50 Fun Facts About Re:Zero

In Re:Zero, what does Subaru call his power to rewind time to a checkpoint whenever he is killed?

Return by Death lets him keep every memory of the erased timeline while nobody else remembers a thing. The series' editor called it a depressing yet surprising twist on fantasy.

In Re:Zero, Subaru is walking home from where when he is suddenly pulled into a fantasy kingdom?

A convenience store trip ends with him standing in a marketplace in the Kingdom of Lugunica. He can talk with the locals but later has to be taught to read and write.

In Re:Zero, Emilia's spirit Puck, who only works nine to five, takes the form of which animal?

A cat he may look, but Puck is one of the four Great Spirits and can read people's emotions. At night he cannot remain manifest and must retreat into his mana crystal.

In Re:Zero, Emilia first gives Subaru which false name, the taboo name of the Witch of Envy?

Satella is the witch whose resemblance to Emilia fuels the prejudice she faces. She tells him her real name only as thanks, after he takes a blow meant for her.

In Re:Zero, which item from Japan does Subaru offer at the loot house, outbidding a rival's money?

His cell phone wins because its camera strikes the thieves as worth more than the buyer's coin. Later he bargains with the same device again, using it to prove when a monster will appear.

In Re:Zero's mansion arc, the curse that kills Subaru in his sleep is planted by the bite of what?

A puppy the village children were petting turns out to be a mabeast in disguise, and its bite carries the curse that kills him overnight. It later swells into a monster leading a whole pack.

In Re:Zero, as his reward for saving Emilia, Subaru asks for which job at her patron's mansion?

Butler is the job he asks for, and he struggles with every duty beside the twin maids Ram and Rem. When the week resets, he requests the post again to rebuild their trust.

Rem of Re:Zero, a supporting character, won which category at the first Crunchyroll Anime Awards?

Best Girl went to Rem even though Emilia is the story's main heroine. Demand for a Rem hug pillow was so unexpected that its release had to be delayed.

Which studio, also known for adapting Steins;Gate, animated the Re:Zero television anime?

White Fox opened the show with a double-length first episode. In 2020 the first season was re-cut into thirteen longer episodes, with altered scenes and extra footage.

Before being summoned to Lugunica in Re:Zero, Subaru Natsuki was living as what in Japan?

A shut-in, or hikikomori, he had withdrawn from school and daily life. His first character design looked like a delinquent, so the editor asked for a friendlier, less fierce face.

In Re:Zero, Emilia is shunned for sharing silver hair and which heritage with the Witch of Envy?

Half-elf blood marks her out because the witch behind a catastrophe 400 years ago looked just like her. The prejudice that followed falls on mixed-blood people in general, and on half-elves hardest of all.

In Re:Zero, Subaru first helps Emilia recover which stolen item, her proof of royal candidacy?

Her insignia is required of every contender, so without it she cannot stand in the royal selection. An assassin sent to buy it kills Subaru twice before it finally gets back to her.

In Re:Zero, which young thief raised in the capital's slums becomes the fifth royal candidate?

Felt first refuses to run at all, then enters to save her guardian and vows to tear the kingdom down if she wins. Her looks hint at lost royal blood that nobody can prove.

In Re:Zero, which centuries-old spirit guards the mansion's library and later contracts with Subaru?

Beatrice, about four hundred years old, can link any door in the mansion to her library, where she has waited for centuries. She finally leaves by taking Subaru's hand as the building burns around her.

In Re:Zero, which court mage, mistaken by Subaru for a clown, sponsors Emilia's royal campaign?

Roswaal is far older than he looks: he has moved his soul into one descendant after another, hoping to live long enough to revive the teacher he loved.

In Re:Zero, which Sword Saint has the author named the strongest character of all?

Reinhard can conjure a counter to whatever any opponent has ever used, which puts him above every Sword Saint before him. He first appears as an off-duty guard rescuing Subaru in an alley.

In Re:Zero, which assassin from the northern land of Gusteko is the first person to kill Subaru?

Elsa earns the name Bowel Hunter for the way she cuts her victims open. She returns in the second season to attack the mansion, causing several more of Subaru's deaths.

In Re:Zero, which Sin Archbishop of Sloth leads the Witch Cult raid on Emilia's mansion and village?

Petelgeuse was once a respected friend of Emilia's family, driven mad after he took in an unstable witch factor and accidentally killed her aunt. He is in fact a spirit that jumps between host bodies.

In Re:Zero, the twin maids Rem and Ram were born in a village of which race, where twins are taboo?

Demons, or oni in the original Japanese, forbid twins in their clan, and the sisters were spared only because Ram was a prodigy. Rem grew up feeling inferior to her.

In Re:Zero, what did the Witch Cult cut from the prodigy Ram, leaving her far weaker than her twin?

Her horn was the source of her magic, and since losing it her body tires quickly and needs daily treatment from her master. Rem, who still has hers, has blamed herself for the loss ever since.

In Re:Zero, Rem is left comatose and forgotten by all but Subaru by the archbishop of which sin?

Gluttony's archbishop eats names and memories, so Rem sleeps on while even her twin Ram forgets she ever existed. Subaru tries to reset time to undo it, only to wake after the attack has already happened.

In Re:Zero, which elderly swordsman slays the White Whale, the beast he blames for taking his wife?

Wilhelm lands the killing blow once the whale is pinned beneath a toppled giant tree. His wife, a Sword Saint, was lost in an earlier battle with the same beast, and he devoted the years since to hunting it down.

In Re:Zero, which knight thrashes Subaru in a wooden-sword duel, then later fights beside him?

Julius called the duel to defend the knights' honour, but the one-sided beating stained his own name instead. Later he borrows Subaru's sight to strike at an enemy only Subaru can see.

In the Re:Zero episode "From Zero", a despairing Subaru begs Rem to do what with him?

Run away together, he pleads, and she refuses, saying she would only flee with the Subaru she knows. A side story in the novels imagines them going after all and raising two children.

Which novelist wrote Re:Zero and sat in on the anime's script meetings and recording sessions?

Tappei Nagatsuki handed his editor a first-volume manuscript of more than 1,000 pages, about four times the usual length. The editor cut it down and pushed the lore back to later books.

Which chibi crossover anime puts Re:Zero's cast in a school with heroes from KonoSuba and Overlord?

Isekai Quartet starts when a magic button appears and the leads of four Kadokawa series each push it, landing them in one high school. The fourth series is The Saga of Tanya the Evil.

Re:Zero's Subaru is named after which cluster in Taurus, known in Japan by that very word?

The Pleiades are called Subaru in Japanese, from a verb meaning to gather in a cluster. The group's other name, the Seven Sisters, ties his name to Greek myth.

In Re:Zero, which Witch of Greed invites Subaru to tea in the dreamlike space that holds her soul?

Echidna craves knowledge above all, and what she truly wants from him is to study his time loops. She also left a spirit waiting centuries in a library for a visitor who does not exist.

In Re:Zero, which travelling merchant who can talk to animals becomes Subaru's trusted friend?

Otto once shoved Subaru off his wagon to save himself in an erased timeline, yet later risks his life for him purely as a friend. His gift for understanding animals made him an outcast as a child.

In Re:Zero, which fierce guardian of the Sanctuary first attacks Subaru, then joins Emilia's camp?

Garfiel shares a mother with the maid Frederica and, unlike most residents, can leave the Sanctuary at will. Once on Subaru's side he kills the assassin who kept slaughtering the mansion's household.

In Re:Zero, Subaru's first trial in the Sanctuary sends him back to Japan to face whom?

His parents, Kenichi and Naoko, greet him in an illusion of his old life, where he finally admits why he hid from school. Saying goodbye to them is how he passes.

In Re:Zero, a Jurassic Park sequel inspired Subaru's grisliest fate, in which he is eaten by what?

Rabbits, a ravenous swarm of small mabeasts, devour him in the deserted Sanctuary. The author took the idea from the tiny dinosaurs that swarm a man in that film, and said nothing scarier would follow.

In Re:Zero, Emilia is over a century old but a teenager in mind, having spent most of that time how?

Frozen in ice in the forest she grew up in, she was found by the spirit Puck with no memory of what came before. Her own magic had run wild in grief and encased the whole forest.

In Re:Zero, what has the spirit Puck vowed to do if his contractor Emilia should ever die?

Destroy the world is no idle threat: in one erased timeline he swells into a colossal beast, wipes out the Witch Cult's raiders and then kills Subaru for failing her.

In Re:Zero, which royal candidate has, at nineteen, already outlived eight husbands?

Priscilla believes everything bends to suit her, and her uncanny luck has made every land she inherited prosper. She wants a realm where all revere her as divine.

In Re:Zero, royal candidate Crusch Karsten has a blessing that lets her detect which of these?

Lies cannot get past her, so she is hard to fool at the bargaining table. Her creed is rule by merit, and she wants to end the kingdom's centuries of leaning on a dragon's guidance.

In Re:Zero, when Puck tests Subaru's mana before teaching him magic, which attribute does he find?

Shadow, also translated as yin, is one of six elements beside fire, water, wind, earth and light; a knight in the series keeps a tiny spirit for each. Subaru himself struggles to cast anything.

In Re:Zero, which Sin Archbishop of Greed, keeper of numbered wives, tries to make Emilia his bride?

Regulus ties his heart to his wives' hearts, which lets him stop his own time and shrug off every blow. Emilia breaks the trick by putting the wives into a magical sleep rather than letting them die.

Before Media Factory published it as light novels, Re:Zero first ran from 2012 in which form?

A web novel is how it began, posted on the user-written site Shōsetsuka ni Narō. Its future editor found it a year later, when it kept turning up in his Twitter feed.

In Re:Zero, Subaru realises mid-battle that the Sin Archbishops are all named after what?

Stars such as Sirius and Capella lend the cult's leaders their names, a pattern Subaru spots because the same ones shine over Earth. The tip-off is a nickname one archbishop's wives use for him, which translates his star's Latin name.

Rie Takahashi, Emilia's Japanese voice in Re:Zero, sang which ending theme of the first season?

Stay Alive closes the season's later episodes, sung by her in place of the band that performs the other endings. She also voices the Witch of Envy and hosted the show's weekly radio programme.

Which Japanese singer performed the Re:Zero opening themes "Redo", "Realize" and "Reweave"?

Konomi Suzuki opened each of the first three seasons, and said she shaped the first song around Subaru and the series' outlook. She also sang the theme of a 2017 Re:Zero video game.

In Re:Zero, Subaru's pose as a Sin Archbishop fails when he cannot show which book they each carry?

A gospel guides each archbishop's actions, and he was supposed to have received one. In a later loop Subaru flashes a stolen device instead, then ends his enemy by writing a final line in the man's own copy.

In Re:Zero, which helmeted ex-gladiator knight was, like Subaru, summoned from another world?

Al arrived 18 years before Subaru and hides a badly scarred face under his helmet. He fought in the arenas of the Vollachia Empire before a royal candidate took him on as her knight.

In Re:Zero, Anastasia Hoshin's Kansai-style dialect marks her as a native of which western nation?

Kararagi sits west of Lugunica, and she rose from its streets to build a trading company of her own. Her mercenary captain speaks the same dialect.

In Re:Zero, the Sloth Witch Factor gives Subaru a new power of his own, known by which name?

Invisible Providence first wins him a one-on-one fight in the Sanctuary. A season later he uses it to sever the link between a villain's heart and Emilia's, leaving the man open to attack.

In Re:Zero, which Witch of Vanity, seen in Emilia's trial, led the raid on her forest home?

Pandora came seeking a sealed door that only the young Emilia could open, and wiped the child's memory of her when refused. Struck down in a rage by her own ally during the raid, she simply reappeared unharmed.

Which Japanese voice actor plays Subaru in Re:Zero, having first assumed it was a romantic comedy?

Yūsuke Kobayashi was cast as soon as the staff heard his voice, then found the sheer number of lines and moods exhausting to record. Puck's actor befriended and supported him through the early episodes.

Which former video-game artist illustrates the Re:Zero light novels and designed their characters?

Shinichirou Otsuka reckons he has designed over 200 characters for the series and tailors each outfit to its wearer's personality. He worried his detailed designs would be hard to animate.

In Re:Zero, the knight Felix Argyle refuses to carry a sword and instead excels at which art?

Healing through water magic is his speciality, good enough to mend bodies but not, as Subaru learns, a broken mind. He was locked away at birth until the candidate he now serves rescued him.