Relife

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Relife
Original title ReLIFE
ReLIFE logo.png
genre Drama, romance, comedy , science fiction
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Yayoiso
publishing company NHN PlayArt
magazine Comico
First publication October 12, 2013 - March 16, 2018
expenditure 13
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2016
Studio TMS Entertainment
length 25 minutes
Episodes 13
Director Tomochi Kosaka
music Masayasu Tsuboguchi
First broadcast June 24, 2016 on ReLIFE Channel
synchronization
Original video animation
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2018
Studio TMS Entertainment
length 25 minutes
Episodes 4th
Director Tomochi Kosaka
music Masayasu Tsuboguchi
synchronization

Relife (relife) is a Webmangaserie of Yayoiso appearing in Japan since-2013. The Seinen series was implemented in the form of an anime television series, which was also published with German subtitles. The implementation as a play in Tokyo and Osaka has also been announced for autumn 2016 .

action

Arata Kaizaki ( 海 崎 新 太 ) did not achieve much at the age of 27: Despite studying, he has been unemployed for a long time and simply cannot find a new job. He pretends to his few friends that he still has work, but mostly just lazing around. One evening he meets Ryō Yoake ( 夜 明 ) on the street , who offers him to take part in the Relife test program. Drunk, Kaizaki agrees and immediately takes the pill offered. The next morning he looks ten years younger. Yoake explains to the shocked Kaizaki that the program is about sending him back to high school for a year and thus offering him a second chance in life. Then he would go back to his old form and, if successful, get a job. He finally agrees.

At the beginning of the last year of high school, Kaizaki joins the class that Yoake is also attending for his observation. At first he has difficulty getting used to everyday school life, but he makes friends very quickly. These are the cool and clever but unsporting Kazuomi Ōga ( 大 神 和 臣 ) and the clever and reserved Chizuru Hishiro ( 日 代 千 鶴 ). Both are class representatives as they got the best grades in the initial tests. Kaizaki and An Onoya ( 小野 屋 杏 ) did not pass any of the tests so they have to repeat them. Ōga wants to help them, as does the ambitious Rena Kariu ( 狩 生 玲奈 ), who would have liked to become the class representative herself.

Yoake always reports on Kaizaki's development and is also satisfied with the development of his social contacts. Kaizaki finds access to the closed Hishiro and helps her to be a little more open-minded and to make friends. This is how Hishiro succeeds in making friends with Kariu, even if her clumsy dealings with other people initially stand in her way. When Ōga and An invite themselves to Kaizaki to study with him, Kaizaki learns - after Ōga has left - that An, like Yoake, works at Relife and that they are both his age. Before him, Yoake already had another client, but failed because he interfered too much and then too little.

At school, Hishiro gets along better with others, but Rena is increasingly annoyed that others are more successful than her. Not only is Hishiro the class representative in her place, her friend Honoka Tamarai ( 玉 来 ほ の か ) is also much better at volleyball than she is. When Rena also injures her foot, an argument between the two escalates. Ōga helps Rena during her recovery but cannot heal Tamarai's friendship. Since they are burdening their friends' conflicts, Kaizaki and Hishiro talk to each other, tell each other that they have both tried unsuccessfully to help victims of bullying and, despite the bad experience of interfering in the lives of others, decide to help their friends together. Together with all their friends, Rena and Honoka, confront their feelings and how important they are to each other. So their friendship gets back on track and Hishiro is accepted into their circle of friends.

The anniversary of the death of his former colleague, Kaizaki is reminded that she took her own life after she was bullied in his presence and he interfered. The memory depresses him. But when he meets young colleagues from the same company who share his stance against bullying and see him as a role model because he fired his colleague because of the bullying, he can take heart. Since summer is about to end, he and Hishiro and the other friends Ōga finally want to make it clear that he has fallen in love with Rena and she has fallen in love with him. After getting advice from their friends, the two finally confess their feelings to each other at the summer party and become a couple - although or precisely because Ōga changes to a different university than Rena after school. Hishiro is convinced that even short-term happiness that will not last long is worth looking for. Even if Kaizaki and Hishiro do not reveal any feelings, on the same evening they both show that they feel something for each other. But they are afraid of being forgotten by the other and of even entering into a relationship with a teenager - because Hishiro is also a participant in a ReLife, supervised by An, without Hishiro or Kaizaki knowing about each other. So only Yoake and An are happy that their two protégés support each other, develop very positively in their time and have a good influence on their fellow men.

Before Christmas, Kaizaki and Hishiro grow closer and closer. Especially Hishiro realizes that she has fallen in love with Kaizaki. She suspects that he is also a participant in the ReLife and is afraid of forgetting him when the experiment is over. Your supervisors know this, because the participants are erased from the memory of everyone they have been in contact with during the year - even if they are other ReLife participants. Above all, An is accused of having to destroy the love of the two. Hishiro overcomes himself and, after Rena and Ōga have also agreed to meet for Christmas, invites Kaizaki to a Christmas date. They spend the day together in the amusement park and shopping and finally confess their love to each other. They spend a few more happy weeks together before both can successfully complete their ReLife. After the difficult farewell to their cherished school life with their new friends, they also forget each other. But both then take up a position at ReLife in order to be able to pass on their experiences. They met by chance one evening at a company party and suddenly remembered the time together.

publication

From October 12, 2013 to March 16, 2018, the chapters of the series were published in the online magazine Comico , which is managed by NHN PlayArt . The publisher Earth Star Entertainment has published the story in 13 anthologies so far. These sold more than 60,000 times in the first two weeks after publication. In February 2016, the total number of sales for the first four volumes exceeded 1 million.

The series has been published in German by Tokyopop since September 2019 . A French translation of the manga is published by Editions Ki-oon . An English online edition was published by Crunchyroll .

Anime adaptation

In TMS Entertainment 2016 anime television series was based on the manga. The director was Tomochi Kosaka and the series conception was carried out by Kazuho Hyodo and Michiko Yokote . The character design was created by Junko Yamanaka and the artistic direction was by Kentaro Akiyama .

On June 24, 2016, all 13 episodes were published via the ReLIFE Channel app , and on July 1, they were fully published for the international audience on Crunchyroll for paying members. Later, at midnight, it was broadcast on Japanese television, on AT-X , Gunma TV , BS11 , Tochigi TV and Tokyo MX . Parallel to the television broadcast in Japan, the episodes on Crunchyroll will also be available free of charge, including with German and English subtitles.

On March 21, 2018, four more episodes were released as OVA on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan, as well as on Amazon Prime and Crunchyroll with subtitles in various languages, including German and English. The OVA was produced by the same team as the series.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Arata Kaizaki Kensho Ono
Chizuru Hishiro Ai Kayano
Kazuomi Ōga Yūma Uchida
To Onoya Reina Ueda
Rena Kariu Haruka Tomatsu
Ryō Yoake Ryohei Kimura
Kazuomi Ōga Yūma Uchida

music

The music in the series was composed by Masayasu Tsuboguchi . The opening credits are underlaid with the song Button ( ボ タ ン ) by Penguin Research. The end credits, different in each episode, are:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ReLIFE Manga Gets Stage Play Adaptation This Fall. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, February 15-21. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, August 10-16. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Kensho Ono, Ai Kayano to Lead in "ReLIFE" TV Anime. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  5. ↑ "ReLIFE" Anime Launches July 1 on Crunchyroll. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Crunchyroll Streams ReLIFE Finale OVA. In: animenewsnetwork.com. Anime News Network. March 21, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2018.