LN readers,will the dark theme remain for the rest of the series?

DarklordVor said:

Pretty much like everyone said,


Gah! This somehow reminds me of KonoSuba's volume 5 with Megumin -____- damn it Kazuma.

DarkingDawning said:


So basically... Subaru becomes Naruto? Where he shows that he prioritize Sakura and just forget about Hinata's confession? lol

Also you can't just leave a Megumin hint without spoiling it! Why'd you bring that up if you're not gonna explain it =_=

machixmachi said:
Oh shit! I don't read light novel

Fappa said:

machixmachi said:

Sadly :( Get her back! Subaruuuu

Fappa said:


When you will see that in the anime you'll realize how hard this scene is. That and many other things make you support Subaru so much. One of the most redeeming characters there is ( if you see genre-savy behavior as a negative ).

Kaluk said:
Please can someone tell me where can i read the LN? Or is it only available in Japanese?

DarklordVor said:


Well it's also translated in Chinese... so not only available in Japanese :3

It was already licensed by Yen Press back in December for English translation.

Volume 1 will be published on July 19th 2016 and Volume 2 will be published on November 15th 2016. So basically... yay for the slow as hell Yen Press translations :3

Amazon links:
http://www.amazon.com/Re-ZERO--Starting-Another-World-/dp/0316315303
http://www.amazon.com/Re-ZERO--Starting-Another-World-/dp/0316398373

bobzanny said:

Aren't most releases on a 3-4 month basis?

DarklordVor said:


Well we're talking about Yen Press here... the slowest publisher LN that I know. (Since they got tons of titles, they need separate time to publish them)
I mean they licensed Oregairu last year, but has not published it till September 2016... Yen Press.

Also, compared to Re:Zero's intial release, which is volume 1 on 24 January 2014 and volume 2 on 25 February 2014, Yen Press is really slow.

bobzanny said:

Ehh, from what I've seen that's about the standard for LN's regardless of publisher. Plus translations take longer than manga.

DarklordVor said:

Hmm... well yeah. It can't be helped.

Dante323 said:
Hmm. I know that this should belong into a different thread but I won't start an entire thread just because of two questions. So for those of you who read the novel (Fappa a co.)

First one: the web novel on narou is currently on the 6th arc if I'm correct. Does it seem like the story will finish soon?

Second one: I've started reading the LN (currently finishing reading volume 5) but plan to switch to the web novel after volume 6. Are there any notable differences between the LN/WEBNOVEL that might make a transition problematic or not?

Fappa said:


Maybe the fact that Kadokawa ( Parent company of the publisher ) recently bought 51% of YenPress will help in the future. I can see them pushing YenPress on certain projects including Re:Zero.

Fappa said:

I think it's no problem to ask that here :)

The author clearly aims for a bigger story and you can see that throughout the 6 arcs that are currently out. There is no ending in sight, no. To me it actually feels like we are only scratching at the halfway mark. So much stuff can and will most likely happen. So that should be an indicator that we have more content to come than we've already seen.

As far as I could see the only notable difference is a polished wording/grammar and some scenes added to the light novels ( and pretty art if you can count that ). These scenes are nothing extremely important to the plot though, it seems like they are solely for more character development. So you're absolutely fine to go switch over to the web novels :)

Dante323 said:

Thanks for the fast reply.

ColdBreeze said:

If you can't wait any longer and you want to read a "short" summary of the story (obviously major spoilers) here you go.

abyss333 said:

Wow this is amazing. Im now super excited for the anime. THANKS!!

Fappa said:

Fappa said:
@pido125 If you really want to know, write me a PM. Talking about spoilers here is really bad. By the way I suggest you put a spoiler tag around your comment. So just PM me :)

InuScotty711 said:
Man, usually I try to stay away from spoilers but I was to curious. So, I read them and this took a big twist I wasn't expecting. I don't know if I like it or not but I'm in for the ride.

I wonder how much story is left to be written.

Fappa said:
After around 500 chapters ( ~30 volumes ) the author is only at the halfway mark according to him.

InuScotty711 said:

Holy crap. So I guess this isn't your basic fantasy/adventure. More like a horror/adventure kind of show because some of the stuff is quite dark. Like really dark lol.

JacobValance said:
I'm game as long as there is not a lot of Berserk-esque sexual violence/rape. Someone let me know.

BeBackinaSec said:

There is no rape but there could be so you're safe from that.