Prime Time Rebirth - Absolute Number One #993249

He died behind a laptop in 2024. He woke up as a washed-up nobody in 1994 Tokyo — and he's not wasting this life.
Jack Harper had one semester left of film school when a bolt of lightning ended everything. He expected an afterlife. Instead, he got someone else's: Satō Shōta, twenty-three, jobless, broke, and about to be laughed out of every studio gate in Tokyo.
Japan's bubble economy has just collapsed. Half the country is out of work, television is dying a slow death, and nobody wants to hire a nobody with no credits and no connections. But Jack knows something no one else in 1994 does — he knows exactly which shows are about to become legends, which ones are about to flop, and exactly how to sell an idea to executives who think they've seen it all.
All he needs is one script. One shot. One producer crazy enough to bet her career on him.
From forgotten sitcom idea to ratings-war showdown, from a producer with everything to lose to rivals who'd love to watch him fail — Jack is about to rewrite Japanese television one impossible pitch at a time. He's not just trying to survive this life.
He's going to be number one.