*Licensed* Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu [Web Novel/Light Novel/Manga]

[Wandering Soul]

^ As I thought. The anime will try to end at arc 3. Hopefully they can adapt the arc as smoothly as possible.

Originally Posted by aohige

The first arc is the first LN, the second arc is LN volume 2 & 3, and the rest of the LN (up to volume 8 right now) are all arc 3.
Arc 3 likely will end in the 9th LN or so.

Meaning, by the time the anime ends it'll be caught up with the LN releases.

Are the following arcs in the Web novel as long as arc 3?

[bakato]

Think they might go for an anime original ending?

[Zeronice]

Let's hope they will not go for an original ending like they did in Akame ga Kill

[Wandering Soul]

Originally Posted by bakato

Think they might go for an anime original ending?

I hope not.

[sasuke706]

Originally Posted by bakato

I heard Subaru gets penalized if he dies too many times on a stage. Can anyone elaborate?

Spoiler for :

There isn't a penalty.
Well, not being successful and dying a lot makes him lose it/go crazy a few times, but that's not so much a penalty of his power than it is his limitations as a person.

The only limit or penalty his power gives him is don't try to convey the ability at all.
Well, I suppose smelling like the witch more and more each time after the penalty is activated or after a revive is also kind of a penalty in itself.

Subaru's never even died all that many times in an arc, so if there is a penalty for dying a whole bunch, he's been avoiding it pretty well.

[Iron Maw]

Originally Posted by bakato

That's what I was afraid of. Arc 3 isn't a good place to end.

Huh? Aohige says it's fine place for the show to end. There's bit of a cliffhanger, but the situation of Arc is resolved with a great resolution. Leaves room for a 2nd season if sales are good too.

Beware he talking about Arc 3 as in WN verison (which roughly comprises of LN volumes 4-9).

[aohige]

End of arc 3 is the perfect place to end because:

1. Arc 4 is ridiculously long. It's the longest arc in the novel so far
2. Anywhere in the middle of arc 3 would be seriously bad. At least the story comes to a good closure at the end of the arcs.
3. Because arc three ends with such tragedy, the resulting anguish and pain of the viewers will be awesome to see.

Originally Posted by Wandering Soul

Are the following arcs in the Web novel as long as arc 3?

Arc 4 is about 50% longer than 3, and arc 5 is about the same length as 3.

Originally Posted by Zeronice

aohige does Reinhard and Elsa reappear? If so can you give me a summary about their roles in arc 3

Elsa is one of the main antagonist in four, but she won't appear before that.
Reinhard appears as supporter of Felt in the Queen competition.
Unfortunately he's off busy doing whatever during arc three and cannot come to help for the fight.

Reinhard is often conveniently busy elsewhere during conflicts because he's waaaaaay too strong.
He's the strongest character in the novel, so stories would end in minutes if he's available.
We get to see him at full strength in arc five though, because the enemy is so great and in numbers and battles spread out, the story can afford to have a superman.

Originally Posted by Iron Maw

Here is an episode summary all the way to episode 6. Pacing is moving where I more or less expected (episode 6 is called the Sound of Chains). The 2nd arc should be finished by episodes 9 roughly, leaving the remaining 16 episodes for the rest of the 3rd arc.

From reading the description of the episodes, I think it's gonna take at least to episode 10 for the second arc. Maybe even 11.
The third arc will likely be 14-15 episodes. Which will coincide quite will with chapter count comparison for the first three arcs.

[babbo3d]

Originally Posted by aohige

End of arc 3 is the perfect place to end because:

1. Arc 4 is ridiculously long. It's the longest arc in the novel so far
2. Anywhere in the middle of arc 3 would be seriously bad. At least the story comes to a good closure at the end of the arcs.
3. Because arc three ends with such tragedy, the resulting anguish and pain of the viewers will be awesome to see.



Arc 4 is about 50% longer than 3, and arc 5 is about the same length as 3.



Elsa is one of the main antagonist in four, but she won't appear before that.
Reinhard appears as supporter of Felt in the Queen competition.
Unfortunately he's off busy doing whatever during arc three and cannot come to help for the fight.

Reinhard is often conveniently busy elsewhere during conflicts because he's waaaaaay too strong.
He's the strongest character in the novel, so stories would end in minutes if he's available.
We get to see him at full strength in arc five though, because the enemy is so great and in numbers and battles spread out, the story can afford to have a superman.



From reading the description of the episodes, I think it's gonna take at least to episode 10 for the second arc. Maybe even 11.
The third arc will likely be 14-15 episodes. Which will coincide quite will with chapter count comparison for the first three arcs.

That is only if they do it well unfortunately it looks like they are probably going to cut Conners.

[Kosaki]

Originally Posted by aohige

End of arc 3 is the perfect place to end because:

1. Arc 4 is ridiculously long. It's the longest arc in the novel so far
2. Anywhere in the middle of arc 3 would be seriously bad. At least the story comes to a good closure at the end of the arcs.
3. Because arc three ends with such tragedy, the resulting anguish and pain of the viewers will be awesome to see.



Arc 4 is about 50% longer than 3, and arc 5 is about the same length as 3.



Elsa is one of the main antagonist in four, but she won't appear before that.
Reinhard appears as supporter of Felt in the Queen competition.
Unfortunately he's off busy doing whatever during arc three and cannot come to help for the fight.

Reinhard is often conveniently busy elsewhere during conflicts because he's waaaaaay too strong.
He's the strongest character in the novel, so stories would end in minutes if he's available.
We get to see him at full strength in arc five though, because the enemy is so great and in numbers and battles spread out, the story can afford to have a superman.



From reading the description of the episodes, I think it's gonna take at least to episode 10 for the second arc. Maybe even 11.
The third arc will likely be 14-15 episodes. Which will coincide quite will with chapter count comparison for the first three arcs.

wait wait whats felt been up to since arc 1?

[tsunade666]

ugh, I remember the part where Zero no Tsukaima 2nd season ending was change. They brought Saito back to life and instead end him there. I prefer the tragedy than the stupid start up of season 3.

The tragic end of arc 3 would give more reason for season 2 so I'm fine with ending the story in arc 3. Plus, its impossible to go further, unless they go for more episode or rush things which I hope won't happen.

[aohige]

Originally Posted by Kosaki

wait wait whats felt been up to since arc 1?

The dragon sigil reacted to her, meaning she's one of the candidates.

Spoiler:

Reinhard took her in under his protection.
She reappears during the candidate meeting, forced in a pretty dress.
She's also revealed to be possibly the last remaining royal alive.

Then in arc 5 she leads her own team of supporters to fight the Cult during the Cult's raid on the city of Pristella.

Each of the queen candidates have their teams of supporting characters, many of whom Subaru becomes friends and allies with.

The candidates are rivals for the throne, but in general all on the good guys side.
They have to often work together in face of pure evil such as the Cult of the Witch.

[RDNexus]

Given all that talk about pacing, at least I can expect a decent-to-good adaption from this story, right?

[aohige]

We've only seen three episodes worth of material, but so far it feels like a 1:1 adaptation, yes.

[RDNexus]

Nice!!! For once

[Endscape]

The more I hear about this story, the more I really want to read it.

[Iron Maw]

Originally Posted by aohige

From reading the description of the episodes, I think it's gonna take at least to episode 10 for the second arc. Maybe even 11.
The third arc will likely be 14-15 episodes. Which will coincide quite will with chapter count comparison for the first three arcs.

Ah, sounds good then.

EDIT: I don't mind if they have trim a bit here and there to fit in the entirety of Arc 3 as long as it's does not adversely effect the story for worse.

[haseo0408]

Originally Posted by aohige

I'm not sure where you left off, but assuming somewhere in middle of arc two.

Spoiler:

The second arc finishes with everyone alive, Subaru saved the village kids and fought off the hellhounds, won the love of Rem.

The third arc is really really long.
The ritual to choose the next King is taking place and candidates are summoned to the capital. The royal linage has been interrupted by deaths and those chosen by the dragon crest must compete to be the next King/Queen. Five candidates are chosen, and Emilia is one of them.

Because of Subaru's reckless behavior, Emilia tells him to stay put, and he promises he will. But he soon breaks that promise, sneaks into the castle, then embarrass her and himself in front of everyone by mouthing off. He picks a fight with a knight, and loses in the duel. He loses trust with everyone including Emilia, and they leave him in the capital.

Only Rem stays at his side, caring to him and displaying her unyielding love for him.
He trains under Wilhelm under Cruche's (one of the candidates) care. He learns that the mansion is in danger, and hurries out to get back to Emilia. But the road back to the mansion is hazardous due to appearance of the White Whale of Gluttony.
In his attempt to get back to the mansion he and Rem are captured by the Cult of the Witch, an evil cult who worship Satella the Witch of Envy, and schemes to bring the Witch back into the world.

Subaru and Rem are tortured, mutilated, and killed by Betelgeuse, the Bishop of Sloth.
In one of the loops Subaru finds his way back to the mansion alone, only to find the whole village slaughtered by the Cult, Ram is dead with the children, Emilia dead in the mansion and enraged Puck going out of control, freezing the entire region and instantly killing Subaru.
In another loop Subaru is driven insane from the torture he receives from Betelgeuse, who rips apart Rem in front of his eyes piece by piece.
This insanity lasts a whole loop as Rem tries to carry Subaru who has turned into a drooling madman and make back to the mansion. At the end of this loop, the two are again captured and tortured, but this manages to snap Subaru back to sanity thanks to the anger.

Subaru now determined more than ever, finally realizes he needs help to deal with this situation. He vows to be a better person, and repairs his trust with people in the capital. He eventually wins the trust of several Queen candidates, and forms an alliance with Julius, the knight he lost duel to, Wilhelm, an elderly swordsman under Cruche, and beastmen mercenaries working for Anastasia (another candidate).

The group heads out first to destroy the White Whale who is blocking the passage to the mansion. Wilhelm has a beef with the said Whale, for losing his wife many years ago.
The battle is very fierce and those who were eaten by the whale are "erased" from the world. History, memory of them, everything. No one, not even family, remembers them from ever existing. But the group finally downs the whale.

Subaru's save point is moved. Whale was an objective, it seems.
Now Subaru heads the allies to face Betelgeuse and the Cult of the Witch.
They lose several times, and everyone killed, but each time Subaru learns more about the Bishop and plans his tactics. The insane Bishop has the power to manifest invisible "Hands of God" that can kill anyone without them ever seeing them.
After many bloody battles, Subaru and his allies is victorious and Betelgeuse is killed.

Subaru wins back the trust of Emilia, but learns a shocking truth... she doesn't remember who Rem is.
He rushes to go see Rem, to find her comatose and no one remembering her.
Rem and Cruche has been attacked by Bishop of Gluttony. Rem was eaten and "erased" from the world, whereas Cruche's own memory was lost (others remember her fine).
Not even Ram, Rem's own sister, remembers who she is.

Due to becoming romantically involved with Rem, Subaru despairs and commits suicide.
But when he wakes up, he realizes the "save point" had moved forward after defeating Betelgeuse, the Bishop of Sloth, and since Rem was attacked before that time, it was now impossible to go back in time to save Rem.

The third arc ends in sadness.

The webnovel is up to the sixth arc currently.

Spoiler for Emilia:

I thought for sure Subaru was in love with Emilia, but for what said he´s in a realtionship with Rem and that´s why he commits suicide, that´s a little dissapointing, after all he´s doing all of this for Emilia.

[tsunade666]

^True, Subaru loved Emilia and he also did everything for Emlia but Emilia is not the one who stick with him through all his suffering. No one aside from Rem is the only who believe in Subaru and the only one who stay by his side when everything distrust and abandons him.

Falling in love with the best girl is just a predicted result and I can't fault Subaru for that.

[haseo0408]

Originally Posted by tsunade666

^True, Subaru loved Emilia and he also did everything for Emlia but Emilia is not the one who stick with him through all his suffering. No one aside from Rem is the only who believe in Subaru and the only one who stay by his side when everything distrust and abandons him.

Falling in love with the best girl is just a predicted result and I can't fault Subaru for that.

Going to hell and back along side a person tennds to create strong bonds so can´t blame the guy for a change of heart either, make the story more complex and interesting.

[aohige]

Originally Posted by haseo0408

Spoiler for Emilia:

I thought for sure Subaru was in love with Emilia, but for what said he´s in a realtionship with Rem and that´s why he commits suicide, that´s a little dissapointing, after all he´s doing all of this for Emilia.

Subaru loves both, and has told them so.
Although his love for Emilia is more of an extension of adoration, his feelings for Rem was much more down to earth and basic. The difference is like idol and girlfriend.