I just watched the final episode of If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student and I had to write something about it… When I first read the description of this anime I thought it looked stupid, “Another low effort anime.” But of course I watched it anyway (because I run out of episodes fast on Sundays, haha) and it turned out fantastic!

The description is accurate but severely understates the concept: It’s not a comedy but more akin to sci-fi or isekai with a, “what if?” scenario. What would it be like if your dead wife suddenly appears in the form of a little kid, saying she reincarnated? It does a pretty good job of going into the emotions and real-world problems (Japanese 🤣) people would run into in such a situation.

For example, what about the mother of the little girl‽ Wouldn’t she be like, “WTF‽” Ummm… Yeah she would! And the show explores that aspect of the concept as well as the family of the deceased.

I highly recommend this anime. It’d probably be a great show to watch with your partner too. Also, make sure to have some tissues handy to soak up the tears!

  • dwindling7373@feddit.it
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    6 days ago

    I see no problematic implication in this and I’m sure whoever pitched this shared a similar mindset with myself.

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      5 days ago

      From the premise it has super creeptastic potential. Fortunately it didn’t end up that way.

      Imagine if it was written by the folks that brought the world Highschool DxD or Boku No Pico.

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    7 days ago

    Man I haven’t watched the final episode yet but almost all the episodes leading up to it left me in shambles. Can’t wait to get my heart torn up later.