Reviews

Tatami Time Machine Blues is a great sequel and a love letter to the fan of OG Tatami Galaxy. It's never meant to replicate what the og show did. The story just expands with the characters it established in the first part based on a play and movie called "Summer Time Machine Blues" and just focuses on 1 Watashi variant with a different story (instead of 10 variants). As the characters are dealing with an active problem, the main protag doesn't get that many opportunities to do his trademark "meta-commentary" but it's still here and there. But that's fine and I think Shingo Natsume did an excellent job with the plot he had and he's a perfect replacement for Yuasa. The first and the last episode almost felt like Yuasa directed them. And ofc in terms of animation, Science Saru did great to maintain the quality and artistic style the original show had.
Overall, a fantastic show. People might say putting a backstory in the last episode was a meh move but hey, that means you get more of Watashi's monologue, More of Ozu being Ozu, and ofc more of Akashi. and I'm a fan of the og so I'm biased lol.