Remake Our Life!

ぼくたちのリメイク (Bokutachi no Remake)

9.0(1)

Otaku Den

7.4(180,244)

MAL Score

Ranked #2751

Popularity #716

Drama
Romance
Adult Cast
Time Travel

Episodes: 12
Duration: 25 min per ep
Aired: Jul 3, 2021 to Sep 25, 2021
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

At 28, Kyouya Hashiba can’t seem to catch a break. After quitting his office job to chase work in the video game industry, his internship at a well-known studio ends suddenly, leaving him unemployed and moving back in with his parents. Watching the celebrated “Platinum Generation” of creators thrive only deepens his regret—especially his choice to attend a conventional university instead of an arts college. Then, despite believing life offers no do-overs, Kyouya wakes up to find himself ten years in the past.

Determined not to repeat his old path, he enrolls at Oonaka University of Art, where he crosses paths with Eiko Kawasegawa—who would later hire him in the future—and moves in with classmates who will become the Platinum Generation: struggling artist Aki Shino, aspiring singer-actress Nanako Kogure, and naturally talented writer Tsurayuki Rokuonji. As they tackle projects together, Kyouya and his housemates inch closer to unlocking their potential and reshaping the lives they want to lead.

Otaku Consensus

Remake Our Life! is most persuasive when Tomoki Kobayashi’s clean direction and feel.’s polished presentation turn collaborative film and game work into credible emotional pressure; the ensemble’s relationships and carefully staged moments of jubilation and despair are its widely praised core. Nachi Kio’s series composition keeps the adaptation focused on regret and creative labor, but the brisk later time skip compresses consequences that needed more room. Its most common criticism is that conventional romance drama and a lightly developed time-travel mechanism make the supporting cast feel too dependent on Kyouya’s journey.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want the reflective second-chance appeal of ReLIFE combined with Golden Time’s college romance, but with creative careers replacing clubs, exams, and supernatural puzzles. Remake Our Life! pays unusual attention to how filmmaking, illustration, acting, writing, software development, and game production depend on deadlines, communication, and compromises rather than inspiration alone. Its best drama comes from the uncomfortable gap between helping talented people and quietly steering their lives for them. The college setting also lets professional anxiety, artistic confidence, and romantic attachment overlap in ways that standard high-school stories rarely attempt. It is less interested in rigorous time-travel mechanics than in the emotional cost of optimizing a life, making it best suited to viewers who value career regret and relationship drama over science-fiction complexity.

Key Characters

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Kyouya Hashiba(VA: Masahiro Itou)
Kyouya’s producer-like ability to organize other creators is both his greatest appeal and the source of the story’s sharpest questions about whether helping someone can become controlling them.
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Eiko Kawasegawa(VA: Nao Touyama)
Eiko’s blunt standards, professional instincts, and refusal to indulge Kyouya’s self-pity make her the ensemble’s most effective counterweight.
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Aki Shino(VA: Aoi Koga)
Aki pairs an immediately recognizable artistic gift with fragile self-belief, allowing the series to examine how praise and outside expectations can reshape a creator.
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Tsurayuki Rokuonji(VA: Haruki Ishiya)
Tsurayuki’s natural command of writing is complicated by practical obligations, giving the creative-house dynamic a necessary conflict between talent and sustainability.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The series opens with an extended, double-length premiere, giving its adult dissatisfaction and career context more room than a standard introductory episode before settling into the remaining 12-episode structure.
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Original author Nachi Kio also handled series composition, keeping the anime’s emphasis on creative labor, regret, and interpersonal consequences directly connected to the source’s authorial perspective.
3
Its art-school projects draw on multiple production disciplines—including filmmaking, photography, drawing, acting, writing, game development, and software work—rather than treating creativity as a single vague talent.
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The college environment and 28-year-old perspective distinguish it from most school romances: assignments are repeatedly framed as portfolio pieces, career steps, and tests of whether collaboration can survive professional pressure.
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Age regression is paired with a substantial time skip rather than repeated resets, shifting the dramatic focus from correcting isolated mistakes to confronting the accumulated results of altered choices.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The production separates the source’s visual identity across two artists: Eretto created the original character designs, while Kousuke Kawamura adapted them for animation.
Fun fact 2: Tomoki Kobayashi directed the series with Shouhei Yamanaka as assistant director, while Shinichi Tatsuta and Saki Yanagawa shared accessory-design duties.
Fun fact 3: Kouhei Takeishi and Kaito Suzuki received specific credits for original-work assistance, reflecting direct support beyond Nachi Kio’s dual roles as original author and series composer.
Fun fact 4: Aoi Koga, best known as Kaguya Shinomiya in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, voices Aki Shino, while Nao Touyama, the voice of Yui Yuigahama in My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, plays Eiko Kawasegawa.
Fun fact 5: Reception was notably consistent across major databases: its 7.38/10 MyAnimeList score from 180,085 votes closely aligns with AniList’s 72/100, where it also accumulated 1,979 favorites.