I'm only halfway through rewatching the first episode and totally forgot the degree of Takemichi's idiocy straight out of the gate. Dude, how did you only have vague recollections of the day you got forced into a gang after getting your ass beat? This isn't a Butterfly Effect situation, where there's memory loss during periods of time traveling consciousness entering the body and temporarily overwriting the mind, since he clearly does remember what happened right before it happens again, with mental images and everything. It was why he moved away.