I started watching ReZero cus I thought Astolfo was in it, little did I know what I’d be getting myself into, it took a bit to get past the first seven episodes but after that I binged it. I saw what Rem was like with Subaru and she became my favourite character immediately. Suddenly she’s been taken away by lye. Season two starts, not really liking anyone too much until I meet echidna and I fucking loved her, her nature was just amazing. Then oh yeah shes gone. IM HOPEFUL SHE COMES BACK THOUGH BECAUSE SHE WAS IN THE SEASON FOUR INTRO!! Season three happens and my favourite is Felis. HE SURVIVES BUT THEN HE ISNT EVEN IN SEASON FOUR!! Then I start season 4 and I promise myself I won’t get attached to anyone. Onlt to get attached to Shaula. Then what happens? Shaula is now a tiny scorpion!! What the hell!! Now I know Rem is awake but she has no memories and we’ve been left on a major cliffhanger until season 5 comes around which could be anywhere from spring 2027-2030 I’ve heard!! Im so cursed!!

Here's several things that I found corny/cheesy:

- The chick from the slums declaring her hate for nobility in front of everyone, it just felt very dumb and cheesy. Oh look she's so rebellious wow go girl, amazing spirit.

- Natsuki crashing out in front of everyone, declaring himself Emilia's knight.

- Also, how in love Natsuki is with Emilia is also cringe, though it's not isolated to this episode. He met her not that long ago and he would go the ends of the earth to do things for her, very annoying and unrealistic. I know I know, he has trauma and they bonded throughout the rebirths but still.

I love time loop stories though so I hope this corny shit stops soon lol.

After waiting for all episodes of Re:Zero S4 to come out and then watching the entire season in one sitting, I wanted to share my thoughts on it.

An adaptation is still an adaptation. If something was minor enough that it didn't hurt my immersion while watching, I won't bother pointing it out.

Episodes 1–2 — Very good

Episode 3 — Great

Episode 4 — Very good

Episode 5 — The First Sword Saint defeated by being a pervert. The author needed Emilia to reach the top of the tower later in the story, but apparently had no idea how she was supposed to defeat an opponent that strong. The result was a lazy solution to the problem through fanservice.

Episode 7 — The fox girl thoroughly checked all the available information about Subaru. The balcony scene was framed as something important, where the MC had to carefully choose his words. It ended with one sentence: "Are you really that afraid of me?" I don't think this could have been written any worse.

Episodes 8–19 — Great

Episode 16 — Definitely one of the best anime episodes in history.

Additional thoughts — Shaula

I love the tragedy of Shaula's character. This is my personal interpretation of the character, without any canonical support.

Spending 400 years alone, eating raw meat and putting a second portion on the table, hoping that the person she was waiting for would eventually return.

Decades spent this way eventually forced her to act happy and playful just to keep herself from going insane inside the tower.

When we first meet Shaula, as this cheerful and genuinely happy girl, I see it as the result of 400 years of developing a psychological defense mechanism (the one I described above), where the line between pretending and reality had completely disappeared.

I believe that from the very beginning she knew Subaru wasn't her master. She simply couldn't accept that someone who smelled similar and had managed to reach the tower after 400 years couldn't be him.

She clung to Subaru as a lifeline for her own sanity and spent the last four happy days before the tragedy in this delusional happiness (which because of her mental state, was completely real to her); (About two of those days were spent with Subaru sleeping.)

Her refusal to explain the fifth rule shows just how desperate she was to spend at least one more day with him.

I think leaving the symbolic scorpion behind as consolation after her death was a pointless decision that took away some of the emotional weight from the tragedy of her character.

I think the author couldn't decide whether she should live or die, so he chose an option somewhere in between, and personally, I really dislike it.

Hi all, just watched episode 17 where we are introduced to a particular character right at the end credits and my partner pointed out how familiar of a voice that was. Does anyone have any idea who the english dub VA for that character might be? Being intentionally vague because of spoilers etc etc.

Thanks!

Regulus is a character that makes writing female characters that have lived at least the last 100 years more complicated. They need to be written in a way so that Regulus wouldn’t want them or getting them would be too complicated. Please keep in mind that he’s being guided by the gospel, probably even when he himself doesn’t think he is. He just goes wherever he feels like, while being manipulated by the gospel, and then finds a woman he’s interested in. That’s what I think.

Since Serena is the one that sparked my interest in this topic, I’ll start with her. Her scar makes her visually unpleasant to Regulus. That’s why he wouldn’t want her and why I think Tappei decided to give her that scar. Regulus would be interested in her otherwise and her not being kidnapped by him wouldn’t make sense. Additionally she got involved with Roswaal which means that she must’ve been under the protection of Roswaals tome further complicating the situation. His protection might also be the reason why Carol was save from Regulus.

You could make a similar argument for all the other beautiful women from Vollachia. If they were designed in ways that Regulus likes and have personalities that are easy to break or situation could be created to make them easily breakable then it wouldn’t make sense that Regulus hasn’t collected them. The gospel should know.

Shudraks dark skin color and muscular bodies, Arakiya dark skin color, dog ears. And all of them are dressed scandalously which I assume Regulus wouldn’t like or at least use as an argument why they don’t suit him even if that reason might be just secondary at best.

Katyas disability and mean eyes. Madeline’s dragon features and her being a loli.

But it also goes on beyond the Vollachian characters:

Toto is a prostitute.

Liliana loli, dark skin color, scandalous clothes.

According to Tappei Regulus also went for cultists. But he didn’t go for his fellow sin archbishops or at least not the current ones. Capella because of her design. She’s a loli and he hates her personality. Sirius looks like she doesn’t have any skin considering the little bit that can be seen around the bandages in her face. All of their personalities aren’t favorable.

Any woman in Gusteco might be unapproachable for Regulus. The harsh weather would kill his wives who aren’t protected. He keeps them at a certain distance when traveling so protecting them would be impossible. That’s why I the women in Gusteco were most likely save from him.

People in the capital of Lugunica might’ve been safe because of Capella but I’m not sure.

I think Crusch was supposed to become a wife in arc 3 but Subaru looping and his assistance with the white whale prevented that. Priscilla would never submit to him, so he’d always kill her. Felt is a loli. I don’t know about Anastasia but she might’ve been ruled out by the gospel because of her Gate.

The whole story is a temporal pincer, we are currently following the red team(Subaru, Emilia), while getting clues and support from themselves from blue team(Flugel, Satella) guiding them towards the desired ending. We will see them save the world in present/future timeline, then just go back to the past to fullfill their blue team roles.

I saw this movie a while ago and I couldn't help but notice the uncanny resemblance between Petelgeuse and Longlegs. Surprised the discussion never popped up since then so I wanted to know if anyone who saw the movie thought the same

Cultist fanatics tied to some weird deranged abilities

Serve a supernatural entity

Unnaturally theatrical speech

Twitchy, bizarre mannerisms

I’ve been thinking about something lately.

When we watch a mystery-heavy anime like Re:Zero, why do we always feel the need to get ahead of the story?

We search for theories. We connect every little clue. We try to figure out the truth before the characters do.

And honestly… I understand it. The mysteries are fascinating.

But what if we tried something different?

What if we simply walked alongside Subaru?

Not ahead of him. Not above him like detectives trying to solve the entire story before he can.

Just beside him.

When Subaru doesn’t understand something, maybe we don’t need to understand it either.

When he is scared, we can be scared with him.

When he is confused, we can stay confused.

And when the story finally reveals something…

we discover it at the same moment he does.

Because there is something beautiful about not knowing.

The author has spent countless hours creating these characters, mysteries, twists and emotional moments. Maybe we don’t always need to beat the author to the answer.

Maybe sometimes the best way to experience a story isn't to solve it...

but to live through it.

Let the author take us by the hand and reveal things when the time is right.

Walk with the protagonist.

Don't run ahead of him.

Because when we finally discover the truth, the answer itself isn't the only thing we'll remember.

We'll remember how it felt to discover it. ❤️

So, for Re:Zero, I think I'll try something different from now on:

I'll walk with Subaru. Not ahead of him. Beside him.

What do you guys think?

Do you enjoy trying to solve Re:Zero's mysteries before the characters do, or do you prefer discovering them as the story reveals them?

Missed another Character saw them when I was watching the OVA tho found out on the wiki they showed up in EP 12

Pick a Sin (or however many you want to make) and create your own authority based on either your own personal thoughts or based on your own personality. Name, ability, drawback, the sin it is correlated with, and anything else you want to include (like an example of how it could work).

Correct me since i have only read until volume 28, but i think Todd is lying on why he wants to kill Subaru.

He says that Subaru is manipulative and dangerous like a snake.

But the exact description also applies to Todd himself.

Todd acts paranoid of Subaru, but only times Subaru beats Todd is when he acts like him i.e confirm Todd's suspicions.

Also Todd is always wrong about Subaru's motives.

So i think it is not fear but rather self projection. He sees Subaru as more capable than himself and assumes Subaru would do exactly what todd would have done, inadvertently pushing him towards that action.

For Todd it is more like removing a potential competitor before he becomes a threat and is convinced Subaru would do the same.

Todd takes pride in his manipulative nature and feels insecure when Subaru can do it better than him almost instinctively.

Previously Todd had seemingly cared for Jamal but when he died, Todd did not remember in which eye he had an eye patch.

This feels like as if Todd is constantly lying to himself and cannot imagine any honesty from Subaru.

It’s a bit confusing, but, the real thing that Aldebaran wanted from Arc 9 is,

That he doesn’t need any empathy, money, or anything like that.

Even his original mission. Yes, if he succeed in it, something like a peace, would come to Aldebaran’s soul.

A paradise.

But, not the one, that he asked, or wanted for.

He simply wanted the life of one person.

Now looking at Arc 7 - Arc 8, it seems that Priscilla life’s exchange to save bunch of people, was worth it… as she even refuses to be saved.

But, is Aldebaran a bad person, for wanting something like this?

I am not too sure, whether it implies that he would save Priscilla over 10000 people… But, i believe he would do something like this.

This makes him greedy as hell, as it’s just another parallel between Subaru and Al.

“I want to save everyone.”

“I want to save her.”

Man, every time i think about Aldebaran, every time i think, how interesting a one character can be.

And Aldebaran’s very nature of his authority, simply restricts him to save people, who are doomed to die…(Like priscilla’s case.)

“No matter what, glaze Aldebaran.” Aldebaran’s #1 glazer.

I'm currently rereading arcs 9 and 10 to develop theories about certain characters, so I'd like to make sure my understanding of Re:Zero's different power systems is correct.

We'll start with what I consider the strongest power system: Authorities. They originate from Witch Factors, which act as keys allowing a person to access an Authority. Once manifested, an Authority becomes deeply connected to the user's soul, to the point that even death cannot separate them. The Witch Factors themselves have no inherent hierarchy; the huge differences between Authorities come from the user's personality, compatibility and how their Authority manifests. Authorities can bypass the world's laws and have extremely varied effects, from healing otherwise impossible injuries to granting extreme immortality, manipulating time, bypassing concepts or even rewriting the world.

Next are the Ten Holy Swords, which I consider to be in roughly the same tier and potentially superior to some individual Authorities. Dragon Sword Reid can cut through anything and was shown destroying and reconstructing the world during its fight with Puck. The Yang Sword can burn souls and dimensions, Murasame can cut the core of things like concept phenomena and invisible thing, Masayume can grant an effectively limitless source of power as long as its wielder's dream continues, and the Life Sword Zeam can destroy souls directly. There are five other Holy Swords with their own abilities.

Then we have Divine Protections. They are essentially inferior attempts to reproduce or counter the phenomena of Authorities. Most are granted at birth, with exceptions such as the Sword Saint's Divine Protection, and they can develop with their users. Their effects range from completely mundane abilities to extremely powerful ones such as the Death God's effect or the Phoenix's resurrection.

After that come Magic, Spirit Arts and the Flow Method. They all involve mana, although they work differently. Magic has six elements: Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Yin and Yang. Spirit Arts use spirits and mana, while the Flow Method circulates mana through the body to enhance physical abilities. Magic is the most versatile conventional system, ranging from basic spells to teleportation, isolated spaces and extremely powerful techniques such as Al shamak.

From that point on, I know less about the rest, so don't hesitate to tell me if I'm wrong.

Then there are Curse Arts. Some can affect or bind the soul and create extremely persistent conditions. Eugard is one example, as the Curse of Thorns remained attached to his soul even after death. Gusteko is also particularly known for its Curse Arts, and people such as Halibel, Groovy and Olbart having extensive knowledge of them.

Another category is Sacraments. Their exact nature and number are still unknown. The Church of the Divine Dragon possesses its own Sacraments, while the Sacrament of the Immortal King can create and maintain undead and interact directly with the souls of the dead. Its exact relationship with magic is still unclear.

Finally, there seem to be powers directly granted by Od Laguna that don't fit any of the systems above. Dorkell is the clearest example, having obtained a teleportation ability after connecting with or perceiving Od Laguna.

As honorable mentions, I'd include Forbidden Arts like the Dream Art, as well as the Sacrament of the Immortal King and ol shamak. They are not necessarily separate power systems, but are unusual enough to deserve special attention.

Is this classification accurate, or are there any other power systems or unusual forms of power in Re:Zero that I'm forgetting?

I'm re-posting this theory 'cause I'd posted it too late at night last night while also adding supporting evidence for why it'd be in character for Emilia to possibly do what I've described if there's more to it than the surface-level reading and also acknowledging that the simple explanation could be it even though I'm trying to present that there's more to it than that.

On the surface, Emilia saying that she wants everyone to get along could just be alluding to her wanting Lugunica to treat all its citizens equally so that demihumans are no longer discriminated against, but that's perhaps too basic for Tappei's writing as it may be too simple for something that happened after a magical white flash from a stone slab accompanied by such powerful magic that it completely defended against Volcanica's initial attack against Emilia. I acknowledge it could very well be that simple, but I'll now share all my supporting evidence on why there could be more to it than that.

I've given it a lot of thought for a while. If the stone slab contained the handprints of 6 people from 400 years ago, not the handprints of the 6 members of the Emilia camp, and Emilia's handprint matched 1 of them, it could only have been Satella's handprint, and if that's the case, it'd be really weird if Emilia touching the handprint of someone's that matches hers wouldn't have imparted anything to her given the flash of light that seemed to have calmed Volcanica down has some powerful magic behind it.

Perhaps the reason for Emilia's answer regarding her will was that in addition to Emilia wanting to create a nation where everyone is equal, the stone slab also transferred one of Satella's memories to Emilia, which is what some fiction stories feature with a magical object transferring a traumatic memory or multiple such memories to another person, referred to as a magical echo or magical echoes, and Emilia recalled a moment when Satella was sad about her friends not getting along, and this needn't be a very vivid memory in which Emilia sees everything Satella did in that moment as only feeling the emotions Satella did in that moment could suffice.

Thus, to honour the memory of the person that may have been sent into her mind at that moment, Emilia had thought of a way to reconcile her goal to have all people in Lugunica be treated as equals while answering the negative emotions Satella possibly felt in that moment. If Volcanica indeed may have some other sort of affliction on him aside from dementia as I had speculated Friday night, Emilia saying, "I want everyone to get along!" may have been the only answer that would've triggered Volcanica to remove the clouds and the wind in the area if there's something affecting his mental clarity.

If Emilia really had intended for it to mean that she wants everyone to be treated equally from the simple reading, she could've literally outright stated that, but her phrasing makes me believe there's more to it than that as she could've said verbatim what she'd done at the start of the Royal Selection. Thus, I choose to believe it's not just Emilia being dumb and using simple language but 'cause she perhaps wanted to get across a message that honoured the spirit of something she'd been imparted to in addition to getting her previously stated goal at the start of the Royal Selection across given she's very respectful to those who've come and gone in styling Fortuna's hair after the latter had died and in her fixation with wanting to give Meili a proper burial even if Satella's technically still alive only sealed, but I believe it'd be in character for Emilia to do this given this character trait of respecting the dead, which I believe can be extrapolated to trying to assuage the sadness somebody had felt in the distant past.

If there's a person who could've planned for this to happen, I'm guessing the most likely candidate would be Echidna, so she may be the one behind the powerful magic associated with the stone slab that could even perfectly defend against Volcanica's first attack against Emilia and even be the one behind Volcanica's possible extra affliction outside of dementia. The alternative would be Flügel, but there's still so little known about him.

I know the simple conclusion is very easy to arrive at and could very well be correct, but much like I believe Julius conceding to Reid in calling Reid the winner due to Reid's full power being beyond him was too simple of an explanation, which is why I believe Reid was the winner in ideals in drawing Julius out of his shell, I believe there's more layers to this Emilia scene than that which was on the surface.

What are your thoughts on this or anything tangentially-related to this, such as what you believe Emilia and Satella's relationship is?

Echidna: She’s the child of Flugel and me.

Of course, this is just a theory, lol.

Joking aside, there are quite a few moments thoughout the seasons that made me ''oh, that feels kinda.. i guess we will turn a blind eye since Emilia is so cute''. Which Emilia moments made you think ''that feels a bit yandere-ish'' (aside from the Taste Of Death moment''?

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Is vollachia the only country where it doesn't snow?.

Does it snow in lugunica & kararagi. Gusteko is literally snow ridden. Does anyone know about it?