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Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 [Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu] #5
Re: ゼロから始める異世界生活 5 [Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu, Vol. 5]
Subaru has really made a mess of things this time. After getting into a fight with the girl of his dreams, Subaru is stuck in the Karsten estate with Rem while Emilia heads home without him. Consumed by a sense of powerlessness, he spends his time desperately training--all the while wondering, "What's the point?" Is there any reason for him to struggle at all? But while he grapples with his inner demons, the Witch Cult may no longer be content to sit back...
293 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 23, 2014
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January 2, 2026
This volume has a slow start with Subaru trying to learn sword skills at Crusch's mansion. Later on it gets more exciting when Subaru encounters something dangerous and is back in the time loop.
What I liked about the start of this volume was how the reader got a better insight into Crusch and Ferris and also their relationship to eachother. They also formed a bond with Subaru while he was their guest for a short period of time. Of course there was also Wilhelm who despite his constant lectures to Subaru also showed kindness and patience.
What frustrated me a lot is how stupid Subaru is. His heart is at the right place but his decision-making skills are extremely poor. It would be a lie to say that he's my favourite character as he lacks just too many things. I'm on Emilia's side here. It's sometimes unbelievable to see Subaru actually using his Return By Death power with a good strategy in mind 'cause there are moments where I question if he even has a functioning brain inside his skull.
At least he was able to realise his previous mistake and tried to make it even again.
It's once more not a complete story arc but rather a cut at the end. So it shall continue in the next volume.
StoryGraph review
What I liked about the start of this volume was how the reader got a better insight into Crusch and Ferris and also their relationship to eachother. They also formed a bond with Subaru while he was their guest for a short period of time. Of course there was also Wilhelm who despite his constant lectures to Subaru also showed kindness and patience.
What frustrated me a lot is how stupid Subaru is. His heart is at the right place but his decision-making skills are extremely poor. It would be a lie to say that he's my favourite character as he lacks just too many things. I'm on Emilia's side here. It's sometimes unbelievable to see Subaru actually using his Return By Death power with a good strategy in mind 'cause there are moments where I question if he even has a functioning brain inside his skull.
At least he was able to realise his previous mistake and tried to make it even again.
It's once more not a complete story arc but rather a cut at the end. So it shall continue in the next volume.
StoryGraph review
September 21, 2020
Four for the plot elements, three and a half in total.
Our mess of a protagonist, the former shut-in Natsuki Subaru who got snatched to a fantasy world and given the curse of going back in time whenever he dies, had embarrassed the person he came to love the most by proclaiming to be her knight only to get put back in his place and then beaten by an actual knight. Afterwards the protagonist, still green in general, destroyed the remaining trust the heroine put on him, by claiming that he was owed some reward given how much he had struggled for her sake.
In any case, the heroine paid some presumably high price to procure the services of the best healer in the realm, who happened to be employed by a political opponent of the heroine. That other candidate for the throne is a memorable military-minded gal who is also very rational and cunning; certainly a better future leader than the heroine herself, whose somewhat explicit political goal is some vague stuff about making everybody equal under the law. I don't remember much about the early sequences of the protagonist hanging out at this political opponent's mansion beyond him "training" with the local master swordsman (if failing to land any hit counts as training), and then getting healed of his deep-seated wounds he had incurred in the first few volumes; a significant number of scars will perpetually remain due to getting disemboweled by a sexy serial killer and mauled by demonic beasts.
At one point, best girl Rem, who had been ordered to babysit the protagonist, receives a telepathic message from her sister: something has gone wrong in their lord's mansion. The protagonist decides that even though he might not be welcomed, he needs to go back and save the girl he's obsessed with. As part of his current lack of growth as a character, he realizes that he welcomes danger as long as he can prove himself and his beloved that she needs him. This is a medieval-ish world, so the journey back will take around two days. They rest in an inn along the way, but Rem, knowing that the protagonist is mostly helpless in any dangerous situation, and knowing that the unwilling telepathic communication means serious shit, abandons the protagonist there with a fortune and the order to please stay put and wait for her. The protagonist is sick of getting treated like a child, and distraught at having been manipulated and abandoned by the one person he believed would truly support him. He decides that he'll prove that he can maneuver through this foreign world, reach the mansion by himself and save them all. He procures the help of a young merchant down on his luck, who leaves the protagonist on the outskirts of the protagonist's lord's domain, as the dangers was palpable in the air. The protagonist reaches the village closest to the mansion only to find out that everyone there has been slaughtered and many of their corpses still burn. He runs up to the mansion and finds Rem's corpse around dead members of the witch's cult, an Inquisition-like group of madmen. Best girl obviously fought to the end, but failed, and the children from the village she had intended to protect have also been killed. The protagonist, bawling and in a daze, stumbles to the inside of the mansion while mumbling that none of this is his fault. Looking for any sign of life, he finds a secret passage where members of the witch's cult have become pillars of ice. The protagonist attempts to breach into a room only to fall to the same curse. As he succumbs to the frost and falls apart, he hears Puck, the spirit of the Apocalypse that guarded the heroine, tell him telepathically that he was way too late.
When he comes back to life a few days before in the capital, as he had been shopping with Rem, he suffers a breakdown. The pressure of having failed to do anything, of having been rejected by everyone, and then presumably the trauma of having frozen to death, made his mind implode into a psychotic break. Rem, distraught, carries him to the mansion of the political opponent whose healer had been taking care of the protagonist, but they cannot help him. The protagonist spends this time catatonic, occasionally laughing or crying. Rem decides to just leave with him towards their lord's mansion. As they travel back on a carriage and we follow her point of view, she struggles with the wish to just escape from it all and, given that she doesn't believe that he'll ever recover from what she thinks is a curse-related affliction, spend the rest of her life quietly tending to this guy she loves. However, close to the mansion they get ambushed by the witch's cult. The protagonist is as helpless as a baby, although in normal conditions he wouldn't have been of much use either. Rem pummels through plenty of witch cultists, but they are strong enough to inflict tremendous wounds on the girl. This original novel version is more explicit in those details: beyond being stabbed, half of her left arm is nearly incinerated, rendering it useless, and then some hits break all the ribs in the left side of her ribcage, and her left femur also snaps in half. She powers through the pain only to realize that a witch cultist is kidnapping the protagonist. This video is a shortened version of this scene from the anime adaptation.
What follows is maybe my favorite sequence in the whole anime adaptation so far: we meet the current main antagonist, what passes for a superpowered religious freak in this world. Apparently there are not proper gods in this fantasy world, but there were superpowered people who even after death through their spirits, acting as in a dream, keep influencing the world of the living, occasionally cursing or possessing people or influencing them enough to, in this case, form a cult that intends to realize what they interpret are that spirit's intentions. Such an antagonist works better if memorably over-the-top, which gets combined here with the expected extraordinary Japanese voice acting. These fools have detected that their chosen spirit's stench hangs over the protagonist (given that he's cursed by that witch), so they intend to figure out what's going on with him. They find him crazed and unresponsive. There are interesting exchanges and a sort of crash therapy in which the guy figures that although the protagonist has suffered a psychotic break, his sanity is enveloped by this superficial madness.
Rem, half-dead and covered in blood from head to toe, crashes the party, but as she was killing the followers, their leader shows his superpowers: some sort of spirit-like invisible hands with tremendous strength. He tortures the girl, twisting every limb in Rem's body as well as her neck, tearing the muscles from the bones, seemingly killing her. He then forces the protagonist to face that it was partly his inaction, despite his powerlessness, that contributed to her death. The protagonist wakes up from his stupor, overcome by a murderous bloodlust. Eventually the bad guys decide that they might as well leave, attack the mansion and fuck off to wherever. As parting words the leader tells the protagonist that either he ends up joining them or he will rot away there.
The following events in the anime version happen seemingly very close to the bad guys leaving, but in the original novel version the protagonist spends hours yelling, struggling to free himself and burning with a murderous wrath. He figures intriguingly that in the insane situation he has been living for this last month or so, kidnapped to a fantasy world but remaining powerless, having been rejected by those he appreciates, pure murderous bloodlust is the only thing that can keep him sane. I'll add that the same is true for our modern world.
Rem somehow had remained alive, and she crawls to the protagonist's arms, vomits blood on his shackles and through freezing it with a spell it manages to break them. With her last breath she urges the protagonist to keep living, and midway through proclaiming her love she dies. In the anime adaptation she looks presentable enough, but in the novel she's described as a blood-covered, almost mangled corpse. The protagonist, finally snapping out of his stupidity, carries her in his arms to the mansion. Everybody has been murdered again in the village; the children lay in a burned pile. Under an increasing cold and still carrying the girl, the protagonist reaches the mansion only to see it crumble apart, as a gigantic furry monster's head comes out of it. It briefly looks at the protagonist to tell him to go to sleep. The protagonist freezes to death again; in the anime his head falls off, which doesn't make any particular sense but is shocking enough.
In the final pages of this volume, the protagonist "wakes up" back at the checkpoint in the capital. He's no longer crazed, but has gone unhinged and is sustained only by a homicidal rage. The anime makes it look cool as in, "he's finally going to grow a pair", but the novel treats it as troubling development.
As I mentioned, this sequence was one of my favorites in the adaptation, so naturally I was going to enjoy this volume. However, anime is no longer as it was in the eighties and early nineties; they aren't produced to stretch for hundreds of episodes in order to score through advertising: now they need to fill twenty five minutes with as many significant plot and character developments as possible while remaining coherent. For this series, this makes the adaptation a superior version in most respects, because the writer took on average three times as long to say a single thing. There were a few instances in which I was wishing for him to move on to the next point, because he was just expressing the same thought with different words. This is not a series you read for the quality of the prose in general, although it's more joyous than let's say George R. R. Martin or any other writer who clearly hates the process.
There are a few illustrations that likely were the basis for the character designs of the anime adaptation. Drawn Japanese fiction has always been characteristic for presenting disturbing, often psychologically troubling shit done and/or suffered by big-eyed, often cutesy characters, and the contrast was enormous here with the writer describing Rem covered in blood, half broken apart, trying to save the guy she loves, only for an accompanying illustration to differ enormously from the early Berserk level stuff that would fit.
In any case, for now I can't stop reading this series. It'll be around three volumes until I catch up to the current episodes of season two.
Our mess of a protagonist, the former shut-in Natsuki Subaru who got snatched to a fantasy world and given the curse of going back in time whenever he dies, had embarrassed the person he came to love the most by proclaiming to be her knight only to get put back in his place and then beaten by an actual knight. Afterwards the protagonist, still green in general, destroyed the remaining trust the heroine put on him, by claiming that he was owed some reward given how much he had struggled for her sake.
In any case, the heroine paid some presumably high price to procure the services of the best healer in the realm, who happened to be employed by a political opponent of the heroine. That other candidate for the throne is a memorable military-minded gal who is also very rational and cunning; certainly a better future leader than the heroine herself, whose somewhat explicit political goal is some vague stuff about making everybody equal under the law. I don't remember much about the early sequences of the protagonist hanging out at this political opponent's mansion beyond him "training" with the local master swordsman (if failing to land any hit counts as training), and then getting healed of his deep-seated wounds he had incurred in the first few volumes; a significant number of scars will perpetually remain due to getting disemboweled by a sexy serial killer and mauled by demonic beasts.
At one point, best girl Rem, who had been ordered to babysit the protagonist, receives a telepathic message from her sister: something has gone wrong in their lord's mansion. The protagonist decides that even though he might not be welcomed, he needs to go back and save the girl he's obsessed with. As part of his current lack of growth as a character, he realizes that he welcomes danger as long as he can prove himself and his beloved that she needs him. This is a medieval-ish world, so the journey back will take around two days. They rest in an inn along the way, but Rem, knowing that the protagonist is mostly helpless in any dangerous situation, and knowing that the unwilling telepathic communication means serious shit, abandons the protagonist there with a fortune and the order to please stay put and wait for her. The protagonist is sick of getting treated like a child, and distraught at having been manipulated and abandoned by the one person he believed would truly support him. He decides that he'll prove that he can maneuver through this foreign world, reach the mansion by himself and save them all. He procures the help of a young merchant down on his luck, who leaves the protagonist on the outskirts of the protagonist's lord's domain, as the dangers was palpable in the air. The protagonist reaches the village closest to the mansion only to find out that everyone there has been slaughtered and many of their corpses still burn. He runs up to the mansion and finds Rem's corpse around dead members of the witch's cult, an Inquisition-like group of madmen. Best girl obviously fought to the end, but failed, and the children from the village she had intended to protect have also been killed. The protagonist, bawling and in a daze, stumbles to the inside of the mansion while mumbling that none of this is his fault. Looking for any sign of life, he finds a secret passage where members of the witch's cult have become pillars of ice. The protagonist attempts to breach into a room only to fall to the same curse. As he succumbs to the frost and falls apart, he hears Puck, the spirit of the Apocalypse that guarded the heroine, tell him telepathically that he was way too late.
When he comes back to life a few days before in the capital, as he had been shopping with Rem, he suffers a breakdown. The pressure of having failed to do anything, of having been rejected by everyone, and then presumably the trauma of having frozen to death, made his mind implode into a psychotic break. Rem, distraught, carries him to the mansion of the political opponent whose healer had been taking care of the protagonist, but they cannot help him. The protagonist spends this time catatonic, occasionally laughing or crying. Rem decides to just leave with him towards their lord's mansion. As they travel back on a carriage and we follow her point of view, she struggles with the wish to just escape from it all and, given that she doesn't believe that he'll ever recover from what she thinks is a curse-related affliction, spend the rest of her life quietly tending to this guy she loves. However, close to the mansion they get ambushed by the witch's cult. The protagonist is as helpless as a baby, although in normal conditions he wouldn't have been of much use either. Rem pummels through plenty of witch cultists, but they are strong enough to inflict tremendous wounds on the girl. This original novel version is more explicit in those details: beyond being stabbed, half of her left arm is nearly incinerated, rendering it useless, and then some hits break all the ribs in the left side of her ribcage, and her left femur also snaps in half. She powers through the pain only to realize that a witch cultist is kidnapping the protagonist. This video is a shortened version of this scene from the anime adaptation.
What follows is maybe my favorite sequence in the whole anime adaptation so far: we meet the current main antagonist, what passes for a superpowered religious freak in this world. Apparently there are not proper gods in this fantasy world, but there were superpowered people who even after death through their spirits, acting as in a dream, keep influencing the world of the living, occasionally cursing or possessing people or influencing them enough to, in this case, form a cult that intends to realize what they interpret are that spirit's intentions. Such an antagonist works better if memorably over-the-top, which gets combined here with the expected extraordinary Japanese voice acting. These fools have detected that their chosen spirit's stench hangs over the protagonist (given that he's cursed by that witch), so they intend to figure out what's going on with him. They find him crazed and unresponsive. There are interesting exchanges and a sort of crash therapy in which the guy figures that although the protagonist has suffered a psychotic break, his sanity is enveloped by this superficial madness.
Rem, half-dead and covered in blood from head to toe, crashes the party, but as she was killing the followers, their leader shows his superpowers: some sort of spirit-like invisible hands with tremendous strength. He tortures the girl, twisting every limb in Rem's body as well as her neck, tearing the muscles from the bones, seemingly killing her. He then forces the protagonist to face that it was partly his inaction, despite his powerlessness, that contributed to her death. The protagonist wakes up from his stupor, overcome by a murderous bloodlust. Eventually the bad guys decide that they might as well leave, attack the mansion and fuck off to wherever. As parting words the leader tells the protagonist that either he ends up joining them or he will rot away there.
The following events in the anime version happen seemingly very close to the bad guys leaving, but in the original novel version the protagonist spends hours yelling, struggling to free himself and burning with a murderous wrath. He figures intriguingly that in the insane situation he has been living for this last month or so, kidnapped to a fantasy world but remaining powerless, having been rejected by those he appreciates, pure murderous bloodlust is the only thing that can keep him sane. I'll add that the same is true for our modern world.
Rem somehow had remained alive, and she crawls to the protagonist's arms, vomits blood on his shackles and through freezing it with a spell it manages to break them. With her last breath she urges the protagonist to keep living, and midway through proclaiming her love she dies. In the anime adaptation she looks presentable enough, but in the novel she's described as a blood-covered, almost mangled corpse. The protagonist, finally snapping out of his stupidity, carries her in his arms to the mansion. Everybody has been murdered again in the village; the children lay in a burned pile. Under an increasing cold and still carrying the girl, the protagonist reaches the mansion only to see it crumble apart, as a gigantic furry monster's head comes out of it. It briefly looks at the protagonist to tell him to go to sleep. The protagonist freezes to death again; in the anime his head falls off, which doesn't make any particular sense but is shocking enough.
In the final pages of this volume, the protagonist "wakes up" back at the checkpoint in the capital. He's no longer crazed, but has gone unhinged and is sustained only by a homicidal rage. The anime makes it look cool as in, "he's finally going to grow a pair", but the novel treats it as troubling development.
As I mentioned, this sequence was one of my favorites in the adaptation, so naturally I was going to enjoy this volume. However, anime is no longer as it was in the eighties and early nineties; they aren't produced to stretch for hundreds of episodes in order to score through advertising: now they need to fill twenty five minutes with as many significant plot and character developments as possible while remaining coherent. For this series, this makes the adaptation a superior version in most respects, because the writer took on average three times as long to say a single thing. There were a few instances in which I was wishing for him to move on to the next point, because he was just expressing the same thought with different words. This is not a series you read for the quality of the prose in general, although it's more joyous than let's say George R. R. Martin or any other writer who clearly hates the process.
There are a few illustrations that likely were the basis for the character designs of the anime adaptation. Drawn Japanese fiction has always been characteristic for presenting disturbing, often psychologically troubling shit done and/or suffered by big-eyed, often cutesy characters, and the contrast was enormous here with the writer describing Rem covered in blood, half broken apart, trying to save the guy she loves, only for an accompanying illustration to differ enormously from the early Berserk level stuff that would fit.
In any case, for now I can't stop reading this series. It'll be around three volumes until I catch up to the current episodes of season two.
September 23, 2024
I thought episode 14-15 of the anime was perfect, but then I read this volume and BY GOD was it so insanely good!
Subaru loses his mind, we see things from Rem’s perspective for the buildup to the infamous “episode 15”, and the writing and pacing was absolutely perfect IMO.
Most gruesome scene of the show was even more gruesome in the LN, tearing apart one of the most beloved characters of the series and really showing us how much hate Subaru developed for the man who did it to her. I still have chills thinking about the ending.
How I wish I could experience this for the first time again…
Subaru loses his mind, we see things from Rem’s perspective for the buildup to the infamous “episode 15”, and the writing and pacing was absolutely perfect IMO.
Most gruesome scene of the show was even more gruesome in the LN, tearing apart one of the most beloved characters of the series and really showing us how much hate Subaru developed for the man who did it to her. I still have chills thinking about the ending.
How I wish I could experience this for the first time again…
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 19, 2025
Ok I have become Rem's fan now, she's the best!
November 22, 2017
The infamous episode 14 of the anime is included in this volume,
Although not as much as the previous volume, there are a few parts in this volume which the anime did not adapt.
İt was a good read. I'm getting impatient for the new volumes.
Although not as much as the previous volume, there are a few parts in this volume which the anime did not adapt.
İt was a good read. I'm getting impatient for the new volumes.
August 12, 2021
Holy god in heaven did I not expect this volume to be as good as it was! The build up to the story and the powerful scenes just gone to near godlike perfection I can't praise this stuff enough!
Tappei-Sensei has yet again done something miraculous here in Vol 5 of Re:Zero and there's little to do without me pointing it out so here we go.
the bestest best blueberry girl ever
This book showed me that while Re:Zero is a masterpiece of an anime, the Light Novel here is about a million times more amazing than that, there's just so many little bits here and there that are done so well.
Like this scene in the anime for example.
In the anime we're not given any real context for this, it's just a scene showing that Subaru is uncomfortable with Felix doing the healing and he is being held in place by Rem so much that he's in her boobs.
In reality it's far far far far different (don't click the spoiler if you don't want a terrific scene ruined)
And I for one LOVE that, I've never heard of that kind of thing before in fiction, I mean I've heard of certain types similar to it but always a form of aggressive nature rather than passive and it's brilliantly done, love it and makes me love Felix all the more really.
Now we get to the painful part, the chapters from Rem's POV and her thoughts, I'll admit that there were points where I teared up over how happy she was during that stop over, or joyous about the final happy moment for her or even the REALLY brutal nature of herself as she gets into cave.
There's reasons why Rem is Best Girl and this book gives a lot of them.
Now onto the next volume and the dreaded レムって、だれのこと？
Yeah that's gonna hurt, heart ripped out hurt.
Tappei-Sensei has yet again done something miraculous here in Vol 5 of Re:Zero and there's little to do without me pointing it out so here we go.
the bestest best blueberry girl ever
This book showed me that while Re:Zero is a masterpiece of an anime, the Light Novel here is about a million times more amazing than that, there's just so many little bits here and there that are done so well.
Like this scene in the anime for example.
In the anime we're not given any real context for this, it's just a scene showing that Subaru is uncomfortable with Felix doing the healing and he is being held in place by Rem so much that he's in her boobs.
In reality it's far far far far different (don't click the spoiler if you don't want a terrific scene ruined)
And I for one LOVE that, I've never heard of that kind of thing before in fiction, I mean I've heard of certain types similar to it but always a form of aggressive nature rather than passive and it's brilliantly done, love it and makes me love Felix all the more really.
Now we get to the painful part, the chapters from Rem's POV and her thoughts, I'll admit that there were points where I teared up over how happy she was during that stop over, or joyous about the final happy moment for her or even the REALLY brutal nature of herself as she gets into cave.
There's reasons why Rem is Best Girl and this book gives a lot of them.
Now onto the next volume and the dreaded レムって、だれのこと？
Yeah that's gonna hurt, heart ripped out hurt.
December 8, 2017
This is a hard book to review.
On the first half, we see Subaru trying to bounce back from a disastrous book 4, where he pretty much failed everybody.
Second half is painful to read, not because it’s boring but rather because it’ll make you hate Subaru. It really does. It’s a necessary step for what’s coming. There are some details left out of the conversation between Subaru and Petelgeuse in the anime that are really interesting.
Now on to the best of the book! There is a full chapter from REM’s point of view and I have to say that at this point in the story, Subaru should just forget about Emilia and focus on Rem. She is the “best girl”, which by Japanese writing standards, means she’s not getting a happy ending with the MC. I have to admit, this is the first time I’m really rooting for the “best girl”. Rem was awesome.
On the first half, we see Subaru trying to bounce back from a disastrous book 4, where he pretty much failed everybody.
Second half is painful to read, not because it’s boring but rather because it’ll make you hate Subaru. It really does. It’s a necessary step for what’s coming. There are some details left out of the conversation between Subaru and Petelgeuse in the anime that are really interesting.
Now on to the best of the book! There is a full chapter from REM’s point of view and I have to say that at this point in the story, Subaru should just forget about Emilia and focus on Rem. She is the “best girl”, which by Japanese writing standards, means she’s not getting a happy ending with the MC. I have to admit, this is the first time I’m really rooting for the “best girl”. Rem was awesome.
December 4, 2017
"- It's for Emilia's sake. She can't get by if I'm not here."
This is the darkest vol yet. Picking up after the events of the previous vol, Subaru is currently staying with Lady Crusch while her knight Ferris heals his gate.
Subaru has always been determined to help/rescue Emilia, but this vol makes it clear his motives aren't pure. He needs to save her to validate his existence. He's convinced himself that he's the "only" one who can save her, support her, who's on her side, so how dare she throw him away when she needs him so much.
Looking back, it's been around two months since Subaru has been in this world. He's died over and over, experienced mental and physical pain, but he continued to persevere because of Emilia, but now she's gone and he's lost desperately clinging to the one thing he believes he has to offer, his Return by Death ability. But every time he uses it the scent of the witch grows stronger, and I agree with Rem, that can lead nowhere good.
This vol Subaru's mind finally snaps, he gives up, only to discover what it feels like to truly hate someone, to desire to kill them with every fiber of his being. Subaru's motive has always been Emilia, but for the first time, it's something else, something darker. I don't know where this path will lead him, but I'm sure he'll be fine so I'm not really worried.
Rem gets to shine this vol, it was nice reading her pov. She's so devoted to Subaru. As she says, meeting Subaru has shown her parts of herself she never realized she had, bad and good things. I wish Rem's love will be answered someday, but she's not the heroine, Emilia is, so I'm not going to delude myself into thinking Subaru will actually return her feelings someday. He does care for her, but it's not the same as she does for him.
Some Thoughts:
- Like vol 3 this one ends before the conflict is resolved.
- A character asks Subaru is he's Pride, and yeah that fits him.
- Does the witch have something to do with the seven deadly sins?
- I know I'm supposed to root for Emilia to win the selection, but I can't remember why. Is she really the best candidate?
- I sure hope Subaru's ability erases the reality he dies in, none of that choices create different branches stuff.
- Cab Subaru change things next vol, will he even try?
This is the darkest vol yet. Picking up after the events of the previous vol, Subaru is currently staying with Lady Crusch while her knight Ferris heals his gate.
Subaru has always been determined to help/rescue Emilia, but this vol makes it clear his motives aren't pure. He needs to save her to validate his existence. He's convinced himself that he's the "only" one who can save her, support her, who's on her side, so how dare she throw him away when she needs him so much.
Looking back, it's been around two months since Subaru has been in this world. He's died over and over, experienced mental and physical pain, but he continued to persevere because of Emilia, but now she's gone and he's lost desperately clinging to the one thing he believes he has to offer, his Return by Death ability. But every time he uses it the scent of the witch grows stronger, and I agree with Rem, that can lead nowhere good.
This vol Subaru's mind finally snaps, he gives up, only to discover what it feels like to truly hate someone, to desire to kill them with every fiber of his being. Subaru's motive has always been Emilia, but for the first time, it's something else, something darker. I don't know where this path will lead him, but I'm sure he'll be fine so I'm not really worried.
Rem gets to shine this vol, it was nice reading her pov. She's so devoted to Subaru. As she says, meeting Subaru has shown her parts of herself she never realized she had, bad and good things. I wish Rem's love will be answered someday, but she's not the heroine, Emilia is, so I'm not going to delude myself into thinking Subaru will actually return her feelings someday. He does care for her, but it's not the same as she does for him.
Some Thoughts:
- Like vol 3 this one ends before the conflict is resolved.
- A character asks Subaru is he's Pride, and yeah that fits him.
- Does the witch have something to do with the seven deadly sins?
- I know I'm supposed to root for Emilia to win the selection, but I can't remember why. Is she really the best candidate?
- I sure hope Subaru's ability erases the reality he dies in, none of that choices create different branches stuff.
- Cab Subaru change things next vol, will he even try?
August 2, 2022
Una tercera parte del libro nos relata el cómo el protagonista vive su estadía bajo la protección de Crusch y el cuidado de Ferris además del de Rem, que está bien, no me puedo quejar, pero sí lo haré porque cada que sale Ferris me estaba preguntando qué era la siguiente cosa descarada y desalmada que iba a decir a continuación, pero diría que eso solo le añade a su personaje. Tampoco podemos olvidar las enseñanzas de Wilhelm.
Una cuarta parte o poco menos del libro nos relata el por qué el protagonista y Rem deben abandonar la protección de Crusch, y también se nos dice el qué conlleva abandonarla. Básicamente el llamado del héroe a la aventura y la respuesta al llamado. Junto con el llamado a la aventura el protagonista enfrenta otro problema que es el abandono de Rem, que busca proteger a su hermana, y ante esto debe solicitar ayuda para llegar a su destino, cosa que cumple.
Después de eso viene lo mejor del libro, que es la representación de la desesperación y desolación por la que pasa el protagonista después de llegar a su destino. La forma en la que el protagonista se encuentra ante una y otra vez con la muerte y el cómo la enfrenta solo la podría describir como un acto poético. Posteriormente viene la locura, el odio y el amor, tres elementos tan extremadamente separados que han sido mezclados para demostrarnos el cómo cada una de estas palabras se pueden relacionar la una con la otra.
Sin más que decir, solo puedo decir que ha sido el mejor libro de la serie hasta ahora.
Una cuarta parte o poco menos del libro nos relata el por qué el protagonista y Rem deben abandonar la protección de Crusch, y también se nos dice el qué conlleva abandonarla. Básicamente el llamado del héroe a la aventura y la respuesta al llamado. Junto con el llamado a la aventura el protagonista enfrenta otro problema que es el abandono de Rem, que busca proteger a su hermana, y ante esto debe solicitar ayuda para llegar a su destino, cosa que cumple.
Después de eso viene lo mejor del libro, que es la representación de la desesperación y desolación por la que pasa el protagonista después de llegar a su destino. La forma en la que el protagonista se encuentra ante una y otra vez con la muerte y el cómo la enfrenta solo la podría describir como un acto poético. Posteriormente viene la locura, el odio y el amor, tres elementos tan extremadamente separados que han sido mezclados para demostrarnos el cómo cada una de estas palabras se pueden relacionar la una con la otra.
Sin más que decir, solo puedo decir que ha sido el mejor libro de la serie hasta ahora.
August 25, 2025
SPOILERS!!!!! I want to be able to come back to this review and remember what happened for when I eventually potentially read volume 6…
Main characters dying is always fun. I still hate the art style. I’m still wondering if that’s enough to drop a series. Okay there’s more.
I don’t get Subaru’s paralysis after the village, but okay.
Rem does the cliche convenient dying in your arms right after saying their last words bit, but okay.
Subaru will pine for Emilia forever, in spite of Rem being a better choice on many fronts, but okay.
I can’t get over how Rem (every female actually) is built like a small child and is hugely disproportionately strong. Like pls make big buff women if you’re making them swing giant fuckin ball and chains into 5 dudes simultaneously come on 😭.
The story is actually interesting but fuck man Subaru is just really corny but also just difficult in general. It’s odd.
So while the plot took really interesting turns this volume, I’m not super into it anyway, based on small and larger, structural issues both. Ugh idk.
3/5…
Main characters dying is always fun. I still hate the art style. I’m still wondering if that’s enough to drop a series. Okay there’s more.
I don’t get Subaru’s paralysis after the village, but okay.
Rem does the cliche convenient dying in your arms right after saying their last words bit, but okay.
Subaru will pine for Emilia forever, in spite of Rem being a better choice on many fronts, but okay.
I can’t get over how Rem (every female actually) is built like a small child and is hugely disproportionately strong. Like pls make big buff women if you’re making them swing giant fuckin ball and chains into 5 dudes simultaneously come on 😭.
The story is actually interesting but fuck man Subaru is just really corny but also just difficult in general. It’s odd.
So while the plot took really interesting turns this volume, I’m not super into it anyway, based on small and larger, structural issues both. Ugh idk.
3/5…
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 1, 2017
Hell is literally a frozen wasteland of pain, despair and futile, wretched struggling. This volume covers episodes 14 and 15 of the anime-which are either famous or infamous, depending upon your viewpoint. This volume is the fulcrum point of the first series and, in my opinion, where the story arc goes from "good" to "great". The greatness is a direct function of Subarus' suffering, but the plot is gripping. Subaru's "life" goes from 'bad' to true, frozen, bloody horror. Sin Archbishop Conti is even creepier and more logically menacing in this book. There are lots of extra details and a half clue as to Subarus' connection to the Witch that's left out of the anime..... So beware. The conversation between Subaru and Duchess Crusch on the balcony is somewhat awkwardly translated herein, but they cleaned it up in the anime. If you watch it, you can see her true character. This volume is Worth. Every. Penny.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 9, 2018
That was impressive, for a series that was just okay and Subaru being Subaru this one was something, we finally see an evolution of the characters, they’re finally growing up, it was because a shocking trauma but its finally getting better. The Royal Selection is still the big topic here but not the main issue, now the political intrigue is starting to feel it´s pressure and mostly the Witch Cult makes its appearance and in such a devastating way that it felt quite different from the previous books, yes there was something similar but not like this and not in that scale. Finally, this is the book of Rem, she’s absolutely the MVP and the best character in this book, the one that gets more attention and development and where many fans get to favor her over Emilia.
September 28, 2024
Dieser Band befindet sich in dieser unvorteilhaften mittleren Position, dass der starke Anfang vorbei ist und für die krassen Momente erst noch Aufbau gebraucht wird. Dementsprechend geht die Handlung so gar nicht voran, aber dafür bereitet es den Leser vor. Ich kann kaum in Worte fassen was für eine düstere. Abgef*ckte Scheiße abgeht. Mit Subarus Charakter und den Gewaltdarstellungen geht es in eine sehr düstere Richtung der Fantasy.
(+)
- Petelgeuse ist ein absoluter Scenestealer
- Wir fangen an, die neuen Figuren genauer zu beleuchten
- Es geht immer mehr in das Horrorgenre
(-)
- Sehr schleppende Geschwindigkeit
- Der Fokus auf Rem ist uninteressant
(+)
- Petelgeuse ist ein absoluter Scenestealer
- Wir fangen an, die neuen Figuren genauer zu beleuchten
- Es geht immer mehr in das Horrorgenre
(-)
- Sehr schleppende Geschwindigkeit
- Der Fokus auf Rem ist uninteressant
August 14, 2020
Y llegamos al quinto volumen, sin duda de mis favoritos por ahora.
Me ha gustado todo el desarrollo de Crush y Felix y como te han introducido a Wilhelm cara a futuro.
Y sin duda, la escena de la cueva ha sido mucho más profunda de lo que podía imaginar.
Estaba segura pero leyendo la novela lo puedo confirmar que #TeamRemForever
Tengo muchas ganas de empezar el sexto volumen que según el mismo autor "Es el más importante" de los cinco primeros volúmenes. (Habrá varias revelaciones importantes.)
Me ha gustado todo el desarrollo de Crush y Felix y como te han introducido a Wilhelm cara a futuro.
Y sin duda, la escena de la cueva ha sido mucho más profunda de lo que podía imaginar.
Estaba segura pero leyendo la novela lo puedo confirmar que #TeamRemForever
Tengo muchas ganas de empezar el sexto volumen que según el mismo autor "Es el más importante" de los cinco primeros volúmenes. (Habrá varias revelaciones importantes.)
August 15, 2020
After watching and reading the novel and the tv series adaption. I got to say, Re: zero has got to be my best read novel of all time. Without a doubt, this novel has stolen the special spot I've placed Evangelion on. In this novel and the rest of them introduces a cast of characters that blew my mind away, although it wasn't something I've never seen before, but the way the story makes them interact with each other just blows my mind. This is my biased review on the current state of Re:zero 2020.
October 19, 2022
Ódio ao arcebispo Petelgeuse
Este volume foi muito cativante. Eu estava postergando a leitura por conta do vestibular e decidi ler este ano, mas estou inteiramente chocado com tudo o que aconteceu nesse volume, especialmente com esse arcebispo do Culto a Bruxa da Inveja, Satella.
Amei ler mais sobre as emoções da Rem, o que tornou ainda mais doloroso o que houve com ela nesse volume. Agora é ler os próximos volumes para saber como é que o Subaru vai lidar com esse ser abominável que é o Petelgeuse.
Este volume foi muito cativante. Eu estava postergando a leitura por conta do vestibular e decidi ler este ano, mas estou inteiramente chocado com tudo o que aconteceu nesse volume, especialmente com esse arcebispo do Culto a Bruxa da Inveja, Satella.
Amei ler mais sobre as emoções da Rem, o que tornou ainda mais doloroso o que houve com ela nesse volume. Agora é ler os próximos volumes para saber como é que o Subaru vai lidar com esse ser abominável que é o Petelgeuse.
March 24, 2024
Subaru is training and recovering at the home of a rival faction. When News arrives that leads to a trip back to Mansion where Emilia is.
Subuaru spends a lot of the book navel gazing wondering how he is going to fix things. Things that need to be fixed seems to include most of the things in is life. He turns his back on the people helping him to rush back to the girl who spurned him. It's a good thing he has is special ability.
Subuaru spends a lot of the book navel gazing wondering how he is going to fix things. Things that need to be fixed seems to include most of the things in is life. He turns his back on the people helping him to rush back to the girl who spurned him. It's a good thing he has is special ability.
August 12, 2022
Amazing read.
I loved this volume, despite it being quite dark. The tests and tribulations the character has will be fun to see him overcome. As usual, my thanks to the author, illustrator, and translator.
I loved this volume, despite it being quite dark. The tests and tribulations the character has will be fun to see him overcome. As usual, my thanks to the author, illustrator, and translator.
April 16, 2023
Another great volume of Re:Zero for it's 3rd arc. It really drives in the despair to the reader that Subaru is going through. 9/10
January 2, 2018
The only bad thing I've got to say about this volume is that it's just too darned .
April 6, 2018
another rough and tumble few days for Subaru, great storytelling as always, hoping for a satisfying resolution in the next volume
February 3, 2020
Si creía que no podía hacerme llorar, estaba equivocada
May 12, 2020
I can not wait to read book 6 even though I know what's going to happen it's just so good. Petlegeuse...
September 9, 2020
Finally Betelgeuse appears! DESU!
January 2, 2021
Perfect and very sad
December 31, 2021
Z tohohle dílu člověku běhá mráz po zádech. Stejně brutální a krvavé jako v anime. Navíc se tu poprvé objeví můj miláček Petelgeuse :3
4.5/5*
4.5/5*
October 22, 2022
I'm surprised at how dark things have become, particularly with how upbeat the story started out. It's getting some real teeth and I'm diggin' it.
October 20, 2024
Watching an unlikeable character fall into despair should not be a standalone volume. I understand this volume is only a fraction of a much greater story, but at least include more character growth in the volume or a monetary discount. Bundle volume 6 and 7.
This volume in a vacuum is so insanely unfun to read.
This volume in a vacuum is so insanely unfun to read.
June 8, 2025
se nota que la cálidad de la historia sube poco a poco pero aquí hay muchos huecos argumentales
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