9.7/10 3,178 votes#1 - 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
9.5/10 2 votes#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
9.0/10 1 votes#3 - 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
9.0/10 1 votes#4 - 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
9.0/10 1 votes#5 - 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: N/A
9.0/10 1 votes#6 - 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
9.0/10 1 votes#7 - 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
8.9/10 1,600 votes#8 - 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
8.6/10 1,026 votes#9 - Wilhelm van Astrea
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/15/2016
Subaru has devoted everything he had, and done all he could do. His passion has captured Crusch’s heart, as well as Anastasia’s cooperation, and they all enter into the battle against the White Whale together.
Director: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 1,068 votes#10 - That’s All This Story Is About
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 9/19/2016
Emilia is hurriedly ushered to the capital along with the villagers under the orders of a mysterious benefactor while escorted by a rag-tag group of individuals from various and opposing factions. She has but one question on her mind: who could this man be and why would he go so far? Meanwhile, Subaru and Julius face off against the Archbishop of Sin Betelgeuse for the ultimate time. Unfortunately, he is very persistent even beyond death, belying his nature of Sloth. Subaru is relentlessly chased while he catches up to Emilia to save her one last time and answer her question.
Director: Masaharu Watanabe
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 1,149 votes#11 - Natsuki Subaru’s Restart
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/16/2016
Standing before Subaru is someone he never expected. The truth of the attacker’s identity leaves him bewildered, and he feels everything crumbling around him as he dies yet again. Then, for the fourth time, he awakes on his first day at the Roswaal mansion. This time, the night of the fourth day passes without incident, and Subaru is stunned as he greets the morning of the fifth day… but then the situation takes an unexpected turn.
Director: Yoshito Mikamo
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 1,066 votes#12 - Rem
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/13/2016
Knocked unconscious by Subaru’s attack, Rem dreams of an event in her past that she and Ram would rather forget… a sin for which Rem feels she can never be forgiven. After waking up, she tells Subaru that she’s just committed the same sin again. When the three of them are moments from being cornered by the Ulgarm pack, Subaru takes off to draw their attention so Ram and Rem can escape.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 1,003 votes#13 - A Wager That Defies Despair
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/22/2016
Subaru and Rem are at a loss for words. The battle against the White Whale, which seemed to be going in their favor through attrition, suddenly took on completely different proportions. With their tactical superiority and advantage quickly dwindling, the combined forces all but get tangled up in the threads of despair. That’s when Subaru decides to yell out his next move…
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 1,126 votes#14 - Starting Life from Zero in Another World
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/18/2016
Subaru attempts to buy the insignia from Felt and return it to Satella before Elsa arrives at the loot house… but Satella arrives before the negotiations are complete, and Elsa still attacks them.
Director: Kazuomi Koga
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.3/10 1,014 votes#15 - The Meaning of Courage
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/30/2016
The scattered pieces of the puzzle finally come together, and Subaru realizes for certain that the shaman who cursed him is in the village at the foot of the mountains. He heads there with Ram and Rem and makes sure all the villagers touch him so that he can find out, with Beatrice’s help, who cast the curse. But the truth he finds is not what he expected, and he finds himself rushing toward the village again…
Director: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
Writer: N/A
8.3/10 990 votes#16 - Nefarious Sloth
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/5/2016
The group is making its way in the Mathers domain when suddenly everyone but Subaru disappears and a strange, suffocating atmosphere seeps through the forest. He quickly figures out it is nothing but an illusion, and with help from Julius on the other side, dispels the barrier for everyone caught in it. However, arriving at the village doesn’t make convincing the residents to evacuate easy. Time is running out, and the invisible hand of sloth makes its presence at the back of Subaru’s mind more and more nefarious.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 1,267 votes#17 - The End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/4/2016
Natsuki Subaru is summoned to a parallel world on his way home from the convenience store. He's entranced at first by the fantasy world suddenly stretching before his eyes, but the cute girl he believes summoned him is nowhere to be found, and soon enough he's utterly lost. Then a gang of punks surrounds him, but he quickly learns that he doesn't have any of the powers that he thought all people transported to a parellel world should have. Just when he's about to be beaten senseless, a girl appears...
Director: Masaharu Watanabe
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.1/10 1,045 votes#18 - The Sound of Chains
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/9/2016
Subaru’s first day at the Roswaal mansion begins for the third time. The first time, he grew weak and died of unknown reasons in his sleep, and the second time, he was killed by an attacker. The sound of chains that he heard as he died the second time replays in his mind, waking him in a terrified, cold sweat. He has no idea what the killer is after, let alone who it is, so he makes a plan to leave the mansion on the fourth night and watch for the attack to happen.
Director: Hideyo Yamamoto
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
8.1/10 1,047 votes#19 - I Cried, Cried My Lungs Out, and Stopped Crying
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/23/2016
Subaru’s first day in Roswaal’s mansion begins for the fifth time. Determined to save everyone this time, he makes it a point to keep his best smile on his face in order to earn the trust of the mansion’s staff. But although he works his hardest to make them like him, his body begins to have trouble keeping up with his heart’s intentions. Soon Emilia is unable to bear the sight of him struggling any longer and takes an unexpected action…
Director: Manabu Okamoto
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.1/10 1,017 votes#20 - The Sickness Called Despair
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/4/2016
“I just wanted to protect her. That feeling wasn’t a lie. Where did I go wrong?” Rejected by the one who meant more to him than anything, Subaru is still unable to recognize that he may have done something irreversible. He then finds out that some disturbing movement has been detected within Roswaal’s domain, where Emilia and the others are. He’s certain that he can save them somehow, so in spite of Rem and Crusch’s opposition, Subaru makes his way back to Emilia…
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 977 votes#21 - Disgrace in the Extreme
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/25/2016
A mysterious figure appears before Subaru and his traveling companions. As the looming beast attacks with a deafening bellow amidst the darkness and fog, Rem determines that it will be too difficult to escape…
Director: Yoshito Mikamo
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
8.0/10 987 votes#22 - Fanatical Methods Like a Demon
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/6/2016
Subaru risked his life to save the children from a pack of Ulgarm, but he was so powerfully cursed that there could be no saving him. Even Beatrice is unable to undo the complex web of curses on him, and says he’ll grow weak and die within half a day. The only way he can survive is if the entire Ulgarm pack is defeated, but time is not on his side. Subaru is ready to give up when he learns that Rem has gone into the forest by herself…
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 948 votes#23 - Battle Against the White Whale
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/8/2016
To save Emilia, Subaru approaches Crusch to negotiate the formation of an alliance. His terms are a bit difficult for Crusch to believe, but she can see that Subaru isn’t lying.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 1 votes#24 - 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
8.0/10 1 votes#25 - 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
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 world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.
Genres:AnimationComedyAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-" is "The Outside of Madness", rated 9.7/10 from 3178 user votes. It was directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya and written by Eiji Umehara. "The Outside of Madness" aired on 7/11/2016 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Offbeat Steps Under the Moonlight".