Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu:
Story & Writing:
Re:Zero is to isekai anime what Evangelion is to mecha anime.
I fucking love Re:Zero. I love it to bits and pieces. It's an amazing thriller slash murder mystery, both of which I'm a huge stickler for. It's cool, dark, edgy, and exciting. It may not be for everyone, but to me it's the best kind of story: a story of blood, gore, violence, suffering, pain, kindness, courage, acceptance, growth, and ultimately, love. It is not afraid to fuck with its characters, to trample all over them and smash them into a bloody pulp and let them learn and grow from that torture.
Re:Zero writing follows the first maxim of good writing: "show not tell." A large part of its story is told through the characters' subtle actions or way of speaking, and there are numerous things that can be discerned about a character's personality and mental state just from their actions and interactions with other characters. Foreshadowing is always present, and clues are gradually revealed in such a way that if the viewer has been actively thinking, they may arrive at many correct answers. Good stuff.
On the flip side, there are some gripes I have with Re:Zero. One of them is how, due to the story's structure, the viewer may feel as if the story is not moving anywhere. After each death, the timeline resets and it's back to the same settings and characters as before. Although a LOT of things has happened, because the settings and characters are still the same each round, I sometimes get the illusion that the story has not moved anywhere. It does not help that some arcs drag on for maybe a bit too long. This series loves faking you out with unending plot twists and while this keeps the story interesting and unpredictable, just as how too many cooks may spoil the broth, too many plot twists may make the audience stop caring entirely about anything that happens.
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Also, some characters did not get the proper character development or screentime that they needed. For some strange reason, Emilia, the root of all of Subaru's actions, get surprisingly little screen time and development relative to Rem. Also, Ram just feels neglected as a character, and strangely only her twin sister gets the spotlight. I don't know why the series is so obsessed with Rem, but I love Ram too, and she needs an entire arc dedicated to her and her only.
End of spoiler paragraph]
Art:
White Fox did an amazing job with the animation and bright color palette, and everything in Re:Zero looks vibrant and visually pleasing. Here the colors amazingly pop in a way that I rarely see in other anime.
Sound:
The soundtrack is goddamn amazing. Re:Zero's soundtrack is one of the rare anime OSTs that have managed to stick with me for days on end, to make me go on youtube and actively search out the most memorable tracks. The bass-heavy, psycho trance tracks by Myth&Roid fit this series like a fucking glove, and it would not be the same work without those tracks.
Enjoyment:
10/10 I was on the edge of seat the whole time.
Overall:
10/10
Story & Writing:
Re:Zero is to isekai anime what Evangelion is to mecha anime.
I fucking love Re:Zero. I love it to bits and pieces. It's an amazing thriller slash murder mystery, both of which I'm a huge stickler for. It's cool, dark, edgy, and exciting. It may not be for everyone, but to me it's the best kind of story: a story of blood, gore, violence, suffering, pain, kindness, courage, acceptance, growth, and ultimately, love. It is not afraid to fuck with its characters, to trample all over them and smash them into a bloody pulp and let them learn and grow from that torture.
Re:Zero writing follows the first maxim of good writing: "show not tell." A large part of its story is told through the characters' subtle actions or way of speaking, and there are numerous things that can be discerned about a character's personality and mental state just from their actions and interactions with other characters. Foreshadowing is always present, and clues are gradually revealed in such a way that if the viewer has been actively thinking, they may arrive at many correct answers. Good stuff.
On the flip side, there are some gripes I have with Re:Zero. One of them is how, due to the story's structure, the viewer may feel as if the story is not moving anywhere. After each death, the timeline resets and it's back to the same settings and characters as before. Although a LOT of things has happened, because the settings and characters are still the same each round, I sometimes get the illusion that the story has not moved anywhere. It does not help that some arcs drag on for maybe a bit too long. This series loves faking you out with unending plot twists and while this keeps the story interesting and unpredictable, just as how too many cooks may spoil the broth, too many plot twists may make the audience stop caring entirely about anything that happens.
[Spoiler paragraph:
Also, some characters did not get the proper character development or screentime that they needed. For some strange reason, Emilia, the root of all of Subaru's actions, get surprisingly little screen time and development relative to Rem. Also, Ram just feels neglected as a character, and strangely only her twin sister gets the spotlight. I don't know why the series is so obsessed with Rem, but I love Ram too, and she needs an entire arc dedicated to her and her only.
End of spoiler paragraph]
Art:
White Fox did an amazing job with the animation and bright color palette, and everything in Re:Zero looks vibrant and visually pleasing. Here the colors amazingly pop in a way that I rarely see in other anime.
Sound:
The soundtrack is goddamn amazing. Re:Zero's soundtrack is one of the rare anime OSTs that have managed to stick with me for days on end, to make me go on youtube and actively search out the most memorable tracks. The bass-heavy, psycho trance tracks by Myth&Roid fit this series like a fucking glove, and it would not be the same work without those tracks.
Enjoyment:
10/10 I was on the edge of seat the whole time.
Overall:
10/10
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