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We open on our main man, Subaru.
He's named after a car so he probably hates his life
but apart from that, he's just a nerd outside on a full on tracky-suit.
Fortunately, this is Japan so no one thinks he's a fucking chav.
He's on his way home before literally blinking his way into another world,
he kept up with the winter amine season though so immediately he's just like
"Fuck Yeah, I'm in bloody KonoSuba!"
After testing out some non-existent power and making meta commentary,
he then gets mugged by a...
Though not before a little midget runs past to witness everything that's going on,
stops,
says, "I'm kind of in a rush"
and fucks off.
The mugging continues
but then they're stopped by Good Smile Company's newest figurine range
along with a fluffy mascot.
Enter Emilia.
Sensing her 2D heroine status,
Honda Civic immediately declares her Best Girl and instant Waifu material.
She saves him.
They start talking.
They save another mushroom
and then she explains that the Cheeky Cunt, who ran off earlier, stole her insignia.
So he's like "If I help get you that Insignia back, will be able to tap that ass?"
And she's like "Fucking... no?"
And he's like "Too bad, I'm doing it anyway."
They eventually find a place which turns out to be an awful idea
because they both just get shanked in the back
and he ends up exactly where he was at the beginning of the day.
Despite the fact that he immediately figured out that he got transported to an alternate world,
he obviously didn't watch Erased
'cause he's left standing there in the middle looking like a twat,
Thinking "Am Tripping balls?"
So his first instinct is to run to the place where he died,
where he finds Dwayne the rock Johnson's granddad
and the Cheeky Midget.
Still wanting to get the insignia back, he's just like
"Look, I'll sell you this flip-phone,
trust me, it's worth a shit ton of money.
All the cool kids are using it nowadays,
just ask Adele."
Before anyone's convinced, the chick that kills him comes in.
We know it's her since she has this crazy sexy kinda look
like she'd suck your dick and then bite it off afterwards.
oh... that's a face that's bitten off many dicks.
After some failed negotiations and a casual slaughter,
he wakes up again and he's still like
"Why the fuck don't people die when they are killed?"
It takes another stab in the back, by K-pop
before, hale... fucking... liwia,
he finally figures out the deal after his millionth respawn.
Realizing at this point that his KDA is worse then G2's performance at MSI,
he actually tries to plan out his next move.
In the process, he runs into a bloke called Reinhard who's character design screams
"I'm some kind of badass"
and also "I'm really hot but is that worth your dick",
Elsa
Oh.. it's those dick biting mouths again.
She wonders why he's so scared of her 'cause she can smell the fear on him
and he's just like "That's not fear mate, that's just piss."
Before she can bite any more dicks, he runs off and we get the same stand-off we always do,
except this time Emilia and Kitty are here to help.
Kitty is apparently quite powerful and puts up a good fight
but unfortunately we find out she's too much of a lazy fuck to finish the battle
and has a bloody nap.
Things are looking pretty grim before Reinhard joins the battle.
As predicted, he's some kind of bigwig knight so everyone eggs him on to see some of his sword play.
So he's like "Lol.
OK."
And fires off a tactile nuke.
Toyota Yaris then gets buckskin ecstatic 'cause he's finally got past the tutorial boss.
Only to find that he has about 1 hp left.
After this we get introduced to a bunch more characters in Emilia's house,
including 2 maids,
a child predator
and a book wanker.
Nothing really much happens from here.
Everyone's sassy,
we find out Emilia's eligible for the throne,
he gets along with the blue maid,
he tells the red maid about the story of the red and blue ogre,
she remarks that she's never seen Red vs Blue
and everything's all hunky-dory except for one night.
Oh God, he's fucking stumbling around again and throwing up.
He's obviously had one too many pints 'cause he's fallen down again and forgotten where he parked his...
arm.
Realizing that someone's killing him of at the end of the week, he tries setting up a trap.
And finally, it's revealed that it was blue maid all along.
So this is White Fox's newest edition to their backlog of time travel shows of...
you know,
Steins;Gate
But it's definitely one of the shows to look out for this season from a pretty good bloody season if you ask me,
it revolves around our main protagonist
(tracksuit wearing, best car Subaru)
as he tries to survive in this new fancy world
he's literally blinked his way into one day, as he was doing the groceries.
While he's seemingly just a normal kid with no skills or powers compared to everyone else in this world,
the main gimmick used by this show is the whole time loop thing
where he essentially resets to a point in time, every time he dies.
And... well, call me a sucker for really enjoying plots with time loops in them
but that's what sold me on the show straight away.
The way he uses the time loop to learn everything that will happen and plan his actions accordingly.
I mean sure, time loops are not new at all,
with shows like Steins;Gate, Higurashi
and, out side anime, Edge of Tomorrow and (of course) Groundhog day
being the de facto standard.
*distant voice* "Don't forget about Haruhi"
*Loud music and unrecognisable slow motion speaking*
But it certainly hasn't been enough of a prominent gimmick that I would call it saturated either.
Especially in the Anime medium.
What differentiates it from the usual time travel loop concepts I've seen,
apart from the fact that it's set in a fancy setting,
is that the way that the loops are structured seem to be more like he's stuck in a world with video game mechanics.
Yes, I know the whole guy stuck in video game concept has been done to death by now,
but I was actually talking about how instead of having having a fixed time loop that he's constantly trapped in,
the whole thing is structured more like a respawn point with check points along the way.
Like watching one retard trying to stumble his way through dark souls for the first time.
"What! What!" "He's never done that before!"
"What the fuck!"
There always seems to be a certain event he needs to complete before advancing through to the next checkpoint,
whether it be defeating a boss or just surviving the weak.
Though, what actually constitutes as a checkpoint and how far he can stray from the path he's taken
still remains to be seen at this point in time.
I also realize that viewing this show also said something to me as a gamer,
since watching him triggered this ocd part of myself that would just want to kill myself and respawn
if I couldn't get the optimal path to completing an objective.
Though, you know, I can kind of understand not wanting to get your guts sliced open every time.
There's not too much to say about the cast right now as it's still early on
but, at the moment, Subaru kind of reminds me of a younger Okabe Rintarou
with his ethnocentric and all around bright personality.
His extensive knowledge of video games and anime
means he can mostly understand the quirks and rules of the world he's transported into,
often providing some meta commentary along the way
which the series uses to satire the whole fancy genre he's in.
Pretty much the rest of the female cast, right now, are your typical flavours of sweet and cute
that always display some small Tsundere trait
which I don't really have an issue with 'cause...
you know.
If you haven't heard already,
I fucking like Tsunderes.
But before I had to tell you guys who hate Tsunderes,
'Cause I know you're fucking out there,
rest assured, cause it's not the overbearing kind of Tsundere
where girls are maniacal bitches for no reason other than...
Well...
they're fucking Tsunderes.
It's the much tamer kind where everyone's just super sassy to the main character
without being outright mean.
My main criticisms so far is that I don't really know where this show is going.
The first three episodes set-up the concept well,
Subaru had an active goal he was working towards that we could all get behind
that also established the rules of the world.
But beyond that, nothing really has happened,
there's no real purpose for why he's there
or what he's meant to be doing besides... just survive.
And it's missing the drive it had in the first few episodes.
Also if I were to get a bit nitpicky,
as a character Subaru really does handle the situation he's thrown into a bit too well.
He immediately accepts that he was randomly transported into another world,
leaving behind whatever life he had without ever dwelling on it
or even wondering why it happened.
I mean, no matter how much us plebs fantasise about it, we would at least be a little bit shocked if we were transported into a parallel world
but nope, he's just like"pff. OK, I guess I was just transported into a parallel fucking world."
Also, considering some of the brutal and gruesome ways he's being killed
not to mention the mental strain of resetting all emotional bounds you constantly make,
he kind of just... shrugs it off week after week
and I think there's plenty of room for development there.
But, hopefully this will become clearer as the series develops as I've had a lot of fun with it so far
or, you know it could just let me down as the curse of watching seasonal anime where you don't know how it's going to end.
So, you know.
At this moment I would definitely recommend it as one of the anime to be watching this season.
Currently ReZero is available on Crunchyroll
so you can go to Crunchyroll.com/TheAnimeZone for a free month of premium membership.
And, yeah, I think that's it.
So if you can take any one thing from this video, be sure to remember this:
I fucking like Tsunderes.
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