When Crunchyroll began its simulpub distribution two years ago there was a lot of worry that many of its titles wouldn’t be picked up by traditional print publishers due to rights issues or fear that Crunchyroll had sapped the audience for it. The latest NYCC shows this thankfully hasn’t been the case, as many of Crunchyroll’s most consistently popular series are published in multiple formats. This means that it’s time for me to finally check out some of those titles, like this one.
Aoshima is having some strange dreams lately. Even though he’s an uncool high school boy during the day, he keeps having dreams of ten years into the future — and the cutest girl in class is now his wife! After a couple of suspicious similarities however, he realizes that it really is the future; Aoshima time-slipping in his sleep and can control the future with what he does in the present!
Manga-ka Yuu Kuraishi and Keishi Nishikida certainly seem to believe that all teenage boys are horn dogs, so it’s not the time-traveling that requires the biggest suspension of disbelief but that the guys ever managed to get girlfriends and wives at all. It’s true that we are looking ten years into Aoshima’s future, which is hopefully enough years to make him more mature, but it often doesn’t feel that way since the manga is fond of having small moments occur in the present only to be referenced by another character with perfect clarity back in the future. The future is so malleable that it almost makes the story less satisfying; it feels as if I’m watching an odd game of telephone be played instead of actual time travel.
And oh Lord, this is going to be a harem series isn’t it? Harems really aren’t my thing. With that I believe I will be bowing out. Given that it is actually coherent it is by far not the worse thing I have read on Crunchyroll, and I can see why it was licensed, but I will look elsewhere for my time-travels and romances.
