Completed Anime
I'm Standing on a Million Lives

“Tokyo-hating Yotsuya is pulled into a game world where death is temporary and quests must be completed in 14 days.”

I'm Standing on a Million Lives

6.52
7,528 rank · 331,481 viewers · 714 favorites
Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Isekai Shounen
12 episodes · 23 min per ep min · Fall 2020 · Maho Film · PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Synopsis

Tokyo-hating Yotsuya is pulled into a game world where death is temporary and quests must be completed in 14 days.

Yuusuke Yotsuya has always disliked Tokyo, but he especially hates the people who live in it. He would rather thrive in a virtual world than try to get along with those around him. At the end of one school day, he sees the popular athlete Iu Shindou talking to Kusue Hakozaki, who spends less time in school due to illness. But when he looks away from the two and back again, they have seemingly disappeared. Mere moments later, Yotsuya enters a state of free-fall, and the world begins to change around him. Dropping into a large pool of water, the first thing he sees when he comes to his senses is an assortment of enormous monsters. He soon finds out that he has been brought into a game world by Shindou and Hakozaki and that he must complete a quest within 14 days. There is one thing that separates this world from the real world: anyone who dies will be brought back to life in 30 seconds as long as one party member is alive. Tasked with numerous quests that increase in difficulty over time, Yotsuya, Shindou, and Hakozaki attempt to discover the mystery behind the perplexing game world.

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Community consensus

Derived from 94 sampled reviews

6.0 /10

What 94 viewers settled on.

65% recommend
Score distribution
median 6 mode 6 σ 1.90
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σ 1.90 · split reception

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The polarity gap

4.5 pts

Recommenders 7.8 · others 3.3

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↓ 0.98

Running avg · Oct 2020 → Feb 2026

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A Tv Production · Fall 2020

Maho Film.
in association with

Lantis · Warner Bros. Japan

  • Format 12 × 23′ eps × min
  • Total runtime 4h 36m all episodes
  • Aired Oct 2020 – Dec 2020 Fall 2020
  • Source Tv media type
  • Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
  • Ref. BS-16221 catalog

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