This is probably the most horrific episode I've ever watched
Holy shit! I can’t believe this show took it that way! Wow
I haven't watched Re:Zero for two and a half years and decided to restart at the Return To The Capital City-arc. And now I'm completely stunned at how ducked up this show can be. I went from "What was this Isekai all about?" to "Oh, yeah, the Groundhog Day-thing." only to end up at "What the witch-glorifying duck did I just watch?".
It's like this anime is training my mind not to empathize anymore. Everyone dies or he dies. He resets, and everyone's alive again. It doesn't give me the feels anymore!!! hmph
Holy hell, that episode was pretty horrific. No wonder Subaru broke.
I don't get this episode!:thinking:
Every scene within which Betelgeuse has been depicted is superb.
I’m kinda having mixed feelings about this show, I was really bored with it and then it gave me this episode, woah.
I felt things that I didn't imagined that I could feel. One of the best anime episodes of all time.
best ep this season fuck
The best episode in a while. The music, visuals, and performances were all great. It's also nice to finally see some of the witch's cult and even more confirmation that the witch is the one causing Subaru to go back in time.
I felt like Subaru was getting what he deserved in the last couple episodes, even though it was terrible to watch, but this is definitely worse. He is losing everyone he loves and is going insane. I don't think he will ever be able to return to present time without being permanently scarred at this point.
Review by ds1BlockedParentSpoilers2016-07-12T18:30:22Z
I've probably got an unpopular opinion here and could get lynched easily for it, but here it goes:
I've got honestly no idea, why this particular episode gets praised so much.
There were definitely much better (and worse) ones and pretty similar ones, with basically the same behaviour of Subaru.
The whole anime long we get to see Subaru suffer. There's this strong emphasis on that all the time.
Perhaps to show us a certain justification for things to come, for why his mental state isn't anywhere close of being healthy.
That's totally fine, especially since I read some spoilers on purpose and know roughly what's to come but more often than not exactly that suffering drags the episode out unnecessarily and/or makes me feel bored...
It goes so far that suffering seems to be the actual plot of this anime at this point as it feels like there is no other plot actually moving forward and not because of the premise of "resetting" what would be understandable. It's like we're stuck with the world building part for the majority of these 15 episodes so far. Especially if you consider all character development that gets willingly thrown out the window - not by premise, mind you - just for other episodes to happen.
This episode had some good scenes in it, though. Betelgeuse was definitely crazy, yet somewhat annoying as well.
But that one scene with Rem was just to tease the audience, she shouldn't have been cabable of doing that at all even if I appreciate the (final) moment between her and Subaru. It felt like a desperate tearjerker moment to further drag out the suffering of Subaru.
I'm longing for episodes where the actual plot that this anime has here and there starts moving forward again.
The end of this episode suggests that for the next episode. Finger's crossed.