Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (light novel)
Which part of S2 did you like the most?
| Both felt underwhelming, compared to Season 1, and had pacing issues. After my friend told me how the scenes I disliked felt like in the light novel, it was just sad to hear how anime turned some emotional and important for the lore moments into hmm... dull pulp, lol. That being said, I enjoyed the second part more. It felt more consistent and richer in different types of content. |
| Preferred season 1 imo, feels its lost itself the longer its gone on. If i had to choose ig part 1 of season 2. |
| Dang those revelations and actions 2nd part was like godshit |
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Adnash said:
Both felt underwhelming, compared to Season 1, and had pacing issues. After my friend told me how the scenes I disliked felt like in the light novel, it was just sad to hear how anime turned some emotional and important for the lore moments into hmm... dull pulp, lol. That being said, I enjoyed the second part more. It felt more consistent and richer in different types of content.
Both felt underwhelming, compared to Season 1, and had pacing issues. After my friend told me how the scenes I disliked felt like in the light novel, it was just sad to hear how anime turned some emotional and important for the lore moments into hmm... dull pulp, lol. That being said, I enjoyed the second part more. It felt more consistent and richer in different types of content.
That’s bit of a reach. I would like some explaination to why those scenes weren’t the same as the light novel.
| @Buny0058 I didn't read the light novel myself, so my opinion on it relies fully on what I heard from the aforementioned friend of mine. I'm also too lazy to write down everything he said about anime vs. LN in terms of this show, but I remember him mentioning how anime prolonged irrelevant scenes with Emilia and Subaru instead of focusing on the better portrayal of what they were meant to show. I don't watch moe and it's been a while since I saw Re:Zero Season 2, but it was about that scene with Subaru and Emilia in that temple, talking and sort of confessing to each other. It felt as if the scene itself was washed out of strong emotions and too stretched in the anime. When he shared a fragment with the very same scene as it was portrayed in the LN, then damn, it was thrice times better than what I saw in the anime. Clearly shown emotions, subtle narration, decent pacing, expressions that were not as strongly depicted in the show (despite it having more convenient format to do it, through art and animation). Funny enough, he also kinda complained about some Re:Zero fans jumping on him for saying that the source material handled it great, while the anime was just alright. Welp, different strokes for different folks, as they say. As for me, like I said, the anime was fine, objectively speaking. Just to me, it felt underwhelming, compared to the first season and compared to what my friend, who is a fan of this franchise, told me after hearing my first thoughts after finishing watching the second season. That's all. |
AdnashMay 27, 12:23 AM
| Both parts are amazing so it’s hard to pick one over the other. |
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Both felt underwhelming, compared to Season 1, and had pacing issues. After my friend told me how the scenes I disliked felt like in the light novel, it was just sad to hear how anime turned some emotional and important for the lore moments into hmm... dull pulp, lol. That being said, I enjoyed the second part more. It felt more consistent and richer in different types of content.
| @Adnash As a (web)novel reader I see where you're coming from, even though I really enjoyed seeing my favourite arc adapted into anime. I read the WN of Arc 4 back then (not the LN) and was initially ravaged to see the LN cuts (not the anime cuts). The LN cut literally 35% of the word count of Arc 4 over the WN and my personal least favorite scenes of season 2 are caused by the LN changes. While apparently this lead to better pacing, the strength of that arc lies in its extensive emotional and psychological descriptions. It was for that reason that it (Arc 4 WN) was considered the best Re:Zero Arc to date back then and is still amongst the fan favorites. That said, there was no way the anime would have been able find ways to adapt all the psychological descriptions. They were incredibly verbose and nuanced enough that without actually having them explicitely told to you (general you), you wouldn't notice most of it. The pandemic was the nail on the coffin and caused the already slow arc to feel incredibly static. With what we (readers) know of season 3 (the arcs themselves and the state of the studio), the issue is probably behind us at this point. The author's writing has slowly evolved to be a little less verbose (arc 4 was the worst at this) but more vivid in a way. The future seasons should have less and less trouble transcribing the emotions into animation. |
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