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If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student

2022 · 1 season

A gentle tearjerker that blends quiet family drama with a whimsical premise, leaving you with a bittersweet ache.

Created by
Toshio Tsuboi, Takeyoshi Yamamoto
Genres
Family, Comedy, Drama
Starring
Nono Maida, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Aju Makita
Overview
A story that begins when a husband, who lost his beloved wife ten years ago and lost the meaning of life, and his daughter are unexpectedly reunited with their wife/mother. As his wife is reborn as a ten-year-old elementary school student, the family is reborn.

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Stream in the UK
  • Netflix
  • Crunchyroll
More options Data from JustWatch
Created by
Toshio Tsuboi, Takeyoshi Yamamoto
Genres
Family, Comedy, Drama
Starring
Nono Maida, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Aju Makita
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • grief
  • death
  • parenthood
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • school
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour4
Realism3
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity2
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
family, comedy, drama
Created by
Toshio Tsuboi, Takeyoshi Yamamoto, Naoki Kato
Written by
Satomi Oshima
Starring
Nono Maida, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Aju Makita, Yuriko Ishida, Yoh Yoshida, Misato Morita, Shunsuke Tanaka, Satoshi Iizuka
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 47 min each
Network
TBS, MBS
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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