Funimation is getting ready to bring out the first season of ReLIFE on DVD/BD combo on October 10th, 2017 and ahead of that they’re having a bit of fun with it by hauling out a fun four-minute interview with three of the leading actors. Sitting down with Alexis Tipton, Micah Solusod, and Blake Shepard, they talk a bit about their own experiences in what they’d want to relive things and some of the show elements associated with it.
The set, priced at $64.98, has the thirteen episode original run in bilingual form. Extras for the show includes the clean opening and closing, promos, and a commentary track produced for the final episode.
Animated at TMS Entertainment, Tomo Kosaka directed it based on the scripts from Kazuho Hyodo and Michiko Yokote. Character designs were done by Junko Yamanaka, whose other recent adaptations are featured in Servamp.
The Japanese cast includes Kensho Ono as Arata Kaizaki, Ai Kayano as Chizuru Hishiro, Ryouhei Kimura as Ryou Yoake, Haruka Tomatsu as Rena Kariu, Yuuma Uchida as Kazutomi Ooga and Reina Ueda as An Onoya.
Directed by Jeremy Inman, the English cast includes Micah Solusod as Arata Kaizaki, Josh Grelle as Ryo Yoake, Jeannie Tirado as Chizuru Hishiro, Alexis Tipton as Rena Kariu, Blake Shepard as Kazuomi Oga, Kristen McGuire as An Onoya, Bryn Apprill as Honoka Tamarai, Stephen Sanders as Nobunaga Asaji, Alejandro Saab as Akira Inukai, Caitlin Glass as Kokoro Amatsu, and Anthony Bowling as Koshi Usa.
Plot Concept: Arata Kaizaki (27) quit the job he landed after graduation in only three months. His life did not go well after that. Now his parents are threatening to stop sending money, and want him to come back to the country. He has no friend or girlfriend to share his troubles with…as he hits rock bottom a strange man named Ryo Yoake appears. Yoake invites Kaizaki to join a societal rehabilitation program for NEETs called ReLife. This program uses a mysterious drug to make him look younger, and sends him back to high school for a year…
