Review of ReLIFE

Relife gives us a hikkikomori as the lead and has him take a pill which makes him live one year as a 17 year old. The starting episodes of the anime (episodes 1-6) are a real blast and there are a lot of literal laugh out loud moments as the main character Arata tries to fit into he new surroundings. The reason the first few episodes are such a blast is because there is no story progression in those episodes. The story in this anime is atrocious and the message given out is even worse. Lets start from the beginning. If you had the chance torelive a year as a 17 year old, what would you do? Well if Relife is anything to go by, the best way to be "born again" and "heal" is by becoming a mangina "Yes man" and take all the crappy problems of your peers upon ourselves. Coz you know, nothing makes you a better person like sorting through teen angst and drama. Instead of really introspecting his life and growing as a person, Arata decides to help his classmates deal with banal, crappy everyday problems. He being a 27 year old in reality should mean he should be able to deal with problems no? Nope. He sucks. Now lets go to the romantic foil for Arata, Chizuru Hishiro. Good lord, can you have a more bland and boring character than this? She is essentially Sadako V2 (from Kimi no Todoke) with all the good qualities stripped out. Anything which made Sadako tragic and made you sympathize with her is removed and replaced with a banal "I don't know how the world works, but I work real hard" It boggles my mind how someone be he 17 years old, 27 years old, or even 60 years old can fall in love with someone who has zero and I mean zero character. The rest of the characters are what you would expect in similar anime. You have a handsome friendly guy, a tsundere, a dumb airheaded girl with big tits who is in a threesome with two of her classmates (I am not making this up I swear) All are average but the tsundere was cute.

Finally lets get to the message of the anime. So here it is. If you see someone getting bullied/discriminated against, do not under any circumstances intervene. Coz you know, the people suffering will have a "plan" in their head and you standing up for them is akin to you ruining their "grand master plan" So don't do it. Watch them suffer in silence and let the bullies win. I swear I am not making this shit up.

The first six episodes are fun because the characters and world is still being introduced to us. Once we get to the "story" part, the anime goes downhill and never recovers. My recommendation is to avoid.