Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 2nd Season Part 2 Episode 7 Discussion

newluminous said:
Re:Zero is surely testing my patience. My hype is fading away. Hope next episode will pick it up again.

newluminous said:
Re:Zero is surely testing my patience. My hype is fading away. Hope next episode will pick it up again.

J1m1s said:
I’m saddened to say this when they are obviously going above and beyond with this show by giving as 30-minute episodes without ops and eds but they really dropped the ball with the overall pacing.

This arc was freaking amazing in the light novel but this overly slow full of flashbacks pace doesn’t translate into an anime medium at all and they didn’t do enough to fix this problem. And to make things worse instead of shortening some of the overly melodramatic and padded dialogue they cut some important details here and there in order to save time instead (for example they butchered the details of the bet between Roswaal and Subaru but they let Emilia hug her mother for 10 minutes in front of the people who came to kill them or in this episode the overly long farewell scene with Betty).

Couple that with the fact that it’s really obvious that they are struggling with the production values .... and now I'm depressed like Hector.

anime-prime said:
That kiss came out of nowhere and made me feel a little uncomfortable. Sucking mana through kissing, where have I seen that before, haha.

Again, slow paced episode. The pacing for this arc really kills a lot of enjoyment for me. This episode had some great dialogue and some hard hitting emotional moments, which would have been amazing had I not been thinking the entire episode "this season really needs to get moving". This episode was pretty much half a flashback and then the second half was conversation between Subaru and Roswaal. This arc has had more standing around and talking than the Monogatari series, which says a lot.

The flashback was well done and showed us more of Beatrice and her connections to the other characters in the past, and really fleshed out a few characters who desperately needed the development. It also gave us the much needed backstory of the origin of the sanctuary. The conversation between Subaru and Roswaal definitely could have and should have been shortened, but the overall deeper themes within their arguments was valid and stayed true to their characters, though in the end, it sort of just seemed like a waste of time.

In short, this wasn't one of my favorite episodes of this season, but that may just be due to the overall pacing of the arc. I liked the first half of the episode more than the second half. I really hope that the pacing takes a shift into high gear in the remaining episodes.

gianni said:
Where the hell are the fights??? All this useless dialogue that no one will remember when this season ends is clogging up the episodes one after another.

Gilgameshuu said:
I'm getting annoyed at all the people complaining this season is "dragging" they're making it out to be like Re:Zero Season 2 is the 2nd coming of Chimera Ant arc or some shit, like seriously... there are shonen arcs that last for forever while a 25 episode arc of Re:Zero is "dragged"? Get tf out of here.

Pre_Yum said:
Alright Echidna, you really kissed young Roswaal? That was a huge surprise element for me. ED is finally here and it's good.

Winter_Fox said:
This episode is okay-ish, the pacing is definitely not that good. They make Hector less menacing and instead focusing on longgg dialogues between beatrice and shima.

Having to wait one week with this slow pace is killing me :( the last scene were pretty great tho, the rivalry between roswaal and Subaru. I just hope for the rest of episode they will make the fight scene look more polished and impactful.

redwhitenblue said:
Bad episode. Who in the hell would argue so passionately about feelings? It's like they aren't men, but children throwing a tantrum. Feelings do nothing, it's actions that matter. Which leads us to why would Subaru go back again trying to get Roswaal to concede even though he hadn't really accomplished much? The writing for this episode is horrible. It lacks believability.

AbiSa said:
I love to hear that Junichi Suwabe!

Oh, wow the ending played. It is Emilia's VA right?

Doom_Reigns said:
The one thing i was always curious about in Re 0 is the past of the sanctuary and how roswaal and Echidna (my 2 fav chars) entagle in it , but this ep honestly had the weakest first half of all so far.
Look what they did to my girl .....They started off with Echidna literally french kissing the shit outta him and contuinuing to use her as a damn symbol and a mere prescence to progress the backstory which i heavily despised. Honestly could'nt feel a shit about ryuzu ancestor or beatrice , that scene felt so flat.
If not for Roswaal's appreciatable speech in the second half this ep would've just become my least fav of all.

P.s: I badly want Roswaal to win this bout .

kotomine33 said:


Hoping for an one-hour finale tbh

DarkSasuke44 said:
This ED really reminded me the one from SAO War of Underworld in term of visuals/colors.
Is it made by A1 ?
Really liked the episode !

redwhitenblue said:
Bad episode. Who in the hell would argue so passionately about feelings? It's like they aren't men, but children throwing a tantrum. Feelings do nothing, it's actions that matter. Which leads us to why would Subaru go back again trying to get Roswaal to concede even though he hadn't really accomplished much? The writing for this episode is horrible. It lacks believability.

Gorochu said:
I read it somewhere the part where Echidna kisses Roswaal does not appear in the light novel. So it's filler? Can light novel reader confirm this for me?

Gorochu said:
I read it somewhere the part where Echidna kisses Roswaal does not appear in the light novel. So it's filler? Can light novel reader confirm this for me?

Desmondus said:
I can't deny that it lacks believability, but saying the writing is bad is just stupid. It's not about the actions, it's about the ideals. The entire point is to show which is the stronger belief. And how the heck aren't you used to it by now? Subaru is annoying as fuck when he's heated.

redwhitenblue said:
If the story lacks believability, that by definition is bad writing. Authors are supposed to make their story believable if the story takes itself seriously (which this story does). As to showing which is the stronger belief.... what's the point? Will it save the sanctuary? No. Will it save the mansion? No. All it is doing is wasting time and there isn't much time for Subaru to be able accomplish saving both the sanctuary and the mansion. Subaru went in there with confidence, but the very act of going there to try and get Roswaal to concede when he wasn't even close to fulfilling the bet... there is no way that Roswaal would not perceive Subaru as bluffing (or an idiot). And if Subaru didn't realize that Roswaal would recognize that (or he actually believed what he was pushing) then he truly is an idiot. And so, by the act of going there to ask Roswaal to concede when he hadn't even remotely accomplished what he said he was going to do, he is showing that his beliefs are not stronger. If his beliefs were stronger, he would just go accomplish what his beliefs are instead of trying to convince Roswaal to concede.

9Vincent9 said:


Absolute bad takes, one after another.

Shortening the flashbacks will cause a massive impact on the writing of the series, which what it's known for.

Emilia's flashback was one of the most anticipated moments of the season, being built from S1, Teased with Frozen bonds, it needed 3 episodes at minimum for people to least connect with the characters.

MafuMateoMafu said:
There's something that caught my attention and I don't know why they did it. But, what's the deal with not showing Echidna's eyes during the flashback?
Also, would it be a spoiler to ask why Roswaal's eyes have different colour when he clearly had same-coloured eyes in the flashback?
Anyways, cool episode and all, but I feel that the plot is advancing somewhat slow this season.

Iesfir said:
Good episode, but this kiss... is so useless and so disguting. Roswall had just been throwing up and, that.
However, I'm starting to get lost about why Roswall doesn't want to capitulate.

ghier said:
I'm almost lost now. I don't feel invested in just about anything I'm seeing in the show. So much exposition and, what do you know, more declarations lol. Does the writer have no subtlety with his points and messaging? Btw, when is Subaru not going to act lame. PLEASE, stop being lame man. You're killing me.

Like shouldn't this guy have a more mature and humble demeanor by now? He knows that he's a worthless guy without the respawns, and he's been forced to believe this by literally dying over and over. Just ... ugh. I'm tired of waiting for this man to change.

Ngl, I kind of want the show to go back to torture b/c of how much I'm hating on Subaru's character right now. Put him back in the wringer and hope he comes out actually changed this time.

J1m1s said:


You obviously paid no thought at what I was trying . The flashbacks could have been the same length while focusing more on the important things and while including more details that were omitted instead of having characters standing around during times of crisis and going through ten pages of dialogue like time is frozen. Things like that work in a light novel where you can read it at any pace you like but not in an anime where there is limited time and the pace of a scene is defined by the director and not you. Also, they could have re organized some things to make the flow better (which Tappei did to fit the web novel into the light novel but actually made things worse imo).
Directly translating from page to anime doesn’t work well.


And to me the budget limitations seem to have affected negatively the scene compositions. The camera tends to stay too still on barely moving talking characters.

I also personally find the fact that they have a single line for ears very distracting and can’t stop noticing it!

Ironhide1125 said:
These episodes are definitely going great so far and everything is quite understandable but I'm still a little confused as to what exactly is happening between Roswaal and Subaru. It's definitely distinct that their relationship is severed but it still doesn't make sense to me as to how this all happened. But other than that this season is going good,