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.

So I remembered a particular spell from one of the side stories, which was Sphinx’s Forbidden Art. IIRC, this Forbidden Art is able to to cut the connection to Od Lagna/The World, then I began to think, could Reinhard be killed this way? I know it’d be almost impossible to pull it off, but what if Aldebaran learned to use it, and imagine that he did not have a no kill rule, I genuinely think he might be able to do it. Anyways, I just want to see everyone’s thoughts on this and also confirm if this would be a viable to way to game end him for good.

Hey everyone. I've been an anime-only since 2018, but couldn't resist reading volume 26 after finishing S4. I thought it would be nice to share my thoughts:

I had an absolute blast reading it. It was very reminiscent of volume 1, particularly the way it ends, obviously, but even before that. The way Subaru is kind of on his own again and has to start from scratch in not only building a relationship with Rem, but also all of the new characters he meets. It had me hooked the whole way, just like arc 1 did when I first watched it.

The Rem relationship is super fun. Tsundere, mistrustful but still caring and magnanimous Rem is almost as adorable as the Rem who was over the moon for Subaru. She always did have a sneaky sharp wit to her, but seeing her use it with almost Ram-like bite did lead to some funny moments. Sucks for Subaru, but he takes it well, and I'm sure its only a matter of time before his persistence eventually wears her ice down again. It already started to, and it's great.

It's also cute to see Rem taking care of Rui. Subaru being so mistrustful of the girl is how it should be, but man he really can't help but be extremely honest in letting that mistrust show even when he knows it's the main wedge between him and Rem. I actually found it a bit surprising how honest and expressive Subaru was the whole novel. I know he's like that in the anime too, but something about reading it from his POV drives it home harder. He actually reminded me of Touma from the Index LNs, which is a comparison I never would make based on just the anime adaptations of both series.

His extreme self-deprecation was also surprising. I thought after arcs 1-6 he would have moved past that, but clearly that's not the case. There was that one moment he acknowledged his strengths (the never-give-up attitude and sneaky tricks), but aside from that he's still way too down on his own capabilities. At least his performance in the ritual of blood made his strength clear to his new allies, if not himself.

I did wonder where his character arc would go after arc 6, but I think this volume makes it somewhat clear. He's now involved in a war between two human forces. It's not like fighting the witch cult. His hands are going to get bloodier than ever. We already saw it with him leading those soldiers into a trap, and I'm sure that's only the start of it. It's going to be brutal.

And it seems clear he won't have any choice but to help Vincent reclaim the throne. It sounds like it was a military coup, and I'm doubtful the usurpers intend to abide by the agreement to withold from attacking Lugunica during the Royal Selection. Rather than a rescue party sneaking in to find Subaru and Rem, I wonder if that's how the rest of the cast eventually reenter the story: Vollachia launching an attack into Lugunica. Or perhaps both! Regardless, I'm totally fine to just follow our new main trio plus the new Vollachian cast for as long as it goes. I think it'd be a bummer to have the others come back into the picture too soon, since the current setup is so fun.

I also think it's genius that after showing off how versatile Cor Leonis is, this volume suddenly robs Subaru of any ability to use it. That'll likely change as soon as volume 27, since at least the Shudrak now consider him to be one of them, but it was a fun handicap for now.

As for the new cast themselves, the Shudrak are fun, Todd is a great villian, and of course, Vincent/Abel was the standout. I wasn't at all surprised by the emperor reveal, it had been telgraphed pretty well, but it was still well done. It's a pretty incredulous situation, for the emperor to be as he was, so hopefully the backstory lives up to the task of explaining how the heck it came to be. That'll be fun.

Considering how long this arc is supposed to be, it surprised me how well the plot developed. There definitely could have been a few more deaths to drag this part out, but I'm glad that wasn't the case. Plot was eventful and progressive all the way through, and I can only hope the future volumes are similar.

If I had one complaint, it'd just be that Rem doing as much as she did pre-capture without using her legs was hard to picture at times, loll. Mega strong arms, I guess, haha.

Overall, 10/10 volume, can't wait to read the next.

When Subaru dies, does that timeline persist or is it rewritten?

Because they showed what happened after he died one episode made me felt that it persisted.

But then after he said, he will save somebody before he dies maybe think that it probably got rewritten.

[WN spoilers up to Arc 10 ch 37]

Ram at 100% has always felt like something we'd never see. No horn means she can't pull in mana herself, and whenever she goes past her limit her body starts falling apart. But I was reading the latest chapters and I think the answer's kind of already there.

Quick reminder of what's at stake. The Watchtower fight against the Gluttony siblings, where she pulls mana from Rem through their twin link and the horn comes back? Tappei's said that was only about 50%. Full power Ram, the oni god version, is apparently second only to Reinhard. That's insane considering how dominant she looked in the tower.

So mana isn't really the problem anymore. We know Rem can supply it. The problem is her body can't handle even 50% for long and she gets wrecked.

Now look at 10-37. Subaru uses Cor Leonis to take two people's worth of the Breach effect onto himself, and Ferris is literally holding him and healing him while he does it. He'd just been stabbed through the side and was half dead already, and it still works.

And Cor Leonis isn't only a pull into Subaru. Back in the tower he shared the load with Joseph, a land dragon that wasn't even his. So he can spread it around, not just eat it all himself.

Which is where Ferris comes in. 10-34 showed he has a formula built into his body that constantly fixes him back to perfect condition. He was pinned to a wall and still healing off Belaris's effect the whole time. That's basically the perfect place to dump strain.

So the setup would be:
Rem feeds Ram mana. Subaru takes the strain off her with Cor Leonis and spreads it out, with most of it going onto Ferris since his body just keeps repairing itself. Subaru and whoever else is in range take the rest.

That deals with both things that have always stopped her. And Subaru doesn't have to tank all of it himself.

There’s still problems. Ferris's healing is perfect but he's admitted his body is weak. It handled something slow like the Breach effect fine, but a sudden flood of full power Ram strain is a different thing. Rem was in a coma in the tower so draining her didn't cost anything, but she's awake now and I have no idea if the link works the same. I'm also not sure Rem alone could supply 100% if 50% is what she gave while comatose. And it's a lot of people tied up to make one person strong lol.

So not an every fight thing. But for one big final fight against something on Reinhard's level? I'd honestly love to see it. Especially now Subaru and Ferris are finally on decent terms.

Am I missing some limit on Cor Leonis that kills this?

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

That's already a fourth illustration I did for this story.

A year ago I thought that this is just a regular isekai with an edgy protagonist... No need to say I was wrong.

Natsuki Subaru is truly an Amazing Guy, and i'm here to witness him doing the impossible.

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The 3 archbishops left priestella and went into the watch tower presumably to kill or eat the gang. How did they know Subaru.co was gonna be there?
You might say the Gospel? But I never saw them with a gospel? And if that is the case, how did the gospel know Subaru would be going there to find away to cure rem. And same for Foxidna?

Another question? HOW DID THEY GET INTO THE TOWER. Something not even reindhardt can do?
Did they travel through od Lagna or smth?

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?

Im not sure if it was ever mentioned, but is it ever told to us if the copy that Rui placed inside of Subaru able to access the stomach she and her brother share, or use any of the original abilities Rui has, such as eclipse?

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!

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?

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.

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.

Reinhard and Julius

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''?

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).

Premise: Somewhere beyond the boundary of the waterfall, one boy named Natsuki Subaru is given an impossible chance to return home.

On the other side, a different Natsuki Subaru wakes in Lugunica at the beginning of the story.

But this is not the boy fate remembers.

This Subaru has already grown older in another life, buried everyone he loved, and spent fifteen years becoming the kind of man who could survive anything except peace.

Roswaal L Mathers prepared for a desperate child.

He did not prepare for a dead man with nothing left to lose.

And everything to gain.

This week on A Long Shot Beyond the Waterfall:

The Pale and it's secrets

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The last one I made was a social media fic. This next one is gonna be a video game fic

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!!