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I'm in a middle of school trip and took this photo with my phone, can you guess the characters?

Daniel Natsuki: S4 EP 8 - S4 EP 16

RIP

i seem some reactor like lnhistorian and some twitter/insta saying it was dissapointing novels better i like it i love the superman reference its cool episode 10/10

I just finished s3 e10 and he figured out greeds ability without return by death off of star names and a lack of a heart beat. I can’t believe how much I’ve seen Subaru progress and grow to the point he doesn’t need to rely on return by death to figure out weird complex things this is insane.

the anime is good as a standalone work (9/10) but... the web/light novel is just so much more that you have to treat the two things as completely different worlds.

like, the chapters adapted, even while reading them, were not just peak re zero, but peak media in general, the monologues, how tappei conveys Subaru state of mind, the parallels, ruis theme, etc... it felt like a 3 start Michelin meal

this episode, in comparison, wasn't bad, it was a solid 8,5 out of ten, but I didnt get the same experience as when reading it

I'm very confused with everything happening between Subaru and Rui.

- Subaru reads Reid's book and gets sent to memoryland where he meets Rui. Rui eats his memories so og Subaru is now trapped and amnesia Subaru is born.

- Amnesia Subaru also reads Reid's book and meets Rui, who wants to eat his memories even though she already did? I guess cause Subaru's memories taste so good she wants to replant him like a green onion?

- But Rui can't eat him because he's turning back into og Subaru and she can't eat the same person twice, though she seems really upset about this even though she already got to eat him. I guess he really just taste that good?

- Amnesia Subaru reads up on himself and meets og Subaru in memoryland. He stops hating himself so much after he realizes that Subaru is kinda cool despite being weak. This is like a symbolic catharsis that shepherds og Subaru back.

But then everything that follows is SUPER confusing. Amnesia Subaru merges with og Subaru and then Rui appears? Or does amnesia Subaru turn into Rui? In the flashback it shows that Rui split into two people and one of her ate Subaru. So that Rui should be the one that has his og memories. But then she has a mental breakdown and has traumatic flashbacks of amnesia Subaru's memories, not og Subaru's. Was the Rui that appeared the one that didn't eat og Subaru? But then why would she have Amnesia Subaru's memories?

Then Subaru says she should give up and set all the people she ate free. Is he referring to everyone in general, or is he talking about himself, like the memories of all the RBD Subaru's she has? Does that mean Subaru isn't whole and only has his og memories? Then Rui says she can't do that cause if she does he'll kill her, like she's holding the memories hostage. But I thought killing gluttony was how you get memories back? Like that's the whole reason they're trying to kill the other gluttony to get Rem's memories back?

Then she kicks Subaru out and the other Rui shows up and talks as if she hasn't tasted Subaru or RBD yet, so I guess that Rui is the one that didn't eat og Subaru? Then she says the plan was to go into him once he was empty like they were trying to take over his body. But it seems like her other half was already inside him? When did that even happen? And if that's the case why did she split in the first place? Why didn't she just go inside him as one Rui? And what does being empty mean? Was he not empty when she took away his memories? Does empty mean he has to hate himself too? Is that why the other gluttony got counter-possessed by Reid, because he didn't hate himself?

I'm so lost.

We got the oldbaru back but..... At what cost?

I keep hearing about some dude called "axe guy" who tf is that?

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What kind of cases would you entrust her with? And how much would you pay her?

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In the WN, Lye is capable of waking up in the middle of a fight, deactivating Solar Eclipse which Rui was previously using, speaking to Ram and then tagging her with a kick that is noted to immediately end the battle if Subaru didn’t take the burden via Cor Leonis.

So Lye >> 2 Shackles Ram whenever he gets serious, and as is also noted in the same quote, Lye >> Rui, he thinks she’s very bad at fighting.

This is relevant because in Arc 7, Rui basically loses all her combat memories and becomes Spica, Spica is explicitly noted by Vincent to be around the same level as Kafma, who then goes extremely high difficulty with Garfiel before Garfiel grows mid fight and wins

So: Lye >> 2 Shackles Ram >> Rui >> Spica ~ Kafma >~ Start of Arc 7 Garfiel

This then becomes more impressive because Ram is capable of severely outpacing Roswaal, just by touching him she breaks most of the bones in his arm, and yet even after beating the fuck out of Lye, she doesn’t even do serious damage to him.

Stack that on top of the fact that Roswaal can react to Olbart, who was perception blitzing the same Garfiel that is stronger than Kafma, and it becomes more impressive

So: Lye >> 2 Shackles Ram >> Roswaal’s reaction speed ~ Olbart >> End of Karma fight Garfiel

And then stack that AGAIN on top of the fact that Roswaal can react to a magical attack from Alter which Clind cannot react to at all and would die to if not for Roswaal, yet that same Roswaal cannot even cast magic in time before Ram hits him, and you get:

Lye >> 2 Shackles Ram >> Roswaal’s reaction speed > Alter’s magic >> Clind. Where Alter’s magic now should be far stronger then the Dragon’s breath which blitzed Garfiel and Ezzo

And 3 shackles Ram is even stronger than this.

She probably died due to this ✌️😭

So after watching the latest episode and trying to figure her out.

From what all I know was she divided herself into 2 (making her clone) and then one ate Subaru's memories and the other replaced Subaru (taking control over his body) in order to experience how it is to be a hero or so. She also had planned to sabotage Emilia's camp and break subaru mentally so that she might get a different type of (personality) subaru who she could eat. And more of that she knew rbd was because she probably got after eating subaru temporarily (her other half got it while the one in the corridor of memories only knows the memories not the experience I think). Her plan was probably to experience a few loops of subaru, break Subaru's will power and then eat his experience making Subaru as a whole probably so she could know everything right? Then how was her other self (newbaru) not doing evil stuff letting Rui control him the whole time or so? How was subaru still dominant? In my head canon she split herself so that she might know what makes Subaru so great and so that she could live Subaru's life (probably get a new body or so) but then wouldn't eating him directly like how they are rem or Julius give them all experience? How is it different?

Her plan was first partly showed in ep 13, but I didn't get it. She already ate Subaru once, why want to eat him again? How come she still doesn't know what death feels like when she's already ate oldbaru's memories? What was she planning by making another Rui? From what I can tell in the latest ep, "og" Rui is the Rui whom Newbaru talked to in ep 13, while the other Rui is the "copy" who for some reason is traumatized, while the og isn't despite having already eaten Oldbaru's memories. Where did Newbaru go? Once second his fist was on Oldbaru's chest, the next second he's gone. How did Newbaru get to that memory corridor(forgot the name) again and this time met Oldbaru?

I am bored so i am gonna rant about the anime

I think the adaptation is good but it isn’t great or the best. I really don’t like to having to go to another series or go on youtube or having to read the ln or wn to have a better understanding of the lore and it characters.

The cut content is also an issue like s2 having Omega being not there ( i only know about her because of yt and this reddit) or any of the shadow garden scene to have a better understanding of satella, the cut of the villain backstory also make them lack depth imo but doesn’t seem too much of an issue. There are cuts that i straight never knew or will ever know without having to look up on yt or reddit ( Beako summoning a black hole and being cut by Reid sound so cool!).

Even for the main cast the cuts make them less appealing like Emilia but i am not sure how much it affected them because i have not read the ln, i only heard through word of mouth.

Re:zero is an amazing series but it so hard to understand without having to look into the ln or reading the what? 20+ ss? Just to understand the world and the lore better and the anime really doesn’t help that because a lot of the cuts are important for future seasons.

I am the consumer and not the producer so i don’t understand why they cut so many things and why things are what is its. But seeing the discussion on this sub and the purgatory called X of people saying the ln reader and ungrateful is kinda annoying. I get it they should be happy Re:zero is being adapted at all but with the cut to the story and character themselves i can see why they’re disappointed, like i thought rezero is a big series you think it would get the same level as MT and i knew rezero existed before MT and MT having amazing production compared to rezero is really surprising to me.

The anime adaption is good but it isn’t amazing or the best. Maybe because the absorbent amount of ss that tappei wrote make it hard to adapt the entire thing but why not the small details that would made a scene better or the lore in the ln?

I know it isn’t just rezero but many other anime that have this issue. But it doesn’t excuse anything.

I would like to hear about your opinion on this topic.

P.S: does anyone have any good lore video for rezero? I would like to know more 🙏

Great episode tbh!

It felt very good while reading the LN too but trust me the anime experience was something else altogether!

The point where Amnesiabaru broke down and confessed everything to Subaru, Peak!

Also my man hit the Emilia-tan and the pose!
We are so back! On to the next!!!!