Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Anime General Discussion (Archive)

[RDNexus]

Originally Posted by BWTraveller

EMT is "Emilia-tan, maji tenshi", or "Emilia-tan, seriously an angel".

I tend to translate it in my head simply as "Emilia-tan Truly Angelic"

[Cicili]

Originally Posted by Iron Maw

Ep 9 Preview. It's one of the more spoilerish kind again, so view at your own risk.

Spoiler for the preivew:

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https://youtu.be/Y08BtAuzM6k

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Well yeah the smell isn't a good thing. But that's seems to be more because of what it represents than smell itself. It's like have a calling card or sign hanging on bluntly saying "Yeah man, I'm pretty much Witch's minion!"

Woah, huge spoiler in the preview.

So i guess we don't need to place bets on who placed the curse now.

And next episode is going to be great.

[Iron Maw]

Originally Posted by R.LocK

I can only hear Myon-myon-myon~

The Japanese YouTube comments are hilarious! I at first was like what hell are they saying? Until I realized they were mimicking the VA.

Huh, well now this pretty cool. Overlord's LN artist so-bin did some Emilia fanart:

https://twitter.com/soubin/status/735236674301485056

More fan art stuff:

[Requiem-x]

Originally Posted by TheEroKing

E.M.T. indeed That's the actual title of this piece, by the way.

Originally Posted by Proto

And that is why Subaru is much more likable when he's busy trying to not get killed than during his leisure time.

I know Subaru can be annoying sometimes, but its unfair to chastise him simply for telling the truth

[Iron Maw]

For what it is worth, E.M.T seems to be a pretty popular phase among the fandom and general anime fans if twitter and pixiv are anything to go by. There also the newly coined B.M.T that's catching a bit of steaming too.

[AC-Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Iron Maw

For what it is worth, E.M.T seems to be a pretty popular phase among the fandom and general anime fans if twitter and pixiv are anything to go by. There also the newly coined B.M.T that's catching a bit of steaming too.

Ironically it is the T in EMT, which makes her so popular, is exactly why I don't trust her one bit.
She is, random the semi tsundere thing in EP 1 aside, far too much of a flawless angel. To quote one of the other people in here 'I'm getting Nashetanya vibes here'.

The other thing is that her earlier personality and the one in this arc seem to be almost completely different.

[R.LocK]

Uh, yeah? People behave themselves quite differently in different situations.

Here, her only source of worries is Subaru compared to the situation in the capital when she had to do get back the insignia, risk her life by getting into the slums in her pretty clothes and do it incognito.

[AC-Phoenix]

Originally Posted by R.LocK

Uh, yeah? People behave themselves quite differently in different situations.

Here, her only source of worries is Subaru compared to the situation in the capital when she had to do get back the insignia, risk her life by getting into the slums in her pretty clothes and do it incognito.

I'm not specifically referring to the picture here. Its really just part of her general overall 'too perfect to be true' thing.

[Dengar]

I've been seeing a lot of new acronyms here.

[Iron Maw]

Originally Posted by AC-Phoenix

I'm not specifically referring to the picture here. Its really just part of her general overall 'too perfect to be true' thing.

I dunno about that. She did outright lie/deceive Subaru in one loop which isn't exactly an angelic/perfect quality last I checked. Emilia's kind person in general, but it's pretty clear she tends to build a wall between herself and others which leads to her acting differently depending on she is with. To those she does befriend however she a lot more causal much less standoffish.

[whitecloud]

Originally Posted by Iron Maw

I dunno about that. She did outright lie/deceive Subaru in one loop which isn't exactly an angelic/perfect quality last I checked. Emilia's kind person in general, but it's pretty clear she tends to build a wall between herself and others which leads to her acting differently depending on she is with. To those she does befriend however she a lot more causal much less standoffish.

thus the suspicion that she is satella or will be one in the far future, even if she not know it...there are other that suggest the current witch of envy that plaguing subaru is from alternate future timeline or original timeline just like what happen in steins gate in which subaru is dead for some reason and emilia gone crazy because of it...sending her psyche to the past like okabe

[FlareKnight]

Originally Posted by Iron Maw

I dunno about that. She did outright lie/deceive Subaru in one loop which isn't exactly an angelic/perfect quality last I checked. Emilia's kind person in general, but it's pretty clear she tends to build a wall between herself and others which leads to her acting differently depending on she is with. To those she does befriend however she a lot more causal much less standoffish.

Yeah, I think there is a difference between being a good person and being perfect. Emilia seems to be a type that does put up walls like that and actually requires making extravagant reasons for being altruistic. She can't just see someone in trouble and help them, she has to rationalize it to maintain that wall.

Plus being altruistic can be a flaw in itself. Look at Subaru's situation. If he was more selfish, he could get himself out of this situation. Being unable to turn a blind eye can waste your time and divert you from what you need to be doing.

Right now the situation is that Subaru risked his life to save Emilia. Likely relates to her background, but to her that's probably a very large debt. So in her own way she's trying to thank Subaru and that changes depending on the situation. Here he looked utterly traumatized. Hearing what she heard from Puck it's no wonder she had to try something. But the most she could really do was use stock phrases for comforting someone "are you tired, are you troubled, it's been rough, hasn't it?" After all, a couple days ago he was nearly disemboweled. And really she doesn't know anything about Subaru's background so for all she knows he's got a lot of trauma built up from before they even met.

I do actually think the theory that Satella is some kind of future version of Emilia or maybe one from another timeline/dimension is solid. I just don't think there is anything dark or conspiracy worthy about this Emilia right now.

[Dengar]

I'm just not quite sure why people are thinking of a future Emilia though? Why suddenly involve time travel out of nowhere for absolutely no reason?

[whitecloud]

Originally Posted by Dengar

I'm just not quite sure why people are thinking of a future Emilia though? Why suddenly involve time travel out of nowhere for absolutely no reason?

well...it have something to do with subaru, and satella's yandere fixation on him. i dont think anyone other emilia would be the one behind it

[RDNexus]

Originally Posted by Dengar

I'm just not quite sure why people are thinking of a future Emilia though? Why suddenly involve time travel out of nowhere for absolutely no reason?

Maybe because spacetime has sort of been a relevant factor in the story so far? I guess...

[erneiz_hyde]

Yes. Subaru is essentially traveling back in time. If Satella can do that to him, why can't she do that to herself? It's a natural train of thought that some people even commented "that's too predictable so it can't be true".

[Dengar]

Originally Posted by whitecloud

well...it have something to do with subaru, and satella's yandere fixation on him. i dont think anyone other emilia would be the one behind it

What yandere fixation? We have not seen this witch do anything other than preventing him from talking about what's happening to him.

As for "anyone other than Emilia", I can think of someone else who is a far more likely suspect: The witch.

Originally Posted by erneiz_hyde

Yes. Subaru is essentially traveling back in time. If Satella can do that to him, why can't she do that to herself? It's a natural train of thought that some people even commented "that's too predictable so it can't be true".

There is a difference between time rolling back to an earlier moment of one's personal timeline, and physically traveling back in time, which I assume is what you think the witch has done.

Personally I kind of prefer a theory that does not contradict established lore. (IE the fact that the witch has already existed for aeons, not to mention having had six peers at one point)

[FlameSparkZ]

One theory could be that in the "original timeline" there was no Satella (the one that we know), and despite the seven witches being around, the world was relatively safe.

I've come up with two theories based on that...

Spoiler for "Emilia is Satella" Theory A:

In the original timeline Emilia might've grown up normally without the preudice of the "silver haired half-elf" thing. Then found out she was royalty...this is assuming the strange illness that killed off most members of the royal family still happened.
...Or the illness didn't happen in the original timeline and Emilia grew up as royalty.

Then we'd also have to assume that Subaru didn't get chosen, but instead was caught up in somekind of dimensional incident that sent him to another world.
The royal selection still happens, Subaru meets Emilia in a similar manner, and decides to help her.

Just as other posters above have speculated, maybe at some point Subaru dies, and Emilia doesn't take it well. Not caring about the royal selection anymore, she becomes power hungry in order to find a way to bring Subaru back, and eventually becomes the new Witch of Envy. All the power she obtained from becoming a witch drives her mad and she ends up devouring the other witches for even more power, gaining enough to go back in time...but she goes too far back.
Appearing out of nowhere, Emilia once again takes the position of Witch of Envy from her predecessor (who was named Satella), and once again devours the other Witches.

"Satella"'s actions turn her into a threat in the new timeline, which leads to her getting sealed by the combined forces of the Dragon, the Hero and the Sage...but not before draining half the world, which had turned her into a pseudo-omniscient being, capable of scrying and see into multiple futures.

Even sealed, "Satella" can still exert some of her power and waited for Subaru to appear again.
But her actions greatly influenced the flow of events, which led to Subaru and her alternate self getting killed...and that's episode 1

The next one is similar but with some differences.

Spoiler for "Emilia is Satella" Theory B:

Basically similar to A, except Subaru wasn't present in the "original timeline".
The royal selection caused Emilia to lose her supporters one after another because of the other royal candidates' plots.

Struck by grief, Emilia gives up on the royal selection, but the other candidates won't leave her alone and continue to target her. This leads to her meeting the Witch of Envy (the original Satella), and eventually taking her place.

The events from here are parallel to Theory A: she goes mad, devours the other witches, goes back in time and does it again, becomes a threat and is sealed.

While sealed she continues to search for a way to prevent her alternate self from meeting the same fate as her, scrying multiple worlds in search for someone who would support Emilia regardless of the "silver haired half-elf" prejudice that she caused, and have the mental fortitude not permanently break from continuously dying and repeating the same events until it gets done right.
She finds Subaru, pulls him to that world just before Satella's insignia was stolen...which leads to the events to episode 1.

This is all speculation though, but seems possible

[Dengar]

^That still does not really explain the weird (physical) time travel powers out of nowhere.


I would however like to make a little addendum to my original point.

The fact that Emilia bears a physical resemblance to the witch may or may not be relevant, I'll give you that. I just think some kind of odd time travel plot seems like a way too ludicrous explanation for something that I feel can be explained away through much simpler means, that does not involve making up wacky new powers that have never been hinted at.

A far more likely scenario is that the witch herself is also capable of rolling back her own personal timeline, and introduced Subaru to the plot as some kind of wild card variable to prevent something that happens in the future from happening.

As for Emilia, she can be a relative of the witch, or even the witch herself. I just find it unlikely that the witch is an alternate version of her from the future.

[FlameSparkZ]

Originally Posted by Dengar

^That still does not really explain the weird (physical) time travel powers out of nowhere.


I would however like to make a little addendum to my original point.

The fact that Emilia bears a physical resemblance to the witch may or may not be relevant, I'll give you that. I just think some kind of odd time travel plot seems like a way too ludicrous explanation for something that I feel can be explained away through much simpler means, that does not involve making up wacky new powers that have never been hinted at.

A far more likely scenario is that the witch herself is also capable of rolling back her own personal timeline, and introduced Subaru to the plot as some kind of wild card variable to prevent something that happens in the future from happening.

As for Emilia, she can be a relative of the witch, or even the witch herself. I just find it unlikely that the witch is an alternate version of her from the future.

Pretty much anything is possible at the moment, we're still in the second arc and only have a handful of information regarding the plot.