Original title
ReLIFE
Released
7/2/2016
Origin country
JP
Genre
Animation, Comedy
Production companies
TMS Entertainment
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
13
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...
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.
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.
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.
At Arata’s apartment, Ryo tells Arata that his ReLife was a huge success and offers him a list of jobs and a pill that will end his ReLife. At Chizuru’s apartment, An is doing the same thing with Chizuru. Chizuru falls asleep after taking the pill and An sees that she had written “I was in love with Kaizaki Arata” on her hand and that she will have to erase it despite it is against her conscience.
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.
Arata meets Chiziru Hishiro, a girl who has zero communication skills but is trying her best to change.
Arata receives a grim reminder of his physical age during athletic testing.
Rena Kariu is thrown for a loop by what she thinks is Chizuru's spiteful behavior toward her.
Things come to a head between Rena and Chizuru, which reminds Arata about a traumatic experience in his past.
An Onoya and Kazuomi Ooga suddenly visit Arata for a study session, after which An puts the moves on Arata?!
Ryou reflects on the year before and his failure supporting test subject no. 001
Honoka is distracted by her troubles and inadvertently causes an injury to Rena.
The rift between Rena and Honoka grows ever larger as the former decides to retire from high-school volleyball, but Chizuru and Arata decide to fix things.
Things come to a head as Chizuru and Arata decide to confront Rena over her behavior.
Arata decides to visit a grave and ends up taking a trip down memory lane.
Arata, once and for all, tries to make the dense-as-can-be Kazuomi realize what he has in his hands.
At the fireworks display, everyone puts their plans into motion and tries to make things work between Kazuomi and Rena. Meanwhile, a different pairing begins to take shape...
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