天下制覇

Why exactly is an elderly butler a better fighter than him?

Impressions:

You'll never guess how this episode plays out. Subaru feels sorry for himself, sits there while things are explained to him, throws tantrums, listens to more exposition, is enabled by whichever random girl is closest, and then, in the last seconds, stares in horror at some tragedy that rocks his world. Oh wait, that's how every goddamned episode plays out. Meanwhile, he continues to have completely forgotten about the show's premise his only useful magical power to redo things that went wrong or that he screwed up. It'd be one thing if they had shown some kind of major consequence to it, like that the cosmic balances say if he saves one person, someone else must die, or abuse of that power ala Groundhog Day made him realize how badly he was screwing up, but nope. He tearfully killed himself way back when specifically for the reset and everything turned out great, then completely and utterly forgot that he could do that ever again, greeting each new spat and massacre like it's the first time he's seen anything like it, clutching his chest and sobbing at his helplessness after a complete lack of effort.

Depending on how Macross and Zestiria do next week, Subaru, this may be where we part ways. You keep strumming that same fiddle, being a self-absorbed, melodramatic jackass, helpless to circumstance. Only not. Because you and the writers seem to be the only ones who have forgotten the show’s premise and how every single one of these has played out.