Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (light novel)
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| Holy Hell. Poor Subaru. I can only assume a few things about the winter. A) He legit spent months knocked out. B) Either Puck or Emilia made snow fall. I highly think puck because he is more Powerful but he hasn't been around. So, it could be Emilia if she is in a very emotional state. C) Some other entity But damn those rabbits. That entire world is freakin morderous. I felt for Subaru, especially since he has had to keep all this return y death to himself. Maybe next vid will be something similar to a recap of his journey and his experiences. But, they prob won't. |
"Perfection is perception. For me, humanity's imperfections is what makes it perfect"  |
| Wow, I honestly teared up when Subaru told Echidna about RBD. Finally.... Finally. he. can. say. it. I'm so happy he got to tell someone, that he got to utter the words and share his frustrating secret and get some understanding and comfort in return. Although, I have to say, I don't dare trust Echidna just yet. She is the witch of greed after all. Farmaceut said: I know right xD I don't trust ANYTHING in this anime anymore. That includes cute girls, nice guys or promises of friendship or help. If Re:Zero has taught us anything, it's that you never know who or what might kill you until it happens.If this was any other anime i would might be fooled, but not with Re;Zero! Here everything is a enemy. Whales, rabbits, Subaru walking through manor all alone at night. This episode really had me at the edge of my seat, it was over so quickly. It gave us many more details and clues and I'm still racking my brain trying to figure it all out (while loving the mystery) - Roswaal's words and his true goals, who he really is, Beatrice's role in all of this, her contract, her "mother", the different gospels (including the "defect" ones!), who Petelgeuse was to her, who Elsa is working for, the requirements for entering the tea party (twice!), the rabbits and the mysterious snowy landscape (at first I thought Subaru had entered Emilia's trial by accident), the sanctuary's "eyes" in the forest that gave their escape plan away to Garf, Rem's self-interrupted words about who and how important Subaru is to Roswaal, Otto and that gem he was offered by Garf in the previous episode...that scene cut before Otto gave his answer and I'm still not entirely sure we got the whole truth of the matter. Or perhaps we did, seeing what happened to poor Otto this episode. :( And that ED. Aaaah it's so good! Amazing season, AMAZING episode. |
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| Yeah okay death porn we get it. Also Garfiel is such a bore of a character. But Subaru finally getting to talk about his return by death and breaking down like that was pretty big payoff. |
| I have so many questions! (Also, F for Otto.) Are the rabbits gluttony witchfiends like the white whale? Were they part of some barrier trial or did Subaru actually go full-on Wip van Winkle? When Subaru got eaten, did he die and return by death to the normal starting point ('cause he's with Emilia), or did he pass the second trial 'cause Echidna said something about meeting a qualification? Or is her meeting qualification separate from the trials? |
swirlydragon said: Ah yes Echidna. I dunno how Subaru easily trusts people that he just met. Nice episode. Almost no Emilia screentime today :( The scene where the rabbits ate up Subaru was good though i dont know man, but she gives him perks he has nothing to lose here. and he finally can tell someone about the thing that burdening him the most, i mean, it just doesn't matter if she is a bad guy, let him get a little bit of the burden off. this episode was outstanding, just amazing |
| The standard episode, but heck, it was a dark episode unlike any other seen so far in Re:Zero. Subaru's deduction of Roswaal's way of doing things, plus the assumption of Beako being a witch cultist (which Roswaal quickly debunked it). Beatrice being an ally, and Roswaal's figure of speech to Subaru, it's still early to tell who's the real partners and enemies. With Otto's rescue last episode, asshole Garfiel truly is exasperated and not even Ram can stop his rampage if Subaru is to get out of the Sanctuary. His beast mode was ONE HELL of a giant tiger, but Otto, the Arlam villagers and Patrasche's sacrifice was the "be-all, end-all" shudder moment to truly die for. The rabbit scene, the shock factor multiplied and amplified TO THE MAX. I legit teared in dismay of the sheer horror, that was extremely unsettling to see one of Subaru's worst deaths in quite a while. Back to Echidna'a tea party for a 2nd time, Subaru has become more forward with her, creating that Tsundere moment and hilarious conversations. To serious implications, his "Return by Death" method revealed to Echidna, and her embrace of care to Subaru was all it took to be a real tearjerker. This moment is what Echidna stans have been waiting for to claim her as waifu material next to Rem. Truly the teaching of "The Value of Life". Exemplary episode, and HOLY HELL is this one of the best episodes to add to the Re:Zero catalog. |
KANLen09Aug 26, 2020 5:19 PM
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| I hate it when LN readers tell me "you're gonna love the echidona" and i feel utterly defeated because indeed, i loved her from the beginning, but holy shit, I know I'm simping really hard but that gal is 2 steps away for entering my top 10 anime characters (after 2k+ animes its not that usual for a 12 cour character to enter) but man...the rabbits, guess the guy is not going to make any more snow rabbits after that |
| Being a fan is like having a penis. Its nice to be proud of it But don't pull it out in public and wave it in other's faces Kyurem Black. Kyurem White. Together they are Pretty Kyurem. |
 Holy shit that death was probably the most fucked up so far. It seems Subaru is just getting poblems piled on problems.. First the Mansion, then Garfield and now murder Rabbits...guess he won't be doing the remaining trials anytime soon. At least we got some valuable info. Beako is not an enemy. Those markings on the rabbits are pretty similar to what the White Whale had, I wonder if there is a connection. Satella's influence doesn't reach Echidna's place. Maybe because it's taking place in Subaru's mind to some extent? Still at least he was finally able to talk about his ability with someone, that should restore more of his sanity now. |
| Was that serious? This episode was simply perfect! A mix of badass rage moment, horror, comedy and a bunch of drama in the end, loved it xD |
The moment the penny suddenly dropped, i was: FINALLY HE DID In fact i was wanting him to say it the 1st time he met Equidona. Not only, i wanted Subaru used the "I cannot tell that i RbD because you will die" to actually KILL some enemies, why not? |
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| That was a crazy episode! Never imagined we'd see a death by bunny attack in this series. lol |
| This is probably the best episode by far. The whole episode kind of felt like watching a movie. And the ending with Subaru crying out of relief was really well written and expressed, and the OST gave me chills. |
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| Really good episode 5/5. The rabbit scene was very disturbing D: Anyone know the OST name played in the last few mins? |
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| Poor Subaru holy frick. He just can't catch a break. New friend? Nope, dead. Someone you thought might be good? Nope, giant tiger who kills indiscriminately. Then, of course, the rabbits. The rabbits, oh no please no. Having read the web novels I didn't expect this episode to have that much of an impact on me, but... the voice acting, the camera angles, close ups, everything made this absolutely horrible in the best way. Echidna shows up and saves Subaru from mentally breaking though, so that's cool. |
gooseduckgooseAug 26, 2020 5:41 PM
| Holy...this episode...I swear, Re:Zero is incredible at riding a fine line between suffer porn and wholesome. Keeps me so engaged, but my gosh is it emotionally exhausting. The scene with Echidna this episode...my heart. He finally got to tell someone and the anguish he felt, I felt so bad for him. And yeah, her character makes her motive for wanting him to open up to her not exactly altruistic, but she really is amazing for letting him tell her stuff and caring about him even a little. |
Is Blue Box my favorite manga? Not yet...Yes. Yes it is.  |
oh frick thanks for letting me know |
| Thus why I believe RE:Zero is one of the best Isekai ever. The emotional impact, emotional investment, characters dynamic are all way too powerful. The setting and plot is also extremely intriguing and you'd always be excited what happen next without able to guess what'd happen. Every casts are extremely flashed out, even the random villagers is pretty memorable. The author of RE:Zero took everything good about arc 2 and arc 3 and pile them all up on arc 4. Also RE:Zero is probably one of the very few light novel authors I've seen that execute the theory of Butterfly Effect so flawlessly. Each arc, the sequence of event happened differently because the mentality of Subaru changes after each return from death. For example, in the first cycle of arc 4, Garfiel trusted Subaru because all his action are genuine and without any ulterior motives. He genuinely cared about everyone, including Emilia. However in the 3rd cycle , Subaru mentality changes because now his goal is to get information/ use people around him to achieve his goal of saving everyone in the mansion. When Subaru acted like that, especially not acting in a way that genuinely care about Emilia, people around him notice too. This includes Garfiel, thus why he completely distrust Subaru , believing he must be connected to witch cult in the 3rd cycle. It is all those little things that make RE:Zero such a good watch. |
Ventus_SAug 26, 2020 5:47 PM
Ventus_S said: Thus why I believe RE:Zero is one of the best Isekai ever. The emotional impact, emotional investor, character dynamic is way too powerful. The setting and plot is also extremely intriguing and you'd always be excited what happen next without able to guess what'd happen. Every casts are extremely flashed out, even the random villagers is pretty memorable. The author of RE:Zero took everything good about arc 2 and arc 3 and pile them all up on arc 4. Also RE:Zero is probably one of the very few light novel authors I've seen that execute the theory of Butterfly Effect so flawlessly. Each arc, the sequence of event happened differently because the mentality of Subaru changes after each return from death. For example, in the first cycle of arc 4, Garfiel trusted Subaru because all his action are genuine and without any ulterior motives He genuinely care about everyone, including Emilia. However in the 3rd cycle , Subaru mentality changes because now hiss goal is to get information/ use people around him to achieve his goal of saving everyone in the mansion. When Subaru acted like that, especially not acting in a way that genuinely care about Emilia, people around him notice too. This includes Garfiel, thus why he completely distrust Subaru , believing he must be connected to witch cult in the 3rd cycle. It is all those little things that make RE:Zero such a good watch. Absolutely. Everything about how the characters are written, the plot, and of course - subaru - makes this my favorite anime / webnovel / light novel series of all time. I just can't get bored of it. |
| My god, I need the name of the OST at the end Had similar vibes to that one OST in ep 15 Finally someone Subaru can say those words to... been waiting for 4 years, finally lol |
 "You... are truly slothful!" |
gappasaurus said: Is it wrong that the whole time Subaru was i couldn’t stop laughing, because all i could think of was The Beast of Caerbannog 😄 That's wronggg lolol. I shouldn't have laughed. I'm going to hell. Wow this episode was intense. Even after drinking Echidina's juices, he finally broke down and so did I. Does anyone know if the rabbits has any other meaning? It's not supposed to be a representation of any other characters (i.e. pink horned Ram) right? |
fullofregrets09 said: AbsurdTurk said: How was he, "not there" in episode 16? @fullofregrets09 That's...now exactly how insanity works though. Firstly, there are different forms of insanity. In Subaru's case, it appeared like he went insane in the sense that he wasn't able to be aware of what was happening around him. But he was, as the anime points out. Evidenced by him becoming furious when Betelgeuse started torturing Rem. I mean, I think it's because it's not as fast paced and dramatic as season 1: it's just one big arc. You make a good point. Honestly, four years ago, that’s how I saw it. I saw Subaru acting like he was mentally broken for pity points. He wanted someone to see his pain, someone to feel sorry for him, someone to know what he was going through. He was aware of everything that was being said and everything that was happening, made apparent when he went into a rage screaming Petelgeuse’s name that he shouldn’t have know had he been unaware. So he put on this act. But I can also see the other side saying that Betelgeuse is so overly crazy, and so obsessed with not being slothful, that he sees everyone else’s insanity as tame in comparison. It could also be his ego, his pride in his own insanity talking. I don’t know what to think anymore lol. Not quite. He definitely broke episode 14. Although I don't know where the heck the tweet is, the author noted that when Betelguese was saying Subaru was "faking" his insanity he was basically him calling Subaru a scrub at being insane. Kinda funny. I'll look for the source for this, and show it to you guys when I can |
gooseduckgoose said: fullofregrets09 said: You make a good point. Honestly, four years ago, that’s how I saw it. I saw Subaru acting like he was mentally broken for pity points. He wanted someone to see his pain, someone to feel sorry for him, someone to know what he was going through. He was aware of everything that was being said and everything that was happening, made apparent when he went into a rage screaming Petelgeuse’s name that he shouldn’t have know had he been unaware. So he put on this act. But I can also see the other side saying that Betelgeuse is so overly crazy, and so obsessed with not being slothful, that he sees everyone else’s insanity as tame in comparison. It could also be his ego, his pride in his own insanity talking. I don’t know what to think anymore lol. Not quite. He definitely broke episode 14. Although I don't know where the heck the tweet is, the author noted that when Betelguese was saying Subaru was "faking" his insanity he was basically him calling Subaru a scrub at being insane. Kinda funny. I'll look for the source for this, and show it to you guys when I can Betelguese is the true expert of being a madman. What he's doing is calling Subaru an amatuer for acting like a madman XDD. |
| well unless Echidna turns out to be some big baddie she just fast tracked her way to the top that ending was a huge payoff right after one of the most random brutal deaths all i can think was why?? is this happening ,not sure if we'll see what the context of that bad ending timeline so much had change and he was left alive for who knows how long didn't think Subaru would be able to tell someone before the end lol couldn't help but want to give the poor guy a hug after suffering alone (for real if it wasn't for Echidna i don't know how he would have kept his sanity at this point) were now at the 4th reset how bad is this scent gonna fuck things up time to B line it the way out of there |
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| Fucking rabbits. This episode was insane. I really am loving Echidna's character. Because of her Subaru finally got a LOAD off his chest. I was so satisfied on how Subaru said "I can return by death" repeatedly. Fucking love that scene. This season is already far better than the first in my opinion. 5/5 episode |
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LOUDERRR!!! I just love her voice so much and the characters given to her are just so fcking great. |
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| I think that was quintessential Re:Zero- a gruesome and horrible sequence followed by an equally gruesome death, then something so incredibly pure... damn. That's what this series is all about. |
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| Good episode. Echidna is already my second most favorite character's of the show behind E.M.T, Maaya Sakamoto doing her so much justice. I don't think I followed the rabbit scene, why did it happen? Why did the season change? Why were those things there? Will they be explained? Subaru finally able to let his heart out. Echidna totally called him out on the fact that he would start crying after he got it out which I thought was amusing since it actually happened. |
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| Echidna best girl |
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| Another amazing episode. I was real worried Subaru's spawn point was gonna update after he was teleported, the way everyone kept saving him and pushing him back almost made it seem like it would. I knew something was up with the rabbit the second it appeared, I've seen too many cute little innocent rabbits turn out to be blood thirsty animals haha Part of me still doesn't trust Echidna, I mean she is a witch right? Idk, I just feel like shes still a evil character we just haven't seen yet. But seeing Subaru FINALLY be able to talk about his Return by Death, it was great. So happy for him these past two episodes, he finally had someone tell him they are friends and he was able to talk about what he has been going through since episode 1. Watching week by week is painful. Can't wait for next episode, gonna rewatch this one now. |
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anime-prime said: That being said, it was still enjoyable and we got a few more pieces of the puzzle, although the rabbit scene was a little too ridiculous, even for anime standards. I wouldn't say that rabbit scene was ridiculous, but moreover, it exhibited to how the aftermath of context prior to the time had shown when the antagonistic side occupied everything to put their mabeasts around the atmosphere of the Sanctuary. However, it is still stayed questionable to how the antagonists already plotted for this at the beginning, but the abrupt winter is the clue of its time-skip. Rabbit Scene is, overall, an excellent job of the suspenseful exhibition of "fear of the unknown". If you pay attention to the horns, you'll know what it means for the twist. |
HanashiD4Aug 26, 2020 8:28 PM
 "You don't get it, a million sorry's is not equal to one thank you." — Emilia |
| - Otto's death was completely predictable after the huge Death Flag from last episode. - But something was really odd. Garfield blood rage looked out of place, because until that moment there was no reason to see him as a villain. But anyway, it is not the 1st time it happens in the series, just need to remember Rem. - And the Monty Python Bunnies was COMPLETELY RANDOM. It was the most fool and (until this point at least), pointless and meaningless death of Subaru. Even more than his death to the muggers in the 1st arc. - If i may guess what happened: 1. Subaru was teleported again by the stone the same way that happened when he crossed the barrier, but we know that it is not automatic, so someone from inside the Sanctuary induced it. 2. The barrier was not released (at this point i believe that ALL the Arc 4 will be only about the Sanctuary and the trials, since this 1st half of the arc will just find a solution, if much, to the tragedy at the Mansion). 3. If the barrier was not released, why nobody is around? Simple, they become Demon Bunny's food, sure. Look at the numbers of that plague! 4. And what are that gore Bunnies? I strongly guess they are result of some SUICIDE strategy by the Sanctuary Faction (cough.. "White R..." ahem...) that don't want the barrier to be released. Now i'm going to read the Light Novel until the point of the revelation of the end of this episode. Hope something can be more clear without to need to advance in the story. |
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| The quality in the episode stepped up quite a bit. Definitely one of the best episodes this season. |
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