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Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 [Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu] #6
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 6
Resets aren't a promise things will get better...
After suffering terribly at the hands of Petelgeuse, the Archbishop of Sloth, Subaru has returned once more to the capital with his ability, Return by Death. Swearing revenge, he'll need to find allies and borrow their strength to strike back at the Witch Cult and save Emilia. But how will he manage that when he has nothing to offer, powerless as he is...?
After suffering terribly at the hands of Petelgeuse, the Archbishop of Sloth, Subaru has returned once more to the capital with his ability, Return by Death. Swearing revenge, he'll need to find allies and borrow their strength to strike back at the Witch Cult and save Emilia. But how will he manage that when he has nothing to offer, powerless as he is...?
249 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 24, 2015
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January 2, 2026
It's time for the Witch Cult!
I really like how Rem got more spotlight this time around and her selfless sacrifice to save somebody that she loves. It's truly heartbreaking. Especially if one is aware that it's a one-sided love.
The time loops are back in action and this time Subaru gains better knowledge over his special ability, making him learn from previous mistakes. In general, this volume shows significant growth in Subaru’s intellect and his willingness to learn increased as well. Due to the dismissal commentary of real knights he decided to gain more strength and power so that he can protect the people that are important to him. For this volume, he tries everything in his power to save Rem from her horrible fate.
Seeing how the other candidates of the royal ceremony avoid Subaru and their unwillingness to help him out is something that he unfortunately brought upon himself by humiliating himself in the fourth volume. I really wish he wouldn't have done so, but I guess it's used now to show Subaru’s influence over other's with his Return By Death ability. The more often he rewinds the situations the better he learns about characters and is therefore able to bond with them even if they distrusted him at first (Ram & Rem) or saw him as pathetic (Beatrice).
The previous volume had the Witch of Jealousy appear in front of Subaru and now she appeared again leaving a mysterious feeling that spread throughout the rest of the volume.
StoryGraph review
I really like how Rem got more spotlight this time around and her selfless sacrifice to save somebody that she loves. It's truly heartbreaking. Especially if one is aware that it's a one-sided love.
The time loops are back in action and this time Subaru gains better knowledge over his special ability, making him learn from previous mistakes. In general, this volume shows significant growth in Subaru’s intellect and his willingness to learn increased as well. Due to the dismissal commentary of real knights he decided to gain more strength and power so that he can protect the people that are important to him. For this volume, he tries everything in his power to save Rem from her horrible fate.
Seeing how the other candidates of the royal ceremony avoid Subaru and their unwillingness to help him out is something that he unfortunately brought upon himself by humiliating himself in the fourth volume. I really wish he wouldn't have done so, but I guess it's used now to show Subaru’s influence over other's with his Return By Death ability. The more often he rewinds the situations the better he learns about characters and is therefore able to bond with them even if they distrusted him at first (Ram & Rem) or saw him as pathetic (Beatrice).
The previous volume had the Witch of Jealousy appear in front of Subaru and now she appeared again leaving a mysterious feeling that spread throughout the rest of the volume.
StoryGraph review
April 20, 2025
Masterpiece. I watched rem's confession so many time on anime but reading it still make me feel so emotional.
September 17, 2020
For a series of light novels that are a show of despair and powerlessness, in which the protagonist teeters between shame, self-hatred, homicidal rage and wanting to die when he's not actually getting killed, the accompanying illustrations could hardly be more incongruous. It's the closest I can think now to a "Happy Tree Friends" of Japanese light novels slash manga slash anime, as if it were some kind of in-joke.
Last time the protagonist died, stuck as he is in a series of "Groundhog Day"-like loops in a fantasy world, he had to witness the woman who loves him getting tortured, the muscles torn from her bones, while he was chained to a wall in a crazed state. That sparked in him a homicidal rage that is now, when this volume starts, almost the only thing fueling his behavior.
Back at the capital, the protagonist figures that to stop the incoming and literal Apocalypse, he'll need a military force beyond that of his demonic companion. He can try the royal candidates, although he'd rather not face them again, given that he had proved his foolishness in front of them by proclaiming to be a knight only to be then beaten to a pulp by an actual knight. The most reliable candidate is the rational, military-minded duchess at whose mansion he had been receiving treatment.
Pictured: that gal
He organizes a meeting with her and asks her help in defeating the witch's cult that's going to murder almost everybody he cares about. What follows is a verbal beatdown in which the duchess explains to him that it's in her best interests to do nothing if a force is going to erase one of her opponents, that if the heroine can't defend her own domain then she's proven herself not worthy of ruling the kingdom, that if she herself gets involved it could be seen by the public as her having messed with the electoral process, and that the protagonist lacks all ability as a negotiator given that he's just asking for help and offering nothing else than guilt-tripping. The protagonist's rage has gone overboard, and he flies into a shouting fit in which he tries to push into the duchess' head how the witch's cult needs to be erased from that world as violently as possible. The duchess, disappointed, points out that at no point of that tirade had he asked for help in saving people, just in murdering his enemies. He leaves considering the duchess as another useless fool.
He then approaches, of all people, the royal candidate who happens to be a narcissistic psychopath with superpowers. She's amused at the protagonist's tale, and although she doesn't really want to help, humiliating people turns her on, and she tells the protagonist that she'll help only if he crawls to her bare foot and suckles on it as if it were a nipple. The protagonist has suffered through mind-breaking levels of pain through dying around nine times already, so he figures that this is doable. As he was extending his filthy, greasy tongue towards this orange-haired, cuntish vixen's bare foot, she kicks his head hard enough to send him flying. She flies into a rage at his lack of pride. She yells at him saying that he has nothing but a "pig's greed", and that his display has convinced her that she needs to obliterate any side that considers him an ally. The protagonist barely escapes with his life.
In the streets he meets, casually it seems, another candidate: a very successful businesswoman turned royal candidate, who intends to turn the kingdom into an extension of her personal empire. The protagonist figures that he might as well try this one. They speak in a restaurant. At that point the protagonist has given up on getting an army, and would be content with procuring a carriage that can transport them back to their lord's mansion, but all carriages are already taken due to stuff going on. She hangs over the protagonist the pass to rent a freight carriage, but she'll only give it as long as they can have a conversation on her terms. She ends up using him for information on the other royal candidates, stuff that those candidates would reproach him for blabbering about. When he gets angry about having been used, she explains uncaringly to him that he had shown himself as someone unworthy of respect and consideration, and that at least he serves to be exploited for her benefit. When she leaves, he's despairing. He had failed at procuring any help except for a meager carriage to get to the place where he'll likely fail again. Almost every person he had met in this new world had shown him that he's not needed, that he's a talentless fool and that the best he can do is to get out of the way.
As he was riding the carriage along with his constant companion the demon maid Rem, they come across a group of merchants that were resting for the day. Amongst them is the merchant who had helped the protagonist in a previous run. They end up offering the entire group a fortune in order to ride to the village closest to the protagonist's lord's mansion and use their carriages to move the villagers out of the way before the witch's cult slaughters them all. However, along the way they cross paths with a legendary monster, the White Whale, bane of merchants and of pretty much anyone else. Turns out that in this world some superpowered people could create monsters for whatever reason, and this one had ended up roaming around for hundreds of years ruining people's days. This White Whale is an enormous cetacean that happens to fly and somehow produce a mist that the beast uses to hunt its prey. As the monster eats some of the carriages along with their riders, the protagonist discovers the worst part of that monster's effects: whoever it eats not only gets killed, but also gets erased from existence and other people's memories as if the dead had never existed. All they did in life gets retroactively nullified or assigned to someone else. I don't recall having seen this in any story, but in any case I find it fascinating as a plot element. The protagonist is immune from this effect, though, whether because he's cursed or because of pure plot convenience.
Rem sacrifices herself again to save the protagonist. As he was desperately attempting to convince the main merchant to turn back and rescue the girl, her existence gets erased from the merchant's memory. At the protagonist insistence about the girl and the merchant's confusion, the protagonist gets enraged and punches him in the face. The whole thing ends up with the protagonist pushed off the carriage to be devoured by the whale. The protagonist makes a shameful display fleeing while bawling and crying that he doesn't want to die. The whale doesn't kill him for whatever reason, and later on he comes across the merchant's carriage. The merchant had just been murdered by the witch's cult for being there.
The protagonist ends up passing out near the village. He wakes up in the lord's mansion under the not particularly caring attention of the deceased Rem's sister. He delays telling her the news of her sister's death, but when he mentions Rem, the girl doesn't know what he's talking about. At his crazed insistence that she had a little sister who just passed away, she gets annoyed and orders him to go back to sleep. When he gets left alone, he figures that he's had enough of this bullshit. He'll go face the heroine, who last time they spoke had pretty much told him that they would never see each other again, and forcefully drag her to safety if possible. The heroine looks distraught and having lost sleep over the recent events, and although she attempts to understand his emotions and insistence, she ends up giving up; too much on her plate already to waste time on this fool. The protagonist grabs her by the arm and would have dragged her away if she weren't far more dangerous than him due to her magical abilities. He figures that his only choice is to reveal the curse, that he comes back in time whenever he dies, and that it's the reason why he knows an attack is coming. However, whenever he had attempted to reveal that fact, the witch that cursed him stopped time and scratched his heart, causing him pain to disuade him from trying again. But he intends to power through that pain and make her understand. However, when he starts revealing the secret and time stops, the witch extends one of her smoky hands towards the heroine. When time flows again, the heroine keels over, her heart literally crushed. She dies in the protagonist's arms while bleeding from every orifice.
The protagonist just waits there in deep despair, his beloved cold in his arms, when the librarian, a sort of immortal being in a child's body, enters and addresses the heroine's death nonchalantly. When she asks the protagonist if he has something to say, he asks her to kill him. She's distraught at this for reasons that are mostly revealed in future volumes (as of now, in the eleventh episode of the second season of the anime adaptation). She prepares a teleportation spell while saying something to the effect of "I don't care about the future. I'm tired of pain, suffering and fear. Of everything, I suppose. At least die where I can't see you."
The protagonist appears in the nearby forest. He figures that he might as well visit the members of the witch's cult at their gathering place, where he was chained before, for whatever reason. He finds the bad guy there, who's impressed at someone having killed the heroine before they got to her. After a twisted exchange, their leader ends up pinning down the protagonist while attempting to tear apart the heroine's corpse. The protagonist struggles in vain, as that's the last thing he wants to witness at that point. However, the spirit of the Apocalypse that acted as a guardian of the heroine (a generally very ineffective guardian) shows up and with a calm anger end up shattering with frost the witch's cult members. As the protagonist lays dying, the guardian spirit has some choice words for him: that he broke his promises to the heroine, that he broke her heart, that he came back when she had told him to stay away, and finally that he had allowed her to die. You are one to talk, dick. As he freezes the protagonist to death, the spirit explains that as part of whatever contract he had made with the heroine, at the event of her death he would destroy the entire world. I wasn't impressed by the heroine's intentions for ruling the kingdom, and this shit is on top. It's part of this series peculiarity; it makes secondary and even peripheral characters more level-headed and generally competent than the main people we are following.
In any case, the protagonist dies. He "wakes up" back at the capital, next to the loving Rem. He grabs her hand and drags her towards the entrance of the city. He's finally decided on the proper path. When she lets go and asks him to explain himself, he tells her that he has finally understood, and he was a fool for not understanding before given that pretty much everyone was telling him: he's worthless, he's just a fool bothering everybody, and he doesn't have the ability to affect the world in a significant way. The only thing he can truly do is run away to find some remote place in which he can live in peace and seclusion, and he figures that he can convince Rem to accompany him, not even for her sake, but because he doesn't believe he would be able to stand being alone in that world. She has proven that she'll sacrifice herself for him, and he knows that if he leaves her in the capital she’ll fly back to the mansion and die defending it. He begs her to come with him far away, and he promises that he’ll give his all to make her happy, and he’ll live only for her sake, if she’ll have him.
What follows is a generally heartbreaking conversation in which both characters bare their souls, facing their shortcomings and demons. She illustrates how she imagines their life together far away would end up being, showing that she had thought about it in detail: what kinds of jobs they’ll be able to get, how he’d study and move up, the number of children they would have, the kind of a couple they would be as they grew old. She says that she wishes to die in bed surrounded by the protagonist and their children and their children’s children, and she figures that she would consider then that her life had been a happy one. The protagonist, choking up, demands to know why then she refuses to run away with him. She claims that giving up is easy, and doesn’t suit him. The protagonist gets enraged; he hadn’t been pushing himself to death over and over to prevent deaths and even the Apocalypse just to be told that having reached his conclusion was easy: it was easier to believe that there was something, anything, he could do that would eventually save everyone. He opens up about the tremendously low opinion he has of himself; he wished and struggled although he was talentless and had never done anything of value. This quote is the summarized version of those pages. She listens to him, but as rebuttals she lists the many things she had grown to love about him and his behavior, and particularly that after she had lost her parents and ended up fucking her sister over in an attack when she was a child, her heart had frozen, and it was the protagonist trusting her and fighting for her sake that had woken her up to life again. She claims to love him, at which he, with more regret in the original novelized version, answers that it’s not her that he loves, but the other gal. That moment in the anime adaptation was meme-ized to hell, as it shocked and disgusted pretty much everyone who watched it.
In any case, the unrealistically loyal best girl promises that she’ll stay by his side until he saves the world, and beyond.
An interesting point of this is the protagonist’s realization that although he had chosen Rem to run away with not only because she loved him, but because he believed that she was the only one that would understand him in his despair and justify the fact that he had to give up, he now understands that it was precisely this girl who would not allow him to give up, even though everybody else would rather he got out of the way. We would all be so lucky if we had a Rem of our own to tirelessly accompany us in our delusional enterprises, who would listen to us yet not allow us to give up while in the depths of our despair, who had natural blue hair and most of the time wore a maid outfit, and who when the Apocalypse drew near, she would transform into a berserker demon and pummel through our enemies with a customized flail. She’s like the perfect woman.
[continues on the comments]
Last time the protagonist died, stuck as he is in a series of "Groundhog Day"-like loops in a fantasy world, he had to witness the woman who loves him getting tortured, the muscles torn from her bones, while he was chained to a wall in a crazed state. That sparked in him a homicidal rage that is now, when this volume starts, almost the only thing fueling his behavior.
Back at the capital, the protagonist figures that to stop the incoming and literal Apocalypse, he'll need a military force beyond that of his demonic companion. He can try the royal candidates, although he'd rather not face them again, given that he had proved his foolishness in front of them by proclaiming to be a knight only to be then beaten to a pulp by an actual knight. The most reliable candidate is the rational, military-minded duchess at whose mansion he had been receiving treatment.
Pictured: that gal
He organizes a meeting with her and asks her help in defeating the witch's cult that's going to murder almost everybody he cares about. What follows is a verbal beatdown in which the duchess explains to him that it's in her best interests to do nothing if a force is going to erase one of her opponents, that if the heroine can't defend her own domain then she's proven herself not worthy of ruling the kingdom, that if she herself gets involved it could be seen by the public as her having messed with the electoral process, and that the protagonist lacks all ability as a negotiator given that he's just asking for help and offering nothing else than guilt-tripping. The protagonist's rage has gone overboard, and he flies into a shouting fit in which he tries to push into the duchess' head how the witch's cult needs to be erased from that world as violently as possible. The duchess, disappointed, points out that at no point of that tirade had he asked for help in saving people, just in murdering his enemies. He leaves considering the duchess as another useless fool.
He then approaches, of all people, the royal candidate who happens to be a narcissistic psychopath with superpowers. She's amused at the protagonist's tale, and although she doesn't really want to help, humiliating people turns her on, and she tells the protagonist that she'll help only if he crawls to her bare foot and suckles on it as if it were a nipple. The protagonist has suffered through mind-breaking levels of pain through dying around nine times already, so he figures that this is doable. As he was extending his filthy, greasy tongue towards this orange-haired, cuntish vixen's bare foot, she kicks his head hard enough to send him flying. She flies into a rage at his lack of pride. She yells at him saying that he has nothing but a "pig's greed", and that his display has convinced her that she needs to obliterate any side that considers him an ally. The protagonist barely escapes with his life.
In the streets he meets, casually it seems, another candidate: a very successful businesswoman turned royal candidate, who intends to turn the kingdom into an extension of her personal empire. The protagonist figures that he might as well try this one. They speak in a restaurant. At that point the protagonist has given up on getting an army, and would be content with procuring a carriage that can transport them back to their lord's mansion, but all carriages are already taken due to stuff going on. She hangs over the protagonist the pass to rent a freight carriage, but she'll only give it as long as they can have a conversation on her terms. She ends up using him for information on the other royal candidates, stuff that those candidates would reproach him for blabbering about. When he gets angry about having been used, she explains uncaringly to him that he had shown himself as someone unworthy of respect and consideration, and that at least he serves to be exploited for her benefit. When she leaves, he's despairing. He had failed at procuring any help except for a meager carriage to get to the place where he'll likely fail again. Almost every person he had met in this new world had shown him that he's not needed, that he's a talentless fool and that the best he can do is to get out of the way.
As he was riding the carriage along with his constant companion the demon maid Rem, they come across a group of merchants that were resting for the day. Amongst them is the merchant who had helped the protagonist in a previous run. They end up offering the entire group a fortune in order to ride to the village closest to the protagonist's lord's mansion and use their carriages to move the villagers out of the way before the witch's cult slaughters them all. However, along the way they cross paths with a legendary monster, the White Whale, bane of merchants and of pretty much anyone else. Turns out that in this world some superpowered people could create monsters for whatever reason, and this one had ended up roaming around for hundreds of years ruining people's days. This White Whale is an enormous cetacean that happens to fly and somehow produce a mist that the beast uses to hunt its prey. As the monster eats some of the carriages along with their riders, the protagonist discovers the worst part of that monster's effects: whoever it eats not only gets killed, but also gets erased from existence and other people's memories as if the dead had never existed. All they did in life gets retroactively nullified or assigned to someone else. I don't recall having seen this in any story, but in any case I find it fascinating as a plot element. The protagonist is immune from this effect, though, whether because he's cursed or because of pure plot convenience.
Rem sacrifices herself again to save the protagonist. As he was desperately attempting to convince the main merchant to turn back and rescue the girl, her existence gets erased from the merchant's memory. At the protagonist insistence about the girl and the merchant's confusion, the protagonist gets enraged and punches him in the face. The whole thing ends up with the protagonist pushed off the carriage to be devoured by the whale. The protagonist makes a shameful display fleeing while bawling and crying that he doesn't want to die. The whale doesn't kill him for whatever reason, and later on he comes across the merchant's carriage. The merchant had just been murdered by the witch's cult for being there.
The protagonist ends up passing out near the village. He wakes up in the lord's mansion under the not particularly caring attention of the deceased Rem's sister. He delays telling her the news of her sister's death, but when he mentions Rem, the girl doesn't know what he's talking about. At his crazed insistence that she had a little sister who just passed away, she gets annoyed and orders him to go back to sleep. When he gets left alone, he figures that he's had enough of this bullshit. He'll go face the heroine, who last time they spoke had pretty much told him that they would never see each other again, and forcefully drag her to safety if possible. The heroine looks distraught and having lost sleep over the recent events, and although she attempts to understand his emotions and insistence, she ends up giving up; too much on her plate already to waste time on this fool. The protagonist grabs her by the arm and would have dragged her away if she weren't far more dangerous than him due to her magical abilities. He figures that his only choice is to reveal the curse, that he comes back in time whenever he dies, and that it's the reason why he knows an attack is coming. However, whenever he had attempted to reveal that fact, the witch that cursed him stopped time and scratched his heart, causing him pain to disuade him from trying again. But he intends to power through that pain and make her understand. However, when he starts revealing the secret and time stops, the witch extends one of her smoky hands towards the heroine. When time flows again, the heroine keels over, her heart literally crushed. She dies in the protagonist's arms while bleeding from every orifice.
The protagonist just waits there in deep despair, his beloved cold in his arms, when the librarian, a sort of immortal being in a child's body, enters and addresses the heroine's death nonchalantly. When she asks the protagonist if he has something to say, he asks her to kill him. She's distraught at this for reasons that are mostly revealed in future volumes (as of now, in the eleventh episode of the second season of the anime adaptation). She prepares a teleportation spell while saying something to the effect of "I don't care about the future. I'm tired of pain, suffering and fear. Of everything, I suppose. At least die where I can't see you."
The protagonist appears in the nearby forest. He figures that he might as well visit the members of the witch's cult at their gathering place, where he was chained before, for whatever reason. He finds the bad guy there, who's impressed at someone having killed the heroine before they got to her. After a twisted exchange, their leader ends up pinning down the protagonist while attempting to tear apart the heroine's corpse. The protagonist struggles in vain, as that's the last thing he wants to witness at that point. However, the spirit of the Apocalypse that acted as a guardian of the heroine (a generally very ineffective guardian) shows up and with a calm anger end up shattering with frost the witch's cult members. As the protagonist lays dying, the guardian spirit has some choice words for him: that he broke his promises to the heroine, that he broke her heart, that he came back when she had told him to stay away, and finally that he had allowed her to die. You are one to talk, dick. As he freezes the protagonist to death, the spirit explains that as part of whatever contract he had made with the heroine, at the event of her death he would destroy the entire world. I wasn't impressed by the heroine's intentions for ruling the kingdom, and this shit is on top. It's part of this series peculiarity; it makes secondary and even peripheral characters more level-headed and generally competent than the main people we are following.
In any case, the protagonist dies. He "wakes up" back at the capital, next to the loving Rem. He grabs her hand and drags her towards the entrance of the city. He's finally decided on the proper path. When she lets go and asks him to explain himself, he tells her that he has finally understood, and he was a fool for not understanding before given that pretty much everyone was telling him: he's worthless, he's just a fool bothering everybody, and he doesn't have the ability to affect the world in a significant way. The only thing he can truly do is run away to find some remote place in which he can live in peace and seclusion, and he figures that he can convince Rem to accompany him, not even for her sake, but because he doesn't believe he would be able to stand being alone in that world. She has proven that she'll sacrifice herself for him, and he knows that if he leaves her in the capital she’ll fly back to the mansion and die defending it. He begs her to come with him far away, and he promises that he’ll give his all to make her happy, and he’ll live only for her sake, if she’ll have him.
What follows is a generally heartbreaking conversation in which both characters bare their souls, facing their shortcomings and demons. She illustrates how she imagines their life together far away would end up being, showing that she had thought about it in detail: what kinds of jobs they’ll be able to get, how he’d study and move up, the number of children they would have, the kind of a couple they would be as they grew old. She says that she wishes to die in bed surrounded by the protagonist and their children and their children’s children, and she figures that she would consider then that her life had been a happy one. The protagonist, choking up, demands to know why then she refuses to run away with him. She claims that giving up is easy, and doesn’t suit him. The protagonist gets enraged; he hadn’t been pushing himself to death over and over to prevent deaths and even the Apocalypse just to be told that having reached his conclusion was easy: it was easier to believe that there was something, anything, he could do that would eventually save everyone. He opens up about the tremendously low opinion he has of himself; he wished and struggled although he was talentless and had never done anything of value. This quote is the summarized version of those pages. She listens to him, but as rebuttals she lists the many things she had grown to love about him and his behavior, and particularly that after she had lost her parents and ended up fucking her sister over in an attack when she was a child, her heart had frozen, and it was the protagonist trusting her and fighting for her sake that had woken her up to life again. She claims to love him, at which he, with more regret in the original novelized version, answers that it’s not her that he loves, but the other gal. That moment in the anime adaptation was meme-ized to hell, as it shocked and disgusted pretty much everyone who watched it.
In any case, the unrealistically loyal best girl promises that she’ll stay by his side until he saves the world, and beyond.
An interesting point of this is the protagonist’s realization that although he had chosen Rem to run away with not only because she loved him, but because he believed that she was the only one that would understand him in his despair and justify the fact that he had to give up, he now understands that it was precisely this girl who would not allow him to give up, even though everybody else would rather he got out of the way. We would all be so lucky if we had a Rem of our own to tirelessly accompany us in our delusional enterprises, who would listen to us yet not allow us to give up while in the depths of our despair, who had natural blue hair and most of the time wore a maid outfit, and who when the Apocalypse drew near, she would transform into a berserker demon and pummel through our enemies with a customized flail. She’s like the perfect woman.
[continues on the comments]
August 28, 2025
let’s start over, from zero
September 2, 2021
Oh god damn is this an amazing volume.
I love this book so freaking much it's on my favourites forever now.
So lets get into it shall we?
SO much more development for Subaru and Rem goes on in this book that we don't even hint at in the anime and it annoys me that it's not there.
But lets begin first with the changes.
First is Puck, holy damn is he a bad ass in this book. He lambastes Subaru harder than anything you've thought of, the level of cruelty and serious scorn he throws at Subaru over the stuff that happens in his hell loop is horrific.
It's the darkest and worst part that I've read so far for the series and I can't wait to see how other fights go on.
the revelations that there's always more going on in this story than we're lead to believe is brilliant. we've always thought that Rem is just there as a courtesy to help Subaru and it is why REM is there, she wants to help him because she's the best blueberry ever.
But she was at the Crusch estate to try and bargain for a uniting of the factions between Mathers and Crusch and all we needed in the Anime was a small set of scenes where it shows Rem just going into Crusch's room at night with a "I should've seen but I'm an idiot" voice over of Subaru and it pisses me off that it's not there.
Of course the scene that makes us all cry is there and it still makes me cry.
the difference is that I think Yūsuke Kobayashi does a far more amazing job of the reading of Subaru's lines than are in the story, the visceral level of how he reads the "I hate myself" work so much better than was was on the page.
The meanings there and I'm betting it has a harder punch when read in Japanese but the English comes off a little stilted at times in his self-deprecating rant.
Except for the part where he so loathes himself that he bloodies his hand while screaming at Rem how he hates himself, would've loved to see that level of reaction from Subaru in the anime.
It's still a fantastic volume, though the ending is a big cliffhanger with the beginning of the negotiations with Crusch just starting.
Still loving this series, some of the best short fantasy fiction out there too.
I love this book so freaking much it's on my favourites forever now.
So lets get into it shall we?
SO much more development for Subaru and Rem goes on in this book that we don't even hint at in the anime and it annoys me that it's not there.
But lets begin first with the changes.
First is Puck, holy damn is he a bad ass in this book. He lambastes Subaru harder than anything you've thought of, the level of cruelty and serious scorn he throws at Subaru over the stuff that happens in his hell loop is horrific.
It's the darkest and worst part that I've read so far for the series and I can't wait to see how other fights go on.
the revelations that there's always more going on in this story than we're lead to believe is brilliant. we've always thought that Rem is just there as a courtesy to help Subaru and it is why REM is there, she wants to help him because she's the best blueberry ever.
But she was at the Crusch estate to try and bargain for a uniting of the factions between Mathers and Crusch and all we needed in the Anime was a small set of scenes where it shows Rem just going into Crusch's room at night with a "I should've seen but I'm an idiot" voice over of Subaru and it pisses me off that it's not there.
Of course the scene that makes us all cry is there and it still makes me cry.
the difference is that I think Yūsuke Kobayashi does a far more amazing job of the reading of Subaru's lines than are in the story, the visceral level of how he reads the "I hate myself" work so much better than was was on the page.
The meanings there and I'm betting it has a harder punch when read in Japanese but the English comes off a little stilted at times in his self-deprecating rant.
Except for the part where he so loathes himself that he bloodies his hand while screaming at Rem how he hates himself, would've loved to see that level of reaction from Subaru in the anime.
It's still a fantastic volume, though the ending is a big cliffhanger with the beginning of the negotiations with Crusch just starting.
Still loving this series, some of the best short fantasy fiction out there too.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 2, 2018
One of the best volumes so far! After a lot of suffering, it seems the MC has finally learned something. I would dub this series "the story every Millennial should read", or "how wanting and deserving are not the same thing" :D
I've watched the anime, and I counted 4 hints to the overarching story that I don't think were included in it. That and the final negotiation makes incredibly more sense, as there was a key piece of information left out of the anime
An epic volume and totally worth reading for the extra pieces of world building you don't get in the anime.
I've watched the anime, and I counted 4 hints to the overarching story that I don't think were included in it. That and the final negotiation makes incredibly more sense, as there was a key piece of information left out of the anime
An epic volume and totally worth reading for the extra pieces of world building you don't get in the anime.
August 5, 2022
Este libro se enfoca más que nada en explicar cómo es que el protagonista se las ingenia para cumplir su cometido, o para deslindarse de sus obligaciones, y en un principio lo hace intentando dialogarlo con las elegidas para la selección y esto resulta en algo fútil además de que le regalan insultos y golpes. Aunado a lo anteriormente mencionado no consigue absolutamente nada de lo que quiere ni de lo que planeaba, esto ni en su ida a la mansión de Roswaal ni en la llegada, con la llegada siendo posiblemente uno de los finales más trágicos para el protagonista.
Después de eso Rem y Subaru tienen una charla acerca de sus emociones y el qué piensan de sí, con esto último dando el último empujón para que el protagonista pueda decidir qué hacer.
Las interacciones entre personajes posiblemente sean las mejores hasta la fecha, destacando a Betty y Rem. De Rem finalmente tenemos una idea completa de cómo piensa su personaje y por qué lo hace así.
De Ferris solo puedo mencionar que salió otra vez y su única función sigue siendo emanar odio. Odio Ferris.
Después de eso Rem y Subaru tienen una charla acerca de sus emociones y el qué piensan de sí, con esto último dando el último empujón para que el protagonista pueda decidir qué hacer.
Las interacciones entre personajes posiblemente sean las mejores hasta la fecha, destacando a Betty y Rem. De Rem finalmente tenemos una idea completa de cómo piensa su personaje y por qué lo hace así.
De Ferris solo puedo mencionar que salió otra vez y su única función sigue siendo emanar odio. Odio Ferris.
October 28, 2024
Dieses Buch ist eine der besten Charaktergeschichten, die ich je gelesen habe. Subaru wird auf so viele Weisen beleuchtet und alle seine bisherigen Fehler werden endlich benannt und in der Geschichte verarbeitet. Ein einziges Gespräch zieht sich über dreißig Seiten und es ist unglaublich emotional und meisterhaft geschrieben, dass es mich mitnimmt, wie kaum etwas anderes.
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- Die ersten drei Gespräche mit den Kandidaten sind meisterhaft geschrieben, da wir sie und auch Subaru dadurch erforschen
- Subaru ist so erbärmlich und voller Fehler
- Tappei schreibt unglaublich epische, bildhafte Szenen
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- Das letzte Kapitel hätte im nächsten Band sein sollen
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- Die ersten drei Gespräche mit den Kandidaten sind meisterhaft geschrieben, da wir sie und auch Subaru dadurch erforschen
- Subaru ist so erbärmlich und voller Fehler
- Tappei schreibt unglaublich epische, bildhafte Szenen
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- Das letzte Kapitel hätte im nächsten Band sein sollen
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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
A person's worth is decided by how her soul lives
Essa frase resume maravilhosamente bem o andamento da narrativa neste volume de Re:Zero. Digo isso porque vemos neste livro as várias tentativas de Subaru e Rem em salvar a vida de Lady Emília e dos moradores da vila nos arredores. Há todo um discurso do Petelgeuse sobre o amor da Bruxa sendo provado na morte cruel de todas aquelas pessoas. É interessante ver como que no final, o desfecho ia contra tudo que a gente tinha pensado que seria o melhor caminho de ação. Agora só resta ler os próximos volumes para saber como se seguiu.
Essa frase resume maravilhosamente bem o andamento da narrativa neste volume de Re:Zero. Digo isso porque vemos neste livro as várias tentativas de Subaru e Rem em salvar a vida de Lady Emília e dos moradores da vila nos arredores. Há todo um discurso do Petelgeuse sobre o amor da Bruxa sendo provado na morte cruel de todas aquelas pessoas. É interessante ver como que no final, o desfecho ia contra tudo que a gente tinha pensado que seria o melhor caminho de ação. Agora só resta ler os próximos volumes para saber como se seguiu.
August 5, 2024
Subaru Tries to gather resources together to fight off the attack by the Witch Cult on the Castle and village. But he has a tough time getting resources and still manages to get killed a few times along the way. Good thing he has return by death. Too bad every time he dies, it's more painful than the previous time.
This volume has a lot of Subaru complaining about how powerless he is, and getting told how powerless he is. He still tries to save everyone, but there are issues. at the end of the book, things are were they are at the beginning, but Subaru is wiser as to what won't work.
This volume has a lot of Subaru complaining about how powerless he is, and getting told how powerless he is. He still tries to save everyone, but there are issues. at the end of the book, things are were they are at the beginning, but Subaru is wiser as to what won't work.
August 10, 2018
It was good not as good as the last one but still good, in this one Subaru was having a similar experience to the psychologist but dying every time he failed to learn a Leeson, he finally broke and spilled his inner guilt and flaws and thus he grew a lot in this book, he still has a long way to go but now he’s a better person, Rem was magnificent here and this is where some will hate Subaru and love Rem.
April 16, 2023
Another masterpiece of a volume and this one may be the best one yet. 10/10.
August 24, 2020
Sin duda, de los volúmenes más importantes de Re:Zero por no decir que el que más hasta ahora.
El derrumbe de Subaru lentamente hasta llegar al limite ha sido más duro aún que en el anime y el capítulo de la confesión de Rem... Sublime.
Es una verdadera lástima que Subaru aún así prefiera a Emilia. -.-
Es momento de ver al héroe es su máximo esplendor en el próximo volumen.
El derrumbe de Subaru lentamente hasta llegar al limite ha sido más duro aún que en el anime y el capítulo de la confesión de Rem... Sublime.
Es una verdadera lástima que Subaru aún así prefiera a Emilia. -.-
Es momento de ver al héroe es su máximo esplendor en el próximo volumen.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 3, 2022
MEU DEUS DO CÉU, COMO EU ODEIO O SUBARU!!!!!
Foi um excelente volume que abriu vários mistérios e revelou sentimentos profundos de certos personagens.
A forma leviana do Subaru é proposital mas é muita tortura para um leitor só!
Eu quero a Rem só pra mim agora... Uma pena ela ser waifu de metade da comunidade otaku do mundo haha...
Foi um excelente volume que abriu vários mistérios e revelou sentimentos profundos de certos personagens.
A forma leviana do Subaru é proposital mas é muita tortura para um leitor só!
Eu quero a Rem só pra mim agora... Uma pena ela ser waifu de metade da comunidade otaku do mundo haha...
August 13, 2022
Simply Amazing.
Reading as the main character descends and arises was truly a treat. There are not many stories in my considerable repertoire that have clutched my interest in such a way as this one has. Simply exquisite. I must say I loved this addition. As always, my gratitude and respect to the author, illustrator, and translator.
Reading as the main character descends and arises was truly a treat. There are not many stories in my considerable repertoire that have clutched my interest in such a way as this one has. Simply exquisite. I must say I loved this addition. As always, my gratitude and respect to the author, illustrator, and translator.
April 19, 2018
This volume is where Subaru hits emotional rock bottom. It starts with his negotiation with Duchess Crusch and ends with a renegotiation with her, in the meantime having been defeated, abused, tried to flee with Rem, killed Emilia, met the White Whale of amnesia, learned about negotiations and business manipulation and realized that Puck is much, much more than a fluffy kitten. In parts this book is brutal, really brutal. Interestingly, a scene that's left out of the brilliant anime gives Beatrice a much more vivid and sad existence..... and another clue as to what's really going on? One is left wondering which characters exist within time and which ones are " out of the loop".
January 17, 2020
This vol really highlights the biggest drawback of Subaru's ability. Here he is going through multiple timelines, dying over and over, being traumatized and abused, but to everyone else only a moment has past so his change makes no sense. It's both hilarious and tragic.
August 22, 2018
There was a lot of satisfying character development with Subaru in this volume.
February 11, 2019
I agree with another review here, wanting and deserving are the two complete different things.
I feel frustrated when MC cannot do anything, I hope it improves in future volumes
I feel frustrated when MC cannot do anything, I hope it improves in future volumes
November 30, 2019
A história de muito sofrimento que protagonista passou nesse loop finalmente acaba, com um desfecho emocionante de amadurecimento e um gancho para o próximo volume muito bom.
May 31, 2020
Wait just one minute! This is just Steins;Gate 0. You can't fool me that easily Nagatsuki.
July 12, 2020
Best volume so far ;_; I srsly feel bad for Subaru
January 2, 2021
Rem is cute
August 14, 2021
My favorite volume so far, as well for the whole Arc, the negotiation part was so thrilling.
April 10, 2022
They broke my man and rebuilt him back up 😭
September 18, 2022
Easily my favorite book in the series so far. There is some excellent writing and character development, and really good pacing.
October 24, 2022
Huh! It's not till the end of book six that we discover the meaning behind the series title... and it's based on the hero's lowest ebb. Cool.
May 3, 2023
An amazing continuation of the series. I can't wait to read the next volume
August 14, 2024
Gotta be real. The "start again from zero" scene hits every time.
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