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 (which makes her Aki Hashiba) and he was the father of a child with a daughter, Maki Hashiba. However, in order to regain the original future, he had to 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 erotic misunderstandings with Aki due to her actions. In his previous future, Kyōya had been deeply inspired by paintings of a famous female illustrator which made him feel alive and not to depressed when he was working as a game developer, and since Kyōya found that Aki was indeed that famous illustrator named Shino Akishima (秋島シノ, Akishima Shino)[1], he had himself a new challenge to be the one on pair with talent people he lived with in Share House Kitayama. After he told her that he likes her drawings, he wasn't aware that she began to be affectionate with his words. Throughout the series, she fall in love with him and in the School Festival, she kissed him in the lips and a give an excuse to Kyōya that she had been carried away by the Festival.

In the alternative timeline of year 2018 occurred due to Kyōya's second time leap in episode 9, Kyōya was surprised that he had married Aki and they had already given birth a daughter named Maki Hashiba in this timeline.

Still, Aki is the only person in the anime who has kissed Kyōya. She has feelings for him even in the younger age, so it might be possible that she and Kyōya will eventually marry in the future even after the 2nd time travel.

Nanako Kogure
Nanako and Kyōya are like more than friends and less than lovers. Kyōya has been inspired by her since she is a famous singer called Nana in the future. Nanako tends to teases him with the funny situation comes. After helping her with her singing about how she's good in singing, she had been grateful to him and end up falling in love with him. In the events of the School Festival, when Kyōya once again give her a push, giving her a courage to perform in the stage, she realizes her feelings for him.

Since she saw Kyōya and Aki kissing, she also began affectionate with him and wants to be more close to him. She also says to Kyōya that she'll not lose.

Etymology

 * The name Kyōya means "respectful, polite" (恭) (kyō) and "to be, also" (也) (ya).
 * Kyōya's surname Hashiba means "bridge" (橋) (hashi) and "field, place" (場) (ba).

Trivia

 * At the age of 26, Kyōya became the director of an eroge game company.
 * Kyōya bears some similarities to Furude Rika from the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series.
 * Both characters have the ability to return to the past and want to get a happy ending.
 * Their return to the past is supported by characters with supernatural abilities. Hanyuu is Rika's guardian god while in Kyōya's case it's Keiko.
 * Kyōya's Japanese voice actor, Masahiro Ito, is the vocalist of Argonavis, who performed the ending theme of the series.