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Welcome! Today’s post is a rather extensive list of Re: Zero anime characters and their MBTI types. A few minor characters have been left out, such as Subaru’s…
Re: Zero – 44 – Prediction of a Happy Future
Lil’ Lia is all alone when Pandora approaches her. With Kugimiya Rie’s soft, sweet yet oddly menacing voice, Pandora begins the mind games, thanking Lia for bringing the…
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Re: Zero – 53 – Wife Guys
When Regulus arrives to steal Emilia as his wife, Sirius doesn’t take kindly to his interrupting and attacks him with her flames, to no avail. Despite knowing Sirius,…
Re: Zero – 58 – Speak Now …
With the spirits of the townsfolk lifted, it’s Meeting Time for the allied succession camps. Otto informs everyone he knows where the Tome of Wisdom—one of the Witch’s…
Re: Zero – 42 – Memory Spring
Echidna accompanies Emilia into her recently unsealed memories, ever ready for stinging vitriol (she really is notably more hostile to Emilia than Subaru…but that would be Envy, not Greed!). …
Re: Zero – 48 – Crunch Time
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Re: Zero – 65 – Grand Banquet
We’ve still got three Sin Archbishops running around chewing the scenery, including the Gluttony Twins, Roy and Lye. Roy is the better dressed of the two but is…
Re: Zero – 52 – The Homewrecker
When Subaru Returns by Death and processes what’s happened, and everyone notices that in those few moments he looks a bit off. He’s able to shift his expression…
Re: Zero – 28 – Desirable Existence
Subaru agrees to join Echidna for her “tea party” and brusquely gulps down the contents of the cup, which she identifies as “a body fluid of mine.” From…
Re: Zero – 35 – Trust the Process
As Subaru races to the mansion to try to head off Satella, Garfiel informs them that he’s only alive thanks to Ram’s wind. It blasted him up into…
Re: Zero – 55 – The Little King
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Re: Zero – 45 – Weakness vs. Strength
This week stretched my patience for looking back by providing yet another flashback within a flashback, namely the time a suffering young Roswaal met Echida, who literally sucked his…
Re: Zero – 57 – Don’t Look Down
This week Re:Zero tables the dread and suffering and instead serves up pretty much an entire episode full of hope, comfort, and relief. That starts with the fact Al…
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Re: Zero – 30 – Partners in Crime
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Re: Zero – 63 – Time to Choose
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Re: Zero – 49 – Every Moment Matters
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Re: Zero – 41 – The Purrfect Loser
Years ago, Garfiel attempted and failed the trial, and smashed his head against a column, causing the scar he wears to this day. He is the final obstacle…
Re: Zero – 43 – Run Lia Run
From last week’s cliffhanger with Regulus we take a brief detour to a weakening Ryuzu Shima tell Subaru & Co. a tale about her progenitor, Ryuzu Meyer, who…
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Re: Zero – 33 – The Witch of Greed
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Re: Zero – 47 – Seeing the Job Through
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Re: Zero – 54 – Get Up and Fight
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Re: Zero – 60 – The Little Time King
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Re: Zero – 40 – Her Most Precious Feeling
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Re: Zero – 56 – Swaying on the Water’s Surface
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Re: Zero – 38 – The Starting Line of Resolve
Just as Subaru is dealing with Echidna’s apparent heel turn, along with the antics of all the other whimsical witches, Satella shuffles back into his presence, forever enrobed…
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When Beatrice grants Subaru access to her library and starts to heal him, he panics, just as I would if I realized I’d just overwritten a saved game…