Bokutachi no Remake / Remake Our Life!

[MFauli]

Comparing Kyouya AT ALL to Makoto, rofl. And let's not forget that Sekai was the true villain in that anime :P

As for this episode:

I feel like SO much could be done if people, especially Kyouya, just talked more to each other! In that dialogue with Tsurayuki, why didn't Kyouya do one of his motivational speeches? The thing I wanted him to tell the others the entire time was something like: "Everyone, I know that I asked you to do something unreasonable this time. But ... this is a promise: Let's make another game, and this time we'll take our time. Let's do this!". And then individually tell them how fantastic their work is and that without the extreme time pressure they can truly apply their skill to it.

But he just gave up, let Tsurayuki go and eh ...

Now he's lost anyway. If he undoes the current presence, he will 1.) kill his daughter and 2.) be gay, because wife Shinoaki is as great as his life can ever be :P

Accept that Tsurayuki took a different route and move on. Ultimately, it's "just" game development, it's not like people's lives depends on choosing a specific career, most people don't get to be that picky. Enjoy your wife, have fun with your super cute daughter, and live life. You kinda cheated, but you didn't intend to, so don't feel to bad about it. Time travel is always cheating inherently.

[Ryllharu]

But he just gave up, let Tsurayuki go and eh ...

This is always his problem, always been his problem, and will always be his problem unless he finally learns something from this future jump.

Something goes wrong, and he just gives up and collapses.

He needs to recognize it is his attitude, not his available opportunities, regrets, and "luck."

He was extremely lucky in his original timeline. How often do you get cross-functional knowledge in a job that you switched to because you hated your original career? How often do you lose a job and get a new dream job a month later because you met a hot woman manager on a footbridge? How often do you rapidly work your way up from a clerical job to a management coordination position?

He's been envious of a life he thought would be better, and his shitty attitude and ego ruined that one too.

Maybe one day he'll realize that big creative projects are a collaboration, and a single decision maker for the group usually produces an inferior product.

[MFauli]

This is always his problem, always been his problem, and will always be his problem unless he finally learns something from this future jump.

Something goes wrong, and he just gives up and collapses.

I mean, that's factually untrue, Ryll, lol. Just a couple episodes ago we saw how he reacted to the missing camera. He didn't collapse, he thought hard and then made it happen against all odds. Your irrational hatred against Kyouya is showing again ;D

[Ryllharu]

It was the 2nd episode, not a couple back.

We saw his catastrophizing thought pattern. You quoted me on it so I have to assume you actually read it.

I wouldn't describe that as thinking hard on it. He nearly had a breakdown then. He just fought it once. It hasn't happened since, and we haven't seen him in an actual challenge since then, because everyone listens to his super-genius advice and it always works out. Until now. This time he immediately collapsed into his normal depressive cycle.

Right back to where he's always been.

Until a loli Christmas Future'd him away from the negative outcome he caused. Hopefully to show him how much more he's fucked up the ambitions of other creative people with his ego and lack of personal accountability.

edit:
Let's think about Nanako for a second.

We can safely presume that Kawasegawa was always going to confront Nanako about her singing and finally push her away from acting, because it wasn't what Nanako really wanted to do with her life.

But instead, we have Kyouya backing her up, telling her what to do, how to do it, and showing her how to do things. With his preference. If there was any overlap, it could be because he was driving her to write her own future songs, or at least that sound, because it is what she composed later.

However, if he's directing her how to work, Nanako isn't finding her own voice. She's not writing songs in a way that N@NA would, she's Nanako writing Kyouya's tracks.

If Nanako ended up getting just as pissed off at Kawasegawa, but found that drive herself to do what she wanted...which the concert eps tells us she would have without Kyouya's intervention, maybe just a little slower, she'd have only her own insecurities to overcome. Doing it herself builds her confidence because she's doing all of it and people are reacting positively.

With the game development, Kyouya is holding her hand the whole time.

I suspect she won't be very famous either in the future arc. Maybe a contract vocalist, but not a composer and singer-songwriter idol.