English Dub Review: Remake Our Life! “Facing Forward Again”

Overview (Spoilers Below):
Faced with the opportunity to return to the past and try to change things once again, Kyoya must decide what he wants to do with the life he’s found himself living in the future.

Our Take:
Kyoya’s brief journey in the alternate future has reached its end, thanks to the arrival of Keiko. As all of us are aware, the leader of the dojin circle is responsible for sending Kyoya on an adventure through time. At this point, I’m going to assume that she’s a game wizard and a time wizard. The season finale now sees her performing her ability once more after Kyoya decides to return to the past and set things right, but not before spending one more night with his family.
As much as I enjoyed Kyoya’s time in the past with his roommates, I admired the previous three episodes for the change in direction and the representation of a business’s work environment. I would even say that “Learn Lessons” is the best of the three regarding how a boss’s abuse towards the developers heavily affects the project. But, of course, there’s also last week’s episode that showcases the effort in responding to customer feedback and Kyoya regaining his confidence in what really matters in life.
Now we have the finale that sees the series return to the formula involving Kyoya in his college days, but with some changes. The biggest one, in particular, is Tsurayuki’s absence. Kyoya learns to accept Tsurayuki’s decision to drop out so he doesn’t repeat the same mistake, leaving only him, Nanako, and Aki living in the household. Additionally, Nanako gets the opportunity to sing the theme song for a new game, while Aki finds herself in a slump after her experience working on “HaruSora”. Thankfully, that didn’t last long, thanks to Kyoya’s encounter with the young Minori, who’s actually attending the same university as the others.
“Facing Forward Again” is the aftermath of the events that started in “We’ll Figure It Out” and concluded with “Produce Results”. More importantly, it’s also a satisfying and heartfelt closure to Kyoya’s time in the future. It offers plenty of emotion in Kyoya’s final day with Aki and Maki, his attempt to live and struggle with his friends instead of being “high and mighty,” and a couple of laughs with Nanako hitting Kyoya with her backpack. It’s the ending of one chapter in Kyoya’s coming-of-age journey that’s also a beginning of a new one, with Kyoya hoping to work on the best project possible with his friends. As Kyoya stated, this is where the real remake starts, and after my experience with the show, I’m pretty excited to see it continue with its second season.