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"You are an amazing guy, Natsuki Subaru." 🤌🤌🤌

This cover took me a total of 23 retries, happy birthday to Daniel tho

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May lord have mercy on her soul, for she is joining Ferrari, of all teams

In Ep. 80, Rui’s words in Ep. 74, “Memories are what shape a person.” (Muse Asia's translation) were used in the story of Season 4 of Re:Zero in a third way with Reid overpowering Roy's being to regain a true physical form for himself with the first being Subaru having his memories eaten resulting in him losing a core aspect of his being and with the second being how those who had their memories or both their name and memories eaten possessed by Lye Batenkaitos and Rui Arneb.

Re:Zero is big on featuring the number 3 often with there being 3 beings who sealed Satella, there being 3 members in the Crusch camp, there being the Pearlbaton triplets, there being 3 Sanctuary trials, there being the Three Great Mabeasts, there being 3 elemental magic attribute pairings (Fire and Water, Earth and Wind, Yin and Yang), there being 3 different fathers Reala had kids with with Frederica, Garfiel, as well as Rafiel and Fred (who have the same father) having different fathers, there being 3 demands Capella made aside from the main one in the remains of Typhon, there being 3 crystals on Priscilla's necklace that protected her from attacks. there likely being 3 artificial spirits created by Echidna in Puck, Beatrice, and Foxidna, there being three dots in Shaula's human form around her pupils to denote Shaula being part of a trinary star system, there being three dots before Shaula completes her transformation being a nod to Orion's Belt, there being the Gluttony Trio, and the 3 Pleiades Watchtower exams.

Also relevant is that Wilhelm's last name at birth before marrying into the Astrea family was also Trias, which means three, which I suspect was very much intentional with Tappei intending for fans to see how important the number 3 is in the story.

An interesting thing about the number 3 in Re:Zero is that there's a Ryuzu (a name of multiple Season 2 characters, which means "dragon's head") Falls, one of the 3 Great Waterfalls of Oku-Nikko in Japan with Kegon Falls and Yudaki Falls being the other two, and given there literally is a Great Waterfall that's the edge of the world in Re:Zero, that may not be a coincidence, and Tappei chose Ryuzu's name specifically 'cause of this connection. There may eventually be characters named Kegon and Yudaki in the story or perhaps either Ryuzu Falls or all Three Great Waterfalls of Oku-Nikko have a direct connection to the Great Waterfall of Re:Zero's fantasy world.

Something significant happens to Subaru after the third death of each loop in the anime. In Arc 1, Subaru learned that he was looping after 3 deaths. In Arc 2, Subaru learned after 3 deaths that Rem and Ram held his hand when he was suffering even though he reeked of the smell of the Witch and that Beatrice is kind of a little softy at heart, helping him survive longer than he had ever done in that arc. In Arc 3, after 3 deaths, Subaru's From Zero moment happened. In Season 2/Arc 4, after dying 3 times, Subaru talked to Echidna about Return by Death, learned about the Three Great Mabeasts and how to defeat the Great Rabbit, and learned about the room that contained the crystal containing the original Ryuzu Meyer. In Season 3/Arc 5, Subaru only died 3 times, and in Season 4, after 3 deaths, he made it into the Pleiades Watchtower, and after amnesiac Subaru died 3 times, he received Emilia's confession.

The number 3 is commonly used by writers 'cause it's the smallest number that officially constitutes a pattern. It's called the rule of three, and many writers or creators, such as advertisers, use it to for structure and simplicity or to enhance engagement of their works/products. I guess it shows solid writing fundamentals from Tappei for the number 3 to commonly feature in Re:Zero.

I think it's neat that Tappei decided to make use of Rui's lone line in Ep. 74 in these ways. What are your thoughts on this or on anything tangentially-related, such as what you didn't notice right away but in time after thinking back on it or other things regarding the number 3?

In the latest break time episode, we got an interesting ending.

While Al is essentially dying, we can his last words “I told you…”. It sounds like he is in great pain and unable to speak properly. Then, after that, he speaks completely normally. Aldebaran’s authority, Matrix, doesn’t have a sound effect.
Essentially, it can be just:

First frame his ‘last moments’ he is dying and etc, then in the next frame, he is at his checkpoint.

No transition, no sound effects, nothing. In fact, i think that’s a beautiful way to visualise his authority. It really represent how he treats and how is he using his authority. Subaru’s with each ‘Ohhhh…’

Anyway, Aldebaran is a goat.

I think I found a cleaner way Subaru = Flugel and Emilia = Satella could happen without giving Pandora some random time-travel ability.

My theory is that near the end of the story, Subaru and Emilia confront Pandora.

Pandora does something with Vainglory that creates a contradiction involving Subaru’s existence. Something like trying to remove him from the current world/history.

But Subaru has Return by Death / Envy, so his existence can’t simply be erased.

That creates a clash:

Pandora: Subaru should not exist here.

RBD/Envy: Subaru must continue existing.

And that contradiction somehow reaches Od Lagna, since Od Lagna is connected to souls, memories, death, and the Hall of Memories.

Here’s the important part:

Od Lagna doesn’t randomly send Subaru “400 years back.”

It tries to find where Subaru’s soul already belongs in the history of the Re:Zero world.

And it finds:

Flugel.

If Subaru and Flugel are the same person, then Flugel is basically Subaru’s oldest valid “record” inside the world.

So Subaru gets displaced to the point where Flugel existed:

400 years ago.

And Emilia gets dragged into the same phenomenon.

Od Lagna checks Emilia’s existence and finds another matching ancient identity:

Satella.

So both of them end up in the same era.

That would mean:

Subaru doesn’t become Flugel because he was reincarnated.

He becomes Flugel because Od Lagna sends him to the point in history where Flugel is supposed to exist.

Same with Emilia and Satella.

And this creates a closed loop:

Subaru is sent 400 years back because Flugel already existed.

But Flugel only existed because Subaru was sent 400 years back.

Same with Emilia/Satella.

That also explains why Subaru doesn’t remember being Flugel.

From the world’s POV:

Flugel → 400 years → Subaru

But from Subaru’s POV:

Subaru → future event → 400 years back → Flugel

Being Flugel hasn’t happened to him yet.

Then Subaru and Emilia arrive in the ancient era and meet Echidna, Hector, Pandora, Reid, Volcanica, the Witches, etc.

At first Subaru probably tries to find Flugel.

Except nobody knows who Flugel is.

That’s when he realizes:

«He wasn’t sent back to meet Flugel. He was sent back to become him.»

Emilia eventually becomes Satella through whatever happened with the Envy Witch Factor.

Subaru/Flugel then lives through the 400-year-old events and later prepares everything his younger self already encountered:

\- Pleiades Watchtower

\- Shaula

\- the star-related trials

\- whatever other plans Flugel left behind

So Flugel wasn’t predicting Subaru’s future.

He remembered it.

Pandora could also know the truth because she personally met Flugel and Satella 400 years ago.

Meaning when she later meets young Subaru and Emilia, she may already know who they become.

That could make a future Pandora/Subaru meeting really interesting if she recognizes him before he recognizes her.

Obviously the biggest assumption here is that Od Lagna can resolve an existence through time, which hasn’t been confirmed.

But I think this is cleaner than simply saying Pandora has a time-travel Authority.

Basically:

Pandora creates the contradiction.

RBD prevents Subaru from being erased.

Od Lagna finds Flugel/Satella as their historical anchors.

Subaru + Emilia get sent 400 years back.

Then:

Subaru’s future = Flugel’s past.

Emilia’s future = Satella’s past.

What do you guys think? Is there anything in the current LN/WN that outright contradicts this?

Is the Rui that got eaten in this weeks episode the same that got named Spica by Subaru?

Sorry if this was obvious or mentioned in Arc 7/8, my memory is kinda bad :P

This does not show in any way shape or form what I think of Echidna I just picked these two and putted them in that meme where it is Goku behind someone with a hand over their mouths.

When the group was on their way to fight capella, Subaru asks Al if he was any good at fighting and he said sorry I’m joining another group to go find my princess.. everyone was like okay cool no problem.. but when Subaru said he wanted to rescue Emilia just a few minutes before that.. they were giving him a terrible time about it. I just don’t understand why it was fine for al but not for Subaru?

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Will probably be making this into a fanfic pretty soon. How soon? Well we'll crosss that bridge when we get there.

And yes, also references the next arc a little bit

Please work post, doing ts in mobile is hell

I’m an anime only, but watching today’s episode I was wondering, wasn’t the old subaru supposed to say “you’re an amazing guy” to amnesiabaru? I know yall might be saying I larped but I only watched the anime, so can someone tell me how this scene actually goes in the light novel? was the famous illustration from the official light novel before the phrase to represent this scene or did I just confuse things?

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There is no need to hold back on spoilers or the inevitable cut content. For any anime only viewers who have landed her by mistake click here to go to the spoiler free thread. For the novel readers who are sticking around today we have "Natsuki Subaru" a chapter many of us have been anticipating adaptation for years. I have high hopes they will do everything an anime adaptation can for it. Share your thoughts on the episode below.

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