TV series

ReLIFE

2016 · 1 season

A gentle, funny, and heartfelt second chance at youth that balances warm slice-of-life comedy with genuine angst and growth.

Created by: Hiroyuki Okuno, Toru Takahashi
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Sci-fi & fantasy
Starring: Kensho Ono, Ai Kayano, Ryohei Kimura

Overview: Arata Kaizaki (27) quit the job he landed after graduation in only three months. His life did not go well after that. Now his parents are threatening to stop sending money, and want him to come back to the country. He has no friend or girlfriend to share his troubles with...as he hits rock bottom a strange man named Ryou Yoake appears. He invites Arata to join a societal rehabilitation program for NEETs called ReLife. This program uses a mysterious drug to make him look younger, and sends him back to high school for a year...

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Created by: Hiroyuki Okuno, Toru Takahashi
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Sci-fi & fantasy
Starring: Kensho Ono, Ai Kayano, Ryohei Kimura

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
identity
friendship
isolation
healing
Places: school
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	6
Realism	6
Romance	6
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: animation, comedy, sci-fi & fantasy
Created by: Hiroyuki Okuno, Toru Takahashi, Kazuhiro Soeta, Akiko Seki, Hirokazu Yamada, Makoto Nakata
Written by: Kazuho Hyoudou, Michiko Yokote
Starring: Kensho Ono, Ai Kayano, Ryohei Kimura, Haruka Tomatsu, Reina Ueda, Yuma Uchida, Shizuka Itoh, Akeno Watanabe
Music: Masayasu Tsuboguchi
Cinematography: Nozomi Shitara
Length: 1 seasons, 13 episodes, 24 min each
Network: Gunma TV, TOKYO MX, BS11
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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