ReLIFE: Season One [Blu-ray]

This product comes with both Blu Ray and DVD, containing 13 episodes. Available in both dubbed and subbed. Be aware that this anime has been divided into two separate products. The final 4 episodes to actually complete this story has to be purchased separately. An old cash grab trick that mostly has died off, but has a few stragglers. Alas…I recommend to any anime consumer to purchase a physical copy of any and all anime franchises you enjoy. All western anime distributors deal with licensing issues which makes future access to any one particular anime via digital media, problematic.Our protagonist is a product of a modern day conundrum regarding individuals upbringing, rendering them incapable of properly “adulting” after they leave school behind. Due to his poor life experiences, like so many others, is listlessly going through life without purpose or sustainability. A very, VERY growing IRL problem for most modern populations that are relying on governmental systems that are not capable of taking care of them forever.Not to worry though, a revolutionary new drug can reverse the physical appearance of age so an adult can reLIFE their teens years, which is considered the most crucial period in a person’s existence in determining the overall bedrock of their personalities and drive, as they move forward in life. Our protagonist has the chance to rebuild his social skills in an environment when life was full of possibilities. And there is plenty of opportunity for a blunder or two when mixing in an older guy in with a bunch of teens. Old back aches and forgetting everything after graduation? Hilarious!Can he be this experiment’s first success and save this endeavor, or end up like the last test subject?I did a little researching after hearing “adulting is hard” spoken mostly by millennials. The better suited term is “Arrested Development”. I guess that I why I like this show.If one could go back with the knowledge they know now, there is a good chance of course correcting a lot of their internal problems. Then they would assumingly be productive members of society. This franchise is basically the slice-of-life fantasy of doing just that.

The discs: in typical Funimation style, you cannot watch the dub with subtitles on nor the original Japanese with the subtitles off. I recommend a TV with auto-leveling sound if you want endure the dub.Digital Copy: gives you more control. Unfortunately, there are episodes missing from the Funimation App on the Roku platform (Roku TVs and sticks). The episodes are available on other platforms (website, iOS). Good luck trying to explain this to Funimation support.The story: it’s an interesting tale of taking a pill to relive one year of high school with the promise of a landing a great job afterward. It explores the pitfalls of such a stunt: making new friends, cliques, playing sports as an elderly 27yo whose body only looks young, still smoking and drinking like an adult, forgetting everything you learned in class, and the inevitable sexual tension.Then the premise starts unraveling with memory wipes, growing up pills, predictable mysterious backstories and M Night Shammalammadingdong twists. It’s like you started watching Erased and wound up with Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid. The hopeless romance makes you want to emotionally invest in the characters, but the whole thing just kinda ends flat, as if they were holding out for a Season 2. The Final Arc (sold separately) brings some closure but it’s cliché and not really necessary.It’s enjoyable to watch once (or twice for the different translation), but it might not be worth adding to your collection.

I actually read all the reviews and a couple of other places to see if I was the only person who had issues with certain aspects, and a few others had the same issues.One-- Buy this, but then buy and get "The Final Arc" for closure. This does not close the story, and "The Final Arc" is needed for it to make sense. This one stops in the middle of the story. Get both on hand before you watch any of it. Running out and paying too much for the final closure is just bad planning on the part of the retail chain structure, and it really should have been both this and The Final Arc in one case.Two-- the menu display looks like someone did not care if you could read it, so be prepared to guess at what the options are. On small players the tiny type makes it almost painful to do anything other than accept the default settings go with play all. That might be easy if you had a full day, but if you have to do part of this, say one disk, it works, but if you have to start to play one or two episodes to find your way to the correct episode to continue that turns viewing into a challenge.Three-- They need a volume control for spoken/action and background music. Several people told me they had issues with understanding what was said because the music was too loud. That was four people, with four different players, at different times, and we all felt they really slipped in the level of music versus dialog.The GOOD part is simple.It is a great story (implausible, but great as a fanciful journey) and if you get both this and The Final Arc the full story is magnificent, kid safe, and even little old lady squinting at the screen great entertainment. The Amazon price is good, and buying both hurts because of the total price, but even at that higher price it is really worth it.A nine and a quarter point score for not having all of it in one box and the audio and chapter title images chopping it down from a ten out of ten-- but that is still a five out of five on this system. It should be offered as a combined package so you don't wind up "halfway there and waiting for the tow truck" in a purely visual set, but if you read this and know it, that choice is up to you.

Great

A refreshingly new take on the highschool romance genre.Protagonist Arata is a 27 year old shut-in who is offered the opportunity to be a part of an experiment. He is given a drug to make him appear 10 years younger and then sent back to highschool to try and help him rediscover himself and, hopefully cure him of what is wrong in his real life.What sounds like a stupid sitcom premise turns out to be a great little show with a lot of emotional depth and great heart. Plus it's also really quite funny.Super fun and likeable characters plus a clever script make this show a surprising joy to watch.

DVDの方はリージョン制限入りませんでした。PS4,車ナビ共に再生良好です。BDの方はリージョン制限入りませんが、字幕設定が出来ないので強制英字幕になります。小型モニタで観るのであればDVDでもいいかと思いますが、テレビサイズで観るのであればBDになり字幕が気になります。減点は一、BDの字幕オフが無い一、英語音声だと棒読み過ぎて萎える加点は一、ディスク2枚でシーズンが通しで観れる一、安価なため配信が終了しても何時でも観れる

it was really good!

英語学習を兼ねて購入。気に入った作品で英語と日本語で視聴できてお得かと。音声を日本語に設定すると日本語字幕が強制で表示されるのが残念かも。自分は気にしませんけど。