Happy Birthday: Inochi Kagayaku Toki


Re-Birthday

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: ハッピーバースデー 命かがやく瞬間
English: Re-Birthday
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Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 27, 1999
Producers: None found, add some
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Magic Bus
Source: Book
Genre: Slice of LifeSlice of Life
Theme: IyashikeiIyashikei
Demographic: KidsKids
Duration: 1 hr. 19 min.
Rating: G - All Ages

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Score: 7.021 (scored by 16131,613 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #43112
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #9198
Members: 4,613
Favorites: 23

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Synopsis

After being abused by her mother physically and mentally Asuka gets taken in by her grandparents. Slowly she learns her own worth as a human being and overcomes many obstacles.

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Dezaki, Tetsu
Director
Yamamoto, Naoki
Director of Photography
Sakai, Kyuuta
Key Animation
Takahashi, Atsuko
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Ending Theme

"TRUE SONG" by Izumi Katou (加藤いづみ)




Reviews

Apr 17, 2022
This is one of the most depressing anime I've watched, but in a good way. At its core, it's about bullying. What makes the movie interesting is that it portrays the lives of several people and shows how they deal with their problems and overcome obstacles. At the end, I felt like I understood why some characters acted the way they did.

Some scenes made me really angry and I had to calm myself down since sometimes, despite being a work of fiction, it didn't feel fictional at all. However, there are also a lot of heartwarming moments, like those in which the main character ...
Jan 14, 2025
Mixed Feelings
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Happy Birthday is an interesting film to watch. We have a lot of these "cryporn" series and films nowadays, like what Mari Okada scripts, Jun Maeda slop, Violet Evergarden, Fumetsu no Anata e, and Loli and the Creepy Dad (I think it's called Somali or something...). HB may be meant as a tearjerker, but I feel it's in a class of its own and is more old-school and traditional and draws from live action film or young adult coming of age novels more than anime and the "cryporn" phenomenon, even if it's similarly manipulative and wants to elbow you in the gut with blunt and ...
Jul 17, 2023
*Warning! Heavy Spoilers!*

Story: 3
Art: 3
Sound: 5
Character 3
Enjoyment: 3
Overall: 3

This will be a review for the anime “Re-Birthday”, a film that so few on MAL have seen yet is considered a hidden gem. Were this film to reach the wider public by some obscure, low-budget, 70s kids anime-oriented youtube channel like “AnimeEveryday” I have no doubt that it would be absolutely beloved by the entirety of MAL. As you can infer I didn’t really enjoy this movie and there are good reasons for it.
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