How do they butcher the dialogue so much?

Gilgameshuu said:
Go ahead and blame the guy who did the script, he made things too confusing, and also the Crunchyroll translators for mistranslating some lines and furthering the confusion.

LightVelox said:
I was kinda curious to see how different the novels were to the anime and i remember one of the most common criticisms were about the dialogue being weird and boring(for anime-onlies) and some people even said Tappei was bad at writing dialogue, so i went to the Arc 4 finale on the novels and just lol, the dialogue is like 15 times better, i get it that it's also 15 times bigger so it would take like half an episode for every conversation but how did they butcher the dialogue that much? Subaru especially even feels more mature by the way he talks, Emilia was also more serious and less "innocent derpy" like in the anime, Roswaal seemed more impacted by his talk with Beattrice and many more things.
I just hope that since Arc 5 is way smaller than Arc 4 they can adapt the dialogues without changing much of it, cause that's really one of my only complaints about this season in comparison to s1

Nickmgic said:

Is the Anime dialogue just bad in comparison to the light novels or do people genuinely think the anime dialogue is trash? Because I’m and anime only and I don’t think it’s bad... it’s not anything special, not the best part of the show, but I don’t see how it ruins the show for people.

Nickmgic said:

Is the Anime dialogue just bad in comparison to the light novels or do people genuinely think the anime dialogue is trash? Because I’m and anime only and I don’t think it’s bad... it’s not anything special, not the best part of the show, but I don’t see how it ruins the show for people.

LightVelox said:

the anime dialogue isn't trash, but it feels weird, it doesn't look like a real conversation it's kinda generic, while in the novels everything flows naturally, the dialogues make more sense, feel real and show the characters's personalities better, Subaru especially has better dialogue, he doesn't feel like someone "lost" in everything like in most of the anime's chats

Jim_Heart said:
They should just cut those stupid dialogues (most of them at least), because surely that is not the strength of ReZero (an anime only here).
S1 was so much better (at least as far as I remember), I honestly don't understand why people praise this S2 too much to the point said that S1 is not good in comparison.

Gilgameshuu said:

I have the opposite opinion, I don't know what people see in Season 1 that makes it better or even on par with Season 2 which is far better in terms of story, character progression, mysteries and world/history building. Season 1 has better and more consistent animation and you may have enjoyed it more and I can understand that, but Season 2 blows Season 1 out of the water from a writing perspective. Things don't just happen randomly and are properly explained and fleshed out, everything comes full circle at the end of the Season, the story starts to focus more on other characters and not just Subaru alone, there are a lot of things that make Season 2 better than Season 1, these are just some of the things that come to mind.

Jim_Heart said:

I probably should rewatch entire anime later to make more solid argument.
But some things I remember from S1 is it actually has more mystery feels than S2, again I don't understand why most people just realize this in S2, we heard the name of Satella and her mysterious connection with Emilia since earlier episodes of S1 for example.
But my biggest complain with this anime is it's become more like a battle shonen with those nonsense talk no jutsu. S1 in comparison feels more like a thrilling video game where we don't have clear idea how to solve the parts but we keep trying and trying.
I remember that Rem's arc in the middle of S1 was also quite boring though, but I enjoyed the beginning and the last arc in S1.

Atlos said:
I doubt the dialogue was butchered if it is this bad

QcDiablo said:

Well you didn't read the novels so you can't really tell.

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I personally didn't think it was butchered per-say but it definitely did lost the flow it had in the novels. I also think it was a notch too overexcited in the anime compared to the calmer tone in the novels and it made it a little cringier.

DiceYJ said:


Wow! even the haters know more about Re:zero than the fans. We must believe what the haters said!!!

Atlos said:
What are you trying to say? I've watched enough shitty light novel adaptations to be able to pick up these things

Atlos said:
While it might have been worse in the anime I don't think it is good in the novel, while I haven't read it I can make a fairly educated guess

Atlos said:
While it might have been worse in the anime I don't think it is good in the novel, while I haven't read it I can make a fairly educated guess

LightVelox said:
I was kinda curious to see how different the novels were to the anime and i remember one of the most common criticisms were about the dialogue being weird and boring(for anime-onlies) and some people even said Tappei was bad at writing dialogue, so i went to the Arc 4 finale on the novels and just lol, the dialogue is like 15 times better, i get it that it's also 15 times bigger so it would take like half an episode for every conversation but how did they butcher the dialogue that much? Subaru especially even feels more mature by the way he talks, Emilia was also more serious and less "innocent derpy" like in the anime, Roswaal seemed more impacted by his talk with Beattrice and many more things.
I just hope that since Arc 5 is way smaller than Arc 4 they can adapt the dialogues without changing much of it, cause that's really one of my only complaints about this season in comparison to s1

flack said:
This season was just cringe. Especially the dialogue. The character interactions and reactions felt very very unnatural to me. There was no sense of urgency at all, and it has lost it's intense suspense.

flack said:
This season was just cringe. Especially the dialogue. The character interactions and reactions felt very very unnatural to me. There was no sense of urgency at all, and it has lost it's intense suspense.

Rojaseb said:
Well we read the translation of some crunchyroll guy we don't know lmao so I think criticizing the written quality of dialogues is a little bit beyond our scope

Maybe someone who speaks Japanese could confirm. I remember season 1 dialogues being lovely most of the time and I watched the bluray.