Sayounara Ryuusei, Konnichiwa Jinsei

Long ago, a human managed to defeat the oldest, most powerful dragon of them all. This dragon was so strong that even the gods feared it, but it accepted its end all alone. Then, suddenly, the dragon woke up in a new life as a guy named Dolan, living in a faraway village.

Living as a regular person now, Dolan works hard in the fields and hunts for food. Even though life in the village is simple, it's also cozy and makes him happy in ways he never felt as a dragon.

But one day, while exploring a swamp, Dolan meets Celina, a creature who's part human and part snake called a lamia. She's looking for a partner but admits she's not great at getting humans to like her because she's part snake. Despite their differences, Dolan and Cerina start to become friends. However, they face lots of challenges from outside forces.

Join them on a magical adventure as a once-mighty dragon begins a new life in a quiet corner of the world!

(Source: MAL News)

Celina Main

Sekine, Hitomi Japanese

Dolan Main

Takeuchi, Shunsuke Japanese

Miu Supporting

Kuwahara, Yuuki Japanese

Christina Supporting

Ohashi, Ayaka Japanese

Diadora Supporting

Sasaki, Mikoi Japanese

Kalavith Supporting

Asano, Ruri Japanese

Raffrasia Supporting

Ogura, Yui Japanese

Mir Supporting

Airi Supporting

Matsunaga, Akane Japanese

Olivia Supporting

Kondou, Reina Japanese

Nishida, Kenichi Director

Abe, Nobuyuki Sound Director

Kawasaki, Takaya Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Lyrics

EverdreaM Theme Song Performance

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Dec 20, 2024

Anime-Isekai-God

Recommended

My god this is truly a wonderful anime. I hope that we get to see more of Dolan's dragon form as a human that he is now. And the fact he turned back into a dragon to search of Celina touch my heart!!!
I hope we get to see a S2 knowing that the manga has 24 volumes which is more than enough for a S2 maybe even a S3 depending on the pacing.
Anyhow this is a great anime that people should watch.
I wonder if we will have similar animes airing in the next season of winter 2025 and so on.
Aside from that I ... enjoy Doland's journey as a human with the knowledge and experience that he gained as a dragon in his previous life.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jan 5, 2025

Kazuma_satou64

Mixed Feelings

Informative

Well-written

Alright, so Good Bye, Dragon Life—this one had some real potential but kinda left me feeling meh. The concept? Awesome. I mean, a crazy OP dragon reborn as a regular guy in a quiet village? That’s a solid setup. But the anime doesn’t really do much with it. Like, Dolan’s supposed to be this insanely powerful dude, but most of the time, it’s just him chilling, farming, or dealing with random stuff, and you’re left wondering, "Where’s all the dragon-level badassery?"

The animation? It’s okay—nothing groundbreaking. Celina, the lamia, is definitely one of the highlights. She’s well-designed, and her awkward charm makes her kinda ... endearing. Oh, and there’s this elf girl who shows up—let’s just say she’s very *noticeable*. You’ll know what I mean when you watch it.

But yeah, the pacing is "slow". Like, painfully slow at times. They could’ve easily trimmed down some parts and made it more engaging. It’s not bad overall—there’s a cozy vibe to the story, and if you’re into slower-paced fantasy, you might enjoy it. Just don’t go in expecting anything too epic.

Would I watch a Season 2? Probably not. It’s a decent one-time watch, but it doesn’t really leave you craving more. Still, if you’re into chill fantasy stories with a sprinkle of magic and odd friendships, give it a shot.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 19, 2024

KANLen09

Not Recommended

Goodbye, Dragon Life — Goodbye, animal god life, return to human and heaps of never-ending mediocrity.

Well folks, it's that time of the seasonal reel once again, where Isekai and fantasy come out to play, and us the audience to have to pick and choose our poison to see how good (or (mostly) bad) the shows will turn out to be. And one constant red flag will be no-name authors who think they know better than to have a blank slate of a premise to work on as they go and expand the story from there, which seemingly adds the number to the quantity, not the ... quality. And for one novelist by the name of Hiroaki Nagashima, his lone series (that's still 20+ volumes and ongoing) of Sayonara Ryuusei, Konnichiwa Jinsei a.k.a Goodbye, Dragon Life, is just that: a fantasy series that goes where he wants his MC to travel forth. And let me tell you: please get out of this worse-than-generic warp before it infects you to the point of feeling stale.

Everyone has the opportunity to write something they wish what they want to write, be it influencing or being influenced by similar works, there is no qualms about that. The bad part about that is the list of ideas that they want to bring forth to add substance to their flare, and while not everyone can be like a certain Rifujin na Maganote (author of Mushoku Tensei) and Tappei Nagatsuki (author of Re:Zero), it's totally fine to start somewhere and work to better things henceforth. Only except for authors like Hiroaki Nagashima, who like to just play it safe and hamfist the reincarnation theme on and on with no end in sight...it's a working formula alright, but that formula is VERY flawed because it adds no originality and defaults to everlasting known tropes and cliches that work just for the sake of progressing a story that on top of having little to no substance at all, keeps on harping to no end.

And you need to look at the root cause of the fault, nowhere else than the premise itself: a centuries-old divine dragon who seemingly is done with its life being the infamous warmonger that has raged wars against countless species, so much so that it wishes to be kicked out and reborn again as a normal human living the slow life, and it got its wish as a young man named Dolan living in a "notable" village that's weird for all the wrong reasons: a young girl having a normal crush on him, and milk that doesn't come from a carton, but rather from an actual cow demihuman. This in and of itself shouldn't be right, but it's the author's weird fetish of ideas, so let's just roll with it. Dolan soon getting more accompaniments through the finding of Celina the lamia, who's on an expedition to find her life partner, as well as Christina the swordswoman from the kingdom lands, initially here to investigate what's going on in the unremarkable Verun Village, to then slowly be appreciative of its unkempt nature...with at least the semblance of the typical normal humans. Dealing with the informalities of life, and the usual "evildoers casually invading lands for a fight", it's just the standard "survival of the fittest" mentality that has the strong Dolan equip Celina, who has been for the most part, helpless and a damsel in distress when things go bad, until he decides to train her to become strong to face off against the regularity of monsters, let alone the strong Demon Army with its general Knights. The irony of which, that each and everyone has a personality pretty much monotone, with nothing special to ever talk about.

As is foretold, this is just about as fantastical as it gets being a rip-off of Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita a.k.a Banished From The Hero's Party, I Decided To Live A Quiet Life In The Countryside, but just being on the level of stale bread so tough to chew and the content being fed to the audience that's even tougher to swallow for its bland, flavourless quirks.

Unsurprisingly, the production values are also quite bad throughout. As much as it goes for the past of studio SynergySP's efforts in the action department, its collab with old studio Vega Entertainment having been experimented with before with Summer 2021's Deatte 5-byou de Battle a.k.a Battle Game in 5 Seconds, it's noticeably even worse than this show would allow its hind feet to keep on walking the rough and bumpy path.

Also, the music is just terrible and, with the snap of a finger, instantly forgettable. K-Pop boy band Lun8's OP just is not a good song (or even fit for anime) overall, and I've had better with EverdreaM's EDs (especially with last Fall's Boushoku no Berserk a.k.a Berserk of Gluttony) than this whatever of at least a nice-sounding ED song.

It's a generic reincarnation story alright, but for the life of me, I just find myself tolerating how bad this series could get, and it's even worse on a binge watch because it sets the expectation to force you to watch the following episodes just to see what would happen next.

Don't fault the anime's staff team for this one (even though they're partly to blame for the bad production); blame Hiroaki Nagashima instead for concocting a series that is more than just generic; it's worse than average and serves its own fanbase to be fed endless mediocrity just to keep expectations abreast.

If you excuse me, I'm going to pray to the gods to awaken me out of watching a nightmare that is the epitome of horrible and give me a reincarnation that's better than what this series serves on its broken and dirty platter.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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