Not sure if you've seen them, but many of the season 2 breaktime shorts also have important lore reveals. the S1 ones are not important to watch (which is annoying since they're the only ones on crunchyroll)
The Break time shorts of season 2 also had some important characterization of Elsa and the shorts of season 1 had some important world building. I do recommend checking out the shorts of season 2 and 1 if have not done so already.
Yeah I remember Elsa small chat with the blue hair little girl that controle monsters. Elsa explained that Subaru's eyes pissed her off so that's why she poked one of them. She killed so many people but always saw 2 reactions: -Resignation & acceptation of Death Or -The will to fight until the end . Subaru eyes were like saying "I have a 3rd option" I don't care, just finish me so I go to the next step. Of course for us viewer it make sense but it must have been very confusing for Elsa.
Lol this is season 1 cut content. They both directly talked about it on the carriage ride to the royal selection commencement in the novel, and mention it briefly and vaguely in the anime. If you don’t know to look for it, it’s hard to pick up the hints. But the anime cut a ton of things that don’t have immediate consequences, because they didn’t think they would get more than 2 seasons. The season 2 ends on a pretty massively different note than the anime for example, because they didn’t know they would get a season 3.
afaik there is absolutely no hint or mention that Al may be from another world in season 1. he just comes off weird and mysterious because of his nature which is inherent to him, regardless of you knowing about his past or not.
Season 2 break time had one of my favorite scenes, which was Meili mourning Elsa, so i've always considered break times the after-credits episode extenders, so it's not really a big "wow" for me as I quite literally imagined a Aldebaran reveal in a break time, though the scene i envisioned for season 3 would involve Rem too.
idk mannn meili mourning elsa is minor enough that it makes sense, like its a supplementary thing to the plot rather than a super-important piece of knowledge. Al's reveal on the other hand its crucial to the plot of re:zero through and through. i dont think this was the way to do it, and im only saying this for the sake of the casual anime watchers. most of them will definitely miss this and be confused later.
Honestly the skipped content videos that some content creators make cover important or at the very least great background lore for these stories. Another show i read and slightly bummed it had cut content is Konosuba. I just hope that if these animes get a remaster/remake they cover the skipped content. I can also understand pacing and other issues that arise from adapting manga/light novel/etc into an animation. As someone who works in Hollywood, sometimes it can just be the suits at the top ruining everything.
Honestly, the most common explanation I hear about why they cut important info out, is that the director of Re:Zero, Watanabe Masaharu, didn’t believe that Re:Zero would succeed, so he cut out all the info that isn’t immediately important-meaning, removing all the Chekhov’s guns and foreshadowings.
its reaaallly important, and now half the fanbase will miss it, because not everyone is on top of things like this. its just great stuff all around tbh
The worst part will be that they will now use the breaktime EP as an excuse to treat this as having been revealed already in the Main Episodes meaning that whenever it will get adressed again in the Main Story EN anime onlies will be hyper confused.
Apparently the ppl behind break time aren’t the same as the ones from WF. So it’s unlikely Al being from Japan will have any real impact on the season. Basically it’s side content that won’t affect the plot or be relevant, so the anime will likely act like the reveal never happened.
It's not a big deal. It will become apparent in the main series when it becomes important. The break times have always included cannon cut content excluding the 12 petit episodes, and personally I'm thankful that this stuff is being adapted at all. Literally no other anime is getting the kind of treatment that Re:Zero gets. I don't understand why people are looking a gift horse in the mouth and complaining over 50 episodes in when the break time episodes have been a staple of the series since episode 1 of season 1. The only unfortunate thing is that Crunchyroll has not been licensing them since after season 1, so you have to look on youtube or other less reputable sites for them.
@@flyingeagle3898 if that’s the case then we will have to see what the director has planned if he wasn’t the one who planned to reveal Al’s backstory in break time.
Hey at least Al being an isekai its finally out of the bag and yeah its been on lots of content cut videos for a long time as it has changed quite a few things, and lots of people were looking for it to be revealed IN MAIN episodes like last one or this coming one. And I guess coming episode wont do it with the short doing it
i mean there will be a conversation that wont make sense if this isnt revealed, as well as another reveal later that would come out of the blue if you didnt know he was isekai'd already. lets be honest, most of the casual watchers will miss this. if they dont want to do any sort of reveal in the main episodes, those watchers will likely be a lot more confused than they should be.
I am very upset by this. I completely understand why this info was skipped in season 1, because in 2016 they knew it would be a long time till they got a second season (if ever) so they skipped everything in arc 3 that had to do with foreshadowing, and any information that might become relevant in future arcs. It's sad that they didn't get the opportunity to reveal it then, and create the kind of references you see in one piece that are releveant much later in the story and this particular reveal would have gotten me way more invested in the re-zero world had I seen it as an anime only in season 1, but such is often the fate of book adaptations compared to manga and why it happened in season1/arc 3 is understandable. Most of the cut material/mistakes at least had the potential to be fixed in later arcs. However, at this point in the story Al's info is absolutely 100% critical to the main story and will be extremely relevant to the end of arc 5, and not revealing it asap in that Main story is a big mistake, doing it in a Chibi short as the first animated reveal is such a poor decision that it was the subject of dark humor in the re-zero fandom as the delay kept coming, overall Whitefox is doing an above average job at adapting the LN, but for a mystery series like re-zero leaving out bits like this for so long does reduce the theorizing possible, and damage the impact of interactions between characters, and as a result damage several of the main things that draw people into the series compared to its potential. At this point the knowledge of Al's background serves as an increasingly critical basis for events leading up to the end of this arc and future arcs.
Oh! I love these! If you like these you can also check out Isekai Quartet. It includes Re: Zero, Konosuba, Tanya the Evil, and Ainz and crew from Overlord. Lots of cameos from other Kodakawa Isekai shows too.
You should read "watching him die again and again" By Reactionist. It tells a story about the rest of the cast watching Subaru's story (including his curse and his deaths). It's truly amazing and it only covers season 1.
I only watched the first season and I'm pretty sure that it was implied in the first season. Subaru may not have get it, but the viewers did. We knew. edit: but why in the end he says he knows "all too well"? Is he also Subaru?
@@jahterminatedlmao5473 "eh, kansai dialect?" "apparently that is how kararagi people speak." this is when anastasia introduce herself in s1 episode 13. normal people would ask what is kansai dialect. unless kararagi dialect is called kansai too since it is on the west side of the re zero world.
time and mind are a wonder, i passed it as well, being unemployed for so long, it felt the 10 years i worked before was feeling like a lie, even having all my paychecks, pictures and videos of it.
I don't see what the big deal is. The break time episodes have always been cannon and included cut content ever since Season 1 with the exception of the 12 petit episodes in season 1. They've literally aired one after every single episode to date. This is nothing new. People should have always been watching these. Although, it's unfortunate that Crunchyroll didn't license the season 2 or 3 break time episodes, but Season 3 break time episodes are on Kadokawa's youtube channel and there is always a guy in the comments who translates the whole thing and subbed versions can be found on other less reputable sites as well. Season 2 break time epsiodes can also mostly be found on youtube with a search or other less reputable sites. If anything people should be thankful that they adapt cut content like this at all because literally no other show gets this kind of treatment. Again though, it is unfortunate that Crunchyroll has not been licensing these after season 1 though.
@@KamiChrisy It'll become apparent when it becomes important. It's not even that big of a reveal. Literally no one cares about it except for a small group of vocal novel readers.
@@nameless8789 It’s a big deal tho. How is Subaru and Al’s interaction going to make sense if this isn’t revealed in the anime? There’s a lot of sus actions from him this arc 5.
Agree 100%, that’s just the rabbit hole, shit even isekai quartet has some important re zero lore, and it is the sole source of that info. The show has basically chosen to show they knew they were both from Japan through quick interactions and phrases in episode, rather than outright exposition. It’s been that way since season 1.
I’m surprised this is now becoming an issue it’s been like this for all the short chibi shows they do, from this to eminence in shadows to overlord, main story stuff is told there, this is why people say things are paced badly or feel like things aren’t shown. This is just bad.
I'm glad I finally clicked on a video about this topic. I was just going to ignore it. Lots of creators have made videos about this. But I finally wanted to see what this was about. Now I get it. And I am glad I get it. I WANT to know more about things I am not being told in this story.
OH From the title, I thought this was about A i like artificial intelligence. I am so dumb lmao it took me so long to understand you were not saying that use A i for animation or something?? XD
Изначально очевидно хотели закончить на первом сезоне и потому вырезали все моменты имеющие важность в долгоиграющей перспективе. Потом решили продолжить аниме и закономерно возникли нестыковки которых было бы сложно избежать не внося еще больше изменений. Людям надо просто понимать это и радоваться что важные вырезанные детали всё-же донесли до зрителей хотя бы так.
I mean if you suck at thinking and didnt know al was an isekai even tho the way he talks should have hinted that since the first time they met people shouldnt be shocked its like when u see your friend go to a bakery and u see him later holding something and you guessed it was bread, well turns out it was bread, honestly i would be shocked if al wasnt an isekai
"The way he talks should have hinted that" for someone criticizing people for not being able to figure it out, you sure suck at thinking as well. At least the anime watchers had multiple reasons to not know. 1, nobody in the Re Zero world noted that Al talks weirdly nor Subaru noted that the way he talks sounds familiar. 2, They're non japanese so it's obvious they won't pick up when Al is talking in a specific japanese way to prove that he's an isekai character nor will they understand japanese idioms. 3, barely any interactions with Subaru, he appeared in 3-4 episodes in which he interacted with Subaru for like 3-4 times and never saw him again. This happened in what? 2016-2017? It's been almost a decade since we last saw him. Your bread analogy doesn't work because it assumes you saw someone going to a bakery and buying bread. Did the anime watchers see Al talking weirdly? No. With all this information at hand, why are you so shocked that the anime watchers didn't figure it out? In fact, what made you doubt that Al was an isekai character in the first place?
I knew the Al thing, but I dont think that gate thing is legit, I think its an exaggeration for the short. I have unfortunately read sooooo many spoilers and even just now I couldn't find a single person talking about it from the LNs at all anywhere. Maybe its there and not revealed but I feel like its just broken, and they did it that way... Cool about the Al part. But also I feel like Al is someone even more than just an isekai, THIS author, covering someone's face? I think it's either going to be an alternate person, different timeline someone, or someone Subaru knows from before.
Subaru's gate is broken (back in his fight with Garfiel) and if he's away from Beatrice for too long he could die. Now that does take quite a while, but it's true.
Subaru's gate is completely smashed after using shamac in his final fight with Garfiel. Beatrice acts acts as his gate by absorbing mana from him otherwise he would eventually die from lacking an outlet.
I could chalk it up as JP companies not really caring about the global audience or the streaming platforms themselves that host Kadokawa's IPs not caring.
@Heidelmann they aren't people are becouse it's a very important detail for later in the show so they are upset/worried that people get confused/wil think it's told in terrible way becouse it was never brought up in the show itself then
i see what the 2nd spoiler could be. but i think that's just one of the fan theories, unconfirmed as of yet. but wow if this is how they reveal that other spoiler...
bro... its originally revealed all the way back in arc 3, which wouldve been in season 1 had it not been cut. youre not being spoiled, if you were to be a novel reader you'd have known this ages ago. hell, even the manga adapts the scene lol (dont read the manga if youre planning on reading re:zero, its not official)
@@smirg2975 oh no thats just some crazy fan theory, it has basically no merit other than "oh theyre both from another world!". if we wanted to theorize about who could be subaru from another timeline, there are better candidates in-lore for that than Al. much, much better candidates...
i wonder why the people who know what happens in the future would have a problem with it... i really do wonder lmao. ofc you dont have a problem with it, you have NO idea whats to come! if you knew, youd probably have some problems with it too lol. ignorance is bliss, am i right?
you miss the best part of it . there is dialiec speacking that subaru and A.L are the same Person . if you try to translate it in english you cannot understand it . but if try to read and write it on hiragana you know where region they live . miis that part for western people dont know about read the web novel in japanese , its no use to translate it . every dialec of region they have different type of speaking for sure A.L is a failed version or different timeline of subaru
I dont think this skipped content is at the same level of the MT one, MT skips tons yes but nothing is important to the characters or plot as a whole, you miss a lot of worldbuilding and details about characters but the important things are adapted, this is way too important to skip for me at least. I am a critic of the anime, i think is ok but i dont think that it is the master piece everyone says it is, one of the reasons is this, it depends too much on external content to complement its plot and characters, most of the people who read the novel dont care because they already know so they just fill what the anime doesnt explain with that knolowge but anime onlys might miss tons of context for not reading the novel, watching the shorts, etc etc this applies to all animes, not just Re Zero, if an anime needs you to go read or watch something else to get important info then is failing as an adaptation
Seems to be an overreaction honestly, especially since seemingly more important stuff has been cut like the end of season 2 or characters like Clind that should have shown up at season 3 episode 1.
Clind can easily be re introduced later. We dont know if the end of season 2 is gonna be plot important yet since the character in question has been relegated to side stories. The Al reveal we KNOW is super plot important. thats the difference here
The AL info is much much more important than either of those things. I would love for them to have been adapted but they are characters/events that won't be relevant till much later in the story, and might be adapted when they become relevant. The AL info is relevant THIS ARC and serves as the first basis for understanding a ton of critical plot points at th end of arc 5 leading into all future arcs. For the integrity of the story skipping Clind, and the end of season 2 are less important versions of cutting the Al info out of season1/arc 3 (annoying but not that important to understanding the plot)
@@jahterminatedlmao5473 + flyingeagle3898 As a fellow LN and WN reader I have yet to see why you guys think us knowing Al is isekaid is important to the plot
I hate the rz community on twitter so much (minus the gooners, at least they are funny). It’s just basically filled with butt hurt, spoiled and cringe Light Novel readers.
This was a truly terrible decision on whoever made the call. This exact conversation between Al and Subaru couldve been in a main episode pretty easily. yea it would be kinda out of the blue, but at least anime only viewers would know this VITAL plotpoint. Without spoiling anything, this is much more than simply characterization for Al
They can still bring it up during Subaru and Al’s convo, which would most likely happen around episode 7. It won’t be as direct and will probably be subtle, but I’m sure it’s possible if added as an anime original scene
But then we'd need half an episode explaining Al's backstory and he'd become some sort of giver or with holder of information to Subaru. The story doesn't need to put that kinda focus on Al right now.
Just gotta say Read the web novel! It makes you feel like the anime is basically taking random big scenes with all the important inner dialogue exposition removed… You only hear Anything explain by Betty pretty much… It’s why I think each arc should get a season or more to incorporate all of an arc by this point of the story… But we’ve all known all this stuff cut from the anime for 5-10 years! But it is irritating to remember half the people watching have NO IDEA what kinds of powers the protagonist has because they’ve not heard his inner thoughts from the beginning & only heard his cringey dialogue from his first arc which contrasts his otaku realising he’s been ísèkaîed character development arc where he thinks he can Just Become the Knight without consideration for the Meaning of such titles, etc. Which… is what sets up his complex relationship with Julius back then so it can develop in this arc and the next… so This Season… I remember so many times how people would say “man I wonder how they’re gonna handle Revealing how important a character Al is and ALL the ‘Al Is Barasu’ theories once they have to remind people of his arc 1 dialogue of being stuck for… was it 400 or 800 years he says and then explains how he spends time learning about how there must be someone before him who was from Japan because of Japanese stuff in A Place… cause that stuff comes up again in Arc 5 & having Cut Al’s Important but somewhat Distracting Major Reveal about Subaru the World & the Mystery of the few people from Japan over 800 years Is Kind of a Big Deal and NOT something you can Just Leave Out…” Or Whatever people used to say in comments sections about this whenever talking about Later Al stuff… along with “man I feel bad for the anime only people…” etc. usually because of saying that you won’t really understand more than half of Everything going on for the whole story if you’ve not read the webnovel and lightnovel or At Least heard people talk about everything happening & the theories popular at the time & what Tappéī would confirm or deny or reveal casually in conversation somewhere… Hehehe It’s Chaos seeing that There REALLY ARE people having the shock to a reveal from 4 arcs earlier that never got animated… I forget what the story was but I think it was something about thinking it was distracting and only important for people ACTUALLY following the story after the anime… Like “clearly this is Just to Promote sales of this lightnovel so… we don’t have to Actually Adapt things properly as though details will become important eventually… all the fans think he’s old failure subaru anyway so let’s Leave that scene out…” Which if I remember right the big complaint was that when they made a version with all the deleted scenes they couldn’t include they left out this conversation entirely… & it’s probably because most of the intense stuff happens in subarau’s head Processing the information, asking more questions, learning about stuff that goes unaddressed til Arc 5 or NOW when they are just acting like we should All Already Know despite Only people that read the webnovel and/or light novel & listened to people talk about them for hours have any idea that these things Already Happened… It’s like if you redid DBZ & cut out… Vegeta… & then have him just be the weird guy hanging at bum as house from the time he invaded Earth earlier Off Screen… : D Well maybe it’s not THAT heavy an omission of details but… it’s like Not having Raditz talk about Saiyans at all in a DBZ remake… “Yeah let’s NOT include these integral details connecting subaru & aldebaran because it’s Too Distracting & We don’t even know if any of that stuff will come up again! Let the other guys handle it or tell em to buy the lightnovels! Ha!” (Or that’s how they sound in my imagination …& I’m only Half Joking…) All we needed was a “remember what I told you when you first showed up? ” & maybe it’d have taken a minute or two but it is kind of important for reminding the people that didn’t at least listen to some reading of the lightnovel or web novel, even if it’s just your computer reading it… There’s a Lot of tildas in arc 6 webnovel and each time it says “Tilda!” After important moments to the point of forcing oneself to ignore the word entirely to process the stuff being revealed or explained…hehe I do have concerns How they even adapt some of arc 6… I forgot how crazy arc 5 could be visually… But man it’s good to still see the story animated fairly well where a lot of things are handled exceptionally… I just hope they don’t keep cutting all the deep headtrip moments because that’s functionally abandoning the communication of the experience of arc 6 if they continue ignoring communication of Barasu’s Thoughts! So many moments we need the inner monologue because that how it’s done in the story… Honestly that’s the Real Adventure is the amount of crazy headtrips this guys forced into somehow… I actually wanna relisten to Atc 5 cause I remember less action & more processing constant revelations about countless things in such interesting ways… I can’t recall how many chapters they’ve covered and how much stuff is mashed around removed or written in to tell a slightly different version… the web novel and light novel as still different as well but I forget how many differences there are and which things since people were considering that maybe Al didn’t reveal anything yet so that it could be done in season 3 when they rewrite src 5… or something along those lines… Now I sound like I’m having a conversation with myself so I gotta bounce hehe
As a decade long Re Zero fan who has been critical of the anime adaptation, it feels kinda vindicating that anime onlies start to realize that the complaints weren't about "wrong music being used" or "Subaru's testicles weren't in the right positions in that scene". No, the anime has some insane cut content issues when it comes to the core mysteries of the show. It is by no means a bad adaptation. It nails the emotional story, the character development and with voiceacting it even surpasses the source material. But as a time-travel mystery it is a fucking failure of an adaptation. The craziest part is that this is ONLY the surface when it comes to cut content. Even with just Aldebaran, this was only one of the many cut scenes and revelations that they finally added back.
I didn’t even realize until recently that al only has one arm 😭
@@Kevin-wu8wi bro I didn’t realise until reading this lol 😂
@@JaydenM7X2
@@Kevin-wu8wi bro you blind 💀
Wait he has 1 arm? 💀
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Not sure if you've seen them, but many of the season 2 breaktime shorts also have important lore reveals. the S1 ones are not important to watch (which is annoying since they're the only ones on crunchyroll)
The Break time shorts of season 2 also had some important characterization of Elsa and the shorts of season 1 had some important world building. I do recommend checking out the shorts of season 2 and 1 if have not done so already.
Where do I watch em
@@zaimrana2746the same way luffy gets his treasure.
Yeah I remember Elsa small chat with the blue hair little girl that controle monsters.
Elsa explained that Subaru's eyes pissed her off so that's why she poked one of them.
She killed so many people but always saw 2 reactions: -Resignation & acceptation of Death
Or
-The will to fight until the end
.
Subaru eyes were like saying "I have a 3rd option" I don't care, just finish me so I go to the next step.
Of course for us viewer it make sense but it must have been very confusing for Elsa.
Lol this is season 1 cut content. They both directly talked about it on the carriage ride to the royal selection commencement in the novel, and mention it briefly and vaguely in the anime. If you don’t know to look for it, it’s hard to pick up the hints. But the anime cut a ton of things that don’t have immediate consequences, because they didn’t think they would get more than 2 seasons. The season 2 ends on a pretty massively different note than the anime for example, because they didn’t know they would get a season 3.
afaik there is absolutely no hint or mention that Al may be from another world in season 1. he just comes off weird and mysterious because of his nature which is inherent to him, regardless of you knowing about his past or not.
Season 2 break time had one of my favorite scenes, which was Meili mourning Elsa, so i've always considered break times the after-credits episode extenders, so it's not really a big "wow" for me as I quite literally imagined a Aldebaran reveal in a break time, though the scene i envisioned for season 3 would involve Rem too.
idk mannn meili mourning elsa is minor enough that it makes sense, like its a supplementary thing to the plot rather than a super-important piece of knowledge. Al's reveal on the other hand its crucial to the plot of re:zero through and through. i dont think this was the way to do it, and im only saying this for the sake of the casual anime watchers. most of them will definitely miss this and be confused later.
You mean, the cut content surrounding Rem that was in season 1 episode 16? If so, then that’s not possible-Rem is in a coma.
The ending lines were fucking insane 🙉
"I know... all to well"
Honestly the skipped content videos that some content creators make cover important or at the very least great background lore for these stories. Another show i read and slightly bummed it had cut content is Konosuba. I just hope that if these animes get a remaster/remake they cover the skipped content. I can also understand pacing and other issues that arise from adapting manga/light novel/etc into an animation. As someone who works in Hollywood, sometimes it can just be the suits at the top ruining everything.
Honestly, the most common explanation I hear about why they cut important info out, is that the director of Re:Zero, Watanabe Masaharu, didn’t believe that Re:Zero would succeed, so he cut out all the info that isn’t immediately important-meaning, removing all the Chekhov’s guns and foreshadowings.
its reaaallly important, and now half the fanbase will miss it, because not everyone is on top of things like this. its just great stuff all around tbh
The worst part will be that they will now use the breaktime EP as an excuse to treat this as having been revealed already in the Main Episodes meaning that whenever it will get adressed again in the Main Story EN anime onlies will be hyper confused.
Apparently the ppl behind break time aren’t the same as the ones from WF. So it’s unlikely Al being from Japan will have any real impact on the season. Basically it’s side content that won’t affect the plot or be relevant, so the anime will likely act like the reveal never happened.
@@ma.2089 This is cope, AL being from japan is 100% critical to the end of arc 5.
@@ma.2089it is 100% plot important. not just to season 3, but without spoiling anything, its a HUGE plotpoint later in the story
It's not a big deal. It will become apparent in the main series when it becomes important. The break times have always included cannon cut content excluding the 12 petit episodes, and personally I'm thankful that this stuff is being adapted at all. Literally no other anime is getting the kind of treatment that Re:Zero gets. I don't understand why people are looking a gift horse in the mouth and complaining over 50 episodes in when the break time episodes have been a staple of the series since episode 1 of season 1. The only unfortunate thing is that Crunchyroll has not been licensing them since after season 1, so you have to look on youtube or other less reputable sites for them.
@@flyingeagle3898 if that’s the case then we will have to see what the director has planned if he wasn’t the one who planned to reveal Al’s backstory in break time.
Hey at least Al being an isekai its finally out of the bag and yeah its been on lots of content cut videos for a long time as it has changed quite a few things, and lots of people were looking for it to be revealed IN MAIN episodes like last one or this coming one. And I guess coming episode wont do it with the short doing it
i mean there will be a conversation that wont make sense if this isnt revealed, as well as another reveal later that would come out of the blue if you didnt know he was isekai'd already. lets be honest, most of the casual watchers will miss this. if they dont want to do any sort of reveal in the main episodes, those watchers will likely be a lot more confused than they should be.
I am very upset by this.
I completely understand why this info was skipped in season 1, because in 2016 they knew it would be a long time till they got a second season (if ever) so they skipped everything in arc 3 that had to do with foreshadowing, and any information that might become relevant in future arcs. It's sad that they didn't get the opportunity to reveal it then, and create the kind of references you see in one piece that are releveant much later in the story and this particular reveal would have gotten me way more invested in the re-zero world had I seen it as an anime only in season 1, but such is often the fate of book adaptations compared to manga and why it happened in season1/arc 3 is understandable. Most of the cut material/mistakes at least had the potential to be fixed in later arcs.
However, at this point in the story Al's info is absolutely 100% critical to the main story and will be extremely relevant to the end of arc 5, and not revealing it asap in that Main story is a big mistake, doing it in a Chibi short as the first animated reveal is such a poor decision that it was the subject of dark humor in the re-zero fandom as the delay kept coming, overall Whitefox is doing an above average job at adapting the LN, but for a mystery series like re-zero leaving out bits like this for so long does reduce the theorizing possible, and damage the impact of interactions between characters, and as a result damage several of the main things that draw people into the series compared to its potential. At this point the knowledge of Al's background serves as an increasingly critical basis for events leading up to the end of this arc and future arcs.
idk why they're skipping stuff as they seem to be moving through the novel chapters fairly fast relative to the episodes they have left
Oh! I love these! If you like these you can also check out Isekai Quartet. It includes Re: Zero, Konosuba, Tanya the Evil, and Ainz and crew from Overlord. Lots of cameos from other Kodakawa Isekai shows too.
I just rewatched the Season 2 break times and some beats did well in bringing further context
You should read "watching him die again and again" By Reactionist. It tells a story about the rest of the cast watching Subaru's story (including his curse and his deaths). It's truly amazing and it only covers season 1.
It's insane that the gate thing was not mentioned. Subaru is on multiple time limits here
I thought it was revealed that pretty early in Manga about his origin
love the re:zero content, great job man :)
I only watched the first season and I'm pretty sure that it was implied in the first season.
Subaru may not have get it, but the viewers did. We knew.
edit: but why in the end he says he knows "all too well"? Is he also Subaru?
It is not implied at all. anime onlys did not know, only people who read/watched cut content videos knew
when was it implied? they literally made a point to cut it because they didnt know if re zero would get another season
@@flyingeagle3898 it’s implied in that Al knew what the Kararagi accent was Kansai dialect
@@jahterminatedlmao5473 the kararagi = kansai dialect
@@jahterminatedlmao5473
"eh, kansai dialect?"
"apparently that is how kararagi people speak."
this is when anastasia introduce herself in s1 episode 13.
normal people would ask what is kansai dialect. unless kararagi dialect is called kansai too since it is on the west side of the re zero world.
time and mind are a wonder, i passed it as well, being unemployed for so long, it felt the 10 years i worked before was feeling like a lie, even having all my paychecks, pictures and videos of it.
I don't see what the big deal is. The break time episodes have always been cannon and included cut content ever since Season 1 with the exception of the 12 petit episodes in season 1. They've literally aired one after every single episode to date. This is nothing new. People should have always been watching these. Although, it's unfortunate that Crunchyroll didn't license the season 2 or 3 break time episodes, but Season 3 break time episodes are on Kadokawa's youtube channel and there is always a guy in the comments who translates the whole thing and subbed versions can be found on other less reputable sites as well. Season 2 break time epsiodes can also mostly be found on youtube with a search or other less reputable sites. If anything people should be thankful that they adapt cut content like this at all because literally no other show gets this kind of treatment. Again though, it is unfortunate that Crunchyroll has not been licensing these after season 1 though.
The big deal is that this reveal is one of the most important reveals in re:zero and most of the anime onlys will never know this detail unless told.
@@nameless8789 U just don't know how important Al is for the future content.
@@KamiChrisy It'll become apparent when it becomes important. It's not even that big of a reveal. Literally no one cares about it except for a small group of vocal novel readers.
@@nameless8789 It’s a big deal tho. How is Subaru and Al’s interaction going to make sense if this isn’t revealed in the anime? There’s a lot of sus actions from him this arc 5.
Agree 100%, that’s just the rabbit hole, shit even isekai quartet has some important re zero lore, and it is the sole source of that info. The show has basically chosen to show they knew they were both from Japan through quick interactions and phrases in episode, rather than outright exposition. It’s been that way since season 1.
Look, the funny thing will be Satella split personality reveal in a Arc 6 break time.
Don't mind chibi Tella tan tho
I thought title Al as in A.I lmao
I’m surprised this is now becoming an issue it’s been like this for all the short chibi shows they do, from this to eminence in shadows to overlord, main story stuff is told there, this is why people say things are paced badly or feel like things aren’t shown. This is just bad.
I'm glad I finally clicked on a video about this topic. I was just going to ignore it. Lots of creators have made videos about this. But I finally wanted to see what this was about. Now I get it. And I am glad I get it. I WANT to know more about things I am not being told in this story.
OH From the title, I thought this was about A i like artificial intelligence. I am so dumb lmao it took me so long to understand you were not saying that use A i for animation or something?? XD
Изначально очевидно хотели закончить на первом сезоне и потому вырезали все моменты имеющие важность в долгоиграющей перспективе. Потом решили продолжить аниме и закономерно возникли нестыковки которых было бы сложно избежать не внося еще больше изменений. Людям надо просто понимать это и радоваться что важные вырезанные детали всё-же донесли до зрителей хотя бы так.
Al being done dirty
Minor spoiler possible. The second had to do with a speculation that al could have been subaru from a failed route/timeline
I mean if you suck at thinking and didnt know al was an isekai even tho the way he talks should have hinted that since the first time they met people shouldnt be shocked its like when u see your friend go to a bakery and u see him later holding something and you guessed it was bread, well turns out it was bread, honestly i would be shocked if al wasnt an isekai
"The way he talks should have hinted that" for someone criticizing people for not being able to figure it out, you sure suck at thinking as well. At least the anime watchers had multiple reasons to not know. 1, nobody in the Re Zero world noted that Al talks weirdly nor Subaru noted that the way he talks sounds familiar. 2, They're non japanese so it's obvious they won't pick up when Al is talking in a specific japanese way to prove that he's an isekai character nor will they understand japanese idioms. 3, barely any interactions with Subaru, he appeared in 3-4 episodes in which he interacted with Subaru for like 3-4 times and never saw him again. This happened in what? 2016-2017? It's been almost a decade since we last saw him. Your bread analogy doesn't work because it assumes you saw someone going to a bakery and buying bread. Did the anime watchers see Al talking weirdly? No. With all this information at hand, why are you so shocked that the anime watchers didn't figure it out? In fact, what made you doubt that Al was an isekai character in the first place?
I knew the Al thing, but I dont think that gate thing is legit, I think its an exaggeration for the short. I have unfortunately read sooooo many spoilers and even just now I couldn't find a single person talking about it from the LNs at all anywhere. Maybe its there and not revealed but I feel like its just broken, and they did it that way... Cool about the Al part. But also I feel like Al is someone even more than just an isekai, THIS author, covering someone's face? I think it's either going to be an alternate person, different timeline someone, or someone Subaru knows from before.
Novel reader here and yes Subaru's gate is completely broken for forever
Subaru's gate is broken (back in his fight with Garfiel) and if he's away from Beatrice for too long he could die.
Now that does take quite a while, but it's true.
According to Al he covers his face because it is heavily scarred which he's insecure about.
Subaru's gate is completely smashed after using shamac in his final fight with Garfiel. Beatrice acts acts as his gate by absorbing mana from him otherwise he would eventually die from lacking an outlet.
@@luck_adiante ahhh, who knows, it's THIS author! Could be misdirection!
it's never good when Otaku Spirit starts a video with "X people are not happy right now."
I could chalk it up as JP companies not really caring about the global audience or the streaming platforms themselves that host Kadokawa's IPs not caring.
oh oh
I almost thought they would finally confirm Al is just Subaru from another timeline
idk what legs that theory has to stand on. if anyone is subaru from another timeline, its flugel, but even that is most likely a bit of a reach
@@doubleohriser I don't buy that theory for one second
I think 1 of the problems is that alot anime onlys don't also watch the break time episodes so they miss out on it entirely
What do they have to complain about then?
@Heidelmann they aren't people are becouse it's a very important detail for later in the show so they are upset/worried that people get confused/wil think it's told in terrible way becouse it was never brought up in the show itself then
I have so much ptsd as a (former) artist that I thought this video would be about something else entirely.. ugh.
Not sure if at this point we can consider Crunchyroll as a "legal platform" lol
i see what the 2nd spoiler could be. but i think that's just one of the fan theories, unconfirmed as of yet. but wow if this is how they reveal that other spoiler...
Well I got spoiled if it's true that al is... I mean they foreshadowed it at the end of breaktime...
bro... its originally revealed all the way back in arc 3, which wouldve been in season 1 had it not been cut. youre not being spoiled, if you were to be a novel reader you'd have known this ages ago. hell, even the manga adapts the scene lol (dont read the manga if youre planning on reading re:zero, its not official)
@xyouthe I'm talking about Al being Subaru from future
@@smirg2975 oh no thats just some crazy fan theory, it has basically no merit other than "oh theyre both from another world!". if we wanted to theorize about who could be subaru from another timeline, there are better candidates in-lore for that than Al. much, much better candidates...
Gate thing they should never skip it . major flot hole if they never add to the anime.
The one that angry only ln readers lol, tbh for anome viewer it's no problem
i wonder why the people who know what happens in the future would have a problem with it... i really do wonder lmao. ofc you dont have a problem with it, you have NO idea whats to come! if you knew, youd probably have some problems with it too lol. ignorance is bliss, am i right?
It pisses me off because it’s just more tappei leaving important world building in fucking side stories.
you miss the best part of it . there is dialiec speacking that subaru and A.L are the same Person . if you try to translate it in english you cannot understand it . but if try to read and write it on hiragana you know where region they live . miis that part for western people dont know about read the web novel in japanese , its no use to translate it . every dialec of region they have different type of speaking for sure A.L is a failed version or different timeline of subaru
An upset Sean chiplock posted this on his x thread.
The thing at the end is foreshadowing. That's all I'll say.
I dont think this skipped content is at the same level of the MT one, MT skips tons yes but nothing is important to the characters or plot as a whole, you miss a lot of worldbuilding and details about characters but the important things are adapted, this is way too important to skip for me at least.
I am a critic of the anime, i think is ok but i dont think that it is the master piece everyone says it is, one of the reasons is this, it depends too much on external content to complement its plot and characters, most of the people who read the novel dont care because they already know so they just fill what the anime doesnt explain with that knolowge but anime onlys might miss tons of context for not reading the novel, watching the shorts, etc etc this applies to all animes, not just Re Zero, if an anime needs you to go read or watch something else to get important info then is failing as an adaptation
Finally someone is talking about this. Al is a Subaru from an alternative timeline. It is a huge reveal.
It's a huge reveal but is it relevant to Arc 5, or Arc 3? Makes complete sense that they would write it out for now
good, anything that helps speed up the process, and keeps it out the hands of the terrible localizers.
idk why nobody complain about the isekai quartet movie that literally spoil who is Hoshin of the west.
are you dumb? Al is 100% more important to the plot than that guy catch up on the Light novel before talking non sense
Seems to be an overreaction honestly, especially since seemingly more important stuff has been cut like the end of season 2 or characters like Clind that should have shown up at season 3 episode 1.
Clind can easily be re introduced later. We dont know if the end of season 2 is gonna be plot important yet since the character in question has been relegated to side stories. The Al reveal we KNOW is super plot important. thats the difference here
The AL info is much much more important than either of those things.
I would love for them to have been adapted but they are characters/events that won't be relevant till much later in the story, and might be adapted when they become relevant. The AL info is relevant THIS ARC and serves as the first basis for understanding a ton of critical plot points at th end of arc 5 leading into all future arcs.
For the integrity of the story skipping Clind, and the end of season 2 are less important versions of cutting the Al info out of season1/arc 3 (annoying but not that important to understanding the plot)
@@jahterminatedlmao5473 @flyingeagle3898 As a fellow novel reader I have no idea why yall both think the Al info is important to the plot
@@jahterminatedlmao5473 + flyingeagle3898 As a fellow LN and WN reader I have yet to see why you guys think us knowing Al is isekaid is important to the plot
@@jahterminatedlmao5473 my comments keep getting deleted but explain why you think he's important
Lols, there are a lot of skip content video during 1 season. This was never a news to me.
I hate the rz community on twitter so much (minus the gooners, at least they are funny).
It’s just basically filled with butt hurt, spoiled and cringe Light Novel readers.
So your basic book nerd adaptation temper tantrums.
@@Heidelmann Yes, but 24/7. Makes me feel ashamed of being a novel reader sometimes
This was a truly terrible decision on whoever made the call. This exact conversation between Al and Subaru couldve been in a main episode pretty easily. yea it would be kinda out of the blue, but at least anime only viewers would know this VITAL plotpoint. Without spoiling anything, this is much more than simply characterization for Al
They can still bring it up during Subaru and Al’s convo, which would most likely happen around episode 7. It won’t be as direct and will probably be subtle, but I’m sure it’s possible if added as an anime original scene
But then we'd need half an episode explaining Al's backstory and he'd become some sort of giver or with holder of information to Subaru. The story doesn't need to put that kinda focus on Al right now.
Just gotta say Read the web novel!
It makes you feel like the anime is basically taking random big scenes with all the important inner dialogue exposition removed…
You only hear Anything explain by Betty pretty much…
It’s why I think each arc should get a season or more to incorporate all of an arc by this point of the story…
But we’ve all known all this stuff cut from the anime for 5-10 years!
But it is irritating to remember half the people watching have NO IDEA what kinds of powers the protagonist has because they’ve not heard his inner thoughts from the beginning & only heard his cringey dialogue from his first arc which contrasts his otaku realising he’s been ísèkaîed character development arc where he thinks he can Just Become the Knight without consideration for the Meaning of such titles, etc. Which… is what sets up his complex relationship with Julius back then so it can develop in this arc and the next… so This Season…
I remember so many times how people would say “man I wonder how they’re gonna handle Revealing how important a character Al is and ALL the ‘Al Is Barasu’ theories once they have to remind people of his arc 1 dialogue of being stuck for… was it 400 or 800 years he says and then explains how he spends time learning about how there must be someone before him who was from Japan because of Japanese stuff in A Place… cause that stuff comes up again in Arc 5 & having Cut Al’s Important but somewhat Distracting Major Reveal about Subaru the World & the Mystery of the few people from Japan over 800 years Is Kind of a Big Deal and NOT something you can Just Leave Out…”
Or Whatever people used to say in comments sections about this whenever talking about Later Al stuff… along with “man I feel bad for the anime only people…” etc. usually because of saying that you won’t really understand more than half of Everything going on for the whole story if you’ve not read the webnovel and lightnovel or At Least heard people talk about everything happening & the theories popular at the time & what Tappéī would confirm or deny or reveal casually in conversation somewhere…
Hehehe
It’s Chaos seeing that There REALLY ARE people having the shock to a reveal from 4 arcs earlier that never got animated… I forget what the story was but I think it was something about thinking it was distracting and only important for people ACTUALLY following the story after the anime…
Like “clearly this is Just to Promote sales of this lightnovel so… we don’t have to Actually Adapt things properly as though details will become important eventually… all the fans think he’s old failure subaru anyway so let’s Leave that scene out…”
Which if I remember right the big complaint was that when they made a version with all the deleted scenes they couldn’t include they left out this conversation entirely… & it’s probably because most of the intense stuff happens in subarau’s head Processing the information, asking more questions, learning about stuff that goes unaddressed til Arc 5 or NOW when they are just acting like we should All Already Know despite Only people that read the webnovel and/or light novel & listened to people talk about them for hours have any idea that these things Already Happened…
It’s like if you redid DBZ & cut out… Vegeta… & then have him just be the weird guy hanging at bum as house from the time he invaded Earth earlier Off Screen… : D
Well maybe it’s not THAT heavy an omission of details but… it’s like Not having Raditz talk about Saiyans at all in a DBZ remake…
“Yeah let’s NOT include these integral details connecting subaru & aldebaran because it’s Too Distracting & We don’t even know if any of that stuff will come up again! Let the other guys handle it or tell em to buy the lightnovels! Ha!”
(Or that’s how they sound in my imagination …& I’m only Half Joking…)
All we needed was a “remember what I told you when you first showed up? ” & maybe it’d have taken a minute or two but it is kind of important for reminding the people that didn’t at least listen to some reading of the lightnovel or web novel, even if it’s just your computer reading it…
There’s a Lot of tildas in arc 6 webnovel and each time it says “Tilda!” After important moments to the point of forcing oneself to ignore the word entirely to process the stuff being revealed or explained…hehe I do have concerns How they even adapt some of arc 6… I forgot how crazy arc 5 could be visually…
But man it’s good to still see the story animated fairly well where a lot of things are handled exceptionally… I just hope they don’t keep cutting all the deep headtrip moments because that’s functionally abandoning the communication of the experience of arc 6 if they continue ignoring communication of Barasu’s Thoughts!
So many moments we need the inner monologue because that how it’s done in the story…
Honestly that’s the Real Adventure is the amount of crazy headtrips this guys forced into somehow…
I actually wanna relisten to Atc 5 cause I remember less action & more processing constant revelations about countless things in such interesting ways… I can’t recall how many chapters they’ve covered and how much stuff is mashed around removed or written in to tell a slightly different version… the web novel and light novel as still different as well but I forget how many differences there are and which things since people were considering that maybe Al didn’t reveal anything yet so that it could be done in season 3 when they rewrite src 5… or something along those lines…
Now I sound like I’m having a conversation with myself so I gotta bounce hehe
wtf
As a decade long Re Zero fan who has been critical of the anime adaptation, it feels kinda vindicating that anime onlies start to realize that the complaints weren't about "wrong music being used" or "Subaru's testicles weren't in the right positions in that scene".
No, the anime has some insane cut content issues when it comes to the core mysteries of the show. It is by no means a bad adaptation. It nails the emotional story, the character development and with voiceacting it even surpasses the source material. But as a time-travel mystery it is a fucking failure of an adaptation.
The craziest part is that this is ONLY the surface when it comes to cut content. Even with just Aldebaran, this was only one of the many cut scenes and revelations that they finally added back.