And what do those kinds of slice of life anime have in common to this one? Yes, they spend most of their earliest episode, throughout half of the series on character development, representing each of the character's flaws, building up a relationship and so forth. That's the author's way of writing his stories, and it's pretty innovative when he applies it to a dark generic story about a weak hero trying to protect someone. But some may not like this kind of writing style if you're one of those people who overvalue one's beliefs over another. When you know exactly that these ideas are never to be confused with an apodictic truth, or an absolute one. But hey, the anime did pick it up its intensities after those expositions have been over with, and when Subaru finally made it into the mansion. And some may be mentioned that the setting of doing everything all over again from the start, because of some random death is a pretty lame ass facet to stagnate the plot line, and the story progression. But have you ever heard of an anime that's trying to input the realism of this scenario in any anime other than Stein;gate? Well, they're different anime, Stein;gate has to deals with paradoxes and cheating universal laws to repeat the MC's horrible mistakes and to the very end in a temporary good end before the near dark future.
But Re:zero's application was more of a video game, rather than actually dealing with those paradoxical shit. So it may seem similar to any of those time travel anime. But for this case, Re:zero have absolutely nothing to do with any of that shit. Since checkpoints in this anime are more video game logic depended, than it's following a time travel logic of space and time.
And now some may question, "does the conversation that Subaru have with anyone in this story pointless?" Most of their dialogue is consists of Subaru trying to gain trust from the maids (by having a conversation or spending time together), being lecture by experienced people about the responsibility (Crusch and all of the other ones) and the hard work that's required to mature, or to know exactly what's it that you desire for sure (in this case, I wanna kill someone because I hate them, so I will use an excuse of wanting to protect someone just to get that achieved). I personally never sees their conversation as being"pointless" when this anime is nothing like one of those typical slices of life anime. And I personally feel strongly that the idea of debasing an anime by calling it out as being "cliche" is one heck of an ignorant thing to say. All Hollywood movies I have seen follow the same cliche, and typical plot structure, setting, themes, and even the fucking characters (like that 1 dude that fight against 1000 dudes with a machine gun and rekt em all somehow). Including any other animes out there.
But all of that aside, I'll have to admit that I was not really a big fan of this anime while watching the beginning of the episodes. But for some reason, I was able to watch it through because of the unique characters that some may call them as "bland" when they're fucking weird as fuck with their attires, personality, voice acting and shit lmao. I don't even know what's your definition of bland anymore if you asserted that these kinds of anime character in this show is in fact is.
Take for instances, Emilia, the girl who will put you in her friendzone even if you're trying to imply that you love her with a very clear indication of it, wanting to spend time with her by wanting to go on a date, or even trying to flatter her with all your might. Rem and Ram, the two maids within this fantasy world that I haven't seen at all I any anime that have those kinds of maid like characters in any fantasies anime. There may be, but it's not as typical for a fantasy RPG like setting to have. And I could go on and on here. But you get my point.
This anime isn't bad at all. I personally fall in love with a lot of characters within the show (aside from fucking SUBARU OF FUCKING COURSE). And the reasons for those pretentious, sounding characters to sound so fucking pretentious to you is because you haven't actually acknowledged that person, or that character, or possibly anyone without the proper status for you to take them seriously. And that's normal. But most of that pretentious behavior from em support characters are meant to say shit to make Subaru realises his flaws, his misconception of selfish desires over protecting someone, being a sore loser like the attitude that should be fixed. And Subaru is dense and deluded as fuck too. So it took him like 16 episodes for that to get him to turn into a mentally strong MC, that's powerless. While isn't all that strange because I have met someone like that in real life before. Even on the fucking internet lmao.
All of that aside, Subaru is more of a general, tactician, or leader; rather than your typical super powerful, friendship like power kinda MC that protects and out power everyone in the show. But really, this anime is pretty good later on after a couple of boring episodes explaining the setting, MC falling in love with the heavenly beautiful dream elf girl, character interactions (which is still kinda fun to see) and so forth. But this anime is fucking entertaining man. And they show didn't use violence for the sake of violence btw. It's just to show that death is a terrifying thing, and that's why our MC will not kill himself off just to redo every single mistake that he makes. just to show some realism into the show itself. Or just to make our MC to finally give in to the realisation that he's weak af, and he should fucking embrace it like a man and grow the fuck up. But nonetheless, the artwork looks pretty cool, detailed, and em background art is amazing. The voice acting is pretty awesome as well (well it's their occupation lmao). But anyway, check it out before assuming that it's shit. It's not a masterpiece, but still a pretty great, and innovative in the writing of the show.
P.S (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA-ijHB9LNc) This is the author himself, who give "Son Wukong" An anime live reactor a notice and a gift to him, and that would be all the Re:zero novel up to the current release, shirts, posters wtih everything autographed lmao.This was after a twitter DMs, and he even shares this "Son Wukong" live reaction of his anime to his twitter because he "enjoys it". Even the animation staff and watannabe director of Re:zero even watch it too lmao. Tappei Nagatsuki is the fucking man lmao
