Thread 283246603

Is it one of the best Isekai series?

>>283246603 (OP)
It had potential during the first 3 arcs. Had some cringy shiT but the horror was very well done to, so it was forgiving. Arch 4 was meh. Tons of tropes, cringe and retarded shit during arc 5 for some reason Arc 6 was surpisingly peak. Everything after is trash

>>283249380
Arc 6 was definitely peak. Apparently season 4 is only 19 episodes as of now. Hopefully they don't fuck it up.

>>283246603 (OP)
Its quality is entirely relative and only notable because isekai almost universally sucks

>>283249657
Apart from the ones in Isekai Quartet, are there any other good ones?

>>283246603 (OP)
Reminder that the girl in that image tortured the innocent man with her for pretty much no reason

>>283250040
MAR came out before the modern isekai trend, and so it actually justifies the fact that it's an isekai rather than just being one for no fucking reason
It's not amazing or anything, it's just generally decent and shows it was made by someone who actually loved what they were making
Which is a kind of genuine heart that the whole genre is extremely lacking these days

>>283246603 (OP)
Yes, but that's not that hard since isekai is a trash genre.

>>283250080
she was bipolar

>>283250080
It makes sense in context and manages to actually make her cuter

>>283246603 (OP)
of course it is, you have cute daughters like petra and antagonists you understand like al

>>283250080
Went through the most traumatic experience of her life as a child with her sister. Then a strange man enters their life with the exact same traits as the witch cultists.

>>283250566
>was

Didnt the last chapter thread just die and the one before that take 8 days to end? Holy dead series

>>283246603 (OP)
Yes

>>283251135
I don't think a lot of people noticed there was a chapter because the OP was lying and then only incidentally became right later.

Why does Ram want clown dick

>>283246603 (OP)
No. The main characters are nothing special and arguably pretty bad. Its the side characters who have made it succeed. Problems is the MCs have to be focused on. Would be better if they dropped the MCs and gave us a Ram and Rem show or the witches show.

>>283251267
Well, no one gave enough of a shit to post a new one so

>>283251518
There wasn't that much to talk about anyway, it was just a big fight.

>>283251610
Man this type of shit should have happened with Rem in arc 7. Ts will never get animated

>>283251651
Nobody would be able to handle Yae's toe rings, the world isn't ready for it and studios would fold before being able to animate it.

Betty and Subaru have been stuck together in the orb for how long now?

>>283251610
>>283251668
Even the fanart can’t handle Yae’s toe rings. Tf is she doing wearing shoes here?

>>283251676
Long enough for Subaru’s little Subaru to pop one in Betty, I suppose

>>283251676
That one betty hentai gif makes my dick rock hard everytime I see it

>>283251610
Didn't this literally happen yesterday? How is there already fan art?

>>283251835
Autismo

>>283251835
There's usually fan art fairly quickly after chapters. The Japanese are slower on this one because of the ass random update time.

>>283246603 (OP)
Did I miss the chapter thread?

>>283251668
Hopefully Rem catches up to Al and brings Yae along for revenge

Do people here not like Overlord? I think Overlord is the best isekai.

>>283252892
Yeah, you did

>>283253063
Sir this is a Wendy's.

>>283250566
Was?

>>283251054
God, Ram and Rem were such ugly little goblin children. They grew up to be pretty cute but god damn.

>>283249380
>Arch 4 was meh
That was the best one until Arc 6 though.

>>283251651
It will only take 3 more seasons to get to this point though

Konosuba or pre-ED jobless

>>283252654
Unironically the closest thing we have to a healthy relationship in the Emilia Camp.

>>283251610
> Boots
Kill yourself

>>283250566
> was

>>283251676
Surely she's been absorbing mana from Al this whole time?

So is the dragon dead or what? I wasn't able to parse out what specifically happened with it being whacked in the core. I know it got off a final shot that let's Al get to the geyser, but did they seriously kill the divine dragon?

>>283246603 (OP)
It's good at season 1
It's utter dogshit at seasons 2 and 3

>>283254589
Yeah, I killed him personally

>>283254589
That final got Aldebaran's mind out of it

>>283250040
If we're talking about anime in particular you can probably count the shows that actually looked good animation wise on your fingers. 1 hand if you don't count new seasons of something that started running earlier.

Reminder Priscilla is younger than Liliana

>>283254914
I meant to put in the last 5 years on this but I'm retarded and forgor.

>>283251196
Based selection

also
>BALLS

>>283246603 (OP)
I find it pretty dull a lot of the time.

>>283254940
Two S tier characters in that video

>>283251817
Which one, bbaltong?

>>283251418
A clown going for clown dick.
It is only natural

>>283255757
I just want Ram to be happy

>>283256178
But she's hotter when she isn't

>>283253895
>only
Shut the fuck up

>>283255502
Nah, sadieyule. The one with the pov under her belly

>>283246603 (OP)
it is the best isekai

>>283256619
Facts

>>283251196
I dont know the one in the center.

>>283257480
Ixion Saga DT. He's not the main character.

>>283246603 (OP)
Decent, I give it a B on the college scale, but I dropped it after Rem confessed her feelings to Subaru and he rejected her.
Not because I think she's better or worse than Emilia, but I just couldn't stand it. This is probably the only such case among all the anime I have watched
>>283250040
Konosuba and Tensura

>>283246603 (OP)
Decent, I give it a B on the college scale, but I dropped it after Rem confessed her feelings to Subaru and he rejected her.
Not because I think she's better or worse than Emilia, but I just couldn't stand it. This is probably the only such case among all the anime I have watched
>>283250040
Tensura
inb4 meeeetings; if you have destroyed attention span you can always skip them

>>283246603 (OP)
no

>>283246603 (OP)
Season one is an interesting horror mystery and character story. But the world and side characters are kinda dogshit so it becomes really stale once the novelty of the core concept wears of

Arc 9 Chapter 51: Yae Gets Tickled and Dies
After getting fed up with Yae almost killing here several times by wiggling her toes around, Rem grabs one of her feet and tickles it with oni aggressiveness. This causes Yae to lose control of her threads and accidentally decapitate herself.

The world of Re:Zero will be a happier place without Emilia and Satella

>>283246603 (OP)
I don't normally like isekai and I like it so it mist be doing something right I guess.

>>283246603 (OP)
Yes

It's actually the best

>>28326046
Least degenerate Yaefag

>>283260460
It'd be believable if Yae was still fighting Emilia

I'm really expecting Al to live.
Priscilla's last speech would feel empty if he just became the enemy of the world and then died

>>283262777
He did die, he just gets better.

>>283262777
He won't die. They'll probably team up after throwing the orb into the geyser results in a colossal fuck up of something.

>>283263758
He dies all the time bro.

>>283256816
They’re about to put out 2 seasons in 2 years. You sound dumb as fuck right now

What happened to this guy? Are we ever gonna see him again? I'm anime-only btw

Al will probably sacrfice himself to take out Satella telling her "Your stars were unlucky you nasty BITCH" he'll then pull a Vegeta and blow himself up and Emilia will get caught in the blast radius looking like this, then Subaru, Rem, Petra, Beako, Meili, Ram and the rest of the gang all lived happily ever after, the camera pans to Subaru who somehow managed to turn Puck into his rug.

>>283264043
You watched him die and you're asking that?
He sort of makes an appearance as Subaru's headmate provided they don't skip shadow garden stuff. Although the anime has historically cut basically all those scenes so we'll see.

>>283264043
Regulus has a third trial line, so we will probably see him in the Shadow Garden at some point

>>283264664
wut, no he didn't.

>>283264491
> he'll then pull a Vegeta
Priscilla, Yae... I'm doing this for you, and yes, even for you brother...
*Ol shamaks all over the place and dies*

>>283264700
He kinds of does(?
Tappei wrote a bunch of extra third trial lines on his Twitter a few years ago, and every Sin Archbishop and Witch got one.

>>283265177
If Priscilla winked in my presence I would cum on the spot

>>283250040
Most of the best isekai are pre-SAO anime

>>283251196
Grimgar should not be on this list after it drops the ball. Replace it with Magic Knight Rayearth, or even Digimon Adventure

> pre SAO anime
> Digimon Adventure
Ojii-san thread

>>283249380
Arc 4 was fine in the WN.
You could practically taste the despair at times.

>>283265420
I'm anime only. I judge on what i saw.

>>283250080
>for pretty much no reason

>>283263860
Because S4 was originally supposed to be part of S3, this has been known since even before the season finished airing
>>283264043
>what happened
Canonically we don’t know. It was either drowning or heart failure, but the official cause of death in the author’s tweets is ‘wedding’ since none of this would have happened if the dumbass didn’t bring all his wives to the same spot.

>>283266151
But it’s still two seasons regardless of what they were planning out so it’s not like they can’t do it again

>>283265930
Honestly the pacing on the anime was kind of fucked too. If they'd have done an hour first episode and ended it with Manato dying they probably could've adapted volume 3 and ended it on that cliffhanger and between the increased retention from actually having something happen in the first episode and sequel baiting it may actually have gotten a second season. The story does become a bit of a shitfest later, but they probably could've gotten a good 3 or 4 seasons out of it before everyone checked out on the drawn out return arc into Wonderland.

>>283264043
He's in the shadow garden with her

New chapter today?

>>283249380
What was anime season 3 converted to arc(s)?

>>283268495
Season 3 was arc 5, season 4 will be arc 6

>>283246603 (OP)
bro it's isekai

it's not exactly a high bar to clear

>>283267313
I'm anime only and both the pacing and airing of the last series was awful, made a huge mistake trying to watch that one while it aired.

>>283263902
this bitch is crazy

>>283268955
Then I guess I agree with that anon who posted that. s3 was the weakest so far.
Good to hear that the next season has potential though.

>>283267333
They never cared about eachother.

>>283269412
That's what they want you to think

>>283269770
There's no indication it isn't the case.

>>283269101
Which one?

>>283250080
You're retarded

>>283250080
/a/ attempting to be media literate. Challenge level: impossible.

>>283269412
>>283270087
Echidna and Regulus don't even know who each other are.
>>283267333
That's Echidna blindbro and Echidna isn't in the shadow garden, that's Satella's thing.

>>283270681
Echidna probably knew about Regulus but didn't care about his existence.

>>283270681
She was definitely watching him, considering he has the greed factor

>>283271090
>>283271251
>She was definitely watching him
>Source: my ass
Subaru literally asked her about it and she says she knows not a single thing about the current world, who has the factor or what they can do. She *could* know anything if she wanted to use her book but she refuses so she doesn't know shit. I don't know why you morons keep asserting over and over in direct contradiction to the story that Echidna is omnipotent and omniscient and knows absolutely everything about everything at all times. That is literally against her very ethos.

Echidna is shocked to find out Roswaal is alive, she needs to be told by Subaru what's going on with Betty. And you think she's keeping tabs on people she never has reason to know exist in other countries in a way she is entirely incapable of doing?

>>283272010
>>283272094
How do we know anything she's saying is the truth then? So she was bullshitting the second Subaru entered the tea party just to try make him sign the contract with her? She said at the start she knows about return by death and even saw Subaru use it.

>>283272010
Castledona/Omegadona saw him during Moblia's flashback so that's that.

>>283246603 (OP)
Not really

>>283250040
Mushoku Tensei is easily the best isekai and its not even close. Also the best MC despite all the kvetching.

I like the girls in re:zero, even Emilia. Subaru fucking sucks though.

>>283246603 (OP)
It's dog shit. I couldn't get past the stupid fuck falling in love with what's her name and deciding to dedicate his life to her after like three episodes.
Plus he is whiny useless bitch for someone with such an op ability.

>>283273359
Harems are only fine if it ends up monogamous.
I dropped MT when I learned it has polygamy.

>>283273502
>Harems are only fine if it ends up monogamous.
>Harems
>monogamous
you seem confused about what a harem entails. anyway, he married all of his harem, which is inarguably better than marrying one and having a bunch of fuckmeat/concubines lying around.

>>283273359
Isn't the mc a creep?

>>283273583
Harem is a genre.
And the best outcome is picking one and rejecting the rest.

>>283246603 (OP)
Yes.

>>283273641
he's a pervert.
this is 4chan. who isn't?

>>283275049
So that makes you want to watch it?

>>283272237
Because she doesn't lie. She will leave things out and can to some extent twist perception, but not a blatant lie like "I don't know anything about the witch cult or current witch factors or who holds them". The "lie" would be she could know if she wanted to use her authority but she won't.
>So she was bullshitting the second Subaru entered the tea party just to try make him sign the contract with her?
She actually doesn't really want him to do that, though she's fine with either result if it comes down to it.
>She said at the start she knows about return by death and even saw Subaru use it.
No, she can't see Subaru use it, she resets, she can just read the mind of anyone in her tomb, duh. She knows about RbD the same way she knows about Earth.

>Watched S3, didn't like it all
>Surely I'm missing something
>Read skipped chapters, still feels like something is missing
>Start trudging through LN, barely anything different so far
i think i need to stop giving arc 5 so many chances and just read on

>>283275687
If Echidna is not watching Subaru and doesn't know about the current world, then why did she even bother offering a contract in the first place if she doesn't really care? Doesn't she get intel from Al anyway?

>>283276063
The only thing really missing from arc 5 unless you care deeply about mr poopypants is just some more context to Garfiel's stuff and more to Theresia's backstory that I think enriches things but isn't strictly necessary given that you get the idea with just the cut down version the anime presented.

>>283276079
>If Echidna is not watching Subaru and doesn't know about the current world, then why did she even bother offering a contract in the first place if she doesn't really care?
Why are you asking stupid dumb fuck questions if you're so retarded and care so little about the series you don't know the primary character motivation of a character you're asking about that automatically answers your question, dumbfuck? She doesn't know about Subaru until he shows up there, then she's curious about him, like she's curious about EVERYTHING. It is literally her whole point as a character. You're so fucking beyond stupid for even asking
>doesn't know about the current world, then why did she even bother offering a contract in the first place if she doesn't really care?
Like how fucking big of a moron are you that you missed her entire character when they beat you over the head with it? You are literally the dumbest knuckle-dragging retarded nigger who has ever been in these threads. Holy fuck you are beyond stupid desperately coping about your own head canon that is just wrong, always was wrong, and was so blatantly wrong I don't know what you even think happens in the story with how obviously wrong your retarded assertions are. I don't even know what level of -tiary you have to be to be as fundamentally wrong and stupid as you are.
>Doesn't she get intel from Al anyway?
No, retard.

>>283276096
I think its less lore info and more in a psued way, the point? Felt like previous arcs had pretty nice balance of overt and subtle themes and at best I have shonen tier power of friendship and uhhh love again

>>283276079
>Ummm... actually Echidna is omniscient and knows everything and is tracking everyone with magic psychic powers all the time
>But also she needs intel from a retarded dude
Pick one, retard.

>>283276202
Well the anime dropped a lot of subtle elements from what Garfiel and Theresia were doing and why, which enriches those sideplots. Not strictly necessary to understand them, it just makes them weaker and in Garfiel's case gives a lot less impact to what he's doing in the arc. The series itself is mostly about love so power of love is just constantly going to be a thing, and that love includes love between friends.

>>283275671
it was part of the appeal, yes. he matures out of it as the story goes on.

>>283276234
>includes love between friends
Yeah I guess in my pea sized brain I assumed if the conflict was less on his own failings, then it'd come from testing the new friendships he relies on. I honestly thought it was going to devolve into a candidate battle royale and there'd be a betrayal of some sort, it's the most obvious "gruesome" thing you could do to a friendship.
But besides the vague fakeouts with Lust it wasn't really a thing. If anything the familial stuff of Garf and Astrea seems like they'd better fit the previous arc themes (not that there was any room to squeeze it in).
might just switch to the WN again, heard the LN fixed/altered some plot points but the WN is just ten times faster to read with not that big of a prose drop

>>283276063
Season 4/arc 6 will be good

Would Emilia love me if I petted her head?

>>283277132
She would be confused.

>>283277132
She doesn't know what love is

>>283250080
Based Remu

Rem's blue pubes

>>283276168
>She doesn't know about Subaru until he shows up there, then she's curious about him, like she's curious about EVERYTHING.
Wrong, she does, she tells him he met her before he was supposed to and gave aldebaran the mission to seal him before Subaru was summoned into Lugunica, it seems you need to reread the novels as much as that anon

>>283279969
Based

>>283279969
Imagine the pink ones

>>283279969
>>283281221

>>283281221
Ram is extra cute today.

>>283273359
You have to go back.

>>283276408
The WN and LN at this point aren't particularly different. There's some relatively minimal changes to arc 6+. Friendships are generally not tested that much, though this upcoming season includes basically as close to that as you're going to get with Ram and Subaru, then there's a prophesized falling out between Subaru and Reinhard but we're not there yet.
Even the biggest thing that could cause future strife finding out about Subaru and RbD and Satella doesn't cause the person who finds out about it to come in conflict with him

>>283246603 (OP)
No

Why is Ram so dumb and useless yet so smug and arrogant, what is he problem

>>283283504
She's not dumb, but she is crippled. She doesn't want people thinking of her as crippled and would rather they think of her as arrogant and lazy. She also maintains her previous personality despite being greatly weakened to try and assure Rem that she's fine and the same and is still her big sister she can rely on.

>>283277297
What if I petted her twice tho?

>>283283831
> She doesn't want people thinking of her as crippled and would rather they think of her as arrogant and lazy
Anon fell for the Ram propaganda

>>283285879
Anon she's not lazy, its agony for her to even move and nobody can figure out how she physically even does it because she's not supposed to. Linking her up with Subaru wrecks his ass from sharing just part of her usual strain.

>>283286095
> Day 1 Amnesiabaru tanked Ram's condition + The injuries of half of the Arc 6 gang as a regular human
Maybe Ram is just weak

>>283286244
No, she had to turn it off at some point or he'd die.

>>283286404
their thighs look incredibly soft and inviting...

>>283286398
When Subaru took Ram's burden, he felt like shit, but was more than capable of walking around
It is only when Ram was abusing her oni strength to keep Lye on check that Subaru felt like dying
Mind you, that was the amnesic Subaru that didn't know what was going on, Prime Subaru has way more pain tolerance

>>283286404
This pic feels way more AI generated than usual, maybe I'm finally developing my third eye

>>283286404
>>283287031
Rams boobs too big

>>283286670
>Ram breathing is fucking Subaru up
>Ram starts actually moving a little more than she can normally and he wants to die
>Ram has to cut the link to actually go ham or she'd outright kill him

How many headpats would it take for Ram to slap me?

>>283287470
You wouldn't even get to start the first one.

>>283287211
Best girl Ramu is very considerate of others.

So 19 eps has been confirmed by like 80% of the sources from Ice. No extended ep1. It's truly joever.

>>283287778
First episode is setup so it’s really 18 episodes.

>>283287562
In that case, how many headpats would it take for Ram to slap me IF Roswaal said I was allowed to do so?

>>283288010
They'll skip Shaula's backstory and give us a trillion billion extra Emilia shots

Gentlemen, I havve successfully made it clear that Emilia a shit in that elf thread, no need to thank me, just doing my job.

>>283288174
The reviews will be destroyed if this happens

>>283288284
How weird, I'm sure I made it clear that Emilia was just an average cute girl trapped in a series with a retarded fanbase

>>283288496
The only retards are Emilia's own (western) fanbase who can't stand the fact that most posters prefer other girls.

Petra committing suicide by ReinGOD when

>>283289798
Never, Petra clears Reinfraud

>>283290817
Plot armor alone won't be enough to save her, anon, the clock's ticking

>>283291829
Subaru will not let this happen

Spooky witch for spooky season

>>283293046
Damn, everyone's mom looks like THAT?

>>283293583
Wait until you hear about the Petra IF...

>>283246603 (OP)
Rem won

>>283293724
Is this some kind of 5toubun crossover?

>>283294012
It's not Yotsuba

>>283294012
Petra played her ultimate card and now has the trashbag hair of winners.

>>283292800
Yeah bro, he would never allow someone to die without trying to save them, it has never happened before and will never happen again, it's not as if there is a third trial line that basically confirms that she is going to die by Reinhard's hand or anything lol

>>283294519
>it's not as if there is a third trial line that basically confirms that she is going to die by Reinhard's hand or anything lol
Well there isn't.

>>283294519
Wasn't that line referring to Rui since she still shares the authority?

>>283294649
> ???: “You’re absolutely right. That kid was our enemy, and our wounds were deep . If we withdrew here, considering that neither of us can heal, maybe we wouldn’t have been saved.”
> ???: “In that case…”
> ???: “But they were just a kid—— And isn’t that enough?”

> Again, the scene changed. Now she witnessed a thick forest, two people standing at the edge of a steep cliff. She could not see their faces. But she knew both of their voices. One was very familiar, and though the other one was not, she did remember it.
> The two were facing off before that cliff, one of them kneeling, the other looking down at the kneeling party. Emilia felt like both looked horribly miserable.

> ???: “You… You are a hero. A hero… is all, you can ever be!”
> ???: “I…”
> ???: “Why thank you so very much for your help !”

> One silhouette reached their hand out to the other, who turned their face away and left those inconsiderate words of gratitude.
> It felt like it had been a definite farewell between these two people. A goodbye laced with only irreparable woe and disappointment.
It is either Petra or Spica

>>283294706
We all thought so until Petra decided to become a witch for no fucking reason

>>283294724
>It felt like it had been a definite farewell between these two people. A goodbye laced with only irreparable woe and disappointment.
That's between Subaru and Reinhard right? It feels a bit too early for them to no longer be friends when there's still 3 more arcs.

>>283294724
Everything about what you said is wrong.
>that basically confirms that she is going to die
Nothing is confirmed, no indication who it is. Petra is one of the least likely because she's just some village girl citizen of Lugnica and even Subaru agrees with the concept that whoever it is in an enemy. That excludes Petra who isn't an enemy and wouldn't become one that Subaru would acknowledge as such. So it has to be Rui/Spica or someone else. Meili used to be more of a candidate but she seems largely redeemed by now and Reinhard personally knows her.
There is also not much saying what happened either.

So no, there is not some third trial line "confirming" shit about Reinhard personally killing Petra you retard.

>>283294799
Its not for no reason, and she's just using the box, she hasn't even absorbed a factor because the Melancholy factor can be used externally. If you wanted her to not be a "witch" anymore you just take the box away from her.

>>283294799
It's just Satella freaking out that Petra knows the conditions of Subaru's authority, which can probably be removed with gluttony. I don't think Reinhard would do that to her given she's not actually a witch.

>>283295073
Are they even friends to begin with? They have interacted like three times at most

>>283295748
> which can probably be removed with gluttony
I would say this would be worse than killing her.

>>283295748
If Reinhard can do anything then Satella has to already be mellowed out or dealt with, otherwise he's on tardwrangling duty.

>>283296033
They're friends because Subaru treats him like a person and not a hero that solves everything.

>>283296433
> Reinhard, I know you are a guard and probably have shit to do and we just met, but I need you to look all around the city for a silver haired elf and tell her NOT to go to the slums, no, I won't tell you why, stop asking questions and do my biding
> Reinhard I need you to stall The Strongest™ Sin Archbishop that has ever lived while I think about stars and shit
So humanizing

>>283297212
That first one showed someone was concerned about Reinhard's safety, which is super novel for him.

>>283251676
do not listen to these anons, betty is only a platonic daughter for barusu

>>283297344
And telling Reinhard he'll cover any areas he misses when they team up

Reinhard is one of the few characters in fiction who could stalemate or defeat Saitama if Saitama doesn't know about Od Laguna

>>283299036
I mean, Reinhard's Third Trial Line specifies that if Reinhard and Subaru didn't run for their lives they would be dead, so it would make total sense if said kid is Petra.

>>283300029
Reinhard would never be able to get away carrying Subaru.

>>283300029
Petra will save everyone.

So bros, the first episode of S4 will air November 1st at that convention in Italy. What's the lowdown on watching it? Will it be posted online in any capacity or are we going to have to watch some anon's built-in glasses camera like some bootleg movie pirates?

>>283300924
No, it won't be broadcast. Its a convention thing. So your hope is a camrip of shit quality or that the Italians are as bad about leaks as the French.

>>283276096
>>283276063
The anime massively cut down Regulus' scenes and nerfed him. An attack he used to vaporize a city block in the novels was blocked by Emilia with an ice shield in the anime

>>283301170
I feel like they might release it on YouTube after season 3 was leaked.

>>283301386
wtf i love the anime now

>>283301170
So you're saying we need the ultra-HD 4K gimbal camera strapped to the head of a chicken in the audience. Some pasta bro must make this happen.

/a/nons, I think I love Emilia...

>>283301742
I would doubt that, its not being advertised as an early release and it would still air in January as normal. This is a preview for a convention, they would've paid a fair amount for the exclusivity.

>>283301849
That's a nerf to what we should have gotten dumbass

>>283273359
Fuck off scumbag

>>283302025
I suppose, but that event also has QnA from the voice actors. One can remain hopeful to not watch a low quality leak.

I'm starting to think Subaru's obsession with Emilia is just him taking after his father. He found a retarded girl who needed protection and decided to stick to her like glue to ensure no one can take advantage of her.

>>283302214
He didn't think of her as retarded for awhile, but it is notable that her being retarded doesn't bother him and his mom is retarded. On Emilia's side his creepy eyes don't bother her because her "mother" had them. So take of that what you will that they maybe both want to fuck their moms.

> Baru's mom is retarded
Source?

>>283302380
The novel? His dad locked her down after he had to rescue her a second time from being sent by the same people in a dark alley who might or might not have wanted to put her on a tuna boat for relief. She'll buy food nobody in the family will eat. Various other things.

>>283302380
The novel and Tappei.

>>283246603 (OP)
what's the best way to read this series? I'm tired of waiting for anime.

>>283302745
If you can read Japanese, the Web Novel, its free.
If you can't then Witch Cult Translations which acts as a hub. Keep in mind the translation scene is basically a shitshow.

Nee-sama

Can Cappy get guys pregnant?

>>283302937
It depends on what you mean by guys, and whether you consider someone who has had their bodies altered the same as the original entity (i.e. all the fly people are still humans, just trapped in a different form, rather than flies who used to be humans).

>>283302937
By giving them functioning organs for that, yes.

>>283302937
If she doesn't transform for 9 months, I think so.

>>283302937
>Letting her anywhere near your anus
You fellas are braver than most.

>>283302977
What would happen if Cappy altered your body, got you pregnant, and then turned you back to normal mid pregnancy?

>>283303139
Presumably you'd have a bunch of dead tissue inside you that would not be healthy.

>>283246603 (OP)
Mushoku Tensei.
KonoSuba too, but it gets away with a lot of shit by not being particularly serious.

Plappela

Cappy a shit

Just read the new chapter. I think one thing that can be definitely said for sure after the debacle of arcs 7, 8, and everything in 9 post chapter 14 is that Re:Zero does not work without Subaru. He is the superglue that holds the narrative together, the primary subject of the themes the series is built on, the barrier that keeps the setting from falling into a pit of mediocre shonen and plot contrivance.
Tappei has repeatedly proven himself unable to write convincing stakes without Subaru's presence. Re:Zero was unique in it's previous arcs because nearly everything that could be a threat was a threat and was given respect as such, with even stuff like some random mabeast or a group of mook cultists or something along those lines managing to shockingly and unceremoniously kill off characters. Things felt real, threats felt real, and you got the sense only Subaru's power is keeping the cast alive. But without him? Characters wade through armies, opponents, traps, and forces that would have slain them a hundred times over were Subaru present, either accruing no injuries at all or just walking off wounds that should have torn them apart multiple times over, with the worst case scenario being some random fakeout death because Tappei wants us to believe there are stakes but cannot possibly bring himself to let go of his toys. They magically gain new powerups and abilities with no suffering or failure to show for it (looking at you Petra), and overall are just very jarring compared to previous arcs.
Subaru has always served as a superglue that helps introduce other characters to each other and gold groups and alliances together, from most of the Emilia camp being there for him to him creating the Crusch-Emilia-Ana alliance in Arc 3. Without him interactions and dynamics often seem to fall flat, characters are sometimes forced into unnatural feeling archetypes to progress the plot (again, Petra), and new characters are introduced as if we should know and care for them.

>>283303639
I won't read all that, but good for you anon

>>283303639
Why should I care for an army of nonames from a prison island or some gang Felt is associated with? Why should I care about some random pig man? Who is Yae, why is she scared of Al, and why should I care?
Even thematically arcs seem strange. Re:Zero's primary theme has always been love (especially obsessive, all-consuming love - Roswaal tells us this nearly verbatim in Arc 4), and that love is both extruded by Subaru and placed upon him by others in spades. Petelgeuse for Satella, Ros for Echidna, Satella, Shaula and Rem for Subaru, Subaru for Rem, Emilia, Satella, Beatrice for Subaru, and so on. Where is this in Arcs 7-9? Arc 1 has Subaru's love for Emilia, Arcs 2-3 had Subaru's love for Emilia and Rem, Rem's love for Subaru, Pete's for Satella, 4 had Subaru-Emilia/Rem, Satella-Subaru, etc etc. This web of obsession is entirely absent in later arcs except for some literal who that gets resurrected at one point that Yoruna loves or something. I guess the secondary theme of memories that has been repeating in most arcs showed up a bit with Subaru losing some memory as a child and Alcanica, so well done there I guess Tappei?
There didn't even seem to be many tangible, arc-specific secondary themes with any real meaning to them. Arc 3 really hammered in understanding one's own limitations and dependening on others, what did Arc 7 have to say? Arc 6 strongly explored trust, asked exactly who Subaru was and what he had become since entering the new world, asked how important memories were in creating the Self, and what one became when they were stripped away - what did Arc 8 want to tell us? That Garfiel punching a dragon would be kinda cool?
I don't know, and this is all pretty disjointed, but I think the point stands decently well. Whenever Subaru is absent - because he's a child, offscreen, or in Al's butthole - nothing seems to function anymore, and I really hope Tappei learns from this in later arcs.

>>283303652
Zoom zooms and thirdies that can't even read a paragraph are the primary reason 4chan has gone into the gutter lately.

>>283303685
Barusu needs to be punished

>>283303656
What? Arc 7 has Madelyn-Balleroy, Tanza-Yorna, Yorna/Iris-Eugard, Medium and Flop and their outlook, obviously Subaru-Rem, Rem-Rui, Later Subaru-Rui/Spica, the camp looking for Subaru, there's minor exploration for Ram-Roswaal. Priscilla's big move only works for love. Todd-Katia, Jamal-Katia. You seem weirdly focused on one-sided obsessive romantic love but the series is focused on love generally. You had Rem wondering about a sister looking at Holly-Kuna, Mizelda is more lusty than love but its a form as well. Zikr with his chauvinism, some funny fake outs with Subaru's Natsumi persona, Chisa-Vincent drives most of the plot.
You random had three people effectively get married though I won't pretend like Medium-Vincent and Flop-Tarita had a lot of build up or were that explored, but Todd-Katia is.
And plenty other elements.

>>283303639
>>283303656
> Arcs 7 and 8 are shit
Counterpoint: Todd and Tanza

>>283303792
I'm discussing the very, very specific kind of love that involves an absolute obsession nearly or even completely to the point where everything else in the world registers as nothing. The kind that kept Ros going for 400 years.
>Madelyn-Balleroy
Bal is dead except for when he is alive for five minutes and then dead again.
>Tanza-Yorna
This was more just great loyalty to one's master. Does not thematically fit very well. Lots of people are happy to die for their masters in Re:Zero
>Subaru-Rem
I acknowledged that things were good when he's present, and not a toddler. The start of Arc 7 was nice.
>Later Subaru-Rui/Spica
Does not fit. We don't have enough of a read into how she feels about him, especially given she was find with being left behind in Vollachia and not following him to the ends of the earth.
>the camp looking for Subaru
Relevant for all of five minutes until they decided to go to war in Vollachia for no reason.
>there's minor exploration for Ram-Roswaal.
Not enough to matter.
>Priscilla's big move only works for love
Asspull that is utterly unexplored until we're told she loves everyone out of nowhere, for no reason
>Todd-Katia, Jamal-Katia
Todd works, Jamal doesn't.
>You seem weirdly focused on one-sided obsessive romantic love
That is the most impactful and thematically important kind. It's why the narrative even exists.
>You had Rem wondering about a sister looking at Holly-Kuna, Mizelda is more lusty than love but its a form as well. Zikr with his chauvinism, some funny fake outs with Subaru's Natsumi persona, Chisa-Vincent drives most of the plot.
>And plenty other elements.
Okay, but are these examples nearly strong enough to create an overarching theme for the Arc or are they abandoned five minutes in for LOTR wordcounts of shonenslop?

>>283303792
Cecilus-Rowan is a twisted form of parental love, Arakiya's love for Priscilla and strange love-hate relationship with Cecilus.
Yorna's love for her people, for her lost daughter
Tanza was more or less crushing on Schwarz
Balleroy loses for love, getting wrecked by the clown to save Medium
Yorna raged for love
Utakata kills Subaru similarly for getting those she loved killed
Tanza attacks them for love
Subaru has to reach out to Satella and understands her ability as "love"
Tarita was acting at the beginning out of love for her soul sister but later rejects the fated nonsense by reinterpreting what she felt about that love and what it should mean to her.
Subaru and Rem pretend to be married while their stuff is going on.
Subaru's gladiator buddies have a love rekindled that they lost from being betrayed or never had to begin with due to rough circumstances. The lizard had his friends who Subaru saved so he became indebted to Subaru as a result.
Seemed basically dropped or not covered, but Hornet briefly came back to meet the sort of end she actually wanted.
Berestez is acting for love of country.
Garfiel has a whole head theater thing defined by the people he loves with the three closest to his heart in one way or another being important.
Heinkel is doing everything for love technically
Schult is protected by love and wanted to protect others even though he didn't know he was invincible
Sphinx isn't really acting for love per se, and is delving into identity stuff moreof but learning "love" is the piece she thought was missing for her transformation and that's why she was wandering generally.
Again, like the rest of the series a lot of love in lots of different forms twisted or otherwise going around. You might not care about these characters and that's fine or whatever, but saying it doesn't exist is flatly wrong.

>>283303927
You're still not understanding. Read Roswaal's rant in Arc 4. None of these work.

>>283303918
>I'm discussing the very, very specific kind of love that involves an absolute obsession nearly or even completely to the point where everything else in the world registers as nothing.
Why? The story is about love in all sorts of forms, that's a specific kind of love practiced only by a tiny number of people and respected by almost nobody. The only person who likes that kind of love is Ram. Roswaal practices it but he's twisted, I guess maybe Satella too but its hard to say because her jealousy for Subaru is likely intended for someone else cosmically speaking.

You made up a definition that doesn't even apply to almost all the love you first brought up in the first place and said that's the whole series. That's insane and stupid.
>especially obsessive, all-consuming love - Roswaal tells us this nearly verbatim in Arc 4)
No not especially, the series doesn't even seem to think that highly of this. Subaru is kind of concerned about this because he knows its what Ram thinks and thinks that's way too intense. So the MC looks down on this thing you think is the main focus of the series exhibited by basically nobody except villains and Ram?
>Rem
Rem doesn't do this for Subaru, she loves Ram and hold agency.
>Subaru for Rem, Emilia, Satella
Subaru doesn't do this for any of these people, he can't be all-consumingly obsessed with multiple people by definition.
>Beatrice for Subaru
Still loves her mother, is mostly just being clingy. Subaru is her number one but her world is expanding and that's what Subaru wants.
>Arc 1 has Subaru's love for Emilia
Not what you said you wanted.
>Arcs 2-3 had Subaru's love for Emilia and Rem
Not what you said you wanted
>Rem's love for Subaru
Not what you said you wanted
>Pete's for Satella
This is and he's an insane bad guy and this is viewed negatively
>4 had Subaru-Emilia/Rem
Again not what you wanted
>Satella-Subaru
Negative, kills everyone, pisses Subaru off and forces a reset.

>>283303984
And you're not understanding, not even at a basic level. Its beyond me how dumb you are. You don't even know what you want, because most of what you claimed is that isn't.

Pete to Satella? Bad. Causes him to do bad things. He was a better person when he cared about more.
Roswaal and Echidna? Bad. Drives him to do bad things.
Ram to Roswaal? Causes her to do something pretty dumb that almost wrecks everything. Its not outright condemned but everyone looks at it with skepticism and she has no real defense besides saying her feelings are her own and not for others to meddle in. She's only really spared from the villain status because she also loves her sister, making this not entirely what you want either.
Echidna promises this but can't deliver. Its considered bad.
Satella is like this and its considered bad and possibly misplaced.
Subaru might act something like this in Satella's presence but his conscious mind rejects it and we don't have full context for it.
Each of the respective bishops is obsessed with something and its always considered bad.
Theresia being "loved by the sword" is considered bad.
Wilhelm being an autist about Theresia has caused tons of family strife and he would be happier if he cared about more
Shaula is also obsessive and when she dies this is considered bad and a curse placed on her by Flugel who is an asshole. She isn't blamed for being like that but her obsessive love was considered negative and culpability for it was placed on Flugel as a bad guy.

Again, why do you think the "point" of the story is this specific kind of love practiced largely by the villains and painted as such and you ignore every other relationship and type of love that are considered far better in the story? Are you insane or just stupid?

>>283304034
>Negative, kills everyone, pisses Subaru off and forces a reset.
Its funny because the actual important love in that loop is Petra's. But she's not mind-numbingly obsessed so I guess it doesn't count and wasn't important even though it counteracts the big bad who is obsessed like that.

>>283304128
>Wilhelm being an autist about Theresia has caused tons of family strife and he would be happier if he cared about more
And Wihelm being a sword autist before that. He became a better person when he loved both the sword and Theresia instead of just one. He would be better still if he loved his son and grandson but his grief because of how much he loved Theresia got in the way.
The series seems pretty clear that being a single-minded autist obsessing over one thing is bad and you should love all sorts of things in all sorts of ways. Expanding people's worlds and what they love is a huge thing.
Ironically exemplified the most in what Priscilla does in arc 8 where this is a literal super power despite this dude saying nothing in arc 8 counts. Not to mention what Subaru was doing with linking up both Cor Leonis and Yorna's Soul Marriage. Literally stronger the more love is in it and weaker when its just 1 other person.

>>283304034
>>283304128
Calm your autism. I can tell you take things extremely literally and have a very, very bad sense of nuance because it's almost impressive how terribly you're misunderstanding what I'm talking about.
>Why
Because it's one of the stories major themes, if not the main one.
>You made up a definition that doesn't even apply to almost all the love you first brought up in the first place and said that's the whole series. That's insane and stupid.
It does apply to the things I suggested, and to some stuff I didn't even remember, too. I am discussing that because - besides it's thematic importance - it's what I want to discuss. You don't seem to be able to even understand what it is and seem to believe that any example of a character showing an emotional attachment whatsoever counts. I'm going to be very brief with your points because I don't believe you'll understand what I'm trying to say anyway.
Holding emotional attachment to other people does not disqualify this kind of love. Arcs 1-3 show Subaru building to this kind of love for Emilia and later Rem. Rem does show it for Subaru, yes. She wasn't even entirely against abandoning everything for him, refused because she thought he was above that. It does not have to exactly fit into Roswaal's definition, just mostly, allow in a little nuance. Satella and Pete absolutely fit and it's amazing you think they don't. Beatrice's whole That Person concept is just another iteration of this and a quarter of Arc 4 was Subaru figuring this out and trying to break her out of this.
>Again, why do you think the "point" of the story is this specific kind of love practiced largely by the villains and painted as such and you ignore every other relationship and type of love that are considered far better in the story? Are you insane or just stupid?
Goodness. You think something needs to be morally correct or respected in-universe to be an important theme?

>>283303639
You forgot to add how he’s basically one of the few characters with a POV that people want to read from to introduce new developments properly and his relatability with how he interacts with the characters is interchangeable as well but the reread thought that removing one of the most pivotal characters in the series especially for this long was a good idea

I LOVE EMILIA

>>283304684
Do not the Emilia

i need to watch ram get choked

>>283302018
Fuck off retard, go back

>>283305745
I cannot take Emilia and her feelings seriously.

>>283305745
Crazy how they all value and praise Subaru except Emilia.

>>283306032
>Hehe, I don't know how i really feel about my knight but he's such a good boy who's totally going to wait for my answer, sugokuuuuu

Subaru should marry Emilia, Rem, Shaula and Petra

>>283273641
Why care? It's an anime.

>>283305067
Wait for Wrath IF to get a LN adaptation and then pray for an anime adaptation of that.