Issues having the Comedy tag and more...

Dragonzzz58 said:
You should’ve expected from a show that has a main character whose wife died 10 years ago and she gets reincarnated

WatchTillTandava said:
I'm not opposed to its inclusion of the Comedy tag for genres, but it not having the Drama tag there alongside it is bizarre and totally unjustifiable. Many anime on MAL used to be labeled as "Comedy" even for the presence of occasional comedic relief whereas the overall tone was much more serious and the main plot was serious and treated as such. I've noticed in the past few years that a lot of those comedy tags have been removed where they were deemed not to fit or most accurately describe the focus of a given anime. It seemed to coincide with different rules being imposed on use of the genre tags (like no "Slice of Life" genre tag alongside either "Drama" or "Comedy", which I still strongly disagree with), the elimination of some genres completely (like "Magic" and "Dementia"), and the addition of themes and demographics sections.

But many anime, just like many non-anime films and TV series, could be labeled as "Dramedy", in that they have both elements of drama and comedy. This obviously has both, even though I also feel it it leans more heavily into and is much moreso overall a drama, primarily. To omit that tag, there's no excuse for it. If it's a simple oversight then it's just one of many on the website, is not really a big deal, happens often, and hopefully eventually will be rectified by adding "Drama" in there; preferably sooner rather than later. But if someone is leaving it that way on purpose and consciously driving that decision, then yeah, it's absurd.



It has absolutely nothing to do with age or being a "grown" man or woman or not. You lose your immediate family member - your wife, your husband, your mother, your father, your son, your daughter, or your brother or your sister, and it can irreparably change a person's life in a massive way for the rest of their days. It doesn't matter if you're five or 50.

Not everyone processes grief and loss the same way or has the same emotional baseline. Some people can get over things relatively quickly or were emotionally distant from and never had the best relationship with those family members to begin with, or had a negative or abusive relationship. To others, they were the center of their world and gave purpose and meaning to their life, like a feeling behind wanting to be alive in the first place and the meaning to life. You can't just say random fictional character A (or person in the real world) is this age and this sex, so they should feel a certain way that you may if you were confronted with the same situation. They're not the same person as you. Totally different life experiences and mindset. That doesn't make a series and story unbelievable or poor. This comes across very closed-minded.

The pacing is a separate issue, and on that, I agree and wish it were far longer.

sDluffy said:
na my mindset is very good 🤣
but do you feel emotional when mai memory came back last episode and they hugged the Little girl calling her mother and wife she is just 7 years old you should also remember from her perspective she lost a year but also got something good so taht is not a issue
but one thing i can tell i love my parents more then anything in this world and I'll do anything for them but if they die they die this is natural process of life and even if they reincarnated and have memories ill let them live there life's not cling to there love for more and more or even if it was my wife like takae even i would be in grief and the moment i see her ill hug her for the first and last that is it you should understand she is not she its a different person who will have different life but no he make her do his lunch and every work a wife does so how is this moving on ?

and one last thing if takae was reincarnated into mai and not just her greving soul the things would have been same till the old man retires and mai married and he would die then what after takae who is reincarnated as a new person staying with the same person she loves after that he dies at 80 age then the new take is turned 40 years right? what about her won't she have regret of loosing her husband? now what he will reincarnated into 7 years old and marry 40 years old take

WatchTillTandava said:


A few things. On the main young girl character's age, I think she's supposed to be nine - 10 years-old rather than seven. I thought it was mentioned that she first gained Takae's old consciousness/memories when she passed the Nijima household when she was nine, and it's been around a year since then. Also, the girl's name is Marika. I think you may have mixed her up with the daughter, Mai (who lives with her father and is a lot older than Marika, somewhere in her 20s), but I get it and still generally understand what you're saying.

On everything else, after reading it, I can't really say you're wrong - just that I would behave differently, probably more similar to Keisuke, so I understand and naturally sympathize with him more. So I think again it just comes down to preference - maybe if you can relate to the main character/characters' actions more you will enjoy this series more as opposed to if you can't. The difference will come down to personality, mindset, life experience, ideology/worldview, etc. I can't really say that one is right or wrong.

sDluffy said:

na i had high hopes for this anime but i was a very big downfall they tried to adapt whole manga in 1 season which made character progression very bad and then there was sudden change in behaviour of them only good character development in this series is the single mother and daughter the whole family is clinging to the child till the end and calling her mother like hell ai know a person would be emotional to see lost one after years but it feels different she is different person has different life let her move on with that but no they are clinging to her and even gave her a smartphone without the knowledge of her mother like really how can a 50 years old call a 7 years old girl even if ahe is reincarnated as a his wife the 1st time is ok they met after 10 years but like continuously for all episodes even in alone u should know better then this man with this series i had high hopes that it would be very emotional touching atory but the family puts it off for me thay just cling to 7 year old child so they won't feel lonely or alone or be left out but this is very bad sign they are grown man they should understand

ejleon said:

As a non-written material, anime only watcher, I would have disagree with your take.

You are definitely reading into the anime a strange narrative that does not make sense according to what the anime is presenting.

All the characters have had growth, even if it is a little.

I am enjoying this anime for what it is presenting.

sDluffy said:

no iam not a manga reader. iam also a anime watcher but i had high hopes for this one to be very emotional to make me feel things in a different way but no they just make decisions which even a child would hesitate to make and i watched this till episode 5 then i thought some characters are acting weird when they we so different in 3 and 4 so i searched then found they were skipping a lot of character development for completion and i didn't have any weird acception of this anime it depends on taste

ejleon said:

You do realize this is a fictional story and not attempting to be reality?

This is fictional story that explores the idea of “reincarnation” and how different humans deal with such a concept.

It is not trying to be realistic.

sDluffy said:

no iam not a manga reader. iam also a anime watcher but i had high hopes for this one to be very emotional to make me feel things in a different way but no they just make decisions which even a child would hesitate to make and i watched this till episode 5 then i thought some characters are acting weird when they we so different in 3 and 4 so i searched then found they were skipping a lot of character development for completion and i didn't have any weird acception of this anime it depends on taste

ejleon said:

Hold on, are you trying to compare an anime, which is a fictional story with fictional characters exploring the concepts of reincarnation and how they react, to reality and how actual humans react?

Anime is unrealistic and is always over the top, it does not even try to be realistic or relatable.

I think you need to adjust your perspective on how you watch anime.

ejleon said:

Hold on, are you trying to compare an anime, which is a fictional story with fictional characters exploring the concepts of reincarnation and how they react, to reality and how actual humans react?

Anime is unrealistic and is always over the top, it does not even try to be realistic or relatable.

I think you need to adjust your perspective on how you watch anime.

ejleon said:
@sDluffy I deleted it, because I did not see your other message, which made what I said obsolete and irrelevant, so I read your comment and adjusted what I said.

sDluffy said:

i never say what i hate is a bad anime ok or even I don't like it just that i had hopes and this anime has just too many irrelevant things

Janethan23 said:
Can we all agree that this anime is not a comedy but a drama heavy series?

sDluffy said:

so here is what mainly pissed me off they meet her mother and wife in ep 1 and 2 in ep 3 the same goes on she make him bento and all like his wife
they eat dinner together live like a family but no takae should be telling tem to move but no she is making them them depend on her more which was bad and rest is like this the only good topic in this is the mother daughter relationship and how her mother change

BrotherCoa said:
@ejleon I think before everything else this is the first thing people must accept, as some here had taken it way too seriously to the point that they insult other people. Nevermind that they thing watching this will somehow magically make you attracted to little kids because they alone do not understand how human relationship works...

Other than that...

-Yes, this anime is much more drama than comedy.
-Yes, this anime follows only ~20% of the manga story so far. But that in itself is not a bad thing as anime has a chance to do its own anime ending that can potentially be much better than what we got in manga ending.
-No, none of this makes this anime bad in itself. It is a little rushed but the main drama is still there and the story itself is still very good.

Janethan23 said:

Ok, here's the thing... Everyone in the Nishima family, including Takae, was under the impression that she was back for good. From their perspective, there wasn't a hint that it was temporary. So the idea that Takae was only back to teach them to move on is completely from our perspective, looking in. I can sympathize with Keisuke to some degree. He lost the love of his life, and it had a devastating effect on him so bad it greatly affected his ability to be a functioning father for 10 whole years. I don't know how you'll react to something this magnanimous and miraculous at the same time, but almost everyone I know, including myself, would feel so blessed if given the chance to be with their soul mate once again. Your apathetic and almost indifferent approach to a hypothetical scenario is unrealistic as well. Quite frankly, it doesn't make sense at all given the circumstances how something so incredible and divine happen could only be wasted on you. "Oh, you're back from the afterlife to be with me? Nah, I'm good. I've moved on."

BrotherCoa said:
@ejleon I think before everything else this is the first thing people must accept, as some here had taken it way too seriously to the point that they insult other people. Nevermind that they thing watching this will somehow magically make you attracted to little kids because they alone do not understand how human relationship works...

Other than that...

-Yes, this anime is much more drama than comedy.
-Yes, this anime follows only ~20% of the manga story so far. But that in itself is not a bad thing as anime has a chance to do its own anime ending that can potentially be much better than what we got in manga ending.
-No, none of this makes this anime bad in itself. It is a little rushed but the main drama is still there and the story itself is still very good.

sDluffy said:

what you are saying is absolutely correct but think from the perspective she is just 9 year old kid an you are grown above 50 age so how can you even call that back with soulmate man