Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (light novel)
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| Well shit...Subaru still gets it hard. |
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Smudy said: Seriously, at this point, the explanations for all the characters intentions need to be in a pinned post here. This isn't nice to watch here. He really fucked up with Crush tho , you don't Negotiat Wth someone without previous preparation he don't know anything about them , it worth try but really this is not the way |
| My god, if people are gonna be in tears from last ep, the next 2 are gonna fuck people up big time. |
Crashmatt said: Some people are missing the point of this whole arc. It's mean to to show Subaru at his lowest point. You're not supposed to like him for the most part. Keep in mind this is one part of a much larger story. Other arcs will be different and will the way Subaru acts. I found Subaru hard to watch this episode, the candidates are mostly douchebags but he needs to wise up fast. Pretty much. Subaru was able to solve the previous mishaps quite satisfying-ly (despite the shit he went through) so I think that got into his head, which is why now he's seeing how reality actually works, and is suffering. Add to that him seeing people he love constantly die and we get someone who's way too desperate to think properly and gets mad at others for being logical. |
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Is the LN available online? |
| I think subaru's attitude is perfectly justifiable, i mean, after all the madness he has gone through... to be fucked like that just for wanting some help. Expecting a lot the next episode. |
| Good job Rezero. I thought Yuki Rito from TLR/Darkness was useless. Now that I know this Subaru from ReZero, I can say Yuki Rito is not anymore the most useless character. I kinda believe that you can tell the story without him now since all he is doing are "try and die" runs until reach the golden way to Emilia-tan. I wonder if at some point he will use his cellphone and use a Rezero wiki to find a "how to survive guide" wiki page. Back to Ep 16: This week feels sure boring after all that suffering last week. To be expected but we got nothing out of this episode. It felt like... "you can skip to to ep17". And we have now this situation: "whale whale whale..." Whale whale whale... lets see how Ep 17 will turn out. Let me guess, dying again. |
| YO THAT GIANT EYE STARING AT SUBARU AT THE END WAS SOME HORROR STORY STUFF that was awesome Also I completely forgot about the phone, I wonder if it'll be the key to saving him Also, I'll just admit I'm retarded (more probable that they werent clear or the translation wasn't clear), what was up with Subaru and the bar full of cat people? How did Anastasia Hoshin double-cross him or screw him over? I didn't really understand that part |
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Fai said: Wait, what did Subaru actually learn in the first two arcs that would help him in this situation? I'm just curious since the way I see it the way he survived those two arcs is by being lucky to not die when he was almost killed and have someone else there coincidentally to keep him in the game. I'm asking this since from my perspective all I've noticed was Subaru learned circumstancial information that only helps on a case by case basis rather than give him insight into what he should do for a home invasion with heavy political implications so I don't really how the previous two situations help Subaru's current situation, other than pile emotional baggage for him.MozillaFennekin said: He did learn through trial and error, which is how he got through the first two arcs. But it's had the wrong effect on him personally, because he thinks he's the main character of a fantasy adventure... which is certainly frustrating, but then you have the supporting cast letting him know how much of an idiot he is. It's really all you can expect from a shitty NEET who got trapped in a fantasy world. And I mean, it's not like the first two arcs were kid-friendly material either, Subaru still died pretty brutally. He learned a lot in first two arcs but then he forgot it all, to the point of hte show making him contradict his own actions and what he learned in order to make his situation worse. And now he seems to be stuck in not learning anything and the story actually alters characters and situations to dick him over for maximum suffering. No good directing can prevent that. He did die brutally but the brutality was never the focus - look at his second death in the mansion - We did not see a bit of death, even though that was one of the most brutal ways to die for him. It was all about his terror and giving him clues that he would use next time to solve it. It was part of situation but the gore was not the focus. Now it is all about eye licking, bone twisting panic attack inducing nonsense. Oh and giant whales out of nowhere. VERY different level of gore and focus is all on the actual gore. The show before used the death as a consequences of his mistakes, but it was never the focus. The focus was what Subaru does with what he learned. Now the show REVELS in suffering and despair it can cause to Subaru. |
destructo22 said: GoldenKappa said: She was trying to extract any juicy details from him, while Subaru seemed to take the whole situation as a normal conversation instead of a negotiation. It seems like Subaru mentioning Russell being at Crusch's place was a nice tidbit of information for her, and he just let it slip out not considering anything.Great episode, I find this one better than the previous one. One thing I didn't quite understand tho, what did Anastasia trick Sabaru into doing that made him so mad exactly? alright i'm glad I'm not the only one who was baffled by how she screwed him over, basically he just got mad because she was taunting him that she used him for insider info instead of something like actually double-crossing him somehow |
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Yolin16 said: What happen to him. He was using his brains but now he's just going with his ego he believes that things work like they do in our world and he is blinded by hatred witch cult is everyone's enemy so its logical to assume that everyone would bend together to fight it but thats not the case here cuz everyone is only looking for profit to gain the upper hand against the other candidates |
WanderingWisp said: I assume Felt was outside of the capitol with Reinhart, otherwise why didn't he think to ask her for help? She's somewhat skilled, probably has some influence through Reinhart's backing, and would be the most likely to help him after that first arc. Or am I missing something else? he can't turn the tide with felt and rosewall isn't there sadly to kill the witch club he need either Reinhart or army xD |
| Subaru is actually one of the most realistic characters I've seen in some time. I think as anime fans we are far to used to MC finding a hidden power or getting stronger. Subaru literally has nothing going for him other than sheer determination. It's no wonder he acts like he does. |
renanmil said: Nice tips that second princess gave away about negotiations... I even picked some of them to myself, it would be useful in a job interview too, lol Also it was fun the she told subaru that the only way there is to improve the reputation would be to change one's past and no one could do this... well except for him, haha I guess those were some tips that subaru is going to improve a lot in the future probably next time he meets her again after he gets eaten by this frog. lol |
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| I have to say i love how everyone turned Subaru down. In your typical anime subarus shouting would have epic soundtrack behind and all candidates would be like "OMG he is soo GAR and determent, he is right, we must bend together,throw away all personal gain and KILL THEM ALL" |
Fai said: Welp. Congrats ReZero you ruined me Gojira's Flying Whales now. The problem with this show is that the author touts this as the supposed "deconstruction" of LNs, but there's not really any deconstruction going on. The author is just a creepy and sick sadist who enjoys making his character go through hell, but the story still has the same tropes that all LNs have and same otaku pandering, just with a whole lot more tasteless and gross edgy gore. This is no longer the show I signed up for. I started ReZero because it had a likeable, SMART, and realistic protagonist being transported into interesting lore full of political manipulations, mysteries and great lore. I started ReZero because it showed such an MC working it through the problems via brain less than brawn and we saw him figure out things and solve things without pointless asspulling. I started it and loved it because the show could build tension without cheap gores and create stakes without gross edgy Jigsaw level of perversion. It was an interesting world full of mystery that Subaru was transported to and I could not wait to see him figure out what the hell is going on, as well as to see the whole political play in royal candidacy. None of that is here now. Somewhere along the way, the author seems to have forgotten what coherence is or what kind of story it is and just delved headfirst into sadistic torture being thrown into the characters. Because, since the MC can rewind time, you can surprise your viewers with gory and triggering shit, because you can hadnwave it seconds away. So everything can be shocking cliffhanger! Because none of that will end up mattering. So now you can have gross and disgusting ways for MC to die and the edgier audience will eat that up shouting the usual phrases of DECONSTRUCTION, SUBVERSION, blah blah, and other words that Madoka for some reason popularized. But the show is not really doing a deconstruction. Nor is it delivering on the original premise I fell in love with. It feels like author abandoned any semblance of interesting and mature story or sake of cheap thrills and shocking gory deaths, so it can sell and the viewers can be pandered to and kept with the show via countless cliffhangers and dark events. But it is not a deconstruction. It does not deconstruct. It does not change anything, except making Subaru an unlikeable jerk at times and changing the levels of IQ for various characters so the author can deliver "TEH MAXIMUM SUFFERING(tm)". Like in this episode where the author literally makes all the candidates be literally dumb hitler just so he can put Emilia on a pedestal. Oh and lets make Subaru dumb and unable to convince people suddenly because we need teh suffering guyse. How is this the same dude who negotiated with the apple seller in EP1 is beyond me. This show abandoned all the interesting lore, all the interesting mystery and all the elements that made Subaru likeable and realistic, thus turning him into an anti-stu. The show abandoned all of that for sake of becoming an embodiment of the "SUFFERING!" Meme. While still keeping cringy ln tropes in it. So I am out. The show has warped into a weird sadistic thing created by a sick an twisted author who just wants suffering and edge instead of coherence and good storytelling. Its as if you start watching something like Lord of the Rings and then suddenly it morphs into cheap horror stuff like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or The Saw. And then lets morph it into some horror movie with giant sea monsters. Yet MC still will end up following same path via same waifu filled LN tropes, except he will win via SUFFERING(tm) instead of fighting. I might pick up show again when it is finished and I can just skip all the episodes and scenes that make my stomach turn and cause me panic attacks.Barely anything of importance is happening. In fact all we had for last 4 or so episodes was Subaru's SUFFERING(Tm) and him being an idiot. No plot progression, no lore, no politics, none that I liked about the show. This is Arc2 all over again in that it drags for dozen episodes, except ARc2 had likeable Subaru and interesting lore and mystery. But right now I think I am content with just watching Alderamin on The Sky this season - at least that seems to be an actual adaptation of Ln that IS interested in doing things differently from other LNs and delivering things that ReZero forgot for sake of cheap gore. Its sad to see the show drop the ball so hard after brilliant well directed 11 episodes. It is still VERY well directed and I am sure it evokes all the things the author wanted it to. It is sure as hell not the worst thing in this season, but it is no longer the show I fell in love with and the writing is nowhere near as good as first 11 episodes and I can't handle the gross shit this show now throws at the viewer for sake of cheap shocks. Dropped. 2/5 And never come back again, please. |
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juicykitten95 said: I have to say i love how everyone turned Subaru down. In your typical anime subarus shouting would have epic soundtrack behind and all candidates would be like "OMG he is soo GAR and determent, he is right, we must bend together,throw away all personal gain and KILL THEM ALL" exactly "Okay. Now, what do I have to gain?" <---- never will the waifu-baits ask this, or if they do they give in when the guy says he likes them or something. so refreshing to see cut-throat negotiations |
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AmejiHunter said: Except that this episode developed the other candidates ( except Felt but we know a lot about her already ), introduced the whale problem and what will happen next ( Goddamn spoilers, I hate knowing what's gonna happen with that friggin whale ). Plus again, it represents the biggest problem with Subaru and what makes me think he might not be Pride but Greed, or maybe even a combination of both of them. All he does is want. Even when he asks for a favor and has to give something in return, he doesn't really present something to offer. He just says ''oh i'll have a debt'' but he clearly knows what he wants. I don't know how you could skip this episode tbh. It's pretty important in the story according to me. And I haven't read the LN/WN and have only a little idea of what comes next. Than spoil me. Or give the source of it. I just want to know if Subaru is doing actually something instead being a savepoint. |
| Lmao, Subaru fucked up the negotations entirely. I cringed in the scene with Priscilla, he was really about to lick her feet. Anastasia totally rekted him too. It seems poor Subaru cannot catch a break. And dat fucking ending with based whale appearing. Suffering will be real. |
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FragOutFire said: juicykitten95 said: I have to say i love how everyone turned Subaru down. In your typical anime subarus shouting would have epic soundtrack behind and all candidates would be like "OMG he is soo GAR and determent, he is right, we must bend together,throw away all personal gain and KILL THEM ALL" exactly "Okay. Now, what do I have to gain?" <---- never will the waifu-baits ask this, or if they do they give in when the guy says he likes them or something. so refreshing to see cut-throat negotiations +1 I love it how the characters don't suddenly make a 180° turn. Their personality was established in episode 12 and they all appeared as very intimidating. It's good to see that they're treated like real "politicians" in this story. |
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| God Subaru was just rejected in so many ways this ep, it's interesting to see how the last loop or two has changed his attitude to Rem at least. He's extremely aggressive to everyone, and only mildly aggressive to Rem now, which is a nice change. I was also glad to see Subaru making some normal faces again xD Oh and I sort of wanted them to add in Otto's talk about supporting Emilia here, I liked that scene quite a bit and thought it would be a nice reprieve from all the anxious tension, but with the introduction of the whale (?) if I'm not mistaken then I guess it wouldn't have been right to have Otto's speech there anyways Nice ep, I can see Subaru's weak points and issues being brought to light many times by others, now it's more a matter of how many times he has to experience this to undergo change and development |
 "If I don't have to do it, I won't. If I have to do it, I'll make it quick."- Oreki Houtarou |
Fai said: I started ReZero because it had a likeable, SMART, and realistic protagonist being transported into interesting lore.......... Lol,i cant help but laugh everytime you call Subaru SMART :D its a shame you will no longer comment in every episode discussion about how smart Subaru was before he took an ar......... Fai said: Because, since the MC can rewind time, you can surprise your viewers with gory and triggering shit, because you can hadnwave it seconds away. So everything can be shocking cliffhanger! Because none of that will end up mattering. So now you can have gross and disgusting ways for MC to die And this surprised you????Seriously?Did that really surprise you? Lets sit down and think what other time travel-y show did the exact same thing shall we? -Steins Gate -Madoka Magica -Higurashi -Boku dake ga Inai Machi -Mirai Nikki -... Oh right...EACH AND EVERY ONE with a serious theme...You can drop it or do whatever with it but stop playing the victim,its your fault.... |
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FragOutFire said: Don't want to be a dick, but... it's actually a whale.probably next time he meets her again after he gets eaten by this frog. lol |
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| i don't give a damn on this arc, but THAT ENDING 2 SONG! OMG EMT FOR LYFE |
| Btw, that cat girl was adorable as fuck. I want one to cuddle in the cold nights :3 |
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| That Priscilla scene though :) |
FragOutFire said: She played him like a dang violindestructo22 said: She was trying to extract any juicy details from him, while Subaru seemed to take the whole situation as a normal conversation instead of a negotiation. It seems like Subaru mentioning Russell being at Crusch's place was a nice tidbit of information for her, and he just let it slip out not considering anything. alright i'm glad I'm not the only one who was baffled by how she screwed him over, basically he just got mad because she was taunting him that she used him for insider info instead of something like actually double-crossing him somehow |
Illyricus said: FragOutFire said: Don't want to be a dick, but... it's actually a whale.probably next time he meets her again after he gets eaten by this frog. lol It's impossible to see that it's a whale in the episode because the only thing you see is its massive form being obscured by fog and its eye. Now tell me, if the only way I could possibly discern that it's a whale is if I read the Web/Light Novel, why would I be at fault for confusing it for something else? And hey maybe they changed it for the anime, maybe it's a frog! ... goddamn I need to get out of these topics right away before I get spoiled on things |
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lmao i knew that would come up when that scene happened |
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FragOutFire said: Illyricus said: Don't want to be a dick, but... it's actually a whale. It's impossible to see that it's a whale in the episode because the only thing you see is its massive form being obscured by fog and its eye. Now tell me, if the only way I could possibly discern that it's a whale is if I read the Web/Light Novel, why would I be at fault for confusing it for something else? And hey maybe they changed it for the anime, maybe it's a frog! <spoiler>not a chance</spoiler> ... goddamn I need to get out of these topics right away before I get spoiled on things The whale was mentioned in episode 14 if you pay attention. |
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