Yayoi Sou | ReLIFE

Japanese: ReLIFE
Synonyms: Re LIFE
Type: Manga
Volumes: 5 +
Chapters: 123 +
Status: Publishing
Published: Oct 12, 2013 to ?
Genres: Romance, School, Slice of Life
Mangaka: Yayoi Sou (Story & Art)
Serialization: comico

Synopsis
The story follows Kaizaki Arata, a 27-year-old jobless man, who fails at every job interview he had after quitting his last company. His life changes after he met Yoake Ryou of the ReLife Research Institute, who offered him a drug that can change his appearance to 17-years-old and to become a subject in an experiment for one year. Thus, he begins his life as a high school student once more.

Background
Nominated for the 39th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards in 2015.


Related Manga
Adaptation: ReLIFE

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Source: MAL Manga info, wikipedia, Baka updates


Main characters:

Arata Kaizaki (海崎 新太)
Age: 27

He is a 27-year-old man with a painful past. He graduated college and started working at a company where a female senpai was being bullied by her male co-workers. He tried to help her but that only increased the bullying leading to the woman rejecting his help and, eventually, her suicide. This tragedy left him traumatized. After several failed job opportunities in similar companies he was working part-time at a convenience store where he was scouted by Onoya An who chose him for the ReLife Project, a scientific experiment to rejuvenate him 10 years and send him back to high school as a student. Apparently, the experiment is supposed to provide a chance to experience youth once again and, in the process, fix whatever's wrong with the subject's life. The surname comes from Kaizaki Station.

Chizuru Hishiro (日代 千鶴)

A student in Year 3 Class 3. She is really smart and always has the highest score among the girls in her grade.

She's also extremely socially awkward and fairly ignorant in anything not directly related to school matters, particularly social and emotional ones so she's always doing online research on whatever she doesn't understand about these. The surname comes from Hishiro Station.

It is revealed that she is Project #001,Yoake's first project before Kaizaki. 

Ryou Yoake (夜明 了)

He works at the ReLife Research Institute, and is in charge of monitoring Arata Kaizaki during his ReLife experiment.

He is Kaizaki's senior supervisor, a man of about Kaizaki's age who is always seemingly cheerful (which fact irritates Kaizaki to no end). He watches over Kaizaki and his circle of friends from a distance and records everything for the ReLife project. The surname comes from Yoake Station.

An Onoya (小野屋 杏)
Age: 26

A transfer student who joined Year 3 Class 3. 

She is very much like Ryō and is always cheerful and acts indifferent to Kaizaki's annoyance about the fact that both of them stalk him all the time. The surname comes from Onoya Station.

Rena Kariu (狩生 玲奈)

Arata's classmate and member of the Volleyball club. She was the class rep along with Ooga for the past two years before losing her position to Hishiro this year.

She considers Chizuru her rival in academics and Honoka Tamarai (both of them friends with her), to be her rival in volleyball. She is stubborn and proud, but actually genuinely confused inside. She is very competitive, losing her calm over an injury during volleyball because she cannot play in the tournament and being let down by Chizuru's position at the top of the class and as Class Representative. She has a crush on Kazuomi Ōga. The surname comes from Kariu Station.

Kazuomi Ooga (大神 和臣)

A student in Year 3 Class 3. He is very smart and always scored the highest among the guys in his grade. However, despite his looks, he is really bad at sports and really naive when it comes to love.

He is a classmate of Arata's who is also the class representative along with Hishiro. He is naïve, but excels academically. He wears his uniform in a particularly eye-catching way, earning him the nickname "Flashy Ōga" (チャラオーガ) or just "Flashy Blond Guy". He has known Kariu for a long time, and is familiar with her stubbornness and competitiveness. The surname comes from Ōga Station.

Source: MAL. wikipedia 


Side notes: This is really good manga or webtoon. Art is decent and there isn't much to say about it ...but it's not as good as it could be. Plot is interesting and charas too so I'm waiting a lot from the summer anime.^-^b