Re:Zero Season 4 Recovery Arc Key Visual: Japanese Fans React — "Everyone's Poses Are Based on Zodiac Signs"
リゼロ4期 奪還編キービジュアルに日本のファン反応—「全員のポーズが星座」
“Lye, Louis and Roy — every single one of their poses is a zodiac sign.”
ライルイロイ、全員ポーズが星座
Re:Zero Season 4 revealed the key visual for its Recovery arc, and the most-liked Japanese comment flagged a detail nobody else caught: the characters' poses are all supposedly based on zodiac signs. From there the thread split three ways — people squinting to actually verify the constellations, fans calling the composition too cool to follow such a brutal cour ending (with a real lump in the throat over the Episode 77 title callback), and a running gag about Reid fighting with giant chopsticks and his suspiciously gleaming pecs. Under it all, the usual Re:Zero dread: someone volunteered to collect Subaru's bones for him.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 148)
- @ダイコン神👍 14
Wait, what do you mean? I like to think I know my constellations and I still don't get it.
どういうこと？ 星座詳しい自認なのによくわからん
- @アルファ-l4y👍 4
They don't really look like their supposed motif constellations, though. Maybe there's something else to it?
それぞれのモチーフの星座には見えないよね。他になんかあるのかな？
- @kawa-o2p👍 110
After the way that cour ended, this key visual is just too cool, man.
あの終わり方の後でこのキービジュアルはかっこよすぎるて、
- @Aa-gv4yr👍 78
That ending was way too hype.
終わり方熱すぎた
- @koyo-if👍 9
Honestly, Subaru's starting to look so damn cool!
ほんと、スバルがめっちゃカッコよく見えてくる！
- @レイヴンアーリア👍 3
The look on Emilia's face when the wreck of a Subaru steels himself and becomes Natsuki Subaru again really got me. That surge of 'Emilia's — and our — Natsuki Subaru is BACK!' is unbeatable.
残骸スバルが決意して、ナツキ・スバルに戻ったときのエミリアたんの表情にもぐっときた エミリアたんの、そして私たちのナツキ・スバルが戻ってきたッ！っていう熱量がたまらない
- @グロシ-x2p👍 39
If Season 4 gets a popularity poll, I'm dead certain Episode 77 takes number one. The contrast between Season 1 Episode 3's 'Starting Life in Another World from Zero' and this arc's 'Re:Starting Life in Another World' hits so hard.
4期で人気投票あるなら77話が1位を取るという絶対的な自信がある 1期3話の『ゼロから始まる異世界生活』と今回の『Re:ゼロから始まる異世界生活』との対比にグッとくる
- @かずま-r6b👍 14
The title callback was so perfect I cried for the first time since Subaru's family flashback arc 😭
タイトル回収が完璧過ぎてスバルの家族の回想編以来泣いた😭
- @inveinve-n2x👍 98
Now that someone pointed it out, the chopsticks are enormous — I lost it lol.
言われて見たら箸めっちゃデカくて笑った
- @野獣先輩は男の娘👍 10
Chopsticks or a sword, his skill's exactly the same, as usual.
箸でも剣でも実力変わらない定期
- @tellmo5154👍 0
Once I noticed Julius in the back is slashing at empty air but getting blocked by Reid's chopsticks, the weirdness started winning out over the coolness for me.
後ろのユリウスが何もないとこ切ってるのにレイドの箸に止められてるのに気付いてから、なんか格好良さより違和感が勝るようになってしまった
- @ああああああいいいいう👍 5
They probably swapped him over to Chinese-style chopsticks.
中国の箸に変えたんだろうな
- @野獣先輩は男の娘👍 155
Reid's pecs are absolutely gleaming, lmao.
B地区ピッカピカで草
- @ぽいぽい-c5l👍 19
And there it is — Reid's glowing pecs.
そして光るレイドのB地区
- @よく寝る育つ👍 22
The heroine holding her sword at the ready in the back is adorable.
後ろで剣を構えてるヒロイン可愛いですね。
- @ミリアラ-h4j👍 7
This is where big sis Ram's one-woman rampage begins — I'm so excited 😊
ここからラム姉様の無双が始まるすごく楽しみだ😊
- @グミさん-t6w👍 0
Please, I want Oni-mode Ram's fight scenes drawn with even better animation than Garfiel's back in Season 3.
鬼化ラムのバトルシーンは頼むから三期のガーフィルの時より神作画でみたい
- @シャバさ👍 4
So Gluttony really is coming after all, huh.
やっぱり暴食きてるんだな
- @KKCoGn6x👍 1
Wait, Gluttony's involved?! Now that I think about it, the way Subaru talked back in the archive did kind of feel like it!
てか暴食関係するんだ！確かに書庫の時のスバルの喋り方それっぽかったかも！
- @シロクロ-u4u👍 6
I genuinely want to make every last one of them read Subaru's Tome of the Dead.
マジで全員にスバルの死者の書読ませたい
- @ぷっさん-g1n👍 1
Everyone's alive because of Subaru and not a single one of them knows it — will the day ever come when he actually gets rewarded?
みんなスバルのおかげで生きてるのに誰も知らないなんてスバルが報われる日はくるのだろうか
- @enrou-wolf👍 1
So Subaru himself is the one doing the 'climb over my corpse!' leap this time, huh.
スバル自身が、俺の屍を越えて行け！のジャンプか。
- @白影眷-x7i👍 2
This is it!! THIS is where Re:Zero really kicks off!! The back half is stacked with hype moments, I genuinely can't wait!!! Subaru, Julius, Ram — all of them are at their absolute coolest!! There's a wild surprise appearance too, I can't take it!!
こっから!!こっからよぉリゼロは!! 後半戦は胸熱的な展開がめっっちゃ多いからまじ楽しみだ!!! スバルもユリウスもラムも最高にかっこいい!!あまりにもサプライズな登場もあるし待ちきれん!!
- @nodax-wx9jl👍 3
Oh, no episode next week lol. The Recovery arc starts August 12th.
あ、来週放送ないのかｗ 奪還編は8月12日からね
- @かきのたね-y1c👍 2
August?! Re:Zero's been putting way too much into this lately, hasn't it.
8月！？ 最近のリゼロは力入れすぎじゃないですかね
- @蓮華升麻_RengeShoma👍 1
A-ah… w-well… h-hang in there, Subaru (๐•́ ‸ •̀๐) I'll collect your bones for you.
ｱ… わｧ… が、がんばってスバルくん(´꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ｀) 骨は拾うから。
- @イワパレス-本物👍 1
It's amazing — genuinely so cool… and then the sparkling pecs went and stole the entire thing.
すごい、すごいかっこいいのにピカピカB地区に全部持ってかれた…
- @ういうい-n2c👍 0
This is the anime that shows what actually happens to the people out there daydreaming about getting isekai'd.
異世界転生を夢見てる奴らが本当にしたらこうなるよってアニメ
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