Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 3rd Season Episode 7 Discussion

Entire episode just for a speech? I mean, it wasn't bad I liked it, but I didn't feel anything special in particular, maybe I just wasn't in the right mood.

Emilia connection is nice. Everyone trusting Subaru is nice. Al carring about Subaru as another normal person was nice. Speech was... well certainly long start, I could do without all that apologizing and self-reflecting at the start, Natsuki Subaru, spiritmancer who defeated Witch cult of Sloth etc something something around it would be enough for me.

But hey, player 2, Reinhart von Astrea has join the game. Now let's the fun begins! We have quite lot archbishops to slay!

Edit: Man this was extended runtime as well? I thought it just feels that way.

>30 minutes episode for a shitty speech that amounts to "we haven't saved anything, but have hope"
yeah, no, I have liked this season, but this episode and the speech weren't "goat" or "kino"

Btw, here's a brightened-up image of Al's eyes from Twitter.

If you've watched the last 2 Break Time episodes, you might see some significance here and with the title of this episode.

So, I guess this will be the checkpoint. Was a great character development for Subaru making that speech.
But would be funny if Subaru returned to the beginning of the day.

@0451 bro looks a lil burnt, but also maybe crying. I mean i dont blame him. Fuck i still dont trust this episode, it completely makes al seem not shady like in the books

@Ionliosite2 Bro, did you watch all the episodes in 2x speed? The speech was given because the wrath's authority was messing with the people's emotions. I doubt you even cared to listen what wrath's authority do but a I will give you a brief explanation.

Wrath's authority has the ability to link everyone's emotions( and physical body to some extent ). This means the emotions are shared from one person to another thus amplifying it's effect. But sirius has no control over the emotion that can be amplified. Because the civilians were getting angry and agitated, emotion was getting shared among each others and at the same time the emotion was amplified. This caused everyone in the shelter to beat the shit out of each other. If these negative emotions were not stopped it's not the witchcult but the people themselves will start killing each other.

That is why they came up with the idea of a speech. It was to turn wrath's authority on it's head and instead use it as a power to amplify people's positive emotions and give them confidence.

Second episode in a row that brought nothing to the table nor raised the stakes in any way. Do we seriously need 50 minutes of padding as a lead up? Whatever tension was there until episode 6, it's sailed now.
Yeah, the speech was great and took like 7 minutes. That's 7 minutes out of 29 - where did there rest go? Seriously, drama and development can and should be handled quicker and more decisively.
And psychofans in here will still repeat what they say in EVERY episode's discussion thread: "This is the best episode in all of anime!". Cringe af, you lot can't be taken seriously anymore.

@Rudivard I watched it a 1x speed, and I know what Wrath's authority does (they have explained it like thrice at this point), that doesn't mean the speech was good or that it was inspirational.

Talk about filler episode. Just standing around for a long time arguing about who should make a pep talk on the radio. Usually in this series, Subaru would have just done something like this right away, not spent half an episode discussing it.

And the Man of the People speech was also bad. "I'm just like you" on repeat, on and on. It is supposed to Subvert Expectations among the viewers, not being a speech about the strength of those who fight. "Wow, he turned the weakness into a strength, I've never seen THAT before!"

But there is a reason speeches like this in the real world don't HAMMER IN and PUT IN WORDS how afraid and weak the listeners are, but instead focus on how strong the fighters are and that help is on the way.

"I want to tell them that the girls I know look so much cuter when they're smiling!

Oh, for God's sake.... How is it a pep talk when he talks like a creep? A man in a Medieval world doesn't talk about how he lusts for several women. You wouldn't say that in our time either. It's just some otaku harem shiht.