Rebooting

Rebooting (2023)★ 8.5/10

JP · 55 min · January 8, 2023 · 1 seasons

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Fantasy

Directed by: Itaru Mizuno, Shunsuke Kariyama, Kento Matsuda

Written by: Bakarhythm

A comedy focusing on Kondo Asami, a 33-year-old single woman who lives with her parents and works at the local city hall, and suddenly finds herself starting her life over from scratch.

Original title
Rebooting
Storyline
Rebooting is a series that is currently airing to success on Sunday prime time, in which a mundane woman gets the unbelievable chance to redo her banal life. Scripted by a very popular Japanese comedian who's forte is detailed descriptions of the daily events that are extremely relatable and humorous to audiences, the story revolves around a 33-year-old single woman working at the local city hall. One day, she gets hit by a car and dies but finds herself in an empty white room where a clerk files her death and guides her towards a door to her next life as a giant anteater. If she declines that choice and chooses to re-live the same life she had lived as a human being but work hard to gain extra points by doing better than her past life, she will again be reincarnated as a human being. She chooses the latter to take control of her karma and reincarnation, and her second go at life begins; however, things do not go as planned and when she dies again and faces the same decision-making process, she decides to re-live her same life once again, only to find out a huge surprise that she is not the only one going through multiple reboots of life. This time-leap human comedy depicts bizarre daily occurrences at a spectacular scale with an unimaginable ending.
Rating
8.5 / 10 · 1,733
Companies
Netflix, Nippon Television Network (NTV)
Release dates
  • JP January 8, 2023
  • TW January 9, 2023