Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 3rd Season

One year after the events at the Sanctuary, Subaru Natsuki trains hard to better face future challenges. The peaceful days come to an end when Emilia receives an invitation to a meeting in the Watergate City of Priestella from none other than Anastasia Hoshin, one of her rivals in the royal selection. Considering the meeting's significance and the potential dangers Emilia could face, Subaru and his friends accompany her.

However, as Subaru reconnects with old associates and companions in Priestella, new formidable foes emerge. Driven by fanatical motivations and engaging in ruthless methods to achieve their ambitions, the new enemy targets Emilia and threaten the very existence of the city. Rallying his allies, Subaru must give his all once more to stop their nefarious goals from becoming a concrete reality.

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Emilia Main

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Natsuki, Subaru Main

Kobayashi, Yuusuke Japanese

Rem Supporting

Beatrice Supporting

Arai, Satomi Japanese

Ram Supporting

Murakawa, Rie Japanese

Argyle, Felix Supporting

Horie, Yui Japanese

Romanée-Conti, Petelgeuse Supporting

Suwen, Otto Supporting

Amasaki, Kouhei Japanese

Karsten, Crusch Supporting

Iguchi, Yuka Japanese

van Astrea, Wilhelm Supporting

Horiuchi, Kenyuu Japanese

Iizuka, Aya Producer

Fukao, Satoshi Producer

Setoguchi, Naoto Producer

Katou, Shinichirou Producer

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Mar 26, 2025

Marinate1016

Recommended

Re:Zero has long since established itself as one of the greatest isekai series of all time. It’s shown us time and again the possibilities and heights this genre can reach with a competent writer, delivering some of the most famous and beloved scenes in the history of the medium. I mean hell, one of the most iconic characters of all time hasn’t even been around in two seasons. This show has become one of the most iconic in history, yet season 3 manages to blow everything we’ve seen out of the water. White Fox have always been a great studio, but the attention to detail ... and quality that went into season 3 of Re:Zero are through the roof. From more light novel accurate character designs, to better pacing, to enhancing big moments from the LN, this was incredible. Arc 5 is my favourite arc in the series and this season did it justice. It both tugs on the heartstrings and makes you want to jump out of your seat with excitement. There’s a little bit of something for everyone in this season and every single cast member gets a big moment to shine. Well done White Fox, you were at your best here.

I personally have always been pretty pleased with the job WF did on Re:Zero. Yea, some monologues and scenes were removed or swapped around, but that’s how it goes adapting a book. They have always nailed the characters, the eerie atmosphere, the world and story and that’s the most important thing. But season 3 marks a change in the approach. It’s clear either fan feedback has been heard by the production committee or the staff themselves wanted to focus on bringing everything out of the source material this time around. The number of episodes, splitting the season into two, going with extended length episodes a couple times, White Fox felt much more in command of the story this time around and it couldn’t have come at a better time since Arc 5 sees Subaru take on his greatest challenge yet.

We’ve seen him fight one archbishop, but in this season he has to take on FOUR. As you can imagine that’s not something he can do alone, so teamwork has never been more important than in this arc. When I say every single character gets a big moment to shine and grow, I mean it. It’s truly a group effort to overcome the archbishops and save the city from impending doom and it’s only achieved thanks to everyone stepping up and surpassing their limits. Look, I was hype as hell reading this arc and seeing Garf, Priscilla, Otto, Wilhelm etc get their big moments, but seeing it animated with the incredible animation WF brought to Priscilla’s big fights, Garf’s big showdown, Regulus v Subaru, Wilhelm’s big moment etc., just made it that much better. This season also showcased just how deep and complex the magical and ability systems are in this world. The sheer number of fighting styles on display this season was cool to see. Tappei-sensei has put so much work into this world and I’m glad it’s paying off.

Simply put, this season of Re:Zero just feels bigger and better than anything before it while acting as a platform for Subaru to showcase his growth. He’s always been someone who overcomes insane obstacles that would break most people, but this is the start of a new Subaru. A much bolder and more confident protagonist who can stand up to characters of immense strength and not backdown because he KNOWS he will find a way to overcome, even if it requires dying a few times. For a guy that’s suffered as much as anyone in this medium has, to see him grinning with that sort of confidence was such a treat, even the other characters who are much stronger than him have supreme confidence that he’ll figure out a plan to save the day. Our Subaru is no longer someone who stands behind others, but now he’s leading from the front and even able to strategically go on the offensive like we see in his big archbishop fight. It’s a full circle moment that feels very satisfying given the hardships Subaru has dealt with. But he’s not alone, Emilia, Otto, Garf, etc., all showed tremendous growth in this season and in some ways it feels like the start of a new era for our characters. They’re battle hardened and ready to go on the offensive against the witch’s cult.

Production wise, RZ season 3 has got a total makeover. The pacing, direction, art style, animation, EVERYTHING is the best it’s ever been in the franchise. Admittedly I’m limited in the WF series I’ve seen, but Garfiel’s fight scene might be the best piece of animation this studio have ever made. Emilia’s big action scenes looked great and of course my beloved Pristella got so much attention to detail. My favourite tweak was the character designs though. I love Otsuka-sensei’s art, so seeing the anime get closer to that was a welcome change!

I think this season of Re:Zero is as close to perfect as one can get. I know there’s some fans who still weren’t satisfied with some details being cut out, but you can’t please everyone nor can you ever really cram everything from a 300 page book into a tv show. It just doesn’t work that way. White Fox did a great job of conveying things from the books using flashbacks, direction techniques and more though. They went with a show don’t tell approach and it worked. Hell, this season was so good I came out of it an Emilia fan and I HATED her before. Now I agree with Subaru and think she AND Rem are the way forward. Great fights, emotional storytelling, the most interesting arc with the highest stakes, most intimidating villains and the biggest disadvantage for Subaru and Co. thus far. Their story of overcoming insane odds is the best Re:Zero’s ever been and one of the all-time great seasons.

Re:Zero season 3 gets a very easy 10 out of 10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 27, 2025

SlurpBear

Mixed Feelings

Re:Zero Season 3 is an odd one.

The animation quality was great, a huge step up from the previous season (which was most people's main complaint about it), and the content of this season story-wise was phenomenal, but after all is said and done, it felt like something was missing.

This wasn't the case for the first few episodes. The element of mystery and tasteful despair really set this Season up to be on the level of Season 1, at least tonally, which was extremely promising; Unfortunately though, something changed part of the way into this Season. Perhaps it was because of the huge number of fights, ... or the large cast of characters that needed attention, but regardless of what the core issue was, it resulted in the majority of the Season failing to properly convey fantastical yet subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) dark elements that Re:Zero is built upon.

After the first encounter, this Season genuinely felt akin to Shonen slop, with the perspective ping-ponging from one character and their fight to the next. At a glance one might assume that this is a given considering the events of this arc in the Light Novel, but what a lot of people don't understand is that parts of the source will always be cut in an adaptation, and in Season 3 they cut things that simply shouldn't have been cut. This is perfectly put on display in regards to a certain greedy guy who has a huge presence in this season. The fight with this figure in the anime is very goofy, which on its own is fine and really plays up this character's pathetic nature; but unlike for instance the Betelgeuse fight in the first season, which was goofy but still carried aspects of underlying horror/threat, this fight had none of that.

I personally left that experience a little bit disappointed, having had great hopes for it; but I relented, assuming that in the source material that fight was the same way... apparently it wasn't?? Supposedly everything that was missing, such as genuinely menacing moments, and monologues that delved deeper into this character and their twisted nature, existed in the Light Novel but were excluded from the anime. This to me is frankly unacceptable from a directive standpoint. It would be different if they simply had too little time to include these things, but not only did they cut the season's contents down from what COULD have been 24 episodes, they devoted a good chunk of that specific fight as well as other ones to flashy moments and fanservice. I don't mind these things, but the fact that they were included while CORE elements of what this season SHOULD have been weren't, is silly. To put it in perspective, it's literally like if the moments where Betelgeuse talks to himself, explaining his logic and twisted sense of love, were omitted. These are core to helping the audience understand this character and their perspective, even if it's almost alien and frankly insane.

To generalize what I've said and apply it to this entire season, it genuinely just needed more time allocated to its characters and the themes attributed to them. This is surely not exclusive to the aforementioned fight, and I have no doubt that there are other moments that fail to carry the energy that they should have. For example, I don't know for certain, but considering how out of place it felt in the anime, Garfiel's character arc definitely had aspects of it cut. To know for sure about any of these things I need to fully read the Light Novel (which I intend on doing), but until then, given Tappei Nagatsuki's amazing track record, I choose to believe that these flaws are all due to a failure to properly adapt the source.

You cant even blame it on budget this time like you could with Season 2 Part 2, because all of these episodes looked phenomenal; It's simply a directing issue and I couldn't be more disappointed. I personally think that they did things in the way that they did in order to attract new viewers (tourists), but I'm probably not going to get confirmation on that.

With all of this being said I love Re:Zero and consider it one of the greatest series ever conceived, so the lowest I can give this Season is a 7. This Season is by no means unwatchable, it's quite a fun watch actually (other than that Liliana episode holy &*#%), but if you appreciate the complexity of the earlier Seasons it will no doubt leave you feeling as if it could have been more. I just hope that the reception is mixed enough that White Fox understands what went wrong and gives the show a full 24 episodes for its next season.

TLDR: Needed more episodes, with time dedicated to complex aspects of characters and tone-building, decided to clip farm with its budget instead.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Apr 2, 2025

tokomata

Not Recommended

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Reddit Zero: Isekai Shonen 3: Started Yapping in a Disney World.
I can't believe I ever liked this repetitive slop. Of course I was gaslighted into believing there's more that meets the eye before. Last season for me. The only thing going for this is it has some semblance of an original story, something that is woefully lacking in anime industry these days.

RZ is back with it's usual mutilation loop in the beginning that contributes nothing to the plot, the usual generic medieval danmachi fantasy plot, the usual edgy af comically evil cuckoo villains with no tangible motivations; and I don't know is this the ... first time it became an exposition dump wasting time while cutting off source content? I seriously hope content was cut because this was the worst season by a mile. Anywho I have grown resistant to the shock novelty, and it's just murderporn soap opera slop that old people watch in their mundane lives, and WWE shonen slop that kids like. It's so bad, I went back to rate the first two seasons and OVAs low.

The single biggest problem with season 3: Direction and Art Character Design.

You start the season with a scene in the initial episodes where an antagonist mutilates a character in a second, by kicking a small stone with tremendous force at him/her. That clearly showcase the ridiculous skill gap between the two. There should be no way the latter survives a second against the former solo in their later fights taking place in a matter of two days, right? I mean forget the fights, the Direction puts the latter in completely exposed public spaces multiple times as he/she wastes time lecturing cringy pretentious Disney Demon slayer expositions in front of enemies with killing intent. If I'm plotting something with someone I would at least move out from the middle of the road and go to an alley so that I don't constantly have to look out for shots aimed at me. It's also insane it's implied he/she is somehow "holding out" the later fights with villain without any mutilation, off-fucking-screen ofc. (E: I guessed right, I learnt in LN character was supposedly master of evasion through buildings, windows etc which makes the holding out possible, cut from the anime)

This similar direction is repeated elsewhere in other character showdowns, people having time to sing, kiss, grope, nosebleed on each other in front of serious villains with no worry of getting killed. Of course fans will distribute copium that the enemies weren't considering them seriously and "playing with food", ...which would make sense if they weren't butchering mobs without reason earlier, and weren't getting bored and annoyed easily enough to eliminate the cringe that was in their way.

The character designs echo the same sentiments, physically ripped enemies losing on pure strength(not agility) against weak, lean, fragile twinks. Villains be munching huge ass dragons and scyllas but too "bored" to wipe out brigades of ant people. Make it make sense. Also unrelated, there were some of the most non-thematic out-of-place sakuga fights I have ever seen towards the end of the season. The sakuga was itself good but woefully anti-thematic.

Another Direction problem is the decision to not include some recaps/flashbacks. It's not my fault RZ production took it's sweet time to return after so many years. Some obscure shit from the previous seasons will be used as a deux ex machina plot device to save people at the very last moment. Only fans and TV junkies would remember or rewatch and flex that people don't watch properly especially on cableTV. I won't rewatch and waste my time as it's not my responsibility. It's the production's responsibility to insert appropriate recap clips to remind what happened after producing this season after so many years. Even worse some critical info is only available in BreakTime omakes and isekai quartet. Rz is no MCU to risk pulling this shit.

The Second problem is the plot and is independent of production. Just a few episodes ago people treated Subaru like literal gnat's piss. But suddenly after the 2nd season fights, the same people are rushing and queuing to suck his dick like blind followers like Subaru-sama yOu sO gReAt!! OMFG. Endless patronising of Subaru. Can the characters stop yappin, STFU and not repeat the same pretentious bs with minor variations, whether the toxic positivity "You can do it!" comments, or the shocked "How could you do such a thing!" despair, it's cringe, boring and repeated adinfinitum. The demon slayer expositions legit triggered me to write this review. Is this how the LN is? jfc. I should have watched with dub instead and wash my dishes meanwhile.

And the constant chuuni manicspeak from the villains. Not VA fault, more like the decision to pack more of the same archetype of crazy villains in a single arc, as if it wasn't already bad enough with one per arc before. All the villains were carbon copies, nothing like say the unique homunculi in FMA/B who are also monsters based on 7 sins, or Made in Abyss White whistles. What is the appeal here? It's the lowest common denominator edgy shit that reddit bogans would consume to fit in the crowd.

I'm trying to find any redeeming qualities and see none. It's just shock, rimuru tabletalk, fights, the anime. Greatest Isekai my ass. No wonder fans are insecure of MT and One Piece.

Also can someone go isekai into their world and teach Emilia sex education? Else the author will use her ignorance on the matter into a plot device again. Someone clearly went already and injected something in her boobs to grow like a cow, among several other ecchi baits in the season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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