Sakurada Reset (Sagrada Reset)

Kei Asai lives in the oceanside city of Sakurada—a town where the inhabitants are born with strange abilities. On the school rooftop one day, he meets Misora Haruki, an apathetic girl with the power to reset anything around her up to three days prior. While no one knows when she has reset, not even Haruki, Kei can retain everything before the reset thanks to his own ability: photographic memory. After they successfully help someone by combining their powers, they join the Service Club to aid others in their town.

However, their club becomes involved with and begins completing missions for the mysterious Administration Bureau—an organization that focuses on managing the abilities in Sakurada and manipulating the town's events for their own ends. They may find out that there are more things at work in Sakurada than the machinations of the uncanny organization.

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Sakurada Reset is a complete adaptation of Yutaka Kouno's light novel series of the same title, though the first half of the series is told in a different order than that of the novels.

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Souma, Sumire

Main

Yuuki, Aoi
Japanese

Asai, Kei

Main

Ishikawa, Kaito
Japanese

Haruki, Misora

Main

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Nonoo, Seika

Supporting

Misawa, Sachika
Japanese

Urachi, Masamune

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Ukawa, Sasane

Supporting

Koshimizu, Ami
Japanese

Chiruchiru

Supporting

Kawanishi, Kengo
Japanese

Michiru

Supporting

Uchida, Maaya
Japanese

Murase, Youka

Supporting

Makino, Yui
Japanese

Sakuin-san

Supporting

Uetake, Kana
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Aoi, Hiroyuki

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Ogisu, Hirotsugu

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Kawatsura, Shinya

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Kameyama, Toshiki

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	1: "Reset ~Acoustic Version~" by Yui Makino (eps 1-2)
	2: "Reset" by Yui Makino (eps 3-12)
	3: "Dakara Boku wa Boku wo Tebanasu (だから僕は僕を手放す)" by WEAVER (eps 13-23)

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	1: "Tonari Au (トナリアウ)" by THE ORAL CIGARETTES (eps 3-12)
	2: "Colors of Happiness" by Yui Makino (eps 13-23)
	3: "Dakara Boku wa Boku wo Tebanasu (だから僕は僕を手放す)" by WEAVER (eps 24)

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Aug 29, 2023

Dante012

Recommended

Sakurada Reset is the very definition of a "hidden gem". Literally no one talked about it when i aired, and six years later it's still not known. And it's a shame, because it is a unique anime, in terms of ambiance. Are you sick of the over-the-top reactions and surreal battles with the world at stake? Good! Because SR has none of that. It's a very grounded story, with down-to-earth characters like we rarely see in the anime industry.

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This is a world with magical powers. A girl has the ability to reset time, but she can't alter anything because she loses her memory when she ...

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Aug 27, 2019

ggultra2764

Mixed Feelings

Sakurada Reset is set in the titular town that has people filled with special abilities and are isolated from the outside world. Among its residents are Kei Asai, who has a perfect memory that can't be tampered with, and Haruki Misora, who can reset time up to 72 hours back whenever she sets up a save point to set the time back to. Both of them are members of the Service Club, a club where the two are assigned to handle unique dilemmas coming from ability users. Unknown to them however, the Service Club is part of a larger chain of events transpiring within the ... town.

Sakurada Reset has gotten some rather divided reception among fans due to how it chooses to execute its storytelling. It goes the route of the Monogatari franchise in that good chunks of the series feature characters being in long-winded conversations where they talk about their abilities and perceptions of their everyday lives. What made this approach popular among Monogatari fans was that this was accompanied by the colorful and eccentric personalities of its cast. This is not the case with Sakurada Reset throughout much of its run, as characters barely emote as they talk nor express anything resembling a human personality. This unfortunately makes the characters come off seeming like robots or "talking heads" (depending on how you view them), and makes it quite a struggle to get through roughly the first two-thirds of the anime series. This is especially bad with Haruki's character, as she sounds almost robotic talking, not able to think independently, and seemingly only exists for Kei to use her reset ability whenever he's in a pinch.

The handling of the character abilities is also a bit of a mixed bag. In concept, all the characters have specific restrictions and conditions they have for utilizing their abilities. To its credit, this keeps the characters from getting too overpowered within Sakurada Reset and they have to think carefully over the best means to utilize their abilities for varying situations. For instance, Kei's "perfect memory" lets him recall events from prior resets that Haruki made, since she forgets of events that occurred following the previous "save point" she set prior to a reset. However, the show's rather subpar animation does hinder how spectacular some of the more fantastical abilities of the series are rendered such as Sasano's ability to enter the world of a photo for a limited time and Ukawa's ability to manipulate the properties of objects.

As far as the story goes, much of the first two-thirds of Sagrada Reset is focused on exploring the town and introducing a number of ability users, a number of whom have personal problems related to their abilities that Kei and Haruki have to resolve. On the one hand, the series does do a solid job with dabbling into each character's problems, with Kei having to do much of the guesswork in figuring out how to resolve each crisis. In addition, hints are usually dropped about the larger situation that Kei and others gradually find themselves getting into. However due to the mentioned issue with characters barely seeming human throughout much of the series, it does kill quite a bit of investment for the audience to give a hoot about what goes on throughout much of the series.

Miraculously, the final third of Sakurada Reset offers a considerably improved experience over its early two-thirds if you are able to press on that far. The larger conflict that comes at hand at this point in the series offers a clash of philosophies over the abilities given to people within Sakurada and puts Kei's abilities to the biggest test in resolving the crisis. The storytelling is genuinely more engaging with some major characters forced into making hard decisions to aid one another and having some genuinely engaging dramatic developments in which the characters actually emote more often. This easily makes the final third of Sakurada Reset the best point within the series to watch through and a good reward after struggling through the stagnant first two-thirds of its run.

Overall, I suppose I found Sakurada Reset a bit of a mixed bag. While it has a unique premise with solid exploration of its world and characters, elements of its design and direction such as its subpar animation, heavy focus on character conversations, and almost-robotic character interactions hinder how receptive many viewers would be to viewing the series. The final third of the series is a considerable improvement with how the characters express themselves due to the raised stakes of the conflict they find themselves in. But this alone is not enough for me to believe it improves the quality of Sakurada Reset as a whole, and is certainly an area where I can see the show's divided reception comes into play.

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Dec 26, 2023

Pulluxx

Not Recommended

An anime does not need to hijack your computer and send hoax emails about your untimely death to your loved ones, nor discolor the screen you're watching it on to be considered completely, utterly worthless. The key is in the word itself; worthless - meaning an absence of worth. Are there animations within the medium, albeit mostly of the mouths of characters plastered onto static backgrounds? Yes, there is. Is the voice acting competent in that it maintains a consistent tone of voice for its characters, and there's no flub takes being snuck into the final product? Also, yes. Is there a narrative that builds ... toward some sort of conclusion? I cannot say no. Neither of these things can be justifications that I in good faith can recommend another person to endeavor this joyless experience.

Kei Asai is the main character, and you love him because he has blue hair, sits in the back of the classroom next to the window, goes to the rooftop for lunch, and believes in justice real hard. He wants to wipe the tears of every crying child. He wants to lead lost puppies back to their homes and set out milk bowls for all the starving cats. Happiness is not just a word, it's a permanent reality you can achieve if you accept Kei Asai into your heart and allow him to do what he feels is best for you. To quote one of his sycophants, "Those who wish to save the world know what's right for the world to be saved" - the ends justify the means, and if you'll leave both of those up to Kei, he'll lead you to the Promised Land. Parallels to Jesus Christ are unavoidable, with the glaring omission that Kei does not end up nailed to a cross in the final act to give some sort of catharsis to the viewer.

It's not just that he's self-righteous, infallible, unflappable, egoless and always right. It's that there's nothing else. Women fall in love with him, not because of his charms, but because he's Kei Asai. Former antagonists rally up behind him because he's Kei Asai. His motives or reasoning never needs to be questioned; people follow him because he's Kei Asai. There's no character development, no flaws, mistakes that trigger self-reflection, earthly desires that compete with his superego. He's flatter than flatbread on the back of a flatbed truck.

It's not just a case of "bad main character, bad anime". Anime can have reprehensible protagonists while being grossly entertaining (albeit controversial, School Days would be an example of this for me, your mileage may vary). But there are no other characters in the show, they are mere extensions of Kei Asai's will. They might be initially opposed to him, but soon enough they'll see the error of their ways and subject themselves to becoming another screwdriver or hammer in his tool belt. Apart from the main "bad guy", their motivations rank from "I want Kei Asai to succeed" to "I love Kei Asai and its troublesome that other people do the same". Cult leaders and totalitarian dictators wish they had subjects as subservient as the supporting cast in this anime.

Maybe the plot is great? No, as prior described, characters lack motivations, never does Kei Asai's righteous decisions backfire, the stakes are not properly established and whenever our hero is in a pickle the anime can wring some use case out of the abilities to have him come up smelling of roses every time. The arc format doesn't help matters as it's just another fair maiden in a tower needing to be saved and the main plot is underdeveloped because of it. Dialogue is unnatural, trite, no one has a unique tone of voice, and they try too hard to appear smart by ham-fistedly shoehorning in philosophical concepts in-between the exposition too many times.

I don't fault anyone for finding enjoyment in this anime, you might see qualities I am blind to and I'm happy you liked it. For me, this was an utterly joyless ordeal, but I at least watched it with people I love, so once the ugly head was reared, we could make fun of how bad it is, but even then, there are way better anime for that purpose. Don't watch this.

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