Re:Zero #06 — Defenestration

May 8th, 2016

 

I'm sure nobody saw this coming.

Impressions:

After two deaths, it's time for Captain Twaddlecakes to stop faffing around and get down to figuring out not only who's killing him, but to stop it from happening, right? Of course not. We need to recap it. Think about it. Flirt with one girl. Flirt with another girl. Flirt with a third girl. Finally get to our master plan to be a few hundred yards away this time and then… get batted around before the shocking reveal that his attacker is the most obvious suspect, one of the maids. So of course he looks rocked to his very core and stricken by a severe case of the gasps. It could really help the writing situation if the protagonist wasn't a melodramatic dumbcake permanently two or three weeks behind the audience. Still, it pales in comparison to his plan to catch a gigantic iron spiked ball with his jacket. Held in front of his stomach. Which 'worked.'

Remind me why this couldn't have been revealed last week and this episode skipped? Or two weeks ago and the last two episodes skipped? We have now three episodes where the only actual content comes in the final minute and the remaining twenty are killing time. In two of them, wasting time is the plan. There's obviously nothing that can be done until that one moment, so let's all faff about. They are skipping OPs and EDs to stretch out wasting time even more. At least this episode didn't have another housework montage, but Twaddlecakes flirting and being thrown out windows isn't an improvement either.

Posted in Re:Zero | 10 Comments »

10 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • The Phantom says:
    May 8, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    She will come up with some silly explanation he will forgive her and next episode they will restore status quo like if nothing.

    • Anonymous says:
      May 10, 2016 at 1:08 am

      I read the manga(since this is taking forever.manga turned out not to be very far)from what I puzzled out the other sister is killed and the renaming sister thinks suba did it/knows something about it because he reeks of witch magic(that is where his resurrection comes from,there are 7 witchs in the world and one of them is powering him.won’t spoil which).next rez he will ask beatrice to form a magic contract and protect him but once he finds out the reason for rage is dead sister he kills himself by jumping off the cliff so he can save the dead sister by resetting time.

      • The Phantom says:
        May 10, 2016 at 9:47 pm

        Is that for real? are they spending the remaining of the season in this BS over and over?

  • elior1 says:
    May 8, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    i didnt expected the killer to be rem. i was sure it was ram becouse she talked with the lord about subaro might be a spy

    • The Phantom says:
      May 9, 2016 at 10:24 pm

      I agree I think red maid killed him the first time, and now blue did it, which kinda connects to the ogre tale.

      Solution would be to speak to both equally I guess? Hopefully he will not have to die again to do this cause damn this mini endless 8 loop is already annoying.

      • elior1 says:
        May 9, 2016 at 10:46 pm

        if he will die in this encounter with rem then seeing rem when he will wake up going to disturb him

  • Longing says:
    May 8, 2016 at 3:00 pm

    “So of course he looks rocked to his very core and stricken by a severe case of the gasps.”

    Well of course he has. He’s known this girl for upwards of 2 and a half days now. She is clearly an important part of his life.

    Also, does this show actually have an ending credits sequence? Or is the main character’s shocked face all we’re going to be seeing at the end of every episode?

    • elior1 says:
      May 8, 2016 at 10:35 pm

      who did you expected to be the killer? rem or ram?

      • Longing says:
        May 10, 2016 at 12:15 pm

        Knew it had to be one of them. But being that they appeared 2 episodes ago, their importance to the main character and plot were so nonexistent that I didn’t really care which it was. I still don’t know or care which one is Rem and which one is Ram. They’re probably being controlled by someone anyway, so did it really matter which one killed him?

  • Anonymous says:
    May 10, 2016 at 1:00 am

    I love the word Defenestration.its misleading,makes you think of decapitation but is really about people falling from high places