If you don't have enough good karma, you will be reborn as a giant anteater? Come on, giant anteaters are so cool

Have you watched "Restart Your Life" recently?

After the protagonist Asami Kondo died unexpectedly, she was to be reincarnated as another species - the giant anteater of Guatemala. Asami, who did not want to be an anteater, chose to restart her original life again and again to "accumulate good karma" so that she could be reincarnated as a human.

According to the plot, it doesn't mean that you have to accumulate more good karma as a human, but it is more difficult to reincarnate into the species you want to become｜Stills from "Restarting Life"

Calendar Girl waited a long time before she started watching it, because she couldn't figure out one thing - why can't we just reincarnate into giant anteaters? What happened to our giant anteaters? !

First reincarnation: Giant anteater

The giant anteater is not ugly, at most it is a little weird. Its body shape presents a simple curve that is rare in land animals - the front legs look like the hind legs, the tail looks like the head, and the head looks like the tail.

The anteater walks slowly and limps, lowering its head from time to time to sniff the fragrance of the soil on the ground｜Wikiwand

The giant anteater looks so strange because the members of its large family - the Edentata - all have strange looks in their own way, so no one can blame anyone else.

Edentaria is one of the most primitive true mammals, named after the lack of canines and incisors. This is a friend of the armadillo family, and it looks like it is wearing armor. In terms of appearance, it is comparable to the anteater.｜Wikiwand

Throughout history, most of their relatives have died out, such as glyptodonts and ground sloths. Because of their strange appearance, edentate animals are still often regarded as monsters and beaten to death by humans today. Among the few living edentate animals, anteaters may be the strangest one, divided into 2 families, 3 genera and 4 species. The largest species that only lives on the ground is the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla).

The English name of the giant anteater is Giant Anteater, and this is indeed a point that is difficult to ignore: this creature can eat 20,000 to 30,000 ants or termites every day, and it can be said that it lives solely on eating ants.

In "Restarting Life", a friend of the protagonist was reincarnated as a termite for the first time. This is bad karma. Termites are large in colonies and often bore into wood. ｜ahs.com/cashandking.com

Compared to ants, the giant anteater seems to prefer termites. It only uses ants when it can't find termites, which gives it some choice in its monotonous diet. There are also videos showing that the giant anteater will steal bird eggs to eat, so you don't have to worry about its diet.

Although the diet is relatively simple, reincarnation as a giant anteater can be regarded as the "ancient king". They have few natural enemies, do not have to go to work, and can walk around in nature every day. Isn't it much more refreshing than being a human! (Of course, the key is that it is best not to encounter humans)

There are records of anteaters fighting jaguars and even killing humans. But this does not prove that anteaters are violent. Anteaters have very poor vision and are more likely to defend themselves than to attack. Humans should not mess with anteaters! | Flickr.com

Second reincarnation: Big-eyed two-lined mackerel

The protagonist of Restarting Her First Life did a lot of good things, including preventing an extramarital affair that would cost a kindergarten teacher her job, rescuing a middle school teacher who was mistaken for sexual harassment, and discovering the truth that the misuse of drugs caused her grandfather's condition to worsen... After accumulating a lot of good karma, what will she be reincarnated into this time?

The answer is the big-eyed mackerel of the Indian Ocean.

Congratulations, there is more space in the sea (?)｜Stills from "Restarting Life"

Bigeye mackerel (Grammatorcynus bilineatus) is a type of mackerel that is usually sold canned or frozen.

The bigeye mackerel has two lateral lines, one on the dorsal side and the other at the level of the pectoral fin. ｜fishbase.se

Mackerel is a very common edible fish, belonging to the genus Scombridae, genus Scombridae, suborder Scombridae, order Perciformes, also known as mackerel, bluefin mullet, oil mackerel, and bluefin mullet. There are three common types of mackerel: Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus), white mackerel (Scomber japonicus), and flower mackerel (Scomber australasicus).

Atlantic mackerel | Hans Hillewaert/Wikipedia

Mackerel is notoriously difficult to keep fresh. It quickly starts to spoil the second it comes out of the water, so there is a Japanese proverb called "鯖の生き腐れ", which means that it looks fresh on the outside but is actually rotten on the inside. Mackerel needs to be processed immediately after being caught and frozen throughout the process. In the early days when preservation and freezing technology were not well developed, mackerel would either be discarded as trash fish or made into cat food because of poor taste due to poor safety.

In addition to canning and drying fish, pickling is the most commonly used method for treating this type of fish that is difficult to keep fresh.

Salted Mackerel | Tuchong Creative

The taste of mackerel is actually very unique. The large amount of slow-cooked red muscle gives the fish a firm texture like red meat. In addition, the fat content in the fish is also very rich, so it is very suitable for smoking or direct grilling.

Smoked Mackerel | Tuchong Creative

Mackerel can also be eaten raw, but of course this requires the fish to be extremely fresh. Usually, the fish is white-bellied mackerel, which is rich in fat. After the fish meat is soaked in salt and vinegar, it is irresistible whether it is eaten raw or made into mackerel sushi.

Mackerel Nigiri Sushi｜sdouraku.co.jp

There are so many ways to eat it, if you reincarnate as a mackerel you will be easier to eat than a giant anteater!

Third reincarnation: Purple sea urchin

However, the protagonist did not want to become a mackerel, so she was reborn for the second time, still actively accumulating good karma, and finally ushered in her third reincarnation - this time, she became a purple sea urchin in Hokkaido (how come each time is more delicious than the last)...

Do you have a heart? Show the cooked photo to the person who is reincarnated! ｜Stills from "Restarting Life"

There are many different species in the sea urchin family, which are found in oceans all over the world, from intertidal zones to thousands of meters below the seafloor. People are fascinated by sea urchins because of their sweet, creamy reproductive tissue.

Most sea urchins are negatively phototactic and prefer to stay in darker environments. Sea urchins have a wide range of diets. Carnivorous sea urchins feed on worms or other echinoderms on the seabed, while herbivorous sea urchins prefer to feed on marine algae, such as the kelp we are familiar with, and they eat a lot. Humans have been eating seaweed for a longer time than eating sea urchins, so before humans discovered the deliciousness of sea urchins, they had always been hated.

Sea urchins eating seaweed are huge in number. | mission-blue.org

If you turn into a sea urchin, you have a chance to be eaten by your favorite furry animal!

Who watches the sea otter video every day? Now you can be eaten! | Karen Hall/Flicker

Different sea urchins have slightly different tastes. The most common sea urchins on the market are:

The purple sea urchin (Anthocidaris crassispina) is the species that the protagonist is reincarnated into this time. It is not big, about 5 cm in diameter, and about 3 cm thick in shell. Its spines are long and sharp, usually purple-black. The reproductive glands of the purple sea urchin are usually light yellow, with moderate sweetness and a light taste. The edible season of the purple sea urchin is from late spring to late summer.

Belonging to the genus Echinoidea of ​​the family Echinidae, it is abundant in the southeastern coast of China and Taiwan, and is also produced in Kyushu and central Honshu in Japan. | Tuchong Creative

Another common species is the northern purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus nudus), which looks very similar to the purple sea urchin in appearance and color, but they are larger, usually growing to 10 cm in diameter and 5 cm in shell thickness.

The northern purple sea urchin is produced in northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula, and the waters of Hokkaido on the Pacific side of Japan. The most famous one is Iwate Prefecture. The reproductive glands of the northern purple sea urchin are large and long, also light yellow, and the taste is stronger than that of the purple sea urchin. ｜Wikimedia Commons

The horse dung sea urchin (Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus) is a small sea urchin with a diameter of about 4 cm and a shell thickness of about 2 cm. Its spines are short and dense, brown-yellow-green in color, and it looks like a pile of horse dung.

The main production of sea urchins is in the waters of Honshu and Kyushu, south of Hokkaido, Japan, and a small amount is also produced in the Korean Peninsula and along the coast of China. The yellow of sea urchins is orange-yellow, with a strong and sweet taste. They are high-quality sea urchins and are in season in summer. ｜Totti/Wikipedia

The Yezo horse dung sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus intermedius) is similar in appearance to the horse dung sea urchin, but is relatively larger and has a reddish-brown shell.

The main production areas of Ezo sea urchins are Hokkaido, Japan, north of Fukushima Prefecture on the Pacific side, north of Yamagata Prefecture on the Sea of ​​Japan side, the Korean Peninsula, Northeast China and Russia. The yellow of sea urchins is orange-red, and the taste is rich and sweet, which is deeply loved by people. ｜Николай Виноградов/iNaturalist

Sea urchin roe is the reproductive tissue of sea urchin, which is equivalent to the ovary and sperm vesicle of sea urchin. Its total weight can account for two-thirds of the internal tissue of sea urchin.

The reproductive glands of sea urchins contain an average of 15%-25% fat and 2%-3% amino acids and peptides. The delicious taste of sea urchin roe also comes from its rich flavor amino acids, especially glycine and glutamic acid. The rich riboflavin, lecithin, thiamine and the absence of fatty acids make sea urchin roe a very positive food ingredient.

The most enjoyable way to eat it is to make sea urchin donburi, with a layer of sea urchin on top of the hot rice. In the past when preservation technology was not well developed, people would pickle the sea urchin roe with sea salt so that they could eat it all year round. | Tuchong Creative

Of course, being a sea urchin doesn't seem like a bad idea if you can live freely in the kelp forest without being eaten.

What species do you want to be reincarnated as? Some people may want to be reincarnated as a cat that can sleep during work hours, some people want to be a flying bird, and in the show, there is even a cockroach that wants to continue to be a cockroach when it is reincarnated.

We live on Earth together with millions of other species. Whether we are reborn as humans, anteaters, mackerel, or sea urchins, living happily in our original habitat may be a perfect life.

Mami has good friends and a happy family throughout her life, so she wants to become a human again | Stills from "Restarting Life"

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