Summer 2021 Anime: Remake Our Life!

Synopsis

Kyouya Hashiba has never been successful in his life. Every time he gets a job, it always ends with him getting fired. While he lies in his bed thinking about successful creators in his generation and regretting his choice in life, he wakes up 10 years in the past when he started college. This time he decides to choose a different path: enroll as an art student. He now lives in a 4-person co-ed house alongside people who are so passionate with art. Now he has the chance to spend his formative years with creators he knows will be famous in the future, but things might not turn out as he expected.

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Razif Kurniawan (The Indonesian Anime Times)

In 2013, when I was still in high school, I watched Pet Girl of Sakurasou, an anime about high-spirited high school students who want to chase their dreams in the anime-game industry. Eight years later, I’m now watching Remake Our Life, which kinda reminds me of Sakurasou with its “dream of working in the anime-game industry” story, but it really hits differently with my current condition now. The main character has been a failure as an adult and really regrets his not making the choice of college he wanted. Because of that, he did not do most of his job very well, and ended up unemployed for the most of his time, screaming with “ah, if I could go back to that time.”

Then, when he did go back to his past, he was really determined to do things as he really desired. But again, reality is not that nice, for even though he has the experience of a 28-year-old working adult and he has chosen the right college, he is surrounded by many talented colleagues who already possess firm foundations from the start, including people whom he used to see in the future: Aki Shino who would become a great illustrator, and Eiko Kawasegawa who would become Kyouya’s leader in a failed project, but seem to have great talent in movie-making. Seeing these people makes Kyouya realize that even if he could go back to the past, the way to success is still not easy.

Kyouya Hashiba is a reflection of an adult who used to have lots of big dreams, but gets faced with the grim reality that not everything can go as planned. For working adults, it is a reminder that challenges are always present wherever and whenever you are. While for youngsters who just started dreaming, it is a reminder to use their time right now carefully, so that there will be no regrets in the future. It is nice to see how things will wrap up in the next episode, while also thinking how the next episode of our life will be.

Remake our Life! is currently streaming on Ani-One Asia

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