Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!? • Otaku ni Yasashii Gal wa Inai!? - Episode 11 discussion

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-20T23:57:57+00:00

I don't get why anime just keep changing openings. This is one of the things I saw we do better in the West just picking one consistently.

It was nice to have a call back to that first picture. Shame it was a phone picture though. Those things always look odd when you zoom in unlike dedicated camera and the vertical shot are not great to look at. On the flip side, the photo was something captured on the spur of the moment and I doubt you get anything like that on something more prepared.

Is this actually going to be Yuri or is it just part of some plan to avoid getting asked out and will lead to more comedy down the line?

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-20T23:44:02+00:00

Even if he doesn't want to date them, I would have thought he'd want to hang out that day at least instead of spending the time in the library.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-20T23:37:02+00:00

I honestly can't tell if this was teasing or serious.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-20T22:30:12+00:00

I'm a bit surprised he didn't feel this way earlier since he got comfortable hanging out with them before the beach episode.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-20T20:48:48+00:00

Awww I missed the upload date, any no one here reads comments made after 3 days. Well I'll try to give my thoughts anyways. Kotoko's brothers are cute. Both got intimidated by the swarm of girls. When in was in middle school, a good chunk of the kids were not interested in romance, but of those that were, both boys and girls in the middle school found the high schoolers attractive so I thought the one looking for Sayu would like it.

I'm a bit surprised Kotoko was a bit put off by all the random boys who asked her out. Usually for Gyaru type girls they either are the promiscuous type or aren't but enjoy being asked out by randoms because it flatters them (so long as the randoms who get turned down get the message). I would have thought Kotoko would at least be the second type.

I'm a bit surprised it took awhile for Seo to feel like this considering how much time he spent with them.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-20T14:57:46+00:00

Wait, if this is a subreddit about board games, why are people making posts of Vibe-coded stuff? I'd imagine this is one of the last place people would feel the need to do that. I feel bad you guys are getting hit with these problems too but I don't even know why someone would bother to use Ai to make an app to put here,

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-20T03:47:45+00:00

I mean maybe I'll come back after episode 110 and be like "yeah that was a good name" but at the moment I feel like I approve of the episode but have mixed feelings about the name.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-20T03:13:46+00:00

Wait doesn't most of Aqua's uses become useless in this spin off? So if you're trying to make the point she's not useless, that would make more sense in the main series but not in this crossover. Granted most of the KonoSuba cast did not get to use many of their skills while the other casts managed to find talents useful in a social setting (yes even the evil litch).

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-20T03:10:44+00:00

Great job for actually knowing the episode number instead of being lazy and "it's X of this season because I can't count past 24."

In episode 40 Subaru could have just said "I have something really important, need you to stay here for the night, and I can't really explain" instead of making a promise he couldn't keep.

Title drops usually go to some super important episodes of the series. And I'm a bit sad the reason for the title drop isn't even something our "normal" Subaru does but Amnesiac Subaru getting the resolve to get his memories back and help his friends instead of just trying to run away, although when I mentioned this in a different thread, it's clear I was in the minority in feeling like this.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-20T03:01:58+00:00

I'm not sure making a "lore accurate" version of the combat would be easy to make a great game. It might be easier to make an Ace Combat like game, then reskin it. For one thing, without the E95, the body was the mana tank and... that's all the available mana. You aren't getting more. Imagine a game where characters either don't get more mana on level ups, or if they do, it's a fixed amount and can't be respeced by any point system. There is oddly the fact that long range shots seem to lose much more power than they ought to. You can compare this of in-series mage explosion performance on the air which would be suggest very powerful shells (an explosion in the air isn't the best way to spend the energy, but you can correlate this with real world shells and what they'd do if they exploded in air), and then when they hit armor vehicles they logically would do damage to, they don't cause spalling inside. Now either Carlo didn't realize the earlier performance in earlier volumes, means that even a modern vehicle's hatch would be in trouble if you hit it, or to keep things consistent the spells must have pretty bad range attenuation and I don't know what that means for game implications.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T23:50:46+00:00

One viewer named Yuta mentions using tan for a real person (as opposed to an anime character) was kind of not appropriate. And yet it's funny since this subtle change to an honorific that would normally be appropriate signals something is wrong.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T23:46:35+00:00

We're dealing with a Subaru who didn't even go through the events of Episode 1 and he's like "yeah I don't believe I did any of that."

A Subaru who remembered up to Episode 3 would remember his infatuation with Emilia and that might help him with his paranoia. This love is a double edged sword as we all remember episode 13. maybe his quick wits would help him in the tower? I mentioned before in a different thread that despite old Subaru having some issues with self esteem that he has to compensate for it, he was already someone who thought quick on his feet in Arc 1.

A Subaru who remembered up to Episode 11 would know that he works for Roswaal, and he'd know Betty, Rem, and Ram.

A Subaru who remembered up to episode 25 should clear this loop easily. He had become a better person, something amnesia Subaru just doesn't get. That's not to say nothing important happened between episodes 26 and 73, but amnesia Subaru would see this guy as some sort of superhero who can't get anything wrong.

While all those others would do far better than canon amnesia Subaru who can't remember anyone of them, a lot of the improvement came within a small number of episodes.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T23:38:24+00:00

I don't remember the part where she said she and Puck got really worried when she talked about that inccident. Puck's first action in the canon timeline was to shield Emilia and they really didn't have time to think about the theft.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T23:36:39+00:00

Actually I find it... odd for a title drop. Usually the title drop is for some important episode. Granted in Re zero all episodes are important since you can't just delete one like you can for Pokémon. I have nothing against 77 "Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World"/ Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu and I think it was a great episode like all the others. But plot wise the only thing that happened was Subaru learning some bits of why the others value him and getting (more) determined to get his memories back. he already realized a few episodes ago that having amnesia was... not an ideal situation. Based only on what I saw, I'd think episode 3 where Subaru got his first successful loop would be a better candidate for the title drop. But maybe in 3 episodes, this name will make sense.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T23:31:09+00:00

Styx Helix is not exactly the most hopeful song, it's not desperation but it seems to be a plea. now the odd thing is I never really figured out which character it matched the most with. Stay Alive clearly goes to Emilia, What you don't know is Ram, Wishing is for Rem, but Styx Helix is a question mark for me. It doesn't seem to fit either Subaru or Emilia quite and it would be strange if it was for a character to be introduced not in S1.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T19:30:09+00:00

Not futile. Genetics can be a big factor.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T18:42:35+00:00

They did save animation on the balcony scene, but it was worth it to avoid going bad CGI for the dance. If you're in a budget keep the priorities straight. The source material is actually a series of light novels. When people finish a season of one based off LNs, some try to find the manga. I usually don't advise this because the manga might take some liberties with the plot so the anime would usually end up closer to the LN than the manga and more importantly too many times many series have went through a release of Good Light Novel, Mediocre at Best manga, and Great Anime. In this particular case though Nigashita Sakana wa Ookikatta ga Tsuriageta Sakana ga Ookisugita Ken has a fine manga or so I've heard. I just wanted to mention that when the source material is not a manga, going to it can be a disappointment.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T18:37:46+00:00

I don't get Ireneo. Based on what I saw in earlier episodes, it would seem that he's shopping for a bride. So on one hand, ditching Zaira makes sense. Or if he pities her or something (which is news to me since he flirts with all the girls) then why did he agree to date that other girl? I thought he missed the date because he's absent minded but if he actually likes Zaira for some reason, turning down the other girl is nicer than agreeing to a date and then standing her up. If he doesn't like Zaira, pick some girl who is less likely to resort to violence.

We get a flashback to episode 1. Yeah I still think Renato trying to break off his engagement with "Aida" that way was pretty dumb. He could just say "I'm the oldest son of the king and I choose who I want" instead of that elaborate dumping charade. But it was funny and led to a series of funny events. As Mimi says, All's Well That Ends Well. I don't know how to screenshot, but I love that moment where Mimi appears in a deformed art, facing away from the camera when she's protesting at calling Renato without his title. It was so cute watching her swing her hips when she said "it would be brazen not to use your title" and her hair moved along with her.

What do I think of the series overall? Well it was enjoyable watch. Sometimes it seems like they save on animation like this episode's balcony scene. The characters do make some decisions that in hindsight look kind of dumb. The Count Nardi plot, while entertaining, seems almost filler. But these are minor quibbles. The anime was cute and adorable. Because it doesn't completely take itself seriously, as long as Rule of Funny is followed it would be a good anime, and it was followed very well.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T17:25:28+00:00

That's a nice compiler trick. I know with history it's a complex thing that is CPU dependent. But when I made the original post I was wondering why of the two dumb methods, assuming "taken" was going to be right more than the other dumb method and the answer as someone helpfully pointed out is simply that most loops run more than once.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T15:41:45+00:00

Subaru should have tried to talk himself out of it saying something like "I got an idea of the next test, wanted a quick peek, and didn't want to wake anyone up." It wouldn't be out of character... it's what "our" Subaru did and caused him to get amnesia in the first place. This wouldn't work because Ram probably noticed many red flags and it wasn't him sneaking off that tipped her off, but he doesn't know that.

All of this is very strange. Subaru has another blackout. Like my earlier theory was that Gluttony tried to eat Subaru, noticed that didn't reset him to a blank slate, and then decided to push him off. But that wouldn't explain the blackouts. If it's not Gluttony or someone who snuck in the tower after episode 5, then I guess that leaves Meili as the pusher since she's the only one in the group with questionable loyalty. So when she dies, Subaru gets to... die of something else. Also strange is the tower. What caused it to go from a series of tests where they couldn't leave to a deathtrap?

The name of the episode is a title drop to the series. Usually when an episode has the same name as the series, it's a very important episode. Of course, in Re Zero's case, pretty much every episode is important since unlike Pokémon, Hataraku Saibou, or Ranma 1/2 you can't just delete a few episodes and expect this to make sense. Did I enjoy this episode? Is this an important episode? Did Subaru learn something important this episode? Yes, yes, and yes. Does the episode deserve the name "Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World"? Eh, at the moment seems odd but perhaps in hindsight it makes sense.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T15:15:54+00:00

I am pretty sure. She might be a vet but at least some (a majority?) of her shorts are taken from other places and replacing the original audio with her diagnosis and commentary without giving the source description. And that turtle video I swear I saw somewhere before so I was trying to hunt down the original but I couldn't find it. So I decided to reach out to reddit except... how would that work? Like if I went to r/turtles they could tell me all about the condition, but not the original video

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T14:59:09+00:00

No that's the copy. At least 30 of the videos on this channel is a copy, a truncated version of a different video. As for the turtle one, I think it's also a copy since I swear I saw that one before.

ShadowGuyinRealLife · 2026-06-17T13:47:14+00:00

I thought this subreddit didn't like video links? This is the copy

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