Eiko Kawasegawa (河瀬川 英子, Kawasegawa Eiko) is a main character of the Remake Our Life! series, and the main female character in Bokutachi no Remake Ver. β spin-off series. She is a student at Ōnaka University of Arts whom Kyōya Hashiba meets at the present time as the leader of a game project planner.
Appearance[]
Eiko is a young woman with waist-length maroon hair that is half tied in a small ponytail where it is braided in the back with bangs swept to the left side while the tips of her hair are in small tight ringlets and gold, green-tinged eyes. In 2016 (pre-time skip) her hair is kept in a bun style at work, and put straight down otherwise, while in the 2018 alternative timeline her hair is shorter and shoulder-length (volume 4/episode 10-12).
As a college student in the second timeline, she wears a light beige long-sleeved shirt, a long lime-green skirt and wooden sandals.
Personality[]
Eiko is a quite competitve, stubborn and mature young woman whose enthusiasm and talent for film-making have no bounds. She is also somewhat prickly and looks up to her older sister and professor Misaki Kanou. In short, she is somewhat of a Type-A Tsundere. At the same time, she is able to empathize with others and holds herself to the same high standards she expects of her colleagues. It takes her a while to open up to people and express her feelings, though these can often be read on her face when she blushes.
Her helpful nature is shown on many occasions such as offering Kyoya Hashiba a job interview after meeting him for the first time, and helping Kyoya out many times in University such as with the game development or giving him advice about interpersonal relationships, and also having been helped by him as well. She has strong leadership skills being able to manage teams in projects during both at university and in the workplace.
Background[]
A second-year student in Kyōya Hashiba's Department of Film who later joins Kyōya's team Kitayama. In the previous timeline, in 2018, she became Kyōya's colleague and a leader in planning and development. In the anime, she was his boss until their team was laid off. Kyoya then encounters her when he goes back to the past with him being suprised that she was also a student there and in the same program and year. They subsequently pit their projects against each other and becomes friends, after he impresses her. Even back then it it shown that Eiko is both highly competant and a perfectionist. Kyoya and Eiko subsequently join together in school proejcts, hang out together and she helps him with the Tsurayuki needing money dilemma by helping debug the game. She also helps Kyoya by giving him good advice. Later on in the volumes 5-7 she befriends Saikawa Minori and is a major part of Kyoya's video team as they compete against team Kuroda.
In the Bokutachi no Remake Ver. β spin-off she helps get him a job at the company she works for SucceedSoft. They work together to try and solve the game development issue's facing the big release featuring the platinum generation. They eventually leave and with Ichikawa Mika's help join the startup B-Craft Creative, to develop project grape featuring indy games, and a new project with the platinum generation. They also end up married together.
Etymology[]
- The name Eiko means "excellent, fine" (英) (ei) and "child" (子) (ko).
- Eiko's surname Kawasegawa means "river, stream" (河) (kawa), "swift current, rapids" (瀬) (se) and "river, stream" (川) (kawa/gawa)
Trivia[]
- She is the only character to have met Kyoya in all possible timelines having met him in 2016 with her becoming his direct boss at SucceedSoft, in 2006 after the time-skip becoming friends as fellow college students, and in the alternative future timeline in 2018 as his colleague at Attraction Point a game company. She also features heavily in Bokutachi no Remake Ver. β timeline as well, which is where Kyoya never goes to the past at all.
- She has a crush on Kyoya.
- She accidently entered and then won the Miss University of Arts beauty pageant in 2008.
- She commutes from her family's home to the university, rather than living in a dorm or share house.