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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.