灰原くんの強くて青春ニューゲーム

So Tatsuya likes Uta, Uta likes Natsuki, and Natsuki likes Hoshimiya. Ah, to be young again haha. I guess when dude takes all those years of knowledge and applies to living his best high school life, it’s gonna breed jealousy. I mean the dude really can do everything but only because he had years of practice. I wonder how Natsuki’s gonna smooth things over with Tatsuya, especially when it’s not even something he has control over.

Honestly I really don't think Natsuki was expecting or knows what to do with another girl liking him because he's been so focused on Hikari. Even though he genuinely seems closer or more on the same wavelength with Uta compared to other girls. Just like he was so focused on being the best high schooler he could be, he never thought to think how that would effect how people see him. Is Tatsuya going to try to confess to Uta now? I mean, he'd probably get rejected over Natsuki, but still.

I side with Tatsuya in one thing, the MC seems like Superman. He does everything better than the rest of the cast. No middle ground, the whole cast exists only to praise or envy him. It's hard to picture him as someone that had a bad high school time, got bullied and was basically a 0 in everything, specially socials when right now he is scoring max punctuation in everything. I would have liked it more if he wasn't perfect, if his basket was worse than Tatsuya, and his cooking was what you would expect from your average functional adult and his strong points were that he is very good at studying cause he already successes high school and university and that he is now making attempts to actually maintain a healthy life.

Same, I wrote an accidental word wall at the top-level basically saying "I wish they played it straight", like it would have been super interesting if he wasn't superman, he was just a slightly above average college junior (7 years forward puts you around there). Basically he's good at HS academics because he's done them before, he can do some basic adult stuff, and he's had 7 more years of trial and error at social interactions than the rest of them. And maybe he could even have basketball too, as a treat, but NO MORE. IMO it would still work out to be a good rom-com, and probably better than this tropey direction they're going.

Yeah, exactly. To a certain extent, I could buy the whole “while I was wasting my life, I had this hobby and got pretty good at it” idea, whether that hobby is basketball, cooking, singing… but one hobby, not everything. Him being fit because he exercises and eats healthy, being academically smart because he’s already finished high school and used to tutor, more or less understanding his teammates because he’s already known them for three years… it already puts him in a better-than-everyone position. He doesn’t need to excel at everything all the time, because it makes it hard to believe he was once this loser who couldn’t do anything right and needed a second chance.

Based on the opening theme, I was wondering when Uta would have a moment with Natsuki, and I definitely didn't expect it to be in the third episode. Honestly, I don't think Natsuki made any mistake with Tatsuya; he used his knowledge of the past in the best way possible. I believe he lacked a better understanding of the situation, because it was obvious that Tatsuya asked which girl he liked with the clear intention of confirming his point, but well, you can't blame him for not having had that experience before. Miori was right, and he'll have to make a choice. Anyway, I'm loving the drama and seeing that it's not all just flowers like the first episode gave the impression

Honestly it was already the case before but it really sounds like dude totally picked his life up in college, doing basketball, cooking as a hobby at home, working at a cafe Sometimes you casually say embarrassing things Girl as opposed to what you said at the restaurant??? ok Ah he was a tutor. That explains how unrealistically good he is at studying/relearning stuff from high school or whatever. So ok, looks like he had a girl in mind, but now there's another girl totally into him and he doesn't know what to do/how he feels. Ok nahhhhh everything else, fine whatever, but the idea that because he regularly went to karaoke by himself he'd be a good singer now? I'm sorry if you sent any adult into their high school body they would hate their voice way too much to sing confidently Well ok Tatsuya was into Uta. I was thinking that was pretty obvious but I was also thinking 'unless I'm just misunderstanding how Tatsuya seems to be jealous about him' but it's both I wonder if Hikari calling about Tatsuya indicates that she's into him... Well, if there was one thing Natsuki wasn't good at and still isn't good at, it's actually being social. He's just managed to worm his way into a social good by being talented at things. But he doesn't have what it takes to work out group dynamics like this. We'll see how he picks it up now, I guess.

the time travel aspect does nothing to the plot Hey, that's not true! It adds in all those uncomfortable ethical questions about a guy who's mentally in his mid 20s gearing up to fuck a bunch of 15-year-old high school freshmen, without any knowledge of his situation, that he has a significant power/knowledge imbalance over due to more-or-less knowing their future. You know, the worst part of all these time-leap redo shows? Plus, as a bonus, we also get the other worst thing about a large subset of these shows: grappling with the fact that the MC literally knows the future for the better part of a decade , and in lieu of, I dunno, getting his degree early and playing the market to become a billionaire, he's opting to use ~30-40% of that incredibly valuable time to go to high school again. With, I cannot stress this enough, the apparent primary motivation of dating/fucking 15-year-olds.

Not the person you’re responding to, so I cannot speak to their list but we’re swamped with romance and romance-adjacent anime this season. For romance-only, no-to-minimal-drama: The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten S2 I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!? I Want to End this Love Game The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt Haibara's Teenage New Game+ - (This one) Always A Catch! If you add in other genres: Isekai Nonbiri Nouka S2 - Isekai, Harem The Ramparts of Ice - Drama Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring - Drama The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior Season 2 - Isekai Mission: Yozakura Family Season 2 - Action An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess - Isekai (Sorta) Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk - Yuri, Drama Even A Replica Can Fall In Love - Drama Pardon the Intrusion, I'm Home! - Reverse harem Kirio Fan Club - Surreal humor Go for it, Nakamura-kun - Shounen-ai/yaoi The Barbarian’s Bride - Drama, Action Mistress Kanan Is Too Devilishly Easy - Ecchi

I figured beating Tatsuya in basketball might have a bad effect but it really was the first domino for feeling inferior to Natsuki. I do like that Tatsuya understands that it's his own issue to deal with so he was trying to control himself by taking himself out of the situation.  I like the theme this series is exploring where it's not simply about the girl he is interested in/romance, and its exploring the friendships as well. Tatsuya is getting a lot more focus than I thought he'd get this early on.

See I think the best choice would be the childhood friend I love her sm! Uta is really good. Also guys forget about the time travel plot and comedy just enjoy the romance drama. Outro is once again unexpectedly Good I would love to see that shit but ofc it's kinda impossible. So he have his flaws he lacks emotional awareness, he is socially a bit awkward (saying embarrassing stuff) he just have to show it to the cast and it will be perfect. Now talking bout the our basketball guy, he is having a valid crashout. Stripping him off his basketball identity doing everything perfectly. I am keen to know more about the other middle hair guy, this season is worth the watch for me this season is PACKED with BANGERS. Otaku gal anime is cringe af but I am looking forward to that as well. Rezero fans be ready cause ep 3 is said to be the best episode of re zero light novel anime etc

So it's going to be a bit haremy it seems, ot at least relationship drama-y. Haibara may have a bit more life experience but he's still pretty dense for not picking up on Uta being very interested in him. Tatsuya getting so overshadowed in everything, but he's not helping himself by keeping who he likes secret when Haibara freely told him about liking Hoshimiya. Pretty solid chance Haibara would have been more aware of what was starting to develop with Uta if he had mentioned that.

I didn't expect Natsuki to use his college and adult years of cooking to become his new cafe's job cook in literally the SECOND DAY. Even Yuiyui is jealous and she's the one who recommended him for this job. Natsuki sees enough of his friends as is, do they really need to impose on him during his new job? Though Uta's positive friendship vibes can cure any frustration! Plus it's a chance for Natsuki to flex his cooking skills by cooking up delicious meals for all his friends with the vaguest of orders. So Yuino is like super energetic and cute on minsta? Gap Moe for the win! Our resident basketball players are actually really dumb and totally unprepared for exams (I mean, Uta straight up admits she doesn't even listen in class and Tatsuya is waiting FOR THE LITERAL MORNING OF EXAMS TO CRAM) so the only solution is clearly a friend group study session! Which is important for Natsuki because he recalls seeing this group having a lot of fun without him back in his original game run. And yet another perk of having gone through college and also having a tutoring gig is that he can also tutor pretty much everybody. And it's surprisingly good for appealing to women, what with helping Hikari out AND managing to have a romantic moment with Uta that neither of them saw coming. Natsuki being so nice and helpful seems to have really won Uta over...even if Natsuki isn't quite aware of how her feelings for him are changing. Not when he only has eyes for Hikari. Natsuki really can't get away from Miori, huh? Even if she's only there to play dumb so she can get Reita to tutor her. Also we finally get introduced to Serika ((Aimi!) who is a blonde beautie who will likely become more important to Natsuki than he realizes right now. Miroi is on the basketball team with Uta so she knows how much Uta has been talking about Natsuki like a lovestruck schoolgirl. In fact when Uta comes back from the bathroom she acts relieved when Natsuki covers up their conversation, as if she was worried Miori leaked her crush while she was gone. Natsuki's colorful adolescence is developing in ways he did not imagine! Late night call with Hikari! Even if it's about Tatsuya and not themselves. Yes Natuski, a truly fulfilling karaoke session is with friends while one of them does a perfect idol impression. Or singing an Aqua Timez duet with Uta even though it basically becomes a Natsuki song to show off his singing because this song touches close to his heart! Why is Tatsuya so pissed? Because Natsuki is so perfect at everything, so popular and nice, that he just makes Tatsuya feel bad that he can't measure up. Especially when he's managing to pull Uta, the girl TATSUYA likes. The person Natsuki always admired and wanted to be like now resents Natsuki for trying to be more like how Natsuki saw Tatsuya. The irony.

Starting with a Neopolitan has me thinking of Fermat's Kitchen. And of course he learned to cook in college and is really good at it. Now he's got two girls after him. Really curious if Tatsuya is lying about not having a crush here. Aww he made Uta a study guide. Reminds me of Fragrant Flower s1. Poor Uta, she's cute but she isn't Hoshimiya. And if it is embarrassing to hear other people say it you should be embarrassed saying it too dude. Huh I thought Hoshimiya was going to ask what was up between him and Uta, this redirect is a surprise to me. I figured they would skip the singing, always glad when we get the VAs performing a song for Karaoke or otherwise. And Tatsuya looks mad-mad. Dude does not like that our boy is popular and cool now. But now Tatsuya's stunned by his solo lol. May not be on purpose but he's rizzing Uta so hard right now. Poor girl is going to be heartbroken when he turns her down/dates anyone else. And at least Tatsuya was honest when confronted. Step 1 in sorting this out. Okay so Tatsuya lied before about not knowing who he likes, got it. sigh I'm so borderline on this show. The slice of life side is not that interesting, there's a ton of better romances this season. But I want to like it so much.

Like Kyouya Hashiba, Natsuki began to alienate his male friend Tatsuya by making him insecure about him being better than him so far that he unintentionally rizzed his crush Uta. Natsuki should be open to Miori about his crush on Hikari to make her be his wingwoman for Hikari instead of Uta. Natsuki sang so well that Uta had to sit down. We finally meet Miori's friend Serika. So Yuino can sing & act like an idol & be cute when posting on Minsta. So Natsuki is bad at understanding people's emotions.

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Wow cut and Cook to order restaurant fancy. I think it would be hilarious of Haibara just started getting the feels for everyone Yay we finally got guitar girl! I think it's starting to feel like Miori is also new game+ing it. Who was Tatsu seeing in the karaoke? In this path, Tatsu still hates him in the end oof. The thing that is the same in both is Tatsu. I think it's more of a Tatsu problem lol.

TL;DR see last paragraph, this turned into a wall way before I knew it Tbh I thought the plot was super tight until approximately this episode. There's a lot of stuff I'm sure people could take from end of college back to beginning of high school and "re-rack" their lives. That's what's fascinating about the premise, you could really mess with people with just the basic maturity progression and your huge knowledge advantage that you know a lot about them before they even know it themselves. But this has started to step into pure fantasy land. For one, I'd buy like "is better than expected at working in a cafe", but come on, he's some kind of Michelin-star chef because he learned to cook in college? And he just went to karaoke solo, as one does , so now he's a superstar singer too? That's just not how that works. Anyway, beyond all that, somehow despite having a "normal" college life, this idiot is also just can't help but shamelessly hit on Uta at every chance possible? Forget noticing that she's super into him, he might as well be acting out Romeo and Juliet over here. Now there's a skill that most people actually develop a lot more feel for as you go through college, and yet he's below elementary school level. Behind that, the other thing that's actually insane is that he was so clueless about that beating his old friend at the one thing he's good at might be a bad idea. Honestly I respect the game to go ahead and beat him anyway for your own self-respect, but not identifying right away that it might cause issues is like some serious neurodivergent shit. In fact the way the last episode was written, it seemed like he did realize it since he was immediately downplaying his ability and saying "oh I just got lucky" and stuff. Idk overpowered, emotionally out of touch anime main characters are way overused, but at least in fantasy animes there's like decent reasons to use the trope (keeping MC open to a few different ship options, comedic moments where they fail to grasp the situation etc), but here it does nothing but harm. It's not funny and it makes the premise less interesting. IMO this premise had huge potential to play everything completely straight and believable (minus the time travel) and it would have been funny, awkward, heartwarming etc. But I see instead we are going to be getting a tropey Kpop star anime MC instead. Lame

The way Natsuki locked in while singing was different, anyway Tatsuya is being annoying Natsu is OP I get that but Tatsuya knows that he likes Hoshimiya so why the hell did Tatsuya not tell him he likes Uta. Natsuki would've had a reason to watch his distance since this Uta woman is trying to get closer to Natsu ffs she needs to piss off tbh. These types of anime are always interesting lets see if Natsuki can somehow resolve this.

He cook-a the pasta. And so, let him cook. Yay! Either I've been playing too much Uma or I hear Helios' "Wei" in that lol. That's... Vague. Please stop reminding me my exams are in a couple of weeks... I'm pretty sure I remember hearing one of my classmates say something similar to that after a recent exam lol. "I don't know enough to know if I did well". Number lines, limits, and absolute values? Yep, teaching others is the best way to learn apparently. Quadratic curves? That's close. Lol. So, she's studying with them too. And of course it's the seat next to her. Oh god ok she really doesn't know anything does she? So, they're going home together. Hit a snag? So, she's calling him. It's been at most a few hours... Huh. What's up with him? Karaoke is really fun with friends. And so they're going to sing together. Seems they're impressed by his singing. Yeah... I've seen at least a couple of music anime think they're so clever with their MC's name being Uta or something containing it... Her name is "Sing", and she's a singer. Ha. He's jealous. Oh he's really upset. Indeed he is.

In the first part of the episode when Uta got really close to Natsuke, I thought Tatsu was mad at Natsuke because he liked Uta. Toward the end, I started to more think Tatsu might be gay and have a crush on Natsuke! I'm really not sure though the brown haired boy said Tatsu liked Uta but I really think he might be off on this one. Tatsu's behavior in acting tough around Natsuke might have more been that he wanted to look good in front of the guy he liked rather than being threatened. I do wonder though if Tatsu actually was gay, would Natsuke would have been able to figure that out by the time they became adults? I also think Natsuke was lying about not liking Uta since he imagined her sparkling and blushed when they were really close together. I think he prefers Hoshimiya but might also just think Uta is also beautiful and nice. I wonder if he used to crush on her in his previous life when he presumably barely knew her.

This is quite the twist. What if the girl you thought you wanted wasn't actually the girl for you? I'm liking this show more and more. NGL, I will be heartbroken if at the end we find out this was all a dream because he was in a coma from falling off that balcony. Edit: Also what's her face kicking Natsu's chair when she was called out for using tutoring to flirt with light hair guy had me rolling.