Re:Zero S2 Ep 12
Added 2023-07-30 01:46:23 +0000 UTCWow... seeing Subaru's deaths again and how they affected everyone was so hard... what is Echidna trying to show him?!
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So a little bit of explanation, Echidna is literally a sociopath with no emotion, she knows how to mimic most emotions pretty well (except love). Secondly when she was giving her spiel on what she could offer what she was basically saying was that she would guide Subaru to the best possible option, but how would you know what the best possible future is? By going back repeatedly, over and over again killing Subaru until she had all the information and was able to progress, possibly dooming countless futures. Also and this is more of a theory rather than fully true, but each of the witches is a perfect example of good intentions leading to the path to hell. Unfortunately, their powers and histories are explained by the Author in interviews and side stories mostly rather than fully in the novels or the show. I will go over the ones we already basically know about. Echidna (greed) is all about the pursuit of knowledge, but what is knowledge without emotion and love? And she is willing to give up anything and use anyone to obtain what she wants. Daphne (gluttony) felt an eternal and vast hunger and didn't want anyone else to feel how she did so she made Mabeasts to feed people, and those ended up receiving her hunger but not her control and thus ended up eating and killing more than they ever fed. Minerva (wrath) is an interesting one; her power as you have seen allows her to reverse causality and heal people by draining mana from the world around her. That is how her punches healed Subaru last time. This ability had the side effect of taking mana from random places in the world causing natural disasters to occur effectively making it so she killed many more people than she saved. There are others but explaining them may spoil future events.
Brad Nual'Lain
2023-07-30 23:23:26 +0000 UTCOk thanks :)
Mr.Yk
2023-07-30 21:18:10 +0000 UTCSome are spoiler free, some are not. Depends where you’re currently in the story. But the greed if contains slight spoilers for arc 5
kukkihoshi
2023-07-30 20:59:00 +0000 UTCIf you are interested, once you got a chance you should check out Re:Zero if stories from Echidnut on youtube. If I remember correctly, those are stories that the author wrote to show what would happen to Subaru if he had choose another path during his journey, and there is the Greed if story where it shows what would have happen if he had accepted that contract. I believe they are spoilers free, but if someone could just confirms it it would be great just to be safe. Oh and there is also a story involving Rem, and Subaru that show what would have happen if Subaru decided to flee the city with her instead of going for Emilia ;)
Mr.Yk
2023-07-30 17:12:21 +0000 UTCIt's much worse than that. She would help Subaru reach his goal... in the end... but that doesn't specify how long it would take. Forming a contract with Echidna would be turning your life into a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book where you have to follow every single route, no matter how much pain and death it causes you. If she knows the exact route Subaru should take to reach the ending he desires, but she doesn't know what happens on the other routes, Subaru will need to follow every single "Dead End" route before he can follow the correct path, all to satisfy Echidna's curiosity. It could take Subaru centuries to reach his goal because Echidna wants to know "everything" in the world.
Merfhew
2023-07-30 12:29:38 +0000 UTCSatella always bringing the smoke 😚💨
Sol Hana
2023-07-30 11:59:53 +0000 UTCYeah she is a witch of greed without any understanding of people's feelings. She knows about emotions and can mimic them to further her agenda, but she really doesn't feel them herself.
Thamor
2023-07-30 09:32:39 +0000 UTCYeah, that’s the problem with Echidna. She will get you to your goal but she doesn’t care how the people are feeling afterwards. They’ll be alive but they could be depressed and she won’t process that into her mind.
Gene Anthony Lukban
2023-07-30 07:57:26 +0000 UTCGreed If tho..
Irvin De La Cruz
2023-07-30 06:39:47 +0000 UTCI remember reading an article back when this episode first aired about Echidna's voice actress managing to record that entire monologue in a single take. There was a LOT of dialogue, so it's a pretty impressive feat (even for an industry veteran like Maaya Sakamoto).
Merfhew
2023-07-30 03:20:26 +0000 UTCExactly rem wins his True love bc cami did show rem and not emila 💙🔐
Tini loves-NOYA #SubaruRem ❤️!
2023-07-30 03:09:47 +0000 UTCThis is why Re:zero is a fun ride of an anime because the more you know the more questions you’ll have at the end of each episode and the anime will not spoon fed you the information so easily either, the characters are complex and the mystery will pull you in and keeps you engaged to stick around and want to know more. And there are “what ifs” stories as well as how things will turn out based on what Subaru chooses in some situations, my favorite being the “Sloth what if” story where he chooses “Sloth” over “Diligence” giving up on the current situation sacrificing a lot of people in the process and never saying I love Emilia and instead really chooses Rem and runs away together.
Griffith Augustine
2023-07-30 02:56:09 +0000 UTC
