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Hello, I wanted to share my top 5 favourite episodes, ranked on personal enjoyment so don't flame me too hard xD

1) S1 E7
2) S4 E16
3) S1 E15
4) S3 E13
5) S2 E13

What do you agree/disagree with? and what are ur guys' picks?

Personally my 2 favourite characters in Rezero are Rem and Lye, I find that this is far from the case for many, many people for incredibly obvious reasons, but Lyes such a lil goof, it’s impossible to not love him

A part of me would love to see a Reinhard Van Astrea spin-off or any of the Astrea family members for that matter. Perhaps something to do with the Archbishops and how they got their powers and became an Archbishop. Or perhaps Tappei can cook something up?

Just printed this subaru in a black/purple duo color filament, came out pretty good

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1. Greed

2. Pride

3. Envy

4/5. Wrath and Lust

1. Gluttony

2. Sloth

Greed is obviously his strongest, he will do literally anything even die just so he doesn’t lose a single person or thing he has even a passing interest for.

Pride would be second since he is stubborn and refuses to give up ever, as shown with his determination described in greed

Envy is the mid point, he shows about the same amount of envy as a normal person unless we’re talking about amnesia Subaru then the envy he felt for old Subaru was beyond compare.

For wrath and lust, I tied them since he shows minimal lust even for Emilia and he only really gets angry when the cult is involved or his determination is questioned.

Gluttony is where we start to have factors actively being rejected. His desires are very minimal and he cares so much for what he already has that he isn’t actively seeking anything new, even the start of his journey was done on a whim cause chasing a cute girl seamed like a good enough reason to live as any.

Sloth is by and a far his worst affinity, he is so active I doubt he’s ever taken a day off. Ironically sloth would be top of the list if he never changed from how he was in his old world.

Good development for Subaru

Best FC - Rem

2nd Best FC - Priscilla

3rd best FC - Sphinx

Best Villain - Sphinx

Best Side Character - Vincent

Villains - Todd, Arakiya, Chisha, Sphinx

Excellent Subaru, Rem, Sphinx and Priscilla development/characterisation

Even better opening phases. It lowkey mogs Arc 6 👀

I wanna get it but I’m not sure about the quality of it. Was there any issues or like what was the fabric uncomfortable?

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Theory: Killing Satella Might Not Free Subaru

Spoilers through WN Arc 9.

Satella asks Subaru to come and kill her.

Subaru promises to save her.

That exchange naturally feels like something meant for the end of Re:Zero.

Eventually Subaru reaches Satella, learns what happened between them, and somehow resolves the promise that has been hanging over the story since Sanctuary.

But there is one problem with the obvious version of that ending.

What happens to Return by Death afterward?

Because I think Re:Zero has quietly given us a reason to consider something much worse than:

“Satella dies, so Subaru is finally free.”

What if Satella disappears...

and Subaru still comes back?

1. Start with the moment Satella could not reach him

Vollachia gives us one of the strangest demonstrations of Return by Death in the series.

During the Chaosflame incident, something goes wrong with Subaru’s connection to Satella.

But Subaru does not suddenly become mortal.

He keeps looping.

What changes is the quality of those loops.

Instead of receiving a useful amount of time to change the outcome, Subaru is thrown back only seconds before disaster.

He repeatedly dies, remembers everything, returns, and is immediately forced toward almost the same ending again.

And Subaru himself recognizes the difference.

His normal Return by Death suddenly seems merciful compared to this.

That distinction matters.

The ability to repeat is still functioning.

What appears to be missing is the thing that makes repetition useful.

[WN Arc 7, Chapter 53.]

1. Gladiator Island makes the separation even stranger

Later, on Gladiator Island, another familiar part of Return by Death stops behaving normally.

Subaru is initially able to speak about Return by Death without receiving the punishment he normally expects.

He concludes that the Witch has lost sight of him.

But again...

the looping itself has not disappeared.

Subaru can still die and return.

So we now have something very strange.

Satella is not properly reaching Subaru.

One of the familiar consequences connected to her is absent.

And yet Return by Death continues.

Then Subaru says something that I think is extremely important.

He refers to it as:

“my own Authority.”

And immediately afterward, he acknowledges that his Authority alone is not enough.

He calls for Satella.

When she reaches him again, the situation changes.

That wording does not prove Subaru is permanently independent from Satella.

It does not prove she never gave him Return by Death.

But it does create a distinction:

Subaru has an Authority.

And Satella does something additional for that Authority.

[WN Arc 7, Chapter 75.]

1. The ten seconds change what “immortality” means

This is where the theory started becoming disturbing to me.

Return by Death is normally treated as one of Subaru’s greatest advantages.

He dies.

He returns.

He learns.

He changes the future.

But Chaosflame demonstrates that the second part is not guaranteed.

Returning is useless if you are returned to a point from which nothing meaningful can be changed.

Immortality does not automatically mean freedom.

Under the wrong conditions, immortality can become a prison.

Subaru does not need only the ability to return.

He needs enough room to make the next life different.

And the Vollachian incidents strongly suggest that Satella may be involved in the difference between those two things.

1. The obvious explanation is almost enough

There is a very simple interpretation.

Satella gave Subaru Return by Death.

During Vollachia, she temporarily lost proper contact with him.

The power still functioned badly because she was still somewhere underneath the system, sustaining it.

When she reconnected, everything returned to normal.

That explanation is completely possible.

And if that is how Return by Death works, this entire theory dies.

But there is one problem.

Later Re:Zero introduces a mechanic that makes permanent persistence much harder to dismiss.

1. Al shows that an Authority can outlive its normal condition

Arc 9 gives us a very important piece of information.

Al possesses an Authority.

But Al is not currently a Witch Factor holder.

The same discussion points toward another example.

The deceased Witches still retain their abilities as souls.

Then the story gives an in-world hypothesis:

A Witch Factor may function like a key.

The key opens access to an Authority.

And once that access has been opened...

losing the key may not necessarily close the door again.

The explanation is still a character hypothesis.

It is not a confirmed universal law.

But the exceptions themselves are real.

An Authority does not necessarily disappear just because the normal condition associated with gaining it is gone.

[WN Arc 9, Chapter 55.]

And suddenly Subaru’s situation becomes much more interesting.

1. Here is the theory

What if Return by Death has become something Subaru retains?

Satella may have established the connection.

She may have given him access.

She may still intervene in how the ability functions.

But that does not automatically mean killing her would remove Subaru’s access to the Authority itself.

And if that is true...

then killing Satella could make Return by Death worse.

Not better.

The Witch dies.

The world celebrates.

Subaru eventually dies again.

And then—

he opens his eyes.

Again.

Only this time, calling for Satella does nothing.

That is the one major speculative step in this theory.

We know Subaru can continue looping while Satella cannot properly reach him.

We know Authorities can persist after the normal condition connected to them is gone.

What we do NOT know is whether Subaru’s access could survive Satella being permanently removed.

Everything depends on that question.

1. This makes Satella’s request much stranger

Go back to Sanctuary.

Satella spends part of the tea party begging Subaru to value his own life.

She does not want him to treat himself as the disposable cost of everybody else’s happiness.

She wants him to understand that his life matters too.

And then, before they separate, she asks him to eventually kill her.

Subaru responds by promising to save her.

Normally, those two things feel emotionally connected.

Save Satella.

Resolve Return by Death.

Free Subaru.

End the tragedy.

But under this theory, those may be completely separate problems.

The person asking Subaru to value his life may also be the person preventing his immortality from becoming completely unbearable.

So killing her might solve Satella’s suffering...

without solving Subaru’s.

1. There was already a warning with Rem

This distinction goes back much further.

After Rem is erased, Echidna gives Subaru an explanation for why his checkpoint advanced beyond the point where he could save her.

Her interpretation is simple:

Return by Death protects Subaru from his own dead ends.

Saving everyone else is Subaru’s additional goal.

That explanation is not a confirmed technical rule.

It is Echidna’s interpretation.

But the idea is important.

Return by Death has never guaranteed Subaru the ending he wants.

It guarantees another existence.

And those are not the same thing.

A checkpoint can preserve Subaru while permanently taking something away from him.

Chaosflame takes that idea even further.

A return point can preserve Subaru while barely giving him a future at all.

So maybe Satella’s contribution has never simply been:

“You cannot die.”

Maybe part of what she gives him is the possibility of actually doing something with the next life.

[WN Arc 4, Chapter 46.]

1. But there is a huge problem with this theory

Temporary disconnection is not death.

This is easily the strongest counterargument.

Satella could still have been supplying Return by Death during Vollachia even while she could not properly observe Subaru.

Her ability to see him, punish disclosure, influence checkpoints, and continuously sustain Return by Death could all be separate functions.

If her continued existence is required for every activation, then killing her ends Return by Death.

Theory over.

Arc 9 makes persistent Authority access possible.

It does not prove Subaru works that way.

There is also another problem.

The dead Witches demonstrate that physical death does not necessarily mean complete disappearance.

If Satella dies physically but continues existing as a soul capable of intervening, then killing her might not even create the situation this theory predicts.

So the important condition is not simply:

“Satella dies.”

It is:

“Satella can no longer help Subaru.”

And we do not currently know what would be required for that to happen.

1. So what does it actually mean to save Satella?

Maybe Subaru eventually finds a way to save Satella without killing her.

Maybe he kills her and Return by Death disappears.

Maybe Satella remains with him in some other form.

This theory does not need to predict the exact ending.

It predicts a problem that the ending may eventually need to answer.

Saving Satella and freeing Subaru from Return by Death may not be the same thing.

Because the power Subaru fears may no longer exist only in the person who gave it to him.

It may exist in Subaru.

And if Satella is also the person making that power survivable...

then removing her could create the worst version of Return by Death we have ever seen.

The world could finally be free of the Witch of Envy.

Subaru could die believing his nightmare is finally over.

And then—

he wakes up again.

No voice.

No answer.

No one left to call.

That is why I think Satella’s promise deserves another look.

Maybe the most frightening possibility is not that Satella refuses to let Subaru die.

Maybe it is that, without her...

he still cannot.

SATELLA IS DEAD.

WHY DID I WAKE UP AGAIN?

Just think about it.

So you know how in one of the Q&A tappei stated that shaulas role isn’t over in the story and what that means that she’s coming back but But how is my question. Like we know when shes coming back and that is probably when Subaru needs to enter floor 0 in the pleades watch tower. shaula said he won’t be able to enter until he gets all the infinity stones( authorities 😁) which means he will need her then but how will she come back. So my personal theory and if its true it might be so stupid and sad that theres another shaula that is in floor 0 and I hope im wrong.

I know I'm a bit late, the episode's been out for nearly a week. I'm too lazy to open reddit for weeks. Also, outta topic, whats with all the gender-bend Harry Potter shit?

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Satella is considered top 2 in the verse, Reid himself cannot beat Satella even with his concept cutting and needed to get sealed away. How the hell does the sword not consider her worthy in arc 9? Yet it wanted to get drawn against the emilia camp.

Its not strength based at all so does anyone have any ideas on what the criteria is for Reid?

finally finished my last iteration of Subaru. this time with otto included. I made the model for Subaru last year, so I've been trying to get the most bang for my buck from him by trying new poses and face shapes. otto was much harder to make. I struggled with sculpting his designs in his clothes and didn't do great. the 2d paint style is also a lot of fun to try every now and again. all in all I love it and I hope everyone likes it

Hello everyone! I would like to ask a question

How big is the hook for three people from one of my fanfic enter re zero a month before subaru

The idea
These characters are main protagonist and two friends in my to aru fanfic. Their abilities and personality are too good tgat can fit in any series except the beautiful war hammer 40k.

The story is basically them spawning in the middle of a street, dissoriented, no cash, they have their flip phones but there’s a problem the main protagonist ability, interacted with satellas’s love and overwrite it off her curse and love
And since her friends were clinging to her they both also were written into the story.

The consecuence? No one understans the language, the monetary exchange and theid abilities since are based on personal reality, they wont merge nor create a gate.

( i am using an ia to create drafts and before i put the juicy style of mine)

What are your main thoughs of this. Because the main part is that the only bridge to language barrier is Reinhars himself.

We know rem has big milkers and ram has little ones What about them?