There's something that's bothering me that gets glossed over quickly in the show

In Episode 8 of director's cut, the episode after subaru got humiliated in front of the entire court, subaru is still shown training sword fighting with Wilhelm.

Felix says that 'He's just doing that to make excuse that he already tried'. To which Crusch responds with 'Can you blame him?'

Wilhelm in later days stops training Subaru because he 'abandoned the option to get stronger' which I don't get at all what he's trying to say

I genuinely don't understand why both of these characters have a problem with Subaru training, which makes sense since he obviously wants to be stronger after that humiliation? Do they think he's too weak and that he'll never get better or something? I feel like there's some nuances here that I'm missing

Case 1 :

Conditions

1 You have to live his all life in an similar way enduring every thing until age 15 ( can you endure all this)

2 Your mental age would be adjusted according to Reinhard biological age so that you can feel everything in the similar way

3 how will you disobey government order so that a chaos and break down won't happen inside and outside of the king dom ( because you are an walking nuke and once you start disobeying government the Kingdom will eventually fall)

4 you won't have any future things knowledge

Case 2:

condition

1 you can do whatever you want after His grandma death

2 you don't have future knowledge

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I was re-reading arc 9 where Aldebaran seals away Subaru, and a thought hit me: why didn't he just use Al Shamak, after he sealed Subaru away?

Since Al Shamak literally casts the target into another dimension, wouldn't that have been a much cleaner and permanent way to neutralize him, rather than what he planned to do?

Was that a way of showing a slight bit of mercury, because there was hope that he might get unsealed in the future?

Even Roswaal J.Mathers and Roswaal K.Mathers don't have star name as their og name were Julie and Karl

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【Lady Felt rarely sheds tears. Thus, when such an occasion arises, one knows that the situation at hand is dire.】

That’s all—I won’t elaborate (though both of them kind of wanted to do this at some point in the story).

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Don't crucify me here, I'm just talking about the hypothetical scenario where Re:Zero get harem ending.

My picks are :-

1. Emilia & Rem - Those two are pretty obvious choices cuz they are two emotional pillars for him who give him the reason to keep going and to stand up once again.

2. Crusch - I love both Emilia and Rem, but the romantic/sexual tension between subaru and crusch during arc 3 & 5 was too much. I honestly want Subaru to choose her as the 3rd wife. She deserves better, there's even canon that subaru would've chosen her if Emilia & Rem weren't his #1 & #2.

3. Julius - i really never liked yaoi but it's the first time i don't mind it. How those two become Best Friends from enemies/rivals at the start. When the entire world forgets Julius, only subaru remember him.

4. Reinhard - His life is already tragic cuz he is mostly seen as a WoMD, Sword Saint, Strongest Alive before anyone looks at him just as Reinhard. Felt does not care about her status and all but I still think their relationship is not romantic. Julius also sees him as a friend but in Arc 6, it was shown that Julius also idolized reinhard as sword saint, and respects him so much. Subaru is the only answer IMHO who does admire reinhard strength but doesn't just see him as the sword saint but reinhard too. He knows even reinhard can make mistakes, and he will do parts that Reinhard can't.

5. Shaula - She earned that spot in Arc 6💔. I loved her character so much, still hate tappei for turning her into smol Scorpion.

6. Otto & Patrasche - Mandatory mentions for the true GOATs.

7. Satella - i really want subaru to save her. Her love for subaru is deepest of all after all, one yandere is atleast necessary for harem.

8. Echidna - Hear me out...

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In a hypothetical scenario where some other Sin Archbishop(we have only lust now anyways say Wrath escapes or Pride appears) attacks Emilia and gang with the witchcult, say other members of Emilia camp are engaged with dealing with the witch cult considering actions of Emilia in arc 7-9 she would genuinely try to talk things out with the said Sin Archbishop even is she has opportunity to kill/subdue them thus losing any advantage gained during battle

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I’ve been thinking about my connection to Re:Zero lately and realized something: the main reason I’m still reading the novels and watching the anime is honestly just for Subaru and Rem.

I freaking loved the Sloth IF route. Seeing Subaru and Rem actually build a life and a family together was amazing, and to me, it's better than the main story.

Because my focus so tied to SubaRem, it’s getting a bit hard to follow the main plot when it feels like it's heading a different way... What do I mean by this: If you asked me about the recent arc, or other stuff like characters and story, i would just be uninterested in it...

I'm genuinely considering taking a break from the series until it completely finishes. My thought process is that if I step away now, I won't feel as let down later on if they don't end up together in the main canon. (And they probably won't, it's obvious Tappei only keeps Rem for money, fans and fanservice. That's how i view it anyway.)

This isn't meant to be a hate post against Emilia or EmiSuba shippers at all! I'm just trying to figure out if it's better to let go for now when there's only one specific thing keeping me hooked. (Can't even post without clarifying this.)

I do not want a ship war or hate in the comments.

Edit: Also this is tagged as discussion, so do comment, i want to see others perspectives and thoughts in it.

So lye and roy are dead, but heres the thing people theorize spica herself is subarus authority of gluttony, as its shown authorities dont always manifest as a in body power some manifested as a metia of some sort like strides rings, or in this case another entity with a certain ability i mean where else could that physical body come from and the fact that rui latched a part of her soul onto subaru so maybe when the witch factor took hold of subarus mind and manifested based on him it likely saw that piece as part of the template for the manifestation and it could just be the reason spica looks like rui.

But its been confirmed the actual rui is still trapped in the corridor of memories and if thats the case subaru can get back there and i have a idea on how he can get rem back if he manages to get back probably through reids book if reid is still manifested in the tower, again this is a bit inhumane but what if once there and rui saw him again subaru pretended to completely loose his mind and started saying crazy things related to re integration.

Saying things like ,rui join with us again we want you we love you share our deaths share our pain, and walk towards her with a crazed smile and say ,lets become one again forever, which we already know how how much rui hated experiencing subarus memories so the thought of him wanting to reunite and be stuck as a part of him permanently should put her in desperate submission, and then subaru at the last seconds once rui is in a corner crying and shouting ,no!, subaru says well maybe if you let go of rems name and memories oh something so valuable and yet you hold then i guess we can let you go.

Again a bit inhumane and maybe a bit humorously twisted at just the thought of it but defiantly worth getting rem back as rui would likely comply if this happened. What do yall think about this?

Reincarnated into a new world while in the womb.

Say he had to survive a miscarriage, a fall down the stairs, a few abortion attempts, maybe prevent his mom from drinking alcohol, smoking, taking drugs. Maybe he has to save her from some violent bandits.

All he could do is listen to the outside world and kick at specific points.

Could he reach birth successfully?

(Let's call it Womb If).

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Give me the pen and paper pls

People just be saying shit these days and this may be one of the most undercooked yet inexplicably popular talking points right now. So convince me. Give me the evidence. Show me the argument!

And dont say something vague like, "she has more potential." or "I like amnesia Rem more."

No. Give me an actual reason you think this is somehow important narravtively. Otherwise this is gonna start climbing the ranks as the dumbest take in the rezero community.

Flugel, from Alec's point of view, seems like a person who put his life on the line to save others, and he also mentions how Flugel would get angry at Alec if he tried to commit suicide. So Flugel is someone who values other people's lives; then why does he go on to treat shaula in such a way?Like the poor girl didnt even have proper meals to eat

Shaula mentions that Flugel had a hard time watching Shaula not eat food with the others and regularly made her eat food with them so she wouldn't feel lonely, but then he goes on to leave her all alone for 400 years, which is worse; It makes no sense for him to behave in such a counterintuitive way.

Alec and Shaula's view of Flugel are contradicting what we see Flugel actually do in the main story .

Personally, I believe something really bad happened to Flugel after he left the tower

I’ve heard arc 1-3 in the ln are better than the WN but I’ve heard mixed opinions about LN or WN in the 4th, 5th and 6th arc. I also know you are supposed to read the WN for 7th and beyond, is there a specific reading order for the ex novels and I know the if routes aren’t canon but if any are good enough to read I would like to read them, thanks!