Audience reviews
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maymagic16
Re:Zero is a thriller/mystery show first and foremost and a character deconstruction secondly, deceptively packaged in its first episode as a happy-go-lucky isekai.
The main character has serious self-esteem issues and lives as a NEET that doesn't attend highschool anymore (detail on why is in season 2). When he is whisked to a fantasy world he thinks it is his chance to be a cheat-power isekai protagonist getting the traditional, undeserved, 'second chance' at life. What follows, however, is a season that is centered around his false pride and bravado being literally beaten the hell out of him, so that he can become the type of person who deserves a second chance.
As a spoiler, the most literal turn on his pride being beaten out of him happens in, I believe, episode 13. He is quite insu…
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Muito bom, um dos primeiros animes de temporada bons de verdade que eu vi. A premissa é única, mesmo que o protagonista não use ela direito. É um isekai bem diferente, e é bom justamente por isso.
O Subaru dá um pouco de raiva, mas acontece que ele acaba como um grande protagonista. Tem defeitos, mas é humano. Minha crítica é que as vezes ele se recupera de eventos traumáticos muito rápido e toma decisões muito burras.
Alguns arcos são melhores do que outros, mas a história é ótima, cheia de mistério e suspense. O worldbuilding, em especial, é criminoso de bom. A animação também é bem boa, mesmo que o anime não seja focado em luta.
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Re:Zero is a once in a lifetime show in every single sense possible, I don't mean that metaphorically. This review is 100% biased as I see Re:Zero as genuinely flawless. Watching this show for the first time makes you realize how good fiction writing can actually be. There is absolutely zero flaws in this season. (I'm gonna treat this review as a review of this season rather than the show as a whole) Voice acting, there are MULTIPLE scenes that make me tear up every single time I rewatch them, surprisingly in the dub as well, which is rare for a lot of shows. I won't use this review to summarize or explain the plot as that'd just be a waste of everyone's time.
The reason that I personally think this anime has such an emotional impact is its realism, I know it sounds weird calling a fanta…
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To anyone reading this, I just want to preface that this review is going to be a bit of a rambling mess. With a premise like this, Re: Zero should've been an easy slam dunk for me, and on some level it was, but it also left me pretty underwhelmed. I have so much to say because Re: Zero is so narratively dense with so many stops and starts. It was difficult gathering my thoughts on Re: Zero and even more difficult organizing them into something coherent and readable. So if this review feels all over the place and sloppy, you now know why. Also, I do have a little bit of history with this show. It's important to give some context here because it basically shaped most of my relationship with Re: Zero and the expectations I set for myself going in. I wasn't completely blind going into this sho…
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Natsuki Subaru is suddenly transported to another world with no powers whatsoever—except for the ability to return from the dead. At first glance, this power might seem overpowered, but it is precisely what causes him such immense suffering; the accumulated psychological trauma from each death places a heavy mental burden on him. Nevertheless, the memories and knowledge he retains from his previous lives become the key to solving the various problems he faces.
The anime’s themes are actually quite dark and heavy. Furthermore, the early episodes feel slow-paced, and Subaru’s irritating personality might cause some viewers to lose interest or drop the series altogether. Personally, however, those aspects only made me more curious to see how he would overcome his past failures. Subaru’s char…
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first time trying write a review
recently rezero suddenly gain so much in popularity.
rezero has unique concept, rewinding death but as normal guy without power
seeing him overcome his problem is satisfying.
although i don't really like how the dialogue is portray it feels corny, idk how to explain that
and the way character interact it feels like they're the NPC and Subaru is the player.
the character just didn't feel real.
still thouroughly enjoyed season 1 the issue is just more apparent in later season.
so i still recommend anyone trying out season 1, the animation and artstyle is peak at season 1 no production issue at all.
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I just finished the first season of yet another amazing series. Of course, there’s a certain sadness in having started a series like this so late, but the fact that Season 4 is coming out is also a cause for celebration.
The animation, the battles, and the characters were truly great, and I binge-watched the first season in no time. Of course, there were some classic moments too like the main character loving one person while someone else loves him and those weren’t exactly pleasant.
What annoyed me the most, though, was how long it took the main character to figure things out and his development process. For example, why is he so shocked, and why does it take him so long to recover? Sure, it shows how painful death is, but I think he needed to grasp the power he had a bit faster the lon…
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Re:Zero and the Experience of Repetition
One of the central narrative strengths of Re:Zero lies in the way Return by Death transcends its function as a mere ability possessed by the protagonist and becomes a structural device of the work itself. Each return alters or erases the events of a given timeline for the other characters, but it does not erase Subaru’s accumulated experience. Deaths, failures, fears, and losses remain in his memory, creating a fundamental distinction between objective reality and subjective experience. For the other characters, there is only a single sequence of events; for Subaru, there is the accumulation of multiple possibilities he has actually lived through. Repetition, therefore, does not merely function as a mechanism for correcting mistakes or resolving co…
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Re: Zero is the most surprised ive ever been about any anime. I had been a dedicated Re: Zero hater for YEARS. I had the impression that Subaru was a pervert / pedohpile (like Rudeus), and I was commited to NOT watching it because of that. Yeah I was seriously wrong, Re: Zero is easily the best Isekai anime ive ever watched, and the first season is absoluetly a masterpiece. The first episode I watched was a 48-minute director's cut, and it had me locked in entirely from the first 5 minutes. The first return by death was amazing, and it instantly hooked me. I watched like 18 episodes in a day, and finished season 1 in a couple of days. I do think, as much as I've watched so far (Up to season 3), that season 1 was the most tightly written and paced the best. Re: Zero in general has been the…
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The whole anime is extremely good, but a highlight: Petelgeuse is the best villain ever! He's so interesting and well made. His personality is the perfect example of something so funny that can even make you be all afraid of, while he's not only funny, but cruel. Funny not in a silly way, but scary way. And not only cruel, but with a reason behind it. He's complex, and that's cool! Anyway, the whole anime is extremely good, as I said. And super beautiful. So good! Good, interesting, beautiful, a lot of story, a lot of everything good. I just don't like that Subaru is, at least sometimes, a boy who just want a girlfriend, but that's ok, you can bear/ignore this fact.
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Despite looking like a generic isekai, the first few episodes of Re:Zero makes it seem like it could offer more. Sure, the world he’s been transported to (for no apparent reason) is the usual generic fantasy world with lazy world-building, but it doesn’t start as a power trip as it is the case for most isekai. Subaru, the protagonist, is essentially powerless on his own. He has no magic, he cannot wield a sword, and isn’t physically strong. His sole power is being able to rewind time when dying.
So instead of the usual power trip, we see the protagonist go through the most painful experiences. Instead of annihilating every enemy with some overpowered magic, Subaru gets beaten up by random thugs in a dark alley as soon as he arrives in his new world. While his ability could be called over…
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Watching Re:Zero the first time in 2026. Isekai anime with “redo” time-travel and the main character has jackshit in this magical world.
The strongest point about this anime (or rather, this season) is the psychology episode that Subaru went through and how his character get broken down and rebuild multiple times. It is to the point of annoying seeing him act such a clown, ignorant of the world, cliche, but ultimately still determined to save the world though it did not treat him well, just because there were a couple of people who are nice to him.
I think it’s a strong recommended watch from me even though it has been years since it was released.
World building, magic system, society structure,… was nothing really of novelity/innovations. But I enjoyed how Subaru making sense of the wor…
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I like it!
That's all there is to it—I recommend this show to others. It's easily one of my top ten shows of all time. I would definitely watch it again. I loved the music, and I still listen to the song Stay Alive by Regain to this day. I just love it.
The story is unique. I haven't seen another show with a return-by-death mechanic that feels so much like a video game. The idea of dying and coming back to try again until you get it right really gives the show a Dark Souls vibe. What really stands out to me is how much Subaru hates experiencing death. He absolutely hates it, it's painful for him, and he truly tries to avoid it until he can't anymore.
(You could argue that Konosuba has a similar mechanic, but it's nowhere near as gruesome as Re:Zero.)
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This anime is very mixed. On the one hand, it’s a very interesting concept, and—most importantly—it’s well-executed. Combining the isekai concept with reincarnation after death in a single story is awesome. There’s plenty of room for interesting plot twists. What really pleased me was the intriguing main character. He’s torn by conflicting emotions, and he feels very real. The music is awesome—both the opening themes and the soundtrack. The biggest plus—and the coolest thing for me—is the brutality. Trying to save everyone, only to face new deaths every time—it’s fascinating. The main character is driven mad by his own deaths and the impossibility of saving everyone. It’s very well done. On the other hand, the anime suffers from standard tropes and clichés: the trap, the twin sisters, the…
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See, it's no secret that Re:ZERO asks a lot of its audience. In fact, you could even say that it's the main reason people harbor such strong feelings about it, good or bad. Because the one thing everyone watching has in common, the thing that unifies every single person in the world that we live in, is that this world already demands so much from all of us. It urges us to be as good as possible, and then, it pressures us to be better tomorrow than we were today. It forces us to justify our very existence. So I get it, really. I truly can understand why so many people end up dropping this show. Seeing Subaru struggle and suffer, over and over again, directly opposes what isekai has long represented: an escape.
Natsuki Subaru is my favorite character because his story goes far beyond the ty…
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I started watching Re:Zero mainly because of its huge popularity and consistently high ratings across anime platforms. Season 1 has a very strong reputation, with MyAnimeList showing it as highly popular and widely watched, and Season 3 also maintaining a strong score among viewers. Because of that hype, I expected a gripping psychological isekai with meaningful character growth.
However, after reaching Season 3, I eventually dropped it midway. My biggest issue is Subaru as the main character. I understand that the story is built around trauma, failure, and repeated suffering, but after so many arcs, his lack of consistent learning became frustrating rather than emotional. He keeps making the same kinds of mistakes, reacting impulsively, and dragging story line.
The story often repeats s…
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Oof so, this one's a little hard. Thing is I genuinely want to like this show but it just really falls flat for me in many aspects. It’s fun, the fantasy elements and character designs are nice, the music is genuinely great but that's all it's kinda doing for me.
First of all, the storytelling tries WAY too hard to be smart. Most actions unfold in SUCH a forced, non linear, plot twisty way that it's extremely confusing and hard to follow and very often the course of events and the conclusions characters come to just feel illogical. Most characters feel like archetypes and none of them feel believable, they feel like robots who just do stuff cuz they HAVE to. The story has absolutely 0 stakes for me, because of Subaru's dumbahh revival quirk, which also contributes to me not feeling sorry…
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I have never written a review before.But this anime got under my skin so much,i had to write one.I have never rated an anime so low.
The main character is so dumb and so pathetic,i couldn't endure it!I forced myself to sit through the anime.the author tried to make it psychological,tried to show character development but it came out as absolute shit!
The story is not unique,the premise maybe but how all things play out is not.The ending of every arc seems anticlimactic,loses stream everytime.The premise had so much potential as we see in different manhwas,all potential wasted!
NOT RECOMMENDED!
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Im going to be honest with you if Re-Zero had better music [even though its got a peak soundtrack] and didn't look like a classic normal issikai and didn't have some odd moments i would have it higher than Cowboy Bebop. Subaru is so inanely well written is was genuinely shocked at his Character development between season one and season two , the episode Parent And Child is the best episode of all time in all of media for me and will probably always will be. Most of the side characters are weak writing wise i aint gonna lie to you Subaru is clearly the best part of the show and him actually learning from his mistakes and his past life in season 2 was great , Garfiel and his mother in season 4 is amazing and hopefully doesn't get dropped. My only really major complaint is the fact that NOBOD…
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The plot isn’t really that interesting, it’s just generic fantasy which many shows have in common. The story has to do with the main character having a time loop power and when he dies he revives and rewinds the plot. So boring that I have to see the same situation and scene all over again. It looks like I had a game over a thousand times from a telltale game.
Why does this show about the worst main character I have ever seen? I absolutely don’t like Subaru for being the worst character that I have to say many ways to describe him. He is so….
Stupid - He is not a smart person and always makes poor decisions, which is why he keeps dying and reviving and yet he doesn't learn from his mistakes.
Weird - Talking so loud like he thinks he was on a stage drama and obsessed with girls. Flirtin…
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