Review of ReLIFE

This is my first review, and for good reason. This show wasted my time and ultimately left me upset. After watching the first episode, I was hooked! However, this feeling did not stick around. Story: This guy is unhappy with his current life and is offered to take a pill to appear younger and attend high school. This show had the potential to be a masterpiece but just decided not to be. Before I go any further I want to applaud the fact that this show did not sexualize high school girls. I really appreciated that and it made it so much easier to watch.The main character was surprisingly not a pedo and actively reminded himself these girls are in high school and romanticizing them is weird. However, this did not cover up the fact that the story just wasn't there. 90% of this show was following high school girls drama and 10% was actually ReLIFE related. Most of the episodes would follow side characters and their drama and at the last second a ReLIFE related scene would appear. Effectively reminding you that there is still a story and not just mindless drama. Just for the next episode to be more mindless drama. Ultimately this show is a lot of stupid and random drama that has NOTHING to do with the main character or the story.

Animation: This show has the standard box style animation that was around from the 2010-2020 era. It's right in between a vintage anime style and the new style we know today. It's just boring. Characters look like they are boxes and have no depth.

Characters: wow wow wow are these guys boring. A lot of this show is just characters misunderstanding each others feelings and not effectively communicating. Which makes sense for a high school setting however I feel the author uses this excuse to just create mindless drama and draw out the story. Our main character doesn't really have that much depth to him. he's just a guy who didn't take advantage of his early life and the show doesn't even really address this fully. Like I said 90% of this show is mindless drama.

Final Thoughts: I was really excited for this show but it just fell flat. the author had so much potential yet did nothing with it. such a shame that a 10/10 story was wasted on this flop.

TLDR: Cool Premise with poor execution
Story: 5/10 Has potential to be amazing just takes the wrong route
Animation: 2/10 standard box animation style
Characters: 3/10 boring, boring, and more boring
Score: 3.3/10