Bokutachi no Remake: Episode 8 Felt Hard to Watch
WARNING: HEAVY SPOILERS For Ep.8!!!!
The episode broke me... I'm saying this as a compliment. It felt like following a guide to reach a particular video game's ending, and getting the wrong ending instead.
A few days ago, I watched this week's episode of Bokutachi no Remake. (Remake Our Life.) The time travel anime that was so relatable I already wrote a bunch of posts on this series. The anime skipped many scenes from the Light Novel and Manga, but for the most part it's a great adaptation...
Episode 8 deals with the climax of a story thread started in episode 6. Tsurayuki was dealing with money problems, so Kyouya decided to help him out. He used his knowledge from the future about the current trends to device a plan to make a doujin game. Using talents of all the members of Kitayama team to create a successful project. Kyouya being the director, Nanako the composer, Shinoaki the artist & Tsurayuki would be the author.
They encountered many problems while they were making the game, but they finally managed to finish it in time. Kyouya plans and critical thinking abilities allowed the team to finish the project. Some compromises had to happen, but it they succeeded.
As I was watching the events go well, I was worried... Things are going too well!
They finally managed to make the game, sell it and they all got their share of the money. I was happy for them, but I didn't know where the story will go after that. It was either anti-climatic, or a calm before the stor-- Oh, God! It's a storm, isn't it?!!!
Turns out Kyouya was too good at solving the problems! Tsurayuki realized he could never walk alongside him as an equal. When Kyouya suggested them make a game for Tsurayuki's sake, and when they worked well on their game, Tsurayuki only wanted to help Kyouya make it a success, but Kyouya was too good he didn't even need the help.
So, Tsurayuki gave up... He can't walk a road knowing he can't reach his end goal...
He said he had an author-name for himself in mind. He made sure to put "Kyo" in that name he based on his friend. Be he doesn't have the mental strength to go on anymore. The name was "Kawagoe Kyoichi." The name of final member of the platinum trio. The revelation broke Kyouya. It also broke me.
(Kyouya have just made one of his absolute favorite creators give up on art. Let that sink in.)
The world didn't end. Tsurayuki's future wasn't in danger either. It's true that he left the industry, but it was his choice and he has his family career to inherit. Nothing objectively bad has happened.
Yet, watching Tsurayuki walk away felt brutally painful, like the world have truly ended.
Many things changed between Kyouy'a first and second run. He wanted to change many things. The only thing he wanted to keep, however, is the Platinum Trio. The only thing Kyouya looked forward to, was to stand as their equal. Ironically, the very thing he did to keep that part of the future the same, led to changing it!
The despair he felt when he realized that the only thing he was supposed to do, is to let them work on their struggles by themselves! In the future he came from, the three of his friends managed to find success without him being there. He wasn't needed. That realization is painful!
Then, as he was in Despair, Keiko came to him asking "Why did it turn out like this?" With a creepy smile on her face.
"I wonder what will happen in the future at this rate?"
The next moment, Kyouya wakes up to a girl calling him "Daddy," and Shinoaki Aki asking what's wrong with him, her husband.
I HAVE MANY QUESTIONS!!!!!
I already knew that the story will go to the future at some point. I've seen the Light Novels illustrations for Vol.4 before even the anime started, but I never expected it would be like this.
The story can go in any direction now. I plan on continue being an anime-first watcher and not check what will happen next in the manga, but I plan on reading all the foreshadowing the anime has skipped. (Thanks to folks at BokuRema Discord, for letting me know about them.) I already read the Manga chapters for a few episodes now.
~ Thanks for Reading ~
- The first image is made with Canva using a color page from LN Vol.3. Next images are taken from the Manga Ch.26.
- The Manga version of Episode 8 is different, and in parts better. I recommend you all read it!
- I'm equally excited and afraid of what the next episode would bring.
- This article is also on Read.cash. (Slight Differences.)
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This anime is my favorite of the season. Yesterday's episode I found it much harder to watch, to think of seeing the "Happy Ending" with Shinoaki and his Mini-Shinoaki it was strong to see how he indirectly ended up absorbing the fate of others to get his own :/.
Post: after episode 8 I have a lot of doubts about Keiko if she is a person or a kind of ghost or demon who is responsible for time travel (I haven't read the novels so I only know from the anime xD).
Yes, episodes 8 and 9 are equally heart breaking... I know this is the direction of the story from the start, but after 7 episodes of friendship part of me feels cheated.
I think there will be another time travel at some point in the story, especially after looking at the Light Novels covers of the future volumes, but I don't know. Just a feeling.
I have a feeling he's going to go back to the past to fix everything but he also may not go back to time travel and instead bring them all back together in 2018 to bring them back to being the prodigies they should have been. Why will this anime only have 12 cap in its first season? :/
I actually will like this more:
The anime already surpassed (what has been translated of) the manga with the 9th episode, I believe. There's enough material of the light novel for another season, but sadly I don't think this is the type of the anime that will adapt the whole story. Seems like they made it as a promotion of the novel only. Some anime are made for that purpose alone and I think this is one of them.
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