Season 3 is undeniably the worst season of Re:Zero

@FutoiOtaku If you knew it was worst bait but still decided to take the bait, doesn't that make you worse than the baiter? 🤔

The OP is a fisherman using a rubber boot as bait, and you're the downie fish that decided to bite anyway.

Such a L TAKE if you hate Re:Zero (this season) so much then you're a horrendous, abominable, disgusting, putrid simpleton 😭🙏

This undeniably the worst thread on MAL.

0/10 rage bait try again next time

0/10 rage bait, not good enough of a hook to even keep me reading. Keep going you’ll get there!!

Scrolled past everything to say you're wrong and should meet the same fate as Regulus

With every passing episode of this season, this opinion becomes even more wrong, Re Zero is not just showing that it's peak with it's storytelling and characters but it's fight scenes are just as peak.

The title is clearly bait, you don’t say ‘I think that… etc’, just ‘this is undeniably blah blah blah. I deny that opinion strongly, it is IN MY OPINION the best produced and most accurately adapted season so far. You have a right to think otherwise, but presenting your take as ‘undeniable’ is egocentric beyond reason.

@Piromysl “anyone else feel this way?”

@BigPaws

The title is clearly bait, you don’t say ‘I think that… etc’, just ‘this is undeniably blah blah blah. I deny that opinion strongly, it is IN MY OPINION the best produced and most accurately adapted season so far. You have a right to think otherwise, but presenting your take as ‘undeniable’ is egocentric beyond reason.

@Co1d "undeniably" in the thread title

You can hardly use terms like ‘reading comprehension’ to talk yourself out of the corner you put yourself in by writing that header. It is clearly intended to be provocative or maybe you don’t actually understand your own words? Is English not your first language?

Honestly, the one thing I'm taking away from season 3 so far is how much I dislike Subaru. He is nothing but cringe when he opens his mouth. Which was fine before he received the title of knight. Now it just feels forced. Also the terrible character progression he got between seasons is disappointing. I get it he is trying not to use his "return by death" but to go from using as a crux for 2 seasons to completely disregarding it without so much as a single thought is bad writing. Also who doesn't practice using Greed's invisible hands during that 1 year of training in-between seasons?

The large cast this season with multiple battles spread out over the whole city doesn't help either. Villains need to be fleshed out too instead of just being a "must defeat bad guy who is totally bad". If Regulus had been given a flashback before the fight with Reinhard and Subaru, it would have added more emotional weight to the fight. MHA does this well giving all important players their screen time to allow us as viewers the opportunity to understand and appreciate them, whether good or bad.

@Hawkeye752 Good on you for providing valid and tangible criticism. MAL seems to be a place that's unfortunately lacking in subtlety.

Agreed on the villains/antagonists. Petelgeuse in season 1 was terrifying but intriguing, and he had enough space to himself to really feel like a huge threat. Echidna/Roswaal were of course more antagonists than straight up villains, but they were both so engaging and well-written in both their ambition and goals.

Regulus is the only one we've really seen outside of this season (other than Gluttony in a single scene in season 2), but even his scenes were all just "I'm bad and an asshole". His buildup this season was just more of the same, he's even more of an asshole than we thought, and now he's dead. The other archbishops are far worse off, even less interesting and 1-dimensional.

Agreed with everything else too. When he used unseen hands I was caught off-guard, I almost forgot he had these powers. Where tf were they when he was literally dying in the first couple episodes? Or when he was fighting and dying against Lust?

I have no problems with OP characters, but they need to be handled with care. The way they handled Reinhard during the first archbishop attack was so, so lame, with Heinkel holding Felt hostage so Reinhard couldn't join the fight. He's impossibly OP, moving at insane speeds, but he can't outrun Heinkel...? Also, they really just wrote out Betty after she was way too strong in Season 2.

That really doesn't work out as well as it sounds, however I'm just hoping that this is just a phase where the 'Bad guys fail so miserably against the good guys cuz they chose the worst possible time and place to execute their plan'
(I'm also hoping I'm wrong about the failing part.)

Also the biggest issue with this season is the unredeemable cringe-ass that became of Regulus
The Regulus I remember from season 2 (from like a brief 10 minutes of screentime) wouldn't have let the fight with Subaru and Emilia, of all people, to go on for so long, and because he listened to their yapping and yapped a lot himself. He'd have shredded them into meat scraps seconds after the first insult.
That's what regulus should've been, and I guess that's something that Teppei himself screwed up. He can't even be remotely compared to the terror that was Betelgeuse in Season 1, or the complex shit that Roswaal was upto in S2.

Also gotta hate the long conversation gaps in between fights rather than implementing them better with the flow. That's mostly on the direction.

However there were certain really good episodes, like episode 10, the episode where Subaru figures out Wrath's authority and the one where , it's just that the lows of this season were much worse than S1 or 2, whereas the highs are just as good.

I'm just gonna put my trust in Masahiro Shinohara to get the hang of things by the next season, because it's definitely not hitting like Watanabe's direction.

@DoctorWasabi WhiteFox asked for help in season 2. Ufotable helped in Garfiel x Elsa battle, and in the episode "Choose Me". They could've done the same... Especially since they have more budget to make a better art. Arc 6 will also suffer from this, because they decided to animate arc 5 & 6 at the same time, both were to be included as the third season, with 38 episodes in total. But due to production issues, it was postponed and arc 6 will officially be called Season 4.

I'm talking about the Anime here and his first appearance was everything but pathetic

Regulus was originally presented as a pathetic little king who got incredible power and he is very overconfident and stupid. The only thing I would have done is to extend the episode and put his flashback instead of Liliana's.

@Swyzen I assume this is LN content? I don't think we've seen Regulus' backstory in the anime.

It is the best season so far. Animation gotten a upgrade while stakes are higher than ever since most of the whole cast of both villains and heroes are here fighting each other. What are you smoking bro?

@Mdraj6996 Season 3 is only about battles. Subaru almost never dies (wich is the point of REzero). And the characters are becoming supergenerics. I mean... How much Subaru changed in the season 3 from the 1th episode to 16th. I'll tell you how much : ZERO. The animation are greats... Wow, but if I only cared about freaking animation, I WOULD NOT WATCH REZERO IN THE FIRST PLACE (It's animation is pretty much normal for a 2025 anime).

Rezero strong point is character developpement. But season 3's CD is just bad.

But you're free to like it if you want. Have a great day

has the iq of rezero community collectively dropped or their brains have rusted? i'm reading this replies and i'm feeling so disappointed and sad like how are these people putting this season on the same level as s1 and s2????? its honestly insulting. if you can't see how bad this season is compared to previous 2 then there's something def wrong with you.

I'm talking about the Anime here and his first appearance was everything but pathetic

Cannot agree more, this season was a complete mess on pretty much all fronts

@Dreezo No you just have zero media literacy and can't follow any storyline if it's not basic thing ever created.

@Okeanix media literacy? Quite the opposite i have enough media literacy to know it was shit.
Animation outside of few explosive moments was really poor quality, fight choreography was abysmal, characters are somehow even worse with every season, like it was a step down in every possible department, and storyline was really bad in comparison as well, just a brainless battle anime.
You have no media literacy to know what made previous seasons work that for sure

probably weakest arc of all imo but next arc will be peak if the manage the pacing

@Dreezo Thanks for proving you have no media literacy.

I don't see any actual argument with actual solid proof, just saying "it's bad because it's bad."

Waiting explanation. I don't expect Dandadan fan to understand quality.

@Okeanix he's got code geass in favorites bro don't expect any form of logic from him

@Dreezo Thanks for proving you have no media literacy.

I don't see any actual argument with actual solid proof, just saying "it's bad because it's bad."

Waiting explanation. I don't expect Dandadan fan to understand quality.

@Okeanix Well I do hope you are trolling, either that or i will pray for your mental health brother

@mohamedo_abuduru Geass had propably the best ending of all time when it came out, not sure what nostalgia got anything to do with logic

@Dreezo Again dodging and not explaining what's wrong with Season 3.

Since you rated both Season 2 Part 2 and Season 3 very low scores, I assume Re:Zero sucks because Subaru does not die?

As expected zero media literacy.

@Okeanix Well yes, the whole series is based on that, subaru is purposely created to be unlikable annoying clown, S2 even spell it out for you.
So we got a character that is so annoying you enjoy watching him get bullied, but with enough redeming qualities to actually feel bad for him after some time, said time is used to progress the character. When he starts being insufferable again the process repeats, its a really well made and thought out mechanic tbh

@Dreezo And you cry when we call you have "zero media literacy"?

When your comment is literally proof you didn't understand single thing from entire Re:Zero?