10.0/103 votesLoading...#1 - A Showdown of Fire and Ice
Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 10/9/2024
Subaru desperately tries to fend off the attack from Sin Archbishop Sirius. But then, other Archbishops appear...
Director: Ichinosuke Akikaze
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
9.8/104 votesLoading...#2 - Offbeat Steps Under the Moonlight
Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 3/24/2021
The magic Roswaal is using to control the weather generates enough mana to attract the Great Rabbit, which draws closer to the Sanctuary in a massive horde. Emilia takes Roswaal and Ram to shelter in the graveyard with everyone else, but the Great Rabbit horde has already grown enough to engulf their surroundings. Just when all hope seems lost, Subaru and Beatrice appear before Emilia. So begins Subaru and Beatrice's first battle against the Great Rabbit, one of the Three Great Mabeasts.
Director: Masaharu Watanabe
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
9.7/105,026 votesLoading...#3 - The Outside of Madness
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 7/11/2016
Upon returning to Roswaal’s mansion, Subaru is greeted by an unbelievable sight and wails that this was not what he wanted to happen. Stricken with despair, everything before Subaru starts to go white as, finally, he hears a voice: “You were too late.”
Director: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
Writer: Eiji Umehara
9.7/103 votesLoading...#4 - The Newest of Heroes and the Most Ancient of Heroes
Season 1 Episode 57 - Aired 11/13/2024
Through a Witch's Cultist's conference mirror, Emilia tells Al where the Sin Archbishops are and asks him to protect Beatrice. Al relays Emilia's message to Subaru, and the gang begins to devise a strategy to win back the control towers.
Director: Masato Goto
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
9.7/103 votesLoading...#5 - The One I'll Love Someday
Season 1 Episode 58 - Aired 11/20/2024
Subaru and the others hold a meeting in the city hall to develop a strategy against the four Sin Archbishops. However, Emilia is slowly running out of time...
Director: Hidekazu Hara
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
9.5/102 votesLoading...#6 - Each One's Promise
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 7/8/2020
Amid dying countless times, Subaru finally led the troops to victory against the White Whale and struck down the schemes of the Sin Archbishop of Sloth. After overcoming a painful ending to his these ordeals, he was reunited at last with his beloved Emilia… only to learn that Rem’s existence had been erased from the world, wiped out by the White Whale somewhere in the middle of his death loop. And now that the White Whale is defeated, Subaru and the others face a crisis no one could have expected.
Director: Naoko Takeichi, Masaharu Watanabe
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
9.5/102 votesLoading...#7 - The Next Location
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 7/15/2020
After concluding their talks with Crusch, Subaru and Emilia return to the village of Arlam, intending to report to Roswaal and discuss what to do next. But they find Arlam deserted and learn that the villagers who had taken refuge in the Sanctuary with Ram have not yet returned. When Subaru and Emilia arrive back at Roswaal’s mansion to find out where the Sanctuary is, they are greeted by Frederica, a young woman who used to work as one of Roswaal’s maids.
Director: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
9.5/102 votesLoading...#8 - Friend
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 8/19/2020
Subaru had reached for the door, determined to save Rem from harm even if his current world would soon end. But instead of Rem, he found himself staring at Beatrice’s library. Beatrice had remained silent throughout Elsa’s attack and saved Subaru’s life just moments before Elsa could claim it. Subaru shouts at Beatrice, demanding to know why she didn’t help before everyone else was killed, and an intense argument ensues. Then Subaru catches sight of a familiar-looking book…
Director: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
9.5/102 votesLoading...#9 - The Witches’ Tea Party
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 9/23/2020
Subaru awakens in the graveyard with Emilia lying nearby. This time, he makes up his mind to save not only Emilia, but everyone in the Sanctuary and Roswaal’s mansion from the threats that hang over them. Roswaal makes it clear that he will use Subaru’s power to keep starting over by force if he has to, if it will allow him to achieve his own goal. What is driving Roswaal to go to such lengths? In search of the answer to this and many other questions, Subaru goes to see Echidna once again.
Director: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
Writer: N/A
9.5/102 votesLoading...#10 - Love Me Down to My Blood and Guts
Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 3/10/2021
After witnessing an unrealized present, Emilia completes the second trial and begins the third and final one. Ram and Puck are fighting their hardest to stop Roswaal. Each of them is doing it all for the sake of realizing their own goals. The battle between Garfiel and Elsa at Roswaal’s mansion is also growing more and more intense. As Subaru is being chased by a guiltylowe, he declares that it’s time to make use of his unparalleled knowledge of the modern world and lures it into a closet…
Director: Kazuomi Koga
Writer: N/A
9.5/102 votesLoading...#11 - A Dark Torrent
Season 1 Episode 55 - Aired 10/30/2024
The attack on the city hall enters its second phase. Subaru and Crusch breach the interior, but there they are awaited by Capella, who has some sneaky tricks up her sleeve...
Director: Kazue Otsuki
Writer: Eiji Umehara
9.5/102 votesLoading...#12 - Conditions of the Knight
Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 11/6/2024
Bishop Regulus of the Seven Deadly Sins wants to force Emilia to marry him, even though he already has hundreds of wives. While he is having the wedding hall prepared, Subaru and the others are planning to rescue Emilia and reclaim the city...
Director: Masahiro Shinohara
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
9.0/102,229 votesLoading...#13 - From Zero
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 8/1/2016
Subaru laments that he could not do anything or save anyone, and has no options left. Exhausted, he suddenly takes off running at full speed as if he’s made a decision…
Director: Kazuomi Koga
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
9.0/102 votesLoading...#14 - The Long-Awaited Reunion
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 7/22/2020
On the way to the Sanctuary, Subaru unwittingly finds himself invited to a witch’s tea party, where the hostess introduces herself as Echidna, the Witch of Greed. Subaru is alarmed, but Echidna encourages him to sit and drink his tea before it gets cold. When he somehow makes it back outside after a conversation with Echidna, he finds Otto lying on the ground, battered and beaten. Then, before he even has a moment to assess the situation, Subaru himself is attacked.
Director: Kenichi Kawamura
Writer: Eiji Umehara
9.0/102 votesLoading...#15 - A Step Forward
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 8/5/2020
Having reached a place he can’t return from, Subaru realizes just how much he has been given and how little he can do to repay any of it. After remembering what he must do, he says goodbye to Kenichi and Nahoko and heads to the school. Steeling his resolve, Subaru opens the door to the classroom, where he’s greeted by Echidna in a school uniform. When Echidna says he arrived much sooner than she expected, Subaru responds that she looks good in the uniform.
Director: Kazuomi Koga
Writer: N/A
9.0/102 votesLoading...#16 - The Maiden's Gospel
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 8/12/2020
After dying to Elsa’s blade in Roswaal’s mansion, Subaru awakens back in the graveyard, in the moment immediately after he passed the trial that required him to face his past. Just like the first time he returned there, he wakes Emilia and holds her to comfort her, then returns to Ryuzu and the others. He tells them that he passed the trial himself and suggests that he could complete the remaining stages of the trial in Emilia’s place, but Garfiel is opposed.
Director: Kazuhiro Ozawa
Writer: N/A
9.0/102 votesLoading...#17 - The Value of Life
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 8/26/2020
Subaru was caught and confined by Garfiel, but Otto shows up to rescue him. Garfiel can’t leave the graveyard while Emilia is undergoing the trial, so Otto says this is their chance to get outside the barrier, but Subaru doesn’t agree. However, after he learns that Ram will be helping them—that she has been ordered by Roswaal to help him, in fact—Subaru puts his escape on hold to have a talk with Roswaal.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
9.0/102 votesLoading...#18 - Love Love Love Love Love Love You
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 9/2/2020
After being eaten alive by a herd of unknown creatures resembling rabbits, Subaru awakens in a half-maddened state next to Emilia in the graveyard. As he pounds his head against the rocky ground over and over in anguish, he finds himself invited once again to a witch’s tea party. There, he tells Echidna about his Return by Death ability, something he has never been able to tell anyone before. Echidna then begins to tell Subaru about the witch who gave him this power and set him on this agonizing path.
Director: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
Writer: N/A
9.0/102 votesLoading...#19 - The Taste of Death
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 9/16/2020
Subaru heads to Roswaal’s mansion in hopes of finding out what’s going on there and how he can fix it. He has Frederica and Petra evacuate to Arlam Village to protect them from Elsa’s attack, then heads to Beatrice’s forbidden library. He tries to get Beatrice out of the library, but her wishes don’t align with his plans, and their discussion goes nowhere. Then, against all logic, Elsa finds her way into the forbidden library…
Director: Kazuomi Koga, Kazuhiro Ozawa
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
9.0/102 votesLoading...#20 - The Sounds That Make You Want to Cry
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 9/30/2020
Subaru is shown several visions of events previously unknown to him during the second phase of the trial. When he feels as if he’s worn away to nearly nothing, the one to stir him is the one who loves him more than anyone else… and is tougher on him than anyone else. When he awakens to see Echidna extending a hand to help him, he tells her he’ll never accept it. Then the Witch of Envy appears, clad in a veil of darkness, and extends her hand to him as well. Subaru refuses again, screaming that he’ll solve everything on his own without any of their help.
Director: Kazuomi Koga
Writer: N/A
9.0/102 votesLoading...#21 - Otto Suwen / A Reason to Believe
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 1/13/2021
Having been born with the “soul of language” divine protection that allows him to converse with non-human creatures, Otto Suwen’s life has truly had its ups and downs. After being run out of his hometown because of his ability, he found his independence as a merchant, was attacked by the Witch’s Cult, met Subaru… and now, his life is literally on the line in a deadly game of tag. To fulfill his part of the plan, Otto must evade Garfiel’s vicious attacks in a desperate effort to buy time.
Director: N/A
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
9.0/102 votesLoading...#22 - Nobody Can Lift a Quain Stone Alone
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 1/20/2021
The missing Emilia was in the graveyard all along, her lost memories beginning to return due to Puck’s disappearance. Confused and losing heart over the realization that she’s forgotten such important memories, she tries her hardest to convey her feelings to Subaru. When the two of them leave the graveyard, they’re awaited by Garfiel, who’s been battered and beaten by Otto and Ram. He tries to prevent the Sanctuary’s liberation by closing off the graveyard himself, but Subaru won’t let him have his way without a fight.
Director: Kazuomi Koga
Writer: N/A
9.0/102 votesLoading...#23 - A Journey Through Memories
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 1/27/2021
As she attempts the first trial, Emilia finds herself in Elior Forest, where she lived when she was younger. Echidna snidely remarks on her audacity to set foot here after so thoroughly disgracing herself before, but Emilia responds with a bold smile and tells her she won’t cave to the malice of a fellow witch. As they proceed deeper into the forest, they come upon a massive tree towering over its surroundings. At its base is a small, barred door, which Emilia identifies as the Princess Room where she was often sent to play as a child.
Director: Takashi Sakuma
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
9.0/102 votesLoading...#24 - The Permafrost of Elior Forest
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 2/10/2021
Pandora, the Witch of Vanity, stands before Geuse and Fortuna. They both face her with all the strength they have. Meanwhile, young Emilia runs toward the place where the seal is, believing that everyone will be saved if she gives Pandora what she wants. But when she arrives, Pandora is already there, insisting that she hand over the key to opening the seal.
Director: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
Writer: N/A
9.0/102 votesLoading...#25 - Choose Me
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 3/17/2021
After completing the final trial, Emilia emerges from the graveyard into a blizzard heavy enough to block her vision. The people of the Sanctuary and the villagers of Arlam huddle together behind a giant wall of ice, created to shield them from the bitter cold by none other than the great spirit who was once contracted to Emilia. When Emilia touches the ice wall, something flows into her from within it. With a nod of acknowledgement to the voice she hears, she finally takes action.
Director: N/A
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
The Best Episodes of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
Every episode of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-!
Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another...
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Best Episodes Summary
"A Showdown of Fire and Ice" is the best rated episode of "Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-". It scored 10/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Ichinosuke Akikaze and written by Yoshiko Nakamura, it aired on 10/9/2024. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Offbeat Steps Under the Moonlight".