Anime 31240 Re Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Re: Life in a different world from zero, ReZero

Japanese: Re：ゼロから始める異世界生活

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 25

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 4, 2016 to Sep 19, 2016

Premiered: Spring 2016

Broadcast: Mondays at 01:05 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, Media Factory, Kadokawa Shoten, AT-X, Magic Capsule, Memory-Tech, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: White Fox

Source: Light novel

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Suspense

Themes: Isekai, Psychological, Time Travel

Duration: 26 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 8.23¹ (scored by 1,407,581 users)

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Ranked: #330²

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Popularity: #25

Members: 2,189,252

Favorites: 67,212

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Synopsis

When Subaru Natsuki leaves the convenience store, the last thing he expects is to be wrenched from his everyday life and dropped into a fantasy world. Things are not looking good for the bewildered teenager; however, not long after his arrival, he is attacked by some thugs. Armed with only a bag of groceries and a now useless cell phone, he is quickly beaten to a pulp. Fortunately, a mysterious beauty named Satella, in hot pursuit after the one who stole her insignia, happens upon Subaru and saves him. In order to thank the honest and kindhearted girl, Subaru offers to help in her search, and later that night, he even finds the whereabouts of that which she seeks. But unbeknownst to them, a much darker force stalks the pair from the shadows, and just minutes after locating the insignia, Subaru and Satella are brutally murdered.

However, Subaru immediately reawakens to a familiar scene—confronted by the same group of thugs, meeting Satella all over again—the enigma deepens as history inexplicably repeats itself.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu adapts the first nine volumes of Tappei Nagatsuki's light novel series of the same title.

An edited version of the series, titled Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu: Shin Henshuu-ban (Re: Zero -Starting Life In Another World- Director's Cut), received a rebroadcast starting January 1, 2020. Twenty-five episodes of the original series were combined into thirteen 49-minute long episodes with some scenes being slightly extended. The last four minutes of episode 13 featured new scenes that were later included at the beginning of the second season.

Related Anime

Adaptation:	Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
Spin-off:	Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Break Time, Re:Petit kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
Side story:	Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Memory Snow
Other:	He Wei Dao x Re:Cong Ling Kaishi de Yi Shijie Shenghuo
Prequel:	Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Hyouketsu no Kizuna
Character:	Isekai Quartet, Isekai Quartet 2, Isekai Quartet Movie: Another World
Sequel:	Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 2nd Season

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Characters & Voice Actors

Emilia

Main

Takahashi, Rie
Japanese

Natsuki, Subaru

Main

Kobayashi, Yuusuke
Japanese

Rem

Supporting

Minase, Inori
Japanese

Beatrice

Supporting

Arai, Satomi
Japanese

Ram

Supporting

Murakawa, Rie
Japanese

Argyle, Felix

Supporting

Horie, Yui
Japanese

Romanée-Conti, Petelgeuse

Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu
Japanese

Suwen, Otto

Supporting

Amasaki, Kouhei
Japanese

Pack

Supporting

Uchiyama, Yumi
Japanese

Karsten, Crusch

Supporting

Iguchi, Yuka
Japanese

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Producer

Producer

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Opening Theme

	1: "Redo" by Konomi Suzuki (eps 2, 4, 6, 8, 10)
	2: "Paradisus-Paradoxum" by MYTH & ROID (eps 14, 17, 19-20, 23)

Ending Theme

	1: "STYX HELIX" by MYTH & ROID (eps 1-5, 8-11, 25)
	2: "Stay Alive" by Emilia (Rie Takahashi) (eps 13, 16-17, 20-23)
	3: "STRAIGHT BET" by MYTH & ROID (eps 7)
	4: "theater D" by MYTH & ROID (eps 14)

Reviews

Jan 25, 2024

Asifibro

Recommended

This show is surprising and gets progressively better with it starting as a 6 for me but gradually becoming an 8 by the first half of season 2 with honestly the potential to be a 10/10. The character writing is shockingly crisp with a main character that genuinely feels real in how he copes with his challenges. You can tell this was a novel where the author really explored how each small aspect of this plot would affect him and others. While some might be put off from trying this show because of the Isekai aspects or REM, I would recommend seeing this anime as ...

Dec 29, 2023

lastnameEver

Mixed Feelings

Funny

Well-written

A story about a boy named after a car who randomly is transported to another world where magic, beast-men, and CGI background characters infest, decay and murder their surroundings. Toyota stumbles upon the power to respawn after dying. The series structures itself on this reset mechanic. Ferrari sort of plays the role of detective, trying to piece together missing pieces of the puzzle of his death so he can get out of his current predicament alive and make it to the next self-styled save point.

Opening first few episodes set up a good groundwork for the story to build off, explaining the world and the characters ... without getting too bogged down in extraneous detail. Nissan having to deal with different circumstances in the same time-frame and having to grapple with not being as strong he’d like adds a sense of internal conflict to what’s an otherwise straightforward introduction to the world’s light fantasy setting. Mansion arc afterwards is the first real complex mystery the story throws at its viewer, with various moving parts that all interact in a fairly satisfying manner. Being able to work around the limitations imposed by the time-loop and provide character development by revealing markedly different sides to each character depending on the circumstances is writing of a kind that isn’t completely terrible. Delivering on this consistently would’ve been nice.

Examining Re:Zero’s latter half is like performing an autopsy. Kick your feet up. Relax. Sit through some utterly contrived stupidity from Aston Martin, whose IQ has been sub-divided so many times over between now and the last time we’ve seen him that there’s essentially no critical thinking capability left in him whatsoever. Treat yourself to second-hand embarrassment by watching Volkswagen flail around like an idiot, for one episode, and then two episodes, and then three episodes, and then four. Experience masochistic pleasure in seeing the merchant loli explain in clear, explicit detail to Fiat, and by extension, the audience, that if he wants help, he needs to give something equal to the help that will be provided, told clearly, with no other room for interpretation. Savour the moment where Lada completely ignores this salient piece of advice and unnecessary act of charity and continues with no plan for several more episodes.

Needless to mention, there’s no point in torturing Renault for a few more rounds when you’ve already shown the audience the key to the door. There’s nothing of importance in these extra scenes. Already had an adequate amount of worldbuilding, already seen an adequate amount of mental deterioration by Alfa Romeo to sell the ‘I Love Emilia’ scene, no need to hear anything anymore from anyone. Dragging the story on in this fashion was a poor decision. The show suffers for it. Even when Chevrolet finally does get his act together by that point you’ll be so exhausted by all the screaming and yelling and death and blood and violence that you’ll just want the big climax to be over and done with without too much effort expended on your end. Miraculously however, the author learns from his mistakes and delivers a satisfying conclusion that saves the show from mediocrity.

If you actually believed that such a miracle could occur you are as hopeless as a child enrolled in the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Treat yourself to a completely unnecessary, totally gratuitous, and utterly inconsequential back-story about the old sword guy. Captain Ahab. Sit through his entire life story. From the cradle to the grave.

After all this malarky its still not over. A big clean-up section battle between the man who screams ‘DES’ at the end of every sentence (Beetlejuice) and the man who miraculously manages to form a complete sentence despite his severe mental disabilities (Dacia Sandero(mentally delayed)). This fight just goes on and on and on, padding out its length for seemingly ages. There were already signs of this during the mansion section where there’s this unnecessary epilogue near the end where Rem fights the dogs, but at least that had some energy in its conclusion. There’s no payoff when Honda finally reunites with Emilia, just sigh of relief from the audience – thank christ its over– even though really, he has much more of a reason to feel indebted towards Rem, who has done far more for Skoda and put her life on the line multiple times – but let’s not get into the semantics, let’s just enjoy the fact that you made it, you’re out, you can begin again, you can do something new.

Then optimism starts to creep in once more. Maybe this overly long drawn-out narrative was just an anomaly. Surely [C] the second season [L] will get things [U] back on track [E] with neat, concise [L] mystery boxes [E] that are well [S] thought-out and [S] entertaining to watch.

Re:Zero is a story for children, a shonen manga story dressed up as a light novel and re-sold for the latest generation of eager consumers who couldn’t care less about what’s on their plate so long as its labelled isekai. Not deep, not insightful. At times, entertaining. The good parts are good while they last. There’s a couple good scenes scattered here and there. Definitely an uneven experience that leaves a lot to be desired in the latter half of its story. If the author edited and trimmed away a lot of the extra fat and baggage holding that part of the story back, I could recommend it. Watch up to the end of the mansion arc and pretend the series ends there.

Mar 25, 2024

Lockensocke

Not Recommended

If you read through the synapsis of Re:Zero there is one crucial information missing to set your expectations accordingly, that is: Re:Zero is a harem anime. It is the main genre and the only reason people like it, I guess. I really can’t come up with another explanation. Basically you got a pathetic main character (MC) who is surrounded by a bunch of cute female characters, all interested in him, for some reason, unbeknownst to the audience. You got a cute waifu for every taste, with almost all the hair colors and chest sizes imaginable (I say almost, but who knows what they will do ... in following seasons).

Overall the anime is primarily centered around our MC, with probably more than 90% of all scenes including him and he has by far the most dialog. He however is the most obnoxious, unlikeable, dimwitted and annoying character I have seen in a long time. So what makes him so unlikeable? First of all, he is our “fish out of water” character in this isekai, so he is surrounded by a new environment, but instead of learning as much as he can he constantly makes annoying game references (as if every isekai is a videogame). But despite his advanced knowledge on isekai tropes it takes him like 4 deaths to realize he is in a death loop trope. So he is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He is also very inconsistently written, since later on he still loses his mind because he saw some dead people, even though that stuff has been happening since episode one. Besides being stupid he is also physically weak, useless without any talents and has some aggression problems as well, being instantly confrontational when one of his waifus just talks to another man and when one of his waifus is nowhere to be found he physically attacks strangers to get information (even though he could have just asked normally). And it takes him an entire character arc to apologize when he was 100% clearly in the wrong. I think this whole death loop trope works better with a level headed character who thinks before he acts, but what do I know...

The anime also doesn’t have any greater narrative. Especially the MCs motivation only revolves around pleasing his newly found waifus and bad mouthing anybody who utters a word of criticism towards them. There are at least some nice action set pieces later on in the anime and the overall world building, while being a bit slow is at least somewhat interesting. However I have to add that there is a certain goofiness that makes me not really take this world all too seriously.

So in general I would say this show is a poor excuse of an isekai anime and rather dabbles in the harem genre with the focus mainly being set on the MC and his relationship to his multitude of newly found waifus. Since all the characters are 0-dimensional and uninteresting this show has nothing more to offer than to be fap material with some occasional action scenes sprinkled in. At least they kept the fanservices to a minimum.

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Anime 31240 Re Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

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