It seems as though Takemichi can alter the flow of time.
Takemichi urges him to protect his sister before inexplicably returning to the future. Without thinking, he admits to his seeming death before flashing back to the past. Half a second before a train ends his pitiful life for good, Takemichi flashes back to that same day twelve years ago, when he was still dating Hinata Tachibana.Īfter being forced to relive the very same day that began his downward spiral, Takemichi meets Hinata’s younger brother.
A sudden news report on the Tokyo Manji Gang’s cruel murder of the only girlfriend he ever had alongside her brother only adds insult to injury. Today, he’s a nobody: a washed-up nonentity made fun of by children and always forced to apologize to his younger boss. He had respect, a gang of friends he could count on, and even a girlfriend. Takemichi Hanagaki’s second year of middle school was the highest point in his life.
