Hashiba Kyouya is a 28 year old game developer. With his company going bankrupt, and him losing his job, he returns to his hometown. Looking at the success of creators of his age, he finds himself regretting his life decisions as he lay distressed on his bed. But when he opens his eyes, he finds that he has travelled 10 years back to the time before he entered college.

Will he finally make things right? This is a story about a failed person who is given a second opportunity to follow his dreams.


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I'm making a thread because this series is my official hate-watch of the season.

I adamantly despise the main character of this series. I feel a strong level of author-insertion with him. The intention is that he's a hard working guy who just can't seem to catch a lucky break, and at least in his own mind, he ties it all to making the "safe" choice when selecting a college and not following his dream. While he did try and go after it later in life, he just never found much success, even when putting in a lot of work. They also portray him as extremely capable and valuable to any company. "Who wouldn't want a great producer like him?!" it practically screams every ten minutes.

When you step away from him a few meters, what you actually see is a horribly self-serving douchebag who can't accept the occasional setback in life, and rather than redouble his efforts and work from doing indie work (which should be easy because he's so capable), he falls back into regret and starts flailing for a crutch.

So he jumps back in time somehow, and effectively starts stealing someone else's success, or latches onto talented people who have what he lacks. Which is really passion and drive.

There's some degree of self awareness to the series. Episode 2 even dove right into the transmigration genre trope of stealing someone else's work, or at least beating them to an invention/creation, and the male lead does recognize it as wrong. He did it on accident. But he still wants to proceed forward with ingratiating himself into the "Platinum Generation" trio he's landed with by chance.

Who's life is he stealing? Probably his beloved recent boss, Kawasegawa Eiko, who took a chance with him and let him really display his producer talents in the future timeline. The both of them just got screwed over by office politics and economics, dooming Kawasegawa's passion project. They're doing a decent job dropping hints that Kawasegawa was supposed to be in the position he currently occupies. She knew the genius trio from her school days that he now occupies, and was close enough with them to get them to collaborate with her visual novel team 10 years later. She had the same short film concept that he and the trio are doing. She bumps into him a lot, has always had that drive to learn and be successful that he's trying out on his redo.

So hopefully, the theme of the second episode where he started to realize how much damage he can cause with his influence from the future continues. The concept is fairly revolting compared to Saekano, Shirobako, and Imouto sae Ireba Ii; where they're all collectively working their asses off to make a successful game or other creative properties. Setbacks happen and they push past them. Kyouya was consumed by regret and was desperate for a crutch, which he calls a "second chance." Kawasegawa gave him a second chance in the present.