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After rewatching this series for the 3rd time I think a review is in order.

This review might include minor spoilers, but no major ones.

Re:zero have a special place in my heart, thanks to this series I had 4 of my closest friends (3 of them who didn't watch anime that often) to watch this show and we could talk about it, and we all loved it (we all gave 9 - 10 in score).

First impression: My first impression of the series wasn't all that good, Subaru (the main character) is transported to another world by yet unknown means. Or well, we know that a ... Witch, called The Witch of Envy dragged him there, but we don't know how. He seemed to me like another dense and slow character we often sees in boy meets fantasy world stories. I hated how it seemed so sweet and bright, like a sweeter version of Sword art Online (Yes.. sweeter!).
Boy I was so wrong.
The opening scene is what made me want to see more, even tho the first episode was so boring, where Subaru lies dying on the floor, I wanted to see what that was about. The first episode was split into 2 episodes (episode 1A /1B), which I am glad they did, cuz I am sure many people would've dropped it not wanting to wait another week for that (once again, it wasn't that bad IMO that it was worth dropping after just the first episode, but I know it was boring enough for other people). In the second part things finally strated to happen, and I started to see the potential in the anime.

Story 10: I don't want to spoil so I will keep this short, or try too atleast.
The story is about our failure as a Human Subaru who does nothing but sit in his room watching anime, playing video games and doing his buissines every day (he does work out sometimes tho hehe) which is something I can relate to. He is dragged into another world, where he is saved from thugs by a very sweet and kind girl named Emilia. After spending some time with her, Subaru finds himself feeling indebted to her and is trying to retrive something that was stolen from her. Subaru get caught up in trouble on his quest and finds out that what was stolen from Emilia is a much bigger deal than he could've ever thought. Subaru dies, but he then "respawns" at a present location and time with his memories intact, but no one else remembers what happened after he was at the spawn location the first time. And there's another thing, he can NOT talk about this power he has (to respawn/return by death) because he is "cursed". You kinda get it now right? It's a like a video game where the respawn locations are like save points, except that it's real life for him (and to die really does hurt, well... most times atleast).

Art 9: I don't really have much to say about art, but I can say that "The Garden of Words" is a 10, One Punch-Man is also a 10 for me even to it's not as beautiful, but the animation is better IMO. This was not as good as OPM on the animation part, but not far away. And the art was pretty much just as good as OPM. It really looks like a new anime lets just put it that way, which is good for this category (art).

Sound 8: The opening, the outros, the background music, was really appealing. I REALLY like that the cast (the voice acters) was singing in sveral songs used in Re:Zero. Takahashi Rie (Emilia) and Minase Inori (Rem) both have such a beautiful voice. Tho if I must choose I think Stay alive by Takahashi was the best. The sound effects are also well made, and the voices of the characters was made by a very good microphone (I think it was good cuz the sound was clear haha).

Character 10: Guess what? Re:Zero prbably have the best characters (quantity) in any anime I've seen (if we exclude series like HxH and One Piece etc. because they are so long and have so many more characters). Rem, Subaru, Emilia, Betelgeuse, All the Witches and the list goes on. They are all VERY well written characters, Betelgeuse is one of the main antagonists in the anime, everybody hates him, he is made to be hated because he is so crazy, but he is so damn well written and unique that I found myself liking him (not his actions tho hehe). The characters and story have so much more potential to be even better as well, since the story is still on going.

Enjoyment 10: I would be lying if I didn't give this a solid 10. When Re:Zero was airing it was all I was talking about when talking about anime. I was so hyped for each and every episode (after like episode 7 it became like this). Until episode 7 it was going from 4 in the first episode to 7 in the second and going up to 10 in the 7th. There is only 1 episodes I thought did not deserve a 10 out of all episodes after 7, you will probably know (or already knows if you've seen it already) which episode that is if you decide to watch it. A hint, it's because Subaru f**ks up.

Overall 10: While I have spoken very highly of this anime in my review, and I gave it a 10, I still think ofcourse that there are better animes out there. Like Hunter x Hunter (2011), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Code Geass (unless they screw up the newly announced season), and Clannad After Story, which are the 4 best animes I know and is on a score on their own. I still think Re:Zero is worthy of the highest score, it has so many thing, it hads comedy/laughter, horror, saddness/suffering, romance, unique characters and a very STILL promising story. I hope to see more Re:Zero in the future, I would easily learn japanese just to read the novels, lucky me someone (translationchicken) is kind enough to translate the webnovel. Just google it if you want to read it yourself!

I do hope I got someone to upvote my review, this is my 2nd review after all. I didn't really make a good first review so hope this one was better! Please let me know! If it sucks... please be gentle!

Merry christmas everyone from Sweden! Yes we celebrate on the 24th.

Ah so the time has come for a review for this beutiful yet terrifying anime.
When you're looking for a masterpiece disguised as an anime, you may want to check Gosick out.
I was very sceptical at the first episode, but I guess the first episode of most animes is just so you will get to "know" the anime and the main character/s.
I thought it was boring and yet another tsundere girl and a crybaby as the male MC, but after I kept watching things got interesting fast.

Story: 10
This anime doesn't really have 1 story where the anime goes from A in the first episode to ... B in the last episode, it's packed with mysteries and adventures which make this anime really great where you can follow the MC's and really getting this feeling of bonding. Now my english isn't the best but each episode is a sequel to the previous episode, so it's the same story the anime through but they're not trying to solve the same mystery in every episode. At first the anime is this way, but later in the anime you do get this "damn it can't end like this! I need to see the next episode" feeling. TL;DR: The first episodes have a good end so they can start with a new adventure next episode and the later episodes don't really have a "end" except for the last episode.

Art/Animation: 9
Now this anime is really beautifully animated where things in the background is moving when you get a close up to the characters as they speak, the only reason why I didn't give this a 10 is because of the mouth movements, it was nothing to complain about really but it wasn't perfect. The art itself was really good, they really knew how to draw light in this anime for example. The best art you can get IMO is animes like Strike the Blood and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun/Index, those animes are a 10, this was a 9.

Sound: 9
The opening song was really fitting for this anime and I actually saw the whole OP in some episodes. The ending song for the first half of the anime was one of the best I've heard in any anime. The reason I gave this a 9 and not 10 was because they changed it to another not as good song the later half (episodes 13-24). The songs in the background, sound effects and voices were all good and I've nothing to complain about there.

Character: 10
I freaking loved Victorique! She is one of my favorite characters of all time. She is cute, says what she wants, do what she wants (except for breaking one sertain rule) and is super intelligent. She can solve any mystery and is the best detective there is, much like L in Death Note.
The other MC Kujou was a bit annoying when he would scream VICTORIQUE over and over but besides that he really became a man so to say throught the series, he isn't afraid to "sacrifice" himself for Victorique and he is always, always involved in mysteries/deaths. His nickname "The Black Reaper" is very fitting even tho he isn't the one who kill the persons around him, he is just there at the wrong time. All his classmates is afraid of him too (except for 2 where one is Victorique, but she never attends classes).
The teacher is really amusing as well as many other characters.

Enjoyment: 10
I will try too keep this short. I couldn't stop watching, and I had a hard time to sleep because I still had more episodes to watch (took me 2 days to finish this so). Every episode except the first one was so exciting. And how can Victorique solve every little thing? How is she going the solve this? And her explanations is always on spot, I feel so dumb when listening to her, which I really like in animes, where I don't understand everything before hand.

Overall: 10
I love mystery animes. I love unique characters. I love animes who isn't "afraid" of showing deaths and some blood (and not being a gore anime). I love good fittting OP's. I love good animation and art. I love a good plot. And I absolutely love a good romance story. Even though I didn't get too see one thing I love in romance animes, I really thought the romance were amazing in this anime. Without doubt I would gladly rewatch this anime.

Do you love mystery and romance combined?
Then Gosick is probably an anime for you.