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When I was getting into the series I just thought that I could get used to the animation and like it that way, as the animation is great in the series half the time. But no. The presentation since episode one has been really awful. The series repeats a certain pattern that is annoyingly clear and it hooks newcomers in with this so called "foreshadowing" that people like to call good writing. It's not in this series I can assure you and let me explain why.
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| Why!? Tell me why!? |
The story begins with a boy, our main character Natsuki Subaru, who is sort of a fourth wall breaker at first getting thrown into a fantasy world. Throughout the series it's as if he's never even been in the "real world" however, as he never once has a thought of going back there or anything. He's your stereotypical light novel protagonist with a twist; he's an emotional loser. Big time. He gets constantly attached to people he doesn't even know, all one-note characters. The side character "knights" in the series look like they're fodders from "Tales of-" games. Really generic looking designs for everyone except the main character, sometimes, as his face turns into all sorts of things during his "character development" progress which doesn't feel natural at all in the series as the MC has a power to keep going in a world where death may anytime be around the corner. He has a cheatcode almost literally. In comparison you can look at someone like Light Yagami from "Death Note," Light is a character who develops more naturally along as the story progresses as well as make choices based on his emotions (I know people will bring up that Subaru's a normal boy who's an overly emotional freak etc.). Anyways, as the story progresses the main character gets very, very annoying and overcomes his emotional obstacles and turns into a hero. Generic LN protag with a twist as he's an asshole in one part of the story. Oh and I've heard people say that the plot and characters are like in Higurashi... Just no... That was actually well plotted out and had better twists (yes I know "Re:ZERO has "twists") but it was stretched out I will admit.
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| Wow, an actually decent side character. |
As I've ranted enough of the MC, there's really nothing to talk about any of the side characters. All and I mean every single one of them are just badly written cheerleaders in the end. It's time to summarize my problems with the so called "well written story" that the series has.
Slight spoilers ahead.
Subaru, the MC of the story, has a power, or you could call it a curse, which he calls "revival by death." It allows him to quite literally revive in a way in which it seems he himself had gone back in time after dying. What does this mean, then? It means an extremely shittily fleshed out and repetitive storylines. The "arcs" in Re: Zero go like this:
Story starts as the MC is shown dying and revives -> we see the story go back to that point of "zero" which is a "checkpoint" in time that Subaru will revive in -> mc is unknowingly getting brutally killed -> revive, same story we already saw, nothing gets skipped -> MC faces hardships and dies yet again in the end -> MC revives. Same freaking story we already saw once again and the MC dies after getting almost to the root of the problem and revives -> After collecting himself up and showing his true plot armor, he stays victorious. And yes, there may have been atleast one more revival and repeated time that the story was told once again but I'd love nothing more than to not remember that.
The so called "foreshadowing" of the series is done poorly because the story never advances. It simply loops and repeats itself infinitely in each arc without any real progression. The main character is an invincible self-insert that will make the watcher feel disgusted with him and sympathize with him.
Rating of the series: F for Fail
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