Gekai Elise

In her first life, the renowned and genius surgeon Dr. Aoi Takamoto was Elise de Clorance, a villainess of noble descent. Elise's selfishness, insolence, and obsessive love for her fiancé—Prince Linden de Romanoff—led to the deaths of her family members and, eventually, herself. Only after being reborn did Elise realize the error of her ways and decide that, instead of ruining lives, she would devote herself to saving them. But a tragic airplane crash robs her of her dreams too soon.

By a miracle, Elise wakes up in her original body before her official engagement to Linden. Recognizing the chance to cherish her loving family and free Linden from an unwanted marriage, Elise wishes to use her advanced medical knowledge to continue down the path of saving lives. In a deal with the emperor, Elise is given only six months to prove that her true place is not on the throne, but rather with the wounded and ailing who desperately need her help.

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de Clorance, Elise Main

Ishikawa, Yui Japanese

de Romanoff, Linden Supporting

Azakami, Youhei Japanese

de Romanoff, Michael Supporting

Saitou, Souma Japanese

de Fallon, Graham Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

de Childe, Julian Supporting

Han, Megumi Japanese

de Clorance, Lenne Supporting

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Takamoto, Aoi Supporting

Ishikawa, Yui Japanese

Clerk Supporting

Kamijou, Saeko Japanese

Kyle Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka Japanese

Yodel Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Ariga, Taki Assistant Producer

Habara, Kumiko Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Konuma, Noriyoshi Sound Director

Matsumoto, Yoshihisa Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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Mar 27, 2024

Marinate1016

Recommended

Gekai Elise is one of the more original isekai, or should I say, “reverse isekai”, in recent years. What makes this one cool is that Elise is given another shot at life in her original world AFTER being isekai’d to Earth. This allows her the unique experience of combining both her original life’s knowledge and the medicinal skills she gained on Earth making for a really fun watch.

Now, there’s going to be some party poopers who say the show isn’t accurate or realistic in its portrayal of some medical stuff and to that I’ll agree, but it’s ultimately anime not grey’s anatomy. I’m not watching ... this for 100 percent accuracy. The fact we’re getting a show that handles medicine and doctors in a somewhat realistic manner in a fantasy world is so cool. I’m so used to healing magic or fantastical herbs being used in the treatment of patients, but to get a story that relies on legitimate surgery and medical analysis to treat people is a treat. While not a doctor myself, my sister and several other family members are and we had a blast watching this together.

Elise faces a lot of challenges in her original world due to her awful personality before her reincarnation as well as the sexist nature of the medical field. Like in the real world in the 18-19th centuries, medicine is a male dominated field and she struggles to gain acceptance of her peers, even having to disguise her noble background for a time. She also has to convince the king that she’s better suited to be a doctor than his son’s fiancé. This plot point I thought was a little dumb because these surely aren’t mutually exclusive.. but I enjoyed seeing her prove both he and the kingdom as a whole wrong, earning the respect of royalty and established doctors alike.

It’s a small cast, mainly focusing on Elise, her fiancé, his brother and her mentor, but I did enjoy them for the most part. I actually think the little brother, Mikhail got fleshed out a lot better than the fiancé. If I had to pick a criticism, it’s that Linden needed more screen time. I understand it’s a long running Manwha, so for these 12 episodes he probably just wasn’t a big character in the source. But it does feel a little odd because you can tell the story wants him to be important, and you just can’t quite care that deeply about him yet.

Speaking of Manwha, Gekai Elise is part of a great trend of Manwha adaptations. It seems surreal to be getting this many lately and I love the diversity that they bring to the medium. Different types of writing and settings are really what we need. There’s so much cool stuff coming out of Korea lately.

The art in the show looks really good. You can tell the author was heavily influenced by traditional shoujo art. The animation isn’t the best, but it rarely is in these villainess shows so that’s no shock. Overall, the production is solid from top to bottom.

Gekai Elise is just really fun to watch. Yea, the story isn’t too developed right now, but just seeing Elise save lives and break through social barriers, with a tinge of romance was more than enough for me. I can’t get enough of strong independent female characters who are determined to make their dreams a reality and this is one of the best of the bunch.

Gekai Elise gets a very strong 8, out of 10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Sep 15, 2024

BloggermanArt

Mixed Feelings

I will be honest, this was a disappointment.

I read the story (multiple times) and I was looking forward to see it happening in an anime, but they butchered the story and the characters a lot resulting in an incoherent and messy story that could've been soo much better.

If I had to describe how this anime feels, then I would see it feels like watching a Hollywood adaptation of a beloved anime.

Look, the new story isn't bad. It's passable.
But is that what you want from an anime?

I do recommend this anime simply because it's pretty unique, but I recommend reading the story more.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Mar 27, 2024

kirA_-_

Not Recommended

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Gekai Elise is a Medical Romance anime that is has Double Reincarnation + Time Loop.
We have our main character Elise who was reincarnated in modern world after being executed in her first life. We learn that she was definitely not a gift. She did have very bad attitude and was obsessed with idea marriage with the Prince. In this life she had a loving family and easy life but after reincarnation her life was not easy. In this life she became a very famous doctor but sadly she died again (Luck is not on her side as we can see) after this she is Reincarnated ... again to her first life before the execution and bad thing happens. So in this life she decided to become doctor too but she has a big problem in her way and it’s a marriage with the prince that supposed to happen on her 18th birthday. We see how she became a doctor in this world’ how she uses her knowledge ‘ people mostly don’t believe in her and try to sabotage her too because she needs to become Queen.

In this anime there are a lot of problems. Firstly I’m gonna talk about the Genre of this anime that is very poorly shown:Romance, we have more than one love interest but with none of them there is a enough connection for us to be called Romance or for me at least. But my biggest problem is the main love interest Linden (her fiance the Prince) this man is dull as a stick. He didn’t do NOTHING almost all of the Anime. Most he can do is sometimes is to go next to her to talk…But even this talks are unnecessary as fuck for the whole Anime the only think this man know about Else is that she loves eating sweets and she is try to become a doctor. That’s all he has zero idea what type of a person she is almost all of the Anime and the anime wants me to ship them…. Then give me a reason? There are some situations that was puts Elise in danger or be a wall between her and her dreams. He didn’t help her at all even I feel he can help her he dont. I cant this man makes me angry and the worst part the other two man are 10 times better than him. One of them is smart and the other one is brave and funny.
The sad part is the second problem is the main character Elise. She is your typical Mary Sue. She can’t do wrong she doesn’t have any flaws. Everybody loves her , she is perfect at everything. Watching a character without flaws in a universe that she needs to struggle and prove herself in the hard way is exhausting. Even when she struggles it not because of her she always right and gonna came clean from everything without a problem. Not only that she doesn’t have an interesting character. She just smart and that’s all

There is some medical and logic problems too but I’m not gonna talk about them or it’s gonna be too long.

Is there any good parts? Kind of her relationship with Graham and Julian was nice too see and I think I can count that her try to prove herself too whole kingdom while no one believes her at the start was nice to see.

The animation was nice nothing that gives the wow effect but its suits the anime but when you look at the original design of the characters they look pretty dull especially her brothers somehow.

In the end I dont recommend this anime there are a lot of better historical romance with good female characters.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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	Poll: Gekai Elise Episode 12 Discussion ( 1 2 ) Stark700 - Mar 27, 2024	67 replies	by DarknessReality »» Sep 8, 1:47 PM
	Will there be a Season 2 or enough Material for one? soulguard - Jul 26	3 replies	by SakuraCosmos »» Jul 26, 7:25 AM
	Poll: Do you think living in Japan instead of Korea will lead to substantial differences in how Elise thinks and goes about things compared to herself in the manhwa? arinthach - Jan 10, 2024	10 replies	by Neko_Rance »» Feb 28, 7:19 AM
	Poll: Gekai Elise Episode 9 Discussion Stark700 - Mar 6, 2024	38 replies	by DebiPS »» Jan 27, 4:24 PM
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