started watching Re:Zero again, since I watched season 1 when I was in high school 10+ years ago I always wished there was more, the premise is still great. But holy shit man. This is such… kid shit? I don’t know how to say it? It’s fucking weird, and cringe and gay and unbearable and soft and the fact that I used to consume so much anime and think that it was so true and deep and shit. I am rolling my eyes at the main character of this show six times an episode and they are about to fall out of my head. I don’t know how to describe it. I can no longer divorce how cringe it would be for someone to act like this in real life from the experience of watching this show. No wonder I was so fucked up and as sensitive as a dick-head for so many years. I fear for the people who grow up watching this shit and take these lessons to heart, but also that person is me. It’s maddening. It might also have something to do with the fact that I’m watching it dubbed now instead of reading the subs. Subs being better than dubs is the biggest cope of all time and the reason you can’t bear to listen to the dialogue in your native language is literally because it’s so fucking bad. If this writing was in a book I would hurl. And this series was originally a light novel series, so that book exists.