Series synopsis
ReLIFE is a Japanese animation comedy sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on Gunma TV on July 2, 2016. It ended on September 24, 2016. It stars Kensho Ono, Ai Kayano, Ryohei Kimura and Haruka Tomatsu.
Arata Kaizaki (27) quit the job he landed after graduation in only three months. His life did not go well after that. Now his parents are threatening to stop sending money, and want him to come back to the country. He has no friend or girlfriend to share his troubles with...as he hits rock bottom a strange man named Ryou Yoake appears. He invites Arata to join a societal rehabilitation program for NEETs called ReLife. This program uses a mysterious drug to make him look younger, and sends him ba ...
Premise
Arata Kaizaki (27) quit the job he landed after graduation in only three months. His life did not go well after that. Now his parents are threatening to stop sending money, and want him to come back to the country. He has no friend or girlfriend to share his troubles with...as he hits rock bottom a strange man named Ryou Yoake appears. He invites Arata to join a societal rehabilitation program for NEETs called ReLife. This program uses a mysterious drug to make him look younger, and sends him back to high school for a year...
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Kensho Ono as Arata Kaizaki (voice)
- Ai Kayano as Chizuru Hishiro (voice)
- Ryohei Kimura as Ryou Yoake (voice)
- Haruka Tomatsu as Rena Kariu (voice)
- Reina Ueda as An Onoya (voice)
- Yuma Uchida as Kazuomi Ooga (voice)
Guest cast
- Shizuka Itoh as Michiru Saiki (voice)
- Akeno Watanabe as Mrs. Kaizaki (voice)
- Ryoko Shiraishi as Sumire Inukai (voice)
- Noriaki Sugiyama as Akira Inukai (voice)
- Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Kento Amagase (voice)
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Kokoro Amatsu (voice)
- Daisuke Namikawa as Nobunaga Asaji (voice)
- Wataru Hatano as Koushi Usa (voice)
- Kenji Akabane as Zen Kamioka (voice)
- Minami Takahashi as Rumi Naomi (voice)
- Himika Akaneya as Honoka Tamarai (voice)
- Toru Nara as Company President (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 19 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 6 | March 21, 2018 | March 21, 2018 |
| Season 1 | 13 | July 2, 2016 | September 24, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Seed Chizuru loses the position of class representative to Rena. Realizing she was preoccupied with her feelings for Arata, Chizuru confronts Ryo asking him if Arata is a ReLIFE subject. He doesn't want to confirm it, warning her that exposing a test subject would end the experiment for him and they would never see each other again. |
March 21, 2018 |
| 2 |
Need Everyone is having fun at the cultural festival and the class' English-style cafe, but Chizuru and Arata can't stop thinking about being erased from their friends' memories. A discussion between Ryo and An reveals that Chizuru's and Arata's memories of each other will be lost as well. |
March 21, 2018 |
| 3 |
Date Chizuru does not understand her current feelings for Arata and starts to avoid him to try and “see things from a different perspective”. However, after talking it over with Honoka and Rena, she asks Arata out for a Christmas date. |
March 21, 2018 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Arata Kaizaki (27), Unemployed Arata Kaizaki is twenty-seven years old and doesn't have a steady job. His parents even threaten to stop sending him money, but that's when he he meets Yoake Ryo, who has a tantalizing offer for him. |
July 2, 2016 |
| 2 |
Communication Skills: Zero Arata meets Chiziru Hishiro, a girl who has zero communication skills but is trying her best to change. |
July 9, 2016 |
| 3 |
You're Old Now Arata receives a grim reminder of his physical age during athletic testing. |
July 16, 2016 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Gunma TV |
|---|---|
| First aired | July 2, 2016 |
| Last aired | September 24, 2016 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Status | ended |