Yuuta Iritatsu

Yuuta Iritatsu is the protagonist of the anime series Punch Line. After becoming involved in a bus-hijacking incident and fainting by the side of a river, he becomes trapped in a paradoxical time-loop in which he attempts to prevent the course of history that will lead to the destruction of humanity when an asteroid collides with the planet.The series follows the failed 6,373,153,740th loop, then subsequent 6,373,153,741th, in which Yuuta hopes to avoid the failures of his previous version, Yuuta #6,373,153,740, who appeared before his spirit form as Miyazawa Kenji.

Upon fainting by the river, Yuuta's spirit was forced out of his body, which becomes possessed by another spirit. The mysterious masked vigilante "Miyazawa Kenji", eventually reveals himself to be the Yuuta's body which is being possessed by a version of Yuuta that arrived from the end of a previous loop in time, loop #6,373,153,740, after the previous version, #6,373,153,739, failed to stop humanity's destruction. As the destruction of humanity becomes eliminate along with Yuuta #6,37,153,740, spirit Yuuta travels back in time, and possesses his body by the side of the river, starting loop #6,373,153,741, as Yuuta #6,373,153,740.

At the end of the series, after preventing the asteroid from colliding, Yuuta #6,373,153,741 dies, and his spirit goes on to possess his body at the riverside once more, beginning another loop as Yuuta #6,373,153,742, to make the "Supremely Happy and Peaceful Future".