This question is for you, adult readers, have you ever wondered what would happen if your appearance is a lot more younger than you are right now (let's say, your appearance looks like a High-schooler) but you got keep your experience and your adult-mind-like and you are thrown into the high school and living your life as a high schooler?
Of course, we would act and see differently compared to how we did back then in our high-school days.
So why did I ask about this question to you in the upper hand? Because that was the setting of this new Anime coming up on this Summer 2016. My friend on twitter recommend this anime, and my god, it was a ride! So what's it all about? Let's just dive into it!
The story starts with our main protagonist, Kaizaki Arata, a 27 year old man, who is currently a NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or in Training) and struggling to get a new job. He left his previous job that he had working for 3 months, he left that particular company because of reasons (which I won't spoil you). He tried to keep his image as a "working person" in front of his friends. At one fateful night, his mother called him and told him that she wouldn't support him financially any more. When he feel "oh dang, what should I do now? I want to look for jobs, but I can't get any right now", enter Ryo Yoake, a person from ReLIFE laboratory and asked Arata to be the experiment of ReLIFE. He is going to give Arata a medicine that'd make his appearance looks like a teenager, and he is asked to live his life on a high school for a year. If Arata did pretty good during that 1 year period, he will got a proper job.
Arata hesitated at first, because everything seems too sketchy, added with Yoake claiming that he has been stalking Arata for a month. (yeah, I'd feel very suspicious too ^_^;).
But in the end Arata took the medicine and living his ReLIFE,
How will it turn out for Arata? How was his school life?
Just watch the anime. dude! XD
My thoughts on this series are :
- I didn't expect that I will enjoy this series so much! This series can be watched by either adult audience or teen audience. It has a very relatable story (for me, as an adult audience).
- The setting actually is not really something "breakthrough" it feels like me, playing Persona games (1 year period story, high school setting, etc). And that medicine feels like APTX 4869 from Detective Conan. Unlike Conan, in ReLIFE there's a medicine that'd make their appearance normal again.
- The characters felt so real. It's been awhile that I watch anime that I can see a real person that would do the same thing as the characters in the anime!
- I'm glad that the main character is normal person (aka not an Otaku), so I can relate a lot to him as an adult (haha). I think the "otaku" main character is over used in the anime these days (yeah, seriously tho). Besides, it didn't really fit in this story (if you watched the anime, you'll understand why I say this)
- There's no overarching conflict and misunderstanding throughout the series. Every conflict is resolved properly and it didn't carry out to the next episode.
- The soundtrack! oh my god! I really love the BGM, and the opening & ending song (which changes on every episode) really fits in the anime!
- The only thing I complain about this anime is the animation it self, it feels "normal" like a middle budget animation. It reminds me of the first season of Oregairu. but in the second season, they improve the animation a lot. and hopefully ReLIFE will get a better looking season 2. Perhaps the budget of the anime went to the soundtrack, since there are a lot of awesome artist at the ending song, like Laruku, Brilliant Green, TM Revolution, Porno Grafitti, etc.
- The ending! arghh! I can't say much about this since this is a non-spoiler review! but the ending makes me desperately asking for season 2! hahaha!
- A friend of mine, who read the manga, told me that they skipped a lot of arcs, But so far I didn't see that many plotholes in this anime, probably I should start reading too ^_^;
- Otoya An best girl (yes, I'm weak against megane 2D girls (^///^); )
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And the final verdict, should you watch ReLIFE? Definitely yes! It's worth your time! Go watch it! You can marathon it right away! Thank god they release it 13 episodes at once!
So those are my thoughts on ReLIFE. I hope that you will find this review useful for you. This is Reikichi! Signing out! XD
