I’m the kind of binge watcher who will finish a series over the course of a couple weeks, but I devoured the first thirteen episodes in a matter of days. Which is why I was so surprised, and so pleased, by how much I enjoyed the original series. ReLIFE requires a lot more suspension of disbelief up front. Ditto to this series and something like YoriMoi, which only requires one difference ( Shirase I was sold to civilians for civilian expeditions), and it’s easy to come along with that premise. Compare that to Log Horizon, KonoSuba, or even Death March, which only require one hand-wavey “it was magic” explanation, and SAO’s premise is a much heavier lift. It’s a lot the original arc in Sword Art Online in this it wasn’t that people getting trapped inside a VRMMO was so unreasonable, it just strained credibility that someone wouldn’t figure out a way to get them out. It’s not that a pill that makes people look 10 years younger is that unreasonable, it’s all the ancillary details-that there would be enough money for this, that there would be enough perceived value in rehabilitating people like this, and above all else, all that memory wiping stuff. Its very premise risks breaking immersion from the beginning. When the original thirteen episodes of ReLIFE aired, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
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