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>>39076794
I think Tsumi was the only time Keiichi remembered a previous world extremely clearly and also understood that it was real. He remembers some things in Minagoroshi, too, but those were more vague recollections that he can largely dismiss as him just imagining things, and while they influence his future behaviour, they don't form extremely strong regrets like in Tsumi. Plus, Teppei is a bastard and Keiichi's at least reasonable enough to not care about his death, only how the situation would affect Satoko.

He seems to remember a little more clearly in the manga's Tataridamashi, but there it's again Rika who helps him channel his energy into a more positive direction than just him regretting things. And with Shion going wild right there, it was easy for him to prioritize action over guilt, especially when he started to remember Minagoroshi too and realized that there was a good ending for all of them there.

I feel that if Keiichi became a looper and remembered everything, thus forcing him to accept the previous worlds as being real, he'd be bogged down immensely by his regrets over the friends he couldn't save in his previous worlds. Mion may be able to hide behind the mask of the successor, and Rena is used to pretending to be happy, but Keiichi is a rather sensitive lad who I doubt could separate himself from his previous failings. You have to be kind of a sociopath to keep looping, and if you're unable to dismiss the worlds you've left behind because you're a normal human being, you'd break down really quickly.