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 Fallon, Graham Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

de Romanoff, Michael Supporting

Saitou, Souma Japanese

de Childe, Julian Supporting

Han, Megumi Japanese

de Clorance, Lenne Supporting

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Bent Supporting

Saiga, Mitsuki Japanese

de Clorance, Chris Supporting

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Hans Supporting

Hozumi, Yuya Japanese

Kyle Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka Japanese

Habara, Kumiko Director

Konuma, Noriyoshi Sound Director

Watanabe, Hidetoshi Episode Director

Mori, Takeshi Storyboard

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Mar 27, 2024

Novachaser01

Recommended

I've seen many isekai and reincarnation stories over the years. The more recent ones have developed somewhat of a bad habit of excessive power fantasy and heavy wish fulfillment. It's a guilty pleasure to be sure. But every so often we get a story that offers a bit more.
Gekai Elise is an anime adaptation of Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp, a Korean web novel that was later given a webtoons adaptation in 2017. My first impressions of the anime were strong enough that I decided to pick up the webtoon and read ahead. I read a lot more than watch anime, so ... if one has source material, I start by comparing that if I can.
First off, the anime takes a few liberties in adapting the story. The romance is more subdued in the anime and there is greater emphasis on proper medical practices. They even added filler episodes to cover more treatments. The medicine alone makes it worth a watch if only for the sake of edutainment. The era that the world takes place in is hard to place. It reflects 18th century Britain, but with some facilities comparable to 21st century. While there is magic it seems exclusive to certain individuals and can't heal injuries. The focus is definitely on the surgeries. As a result, anything out of place used to justify its use requires some suspension of disbelief. But if you can get by that, it's an enjoyable watch. There's also much more story to cover. For those looking to get a romance fix, that will have to wait until the next season.
The animation quality is normal I'd say. Not at the level to a similar anime released at the same time: 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Even so, I would forgive it since there is a lot of talking. And the topics are more intelligent. The opening song [Believer] by Yui Ishikawa sounds nice. I actually liked the credits song [Listen] by Arai Maju much more. It sounds melancholy yet sweet. Enough that I've listened to it many times on Youtube.
This was actually a recommendation from a friend. I went into this expecting it to be along the lines of Parallel World Pharmacy. It wasn't, but that's okay. I think if you like your fantasy stories more grounded in reality, just not in a modern setting, then I think this will be a nice enough watch. That being said, I can't give it a score higher than 7 for the following reasons. We are never fully told what horrible sins that Elise committed in her first life nor the powers that allowed her to reincarnate not once, but twice. It makes sense from a writing perspective since she needs knowledge of modern medicine in order to change fate. But it feels like a needless level of complexity. There's also the aforementioned suspension of disbelief. A handful of scenes felt almost like a PSA as far as best practices. And this is all coming from the word of a girl that hasn't come of age with no background in medicine. Privilege of the upper class I guess? The protagonist is female which is already a win since most of the isekai/reincarnations tend to be male centric power fantasies. The ones that do get female leads often play out like otome games. At least here, the main character is bringing about change through her own efforts, blood, sweat, and tears which is very admirable. I hope there are more isekai shows like this in the future. Here's hoping the next season builds upon the success of the first.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 14, 2024

MelouNya

Mixed Feelings

they changed so many good scene from the webtoon,the character aare so flat, elise is not like this, they change her character too much, the only thing that stayed is a "bad writting" the ml is suposed to be more serious(why the cleaning scene exist?!), they ruined it with a bad writting, it's one of my fav but the anime is really not good. I recommend to read it instead. itt go too face, the pacing is strange, so many important moment are innexistant and they focus to much on the realtion instead of the actual action.
the idea is really good, but they tried to ... make it child friendly when it'sd a darker story, it''s not supposed to be that "cute".
The voice actors are really good, but really why

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 12, 2024

_nelt

Not Recommended

Everything is fine, but the writing is crazy bad

There is a scene where a fire started inside a theater and our main character, Elise (of a very high ranking family, second only to the imperial family), tells some nobles not to breathe the obviously toxic smoke.
Well... the show, out of thin air, pulls a nobles vs commoner girl cliché, and they start ranting about how they are nobles and superior and she is no one to tell them what to do, all this while breathing the smoke and coughing.

It was so absurd that had me laughing, however, the other times this happens are not so ... funny.

The show is filled with these moments where clichés happen without any regard to the story.
Most of the times they are small things, like a character saying some line that doesn't make any sense, however, sometimes they are major event that heavily steer the plot and that's very frustrating.

I suggest you watch this anime only if you have high tolerance for bad writing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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