The Tatami Galaxy

One autumn evening behind Kyoto's Shimogamo Shrine, a lonely third-year college student meets a strange man who calls himself a god of matrimony. The encounter sends him back to the beginning of his university life, with another chance to build the rose-colored campus experience he thinks he missed. (MyAnimeList)

The hook is the loop: each new route reshapes friendship, romance, and the small choices that make a life feel possible. Masaaki Yuasa directs the story with speed, surreal detours, and a college setting that keeps turning familiar regrets into new rooms to explore.

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