Episode 8:
To be honest, I did not like this episode. Game creation "arc" was kind meh to begin with ("Boring Girlfriend" was waaaaay better), but in this episode it was extremely rushed and very unbelievable (although some things did make sense from production perspective).
Tsurayuki's decision seemed out of the blue and kinda forced to me. I mean... It would make sense, if he was defending his position way more before the changes to the script, but he did no. He bought the changes. And then he decides to complain? That does not make much sense to me.
Shinoaki behaved a bit strangely, too. I mean, I get that she was down when her idea was rejected (and to be honest, I think this was a wrong call: one of the panels could have been replaced with the new one, theoretically), but what was that "I will always believe in you"? It felt as if she is saying, that she no longer loves him, but will stick with him regardless. At least I got such vibes. But then she had a kid with Kyoya.
And putting Keiko in the end - clearly just a ploy. She is clearly not related to actual time travel. He words are specifically those, that can be misinterpreted, if you know about the time travel. But if you think more broadly - it can be about dozens of things, that can be happening in her own life.
I am interested in seeing how time travel will be handled now, but everything else, that happened before the leap felt very wrong.
