Re:Zero Cour 2 PV: The Two-Month Wait Ends August 12 — Japan Replies in Petelgeuse's Voice
リゼロ 奪還編PV、日本のファンが大罪司教の口調で歓喜
The PV for Re:Zero Season 4's second cour, 《Dakkan-hen》, confirmed an August 12 premiere across 21 stations in Japan, ending the gap since the first cour wrapped. The trailer shows Julius, Emilia fighting alongside him, Ram, and Shaula, and closes on a silhouette that commenters refuse to spell out.
Across 2,054 comments, the top reaction drew 2,943 likes — and it is written in the voice of a villain. "My brain trembles" is Petelgeuse's catchphrase from Season 1, and Japanese fans have folded it, along with sloth, diligence and gluttony, into their everyday hype vocabulary. The result is a comment section where people apologize to the production staff for their own slothfulness and thank them for their diligence, entirely unironically, while counting down the two months they spent waiting.
The last line of the thread is four words pointed at the final shot, and nobody replies to it with an explanation.
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The PV for Re:Zero Season 4's second cour, 《Dakkan-hen》, landed a week out and confirmed the premiere: August 12, across 21 stations in Japan. It's about a minute of Julius, Emilia, Ram and Shaula, and it ends on a silhouette the comments won't name out loud. The most-liked reaction to all of this is written in the voice of a Sin Archbishop.
“I've been waiting for Dakkan-hen for real! I'm so hyped my brain is... trembling 🫨”
まじで楽しみに待ってたぞ奪還編！楽しみすぎて脳が、震える🫨
"My brain trembles" (脳が震える) is Petelgeuse's line from Season 1. He is a screaming, finger-breaking cult fanatic who says it while working himself into a religious frenzy, and Japanese Re:Zero fans have spent years using his catchphrase as ordinary slang for "I am extremely excited." It has been fully detached from the horror it came from. You will see it under trailer drops, casting announcements, and — as here — a one-minute PV, used with total sincerity by people who are simply happy their show is back.
And Petelgeuse isn't the only villain being cosplayed. The Sin Archbishops are named after the deadly sins, so the comment section has a full vocabulary to work with — and one person used all of it at once.
“In the face of staff this DILIGENT— please forgive me, a slothful man who could do nothing but wait! Aaah, my brain is tremblinggggg!!!”
こんなにも勤勉なスタッフを前にィィィィ ただ待つことしか出来なかった怠惰な自分をお許しください！ ああ、脳が震えるぅぅぅゔぅぅうぅぅぅ！！！
None of this is mockery — it's affection. The show's antagonists gave this fandom a dialect, and after two months off the air they're using it to say the simplest thing possible.
As for the trailer itself, the shot people kept rewinding wasn't a fight. It was Julius's face.
Julius being visibly moved by Subaru is a long-running joke in this fandom — the man has an established habit of watching Subaru do something reckless and looking quietly awed about it — and the PV apparently feeds it hard enough that two separate top comments are both pointing at the same frame. Elsewhere, people were busy counting their own favorites.
And then the final shot, which the thread handles by refusing to handle it.
“0:50 No way, that form is...!”
0:50 まさか、その姿は…！
No replies explaining it. No timestamps breaking it down. Just an ellipsis and 335 people agreeing. Two months of waiting, and the fandom's response is to speak in the voices of the men who murdered their protagonist — and then go quiet at the part that actually matters.
FAQ
- When does Re:Zero Season 4 Cour 2 start?
- August 12, 2026, across 21 stations in Japan. 《Dakkan-hen》 runs 8 episodes, following the 11-episode 《Soushitsu-hen》 that began April 8.
- Why are commenters talking about sloth, diligence and gluttony?
- They are quoting the Sin Archbishops, Re:Zero's antagonists, who are named after the deadly sins. Petelgeuse's "my brain trembles" in particular has become standard Japanese fan slang for overwhelming excitement.
- What is the silhouette at the end of the PV?
- The comments deliberately do not say. The most-liked reaction to that shot is simply "No way, that form is...!" with no explanation attached, which is how spoiler-sensitive Japanese threads usually handle a reveal.
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