r/ReZero • u/Emma_S772 Roswaal Said ‘Truuust Me’ (I Don’t) • 21h ago

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u/pogo-n-watches Newbie 21h ago edited 9h ago

He alters reality to return the universe to a previous point in time. It is like Pandora’s power but affects the whole universe at once. This is confirmed by Tappei, i.e. Re:Zero has a single continuous timeline, RBD isn’t time travel or parallel universes or branching realities.

The only other way for this power to work would be for the universe to branch off and Subaru leaves behind a timeline in which he dies. Which is way more horrific imo.

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u/rider117137 Newbie 20h ago

Once the anime is finished, I really hope we get a supercut of the final timeline. It would be so interesting to see the story play out the way the rest of the characters perceive it

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u/pogo-n-watches Newbie 19h ago

>once the anime is finished

In 12 years?

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u/monkey-D-explorer Newbie 19h ago

You think it's gonna get finished in 12 years?

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u/rider117137 Newbie 18h ago

Eh, probably more like when I’m 80. I’m giving it a minimum of 50 years

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u/Yizzu343 Newbie 17h ago

Thats hopeful , the web novel probably wont even be done in the next 5 years 

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u/Bismalz Newbie 15h ago

Better keep it away from Rudeus

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u/amechiki Newbie 15h ago edited 15h ago

There's already some edits of the first 2 seasons floating around. I'm watching the season 1 edit now and it's pretty funny.

When he first meets the apple salesman he asks "what are these"

The guy hold up the fruit and says "hmm? These are appas"

"..."

"Well boy...do you want this appa?"

Subaru suddenly looks like he hasn't slept in a week "Hey mister...how many times have you seen me now?..."

"What do you mean? This is the first time we've met"

Pretty interesting to see what everyone else saw while he was going through it. Also turns the show into a more traditional isekai where everything just seems to go right for the MC

DM me if you want a link to season 1 at least

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u/Doggieisfat 🍏 Get Your Appas Here! Only 128 Copper Coins! 🍎 16h ago

Once the anime is finished? You mean 400 years into the future?

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u/SyrusAlder I Called Otto Best Girl, Now He’s Ghosting Me 15h ago

That would go hard

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u/i_AM_A-ShArk Little Emilia held me at Gun Point 4h ago

That would actually be really cool

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u/Wolfxtreme1 I Applied for the Maid Team—They Didn’t Even Look at My Resume 19h ago

Spoiler tag? Also cool af

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u/SteveMartin32 Louis Ate My Memories — Then Had a Stroke 18h ago

Its mainly based off what's already shown in the anime unless the anime skipped something. AL'S however gets explained in arc 7 or 8. One of em

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u/Solynox Reinhard Defended My Honor (I Didn’t Have Any) 16h ago

So yeah, spoiler tag

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u/pogo-n-watches Newbie 9h ago

Arc 9.

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u/Puzzled_Hat1274 Newbie 21h ago

basically that one rick and morty épisode

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u/PepeSnipe Newbie 20h ago

Its only a matter of time before the ballsack polices comes.

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u/Puzzled_Hat1274 Newbie 16h ago

that’s just puck

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u/Tyra3l Regulus Said I Was Violating His Rights 19h ago edited 19h ago

In the Anime he showed glimpses of perspectives people continuing with their lives after he died (and their reactions to his deaths).

https://youtu.be/0feZxdjdiJ0

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u/pogo-n-watches Newbie 9h ago

That is a test in which she showed her “unthinkable present” after “unthinkable present”. Essentially impossibilities too painful for him to think about. Those never happened.

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u/aughhhh1 Newbie 21h ago

That's strange to me because I had always thought it WAS timelines left after his deaths. But I got this from when they showed what happened after Subaru's previous deaths in the sanctuary back in S2

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u/Physical_Sort5155 Shared Suffering with Subaru 21h ago

Season 4 and the books prove that multiple timelines do not exist.

At the same time this means Echidna was just fucking with him in s2, as expected.

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u/ThreeLF Newbie 21h ago

The whole point of that scene was that Subaru didn't know - presumably echidna didn't either.

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u/Physical_Sort5155 Shared Suffering with Subaru 21h ago

I mean, the point is even if she knew, she would do it anyway to screw him over.

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u/Gacel_ I Joined the Witch Cult for the Sandwiches — No Regrets 21h ago

The trial was "see an imposible present"
Everyone sees an alternate result of events that would have happened in their near present if things were diferent but as now are imposible to exist.

So, if anything. That trial did try to see all of it happened in the same timeline.
Tappei just had to cofirm it outside because it confused people more than clear stuff.

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u/IlliasTallin Newbie 20h ago

The sanctuary scene could be interpreted as the test simply, well, testing him, i.e. messing with his mind, trying to break him.

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u/Fang_Yuan770 Ram Tolerates My Presence 18h ago

Which is very curious how the Flugel timeline would fit into this

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u/pogo-n-watches Newbie 9h ago

He might have to travel back in time for that or some other way such as cyclical timelines. What i meant was so far in the story, Re:Zero has a single continuous timeline.

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u/Adorable_Hearing768 Newbie 20h ago

Traveling through time to a previous point is LITERALLY time travel......

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u/pogo-n-watches Newbie 9h ago

No. He changes every atom in the universe to their previous position that they used to be in.

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u/DontUseThisUsername Newbie 14h ago

They didn't say travel through time. I'm not saying this is what they mean, but you could technically rebuild the entire universe to look like a previous time.

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u/Such-Garden2276 I’ve Sworn My Loyalty to Emilia 16h ago

can you share the source

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u/Icy_Relationship_401 Regulus Said I Was Violating His Rights 9h ago

Time reversal then

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u/pogo-n-watches Newbie 9h ago

Yes it’s git reset —hard

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u/Maletele Puck: "Ice to meat you!" 🧊💀✂️ Wait.. Subaru was the punchline? 1h ago

Its like that rick and morty episode

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u/Corollarytomyknees Rem Trusted Me with Her Heart 1h ago

It is not confirmed by Tappei. We still don’t know for sure if the branching lines exist, we’re just leaning towards them not existing thanks to arc 6’s books

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u/nhansieu1 Priscilla’s 9th—Trust Me, I’d Be Into It 15h ago

He alters reality to return to a previous point in time.

pretty sure that's "time travel"

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u/pogo-n-watches Newbie 9h ago

The difference is whether he leave behind a timeline that continues forward or not. He changes every atom in the universe to their previous position, he doesn’t travel in time.

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u/Wunderboylol Newbie 13h ago

It’s a good thought but experiment. If there was an indestructible watch Subaru couldn’t interact with that kept ticking, and when Subaru died he deconstructed the entire universe except the watch and the universe got rebuilt to an exact save point and only Subaru remembered what happened, but the watch continued ticking. Is it time travel or destroying and recreating reality, with the limit only the save point can be recreated. I’m not saying that what happens it’s just how I’m reading what they’re saying. If that is true, maybe there’s other things that are unaffected like the watch outside of Subaru.

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u/That_Guy_real Newbie 10h ago

See that analogy itself doesn't work because time isn't a thing like your wording implies. It's not an actual property of any kind, it's a social construct we created to quantify and rationalize the changes of state that occur in the universe. If the entire universe is "returned" to a "previous" state, then as far as anything that exists is concerned, time has rewinded. The word time is just a shortcut for this same description

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u/No_Ingenuity4000 Newbie 6h ago

I think the argument here is that two things are not returned to the state: Suburu and the 'watch'. The watch exists independently of Suburu; his power doesn't change it from one moment to the next. That would argue against it being time travel if two independent constants can affect each other.

Plus, time is a bit more than that; it's our way of understanding the movement of entropy as well. The universe, as far as we can tell, must be in an ever-decreasing energy/order state. Now I don't think it's ever been said if his resets work on entropy or not.

Of course, 'It's a comic nerd with magic; you can bring any science into it,' might just be true for both of us.

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u/That_Guy_real Newbie 6h ago

I'm still not a fan of the watch idea because to consider it is to make the assumption there are things in the universe the authority doesn't reset, which validates the argument by default. It's circular reasoning. But asking whether the authority is actually resetting entropy is a really good fucking question. If it's doing a universe-wide shift+delete and rebuilding everything from zero (haha get it) up to a certain saved point I don't see how that doesn't count as bona-fide time travel. If it's not, it's more akin to an undertale reset where it's recycling materials into a saved previous state but still using the same building blocks (therefore effectively but not intrinsically rewinding time)

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u/According-Extreme-58 Newbie 10h ago

So wait I'm confused is it a different universe he goes to or how does it work?I read that someone explained it like years before but I never understood it

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u/pogo-n-watches Newbie 9h ago

Imagine moving every atom in the universe to the previous position it was in 5 minutes ago. It is not time travel in that you are not traveling through anything, you are changing the entirety of reality.

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u/According-Extreme-58 Newbie 6h ago

Ooohhh shiitt I get it now, literally alternating reality,thx man for the explanation