Reviews

This review is on ReLife, an anime about a 27 year old NEET (Someone who has graduated from high school and is currently unemployed nor in college) named Kaizaki Arata. After failing another one of his job interviews for quitting his old job in just 3 months, meaning no company wanted him, believing he was just lazy or couldn't handle it. He is then walking home after drinking with his friends and meets a random guy from ReLife who hands him a pill to start over his last year of high school and get back into life, he then takes the pill with no questions asked (great idea) and wakes up the next day young again. After this he enrolls in a high school as a senior and relives his life hoping to get a job from ReLife after the experiment is complete. This show has me in 2 different perspectives, I like it for its originality in the concept of having a high school romance, but I feel like it should've been more than just 13 episodes, here's why. First off the main goal of the experiment is for Kaizaki, the subject to affect as many lives as he can in the high school for him to gain a new perspective, the downside to this, at the end of the year all the memories of kaizaki will be erased from the students. Makes sense, however, to develop friendships and change a way of thinking isn't so simple, just 13 episodes isn't enough without leaving holes in the plot. That is why the last few episodes were rushed. The story itself in the high school setting was cliche, the art was good but not something memorable, the sound was decent and the openings were skipped, the character development was actually the best part about this show. You get to see, sorta, Kaizaki's new perspective and see how he fixes his mistakes, the best part was to see how he was able to effect the student's lives by interacting and helping them in need. The show was very enjoyable if you were to ignore the plot holes and the comedy was decent, not too cliche. Overall it was an 8/10.<><><><><><>SPOILERS COMING UP><><><><> I want to talk about the ending, there were 2 main romances in the story, each with not too cliche characters to have it going, well, excluding Chizuru, your average Dandere that has to appear in literally every anime. The way the romance developed wasn't too rushed between the secondary characters, but the main characters just needed more episodes. The ending itself was just unbearable and needed explanations. The way they made Chizuru the first test subject left too many holes in the plot. First off, how did Yoake manage to stalk 2 people at once, I know that Chizuru was with Kaizaki many parts of the series, but he needed a day to day report on her, and most of the time you would only see him interacting with Kaizaki and investigating him. I feel like the way they tried to make her the first subject was just to speed up the romance which is literally what Chizuru states in the final episode. It also said a few episodes before that the first subject was a failure and she wasn't going to finish, however she was still somehow a student in that high school. I feel like this show could've been so much better with 26, and maybe if they were to air a second season, and explain the anime better, then it would be a masterpiece, but everything was too rushed.