*Licensed* Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu [Web Novel/Light Novel/Manga]

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Arc 4 Ch 92 (3/3) and that completes the chapter.

Tappei has also updated the WN again, but with two short chapters and left peculiar message that might hint at something.

I've updated it, it's one o'clock.

Today's is a bit of a rehabilitation round, so the story doesn't progress much, but a need has arisen to advance the web novel bit by bit, so please expect a little of this.

Summary of the two chapters:

Spoiler for Arc 6 Ch 44: Medal of Blood:

I'd translate the title as "Medal of Blood" myself. Pretty short.

Subaru deduces that he strangled Meili to death, and that the scratches on his arms are from her. But he notices he has blood on his own nails, while Meili is unscratched. He checks on his black arm, I believe, and finds words engraved there. EDIT: Actually, I think it's the other arm. My bad. The untainted one.

"Natsuki Subaru was here", or something like that. Not an exact translation, but gets the point across. It's how the Japanese translate "...was here" into their own language, at least. He realizes that it's his own handwriting and now thinks that "Natsuki Subaru" is taking control whenever he blacks out.

EDIT: Oh, and because I forgot to mention, there's the usual dose of trying to resuscitate Meili, puking, and freaking out. Not really the plot relevant stuff.

Spoiler for Arc 6 Ch 45: Embrace of the Guilty/Sinner's Embrace:

Well, what's there to say. Subaru hides Meili's body, leaves and bumps into Emilia. He has trouble shaking her off, and she expresses her concern for him because she noticed something was up. Subaru realizes that she's a good person, and all the people there are good to him, and that he and "Natsuki Subaru" are the only ones who aren't. That he knows of.

Emilia hugs him for a bit, and Subaru feels he wants to tell her about what's been going on. Ram interrupts with an urgent matter. Betty's been using her library experience to search the Library. She points them to a book after they arrive, one Subaru knows must be a book of the dead. He can't read the titles, though.

Luckily, Emilia can. The book is Meili's.

And of course, throughout the chapter, Subaru has been worrying about someone finding out that "he" had killed Meili.

Lastly, vol 17 has been stated for release in Sept 25.

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Arc 4 Ch 93 is out, admittingly for days, but I hadn't been post the update due to being busy.

New WN chapter summary from Reddit.

Spoiler for Arc 6 Ch 46: Meili Portroute:

Oh, this one is pretty cool. As best as I understand, it starts with discussing the book. Lots of back and forth about who should read it, with Subaru knowing he can't let anyone else, but everyone eventually comes to the conclusion that it should be him.

Meili was a feral child raised by beasts, she didn't know how to walk or talk or anything really. Elsa came one day and took her to "Mother", who speaks exactly like Capella, and she was apparently eviler than evil. Wanting Meili to live only to love her "Mother". Elsa also worked for Mother but wasn't too loyal, and Meili ended up imitating her instead. Seeming to model all of her human behavior off of Elsa. Though she was still taught manners, and how to walk and talk, by Mother. Meili literally doesn't know how to process Elsa's death, doesn't even know how to mourn or understand the value of life, so she went to the library to find Elsa's book.

Subaru met her there, and Meili freaked out a bit because she thought she'd been found out. Subaru was looking for a specific book and was too impatient to wait for anyone else, and then he leaves. Throughout the memories, Meili's own name is blacked out. Like she doesn't recognize that name as being "her". She just thinks of herself as the "female", considering herself an animal in human shape.

Subaru soon comes back, but he's acting a bit weird. Basically tells her to stop bullshitting him, EDITr rather he tells her not to disgustingly suck up to him and calls her a submissive doll, and to start listening to her desires or something. She starts considering what she wants to do, and then it cuts out to the murder scene.

Meili said something she wasn't supposed to, and that was a rule violation. "Natsuki Subaru" rambles about how this round was lost due to that, but he's hoping next time's performance will be more daring. The Natsuki Subaru murder mystery.

EDIT: Should also note, the murder scene looks a little like an interjection between Meili thinking about what she really wants, and her final thought. "I'll kill you". Meili never comes across as genuinely fond of Subaru. If anything, she's scared of him. She's not exactly happy with how Elsa was burned alive either. She doesn't really know how to express grief and hatred, but that seems to be what's going through her mind after Elsa is killed and she's thrown in prison. The secret message, that it's a rule violation for Meili to tell directly, was just him telling her to listen to her heart. More or less. So Meili's probably the stair-pusher, killing him when she realizes she wants revenge. But not the one who lopped his head off in Tower of the Dead.

Oh, and for a little speculation, Capella being "Mother" has implications on Arc 2. We know Capella is responsible for doing weird shit to Oni girls. seemingly giving them the ability to smell the Witch. Now we know she's the boss of the assassins who struck in Arc 2. In which one particular servant would, in the default timeline, travel alone to the village. And in which a trap was set to lure in the defenders of the village, seemingly in case the true target hadn't already been taken out.

Which is to say, Capella is probably the Bishop tasked with Rem shenanigans in general.

We should be getting some news on vol 17 this week.

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Arc 4 Ch 94 out.

Spoiler for comment:

Quite a sad chapter, Emilia's lack-self-confidence and depreciation is just as bad as Subaru.

His kindness was like sweet poison to Emilia. It melted her heart, her resolve, and laid every ugliness within herself bare.

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Vol 17 cover preview:

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Vol17 already...
Does that mean there's already enough material for a Season2?

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We have had enough since the end of last year when vol 15 got released.

Vol 16 and 17 take place in a new arc.

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Arc 4 Ch 95 (1/2) and Arc 5 Ch 44 (1/2) out.

Re:Zero vol 8 English cover and synopsis are up. The quality was best I could find.

Originally Posted by YenPress

Having overcome the ferocious battle with the fearsome White Whale, Subaru Natsuki returns to the Mathers domain.
With the subjugation force that overcame the deadly combat, and the addition of Julius, their common history reconciled, together they clash with the Witch Cultists under the command of Bishop of the Deadly Sins, Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti.
To thwart the vile schemes of "Sloth" aimed at Emilia and the others, avoid the tragedy he has witnessed multiple times, and to defy Fate itself, Subaru's "Return by Death" experiences open the way forward-!

"So, let me ask this of you. -Let me cling to your back, while you carry me on it."

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Originally Posted by xrick

Vol17 already...
Does that mean there's already enough material for a Season2?

Originally Posted by Applehell

We have had enough since the end of last year when vol 15 got released.

Vol 16 and 17 take place in a new arc.

I think they're waiting until manga has finished Arc 3 and the official English release of the LN has reached Vol 9

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I feel like that is less likely imo. The S2 will be produced with more anime only viewers in mind than source readers like with every adaptation. So there higher chance of Kadokawa waiting til after the OVA than any of the books.

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Full vol 17 cover:

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Arc 4 Ch 95 (2/2) out.

Final vol 17 cover:

Originally Posted by Synopsis

Rough translation by WintryOne:

Hey, hey! All you meatbags, can ya hear me?

With the watergate city Priestella as a stage, the curtain rises on the nightmare of Sirius, the Archbishop of Wrath. Faced with startling circumstances, Subaru must make the best of a shorter 'Return by Death' period than ever before, and clear away the chaos in the city. However, bizarre disasters occur one after another, as though mocking his effort. The occupied watergate control tower, his scattered friends, and the voice of ill intent that echoes through the city... In the city covered by a dark cloud, as though affirming endless malice, the blood shed by the girl is red, so red... "Sorry... Sorry, captain! I, I was...! I couldn't do anything! I'm useless...!"

The popular web novel, sins and chaos in it's seventeenth act. Weep and wail, commoners. Look up to the sins, and lament.

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Vol 17 color preview illustration.

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Arc 4 Ch 95-96 completed and the first half Ch 97 is out. *mod snip* Arc 5 Ch 44 and *mod snip* Ch 45 *mod snip*

Really, we have a lot of new translators popping up doing a bunch of chapters out of order.

Latest WN summaries:

Spoiler for Arc 6 Ch 47: I Won't Forgive:

Subaru is jerked out of the book. He feels quite confused on who he is, speaking using the same pronouns Meili did. With the help of the group, he snaps out of the worst of it. However, his mind has practically become fused with Meili's, with Subaru sometimes thinking as if he was Meili. The group try to find out what Subaru had learnt from the book, but they can't get anything out of him. Ram suggests that someone should read the book, Julius volunteering, but he was successfully convinced not to due to his current mental state. They decide to try and find where Meili had died, as they conclude that she couldn't have left the tower because according to Shaula she would have turned into a "killing machine" if that had happened. Everyone except Shaula and Beatrice leave, resulting in Shaula having a conversation with Subaru where she declares that she'd even go to the moon and knock it down for him and saying she'd do anything he'd desire. After this strange conversation, Subaru tells her to join Emilia and the other's search party, which she does after tossing him back the book. He is left alone with Beatrice, wondering why everyone loves "Natsuki Subaru", looking down at the book and starting to realize that the answer to doing so had been right there in front of him.

Spoiler for Arc 6 Ch 48: Murder Becomes a Habit:

Subaru starts to contemplate about how it's impossible to know anyone, but realizes that he can do it through the book. He wonders if Beatrice's book would appear if he were to snap her neck. Meili's thoughts jump in saying: "It seems like it, doesn't it?" Meili's voice in his head wants him to kill Beatrice to test this out. Subaru thinks it is the rational thing to do, thinking it'd be easy to strangle everyone, though he muses that Julius would be more challenging to strangle. Beatrice realizes that Subaru is in a bad shape, and tells him she is going to bring him to the Green Room. Subaru is eager to see Patrasche again, as he regards her as his only true companion remembering how she had saved him in the prior loop. However, Meili's voice jumps in again saying that he's not the real "Natsuki Subaru" and wonders if Patrasche would really save him if she knew. In the midst of his confusion Beatrice heals the scratches on his arms, with Beatrice mentioning something quite peculiar in saying that Subaru has a habit of scratching into his arms, even saying that she kept it hidden from Emilia. Meili's voice in his head is still trying to persuade him to kill her.

However, Subaru decides not to until he formulates an actual plan. Subaru starts to mutter to himself how "Murder becomes a habit", possibly quoting the fictional detective "Hercule Poirot", in that he continues to consider it as an option to solve all his problems.

Spoiler for Arc 6 Ch 49: To You, the Defective/Failure:

Subaru considers his plan to kill everyone, contemplating on killing Rem first due to how easy it would be, but ultimately decides against it, deciding to start with the stronger individuals first. Everyone else returns from their search party, revealing that they hadn't found Meili's corpse. They discuss what to do, with Echidna saying they should drop the search and try to clear the tower as soon as possible. She doesn't want to stay within Anastasia's body too long due to the effects it has on depleting her Od. They bicker over it for a bit, with Subaru interjecting at the end saying that Meili would want them to carry on. Everyone goes to sleep, but Subaru has plans to find Meili's corpse and properly dispose of it before it rots. Subaru manages to shake off Beatrice from him, and contemplates killing Rem again. He decides now is not the time and goes back to the room where he hid Meili's body. To his surprise, it's gone.

Suddenly stepping into the room, Ram appears and asks him what he was looking for, and calls him a fake. She then goes on to call him a defective version of Barusu, a sorry excuse of Natsuki Subaru, addressing him by his full name.

[Triok123]

^I'm getting increasingly confused, so they are still in the tower, but an amnesia subaru want to kill them all?? wut??

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Arc 5 Ch 46 and 47 can now be read at usual place.

Originally Posted by Triok123

^I'm getting increasingly confused, so they are still in the tower, but an amnesia subaru want to kill them all?? wut??

You should read the earlier summaries at the wiki, but I'll explain:

Spoiler for Subaru's current condition:

Several chapters ago when the amnesic Subaru was trying to learn about his original self he was generally panicking and running from everyone. He was eventually lured into the cavern passageway that was fill with the witch miasma which he once tried go to through in an earlier loop when he still had his memories. At the end of it he discovered a door that had several jewels which 4 of them were lit up. Something called him to that door and ever since he went through it, he's been acting strange and having black outs. That how Meili got killed and why he has scratch marks on his arms. It's like he's been possessed by something sinister on top of losing his memories. Also reading Meili's book also caused parts of her personality/soul to merge with his influence him making the current identity crisis worse. This all while there is killer in the tower offing off everyone. Nobody but Emilia still has gotten through Reid's test either.

New WN summary.

Spoiler for Arc 6 Ch 50:

Ram tells him he had been watching him using Patrasche. Meili's voice from inside his head tells him to kill her, telling him how to go about it. But before he can strike, he is imprisoned in a cage of ice by Emilia, whom Ram had brought along. Ram and Emilia discuss what to do with him, Ram even bringing up torture with Emilia being against that. Ram posits Capella could be behind it, and Meili from within Subaru's head freaks out recalling how she used to turn her into frogs. Ram reveals she doesn't know where Meili's body is, and Subaru interrupts their conversation by shouting out that he had amnesia. This causes Ram to anger, taking out her wand and scream out "How about Rem?", she attacks him with her wand, and Subaru blacks out.

When he comes to, he wakes up inside the same room, his shoulder dislocated and the ice cage intact. Emilia and Ram are nowhere to be seen. Around him, on the walls is written "Natsuki Subaru was here" all over them. And then, Subaru hears a familiar voice, the one of Reid's who walks into the room asking what the hell was going on in here.

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Vol 17 preview is up.


No sample illustrations beyond the ones posted, but we do have the ToC:



Translation

Chapter 1: A Casual Response

Chapter 2: Resolution of Ice and Fire

Chapter 3: Witch Cult Countermeasure Conference

Chapter 4: Gorgeous Tiger

Chapter 5: Stratagem on City Hall

Looks it covering up to Chapter 36 of the WN.

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Re:Zero & Classroom of the Elite are on this month's cover Comic Alive. Both are drawn Shunsaku Tomose who illustrates for Classroom of the Elite.

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Arc 5 Chapters 48-49 now available.
Arc 4 Ch 97 (3/3) up and complete.

WN: Arc 6 Chapters 51-52 summarized.

Spoiler for summary:

Reid fixes Subaru's dislocated shoulder, and proceeds to talk to Subaru, telling him that he needs to deal with his own problems. The tower starts to shake, and they proceed to go down the stairs, finding that the lower floor was filled with a bunch of rampaging Gabaou (some kind of centaur beast. Julius was there alone fighting them, to which Subaru contemplates for a moment that it could be a chance for him to see his book of the dead. Reid jumps down the stairs after telling Subaru about his views on being strong or weak, and proceeds to fight the Gabaou off with his chopsticks. After doing that he proceeds to challenge Julius again to fight him.

Reid and Julius fight each other whilst fending off the Gabaou, despite Julius not wanting to. Subaru notices a Gabaou right behind Julius, and for a split second considers letting it kill Julius to get his book. Instead, he shouts at a warning to him. Avoiding being killed by the Gabaou, Julius shouts at Subaru to go to where Echidna is.

He finds Echidna with Beatrice, the former doubting him and wondering how he escaped the cage. The latter trusting him, saying that she can feel her contract with him when she touches Subaru. They question him and he admits that he has lost his memories. He breaks down into tears, and begs to be sent home. Echidna ignores this and starts to go down to where Julius is.

However, suddenly, they find themselves face to face with a giant, black scorpion, which swings its tail. A blast of light shoots through four floors of the tower.

Spoiler for Black Scorpion:

It's this might be a beastifed Shaula as her name is also based off a constellation Lambda Scorpii. Not being fully human would explained how she survived for 400 years.

[Legis]

A new OAV has been announced for Emilia's birthday. It's an adaptation of "Bond of Ice", the short story about the first encounter between Emilia e Puck.

https://twitter.com/pkjd818/status/1043809248411439105

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Originally Posted by Legis

A new OAV has been announced for Emilia's birthday. It's an adaptation of "Bond of Ice", the short story about the first encounter between Emilia e Puck.

https://twitter.com/pkjd818/status/1043809248411439105

Nice! Would be better in the news thread than here so I will repost your post there.

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WN update.

Spoiler for Arc 6 Ch 53: A Voice Rang Out:

The scorpion proceeds to attack them shooting its magic stinger, Subaru pulls Echidna to safety as Betty erects a magic shield to stop its attack. They manage to temporarily drive the giant scorpion off. However, Subaru spots its tail nearby to them, completely severed off, thinking that one of Beatrice's or Echidna's attacks must have damaged it. Whilst he thinks that the cut looks too clean for it to be down to that, the tail starts to move on its own accord. It explodes, Beatrice dies protecting Subaru and Echidna is caught up in the blast, her legs blown off. In agony, and dying, Echidna begs Subaru to put her out of her misery. Subaru, however, can't bring himself to do it. Echidna, realizing what had happened, apologizes to Subaru for suspecting him and passes away.

After falling to despair, Subaru hears a voice inside his head repeating "I love you, I love you, I love you". The tower seems to be fading into the darkness, swallowed up by it. A voice rings out, like one of a chiming silver bell, cutting into his thoughts, seemingly denying the end of this world.

Arc 4 Ch 98 (1/3) up too.