Bokutachi no Remake / Remake Our Life!

[MFauli]

episode 10:

LOL. This is the first episode that had me annoyed in the Ryll-sense That final scene ... a bit much? lol

But there's so many characters that annoy me. Why does the brunette glasses-girl always call for Kyouya? Solve your own fucking problems!

And the blonde bimbo artist ... that's just not believable. The artist market is one of the most contentious in any creative industry. Nobody would casually throw away such a job. And she's seriously saying "I couldn't get myself motivated"?! WTF. She's not some unique genius. Even at the top of artists, there's always an alternative waiting for a chance. She's the worst part of these last two episodes :/

The CEO is dumb, too. What did he expect?! Does he want his dev team to use magic? He might not be directly involved with development, but if you'Re the CEO of a dev company, you ought to have enough of an understanding to make basic decisions not go that wrong.

And then the situation with Shinoaki ... 3 months have gone by now in that new future, and Kyouya NEVER asked her about how she quit drawing and all? And he didn't try calling Tsurayuki?!

With how Nanako seems to go back to singing, I'm now confident they're going for the "everybody's future actually turns out well after all" that I predicted, but ... the way it happens is so fucking unearned. This whole episode, I was waiting for Kawasegawa to stand up to the shitty CEO, but now it's Kyouya once again.

Really, all the irrational criticism Ryll had for Kyouya wasn't unwarranted until this point. NOW I'm starting to hate him, too lol

[Ryllharu]

But there's so many characters that annoy me. Why does the brunette glasses-girl always call for Kyouya? Solve your own fucking problems!

To help in doubling down that the Kawasegawa of this world is an ineffective team leader, because of course she's just a unmarried woman above 25 (therefore useless sterile hag! ) and cuz Kyouya is the hero.

And the blonde bimbo artist ... that's just not believable. The artist market is one of the most contentious in any creative industry. Nobody would casually throw away such a job. And she's seriously saying "I couldn't get myself motivated"?! WTF. She's not some unique genius. Even at the top of artists, there's always an alternative waiting for a chance. She's the worst part of these last two episodes :/

Going to disagree with you here. She's a really accurate and realistic depiction of an artist with a severe case of floundering motivation, the downward spiral of losing self-confidence because of having a block, flailing for anything that might reignite that spark, and too scared to ask for help from the people who you owe work to because it makes you look unprofessional and weak. It's the same reason people hate Kazuya in Rent-a-Girlfriend. He's an accurate depiction of real life people with low self-esteem. They see a part of themselves they really don't like and don't want a reminder of it in their entertainment.

She probably is unique in this timeline because Kyouya's crappy management in 2007 led to Shinoaki quitting entirely. Ayaka is the successor to Shino's particular style, who admired her and rose to fill the gap from the little work Shino did complete.

And the rest of my usual hot take...

Kawasegawa is the leader of Team A, "which is what everyone thinks of regarding this group," and some other generic non-committal bullshit? Of course Kyouya's Team B is known for consistency, and bringing in a steady revenue stream, so of course his team is the successful moneymaker that's always on time...barf. I guess what this really means is Kawasegawa is the lead team that works on the big name projects so we can show how mediocre and incapable she is at management in this timeline compared to Kyouya. And worse still, the disgusting display of Nanako thanking him, saying she needed him for her confidence, and it is her fault for ruining all the help he gave her, though only the viewers and Kyouya know she was more successful without him in the original timeline.

It's really not right that Shino lies to her daughter about not being able to draw. I...kinda want to directly blame Kyouya for it, but it's not entirely fair to do so. I think I'll have to equally blame Shino for it. It's one thing to not want to do it at a professional level, but another to not "sloppily help" your own daughter who clearly enjoys it and wants to learn.

Everyone is a worse version of themselves in this world, even Kyouya just gives up helping people (even though he shouldn't in the first place in this world).

That said, his skeezy boss was correct to a degree. Kawasegawa got saddled with a shit job and a shit contract to go with it, but Kyouya should not be holding Kawasegawa's hand, especially at the expense of his own work. Their PR department fucking sucks though, but that could also just be Japanese business culture where the skeezy boss is getting the final say and just blaming hackers.

Kyouya is infuriating because he never learns the right lesson from his mistakes. Gave up before, if only I had a clean start with the artists I admire...then "helping" them backfired, I guess I'll give up on helping people despite doing it successfully to the nameless employees also under Kawasegawa in 2016. It's like he deliberately always takes the worst reaction outside of that one time with the camera mixup.

Definitely angers me that the message this episode is that they'll still get back up on their own and strive to be successful, when the reason they're not in 2018 is directly due to the protagonist. Even If they were struggling in some way in 2016, that's when he should have asked Kawasegawa to reach out. Instead of this "everything's shittier, but there's still hope for this world!" garbage.

Worth pointing out now that the pink-haired loli senpai god is a magical girl character from 2016 Kyouya's project working under Kawasegawa?
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