This anime really wanted to be something special, and I can to an extent see why people truly did enjoy it, However I didn't enjoy nor like this anime very much. The concept of the story is an Otaku getting sent to another world of sorts without a reason and he spends the entire time trying to protect a pretty witch girl named Emilia from a witch cult to an assassin from the Black Market and all because she was kind to him in the first episode. You see this would be alright to an extent if not for the fact of the core problem of this series, Time Resets by death and this destroys any kind of character growth for all of the characters except for the main character Subaru, thus she has no idea why Subaru loves her so much in the first place. Time Rests can never work because it destroys character development as well as story progression to an extent. There can be no memorable scenes because they will most likely be erased just to be another alternate timeline. The main character is Subaru Natsuki and he is a bad protagonist who is not interested in returning to his home world or trying to figure out why he has this "Return By Death" ability. You would think that he would study the world's history as well as old religious cults to find out exactly why he has return by death, but nope he just spends a lot of his time impressing a bunch of cute girls. Also Subaru is quite unlikable because he holds a grudge against someone named Julius for getting to close to his Miss Emilia, even if by the end of it all He still hates him even if Julius wanted to make amends with Subaru. In an alternate timeline Subaru was going to completely makeup with Julius until it was interrupted, now that kind of insulted me as a viewer. Subaru did manage to gain respect and complete faith in Julius so it wasn't so terrible. Anyway the other main character is Emilia and she is an alright character although I do get bored from time to time with her. Rem is an insane psychopath who murders Subaru in an alternate timeline due to the impression that Subaru might be a spy with the only proof being that he never left the property of the Mansion and hung out all day waiting to protect Miss Emilia from an assassin. So any connection or feelings that I have between Rem and Subaru is just thrown out the window in my opinion. Ram is an okay to mediocre character, although I did enjoy Rem and Ram's flashback as kids. I also enjoyed the Whale Hunting scenes as well as seeing Wilhelm on screen because he is a "Badass" in general even though he is a little too cold for my taste. I also enjoyed Julius who had a good amount of character development from only caring about his position and pride to trying to make amends with an Otaku he had a grudge on him for almost no reason. The OST was bland and forgettable most of the time and the art was decent with a few distracting CGI animals mixed in there. I will only mention the main antagonist once and He is HORRIBLE in every way possible, an insane psychopath just to be an insane psychopath with barely a motivation of his own. Every time I saw him on screen I wanted to twitch my neck and hit my head on the wall just like he did. Another positive I guess is that the second half of the season is of better quality than the first half and all because of one key factor... buildup between seeing Subaru and Miss Emilia finally seeing each other after that intense argument between them in episode 13. There is also a transgender man who cosplays as a cat but that is all I will say on that matter. By the end of the season I guess seeing Subaru tell Miss Emilia his true feelings about her did kind of rub on me in some way because the series hyped up that moment that was eventually going to happen and it somewhat payed off. I will leave it at that and give this anime overall a 4 out of 10.
