Natsuki’s do-over life hits a snag when Tatsuya suddenly slams his hands down on the table during a hangout one day and storms off. Natsuki goes after the guy, asking Tatsuya to tell him what’s wrong. But Tatsuya can only reply that he feels pathetic and wants to be alone right now. H-how can this be? This second life was supposed to be perfect. Well, even in last week’s episode, you could already see storm clouds brewin’. I questioned the need to have Natsuki thoroughly beat Tatsuya in a pick-up basketball game. Is it silly to have a fallout over this? Sure, but these are moody teenagers. And for a guy who is officially on the basketball team to lose to Natsuki, it’s kinda insulting. But the MC has abs tho!

Natsuki has an upcoming group hangout with his new friends, but he doesn’t have the clothes for it. Fortunately, he has a childhood friend to offer her expert advice. Not like we can just research it on the internet or anything. The thing is, you don’t even need to guess what the main character will be wearing. It’s always the same, drab get-up in every show. Yawn. Some series will push the envelope when it comes to female fashion, but male characters are often doomed to be boring. Well, it beats a tracksuit, I guess.

Haibara, our main character, admits that he’s got a stable job at a decent company, and this allows him to live out an ordinary, “gray” life. Basically, he’s got it better than a lot of folks out there. Nevertheless, he wants a do-over, because he has regrets from high school. But this is such an anime thing, isn’t it? There’s this pervasive implication that adolescence is all there is to life. Who cares about adulthood when your childhood sucked! A lot of people want a do-over due to their current situation. Maybe they didn’t study hard, so they’re stuck in a shitty career. Maybe they fooled around too much, so now they gotta pay child support to five baby mamas. Maybe they didn’t take good care of their health, so now they have onset diabetes. Stuff like that, y’know?