That's All This Story Is About

Re:Zero episode 25 is about to start. It's the final episode. There are all kinds of things I want to say, but anything I say would be gauche. In any case, I fulfilled my dream of live-commentating my own anime every week. I imagine I was pretty noisy, sorry about that, but for now this is the last time you'll have to see it. Stay with my dream to the very end.

I expect I'm as noisy as ever, so if you don't like spoiler-filled commentary tweets, please mute "." I've been doing this the whole time, but this hashtag is probably for the last time too.

And that’s it with Keyakizaka-san too, huh. It’s hard to say goodbye....

I saw the cast coordinating before the start for the first time! Amazing! Thank you!

The final episode of Re:Zero is starting. So then, whether you're the TV Tokyo earliest-broadcast crowd in the royal seats, the people doing air-commentary even though they can't actually watch it, or the people viewing from the rooftops, please have a thick handkerchief ready in your hand.

If you're going to the bathroom, now's your chance.

Part A start!!

The reason Julius closes his eyes here is that he's sharing Subaru's vision, so he does it to avoid doubling up with his own field of view.

Naturally, Julius is fighting by entrusting his vision to Subaru, so in a three-dimensional battle this means he's basically fighting like it's TPS. A feat only Julius could pull off.

A rainbow traces Julius's path. Truly beautiful, elegant, the very "Finest"!!

The principle behind Petelgeuse's "Possession" is a forced spirit arts contract using the power of his own being as an evil spirit. Petelgeuse can only "possess" humans who have aptitude as spirit users, so spirit users who are already contracted are his natural enemy. That is the evil spirit Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti.

Last time, when Petelgeuse "possessed" him, the rampaging life force in Subaru's body caused by Ferris's magic also affected Petelgeuse, so Subaru judged that if he took damage while possessed, he could defeat Petelgeuse too, and he used the penalty for speaking about "Return by Death."

The "Fingers" in the forest have already been defeated by the other subjugation forces, so Petelgeuse has run out of spare bodies to "possess." Petelgeuse, the end. "You were 'Sloth,' after all."

As for why they overlooked the trick in the dragon carriage: Subaru and the others believed that each "Finger," Petelgeuse's spare body, had a self-destruct spell on them. Subaru concluded that the carriage explosion in episode 23 happened because Ketty, the "Finger" at the scene, self-destructed, but in reality Ketty later... (to be continued)

Continued) fought Wilhelm, so it wasn't that he self-destructed. It actually made use of the incomplete detonation of the fire magic stones that had been planted as the trick this time. Because they overlooked that, Subaru and the others concluded that once they had the "Fingers" under control, there would be no explosion.

Incidentally, the one who noticed the "magic ore" trick was Otto, in a fine bit of work after being rescued from the Witch Cult, while checking the cargo manifests of the merchants he'd at least been given after missing his chance to make a profit by helping the villagers escape. Showing how capable he was here marked the beginning of the beginning of his suffering~♪

Otto's "Divine Protection of Soul of Language" is a Divine Protection that lets him converse with living creatures that have wills. When he uses it, he speaks in the target's language, so when he talks with a ground dragon, Otto uses dragon cries; when he talks with cats, cat language; and when he talks with bats, ultrasonic sound. With this power, they pulled off a major shortcut.

Otto’s Divine Protection is quite powerful, so when he acted cruelly toward Subaru in episode 17, he could hear the White Whale chasing after him… When you think of it that way, you can probably understand why he went mad.

On Emilia's side too, Wilhelm is holding them back, but the Witch Cultists have started pursuing them. Wilhelm on a rampage.

At this point, Subaru has already instructed the children. Worried that if the children didn't hold her back, Emilia might go back to fight herself, he entrusted Emilia to them. Petra alone understood that point perfectly, so it's "oh boy."

Having lost the body he could transfer into, Petelgeuse's body has already met death, but without another body the evil spirit Petelgeuse cannot survive, so he came again to seize Subaru's body without caring how desperate he looked.

From here on, please keep your eyes on Petelgeuse's expressions.

As I've mentioned before, dragon carriages are protected by the power of the ground dragon's "Divine Protection of Wind Evasion," which keeps them from being affected by things like wind resistance and the shaking of travel. That effect still applies even if someone climbs onto the carriage afterward, so Petelgeuse came under its influence the instant he latched onto the dragon carriage.

The effect of the "Divine Protection of Wind Evasion" extends a few meters around the dragon carriage. If even part of your body goes outside that range, you leave the protection's influence. When Petelgeuse reached for the Gospel Subaru threw, he moved outside the protection's influence and was hit by air resistance, lost his balance, and took Subaru's blow.

In the Gospel that shows the future, Petelgeuse saw the words "the end." That was the final moment of the evil spirit Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti, desu.

Of course it's written in I-script, but there have been plenty of chances to decipher it by now, and anyone who still hasn't done so is truly slothful, desu, aren't they?

Who could possibly stop a man from going to see the woman he loves? When Wilhelm says that after going through "The Sword Devil's Love Ballad," it just hits right!

Reunion

Emilia's "Why?" is a continuation of that argument back at the royal castle. At that moment, Subaru had as many things he wanted to say as stars in the sky, but he put them all into a single line.

Here, Subaru is using the White Whale's remains to reduce the damage from the magic crystal explosion. The head was taken back to the royal capital by Crusch and the others, but the torso had been left behind frozen. He stuffed magic crystals into that remaining torso, then evacuated.

Here, Patrasche is covering for Subaru. Is she a goddess or what?

Back in episode 23, the magic crystal exploded while insufficiently charged, but this time it exploded after being charged all the way to the critical point, so the firepower was on a completely different level.

Among the subjugation force, there were injuries, but no deaths. You could call it a complete victory. A victory for "Return by Death."

And here comes this song.

A long, long chain of hardship and despair. After overcoming all of that, they finally gained this calm, quiet time alone together. This is a story that exists solely to earn this moment.

A story about taking the long way around, continuing to miss each other, and continuing to lose their way. A single insecure boy conveys his feelings to a single insecure girl. He worked so hard for just that alone...

All parts finished! Thank you very much!!!

Ah, by the way, this time there's a special broadcast format with no commercial break between Part A and Part B, so please go to the bathroom beforehand.

Also, this anime does have blood and dead bodies, but it won't get that over-the-top, so don't worry.

To everyone who stayed with the anime Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- all the way through episode 25, thank you. And to all the staff who saw it through to the end, thank you. To all the cast who breathed life into the characters, thank you. Thank you, truly, to everyone.

I have as many things I want to say, and as much gratitude I want to convey, as stars in the sky, but I can't quite put it all into words right now, so I'll wrap things up here for tonight. Maybe around this same time next week, I'd like to chat here and there about the Re:Zero anime again, so if you'd like, please join me.

Well then, that's all for today! Farewell! Good niiiight!