Re:Zero Season 4 Part 2: Japanese Fans Brace for the "Hell" Ahead — "As If Everything Until Now Wasn't Already Hell"
リゼロ4期2クール目は「地獄」、日本のファンの反応—「まるでいままでが地獄じゃなかったような言い方だ」
“The way they put it, like everything up to now wasn't already hell.”
まるでいままでが地獄じゃなかったような言い方だ
Re:Zero Season 4's second cour is being billed as the show's most brutal stretch yet, and the top Japanese comments answered with the franchise's signature mix of dread and dark comedy. The most-liked reply just deadpanned that calling it 'hell' implies the rest wasn't — and from there fans spiraled into Re:Zero's own coping meme, announcing they were off to 'go wash a cup' to escape the despair. Web-novel readers quietly raised the stakes (one says Subaru death-loops 25 times in this arc), fans clocked that the pile under everyone's feet in the key visual is a mountain of Subaru's corpses, and through all of it the verdict held: this is going to be the most thrilling cour they've ever watched. The closing mood, after all the suffering: someone, please just apologize to Subaru.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 134)
- @白影眷-x7i👍 16
And that's exactly what makes it great. This is hands-down going to be the most thrilling cour yet.
だからこそ面白いよね 間違いなく過去一胸熱なクールになる
- @ユフィール👍 4
A hellish first half that's way too heavy to just be the appetizer.
地獄のような前半が前菜にしては重すぎだよ。
- @アカナシ-y1y👍 1
Up to now was a living hell. What's coming is a dying hell.
今までが生き地獄。 これからが死に地獄
- @Hamu-Hamu.👍 160
In the web novel, Subaru explains the situation at the tower is about as bad as having all four corners taken from you in Othello.
ウェブなろうで塔の状況は、 オセロで角4つを取られた状態くらい悪いってスバルが説明してたね
- @なお30アラサー👍 0
Sin Archbishops plus Reinhard — yeah, it's like an Othello game where all four corners are already gone, huh?
大罪司教とラインハルトとかオセロで角を四つ取られてるみたいな状況だな？
- @crew-o1z👍 9
There are people out there who win with only the four corners left, so we're fine.
世の中には角4つだけ残して勝つ奴もいるから大丈夫だな
- @自認タコピーだっぴwww👍 65
Even Petelgeuse would crack a smile at this one.
これにはペテさんもニッコリ
- @デュフデュフフ👍 67
No way… I'm gonna go wash a cup.
まじか、、、 コップ洗いに行ってくるわ
- @m鼻毛-l5g👍 65
Wait, it's over already? Gotta hurry and go wash a cup.
え、もう終わっちゃったんだ、 早くコップ洗わなきゃ、
- @ゆゆゆ-c7m6👍 4
The lesson Subaru left us: 'You've got to wash your cups properly.'
スバルが私達に残した教訓｢コップはちゃんと洗わなきゃ｣
- @shinーノミ以下さん推し👍 3
Mom's already washing it.
もう母さんが洗ってるぞ
- @ろいどみく👍 2
I already washed it. You were too late…
もう私が洗っちゃったよ。君は遅すぎたんだよ…
- @ドップラー効果3世👍 27
Once the Re:Zero supply runs dry, how am I even supposed to keep living 😢
リゼロ供給がなくなったらどうやって生きていけば良いんだ😢
- @かまらまら👍 20
It only really begins after he racks up 2+ kills in episode one.
1話で2キル以上してからが本番
- @こうちん-k3q👍 2
Apparently he loops back 25 times this time around, so it's the stuff of total breakdowns.
今回25回は戻るらしいから発狂ものですね。
- @まるん-v5t👍 5
Probably around the middle of the second half. Episode 4 or 5 of the Recovery arc, maybe?
たぶん後半の半分ぐらい。 奪還編4話か5話かな？
- @東方とアンテ好き-m7z6k👍 36
The spot where Emilia and the others are sitting is all Subaru's corpses — so does that mean Subaru dies as many times as there are bodies?
このエミリアたちが座ってる所全部スバルの死体だからもしかしてこの死体分スバルは死ぬのかな？
- @先読みの防人👍 0
The moment you realize the pile under everyone's feet in the key visual is a mountain of Subaru's corpses, you can already sense how much hell is coming.
キービジュでみんなの足元にあるのがスバルのﾀﾋ体の山な時点でこの先の地獄具合が伺える
- @タコピー-r3b👍 37
Telling a Subaru in that state to 'stand up' is just next-level……
そんなスバルに対して「立ちなさい」って言うのはもうさすがすぎる……
- @raguncnnkk👍 0
Our Subaru, fully locked in and resolved, is not about to break.
覚悟ガンギマった俺達のスバルが折れるわけがない
- @nyankorou👍 0
But we probably get to see Ram at her strongest next cour, so I'm super excited!!
でもおそらく次のクールで最強ラムが観れるからめっちゃ楽しみ！！
- @クレイジーラビット👍 0
Classic Nagatsuki — so heartless that 'the one-eyed cat' starts to look cute by comparison; he's gone past brutal into outright evil.
流石長月人の心が無い単眼猫が可愛く思える位に鬼畜通り越して邪悪過ぎる
- @沙花叉飼育員になりたい👍 1
You don't get told 'I love you' this much by Rie Takahashi very often — good for you, Subaru!!
りえりーにこんなに愛してるっていわれる機会ないんだぞ、よかったなスバル！！
- @海莉-abc👍 0
Someone just apologize to Subaru already.
もうスバルくんに謝って
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