Title: The Revenge of My Youth, Re Life with an Angelic Girl Vol. 3
Author: Boiru Iseebi (Manga), Yuzi Keino (Original Story), Tantan (Characters)
Publisher: One Peace Books
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Genre: Sci-Fi, Slice-of-Life, Romance
Publication Date: November 11, 2025
The Story
The school festival has come to an end; however, the studying sessions continue as final exams are right around the corner. Niihama continues to tutor Shijoin, who truly appreciates the effort he’s putting in, even if it means he is tiring himself out. Things seem to be going smoothly, but you know that when things go smoothly, there is always that moment waiting in the darkness to screw everything up. Meet Mitsurugi… a pompous and arrogant member of high society who thinks that Shijoin belongs to him because he has known her since they were children. He challenges Niihama to a duel in the finals, where the loser must cease all communication with Shijoin forever.
Of course, Niihama sees through him and never officially accepts the terms of his challenge; however, he wants to put him in his place, regardless. He ramps up his studying all while tutoring Shijoin. Meanwhile, we get to meet Shijoin’s father, who is quite the businessman and is extremely proud of his success. When her mother mentions that she saw Niihama walking their daughter home, he flew off the handle, stating the typical things an overprotective father would say.
This plays an important role in our volume’s conclusion because when the test scores come out, Shijoin… and her parents… see that her scores had marginally improved over her midterm scores. She then talks about a “friend” without mentioning their gender, and how they helped her out with all of her subjects. Her father seems mightily impressed by this person and automatically assumes it was a girl who helped her out. He’s about to have a rude awakening because Shijoin invited Niihama over to thank him with a fully-cooked meal!
Characters
The biggest focus was on our new character, Mitsurugi. I can’t honestly say much about him because if you look up the textbook definition of a pompous, arrogant member of high society whose ego has its own zip code, you’ll see a picture of him. It’s all there from thinking too highly of himself, talking down to the “filth” beneath him, not caring about what he says, thinking that status is the only thing that matters, no one can refuse him, etc. etc. He is the epitome of the archetype and the stereotype, so while he was annoying, he’s about as basic as it gets when it comes to this type of character.
Through him, Shijoin gets a bit of development when she comes face-to-face with Mitsurugi, and he tries to pull his arrogant act on her. Before Niihama could even interject himself, she developed a fire in her eyes and went off on him! We’ve never seen Shijoin this angry, or with words laced with such venom before, so this new side of her was quite surprising. Even Niihama, from a character standpoint, was shocked at how scary she can be when pushed too far. Still, it’s nice that someone as pure and as innocent as her has a backbone of steel and is not scared to stand up for herself!
Final Thoughts
I would say that my biggest gripe here is the same one that I had with the second volume. This series started with a bang, offering up a unique premise, and then with the second volume, it fell into the trap of becoming just another high school romance story. The only hook here is that Niihama is reliving his life a second time, and there are occasional mentions of that here and there. Volume three, sadly, doesn’t fix this issue. It’s just more of the same random high school stuff that you can find in any other romance manga if the hook of time travel wasn’t there. Studying, exams, a rival, all of it is just so run-of-the-mill.
I don’t want my words to invoke any sense that I dislike this series because I am enjoying it. I am a sucker for romance, and The Revenge of My Youth offers up plenty of really cute moments that I absolutely adore, but I was immediately hooked by the time travel aspect of it, feeling that this series would make better use of that angle, introduce some higher stakes, and make things more dramatic and interesting, but it hasn’t done any of that. If there was no time travel involved, and we just started off with Niihama in high school, and reworked some things to grow him from an introvert to an extrovert, I would probably praise this series a bit higher than I am right now.
But because we were given the whole time travel aspect, there were certain expectations there, and sadly, this series didn’t meet any of them. Once again, as a romance series, this is doing well. It’s cute, it has some comedic moments, the chemistry between Niihama and Shijoin is just adorable, and I can’t wait for them to officially get together, but if you’re going into this series expecting it to heavily lean on the time travel aspect and hope that it implements some critical decision-making moments that could alter history, then you’re going to be severely disappointed.
Still a fun series. I still like it. I just wish the overall premise was better executed.
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