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Dan7el posted:Not sure I understand what's going on at this point. This episode, he determined what the "bad end" looks like if he does nothing, which he finds completely unacceptable. He resets because he legit wants to change it, which is one of the first big, thoughtful decisions he's made the entire show. At this point, he probably has enough information about the various social forces in play that he can at the very least start trying to make things better. He's not going to do something so self-serving as just running away now, since he now knows what happens if he's not the one who gets hit by the curse. Choosing to do this is actually a big character development moment for him, which the show literally calls out by having him monologue about it, because now he has something that he wants to do besides just date Emilia and peel vegetables. I'm really glad they explicitly shot down the "why doesn't he tell someone and get help" thread, and I'm really glad that Subaru had a mental breakdown under the strain. The writing is getting good.
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May 15, 2016 22:29
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Please mercy-kill the protagonist. I don't want any of that to have happened.  (Subaru can keep his grim realizations.)
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Jun 26, 2016 22:48
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If there were an episode that would make me want to binge-read the WN this would be it. must... stay... strong...
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Jul 10, 2016 22:59
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There is no English source of the WN, since the LN has been licensed and the group that was translating the WN pulled everything before they got C&D'd. Better learn Japanese or suck up Google Translate, unfortunately. Or be patient.
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Jul 11, 2016 01:33
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I'm actually not convinced that Subaru actually was pretending. Our only word on that was from a literal madman who was screaming about how true madness isn't quiet, or something like that. Hell, he literally sat there unreacting while his eyeball was licked, while the cultists were literally talking about killing his friends, and Rem while gruesomely murdered in front of him, and then when he finally started moving he went to straight-up screaming "I'LL KILL YOU" over and over and over, pulling against his restraints until his arms bled, only stopping when Rem dragged her broken corpse over to him and cut his manacles off. Dude acted like he was in the middle of a mental breakdown. I think that Betelgeuse was just disappointed that Subaru wasn't the same kind of crazy that he was.
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Jul 11, 2016 03:11
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Deliciouscesium posted:Wow. I was recommending this show to friends after seeing the previous episode. After watching the current episode, I need to spend more time learning how to read Japanese. I never expected this show to turn out this good. If you've got the grammar down but are lacking kanji and vocabulary knowledge, look into Rikai-Kun/Rikai-Chan/Safarikai, which are browser plugins that do J-E dictionary lookup on mouseover. It's not perfect (it has issues with some verb conjugations and it often shows obscure or obsolete terms on top) but it'll get you started until you start learning the kanji for "angel", "magic", "fairy", and "disembowel".
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Jul 15, 2016 05:54
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Conspiratiorist posted:
"Dense Male Lead", "Protagonist Strong from the Start", and "Polygamy" are some of the tags on NovelUpdates.
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Aug 8, 2016 02:55
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Some people confuse the brief moments of a protagonist not being 100% perfectly on top of things (that are only there to provide a tiny bit of narrative tension before they solve everything) as weakness. After all, only weak people ever face any sort of adversity ever, right?
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Aug 9, 2016 22:32
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Could someone please remind me who the guy at the end that Subaru doesn't like is? I was cringing too hard during the entire Subaru-makes-an-rear end-of-himself-in-front-of-an-entire-nation episode to remember anyone that hasn't been reintroduced since then.
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Aug 21, 2016 21:11
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I like how Betelgeuse kept saying "the gospel is delivered to those who are worthy" and Subaru just kinda takes the gospel that has been delivered into his hands by Betelgeuse('s corpse). Nothing he said states that the gospel gets delivered by a person. Fate is a pretty good parcel service. Why was Betelguese 2.0 surprised that she didn't have a copy of the gospel? If the lower-ranking cultists don't get them (and OG Betelguese just copied himself into a new clone body then that implies that those books are way more special than just random religious texts. (Or that there's no printing presses.) Based on the "you're not mentioned in here" comment, are they maybe predictive of the future? God drat do I want to know more, pity we're not going to get the answers this season. Gonna be pissed if this falls into the same limbo that A Certain Magical Index and Log Horizon fell into, although if arc four's LN isn't even out then I guess my hopes aren't very high to begin with. (also ram you better not murder barusu in the middle of his best runthrough to date, dude has enough to worry about without having to figure out why he gets wordlessly chopped in half by a time-stopping demon)
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Aug 28, 2016 21:32
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Can you think of a better way to actually wake a heavy sleeper?
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Sep 9, 2016 17:02
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Oh poo poo, what if the time loop thing is explicitly a ploy by the Witch to make sure events happen exactly as they're needed in order to make Emilia the perfect vessel? If the gospel is prophetic, there could be a bunch of time-traveling puppetmastery going on in the background.
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Sep 12, 2016 18:24
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Since all of the novel readers keep complaining about all of the foreshadowing and context they cut from the anime, what did they cut? (Maybe don't put the resolution in the spoilers, though.)
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Sep 18, 2016 21:47
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Aren't the translations really poo poo and barely even phoned-in, though? I recall hearing that they contained phrases like "and then Subaru Subarus around for a while".
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Jun 9, 2017 05:01
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