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The only real "hint" in the manga is that it keeps being mentioned for a while, so you definitely know it'll be a plot point later on and can assume its another character.
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Finally got around to watching most of the anime (currently on episode 12), and I think this is a really good adaption of the manga! Sure it cuts out some of the smaller bits (ex. after the volleyball match where they spot Yoake and Onoya in the comic), but it's pretty well paced and hits all the major plot points. Having the whole volleyball tournament arc take place over the span of two episodes made Kariu's drama much more tolerable to watch versus multiple weeks of waiting for each chapter. She's still one of my favorite characters in the show though because of how much she acts like a real teenager with problems to struggle through. I do like all the characters in general, actually. Inukai can chill out some more though. The whole reveal about Kaizaki's senpai and the following funeral episode was really satisfying to watch animated. I think they did a lot more foreshadowing in the anime that helped it pull together nicely - a lot more neckgrabbing, for example. But one of the touches I liked best was in the episode where they talk about Onoya, Yoake, and Kaizaki before the ReLIFE experiment. Specifically, when they show Kaizaki properly resigning from his job and taking the pill on his own initiative. In the manga he just takes it while really drunk and really regrets it, so I liked the fact that they gave another chance to show Kaizaki's character. also the 90s endings + the watercolor illustrations are the best, so I found a list of all of the songs that play: ”Iijuu★Rider (イ―ジュ－★ライダー)” by Tamio Okuda (ep 1) ”HOT LIMIT” by T.M.Revolution (ep 2) ”タイミング~Timing~” by BLACK BISCUITS (ep 3) ”HONEY” by L’Arc~en~Ciel (ep 4) ”Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi (これが私の生きる道)” by PUFFY (ep 5) ”Sunny Day Sunday” by Sentimental Bus” (ep 6) ”Saudade (サウダージ)” by Porno Graffiti (ep 7) “Yuki no Hana” (雪の華) by Mika Nakashima (ep 8) “There will be love there -Ai no Aru Basho-” by The Brilliant Green (ep 9) “Asu e no Tobira (明日への扉)” by I WiSH (ep 10) “PIECES OF A DREAM” by CHEMISTRY (ep 11) “Natsumatsuri (夏祭り)” by Whiteberry (ep 12) “Button (ボタン)” by PENGUIN RESEARCH (ep 13)
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Captain Invictus posted:The only real hints in the manga are just that that character is obviously so busted, no outright hints. Yeah, the character being so broken was all I needed. Once it was clear that there was a subject 001 and that they were progressing terribly it didn't take much of a deductive leap to figure out who it was.
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Aug 5, 2016 07:00
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The scene where Yoake thanks Kaizaki after Hishiro and Kaizaki hear out Honoka and try to help mend the rift between her and Rena makes a lot more sense once you realize Hishiro is Subject 1. Cause it pretty much comes out of nowhere and Kaizaki himself has no clue why he's being thanked. I mean, I suppose you could say Yoake's thanking him for taking the ReLIFE experiment seriously (possible, but doesn't feel like it) or helping two students fix their friendship (seems hella unlikely), but it seems more likely that he's thanking Kaizaki for influencing Hishiro to actually start taking steps to change herself, especially after the failure of her 1st attempt at the project.
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^^^ My interpretation of Yoake's "Thank you" when I read the manga was that he was thankful for Kaizaki being a successful ReLIFE subject, after facing all of the disappointment and sadness of the previous subject (who was also Yoake's first subject, so he probably felt like a huge failure). I could definitely seeing thanking him for his involvement with Hishiro (who is of course the previous subject) also being a part of it, though.Nondevor posted:Specifically, when they show Kaizaki properly resigning from his job and taking the pill on his own initiative. In the manga he just takes it while really drunk and really regrets it, so I liked the fact that they gave another chance to show Kaizaki's character. What are you talking about? In the anime he has been out of work for months (so he doesn't have a job to resign from) before he gets approached by Yoake and also takes the pill while drunk. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Aug 5, 2016 |
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Aug 5, 2016 07:27
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Ytlaya posted:What are you talking about? In the anime he has been out of work for months (so he doesn't have a job to resign from) before he gets approached by Yoake and also takes the pill while drunk. You're forgetting stuff, he had his convenience store clerk job which he had to resign from, that's why he ended up taking the pill twice.
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:You're forgetting stuff, he had his convenience store clerk job which he had to resign from, that's why he ended up taking the pill twice. Yeah, this. I didn't recall that scene happening in the manga at all, so I thought it was a nice touch!
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:You're forgetting stuff, he had his convenience store clerk job which he had to resign from, that's why he ended up taking the pill twice. Ah, I'll take your word for it then. I'm assuming this happens later, because it isn't in the first episode. Is there some sort of flashback to the night after he received the pill from Yoake? I only remember him having to retake the pill after visiting the cemetery. Which episode is the scene in?
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Ytlaya posted:Ah, I'll take your word for it then. I'm assuming this happens later, because it isn't in the first episode. Is there some sort of flashback to the night after he received the pill from Yoake? I only remember him having to retake the pill after visiting the cemetery. Which episode is the scene in? It's in episode 7.
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There is one hint about Subject 001's identity I caught on rereading the manga that seems obvious enough in retrospect I'm surprised it never seemed to come up in speculations before the reveal. Every character is strongly associated with a color, usually for their word bubbles, but sometimes for other stuff like a relevant character's ReLIFE pill. Kaizaki is blue, Hishiro is green, Yoake orange, Ogha yellow, etc. As early as ch. 25 (before Hishiro and Kariu even became friends), you can see that while Kaizaki's file is appropriately blue, the No. 001 file is green.
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Wow, I totally missed that, and I like the color association thing. Nice spot!
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You know, in retrospect I feel bad for Kariu that the reason she didn't get her silver pin is that she was competing against a grown-rear end woman.
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Ytlaya posted:You know, in retrospect I feel bad for Kariu that the reason she didn't get her silver pin is that she was competing against a grown-rear end woman. I mean, Hishiro probably would have aced the tests even as an actual student too. Kaizaki's an adult too and he's loving failing everything.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:I mean, Hishiro probably would have aced the tests even as an actual student too. Kaizaki's an adult too and he's loving failing everything. Do they ever mention what he went to grad school for? I can understand having trouble with some high school material (especially if you were taking the Japanese equivalent of AP-level material, though that doesn't seem to be the case here), but it seems like you should at least be able to pass most courses, especially if you're an adult with a graduate school-level education.
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Ytlaya posted:Do they ever mention what he went to grad school for? I can understand having trouble with some high school material (especially if you were taking the Japanese equivalent of AP-level material, though that doesn't seem to be the case here), but it seems like you should at least be able to pass most courses, especially if you're an adult with a graduate school-level education. I dunno man I don't think I could do well on math in high school without learning everything again and I'm 27. Then again I'm an humanities major... Their school is supposed to be a decent one, I believe, so I can buy him having trouble.
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Ytlaya posted:Do they ever mention what he went to grad school for? I can understand having trouble with some high school material (especially if you were taking the Japanese equivalent of AP-level material, though that doesn't seem to be the case here), but it seems like you should at least be able to pass most courses, especially if you're an adult with a graduate school-level education. I was wondering that a lot too, actually. I mean, even if it wasn't something math/science related, you'd think he would at least be able to read/write at a high school level.
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AnoHito posted:I was wondering that a lot too, actually. I mean, even if it wasn't something math/science related, you'd think he would at least be able to read/write at a high school level. High school level literature is probably poo poo in Asia. I remember there being a lot of 'what was the author feeling about this passage' questions in middle school. I loving hated them. I hear high school is the same. Not even 'trying to imply', feeling.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:I dunno man I don't think I could do well on math in high school without learning everything again and I'm 27. Then again I'm an humanities major... Yeah but he fails literally everything, not just math/science (and I think I could probably relearn high school math/science well enough to get at least a B pretty quickly, even if I did poorly on the first test or two, but I'm also somewhat inclined towards those subjects). Unless Japanese high school is WAY harder to pass than American high school, it seems weird for him to do so poorly in courses like Japanese. I guess it's possible he has an MBA or something, though I don't think people usually refer to an MBA as "graduate school", even though it technically is.
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He's going to a prestigious prep school (ie: all AP classes, probably), and from what I hear Japanese education is really big on memorizing lists of random facts.
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new chapter YES DO IT DO IT DO IT KAIZAKI DO IT, SAY SOMETHING TO MAKE THE RELIFE BREAK OR WHATEVER, CALL THEIR BLUFF, DO IT! SAY SOMETHING TO HER THAT SOUNDS WAY TOO MUCH LIKE A 27-YEAR-OLD AND MAKES HER ASK YOU IF YOU'RE IN RELIFE, JUST DO IT
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I don't believe it. We've had a long awaited development! What we've been waiting to happen this entire manga has finally happened! Congratulations on passing the exams, Kaizaki.
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Aug 8, 2016 01:29
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Btw. the manga is also on Crunchyroll now, just not the entire thing yet.
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Aug 8, 2016 06:20
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unless they've added a ton in recent updates, they're still like a hundred chapters behind and have been for ages
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Aug 8, 2016 09:03
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Captain Invictus posted:YES DO IT DO IT DO IT KAIZAKI DO IT, SAY SOMETHING TO MAKE THE RELIFE BREAK OR WHATEVER, CALL THEIR BLUFF, DO IT! SAY SOMETHING TO HER THAT SOUNDS WAY TOO MUCH LIKE A 27-YEAR-OLD AND MAKES HER ASK YOU IF YOU'RE IN RELIFE, JUST DO IT 
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Goddammit this is going to be the next Chihayafuru. I need more episodes and I don't usually read manga. 
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New Chapter (and I think one more last week that didn't get posted) Hopefully we'll see some movement on this front. But it's interesting how the threat of memory loss is partially undoing a lot of the progress ReLife did in the first place.
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I'm happy I gave this show a chance despite the premise looking a bit dubious. For a couple of eps it felt like it was going to be a truman show situation especially after the second handler reveal. Also I would watch the second season just for robot Hishiro sperging.
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new chapter, yet another cliche anime situation handled with aplomb  http://kissmanga.com/Manga/ReLIFE/Ch-147--report147--Don-t-Let-Go?id=323174 now if they could just finish this mini-arc already, things'll get more interesting.
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Welp, looks like she has confirmed it in her mind that he is definitely part Of Relife. Also maids.
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REALISTIC maids. The period costumes and boots are really nice touches. I want ReLife to go on and blow away all the cliches, but I would settle for just turning the pool episode into a total "oh hey we're at the pool, let's have fun" without pervy swimsuit gazing. it's going to resort to pervy swimsuit gazing, isn't it edit: Looks like there's going to be a ReLIVE action movie http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-10-03/relife-gets-live-action-film-adaptation-with-original-ending/.107217 MJP fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Oct 4, 2016 |
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I just binged through the manga in two days, then turned around and binged through the anime in two more days. This is a VERY GOOD SERIES (well, the animation is a bit meh sometimes) and I'm disappointed it's not more popular.
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New chapter. http://kissmanga.com/Manga/ReLIFE/Ch-151--report151--As-Always--You---?id=327887 All I can say is 
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Nov 7, 2016 03:34
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ReLIFE: where all the subjects and support staff are also cute and dumb
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 Linked spoiler because it's literally the end of the latest chapter ^^^ What she said.
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Re-life has been continuing on http://kissmanga.com/Manga/ReLIFE/Ch-162--report162--The-Courage-to-Spit-It-Out?id=343131 and imo it's hit a bit of a stagnant period, but I can see the current part going one of two ways. Either A: Ohga's brother lost his job and is a shut-in now, or B: Ohga's brother abruptly dropped dead/killed himself from stress and Ohga puts the food platter outside his door out of habit/trauma.
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Yeah, it's kind of a drag right now. I'm going with your option A though.
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I don't like my odds, but it would be great if Hishiro can solve in three chapters what it took twenty of Kariu and Ohga moping around to set up.
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They're kids (except Hishiro and Kaizaki and An and Ryo), just give them time to work it out.
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This really has been kind of spinning tires for a while now. Big issue is that Ohga's problem isn't very realistic or easy to relate with - though I'm glad Hishiro is on the case with threat of physical violence.
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Not realistic? How is jealousy from coworkers resulting in them treating the "suckup" badly unrealistic? Hell, the current running throughout the entire series is crippling stress, depression, trauma and abuse from office workplaces. Just that in this case, he's taking care of the person who lost their poo poo rather than that person having to make do on their own.
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