You're spot on about how we viewed Subaru on Season 1! Some people just don't accept the fact people change and grow, and that no one is immune to being pathetic, and they call Subaru a bad MC or whatever.
Subarus magic gate is broken and cant be used anymore. It's actually quite a serious issue since his body has no way of releasing built up mana without the gate and with no release it'd eventually kill him. However his new contracted spirit Beatrice can drain his mana to fill up her own reserves. And, while they're holding hands, Subaru is able to perform magic by using Beatrice as a medium. So that actually was him casting those El Minya's. Subaru can use Dark type magic and Shamac is just the one dark type spell he knows, anyone with dark type could use shamac. Beatrice also happens to be a dark type and she knows ancient spells that the modern world doesnt know. Previously, people didnt know there was higher tier versions of the basic shamac spell.
Ya my assumption was that Shamac it was akin to cutting off the target's senses from the world, and Betty said "Al Shamac" which I'm guessing is a more powerful Shamac and instead of cutting off the target's senses actually cuts the target's physical body off from the world.
@@Salty_Tiger It's better explained later in the Novel (Maybe Season 5?) But what Shamac does is "Separate", it's basic form separates the target's senses from their body, El Shamac separates the Mind from the body as a whole, Ul Shamac separates the body from physical space temporarily. Finally, Al Shamac, it's ultimate form, pemanently separates a part of the world from this dimension, it's a crazy powerful spell but costs way more Mana than others from other elements would.
Roswaal cannot actually use Subaru as a vessel for soul transcription because he's not related. However, Roswaal may be planning to use Annerose Miload who owns the other mansion (the Miload Mansion) for that purpose as she is a close relative. She's the purple haired girl who was in charge of the party.
Thank you. I just watched this entire series through, and I just wanted to say that of all the reactions I've watched so far, your empathy and care for the characters and willingness to reflect and build on what the show was throwing at you set you apart. I hope you know that you did well, and you made my days better. That's all.
He is a spirit user - thus, capable of launching spells without using his own gate. That's literally the point of being a spirit user, told to us by Puck when Subaru was learning Shamac.
2:28 Yeah, he can't do it himself. It's a little confusing, but if you remember back to season 1 when Puck first explained magic to Subaru, he mentions the difference between a magic user and a spirit arts user and how the difference is whether or not you use a gate. So, I think this means that Subaru is a spirit arts user now.
27:22 this is 100% why this arc is so beautiful/why rezero is so good. Even if you aren't familiar with a lot of the anime tropes that rezero goes out of it's way to confront, I think it's the natural reaction to want subaru to loop over and over again so he can get it perfect. and I think a lot of anime would take that route as well, but this series goes deeper than that. Even if he does have return by death, it doesn't mean that is his only way to contribute. it even thows in the possibility that subaru leaves other worlds behind, further pushing why just throwing away his life isn't the right answer. Side note: the author writes certain WHAT IFs, where they split off from the main story. There is a WHAT IF Subaru accepted Echidna's contract rather than valuing his life and rejecting it like in the main story. In that WHAT IF Subaru dies far more (in the hundreds of millions), so much so that he loses count
just remember he went from the self proclaimed knight and embarrassing himself and emilia in front of the council of old geezers and getting the shit beaten out of him by julius to now having gotten rid of 2 witch pets and a sin arch bishop and actually becoming emilias legit knight now. the growth subarus had is astonishing
clarification and fun fact time ^^ you sadly missed a very important pece near the end. The reason they never showed echidnas face in the roswaal flashbacks and why emilia asked who this is because its supposed to be echidnas tomb. The one laying in the graveyard (that we saw the face of in this episode) is NOT the same person as the echidna we know from subarus tea parties. Also something very subtle many people miss but which is a huge hint for the real ending of season 2 that for whatever forsaken reason got cut from the anime: When emilia talked to all the ryuzus (around the time you said something like there is something wrong here) one of the ryuzus said something in a different voice. This was echidnas voiceactor. I will at the end give a very short tldr on what the real ending of s2 was at the end of this text for anyone curious. Roswaal pretty much got kids so they share a bond with him and then pretty much overwrites ther soul with his own and thus live for this long. I would say its pretty damn inhumane to have kids just for you to erase them frome existance and take over their body. Something really fucked up knowing emilias views about kissing... Remember the kiss of death episode where subaru went into the tomb half eaten and met crazy emilia? She kissed subarus corpse while being in her arms. So she was willing to make a child with subarus corpse in that moment... Now for the cut ending (this will not happen in season 3 so its cut content and not a spoiler but here you have a spoiler warning anyways if you dont want to know what happened right after the final scene of the anime) Emilia completing the trial and breaking the barrier was the final step needed to fulfill a plan echidna set in motion long ago. From this Echidnas soul actually got transferred to a clone of the ryuzus. So Echidna is now alive again and has a crystal with her containing the souls of all the remaining witches and is roaming the earth free again. The only hint in the anime for this was the one ryuzu saying one little line in Echidnas voice.
19:20 Emilia is very strict to promises since she learnt from her past mistake when she broke her promise to Fortuna not to go out of the house that resulted to the deaths of her love ones and their entire village. 🥲
OMG you’re one of the only reactors I have seen to point out how people tell him to restart when things go wrong. I even saw some people telling Subaru to kill himself literally episodes after he makes the promise not to rely on RBD… like they just forgot the entire lesson they showed us. I definitely think the author made last season with the intention of the viewers telling Subaru to “just restart”. All of us did it, even myself when I first watched. Until I saw the impact it really had on Subaru in season 2 like you, its a last resort to protect him. Because he should cherish himself and not view his life as a tool. RBD only activating on death is genius, any other way to loop would never make this story work cuz Subaru will just restart on any mistake. But in order to “use” RBD, Subaru has to commit suicide. Theres so much lore, action, character motivations, politics, and mysteries in Re Zero. But at the end of the day, the human aspect is what is most important. The characters and how they live, what they want. How they want to be happy. Thats what makes Re Zero such a beautiful story, its about loving yourself and those around you. As someone who engaged in self harming tendencies, seeing a character like Subaru changed how I view the world. Really big respect to you for noticing this, I mean it. I see fans who read the novel, are completely caught up, read all rhe side stores multiple times, who don’t realize this very simple theme of Re Zero. Re Zero isn’t just about theorizing and collecting info, you need real empathy to understand the story.
Cosplaying is about bringing to life characters who speak to you, not just those that fit. Using the "My Dress Up Darling" example, think about the little sister wanting to dress up as the male character even though she "wasn't the type". Cosplay who you want, We'd love to see it :)
It'd be cool to see you try out Betty as cosplay...probably easier for you to get Elsa but yea lol. As far as Subaru using magic goes, there are two types of magic in Re:Zero the magic you do yourself by using the Gate that Subaru abused and broke and magic that you can use because you made a Contract with one or multiple Spirits. Emilia and Julius are examples of people that use magic through Contracts with Spirits, but with Emilia she actually just forgot that she could also use magic through her Gate so now that she went through the Trials Emilia can use both types of magic. The Contracts with Spirits can actually be simple or complex, but for the most part we haven't been told any of them other than Puck saying he will destroy the world if Emilia dies.
You're spot on about how we viewed Subaru on Season 1! Some people just don't accept the fact people change and grow, and that no one is immune to being pathetic, and they call Subaru a bad MC or whatever.
Subarus magic gate is broken and cant be used anymore. It's actually quite a serious issue since his body has no way of releasing built up mana without the gate and with no release it'd eventually kill him. However his new contracted spirit Beatrice can drain his mana to fill up her own reserves. And, while they're holding hands, Subaru is able to perform magic by using Beatrice as a medium. So that actually was him casting those El Minya's. Subaru can use Dark type magic and Shamac is just the one dark type spell he knows, anyone with dark type could use shamac. Beatrice also happens to be a dark type and she knows ancient spells that the modern world doesnt know. Previously, people didnt know there was higher tier versions of the basic shamac spell.
Ya my assumption was that Shamac it was akin to cutting off the target's senses from the world, and Betty said "Al Shamac" which I'm guessing is a more powerful Shamac and instead of cutting off the target's senses actually cuts the target's physical body off from the world.
@@Salty_Tiger It's better explained later in the Novel (Maybe Season 5?) But what Shamac does is "Separate", it's basic form separates the target's senses from their body, El Shamac separates the Mind from the body as a whole, Ul Shamac separates the body from physical space temporarily.
Finally, Al Shamac, it's ultimate form, pemanently separates a part of the world from this dimension, it's a crazy powerful spell but costs way more Mana than others from other elements would.
Betty is subaru's contract spirit so essentially he's using spirit to channel magic instead of his own gate. Just like how Emilia uses puck.
8:52 He has been transferring his soul to his descendants for four hundred years.
Very inhumane, right?
Roswaal cannot actually use Subaru as a vessel for soul transcription because he's not related. However, Roswaal may be planning to use Annerose Miload who owns the other mansion (the Miload Mansion) for that purpose as she is a close relative. She's the purple haired girl who was in charge of the party.
I think Roswaal's sins are beyond forgiveness
Thank you. I just watched this entire series through, and I just wanted to say that of all the reactions I've watched so far, your empathy and care for the characters and willingness to reflect and build on what the show was throwing at you set you apart. I hope you know that you did well, and you made my days better. That's all.
That means the world to me 💕
Girl your reaction made me want to cry every episode damn what sorcery is that 😂
The power of the crybaby
He is a spirit user - thus, capable of launching spells without using his own gate. That's literally the point of being a spirit user, told to us by Puck when Subaru was learning Shamac.
I'm so happy regarding your thought process from 27:50 and then on.
2:28 Yeah, he can't do it himself. It's a little confusing, but if you remember back to season 1 when Puck first explained magic to Subaru, he mentions the difference between a magic user and a spirit arts user and how the difference is whether or not you use a gate. So, I think this means that Subaru is a spirit arts user now.
Just to remind you Emilia concent on that kiss even thinking she could get pregnant with Subaru´s baby, thats wild!
All my homies love Betty. I'm glad you do, too
27:22 this is 100% why this arc is so beautiful/why rezero is so good. Even if you aren't familiar with a lot of the anime tropes that rezero goes out of it's way to confront, I think it's the natural reaction to want subaru to loop over and over again so he can get it perfect. and I think a lot of anime would take that route as well, but this series goes deeper than that. Even if he does have return by death, it doesn't mean that is his only way to contribute. it even thows in the possibility that subaru leaves other worlds behind, further pushing why just throwing away his life isn't the right answer.
Side note: the author writes certain WHAT IFs, where they split off from the main story. There is a WHAT IF Subaru accepted Echidna's contract rather than valuing his life and rejecting it like in the main story. In that WHAT IF Subaru dies far more (in the hundreds of millions), so much so that he loses count
13:14 Emilia is a black box girl who is more pure than Kaguya
just remember he went from the self proclaimed knight and embarrassing himself and emilia in front of the council of old geezers and getting the shit beaten out of him by julius to now having gotten rid of 2 witch pets and a sin arch bishop and actually becoming emilias legit knight now. the growth subarus had is astonishing
clarification and fun fact time ^^
you sadly missed a very important pece near the end. The reason they never showed echidnas face in the roswaal flashbacks and why emilia asked who this is because its supposed to be echidnas tomb.
The one laying in the graveyard (that we saw the face of in this episode) is NOT the same person as the echidna we know from subarus tea parties.
Also something very subtle many people miss but which is a huge hint for the real ending of season 2 that for whatever forsaken reason got cut from the anime:
When emilia talked to all the ryuzus (around the time you said something like there is something wrong here) one of the ryuzus said something in a different voice. This was echidnas voiceactor. I will at the end give a very short tldr on what the real ending of s2 was at the end of this text for anyone curious.
Roswaal pretty much got kids so they share a bond with him and then pretty much overwrites ther soul with his own and thus live for this long. I would say its pretty damn inhumane to have kids just for you to erase them frome existance and take over their body.
Something really fucked up knowing emilias views about kissing... Remember the kiss of death episode where subaru went into the tomb half eaten and met crazy emilia? She kissed subarus corpse while being in her arms. So she was willing to make a child with subarus corpse in that moment...
Now for the cut ending (this will not happen in season 3 so its cut content and not a spoiler but here you have a spoiler warning anyways if you dont want to know what happened right after the final scene of the anime)
Emilia completing the trial and breaking the barrier was the final step needed to fulfill a plan echidna set in motion long ago. From this Echidnas soul actually got transferred to a clone of the ryuzus.
So Echidna is now alive again and has a crystal with her containing the souls of all the remaining witches and is roaming the earth free again.
The only hint in the anime for this was the one ryuzu saying one little line in Echidnas voice.
If someone hurt me or anyone I care about, forgiveness wouldn't be an option, only wrath.
19:20 Emilia is very strict to promises since she learnt from her past mistake when she broke her promise to Fortuna not to go out of the house that resulted to the deaths of her love ones and their entire village. 🥲
Would love to see you do a cosplay! Whatever you want to do lol
OMG you’re one of the only reactors I have seen to point out how people tell him to restart when things go wrong. I even saw some people telling Subaru to kill himself literally episodes after he makes the promise not to rely on RBD… like they just forgot the entire lesson they showed us.
I definitely think the author made last season with the intention of the viewers telling Subaru to “just restart”. All of us did it, even myself when I first watched. Until I saw the impact it really had on Subaru in season 2 like you, its a last resort to protect him. Because he should cherish himself and not view his life as a tool. RBD only activating on death is genius, any other way to loop would never make this story work cuz Subaru will just restart on any mistake. But in order to “use” RBD, Subaru has to commit suicide.
Theres so much lore, action, character motivations, politics, and mysteries in Re Zero. But at the end of the day, the human aspect is what is most important. The characters and how they live, what they want. How they want to be happy. Thats what makes Re Zero such a beautiful story, its about loving yourself and those around you. As someone who engaged in self harming tendencies, seeing a character like Subaru changed how I view the world.
Really big respect to you for noticing this, I mean it. I see fans who read the novel, are completely caught up, read all rhe side stores multiple times, who don’t realize this very simple theme of Re Zero. Re Zero isn’t just about theorizing and collecting info, you need real empathy to understand the story.
Review section was spot on.
Cosplaying is about bringing to life characters who speak to you, not just those that fit. Using the "My Dress Up Darling" example, think about the little sister wanting to dress up as the male character even though she "wasn't the type". Cosplay who you want, We'd love to see it :)
It'd be cool to see you try out Betty as cosplay...probably easier for you to get Elsa but yea lol. As far as Subaru using magic goes, there are two types of magic in Re:Zero the magic you do yourself by using the Gate that Subaru abused and broke and magic that you can use because you made a Contract with one or multiple Spirits. Emilia and Julius are examples of people that use magic through Contracts with Spirits, but with Emilia she actually just forgot that she could also use magic through her Gate so now that she went through the Trials Emilia can use both types of magic. The Contracts with Spirits can actually be simple or complex, but for the most part we haven't been told any of them other than Puck saying he will destroy the world if Emilia dies.
Faroh, season 3 is out today. When will you watch it?🤔
You can cosplay Elsa... 😅
remember when she kissed him in that episode she went crazy?
You know it would be nice if you could react to season 3 of rezero 😅