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This is a good start if you're looking to start exercising, especially if you incorporate the entire series as a workout routine per day. It will definitely make you break a sweat if you've never or rarely exercise on a daily basis. Having cute girls doing the exercises along with you and encouraging you are both great helps to sticking to the workouts.

If you're looking for story, you'll be disappointed, as this is almost strictly for exercise rather than traditional watching enjoyment. The characters are all caricatures of your standard anime girl roles, so you'll have an episode devoted to each different girl with teamup ... episodes here and there.

The voice actors are all wonderful, and you might recognize some here and there. The sound design is your standard fare, though each rep is punctuated by a nice number count so you feel like you're accomplishing something with each rep.

I recommend this if you're looking to start working out after never or rarely having done so previously. It isn't a replacement for a full workout routine, but it is a good place to start. Along with eating right, you will probably see results from the routine, too!

I've been reading ReLife lately, a manga about a NEET who is given a chance to relive the last year of high school again as an experiment through the use of a de-aging pill in order to help him overcome his inability to get a job. At the end of his year, all the memories of those he interacts with will be erased and he'll be given opportunities to join a company through ReLife.

Surprisingly, aside from the de-aging pill, the manga manages to be completely unlike any high school setting I've seen or read thus far in its maturity. The subjects the character deals with ... and how he affects his new ReLife friends are handled very well, with life lessons that most definitely have real-world applications.

It is currently one of my favorite manga so far, as it's managed to impress me with its mature handling of high school situations. There is no fan service or ridiculous high school hijinks, which is always a plus. The manga is in full color, too.

It will be receiving an anime adaptation in 2016, which is entirely deserved, and though the manga hasn't been completed yet, I recommend anyone interested in a maturely-handled high school story to read ReLife.