Kyōya Hashiba

Kyōya Hashiba (橋場恭也, Hashiba Kyōya) is the main protagonist of the series. He travels back ten years ago by an unknown event.

Appearance
Kyōya has short brown hair and blue eyes. He wears an off-gray sweater over a green button up dress shirt over a charcoal gray shirt, black pants, and red/white sneakers.

Personality
Kyōya comes with a never giving up attitude which is shown many times. He never loses the chances for changing the bad situations into good as he already faced before his time-travelling. Although currently being 18 year old, he still has morals and views of 28 year old previous self, for example, he tries to maintain a calm and composed nature and sometimes acts much more mature in front of his friends and companions.

Background
At the age of 28 in 2016. Born and raised in Nara Prefecture, he aspired to become a game developer after graduating from a local private university, but has since moved from job to job. At the age of 26, he followed his dream and changed his job to the director of a game company, but was at the mercy of the company's sloppy management and returned to his parents' home in a state of exhaustion both mentally and physically. While tidying up his room at his parents' home, he traveled back in time in 2006 while regretting that he had once passed the University of the Arts in O'China, but didn't pursue a higher education.

After going back in time, he went on to the Department of Film Science at Otsu University of the Arts. He then started working part-time at a nearby convenience store with Nanako, and belonged to an art study group from the beginning. In the task of creating a video work in the first half of the first year, even if a fatal trouble occurs, it comes to be looked at from the surroundings by making the work-work-work witty. In the wake of Tsurayuki's financial difficulties, he worked on doshi game development and completed the work. However, by accumulating compromises to complete it, the members' creativity was impaired, and as a result, Tsurayuki left the university. After being frustrated by deep regrets, he will return to time in 2018.

In the world of 2018, as the director of the development department of Attraction Point Co., Ltd., he will live in a world different from the future he originally spent. In this world, he married Aki Shino and was the father of a child with a daughter, Maki. However, in order to regain the original future, he had say goodbye and return to the past again.

Aki Shino
One of his close friends, Kyōya and Aki shares a mutual friendship. Aki flawlessly teases him which even makes him flustered. Kyōya thinks of her as good painter and illustrator. He always ends up in misundertanding with her.

Aki seems to develops feelings for him when he helped her in choosing the right goal which she do so.

Trivia

 * At the age of 26, he became the director of an eroge game company.