What are your objective reasons to find Re:Zero shit?

>>145453110
>It's popular.

I don't know whether it's shit or not. Based on the premise I have no desire or reason to watch it.

Isekai.
The medieval-esque setting is a gimmick rather than anything actually genuine.
I didn't watch much of it, nor do I want to. It's a joke.

>>145453427
This.
But I'd be willing to bet it's the typical flavor of the season show which gets nearly forgotten after a year or two.

It's Isekai which means it's the lowest form of otaku pandering trash out there.

>>145453110
He's the only reason anyone should watch this garbage. How can one man be so based?

>>145453110
fanbase

>>145453691
I don't really get how it's otaku pandering. If anything it's proven itself to be the opposite. Subaru is basically useless and humiliates himself at every turn. Only Rem likes him, Emilia clearly just pities him.

Shallow, archetypal female characters who provide waifubait rather than any legitimate entertainment value, poor world building, obnoxious and generic villains, a lack of real tension due to the reset mechanics, too many boring SoL episodes.

Subaru is the series' saving grace in that he's superficially entertaining and also gets interesting characterization and development. He's annoying at times, but that's a million times better than bland waifus like Emilia and Rem.

>>145454059
Probably because you're a deluded Re:Zero faggot. The whole premise of the show of being a NEET, going to a magical world and getting the chance to redo your life for is for otakus.

>>145454333
Yes, but his NEETdom has made him into a giant incompetent and socially retarded loser who fucks everything up more often than not, and everyone except for Rem cringes at him half the time and doesn't want him anywhere near their affairs.

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Funniest show of the season
Love seeing this spaz fuck everything up

>>145453110
Re:Zero is a masterpiece. AOTS

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>>145454460
Betleguese is more enjoyable

>>145454440
This, it's not wish fulfillment if the self insert is constantly getting cockslapped by reality, fate and cosmic horrors all at the same time.

>>145453110
too much attention on /a/ from crossboarders

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>>145453373
Should we start banning people who don't know how to greentext?

>>145453110
Generic, terrible characters, cringe, edgy.

>>145457308
it wasn't used incorrectly, go away newfag

>>145456847
It is when he's loved by people for no good reason and has a blue haired maid waifu who would fuck him if he simply snapped his fingers.

>>145454440
>>145456847
Are you faggots implying that otakus don't like that kind of MC? It's literally been the same shit ever since fucking Eva aired in the mid 90s. You need to get a reality check if you believe otherwise.

>>145457379
>stupid newfag is acting stupid

I seriously can't even

"flawed" characters are terrible in anime

beetlejuice

>>145457490
This. Also at least Shinji wasn't a NEET.

>all these newfags

>>145457534
kill yourself, maybe you are old i really don't give a shit, you are wrong. their greentext was used to indicate that that's not their actual reason, but that's why other people think it's shit. without the greentext it wouldn't have made any sense because no one admits to hating something just because it's popular. kill yourself.

>>145453373
Who are you quoting?

>>145457488
Except the maid's the only one who ever gave one fuck what he said or thought and she just got erased from reality. He's a total cock to everyone else and an entitled fuckfence who does shit for people with the expectation they will pay him back and thank him for it at his feet.

>>145457490
Why on Earth would they enjoy something that goes 'here, this is you, you're actually a huge asshole and everyone hates you'? Otaku are fucking weird.

>>145457640
Your lack of capitalization shows how big of a newfag you are. Lurk more.

>>145454059
>Only Rem likes him
That's more than enough for a guy who's supposed to be so awful.
>Emilia clearly just pities him
Most guys would love to be 'pitied' the way Emilia 'pities' Subaru, lavishing the guy because she's so kindhearted. And stop pretending she won't fall for him too.

Re:Zero is "otaku pandering". Only pretentious Westerners who want to eat up shit like this without feel ashamed think it's not.

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>>145457640
No, you actually don't just use greentext whenever you want to be sarcastic. You're being silly, if that were the case, then I would literally greentext everything I say. Sarcasm is purely contextual, greentext serves a different purpose. The only places I see idiots use it just because they're being sarcastic is /pol/, which happens to be full of newfags. Look at how >>145457619 uses it. It is typically used to quote someone or describe a situation, not just indicate that you are joking. I don't know why I'm being so nice to you and explaining this shit but be thankful nobody else is calling you out but me.

>>145457761
>i'm backed into a corner so i guess i'll just point out their grammar and call them a newfag

>>145457814
sarcasm wasn't the reason for their greentext, maybe read what i wrote again.

>>145453110
Rem is its only likeable character.
Uninspired and boring world.
Crappy dialogues and interactions.
Bellow-shit tier 2nd arc.

>>145457693
You're just focused on the fact that Subaru's a loser, which isn't unique. No one really hates him (in fact it's the opposite; people tend to accommodate for him out of goodwill), the maid is deeply in love with him despite the fact he's a loser, and he'll be shooting for Emilia, who will undoubtedly be his.

>>145457540
There are only "flawed" characters and Kiritos.

The middle ground becomes Kirito sooner or later.

>>145457910
So were you quoting someone that was saying it's popular, or condescendingly implying it's not popular? Those are pretty much the only possibilities, neither of which make any sense. I don't mind newfags if they are willing to learn from their mistakes but you're being a stubborn little cunt. Just admit you're wrong and we can be friends.

>>145453110
The most basic characters I've ever seen in anime, bitches are WET off the MC for no fucking reason at all, basically a ton of stupid bullshit we've all seen b4 nigga

>>145458022
no, just read what i said again. they used greentext to indicate that the real reason other people think it's shit is because it's popular (which i don't think is true because i have legitimate reasons to think it's shit. without the greentext it would just them saying they don't like it because it's popular, which isn't what they wanted to say. it really has nothing to do with sarcasm.

>>145453110
MC is blank slate with no past.
Character traits are "forgotten" for the sake of plot convenience.
Bad guys are edge incarnate.
Time powers are ultimate handwaving tool with no concrete rules.
Charcters relations dont grow - they just leap to certain condition.
Tons of time wasted on MC suffering.

>>145458050
Are you fucking kidding? Literally the only one that likes subaru is Rem, because he saved her life. Literally everyone else hates him.

>>145458203
But there's no implication anywhere that he is quoting /a/ or the people who think it's shit. He should have just said, "there are none, everyone just says that because it's popular." There is really no way to extract that sentence from two fucking words and a meme arrow. Greentext is used for quotes and summarizing mostly, not for whatever laziness that guy used it for.

>>145457490
Idiots think Eva is anti-otaku despite being the product of mega otaku and referencing scifi and mecha and having gratuitous fanservice and all sorts of things up the ass. Some people are this divorced from the reality of things.

>>145453110
It's literally exactly like Sword Art Online

>>145457540
>"flawed" characters are terrible in anime
Objectively incorrect.
"Perfect" main characters are garbage and if you like them you're cancer.

>>145458259
Yeah, everyone wasn't patting him on the back last episode. Emilia didn't patch the guy up despite his disobedience. Beatrice and Ram don't go out of their way to help him.

"Everyone hates Subaru" is bullshit. They typically don't expect anything from him and are understandably irked when he makes an ass of himself, but are generally okay with him and kiss him up when he does good.

>>145458374
>There is really no way to extract that sentence from two fucking words and a meme arrow.
except i did and i'm sure many others did as well, maybe if you weren't such a newfag you would have too. "It's popular" indicates the reason and the meme arrow indicates it is the reason of others. pretty simple, maybe it's lazy but it's not used incorrectly.

No logical continuity for people's actions and hit or miss dialogue in a show heavily reliant on its plot and dialogue. The madoka movie had the same problem, but it also had millions of dollars of drawings jerking off in my face

How much time has subaru actually spent with emillia in the final timelines?

>>145458533
Flawed and Perfect MCs are shit.

Middle grounds are merely waiting to be perfect

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>>145458398
That's entirely wrong and you know it.

The "comedy" is terribly unfunny
Self-insert NEET MC
The writer said that Subaru is supposed to be tragic when he's just an entitled brat
It's harem shit
Waifu-bait
Torture porn
None of the characters aside from Rem have any reason to put up with Subaru's retarded behavior since he is a complete asshole
Betelgeuse is annoying
None of the characters' deaths have any impact since you know that everything is just going to be reset anyway

NEETs will fall in love with this series because he will get a girl in the end, which gives them hope that they can be trash losers and still nab a waifu somehow.

The "looping timeline" plot has been done before many time and a lot better and is just used as a gimmick to tug at your heartstrings when someone dies without the finality and emotional impact of actually having a character truly die and not come back.

>>145458533
For you people a character who isn't visually shat on every two chapters is perfect, and if you actually believe Subaru is the archetype of a good character then you might as well kill yourself
You are on the same level of the retards who used to say that Shinji was relatable and likeable
Fucking laughable

>>145458727
There is no middle ground between flawed and perfect. The hell you talking about?

Forced suffering.

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>>145458641
No it fucking doesn't dumbass. You can't use them like that. What you are describing is sarcasm, you are jokingly doing an impersonation of someone else who you think is dumb, and we both agreed that greentext isn't used for sarcasm. If he just said, "it's popular," that response is blatantly nonsensical enough that it would we prominently sarcastic. Yet he added the greentext because he doesn't fucking know how to use it and thought it emphasized his sarcasm.

You need to review your English AND you need to lurk more.

>>145459051
Isn't every show with a conflict forced suffering?

>>145458827
>The writer said that Subaru is supposed to be tragic when he's just an entitled brat
That's the point. He's a NEET. He's not that bad of a guy, just has an oversized ego, which he starts pull back on after getting fucked for it.
>None of the characters aside from Rem have any reason to put up with Subaru's retarded behavior since he is a complete asshole
Most of them don't. Except out of pity or a feeling of debt.

>Subaru is a NEET
Eh, no. He's a truant, idiots. Still technically in high school.

>>145458940
>Shinji was relatable and likeable
>needing a character to be likeable
Subaru isn't perfect, but at least he's a change from the cookie cutter all around great guy with some minor joke flaw, or being a bit edgier against bad guys.
There are literally thousands of those characters, why do you want more?

>>145459181
He's a toxic human being. He thinks that he's always looking out for Emilia when he's actually just unhealthily obsessed with her. No one wants a cunt like that as a friend. Being a NEET isn't an excuse for that.

>>145454059
Because Otaku's fantasy to that shit of a character they can relate to

There is a reason strong confident characters dont happen in anime any more otaku's dont like them

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>>145457777
Yeah, this isn't exactly what the friendzone looks like

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>>145454059
>Subaru is basically useless and humiliates himself at every turn
Otaku's love that shit nigga

Its the opposite it is manly men that Otaku's hate. These fat fucks have ruined anime

>>145459329
>He's a toxic human being. He thinks that he's always looking out for Emilia when he's actually just unhealthily obsessed with her
Yeah, no shit. That's what makes him more entertaining to watch than a character you would like.

>>145459326
How is he a change? his is a cookie cutter beta anime hero

>Subaru isn't perfect, but at least he's a change from the cookie cutter all around great guy with some minor joke flaw, or being a bit edgier against bad guys.
There are literally thousands of those characters, why do you want more?
lol no

>>145459569
>That's what makes him more entertaining to watch than a character you would like.
No, it's not entertaining because everyone still puts up with him and his retarded behavior other than Emilia, for the moment. And you know that she's going to forgive him due entirely to the thing that made her hate him in the first place (his unhealthy obsession of her leading him to act entitled like she owed him something). It'll just be "Oh Subaru-kun you saved me again haha so I guess I'm in your debt once again :)"

It's just like Steins;Gate. A retarded faggot asshole MC that everyone is drawn to/puts up with so that the beta losers who self insert as him can feel good.

>>145459417
Emilia doesn't even know Subaru is in love with her. Girl has no common sense. The way she speaks and behaves, she likely harbors self-esteem issues of her own because of the way she's treated by others. Subaru also doesn't blather about being 'friendzoned'; that's /r9k/ shit projected by viewers.

Subaru will confess his love to Emilia and she will reciprocate. Bet on it.

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>>145458224
>bad guys are edge incarnate
Did you forget arc 2 already?

Let me preface this by saying that I dropped this show a few weeks ago, right after the first proper appearance of the big existence-eating whale, so if anything major has happened since then, I haven't been privy to it, nor do I care to be.
My beef with this show is that it's basically an uninterrupted series of tragedies. Now, I'm not naive enough to believe that every story should be sunshine and lollipops, but tragedy has a literary purpose: a stepping stone. A growth point. Subaru went through some heavy shit to overcome his predicaments, so logically, he should've matured a bit. But he doesn't. Every time he achieves some kind of minor success, the world drops another shit log on his head, and he just becomes even more of a pissy baby. Every success is systematically invalidated by another growth-less tragedy.
I get that there's a sloth theme here, like how is this somehow a karmic punishment for his wasteful lifestyle or whatever, but I would think even a lazy bastard would man up after a while, or at least have the good sense to cut his losses and elope with the girl who's already into him.
tl;dr: It's emotional torture porn, and I don't really care for it.

>>145459792
Funny, Emilia is so naive to where she doesn't understand what love is or how babies are made.

>>145459862
This has to be bait but episode 18 was literally the point where he is supposed to be "growing" he starts over "from zero" after hitting his lowest point

>>145453110
Because it's just a generic edgy fantasy show with a time loop gimmick. I thought it would end up being something unique and interesting based on how many people on here loved it so much, but it's really not anything special. It teases the audience by pretending to be the """psychological""" show that it is clearly not. It just leaves me with the feeling of being cucked, desu.

>>145459982
To be fair, I didn't watch the whole episode. I bailed right when he accidentally attacked Emilia with the ghost hands.

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>>145453110
Just looking at that fucking character gives me cancer

I like the rest of the show though

>>145460166
In these last few eps he has his breakdowns but the whole point of 18 is to realize that he isn't alone and that while it isn't much he still has the strength to forge ahead

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>>145459181
>Most of them don't. Except out of pity or a feeling of debt.
There's no indication that anyone is really pitying him. Rem and Ram both had a weird respect for him, both in cases where they felt he was suspicious and killed him and then Rem fawning over him (which is batshit crazy). Puck finds him strangely charming. Beatrice finds him annoying, but only really took pity on him the one time where he begged her for help.

It's implied several times that Emilia is lonely because she doesn't have any peers, and it was clear that part of what she liked about Subaru was that he treated her like an equal. Remember that line about her not wanting him to be his Knight? The reason that was upsetting for her was clearly because she wanted him to be at her level, not her servant.

The whole narrative of "he's supposed to be a pathetic NEET" is constantly both subverted and affirmed with no real coherence. Remember that thing about him having a really strong grip for no reason in the beginning? Remember how he tries to hide his fear by being cheering and energetic? That's not how a NEET would react to stress in the first place, because if they could do that they wouldn't be a fucking NEET.

>>145459065
i don't think you know what sarcasm is anon.

>>145460361
That wasn't the point of the episode. Subaru saw himself as worthless as no one expected anything from him and laughed at his own half-assed effort to succeed. That was until there was actually one person who had expectations for him to be a hero and accept himself and his pride.

>>145453657
It's the DanMachi of the season, and Rem is the Hestia of the season, albeit nowhere near as sexy. In any case, it'll be forgotten very soon after it ends.

>>145460361
As I said, I stopped at 17, so I wasn't aware of that. Don't think it should take 18 episodes to get some positive character development, though.

>>145458827
>Betelgeuse is annoying
Fuck off. Slothman is best girl.

>>145453110
The loli mansion arc was fucking awful, had to drop it there. They really could have condensed it to 2 or 3 episodes instead of painfully drawing it out

>>145453110
Subaru is a faggot surrounded by enablers which means he'll keep being a faggot

>>145453110
How can an opinion be objective nigga

>>145461303
>not having objective opinions
What the fuck are you even doing here?

>>145459065
>You can't use them like that.
Greentext has always been used like that

>>145461370
You're right. It's my objective opinion that this thread is just shitposting.

>>145457308
Do it pussy.

>>145461380
Holy shit this is cringe hilarious. Quit using greentext like an autist, though.

>won't listen

>>145460166
The hands are basically Satella summoning herself to shut Subaru up. She attacked Emilia out of her own act of will to tell Subaru to stop.

>>145459065
>Am I triggering you?

>>145453110
While I don't think Re:Zero is shit I won't go as far as saying that is extremely good. My concerns with this anime are the following ones
-Subaru's decisions in general
-Him trusting people so easily and taking things as given
-Not giving more screentime to the main heroine
-Using the "We do have OP as fuck guys but they are not available at the moment when you need them most" card
-His self pity monologue was good until it got to the part where he says that all his life choices lead him to not being able to do anything which honestly felt like a "Japanese NEET motivator rant"
-Took him 3 days in each loop to make each of the maids wet for him in different scenarios and yet, Emilia can't even talk to him properly about important stuff that ends up causing the end of the world because she's stupid as fuck.
-Subaru still believing that he could escape with Rem even after learning that Puck would just destroy the world after Emilia died.
-Making Rem too perfect

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>>145463139
here here

>>145453110
It's a great show. I will definitely remember it in the next few years. If people who disliked it actually watched up to episode 15/18, they'd be experiencing the emotional feelscoaster everyone else got.

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>>145462209
fuck you

fuuuuuuck you

FUCK YOU

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU

>FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK YOU

>>145453110
I don't think it's shit, but it's been quite a chore watching these last episodes.
Subaru is the cringiest MC ever.

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>>145453110
>What are your objective reasons to find Re:Zero shit?

None of the characters felt genuine
From the very beginning all of the characters behaved extremely campy
They were all caricatures of your typical anime
Emilia had and still has no personality as far as the anime stands and is just someone to be rescued by our loser unsympathetic hero.
Ram and Rem were horrid twins that finished each others sentences for cheap comedic moe value
Beetlejuice is a shallow villain that is just there for the viewer to hate him, he acts very childish. He's not even entertainingly evil. His personality is like Jared Leto's Joker, just a tryhard villain who does nothing other than shock value
Subaru's fourth wall breaking antics were bothersome to watch.

It's still entertaining because unlike other fantasy light novel shit that gets adapted into an anime, Subaru actually gets punished for his idiocy and learns.
It's passable, average.
What makes me angry is how it's a shallow as fuck anime

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>>145458533
>"Perfect" main characters are garbage

Nah

>>145453110
Im having fun with the show, though the pacing does kinda piss me off. How many volumes has it been so far?

I really like the show, but I've never hated a protagonist as much as Subaru Natsuki.

>Useless
>Stupid
>NEVER FUCKING THINKS ABOUT HIS ACTIONS
>Never tries to asses a situation

Literally it's
>Oh no, bad thing happened
>MY LIFE IS HORRIBLE I CAN'T DO ANYTHING WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

Then when the ONE person in the entire series confesses her love to him
>Nah, I love Emilia, thanks though

What a fucking idiot.

I'd love to see this show with Lelouch Vi Britannia in Subaru's place (no Geass of course). Not THAT would be somethin' to watch.

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>>145459508
Agreed.

Subaru's entire personality is a weeb/autist's projection.

I don't need him to be OP, I don't need him to win da Lia, I don't need him to go full No Game No Life mind games bullshit,

I just need a protagonist who isn't a melodramatic crybaby. A show like this is ABSOLUTELY carried by the protagonist. I just wish they wrote Subaru like they wrote Tom Cruise's character in Edge of Tomorrow.

>Couldn't fight
>in a situation way over his head
>had a love interest that borderline pitied him

But the difference between the two, is the Edge of Tomorrow protagonist THOUGHT about his actions, and understood the limitations of what can and cannot be done. When he was mistaken, he was punished and forced to start over.

Subaru just wings everything and cries when things don't work out.

>>145464979
Betelgeuse is pretty symbolic for what he represents as a deadly sin. His belief is opposite to what is his sin of Sloth. Essentially believing in diligence and love to be his way of living, in reality, he is just as guilty for his own sin of Sloth. A hypocrite by standard, but really directing his words to himself.

>>145466108
Or you know, just have a good written character like Takeru.

>>145457640
>saying kys this many times in one post

>>145453110
It's missing an important part of of the hero's journey which would be the hero's rejection of his journey/call to action.

The rejection of the hero's journey represents humans' inability to embrace change. This is, because the unknown is scary. Better to suffer in the light rather than to be lost in the dark. . Examples of this are in:

> In Zero No Tsukaima - Saitou is brought into a new world and is trying everything in his power to go back home before he accepts his role as Louise's familiar.

>Evangelion - Shinji refuses his father's wishes to enter the robot until he sees a badly injured Rei attempting to go back out to fight. It is after this emotional manipulation that Shinji begrudgingly embraces his new role as a pilot of Eva Unit-01. (Also in the beginning when Shinji ripped up the letter.)

The MCs rejected their journey before being presented with a reason they had to go. It's to preserve life as it was BEFORE the inciting incident came in and turned their world upside down. Subaru didn't reject or question it. He never wonders how he got there. He doesn't miss (former)friends, family, a pet, the internet, his video games, nothing. Not even in his lowest of lows did he even wish to go home or regret being there. He's not actively trying to find a way to get back, either.

This makes him too unrealistic of a character. This spills into other things, such as Emilia not really being a character and weak villains with no other goals than to destroy and kill. No one in this story is a truly developed character that you can empathize with.

This isn't to say that the show isn't entertaining to watch, but when people claim that Subaru is a 'relatable' character I think it's more like people are filling in the blanks that the story left for them, on purpose. This causes them to project themselves onto him which may have been the point of his character anyway.

Steins;Gate did this type of show way better.

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>>145464979
>Beetlejuice is a shallow villain
I think that's part of the point. Subaru doesn't know the man and the man has no reason to explain himself. His insanity isn't anything special, but it relates to some of Subaru's own flaws in an exaggerated manner. The main thing to understand is that Betelgeuse is constantly projecting his own faults onto others. You can probably guess his backstory from that.

>>145467129
> Rejection to call
Now this is actually something that I see is more fitted to him rejecting his own reality from the beginning. Subaru had no existance to even be worth anything or feel anything before entering a world that he has a chance to feel like he can exist. This is essentially escaping from reality that is not so different from his old world.
The villains follow orders in this series. The assasins and even Betelgeuse follow orders.

>>145467129
>It's missing an important part of of the hero's journey which would be the hero's rejection of his journey/call to action.
Wasn't the whole point of episode 18 about how Subaru gave up any hope of saving Emilia and wanted to escape that story by eloping with Rem? He even expressed how he did so little in his life outside of this fantasy realm to prepare himself for being accountable, and constantly curses himself for not being strong enough to save everyone. Even though he's reminded of his past achievements, he didn't see himself fit to save everyone. This nervous breakdown also came about after several failed attempts to reach Emilia, the most recent of which resulted in her death by "his" hands.

>>145457308

dumb makiposter

>>145453110

It's SAO for Yaharifags

>>145467348
I remember discussing Yahari before the first season of the anime came out.

How times have flown by.

>>145467129
All the villains have a modus operandi aside from monsters. Betelgeuse for example is a literal deadly sin. Yet he has a goal to bring back what he believes is god and will follow whatever orders to achieve it. Whether it be ritualistic murders. Essentially the embodiment of madness, destruction and chaos, he serves as a symbolic purpose of a sin. But his own mannerisms of calling others sloth despite being a sin himself calls the question to call him a hypocrite for his own sin. Or does he direct those words to truly himself?

>>145467129
It's less filling in the blanks and more seeing what's put in front of you. Subaru in the opening scene is someone who is pretty much sick of his life. He doesn't want to go home because he's under the impression that being summoned to this world means he's destined to be someone who matters, just like in all of his escapist isekai shit he clearly consumes.
>>145467478
I'd put it a bit differently, but I think aspects of Betelgeuse's personality are meant to be compared with Subaru. Acting genki doesn't mean you're doing anything productive or putting in real effort. Even the shit he said to Puck about how spirits live so long and waste most of their time is ironic, considering that he himself is basically a spirit that has been alive for centuries.

>>145467686
Then he's guilty of being sloth.

>>145453110
I don't think it's shit. I actually think there are really good aspects to it, but it shoots itself in the foot sometimes by earnestly playing into cliches that it could just as easily subvert or ignore.

Elsa being cheesy as fuck and talking too much during the fight at the loot house is one example that comes to mind. Seriously, she's fighting. There's no need to have her talk and talk and talk, and be so cartoonishly evil on top of it. It would've been so much better to make her a little more subdued in her manner, or alternatively have somebody call her out on the silly mustache-twirling.

>>145467765
Oh yes. He's basically just accusing everyone of his own failures, just like Subaru did in that one scene with Emilia. Betelgeuse's backstory is pretty much everything bad he says about anyone else.
>>145467950
I kind of think that it's supposed to be a cheesy and colorful fantasy world, just like Subaru always wanted. He just didn't realize how hard it would actually be to live in the place or be a hero, regardless of how silly it could be at times.

>>145468069
>I kind of think that it's supposed to be a cheesy and colorful fantasy world, just like Subaru always wanted. He just didn't realize how hard it would actually be to live in the place or be a hero, regardless of how silly it could be at times.

See, now I agree with that and it makes perfect sense thematically, but what makes sense thematically shouldn't necessarily come at the expense of the viewing experience. Elsa going on and on and being so over the top in her villainy was tedious: it didn't add anything to the story, it's not something you can stop and appreciate, it's just kind of grating to watch.

It's always tricky to introduce elements that are deliberately negative (or otherwise not altogether positive), and it can be really effective when done right. That, though? That was a swing-and-miss, in my opinion.

With all that said, I still think Re:Zero has some solid aspects to it. The fantastic direction really helps. Whoever's at the helm here is a real talent and I'll have to look out for more of their future projects.

>>145467298
No, that's actually more of the resurrection of the hero, since he swore to start from zero.

>>145468407
>resurrection of the hero
I mean rebirth

>>145453110
It has Natsuki Subaru in it.

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>>145453110
onii-sama is a side character instead of the main character

I know people dislike isekai because most characters will literally become god halfway in the story, but the west is also guilty of this, back in the day fantasy fiction in the west was full of faggots traveling to another world, discovering they were the chosen one and getting their dick sucked by a thousand sluts.

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>>145453110
True of false. Carnival Phantasm is better than Re:Zero?

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>>145468878
Is that even a question?

>>145468878
anything is better than re:zero

>>145468878
Best intro I've ever seen in my life.

I like how the last scene in episode 19 is a bunch of troops charging at the flying whale. Because that makes any sense at all. If anything they should be firing volleys of arrows and magic until it comes down to the ground.

Also Subaru could easily explain how he knows things by saying he has some type of clairvoyance.

>>145456914

It feels like a lot of explanations are missing from the anime.
If divine powers are granted through lineage, why isn't everyone that's not a noble basically a slave?

how shit it is, mostly

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>let's make Groundhog Day with lolis and fantsy shit
BRAVO JAPANA