Re:Zero thread

[Bamyasi]

Rem

Point and laugh, everyone. Point and laugh.
[spoiler]But yeah I see what you're saying. It would've aligned somewhat more with the Nietzchean themes of the show had it ended on a darker tone, with at least one permadeath of a major character or something, but I think writers opted for at least a pretense of closure. A lot of people on /a/ were saying Corolla didn't develop or whatever but I think he did. His story is one of embracing circumstance and in that regard I'd say he passed.[/spoiler]
Also who doesn't want there to be more Freudian psychosexual motifs in this show? I think both you and I might have a problem with misplaced or overly-high expectations (having both had the exact same response to KlK's final act), so I feel your pain. There definitely wasn't the same level of bathos as in either Danganronpa anime this season so in my book it at least lived up to expectations as an animated clusterfuck which took itself at least semi-seriously.

Really don't think rtil's missing much if he drops it now though.

[rtil]

>episode 18

wtf i hate anime

[rtil]

Really don't think rtil's missing much if he drops it now though.

i am going to see it through to the end (and probably regret it)

[rtil]

seriously though i've already gone on a rant about subaru, i still hate him and i'm glad he's admitted he's nothing more than a piece of shit, but what is the deal with rem? she spends half the episode talking about her subaru x rem fanfiction to his fucking face like she's been thinking about it for the couple of weeks he's known him. rem was shown in the beginning to be highly untrusting of people to the point of killing someone if they were even a slightly vague threat. then she falls in love with him because he saved her life through sheer luck and willpower? for the last couple episodes she's been following him around like a lapdog, she'd jump off a fucking bridge if it'd make subaru happy. and don't even get me started on subaru's love for emilia, at least puck has killed him (twice) for trying to white knight her and failing miserably.

[Kött]

Yeah, Rem's development does seem a little retarded from a distanced viewpoint... but I guess most waifu material is based on rather unrealistic characters who undergo a questionable development. There aren't many anime which do it right, so at the moment only Toradora comes to my mind when I try to think of a comprehensible hype for a female character. Although, the general rule seems to be - the more messed up, the better (Lucy, Yuuno Gasai, Watamote etc.)

[rtil]

if she was only put there to be waifubait then they did their job well. it's disappointing from a storytelling perspective though

[rtil]

welp i finished it. first impression: 4/10, although i feel it might be too harsh. there were moments i genuinely liked, but the anime pussies out on every theme it dabbles in except cornball chivalry, so overall it was mostly a waste of time.

[spoiler]Did they explain where he got that fireball thing that he threw at the sloth priest in the first fight or what exactly he did to avoid becoming possessed or what exactly he did with the book to finish the guy off? And even more importantly: How did he know that it would work? Where did he get the information? Did I miss something or is it simply impossible to follow for someone who hasn't read up on the details from the novel?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]what i assume is that at the time he was still sharing a "body" with Julius. i think writing blood in the book (he wrote "the end" i think) just shocked Betelguese because he tainted his holy book that he cares so much about, and throwing it distracted him. he wouldn't have been able to read the writing in blood anyway because nobody in that world can read Japanese (although they can speak it just fine). how did he know it would work? he didn't really.. he was just confident and, again, through sheer willpower made his plan work. and there wasn't time for him to die again so they had to wrap things up [/spoiler]

[spoiler]Many other things felt incredibly rushed, like the special skill of the merchant or the end of the episode itself... it feels like so much is missing... many of the other important characters are not even shown or mentioned anymore. Yet, everyone is alive and happy and the mood just seems all too well, considering how many things are yet a mystery to the hero.
None of the initial questions from the beginning of the show were explained even remotely. We still have no idea why and how the main guy was transported to the world and what his purpose might be... Other characters such as Puck just became more and more suspicious towards the middle, but those incidents seem to have been forgotten completely and are not even questioned by the main guy.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]we also don't know or understand why Subaru has "return from death", how it works, why it changes, where it came from, who gave it to him, or.. basically anything about it. we can speculate but we don't know for sure. it's almost as bullshit as the time traveling power from Erased except only slightly less convenient beacuse he doesn't seem to have any control over where it takes him, and he has to die to activate it.

we also don't know why Emilia called herself Satella in the beginning of the show, why Puck can transform into a mass-murdering demon beast, and characters like Ram or the loli with the forbidden library didn't get enough development and honestly served next to no purpose.

supposedly there will be  2nd season but i dont' know what the fuck it would be about since i don't know anything about the source material and frankly don't care.[/spoiler]

i was gonna write more about it, but after looking at the MAL page, this review touches on most of my issues with re:zero and why it annoyed me so much. but unlike him, i would not recommend it to anyone.

[Bamyasi]

Should have gone with your gut tbh.

[spoiler]I'd give it a generous 6/10.[/spoiler]

Hoping it gets darker in subsequent seasons if I bother watching them.

Also the show is kind of about overcoming things through sheer willpower so that part didn't really bother me. The chivalry neither as it's a quasi-Gothic medieval fantasy.

[rtil]

i didn't mind it with the old dude. subaru is just into his white knight power fantasy and the dumb bitches in his life enable him.

[Bamyasi]

I wouldn't say Emelia did until the end, but that's part of why the finale felt hamfisted imo.

[rtil]

yeah i didn't really get that. everything was very rushed near the end.

[Kött]

Alright. Let's just end this.
Felix is best girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8z-4yx0Pf0

[BluPhoenix]

i agree

[Bamyasi]

The more (less) I think about this show the more mediocre it seems.

rtil, Digibro and a large portion of /a/ were right.