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Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 [Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu] #15

Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活15 [Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu, Vol. 15]

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大人気WEB小説第15弾!

咆哮の轟くロズワール邸で、ついに激突するエルザとガーフィール。頼れる援軍に仇敵を任せ、スバルはようやくベアトリスと、待ち望んだ再会の場面へ到達する。
時を同じくして、『試練』に臨むエミリアは自らの『ありうべからざる今』と相対し、本来ならばありえなかった幸福な世界で、魔女の描く祝福に包まれる。
魔人と鬼と精霊が、商人と村娘と半獣が、そして恐るべき魔獣が入り乱れるループの中で、バラバラだった仲間たちが今、一丸となって進むべき未来を切り開く――。
「――俺の名前はナツキ・スバル。エミリア。――君だけの、騎士だ」
大人気Web小説、四章完結の第十五幕。――月下、出鱈目なステップを、君と。

328 pages, Paperback

First published December 25, 2017

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471 reviews4 followers
March 14, 2021
End of the arc volumes are usually great! So much comes together in this volume it was hard to put it down! It feels like the story is going in an even better direction! I expect the next volumes to be a bit closer to the EX volumes, as Subaru is getting more and more familiar with the new world.
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April 12, 2021
Three and half stars.

This volume finishes the fourth arc of this series, which was the most complicated plot-wise, and has catched up with the anime adaptation. It seems they haven’t translated any further into English.

Although I never planned to, I ended up having a very personal relationship with this series, because last November, after my last contract had run out and I was more or less blissfully unemployed, I came across GPT-3, the magic-like AI thing, probably handled by some supercomputers, which is so far the most advanced predictive network of artificial intelligence to produce text. I wanted to test it to see how far it could go, and that sparked an autistic obsession, which apparently non-autistic people don’t have. For the following two months I worked at it obsessively, writing along with GPT-3 maybe around 300,000 words of fanfiction that covered “RE:Zero” up to the middle of its fourth arc. It’s likely more than that; I wrote 66 parts that I assume averaged around 4500 words each, but many of the parts exceed that number. Unfortunately the obsession switched off like they do, and I couldn’t push myself to continue. It ended up being, though, one of the most joyous experiences I had in the last few years, so it was worth that at least.

I suppose that writing such long fanfiction for a fictional series means that you like it a lot, and I suppose that I do. But I was never entirely on board with quite a few aspects of “Re:Zero”. It started out as a web novel, and at some point, I suppose when they offered the author to polish his stuff into a light novel series, they settled on an illustrator. The drawings and character designs set the tone that eventually the anime adaptation used as well, but I think that the tone for this series is off. We were presented with a protagonist who was fed up with his former world, and that took being transported into a fantasy world as his opportunity to finally feel like a powerful protagonist. The story quickly beat him up to a pulp, showing him that he was actually one of the last powerful characters of that world, except for his only superpower: that of returning to the past whenever he died, which usually involved horrible pain (link to a shoddily edited compilation of Subaru deaths from the first three arcs. The anime adaptation took that darkness and put it to generally good use in the first season of the adaptation, but by the second season the tone has gotten more light-hearted, and as the series settles, it becomes more mundane. Despite Subaru’s somewhat annoying insistence of making a fool of himself and destroying solemn moments, a defense mechanism, the series kept dragging him down with the intention of breaking him entirely. I would prefer if the tone of the series would continue to reflect that constant danger, the unending struggle against avoiding the next death, either of himself or of anyone around him, all of whom Subaru intends to save.

Spoilers from now on.

From a narrative standpoint, the understandable choice of making Subaru value his life and rely on his friends to solve problems does act as character development. In this volume, Emilia, a sheltered child in a too pretty for her own good eighteen years old or something shell, becomes strong enough to pass the psychological torture of the trials, which ends up breaking the barrier that kept them captive in Sanctuary. Meanwhile, Subaru returned along with Otto and tigerman Garfiel to their lord’s mansion to stop a couple of contract killers who would have killed everyone in it, along with massacring the nearby villagers. Subaru couldn’t hope to stop the contract killers by himself, so he relies on Garfiel’s beastly powers as the self-proclaimed strongest man in the world to kill the unstoppable Elsa Granhiert.

In a previous volume, Elsa had been petrified with magic by the mansion’s librarian, and crumbled to pieces. However, she entirely regenerated what felt like a couple of minutes later. The author justified her unkillableness by saying that she’s a vampire or something, that she’s possessed by some dark thing which manifests through her body. Something like Petelgeuse’s curse, I suppose. To the author’s credit, though, if I had to come up with ways for her to get killed, I would have never guessed “flattened by a gigantic hippo”, which is how Garfiel eventually does the sexy Elsa in. In the anime that’s that, but the light novel version had a redundant scene in which what remains of Elsa, now a ruined undead unable of thinking beyond trying to kill everything it comes across, ends up burning to ash in a firestorm as the mansion is consumed.

Subaru, Otto and the utterly useless trainee Petra had been fleeing from the monsters that the other contract killer had attracted. Subaru tried to apply his modern knowledge and some Senku Ishigami-like science to burn the biggest monster, but it failed, and eventually Otto spent that oil that he couldn’t get rid of (a running joke with this man) to set both the monster and eventually the entire mansion on fire.

The only point in which Subaru got to act like a protagonist was in finally convincing the reclusive, hundreds of years old librarian Beatrice, who is an artificial spirit or something created by the fascinating Witch of Greed, and who has been waiting for four hundred years in that library for someone to come and free her from her contract, to pick Subaru as her contractor. She acknowledges that Subaru isn’t the person that was promised, but he’s the one that she wants to be with, because he isn’t after her power, the knowledge that the witch treasured, nor anything else; Subaru just likes being with her and doesn’t want the kid to rot in solitude. That sequence of Subaru trying to convince her to escape with him, which happens right before the isolated space of the library burns to a crisp, was the highlight of this volume. Still, I was more annoyed than usual at Subaru's idiocy this time: the guy did meet Echidna in her death-dream, got her to admit that the person that Beatrice was waiting for didn't exist, and that the whole thing was an experiment for Echidna to satisfy her curiosity by finding out who Beatrice would end up choosing. So why not say it to the librarian? The story doesn't address that, as if it had never happened.

Around that moment, back in Sanctuary Emilia was facing the Great Rabbit, a natural disaster of sorts created by the Witch of Gluttony. The monster, a single-minded horde of murderous rabbits who devour everything alive in their path, waited around until Subaru appeared with Beatrice, and the three magic users ended up gathering the entirety of the Great Rabbit and then banishing it to a bubble realm outside of time and space (similar to Beatrice’s former library), where the rabbits would keep eating each other, respawning and eating each other again for eternity. Pretty good resolution for that problem as far as I’m concerned.

Roswaal, the clownish exhibitionist that the main characters serve, as he’s their lord, had revealed himself as the main antagonist of this arc, even beyond Echidna (the Witch of Greed). Roswaal had in his possession a magical tome that told the future, and apparently the thing foretold that everybody Subaru was trying to save, except for Emilia, had to die, and Emilia had to remain weak and helpless so Subaru could single-mindedly guide her to her rightful or not place at the throne of the kingdom. Roswaal was merely using them as a way to revive his beloved Echidna, the obsessive, hyper intelligent witch with a fetish for making as many people as possible taste her saliva (link to the moment when Roswaal became infatuated with Echidna for four hundred years. Can’t say I blame you, buddy). In any case, Subaru had made a bet with Roswaal that he would finish this arc without relying on dying horribly. Roswaal accepted, and lost. As a result, he inscribed in himself a magical curse that would reduce him to ashes if he ever were to sacrifice those closest to him, or use them carelessly, to achieve his goals. However, in a final conversation he reveals that he’s going to rely entirely on Subaru and will watch over him, and that if Subaru loses a single person, Roswaal will kill everyone he cares about (even though it will trigger his own death) so Subaru is forced to return to the past and solve that problem. I’m sure we will go back to the usual loops of horrible deaths in no time.

Subaru ended up becoming Emilia’s official knight. I was never fond of these two fools’ relationship. Subaru is too pushy and mostly wants Emilia because she’s super cute, and Emilia is too traumatized by her past, and knows too little about life in general, to the extent that she feels more childish than Beatrice. It's so bad that at one point she believes that she’s pregnant because Subaru kissed her during an argument. To her credit, she was very serious about raising that supposed child properly, even though Subaru had kissed her by surprise. Whatever. I prefer the Emilia that used sex-based clinginess as a way to cope with her trauma and the pressures of running for the throne of the kingdom. Unfortunately that was never the case in the original series, because the half-elf doesn’t even know what sex is.

By far my biggest problem with the payoffs for this arc, however, is how the author butchered Ram. The pink-haired, dismissive, abrasive servant had, as far as I was concerned, dedicated her entire existence to revenge: Roswaal had ordered the attack on her village many years ago, and it had killed, as far as Ram knew, everyone she ever cared about. Not content with that, Roswaal had taken her in as an indentured servant. In my mind Ram was biding her time until the right moment when she would be able to put down the clownish lord for good, but the payoff for her arc is that despite everything, she had fallen in love with Roswaal. The author intended it as a mirror for the clownish lord, who had been following a single-minded purpose for four hundred years and would never imagine changing his mind: he had to face Ram, who should have remained hell-bent on revenge, forgiving him to the extent that she wanted him as a romantic partner. I hate it, and for me that was the moment when Ram imploded as a character.

Can’t think of anything else to say about the story up to this point, except that I miss when “Re:Zero” was wilder, angrier, darker, and more painful.
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June 1, 2025
Bon j'en enchaîné les tomes suivant de Re:Zero donc je vais plutôt faire une review générale de l'arc du Sanctuaire.

C'est un arc que j'ai beaucoup aimé retrouver dans cette lecture. La première moitié est une sorte d'arc "Questions", avec plein de mystères, de problèmes à résoudre qui s'empilent et de lore disséminé régulièrement.

C'est aussi avant tout une partie centrée sur Subaru et son évolution pour lui apprendre à s'ouvrir aux autres, et à accepter de compter sur eux.

La seconde moitié est plutôt une partie "Résolution", où notre petit groupe va devoir résoudre les problèmes précédemment posés.

Pour ce faire, on va surtout se concentrer sur tout le cast secondaire : Otto, Garfiel, Emilia, Béatrice, etc.
La plupart des personnages ont droit à un chapitre qu'il leur est dédié, pour ne pas dire un tome entier pour Emilia. On y apprend des backstories, et ils ont chacun l'occasion d'évoluer et de tisser de nouveaux liens ensembles.

La fin du tome 15 m'a mis du baume au cœur. Ce qui s'est formé lors de cet arc, c'est un véritable groupe uni, une famille en quelque sorte.

Vraiment les chapitres où la narration est orientée personnage c'est mon point faible.

J'ai hâte de continuer à suivre leurs aventures, et ça tombe bien parce que la saison 3 commence Mercredi !
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218 reviews5 followers
November 5, 2022
Well my plan to read a lot this year has worked out rather well while not posting all year, so why not start off with the list of things in ReZero that I was reading....oooh, that's a while back, we didn't have an on-going war with half the freaking world at that time.

Anyway, the events of the Sanctuary draw to a close here and the single most adorable moment in this anime happens, with a confession that made me cry my freaking heart out the moment it happened. The development and story structure of this arc's final part is amazing and I love every single part of it, from the totally mindless zombie variant of Elsa to the eventual knighting of Subaru as the hero who saves Emilia(worst girl) and I loved every second of it, the tension and scope of the story is at its most epic and the brilliantly included ideas of the immortal Elsa already being dead but her body continuing to live on while burning alive is *chefs kiss* perfect!
No resolutions yet but not surprising really as the story is just getting started, so I end this review with a thankful heart and a smile, can't go downhill quickly from here right?
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26 reviews
November 19, 2024
Beatrice you freaking cutie ilysmmmmm !!!! I’m glad everyone finally got ahold of things and it’s like an army all collaborating from here on forth! Roswaal’s different colored eyes make so much sense now. When he closes his amber and uses his blue colored eye it’s really the old roswaal looking in and his amber is the current version roswaal. Even though he’s technically just 1 soul from the past maybe he’s got split personalities? This is all just inference. The ending was crazy! The witch is now out and roaming , which one ? I’m guessing echidna, kinda wild. That was the end of Arc 4 , very nice arc. Ily beako I can’t say it enough you’re so cute. The Garfiel fight with Elsa went freaking crazy. And then When Subaru gambled on Beatrice’s decision when the door blew up !!! Absolute cinema ‼️
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53 reviews18 followers
April 24, 2024
Este libro se me hizo bastante entretenido debido a que, además de contar con la conclusión del cuarto arco de la saga, se contextualizan un poco las motivaciones de algunos personajes, principalmente Elsa y Beatriz, e incluso Roswaal.

Este libro, junto con los anteriores, me hizo despreciar a Roswaal y apreciar mucho más a Beatriz.

Otra de las cosas destacables del libro es que ahora sabemos que Emilia no es solo una damisela en apuros que necesita ser salvada, pero que ella también es capaz de hacer lo necesario para conseguir alcanzar sus objetivos.

Puedo comprender por qué Bea es tan mala, sarcástica y despreciable, y no la perdono por ello, pero al menos ya la entiendo y la tolero un poco, porque antes... Nada. Gran cambio. Gran libro.
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5 reviews
December 29, 2024
Absolutely LOVED this arc in the anime and the LN did NOT disappoint, even having scenes that were cut from the show that I really wish were included!

“Choose Me” is my absolute favorite episode of the show so when I made it to that chapter in the novel, I was extremely excited to read through its entirety, and I gotta say, the anime got most of the scenes almost exactly the same, which is very nice!

I really wish they didn’t cut the final chapter from the show as well as some of the extra scenes, but I understand why they might’ve done so. This is definitely my favorite volume of the novels so far and I can’t wait to read through arc 5 next!
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January 22, 2022
الفصل 15 من ري زيرو والارك 4 المقتبس في الجزء 2
السلبيات
تعتبر الرواية كبداية في اللغة صعبة لي نوعا ما لكن قراءتها بعد مشاهدة الانمي ادت غرضها
الترجمة كانت في بعض الاحيان الية غير واضحة
الايجابيات
بعد الانتقال من الانمي للرواية لاحظت الفرق في الشخصيات حيث الرواية تقدم افكار الشخصيات وبواطنهم و هدا شيئ ممتاز
اول رواية ولن تكون النهاية
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81 reviews10 followers
December 29, 2023
I enjoyed re:zero before, I thought it was a fun series, but this arc truly made me love it. So many great twists and turns, awesome character developement and an amazing conclusion. Otto, Garfiel, Roswaal, Beatrice, even Emilia, whom I considered boring before, they were all awesome here. Cant wait to see what's next for the series.
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31 reviews
November 15, 2024
Peak fiction I love this volume it’s such a perfect conclusion to arc 4 and nearly feels like a conclusion of the entire series to this point like a marker in the sand of all that has been accomplished and that going forward it’s a completely different section of the story since all the characters have finally broken past their starting lines
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4 reviews
July 3, 2021
End of the Sanctuary Arc. Good story and character conclusions. No shocking deaths or revelations.
31 reviews
December 26, 2025
one of my favourite books ever

this book has so many moments that hit me very hard emotionally and also we get to see the start of one of the best relationships ever form (beatrice and subaru)

and in general what a way to end this psychological adventure that this volume was (especially the last part with omega echinda)
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