The first 10/11 episodes of this show are amazing and i look forward to going back for a rewatch and forgetting the latter episodes ever existed. Afterwards, we've entered the typical period of a show where the writer tries too hard to make it deep, and the nuance is replaced by lots of highly "dramatic" "emotional" moments.
Don't get me wrong, the first 11 eps were very dramatic themselves, but that was before the writer decided to dabble in too much pseudo-psychology and get deep for the kids who automatically associate crazed, crybaby MC, vibrating eyes, and artsy music and camera angles every 5 seconds- with actual emotional and good writing. This sounds like a contradiction because the first 11 episodes also feel quite melodramatic with subaru, but the writing was there to back it up. Another good example is the film lost and delirious, with a highly melodramatic MC obsessed with love, very shakesperian feeling, but its actually good, so the melodrama isn't cringe like re zero after episode 11.
I actaully had a couple moments early when i called Subaru a chad. There were also some very weeb/strange moments which i tolerated because he had a good balance between being a man of action and actually caring about these girls vs having some occasionally super over the top and weird moments. After the mansion arc, this balance gets thrown off a cliif and dies a painful death.
A similar problem occurs with Rem. There's a scene where they're having an "emotional" moment on a bed and she's comforting him, i imagined her eating him alive after he fell asleep, as this cutesy rem felt so lifeless and robotic. In the early eps this was balanced with her (and her sisters) cold nature towards Subaru and not being such a s*imp for him, which she becomes after ep 11.
I don't know why the writer decided for the MC to lose 50 iq points + have extreme depressive emotional breakdowns, as if something happened off camera which we missed.
The re zero fans will say this was a build up of the trauma "exploding" which is pure cope for the fact that it's just bad writing. Subaru was already going through depressing stuff and being traumatised earlier in the series, simply having him being depressed in certain senarios is more than enough due to how intense the anime already is in these violent moments. Having emotional breakdown after emotional breakdown just causes melodrama overload without good plot to actually back it up.
Please show DON'T tell (for the most part) . In the first 11 episodes we see Subaru having traumatic moments and we see his depressed nature soon after. After ep 11 the trend is more TALK TALK TALK about how depressed he is, how much of a lo*ser he is, he feels worthless yada yada yada. I miss the chad subaru who was slightly traumatised but chose to stand up and continue fighting for the girls he cared about.
And rems role is now to comfort the sad lo*ser weeabo and tell him how beautiful and wonderful and caring you truely are!! (she's talking to insecure people watching the show). So rem has gone from being a real honest character who cared for her sister and came to trust in subaru, to a subaru si*mp who's here to comfort him even after he's a complete rude idiot on multiple occasions + becomes a crybaby.
Amelia also becomes more of a si*mp towards Subaru. She only ever respected him because of the respectable things he did, and tolerated his goofyness because of that. But now he's a complete rude idiot and doesn't listen to her....declares she will win the election wtffff????? Tells her she ought to be grateful for stuff he KNOWS she can't remember (bad writing). He literally grabs her arm at one point and just tries to force her to leave her house in the dumbest and most thickheaded way possible. And yet she still just stands there and tolerates him instead of doing what episode 1 Ameila would have done- kick him out!! (yes even after being helpful in the first 10 episodes).
These problems with rem and amelia are typical examples of MC syndrome, where the MC (subaru) gets treated better than he should because hey we're basically the tv show 'friends' at this point, amelia is the confused one who puts up with him (because the plot tells her to) , rem is the cutesy waifu MC simp, and Subaru is basically luffy without the rubber.
To summarize, the cool action scenes + psycological thriller aspects take a nose dive, but the melodrama (moments the producers THNK is deep and dramatic) are increased 300%,
The show actually was already deep without trying so hard .... and then it tried to be deep, oh boy.
Watch the first 10 episodes, stop. Move on to something else, go for a walk, breath. You're welcome. Those 10 episodes are actually really good television.
Don't get me wrong, the first 11 eps were very dramatic themselves, but that was before the writer decided to dabble in too much pseudo-psychology and get deep for the kids who automatically associate crazed, crybaby MC, vibrating eyes, and artsy music and camera angles every 5 seconds- with actual emotional and good writing. This sounds like a contradiction because the first 11 episodes also feel quite melodramatic with subaru, but the writing was there to back it up. Another good example is the film lost and delirious, with a highly melodramatic MC obsessed with love, very shakesperian feeling, but its actually good, so the melodrama isn't cringe like re zero after episode 11.
I actaully had a couple moments early when i called Subaru a chad. There were also some very weeb/strange moments which i tolerated because he had a good balance between being a man of action and actually caring about these girls vs having some occasionally super over the top and weird moments. After the mansion arc, this balance gets thrown off a cliif and dies a painful death.
A similar problem occurs with Rem. There's a scene where they're having an "emotional" moment on a bed and she's comforting him, i imagined her eating him alive after he fell asleep, as this cutesy rem felt so lifeless and robotic. In the early eps this was balanced with her (and her sisters) cold nature towards Subaru and not being such a s*imp for him, which she becomes after ep 11.
I don't know why the writer decided for the MC to lose 50 iq points + have extreme depressive emotional breakdowns, as if something happened off camera which we missed.
The re zero fans will say this was a build up of the trauma "exploding" which is pure cope for the fact that it's just bad writing. Subaru was already going through depressing stuff and being traumatised earlier in the series, simply having him being depressed in certain senarios is more than enough due to how intense the anime already is in these violent moments. Having emotional breakdown after emotional breakdown just causes melodrama overload without good plot to actually back it up.
Please show DON'T tell (for the most part) . In the first 11 episodes we see Subaru having traumatic moments and we see his depressed nature soon after. After ep 11 the trend is more TALK TALK TALK about how depressed he is, how much of a lo*ser he is, he feels worthless yada yada yada. I miss the chad subaru who was slightly traumatised but chose to stand up and continue fighting for the girls he cared about.
And rems role is now to comfort the sad lo*ser weeabo and tell him how beautiful and wonderful and caring you truely are!! (she's talking to insecure people watching the show). So rem has gone from being a real honest character who cared for her sister and came to trust in subaru, to a subaru si*mp who's here to comfort him even after he's a complete rude idiot on multiple occasions + becomes a crybaby.
Amelia also becomes more of a si*mp towards Subaru. She only ever respected him because of the respectable things he did, and tolerated his goofyness because of that. But now he's a complete rude idiot and doesn't listen to her....declares she will win the election wtffff????? Tells her she ought to be grateful for stuff he KNOWS she can't remember (bad writing). He literally grabs her arm at one point and just tries to force her to leave her house in the dumbest and most thickheaded way possible. And yet she still just stands there and tolerates him instead of doing what episode 1 Ameila would have done- kick him out!! (yes even after being helpful in the first 10 episodes).
These problems with rem and amelia are typical examples of MC syndrome, where the MC (subaru) gets treated better than he should because hey we're basically the tv show 'friends' at this point, amelia is the confused one who puts up with him (because the plot tells her to) , rem is the cutesy waifu MC simp, and Subaru is basically luffy without the rubber.
To summarize, the cool action scenes + psycological thriller aspects take a nose dive, but the melodrama (moments the producers THNK is deep and dramatic) are increased 300%,
The show actually was already deep without trying so hard .... and then it tried to be deep, oh boy.
Watch the first 10 episodes, stop. Move on to something else, go for a walk, breath. You're welcome. Those 10 episodes are actually really good television.