Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

[shinta|hikari]

This will definitely get a second season. There is enough content, and this somewhat rocked the anime world like SnK did.

[Buffalobiian]

Episode 24


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That's it! That's how you do it Subaru. Identify everything that went wrong in the last move and correct them all this time round.

Beatlejuice got baited hard. Subaru made it look so easy.

I don't remember there being information leakage in the previous episode, but whatever. I'll just pretend there was, and that the spy issue didn't come out of nowhere. I'll also assume that the village spy was a witch-follower-wannabe and didn't have any significant miasma to speak of.

[neflight86]

Those scenes with Subaru in the magic hoodie 'fooling' Emelia were so cringe-worthy that even the serviceable explanation after the fact didn't make up for the anguish endured watching what felt like out of place scenes.

I'm still unsure if we (the audience) have all, or even most of the rules for this whole 'witch' thing. It makes his interactions with Sloth a little harder to follow. Who can do what, where the power comes from and can be directed, and so on. Good episode, nonetheless.

[shinta|hikari]

They should've masked Subaru from our POV as well.

@Buff - What info leakage?

[Buffalobiian]

They should've masked Subaru from our POV as well.

@Buff - What info leakage?

Unless there was suspicion of information being leaked, I wouldn't have thought to look for a spy amongst the villages, much less bait one.

[shinta|hikari]

Wasn't that spy the dude who bombed himself in the previous cycle? Subaru already knew the guy's face, wagon, and plan. It's only natural he can intercept it.

[Buffalobiian]

Oh, the witch cult who snuck in as a merchant? I remember him now. I assumed this guy was a villager.

[shinta|hikari]

Can't blame you. They went out of their way to make him maximum generic.

[NeoCybercoin]

Final Episode is out.

I....expected more.

[MFauli]

Yeah, I was disappointed by the lack of a big reveal/twist.

Anyway, shinta, I know a loli (she´s only 1,80, a whole five centimeters smaller than me, haha!!1 No, I´m joking because it´ll make her eyes roll) who says you probably know the manga/novel and used some spoiler stuff involuntarily when making "predictions" here!!1

[shinta|hikari]

Unfortunately, no. I haven't read the LN for Re:Zero because it hasn't been translated yet. While I can read Japanese to a certain extent, LNs are too taxing to read because they aren't voiced like VNs.

Also, I read in an article that the content in this episode exceeds the published LNs. The web novel goes much further according to posts I've read in the net, but who knows if that'll even look anything like the official LN when they come out.

Also, I didn't call the whale fight. I didn't even think of it. It was you who predicted that. Nice job.

Overall, so so final episode. The fight made no sense. If Julius is just gonna Noble Phantasm his way to Betel by melting the hands, what was the point of... everything? The shared vision, the chopping arms, the jumping around. Just NP that shit and be done with it. Don't tell me that requires charging via normal attacks and taking hits like a fucking game.

Worse, if you can pitch a bomb, just pitch it at the start of the fight. The stone is too small to see and will likely hit Betel directly, killing him. The end...

The fights in this show are really fancy and cool, but they are stupid as hell.

Betel's "death" was also arbitrary as fuck. His body is already dead. So, what does burning and falling off a carriage do different that suddenly makes him permanently dead..?

Rem got screwed so badly. Now she has no place. I wanted a harem end, but she just got forgotten WTF.

All that said, the direction, music, artistry involved in this episode was top notch. The director really did a great job. It was artistic without being Shafty, and that's a big achievement in anime nowadays. See Berserk.

[NeoCybercoin]

I guess fire purifies/purges him. But ultimately he passed away because his book said it was the end and he really seemed to live by that book.

According to my brother who accidentally read some spoilers, there should have been a massive shitstorm in this episode. But I suppose they're going to do that in the first ep of the second season if we'll ever get one.

[MFauli]

I read "that spoiler", too. TBH I don´t understand why they didn´t show it. Would have been the perfect cliffhanger twist to keep fans talking for years. Now it´s a cookie cutter happy end, boy got girl-ending.

And I agree, Shinta: The moment you start using your brain, all those battles become so stupid. How did Subaru know using his "skill" would keep Betelgeuse out of his body? Why is he suddenly such an experienced, cool fighter to make that cool pistol finger-gesture when shooting the fire fairy? Writing in the book with blood. sigh.

And the final slap in Rem´s face: When he told Emilia "this is the most divine lap pillow I´ve ever had my head sitting on". When just a few episodes he had his head on Rem´s lap. MESSAGE RECEIVED. :/

[shinta|hikari]

What spoiler are you guys talking about?

Time for a new sig. Rem pretty much kept sinking in the image below, destined to be forgetten under the waves.

Did the bitch Emilia even apologize for abandoning Subaru like that?

[NeoCybercoin]

So I've been thinking.The Witch's called the Jealous Witch right? Emilia has never known love like this as far as we know. Wouldn't someone like that eventually grow jealous of Rem and the other girls that are friendly/affectionate to Subaru? I wouldn't be surprised if she actually became the Witch because of jealousy. Just slowly become full on Yandere.

[shinta|hikari]

And the witch controls time. And her VA is the same as the witch. So yeah... But maybe these are all red herrings. I really hope they are.

[KrayZ33]

Awww, what a cute ending. I really hope we'll see a second season.

(Subaru nearly ruined it with his goofy comments though... god knows, I still despise that behavior.)

They really teased the witch in this last episode and her interest in Subaru (probably even "love"?). And there is still this Pride thing going on with Subaru.

[David75]

And as we have been told a lot, the witch shadow really ressembled Emilia a lot.

[Munsu]

Before people get ahead of themselves... NO, this is NOT a "season 2 confirmed" post. This is my usual, "I'm months/years behind, and I just finished it" post.

So... just quickly, I had stopped on episode 23, and finally finished this up. Overall, it was an interesting anime to watch, pretty good direction and character interaction. It felt like it had a lot of wasted moments due to the "Groundhog Day" effect, so it moved slow as fuck setting shit up, for a usually quick/underwhelming resolution to its plots.

Episodes 24 and 25 where really meh, compared to episode 23 which I recall being quite good and leaving us with an interesting cliffhanger from which to build of. That said, as underwhelming as the last couple of episodes were, the series as a whole was satisfactory from purely a character emotional journey standpoint.

Too much was setup throughout the series that was left hanging, so I hope we get more. Complaints aside, this was a cool series to watch and it delivered in spades.

These fuckwads can't let this be merely a marketing tool for the LNs, they have to produce more anime. They have to.

[shinta|hikari]

They have enough content. The problem is the next arc is as long as this anime or even longer, so they need time to prepare for it.