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I think pretty crazy things can happen with near-death drowning experiences, though I'm not sure Tohya's case is -possible- exactly as it is. It was convincing enough for me, anyway. My bigger problem is "if we believe that he fell off of the boat, how likely is it that his body made it all the way back to shore?"
I can't really think of a non-convoluted way of setting up the same situation, honestly. "Battler's death" is something that's pretty important for the story he creates with 1998+ (not that I necessarily agree with this choice, but that's how it is). The only other thing I can think of is "to cope with the sadness, Tohya dissociates himself with this persona and tries to become another person". But then he'd be a real dick to leave Ange alone like that, which doesn't seem entirely in character. And "shedding a persona", while it is something Yasu does and is not entirely out of the question, is certainly not something any old person can do.
It would have been cool to have more elaboration though, I agree.
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