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I finished watching through Re:ZERO this weekend and I really enjoyed it. It easily surpassed Overlord to become my favorite isekai, but a lot of that was because I inherently like time-restarting as a concept so it had an unfair advantage with me. I thought all of the arcs were exciting and I really enjoyed the character development of everyone. I only have one complaint, really, which I'll keep that to the spoiler tags below.

I glanced at Crunchyroll comments while watching and saw a lot of people disliking Subaru's whining, but I dunno, I thought it was deserved. The poor guy kept dying horrifically and couldn't even tell anyone about it without shadow hands squeezing his heart. I liked the dynamic between him and Emilia too, even if the extent of how quickly and how deeply he loved her felt a bit much sometimes. She really wanted to believe in him but he was acting so crazy. I couldn't blame her for sending him away in the third arc. Plus they had a nice resolution where Subaru has grown a lot and Emilia seems ready to accept him at her side. I also have to give a shout-out to how awesome time-restarting is as a premise and Re:ZERO handled it well. They weren't treated as easy so he couldn't just brute-force his way through, and most of the improvements he made in subsequent runs felt earned.

My only real problem with the anime was with the other candidates to the throne, they were all such lame caricatures. "I'll rule the kingdom because I want to own everything!" *crowd nods along* "I'll rule the kingdom because it will amuse me!" *crowd nods along* "I want to rule the kingdom and bring equality to everyone" *crowd glares because it isn't sure it can trust the half-elf*. It all felt so forced. Everyone else in the narrative felt like a nuanced character and here are these three jokers laughing about a village that's going to be slaughtered. It would've been so easy to write them as unable to help for pragmatic reasons without making them all full-on heartless. Still, they were a minor part of the narrative overall so I guess it wasn't as bad as it could've been.

Final thought: Rem was great but I still can't help but wonder why she's the super popular one when Emilia was the best girl by a long shot.
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