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Kazamatsuri, a modern, well-developed city renowned for its burgeoning greenery and rich Japanese culture, is home to Kotarou Tennouji, a high schooler least privy to the place's shared values. Content to fill his pockets with frivolity, the proud and nosey boy whiles away his time pestering the self-proclaimed delinquent Haruhiko, and indulging in his amorous feelings toward the oddball Kotori.

Equipped with the superhuman ability to permanently rewrite any part of his body to multiply his strength or speed, Kotarou is naturally drawn to the supernatural. One special meeting with the lone member and president of the Occult Research Club, the "Witch" Akane Senri, leads to Kotarou reviving the Occult Club by recruiting Kotori and three other members: the clumsy transfer student Chihaya, the strict class representative Lucia, and the unassuming Shizuru. As Kotarou unveils hidden secrets of each member of the Occult Club through their shared adventures, he will inevitably encounter a fate that only he might be able to rewrite.

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Rewrite is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key, a brand of VisualArt's. It was released on June 24, 2011 for Windows PCs and is rated for all ages. Rewrite is Key's ninth game, along with other titles such as Kanon, Air, Little Busters!, and Clannad.

The game ranked as the best-selling PC game sold in Japan for the time of its release, and charted in the national top 50 twice more afterwards. There have been four manga adaptations based on Rewrite published by ASCII Media Works and Ichijinsha. Comic anthologies, light novels and an art book were also published, as were several music albums.

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Adaptation:	Rewrite:Side-Terra
Sequel:	Rewrite 2nd Season
Character:	Kaginado, Kaginado Season 2

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Tennouji, Kotarou

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Morita, Masakazu
Japanese

Kanbe, Kotori

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Saitou, Chiwa
Japanese

Nakatsu, Shizuru

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Suzuki, Keiko
Japanese

Konohana, Lucia

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Asaki, Risa
Japanese

Kagari

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Hanazawa, Kana
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Senri, Akane

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Kitamura, Eri
Japanese

Ootori, Chihaya

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Shinomiya, Saya
Japanese

Ootori, Sakuya

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Konishi, Katsuyuki
Japanese

Yoshino, Haruhiko

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Yanagita, Junichi
Japanese

Esaka, Sougen

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Touchi, Hiroki
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Oowada, Tomoyuki

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Kananiwa, Kozue

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Kamei, Hiroshi

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Shioya, Yoshiyuki

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	1: "Philosophyz" by Runa Mizutani (eps 2-4, 6-7)
	2: "End of the World" by Anri Kumaki (eps 8-12)

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	1: "Sasayaka na Hajimari (ささやかなはじまり)" by Runa Mizutani (eps 2-3, 6-7)
	2: "Koibumi (恋文)" by Nagi Yanagi (eps 4)
	3: "Sunbright (サンブライト)" by Ayaka Kitazawa (eps 5)
	4: "Word of Dawn" by Aoi Tada (eps 8-9, 11-12)
	5: "Itsuwaranai Kimi e (偽らない君へ)" by Nagi Yanagi (eps 10)
	6: "Yami no Kanata e (闇の彼方へ)" by Runa Mizutani (eps 13)

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Jul 2, 2022

KimCheeWarriorX

Recommended

the first time i watched this, i hadnt read the visual novel yet and was unaware that key had produced another vn after clannad which was a mistake. although they shouldnt have (im not even sure if it were intentional), it seems as if they produced this anime as a love letter to all the fans of the source material and it really shows if youve experience the vn. after i finally experienced the vn in whole, i decided that it would be a good time to reflect on my experience with the anime with the memories of the vn still fresh in my mind. ...

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May 27, 2022

ejennsyahmixcel

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Let me begin with a reminder so that you probably won't accuse me for not reading the visual novel since y'all like to harass me if I'm not in the majority view: I do read them. But looks like I'm on a majority on this, and that's my honest review, so probably you won't need to.

In terms of adaptationality - they should get a low score. Admittedly the visual novel has some conflictive contents between routes, where, if y'all made it to the second season, understand the issue: the MC should take side to whatever the heroine affiliation is. And that means the affiliation should ...

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May 27, 2023

Ninnkigal

Not Recommended

Out of all Key titles, Rewrite probably is the one that has the worst anime adaptation yet. Clannad was good, Kanon was decent, Little Buster has their flaws, but it ultimately still capture the essence of the VN. Rewrite on the other hand was rewritten to the point that it's barely recognizable which is a shame because the Source Material really is Amazing.

Story: 1/10. The Anime is a mess. It's slow when it didn't need to be and became really fast when it need to slow down. Worst yet, it added a bunch of fillers to the point that the entire season 1 is ... mostly pointless filler. They want to make a new story but still want to include references to the VN routes which resulted in a story where things just happen with no payoff. Then suddenly shit hit and they try to cram as much reference to all the heroine routes into one episode.

You have Sakuya suddenly turn to Kaiju mode, Midow controlling Earth Dragon (Even though it supposed to instantly kill the controller), Transcription, Salvation from Shizuru & Akane route (Which have different mechanic due to the different circumstance mind you) happen at the same time. All of them without any foreshadowing or build-up at all crammed into 1-2 Episodes. The conflict between the 2 organization was never brought up and didn't have the complexity it have in the VN.

Oh, and the mystery in the common route, they're all gone, all the supernatural stuff are on full display from the very beginning, there are no subtlety at all.

Character: 1/10, almost all was butchered. Kotarou was turned to generic perverted protagonist and didn't undergoes any meaningful development that he does in the VN. Chihaya was reduced to just dumb airhead, Lucia was just Tsundere tropes, Akane stays her common route self and goes full villain with no build up whatsoever, Shizuru and Kotori is actually quite fine but Shizuru's barely in the series (After the common route story she disappear and then appear again in the end) and Kotori just become a background character.

Kagari is probably the worst one though. She supposed to be this mysterious eldritch entity feared by everyone until her true nature is revealed in Moon. In this Season 1, she was butchered into a loli-bait who're addicted to coffee (yeah that's her entire character, a not even funny gag). I'm not even a fan of Kagari in the VN, and I'm quite offended by this change. The mystery aspect about her is all gone, replaced by that unfunny gag.

To give you a prespective of how bad it is, when shit hits at that final episode. I literally can't make myself care about any of the character, while in the VN I care about every single of the character. It's even worse considering I've played the VN before watching the anime, they're just too different to make me recognize that they're supposed to be the same character. It's a complete waste of Source Material.

Kotarou did got a better characterization in Season 2, but the other never got the chance (for spoiler reason).

Artstyle & Animation: 7/10, By when it was produced it's actually pretty decent. It did have some flaws and fight scenes aren't that good. But all of those things wouldn't be apparent if only it have a good story (which unfortunately this anime does not). I enjoy the artstyle more than Clannad but still less than Little Buster.

Sound: 9/10, the best aspect of the anime, not a surprise since most of them are taken from the VN. But there are some who are remade like Phylosophiz (OP1) which became really good. The placement also are quite good, unlike Little Busters who often recycle OST, the OST in this anime are quite diverse. Truly a shame as it show how bad writing can ruin a story.

Overall: 3/10. If you're interested in the premise, I recommend checking the Visual Novel. It really is Amazing, I unfortunately can't say the same about the anime. Oh, and watching the anime will spoil a lot of things in the VN, so it's not a good introduction either.

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