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Re:Zero Cour 2 PV: The Two-Month Wait Ends August 12 — Japan Replies in Petelgeuse's Voice
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. Editor's note: Re:Zero Season 4 is a split cour — 《Soushitsu-hen》ran 11 episodes from April 8, and 《Dakkan-hen》runs 8 episodes from August 12, for 19 episodes total.
2054 comments8/11/26, 11:40 PM
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Re:Zero Season 4 Episode 12: Subaru Turns What Killed Him Into Plushies
Re:Zero Season 4 Episode 12, "A Talk About the Future," airs August 12 and opens the second cour,《Dakkan-hen》(the Recovery arc). The official web preview shows Subaru handing Meili a plush toy — of a magic beast. Other plushies in the shot include Elsa and the Sin Archbishops, meaning Subaru has been stitching together soft versions of nearly everything that has killed him. Across 487 comments on the Japanese preview, the recurring word was 狂気的 — unhinged. The top reaction pulled 920 likes, but the read that took over the thread was darker: Japanese viewers landed on the fact that Subaru is giving a plush of a beast that killed him to a girl who also killed him, and decided this is what trauma processing looks like for a man who has died more times than he can count. Others simply noted that Beako is still cute, and that Meili has quietly graduated into senpai territory. One commenter puts a name to the whole habit in a single line, and it is not a gentle one. Editor's note: Re:Zero Season 4 is a split cour — 《Soushitsu-hen》ran 11 episodes from April 8, and 《Dakkan-hen》runs 8 episodes from August 12, for 19 total. The official channel numbers this episode "Season 4 Episode 12 (Episode 78 overall)."
487 comments8/11/26, 11:40 PM
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Re:Zero: What the Third Trial's "Worst Future" Lines Actually Mean — Japan Decodes
Re:Zero's Third Trial shows Subaru glimpses of a "worst possible future," and Japanese light-novel readers are picking apart every cryptic line the characters speak in it — Julius, Ram, Felis, Garfiel. The top reaction captures the dread perfectly: these lines sound so out-of-character they read like an "if-route" that could never happen in canon, except author Tappei Nagatsuki keeps quietly paying them off in the main story — "I never, ever want to see the part where Garfiel says this to Subaru." From there the thread becomes a masterclass in the kind of deep-cut theorizing English-speaking anime-only fans rarely get to see: which lines are canon foreshadowing versus doomed if-routes, whether Emilia's "I hated you from the moment we met" is aimed at Pandora rather than Subaru, whether Wilhelm's "can't even swing a sword without your blessing, thief" hints at Reinhard losing the Sword Saint's divine protection, and what Garfiel's mysterious "promise" refers to. It runs through a "Garfiel is basically Bakugo now, lol" aside, genuine praise for Nagatsuki's foreshadowing, and lands on the line everyone dreads most.
127 comments7/6/26, 2:50 PM
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Re:Zero Season 4 Recovery Arc Key Visual: Every Character's Pose Is a Zodiac Sign
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 chapter-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.
148 comments7/1/26, 3:00 AM
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Re:Zero Season 4: Fans Crown It the Season's Best Anime
On Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, Japanese fans reacted to reports that Season 4 has hit record overseas acclaim by simply crowning it this season's champion. The thread broke down WHY it holds up after four seasons: a Return by Death loop story that still builds a real payoff every single cour, "Stay Alive" wrecking everyone again, Yusuke Kobayashi's voice acting, and the gut-punch "even if you forget, I'll remember" callback. The mood is proud — the world finally gets it — with web-novel readers grinning at how much better the Recovery arc gets, and one closing line that says it all about how Subaru dies for a living.
565 comments7/1/26, 12:00 AM
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Re:Zero Season 4 Part 2: Fans Brace for the 'Hell' Ahead
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 with an Othello analogy for how badly the odds are stacked, 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.
145 comments6/29/26, 2:35 AM
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Re:Zero Season 4 Finale: The Loss Arc Flips the Series' Own Rule — Japan's Read
Re:Zero's Season 4 mid-season finale — the climax of the amnesia-driven "Loss" arc (喪失編) — landed in Japan, and the most-liked Japanese reactions didn't fixate on the action. They fixated on the architecture. The reaction that rose to the top points out a structural reversal only longtime fans clocked: the arc spends episodes with an amnesiac Subaru as the one who forgets while everyone remembers him, then snaps back — through Return by Death — to the series' original engine, where everyone forgets and only Subaru remembers. From there the thread becomes a love letter to the writing: a reading that Subaru never needed his memories, only his resolve; the way Emilia asking his name mirrors the very first episode (right down to a chapter-title pun that quietly turns "Zero" into "Re:Zero"); and the gut-punch of hearing STYX HELIX and Stay Alive — the Season 1 songs — return at the exact right moment. It all closes on the kind of one-line verdict only a Re:Zero fan would land.
1033 comments6/25/26, 4:30 AM

Natsuki Subaru

Re:Zero Cour 2 PV: The Two-Month Wait Ends August 12 — Japan Replies in Petelgeuse's Voice

Re:Zero Season 4 Episode 12: Subaru Turns What Killed Him Into Plushies

Re:Zero: What the Third Trial's "Worst Future" Lines Actually Mean — Japan Decodes

Re:Zero Season 4 Recovery Arc Key Visual: Every Character's Pose Is a Zodiac Sign

Re:Zero Season 4: Fans Crown It the Season's Best Anime

Re:Zero Season 4 Part 2: Fans Brace for the 'Hell' Ahead

Re:Zero Season 4 Finale: The Loss Arc Flips the Series' Own Rule — Japan's Read