Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 3rd Season

I don't usually write reviews, but man. I just can't bear with this shit anymore.
I will preface by saying I never really liked Re:Zero. First season was okay, second season meh, and now the third season just looks like it'll be the same as the previous one, and I can't be bothered to watch 16 episodes of that. I sighed when I saw the first episode was 90 minutes long. I sighed when I saw the loli harem. I sighed when I saw that Subaru still hasn't changed clothes.
The characters are bland and uninteresting, the visuals are bland and uninteresting. Music and animation ... were alright. I forgot the plot because I never cared, and I never cared because the cast never seemed sympathetic. I'm just sad I wasted my time with two seasons of this. Never touching this again.
Characters: 2/10
Animation: 5/10
Sound: 6/10
Plot: I don't know, I don't care/10
Enjoyment: 2/10

This is anime infuriates me. Re:zero started with a very strong first season where it looked like we are on a psychological, and dramatic path to untangle the origin of Subarus journey. What made it so good is the portrayal of suffering and not giving up.
When I first watched the series i thought Subaru is a well written character but after the second season I realised the only reason i liked him is because i resonated with him when he suffered, beyond his suffering there is no further intention or motivation except being a fucking simp.
Every other character is the equivalent to one ... adjective like "bad guy, cute girl, cute loli girl, edgy teen boy." and Subaru is a big fucking coomer just like the person who wrote this shit. but because the plot is actually interesting in the beginning and the edgy bullshit is something that you can just dismiss. Season 2 is the start of the downfall, it lacks the seriousness the first season has, the dialogues start to stretch, the development of the story and action slows down, more unnecessary female cast gets introduced just for the sake sexualization or "cuteness".We are here in season 3 and its fucking horrible. the first episode 1 hour 30 minutes, and at the time from the scores i assumed "lets go baby we're back". I was wrong. The writer is so fucking focused on providing the plot what he wants to see for his sexual fantasies that he completely lost whats this series is about or atleast everything that had a deeper meaning.
But dont worry, if you are just like him or maybe 14 year old you will like this. No depth or a message just pure simping over girls like the biggest loser in school who doesnt get any pussy. At this point there are basically only lazy monotone dialogues, filled with unfunny anime jokes. Every second person is a damn loli even the "Lust witch" is a loli, the LUST SIN .Like please I dont fucking care that you're a pedophile but atleast please hide it. I watched so many animeish anime slice of life, ecchi but this one takes the cake.
For last I just wanna say i don't want to sound like Jesus and say this is morally bad or not, I dont fucking care, my point is that its so clear that the series lost its roots to dark fantasy, psychology just to some coomer writers dream that is painfully cringe.

Probably one of the biggest depreciations an anime has ever had after a season. Perhaps for me, one of the main reasons that Re:Zero's plot was very attractive was a certain urgent situation. Since the first season, the structure of the arcs worked like complicated puzzles that Subaru needed to solve while suffering horrors beyond human understanding and, every now and then, episodes of breathing and rest.
So, it is with great regret that I say that this season was wrong in everything I could see. A plot that despite shouting urgency, is not treated as such by the characters or the plot. All the fights, ... conflicts, problems and villains were previously treated with desperation and care, in this season everything was reduced to trivial combats without the slightest feeling of importance. Of course, there is also a terrifying insertion of several completely uninteresting subplots of even more uninteresting characters.
Everything seems without apex, without weight, without soul. An attempt at grandeur without substance or creativity. Just nothing.

The 2nd season already left me iffy about where this was going, but this 3rd season was a slap in the face to anyone with a working brain.
... What happened to entertainment? Whatever happened to human feelings and emotions?
Characterization? Dialogue? Art constancy? Why bother with such time-consuming and costly trifles? Obviously, young people and content addicts only require a lot of sexual bait (god forbid an anime without fetishisation of children anatomy) and some morbid shock value sprinkled here and there. And Profit! There is no need to draw consistent faces for the characters, because everyone will be looking lower or the characters' faces ... won't be moving anymore.

There is no need to write human conversation, because everyone is suddenly friends that can talk honestly and joke with each other: even those prideful and those shrewd are all buddy-buddy. And every single, tedious, repetitive, 20 minutes long conversation about something serious is constantly interrupted with jokes.
-Oh no! Everyone died! We have to do something! -Serious faces.
-We can totally take them down with our cheat character and the power of the MC's simping! -Everyone smiles.

The villains are bad, crazy, evil, lunatics and bad. They lack the gradual introduction of Petelgeuse, so they give no sense of dread and no one cares about their obviously hinted backstories.

The MC, even after suffering so, so much, hasn't changed one bit. Even though I clearly remember a previous arc about the MC learning to ask for help... Maybe it was a dream I had?

Anyway, if you want to be a hero loved by all, throw yourself headfirst into the trouble, simp, be unable to lose, stay surrounded by children and, most importantly, simp. Because simping is the alternative power of friendship in this story.

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I don't know what happened to current art, but every dialogue, every reaction, every setting, every plot, every characterization, every painting... Everything that has been classified as 'entertainment' looks like it was written by the same person. The positive reviews appear to be written by bots.
This trendy word fits perfectly: unserious.
Videos tell instead of showing, novels try to show instead of telling, complex emotions and personalities don't exist, plots are wholly made of cliches, politics, ideologies, diversity and inclusivity are forced into every work.
The readers and viewers are treated like money-printing garbage disposals.

Season 3: Drawn out narrative loses its appeal.

Originally, Re:Zero had a really interesting concept behind it. MC stuck in an endless loop of death and time rewind, witnessing horrible events and trying his best to overcome them. However, Re:Zero has failed to build upon this concept further, instead of exploring new ideas to enrich the show, it has become repetition machine that simply re-iterates over extremely similar events over and over again with sole focus on increasing show length instead of building interesting story.

Characters:
Character growth is extremely small if non-existent for the most part. Despite suffering through endless tragedies, Subaru is still a crybaby. Characters ... are uninteresting, it is as if they are auto-generated NPCs on an RPG game, writer has used exact same formula on all characters, they have one romantic interest they are obsessed with and flat personality dictated by one trait that with no depth. Villans are even more uninteresting because almost all of them are complete psycho's that are evil for sake of being evil. All of this makes show extremely predictable at season 3 and removes the tension that was present on early seasons.

Bad dialogue:
Dialogue lacks depth and nuance, every character acts like they are 12 years old with overly simple and exaggerated emotions and repetition of sentences over and over. Anytime more than 4 characters are having a conversation feels like circus with characters randomly interrupting each other and screaming out of nowhere. Conversations feel unnatural and hollow.

Season 3 of Re:Zero continues its downward spiral. Season 1 is ok, season 2 meh, Season 3 is close to shit at this point. What once was an innovative concept of navigating an endless loop of death and resilience has devolved into a repetitive, drawn-out narrative devoid of depth. Like I said, this cheap MMORPG mechanic which any new player would not be as stupid as Subaru that died so many times with meaningless death. Subaru remains stagnant despite enduring countless tragedies, with little sign of maturity or emotional evolution. This lack of growth renders him frustrating to watch, and his repetitive emotional outbursts feel ... hollow and unearned.

The supporting cast like Emilia remains passive, and devoted lover Rem is gone. The villains, shallow torture of cruelty, lack the complexity needed to make them compelling. Dialogue is clunky and repetitive, with overly simplistic interactions that feel more like filler than meaningful exchanges.

Re:Zero has long been one of the most iconic and beloved anime, but as the series progresses into its seemingly endless stretches of episodes, it's clear that it has lost its initial spark. Here is why Re:Zero is now a mediocre anime at best:

1. Boring characters / Too much focus on side characters

Who doesn't love good side characters that add depth to the storyline and contribute to the development of the main character? You will not find that here, not anymore, the characters have very simple motivations things like "hurr durr I am crazy and evil, I will destroy the world, come defeat me", or ... the "I must get stronger and protect everyone, oh no I lost a battle, I now need 3 more episodes focused on me so I can overcome that hurdle", or who could forget the "I am a good guy with 0 personality or brain, I am just a knight in shining armor coming to save the princess". It's such a weird choice for the writers to make Subaru, a guy that been through hell and surround him with a bunch of bumbling idiots with generic goals that can be found in any other anime. No one wants to watch 5 episodes in a row dedicated to a side character that will complain and need reassurance every 5 minutes that they are not weak, focus on the main story and finish it, after that you can also make episodes for every side character in the anime for whoever is interested. Also why so many loli characters? New season = new loli side character with full story arc. I don't even think that most people like lolis, yet this anime seems to be doubling down on their loli stance.

2. It goes on and on and on and on

Let's talk about the length of the anime, sure it's not the longest anime out there, but it for sure feels that way at times, at this point does anyone even remember what was the main objective of Subaru? Exactly, not many people remember it and I believe that speaks volumes about the way in which the episodes were managed. Re:Zero risks alienating the very fans who once embraced its bold, fast-paced adventure. Instead of keeping the focus on the heart of the story this anime has become a sprawling mess of subplots and overextended character arcs that lack the urgency and thrill that made it a good anime in the first place.

Feel free to watch this season as well if you're somehow still interested in this series, however, be prepared for more of the same, more story arcs about side characters that ultimately lead to nowhere and more anime cliches.

So, I’ve also been watching Re:Zero, and it really isn’t my cup of tea. I hate the dialogue, and that’s 90% of the anime, so I think maybe I’ll just read the light novel instead. When it finishes, that is. it’s so boring. There’s just dialogue upon dialogue, and honestly, for a novel or manga, I could read a lot of dialogue, no problem, but not an anime. With anime, I expect animation and a lot action. And I’ll be honest, their dialogue is just plain boring. There doesn’t seem to be any stakes, when they’re doing the dialogue, it just feels like women gossiping. ... Except women gossip is probably a lot more interesting. This is just plain boring. They just talk and talk and I feel no tension, and out of nowhere someone just throws a line out of nowhere and you’re like, where did that come from? It just feels like their dialogues adds nothing to their characters, which are already so shallow. And I mean if it’s anime at least you can show what thoughts would be going on in their minds. But no, every character has to be as dumb and shallow as Emilia. She just wants to save everyone, she’s a Disney princess, and her knight in shiny armor, aka Subaru, will come save him. Except he’s just a sniveling little shit. I can’t believe how incredibly boring this series has become, where the first season was interesting as fuck, and shit was happening and that one music track that makes everyone sweat, now it’s just sunshine and roses and most of the focus is on the bland boring MC who’s basically just a shonen protagonist. So it only makes sense for me to give this up. It feels a lot like I’m watching the anime version of a VN, which I hate. I’d rather read a LN or a manga with a lot of text, but not this shit. I think that anime should remain anime. It shouldn’t become a talking fest, that this anime unfortunately has become. On top of that it has those weird degenerate things like loli, cat-girl that is actually a guy, guy acting like a girl, someone that things kissing = being pregnant (Emilia).

I'm surprised that I didn't understand how terribly written re:zero is earlier. I enjoyed the first season and although the second season had some interesting moments with the witches, the storyline of the sanctuary was just awful, but I expeccted it to improve a bit afterwards.

in this season the amount of terrible elements are so incredibly devoid of redeeming qualities that it truly is impossible to enjoy. And it's a bit sad because the series could be good, if the antagonists were some of the other candidates that we sympathize with instead of the really uninteresting cult asrchbishops thaht are shallow pastisches of cruelty and ... selfishness. A great hero is a flawed hero and the opposite is true of a great villain, they have redeeming qualities.

Subaru is also worse in this season bexause he is exactly the same. he isn't jaded or more mature, the trauma of previous events haven't mellowed him out or anything. Who enjoys watching idiots being dumb on screen? Well I don't. Like drinnking stagnant water it leaves a awkward aftertaste eaxh time I visited this season of Re:zero

I am beyond bored, counting episode 1 as 6 episoeds I have seen 13 episodes and nothing happens, supposedly a year has happened and no character has grown, this is his first death after the witch reveal and he reacts by doing nothing.

A whole year for the mc to mature and instead of asking for help, he continues to charge in like an absolute moron when he supposedly learnt his lesson in season 2.

It is just awful, a bunch of characters thrown togheter doing nothing, the show is beyond bloated, it has been totally reduced to waifus and nonsensical fights. I cant stand the amount ... of freaking monologues that say nothing in this season, how did this get so bad.

Im so dissapointed, if second season was meh but watchable this is just a cringefest... Who is the writer aiming ???

Have they realised the original fanbase of this anime is growing older ??? But instead of giving US gore, psychological mistery like they promise US firts season this slowly has become a Loli harem ecchi isekai, did they think we would not notice .... Give me a break the LUST archbishop is a Loli... And ok let pretend wencan ignore that, but where is the plot ? 8 chapters and one of them count as 4 chapters and absolutly NOTHING of value happen ... , SO for 11 to 12 chapters of and anime nothing happen, they told ua hahahaha wait until feb, but didnt this anime had like some years before this season, this was just talking and lame talking at that.... The dialogues were SO vapid, shallow and void of any soul, just talking.

Listen at this point i think this is just an anime that the sole pouroose is to sell them light novel, they cut before the fight.... Just two months SO people go and read the light novel, shameless.

At this point this anime feels like an abusive relationship where i just stay for the time cost fallacy, i invest SO much time and years, that i don't want to drop cuz i want to know what is the point of everything.... But spoiler ALERT there is no point, just lolis

Highest rated season, insanely high rate of negative reviews, oh yeah, it's vote botted trash.
S1 was great with mystery and a broadly tight-knit plot and great cinematography. S2 the plot continued to get away from itself with a lot of contrived nonsense and silliness. S3 is just dumb.

It has literally become the generic isekai of fellating Japanese culture in another world, lusting lolis, random evil cultists attacking evilly, exposition-dump pep talks of brain-damaging dialogue, etc. There is barely even a plot beyond charge head first at the baddies, and the unique time looping mechanic is all but tossed aside to avoid solving what would be ... a very simple obstacle for Reinhardt with a little communication.
The MC and all the now-cardboard 1-note characters apparently gained negative character development after going through an arc specifically about developing them into more competent people.

There's some excellent production quality and bursts of wonderful dialogue, combined with that trademark Re:Zero puzzlebox that just delights, but this season has gotten completely bogged down.
Tens of minutes of characters saying the same things over and over again. Nearly an entire episode devoted to a self-indulgent speech (combined with, again, characters repeating themselves ad naueseam). Far too much of this season is spent in redundant board meetings, generic pontificating about what a man or woman should do, and in the grating prattling of a Sin Archbishop introducing themself for the fourth time. It was terrifying when Betelgeuse did it. It's irritating now.

this is a sad sad day
i wish i would have never have to say this about a Re:Zero series but man what a garbage this was
this series started well, up until episode 8 it was fine, subaru was in suffering and stuff

but after the delay in airing the animation, it somehow became the worst fucking thing you could have think of
the fight with regulus was so fucking bad, he is the strongest enemy and couldn't kill or pose ANY difficulty for subaru?!!! not even once?! the only difficulty for subaru was ski on ice part!!

the way they find out about his lion's heart and weakness ... was so bullshit, subaru realized it from mere "little king" title, that yeah, he stops time and shit even though his wives don't know about this power!!
how the fuck did subaru find out reguluse's wives are tied to his heart?
it could have been so easy to handle this
for example make regulus to not go too far away from his wives, this would give the clue that the wives are more than sex slaves but no, subaru just find that out, out of thin air

the motivational speeches are fucking pathetic and we get around 16 of them in this fucking anime, like dude we are here to see subaru in pain and agony, who the fuck do you think the target audience is?!

again, so fucking disappointing, Re:Zero was famous for keeping you on the edge of your seat but this one simply make me not care

re:zero is always the same, they dedicate themselves to preaching a will, before any fight.
and another one when they fight on both sides, it seems more like a debate than a fight. It's the same as one piece, a lot of talk, little action. Its development always has the same theme. If they put action scenes in the first chapters it's a trap. Everything becomes very predictable, this anime no longer knows how to innovate, here we have 3 seasons of the same thing. I watch this because I have a hard time finding good anime, come on, Re: zero is kind of decent ... to watch but it's very boring at the same time.

We all know that he will always win, it's very annoying to hear so much cheesy talk.
If the excess of unnecessary words caused harm, everyone would be dead in this anime lol.