ReLIFE is a 13 episode slice of life, comedy/romance/drama series based on the web manga of the same name by Yayoiso. The series was released in the Summer of 2016.
Kaizaki Arata is a 27 year old NEET. He drifts through his unemployed life, living off of his parents money and pretending he works around his friends. One night he is approached by a man with an opportunity to change his life. The man works for a company called ReLIFE. Kaizaki is given the opportunity to test their new drug for a year. The drug will make him look like he's 17 and he will be made to live as a senior in high school. Depending on how the year works out for him he may be offered employment with the company.
Desperate and lost, Kaizaki agrees to participate and finds himself a 27 year old man pretending to be a 17 year old. At first he wanted to coast through the year and do as little as possible. His plans to slack through the year derail as he takes interest in the mental and social well being of a few classmates. The adult NEET turned high school student suddenly begins to poke his nose into his classmates private lives in order to help them overcome their problems. Will the sudden change of heart and external realizations about others make him realize his own worth?
I started to read the manga for this once it showed up on Crunchyroll which was also pretty close to the same time the anime was announced. I was looking forward to the anime and it didn't prove to be a disappointment. It followed the manga rather well and progressed through the story that it covered smoothly. I found it easier to keep everyone straight in the anime versus the manga. For some reason I have trouble at times remembering who is who in the manga.
The manga is in full color so it wasn't a big stretch visually seeing it in motion. The artwork captures the spirit of the manga well. This is a well done slice of life high school comedy and makes up for all the pointless and repetitious moe garbage out there. More please? If you have not, pick up the manga as well. At the time of this review 83 issues of that manga are available on Crunchyroll, the first 10 episodes of the anime cover that material. The last 3 episodes take the story up to around issue 108 of the manga. Currently there are 134 available issues in Japan. Hopefully we will see a second season at some point in the future. Fingers crossed.
The series was dropped all at once on a Japanese website and to coincide with the beginning of its TV broadcast it was made available on Crunchyroll as well. No word on any sort of physical release for this series or the manga.
Kaizaki Arata is a 27 year old NEET. He drifts through his unemployed life, living off of his parents money and pretending he works around his friends. One night he is approached by a man with an opportunity to change his life. The man works for a company called ReLIFE. Kaizaki is given the opportunity to test their new drug for a year. The drug will make him look like he's 17 and he will be made to live as a senior in high school. Depending on how the year works out for him he may be offered employment with the company.
Desperate and lost, Kaizaki agrees to participate and finds himself a 27 year old man pretending to be a 17 year old. At first he wanted to coast through the year and do as little as possible. His plans to slack through the year derail as he takes interest in the mental and social well being of a few classmates. The adult NEET turned high school student suddenly begins to poke his nose into his classmates private lives in order to help them overcome their problems. Will the sudden change of heart and external realizations about others make him realize his own worth?
I started to read the manga for this once it showed up on Crunchyroll which was also pretty close to the same time the anime was announced. I was looking forward to the anime and it didn't prove to be a disappointment. It followed the manga rather well and progressed through the story that it covered smoothly. I found it easier to keep everyone straight in the anime versus the manga. For some reason I have trouble at times remembering who is who in the manga.
The manga is in full color so it wasn't a big stretch visually seeing it in motion. The artwork captures the spirit of the manga well. This is a well done slice of life high school comedy and makes up for all the pointless and repetitious moe garbage out there. More please? If you have not, pick up the manga as well. At the time of this review 83 issues of that manga are available on Crunchyroll, the first 10 episodes of the anime cover that material. The last 3 episodes take the story up to around issue 108 of the manga. Currently there are 134 available issues in Japan. Hopefully we will see a second season at some point in the future. Fingers crossed.
The series was dropped all at once on a Japanese website and to coincide with the beginning of its TV broadcast it was made available on Crunchyroll as well. No word on any sort of physical release for this series or the manga.
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