"Finally done with this dry as fuck stage direction booklet (this isn't a novel and you can't convince me otherwise) Dry as fuck, awkward (none of the characters feel like people at any given time), but also too cutesy (there's anime bullshit like "the cute young girl puffed her cheeks in frustration"), and too repetitive (the time travelling rules are repeated ad nauseam throughout, and every single "traveller" has the exact same thoughts before, during, and after)
Every single story is sickly sappy and tries so hard to make you tear up (the despite-the-odds romance! The couple that will end up like "The Notebook"! The "black lamb coming home" family story! The "mother sacrifices her own life to give birth to a child she'll never meet" bullshit!) that it ends up being the exact opposite.

Not to mention the ridiculous, vaguely sexist plots. The incredibly successful woman who speaks 6 languages breaks down because, apparently, her entire life revolves around her boyfriend who's moving away (like they can't do a long distance relationship??? He's not going to die??) The independent bar owner who has to be punished for living away from her family and is made by the plot to move back home and "learn to love" the family business? The sickly-but-always-cheerful mother who sacrifices her own life for the good of her unborn child (that she didn't need to have??? Someone explain to me why it's soooo heartwarming for a child to grow up without a mother, and the mother KNOWING this and deciding to go through with it anyway) It's fucking terrible.

I get why people seem to like this but it did absolutely nothing for me. I had to push myself to finish it when I was already at 90% and I ended up skimming that last 10%. Good riddance."