Oh hey, it's Sei! Wait, no, it's Yui Ishikawa voicing another Japanese cutie named Aoi! And she even sings the OP! Aoi is great with kids and has a bit of a sweet tooth, too bad she gets caught up in a plane crash
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The OP is pretty nice and fitting for this type of series, showing Aoi back as Elise and her relationship with the people around her, especially her love interest. It also makes Elise seem like quite the cute go-getter
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Aoi really had everything going for her. A famous master surgeon with a 100% success rate, a great and fun gal pal in Shouko, a cute Kouhai who looks up to her and worships her hand...okay, sure she's nicknamed a "monster doctor" but she's also called the "Surgeon Queen!" And she's doing all she can to save others and make sure no family has to lose a loved one
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And Aoi is focused on this because once-upon-a-time she died a Villainess...as Elise, an Empress who was burned at the stake for her perceived crimes and blamed for the death of her family, with apparently the man she loved leading her execution. In a fit of karma she reincarnates as a Japanese orphan with no loving family or trappings of nobility, but rather than wallow in misery she decides instead to focus on becoming a doctor and helping people to make up for her sins
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Dang, somebody in Germany's not getting their open heart surgery. I feel like Aoi is probably going to feel guilty about that
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Aoi actually survived the plane crash! And her first priority is saving all the people on the plane! The irony being that she succeeds at it but in focusing on others she missed her own grievous injury to the point where she dramatically falls off the plane while dying just as the rescue team arrived. She gave her second life up for the sake of others
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But I guess Aoi's good karma actually paid back her sins because in answer to her last wish to see the people she loved again, she is reverse reincarnated BACK to being Elise. Complete with her pet owl Pallas! No, seriously, she has a pet owl
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So Elise was so bad that her maid Mary was scared of her and she was confined to her room for some reason. But now Elise is a new person and ready to be better, down to telling her family she loves them for the first time
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The ED is pretty simple yet pretty with Elise walking across the desert but finding life and beauty in-spite of it
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