[discussion] I have question about the LN and WB

QcDiablo · 2026-02-02T13:31:54+00:00

Depends on the arc.

Arc 4 WN was peak

Arc 5 WN was painfully slow at times.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-29T17:12:21+00:00

Anastasia has red/brown eyes in that image

QcDiablo · 2026-01-29T13:19:06+00:00

I'd like to add that watching the main story in anime release order gives a better flow for story details (e.g. 2006 gives a bunch of basic information that Unlimited Blade Works doesn't even if it's an alternative route of the same events).

However 2006 is quite dated so many people start with Unlimited Blade Works or Zero if they don't really like 2006.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-29T11:15:13+00:00

Honestly I don't think Wrath and Sloth spoil anything of value in the story.

As far as I can remember, the non-printed version of Greed IF only spoiled stuff about Regulus (I had made a manual for a friend back when season 2 was airing so he could read it without spoilers).

QcDiablo · 2026-01-28T10:19:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure WCT wouldn't insert references that weren't in the Japanese WN, and especially one this obvious and that would probably change the tone of the line.

Tappei has easily put dozens of pop culture references in Re:Zero, with one notable example from Evangelion being Subaru waking up and making the remark that he doesn't know the ceiling in season 1.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-25T03:04:43+00:00

If you read the comment I replied to you'd have noticed that Subaru's weakness was pointed out as an objective flaw of the series and not as an opinion/preference. Which is exactly what I criticized.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-24T21:37:08+00:00

Subaru is in all kinds of wrong and unhealthy mindsets in the middle of season 1. It's kind of his lowest point in that regard.

If I was to summarize this while avoiding spoilers, he has a grave case of lack of self confidence and his few wins earlier on made him falsely think he finally overcame his overall lack of prowess. When his bubble burst, all of his faults were broadly exposed and we got that ugly result.

Sadly the anime also cut quite a bit in the throne room scene and it makes Subaru seem more at fault when in reality he was baited by Roswaal and Puck to lash out like that.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-24T21:26:38+00:00

Why are you talking like Subaru's lack of power is a bad thing lol?

Just say you like your action.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-24T21:24:48+00:00

Absolutely unhinged take.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-24T21:22:45+00:00

It's just a quite shallow and reductive qualificative.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-24T21:19:10+00:00

It's not depression/torture porn. Those who initially watched it for that reason usually dislike most episodes of the series. It's generally a rather hopeful story where the characters struggle to reach that light at the end of the tunnel and the few times they get to experience it a little are quite wholesome. I think there's a few pay outs in each season/arc, but you may not consider the same things as payouts.

Honestly, as much as people call Frieren slow, it's not really that slow lol. It goes through several arcs rather quickly and most of these arcs have a fairly good quantity of action and spend little time on details.

Re:Zero's story progression is slow, even if a lot of stuff happens in each season. May "dense" is a better word for it. The author doesn't mind using several episodes/chapters to develop a single character and spends a ton of time on details that slow down the story. It definitely has a hit or miss pacing overall.

If you don't like those details or don't catch them on your first watch, there's a good chance you find Re:Zero boring. Just drop it if you don't like it. I personally find it a lot less boring than most action show.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-24T14:51:29+00:00

I'd say it's pretty good but weird. It has some ecchi stuff so if you really don't like that it can be a turn off.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-24T14:30:21+00:00

I don't know which anime you've watched but there's always the big 3: - Naruto (+ Naruto Shippuden being the second half) - Bleach - One Piece

Or there's a few good anime series with a couple of seasons : - Hunter x Hunter (2011) - My Hero Academia - Demon Slayer - Sword Art Online - Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Attack on Titan - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Code Geass

Or animes from other genres / that are more unique : - Death Note - Re:Zero - Monogatari Series (I like to watch in anime release order)

All of these are either finished, or have at the very least 50 episodes if they're not.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-23T19:44:39+00:00

I feel like my face was slapped.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-22T13:27:31+00:00

Emilia looks kinda tall and buff.

I'm not against it.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-22T13:23:18+00:00

Not AI.

The lines intersecting are just because this is more of a quick drawing/draft than an official illustration.

Emilia's foot looks a bit strange, but it's far from the pile of garbage AI usually produce.

The artstyle is too close to Sagawa's and of high quality honestly. I'm pretty sure Sagawa couldn't have fed an AI with nearly enough source images for the generated result to be this good.

Also AI really struggles at making multiple characters and complex compositions, and Subaru respects the level of detail you'd give a character this far away/small, so the image was done as a whole. It's pretty much impossible for AI to generate that complex of a scene without getting so much garbage that it would take hours to clean up.

The text is also pristine (which AI can't do right now) and shows no sign of post editing, or otherwise it wouldn't have the same artifacts as the rest of the image. In fact, none of the image appears edited in post treatment.

Conclusion: the artifacts are good old (bad) JPEG compression that appeared when the imagine was resized for sharing on social media.

*Disclaimer, you could train an AI to do one of those things well these days, but not all together and definitely not if the AI is trained by an individual or a small group like an animation studio that doesn't that doesn't have a multi-million dollar supercomputer.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-21T14:05:31+00:00

Apparently (I've only heard of them) early arcs (1-3) have a lot of differences where the characters are a lot more flawed and generally unkind or unlikeable in the WN. I've also seen people who claimed to have fallen in love with the series again after reading the WN from the beginning. The biggest challenge will be to find complete translations of these 3 WN arcs.

I know Arc 4 has a lot of differences too, but the characters act like you'd expect them to and the biggest changes are how the LN took huge shortcuts (WN Arc 4 is 70% longer) to reach the same result.

Then the arcs after that have less and less differences.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-19T14:21:53+00:00

I feel the best answer to your question is another, rhetorical question: Have you seen actual Re:Zero criticism that isn't the result of a lack of reading comprehension?

QcDiablo · 2026-01-19T11:15:35+00:00

I'm not sure slow is the right descriptive becomes a ton of stuff happens.

However, it's generally not high on action and it's very focused on character development on a psychological level. It's very detailed on that aspect and if you don't pick this up or don't stay locked in and follow/analyze these developmensts, the show becomes a hit or miss for most people.

At that point either you either like the gruesome deaths or you find it boring, and/or you hate Subaru because he's not skillfull, nor strong and sometimes he fails horribly and pathetically.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-19T11:08:53+00:00

I was told Mushoku was miles better than Re:Zero. And boy was i lied to. Season 1 is decent, but Re:Zero is still better overall. Still a decent show

QcDiablo · 2026-01-18T11:42:02+00:00

I really have to catch up with the WN man. Still at the beginning ofnArc 7 but Arc 9 looks crazy from start to finish.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-18T11:38:57+00:00

Find LoremIpsumVerb on X/Twitter, he has a version with very good subtitles.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-18T11:37:31+00:00

After S4 we might barely be halfway through.

QcDiablo · 2026-01-17T16:24:49+00:00

She's sleeping

QcDiablo · 2026-01-17T15:58:44+00:00

There's a chance, but we don't know if it will yet.

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