The Greed of a Pig

Right before Re:Zero Episode 16 starts: staaand by, staaand by.

Episode 15 ended in quite a shocking way, and then came Episode 16. By the way, for this week's preview, I once again asked my friend, fellow author Yuu Aitou-sensei, to do it. When I asked him, he latched onto Anastasia faster than anyone else, and if you know even a little about him, that needs no explanation.

Including me, we've already had Web previews by four different writers now (five if you count the first cour), and looking back, it's interesting how each author's style shows through. Now then, let's see who can top the shock of "Ram, Rem, Rom". Please look forward to what's next.

Still, I've only been watching the last five minutes every week, but I'm starting to like Keyakizaka46.

It's about to start. No matter what kind of episode it is, enjoy it...

Re:Zero anime Episode 16 starts! Please enjoy this week too!

"The Greed of a Pig" is a subtitle I've used since the Web novel days, and it's one of my favorite subtitles, ranking pretty high up there.

Doesn't Russell-san have an amazingly good voice?

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About that girl in the sponsor bumper, her movements are just incredibly cute, so please keep an eye on her.

Oh, right, since he wasn't in the illustrations, this is Russell-san's first appearance, lol. He did have a character design properly made ever since the book release, though (lol).

Part A starts, and Ferris's face and voice are cute from every angle.

From the moment Emilia decided to run, it was expected that the Witch Cult would become active. So ever since they were at the mansion, Rem had been on pretty high alert in preparation for the royal selection. And then this Witch-scented tracksuit comes shambling along.

I will not lend it to you, sir.

Crusch-sama kindly and politely explaining everything. How merciful.

Subaru-kun's face... I can't... see it...

Petelgeuse: "You... aren't 'Pride,' are you?"

His face showed up on screen for the first time.

Those sanpaku eyes make him look even more sinister than usual.

The Witch Cult must die, no mercy. I kind of feel the same way.

"I have never been deceived before" (Ferris is the exception)

The traces of blood wiped onto the back of the hand are so detailed.

"From here, Felt-sama and I will be leaving the royal capital. We'll return to the main house, where Felt-sama is to learn what she needs to. If anything changes, if Subaru changes his mind, I want you to contact us. We'll be waiting at the main house."

A nouveau riche mansion! A nouveau riche dragon carriage! Nouveau riche taste!

Crusch-sama is defenseless because she's unaware of her own charm. Priscilla-sama is defenseless because she doesn't spare it even a fragment of thought.

Emilia-tan is defenseless because she's an angel.

Humiliation < sense of duty < murderous intent

What must Priscilla-sama have been thinking in that moment? "Pig's desire," huh.

Priscilla-sama can casually fling someone like Subaru-kun with one hand. Al waiting outside like, "Yup, figures."

It may look like Al-san has a habit of scratching or rubbing his head over his iron helmet, but in reality he just has a habit of touching the joints in the helmet's metal fittings and making them rattle. It just looks like he's scratching.

Fast! Part A is over already!

Emilia-tan's lap... pillow...!?

What do you mean, win it? Do you win the right to get a lap pillow from her? When did the world cross the wall between 3D and 2D?

This is the biggest shock since I found Re:Zero T-shirts at Shimamura.

Part B starts!

That coin purse! It wasn't just decoration!!!

A coin purse that big is stylish too, isn't it? Though nobody's copying it!

Mimi is probably more than ten times stronger than Subaru. Subaru's so weak that using a multiplier like that doesn't really tell you much!

It may look like Anastasia-san is the only one dressed with absolutely no regard for the season, but I’ll write the reason for that in the main story eventually.

Anastasia-san here is cute and unpleasant, isn't she?

Master and servant: "Anastasia" and "Julius"

Anastasia-san is pretty small too, but Mimi is really tiny. This, man, Garf...

Mimi looks very small, but she's 15. She's a catperson demi-human, so the image is that she won't get much bigger than that. Demi-humans are a roughly half-and-half mix of beast and human traits, while beastfolk are almost entirely beast-like.

It's a background character. Let's ignore him.

It seems people around here like her, for better or worse. Though she’s a girl I don’t know much about.

An idea struck him, and the light returned to Subaru-kun's eyes. This background character is cheekily taking up more foreground screen space than Rem...

Did you know? Seeing this phone again after so long, it's actually made to look just like a real flip phone from back then...

It's insanely huge. World Tree class. Several hundred times bigger than Subaru. That's also kind of a hard benchmark to grasp.

After last week and this week, did you remember me???

Part B is over! Okay, it's the endinggg!!!

The ending image is Emilia returning to the mansion after parting ways with Subaru. The time she spends at the mansion, and what's flowing behind her is... maybe the memories of that one month after the mabeast incident, the time when she was simply able to spend her days happily.

How long has it been since I last saw him smile like that...?

Heh, come to think of it, this guy could smile like that, huh. The smile from that other guy in episode 15 was so intense I'd forgotten...

Mimi at the start, Mimi at the finish. Doesn't it feel like this episode was just wall-to-wall Mimi cuteness? No? I see. Was that too much? Sorry.