion

Feels like another self-insert teenage show in adult clothing.

MC is sooooooo annoying. About a third of the way in I realized the show is basically all 1) dialogue (mostly MC conversing with another character) or 2) monologue in between dialogue. Hardly a moment goes by without the MC speaking. There were even times when MC would monologue WHILE someone else is talking.

In retrospect it makes sense: the whole story is basically a visual novel, with multiple routes (bad end initially, then start from beginning, hit one girl's ending, now he's loaded a save point for another route) and the constant mono/dialoguing. Original writer did script for Grisaia anime and scenario for a route for the Grisaia VN after all.

It's also incredibly facepalming how the MC wants to, essentially, help everyone in Platinum Generation succeed... except, well, everyone was succeeding WITHOUT his help in the first timeline. Ultimately it boils down to MC envying other's successes and wanting a piece of that.

What sunk the story is just how shallow it feels. I thought MC's central conflict was the desire to do something, to make something of his life (completely relatable); but by the end it ended up being: he's too good at what he does and everyone else is intimated by his ability or lost without his help, so now he has to tone it down and nurture everyone else.
The time travels don't help. He gained a loving wife and daughter instantly in the forward time skip, then he lost it all, without any heartbreak or regret, in another backward time jump. The highs and lows feel so effortless and forgettable.