Review of ReLIFE

The anime version of ReLIFE stays true to the original themes of the manga while condensing the story into a dozen and a half episodes. Watching the characters learn and grow together was a great time, and the anime improved the frustratingly glacial pace of the manga. However, many conflicts from the source material were completely omitted, resulting in a story where several characters, particularly one of the protagonists, feel underdeveloped. Some of the trimmed content may have been more pivotal to the story than the anime production team realized. I would still recommend the anime over the manga, especially for its first season. Neither versionof ReLIFE is particularly visually stunning—the manga, though fully colored, features numerous off-model characters, and the anime, while more aesthetically consistent, appears quite stiff-looking at times. But the anime manages to shine with its snappy directing and solid voice acting. I genuinely enjoyed it, and you might, too!