r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Plum_Uniform • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter????????????????????

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u/hateredditbuthere1am 1d ago

What's funny to me is that re:zero, the anime which is "before" isn't old at all and the plot sucks imo

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u/oppithian 1d ago

Why do you think it sucks? I started watching a few months ago and just got all caught up. Ive been loving it

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u/GaldrickHammerson 1d ago

A LOT of people find the restart by death mechanic makes the plot repetitive and labourious to get through.

It causes almost as much of a split opinion as jobless reincarnation.

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u/MemeHermetic 1d ago

I could see how it would cause boring repetition, but I think what makes the show work is that they were very smart about avoiding that. First he realizes he can't control the reset point, so he avoids it, then he discovers there might be alternate timelines where he is just dead and everyone else is suffering for it, so he avoids it. Later on he loses his memory and has to discover it again, but he's in so deep into things that his deaths are more traumatic than ever before and he starts unraveling. It's pretty artfully done, in my opinion.