Oh! NiiChan!
While I think that some more work on the first episodes could be highly beneficial to bring them up to the same level of awesomeness and quality as your most recent chapters, I'd really, really, really appreciate it if you kept the original experience, mood, feel and genius take on depression and transformative experiences intact!
About the Trauma, Depression and related elements, plus the commentary on your perfect execution of showing how certain sets of circumstances can induce a deep transformative experience, a rebirth for someone suffering from conditions similar to the MC, please read my reply to Valkain, just a few posts higher!
The introduction part of the game is pure gold my man!