Re:Zero #07 — WOE IS ME

May 15th, 2016

 

My angst is the angstiest angst that ever angsted an angst.

Impressions:

Christ, what a godawful episode. Basically the entire thing was everyone sobbing and/or feeling sorry for themselves, ending with the uplifting message of "Kill yourself, that'll make everything better." Granted, that just resets things, so it's not as godawfully missing the mark as, say, Resonance in Terror's lesson about becoming a terrorist for attention, but when it's stretched out for six goddamned minutes and treated like some kind of amazing triumph of character that this time, he's not going to screw up, to an entire red dwarf's share of lens flare and a forty seven piece orchestra singing praise of his heroism, then it's begging for more than a little eyerolling and sarcasm.

Anyway, the first half was Subaru moping around because everything is just too sad for him. The second half had Blue spontaneously die due to, you know, magic, which meant that Red joined him in constantly having what appeared to be milk leaking out of their eyes. And it's all Subaru's fault! Because of, you know, magic. I might have a little more sympathy for anybody in this idiotic affair if they had done a goddamned thing this episode besides cry, have things explained to them, and have every sin in the world piled onto their back because, you know, magic, but here we are, with an episode where the 'protagonist' spent twenty five minutes being sad until he eventually decided not to. Actual outcome of that not to come until next week. Maybe.

Posted in Re:Zero | 9 Comments »

9 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • The Phantom says:

    This is a godawful device for slowing the plot progress into oblivion. They pretty much can do this eternally until the author has the next set of the loop ready for rinse and repeat.

    Is like a whole series made around Haruhi’s endless 8…

    • Chipp says:

      >Is like a whole series made around Haruhi’s endless 8…
      Or more like after KyoAni’s adaptation of Haruhi’s endless 8.

      That’s what I’ve thought to myself when I had dropped it after the fifth episode.

  • wey says:

    this is a cra.. cra.. cra.. crap.

  • yuyurin says:

    damn man is there any anime that you like (besides higurashi)?
    you got valid points but at a certain point you start nitpickin’ my dude!

    • Aroduc says:

      Final Fantasy Unlimited

      • elior1 says:

        i didnt watched subs yet. so did ren killed subaru becouse she was thinking he was spy or becouse the witch smelling?

        • Longhaul says:

          Because Subaru stinks of the witch of envy, the smell gets stronger every time he resurrects.

        • Aroduc says:

          You know… MAGIC.

          It’s the BS excuse they’re throwing out for everything lately without actually defining any rules of how or why. Just… “oh, uh, it’s magic.”

  • Anonymous says:

    and yet it is inexplicably my most anticipated anime.Terra Formars,Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress,etc can sit on the shelf for moths but when re:zero comes out I instantly have to see it.