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.