The Meaning of Courage

The rejuvenated granny is the real village chief, and the village chief who looks like Bli is the fake chief, an old man who's the granny's younger brother.

Two girls who are obviously cute

At this point, Subaru-kun has singled out people he remembers being touched by in previous loops and is making the rounds, letting them touch him in moderation. (Children don't register to him.

Thank you, as always, for staying with me this late every single time. All right then, Part A as well!

Still, Petra and Meili are cute, aren't they...?

Petra, and the other girl besides the one with the braids, is Meina, but a girl about her age gives off the average village girl vibe. Petra is in a class of her own.

A 500-yen bald spot, huh.

It feels like there may or may not be some backstory where Meina is copying Petra's stylish outfit.

Huh, are they actually dressed normally!?

At this point, it feels like the person Roswaal-san is going to meet is Garfiel with Ryuzu-san.

This really has that sky-dancing technique vibe.

It's an application of Wind magic, but besides Roswaal-san, there really aren't many people who can fly.

"So she was among the villagers..." Subaru-kun takes quite a hit from that.

Beako-san has completely become the handy utility character.

Pack is shamelessly cute even when he's not there.

The kind of teeth-grinding that goes like "dindugudiggun."

In the original work and the manga, there's one more suspect, but the crew cut guy and the captain of the guard are the same person, so I left him out.

A more subdued scar than usual.

"I'm watching over that side too."

The author's top-pick Emilia-tan in pajamas.

A lap pillow, huh. It really is a lap pillow.

It's basically like flint.

Part A is over!

Fast.

Part B begins!

Around the part where he got bitten at noon.

The first time the word "mabeast" has appeared up to this point.

"I'm worried about Nee-sama, I'm worried about Nee-sama, I'm worried about Nee-sama."

The children's names are finally revealed...!

Grandpa and Grandma have gotten up and are being noisy.

Rem's hidden motive is finally revealed...!

It's for self-defense.

The way he died the fifth and sixth times was also the result of self-defense.

Proactive self-defense...!

Normally, once a curse is activated, it can't be removed. The children's lives should be hanging by a thread... but this time alone is a bit of an exception.

Still, Petra really is such a good kid.

Thinking, "I can beat a puppy, right...?" is really underestimating puppies. Against an animal that's gone back to the wild, a human can't even beat a Chihuahua...!

The moment Rem's opinion of Subaru shifts slightly.

Not related, but they say snipers injure someone to lure other people out, right?

Medium-sized Ulgarm makes its first appearance.

Isn't this design incredible? It really makes you feel like there's no way you can win.

By the way, the name was changed from Juggernaut in the web version to Ulgarm in the print version, and a big reason was that "it sounded too strong". But looking at this design, it feels like maybe Juggernaut would have been fine after all.

The hero comes to the heroine's rescue!

When a character who's put you through this much misery finally becomes an ally, how dependable they feel is off the charts.

Proactive self-defense.

The heroine gets hurt while protecting Subaru and Meili.

Puppy Ulgarm (Bossgarm) appears.

Reboot.

This is Rem's first "oni transformation," isn't it.

The title "The Meaning of Courage" is taken from the narration when they enter the forest to save the children. As Subaru says, "I didn't know courage could be this frightening," so it's the scene where he overcomes that fear and goes into the forest. It's also the moment when Rem's opinion of Subaru changed, at least a little.

Basically, I structure it so the titles are taken from the web version's subtitles.

This episode reveals what all those countless points of light floating in the second half of the ED really are. In other words, the ones that appear later are the enemies who put kill marks on Subaru... how novel!

By the way, in the second half of the OP, Elsa's knife and Rem's iron ball appear for just a moment, and those are also the weapons that put kill marks on Subaru. Isn't it novel that instead of the protagonists' weapons, the weapons that killed the protagonist are what appear?

Well then, thank you again this week for staying with me so late into the night... late? Or rather, until early in the morning! Looks like next week will probably be nerve-racking too, but I don't think the timeslot will be any later than today. I don't think so. Maybe. Well, brace yourselves a little!