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The Best Episodes of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 15 - The Outside of Madness
    9.8/10(39405 votes)

    S1:E15

    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.”

    Directors:Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Shunsuke Nakashige
    Writer:Eiji Umehara

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  2. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 44 - The Permafrost of Elior Forest
    9.8/10(65 votes)

    S1:E44

    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:Unknown

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  3. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 33 - The Value of Life
    9.7/10(67 votes)

    S1:E33

    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:Kazuomi Koga
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 40 - Otto Suwen / A Reason to Believe
    9.7/10(64 votes)

    S1:E40

    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:Kazuhiro Ozawa
    Writer:Yoshiko Nakamura

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  5. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 48 - Love Me Down to My Blood and Guts
    9.7/10(66 votes)

    S1:E48

    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:Unknown

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  6. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 57 - The Newest of Heroes and the Most Ancient of Heroes
    9.7/10(68 votes)

    S1:E57

    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

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  7. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 74 - Who Are You?
    9.7/10(67 votes)

    S1:E74

    Subaru wakes up in the green room, remembering absolutely nothing about the world he is in.

    Director:Hinako Masaki
    Writer:Yoshiko Nakamura

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  8. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 77 - Re: Life Starting in Another World From Zero
    9.7/10(64 votes)

    S1:E77

    Subaru tries desperately to convince the others that he's lost his memories, but they aren't convinced.

    Director:Yudai Ishikawa
    Writer:Yoshiko Nakamura

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  9. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 29 - Parent and Child
    9.6/10(69 votes)

    S1:E29

    It’s supposed to be his own room, a place he’s supposed to be used to seeing, but Subaru can’t shake the feeling that something is off. He’s overcome by an indescribable sense of uneasiness, but being caught in his father Kenichi’s armlock shakes it away. Subaru is stunned, but retaliates with a wrestling move of his own. As the two of them carry on, Subaru’s mother, Nahoko, informs them that she’s hungry and they should all eat breakfast together. Subaru meets his parents again during the trial offered by the greed witch.

    Director:Yoshito Mikamo
    Writer:Yoshiko Nakamura

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  10. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 32 - Friend
    9.6/10(66 votes)

    S1:E32

    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

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  11. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 36 - The Taste of Death
    9.6/10(66 votes)

    S1:E36

    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…

    Directors:Kazuomi Koga, Kazuhiro Ozawa
    Writer:Yoshiko Nakamura

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  12. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 37 - The Witches’ Tea Party
    9.6/10(66 votes)

    S1:E37

    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:Unknown

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  13. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 38 - The Sounds That Make You Want to Cry
    9.6/10(65 votes)

    S1:E38

    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:Unknown

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  14. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 41 - Nobody Can Lift a Quain Stone Alone
    9.6/10(65 votes)

    S1:E41

    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:Unknown

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  15. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 42 - A Journey Through Memories
    9.6/10(63 votes)

    S1:E42

    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

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  16. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 47 - Happiness Reflected on the Water's Surface
    9.6/10(67 votes)

    S1:E47

    Frederica is gradually backed into a corner by Elsa’s attacks. Then Garfiel rushes to the scene with a silver shield on each arm. The siblings’ reunion after so many years is cut short when Elsa’s knife violently clashes against Garfiel’s shield. Meanwhile, Subaru heads to the forbidden library where Beatrice is. She’s surprised when he enters the library and tells her that, after she spent 400 years there under a contract that might as well have been a curse, he’s going to get her out.

    Director:Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 49 - Choose Me
    9.6/10(67 votes)

    S1:E49

    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:Kazuhiro Ozawa
    Writer:Yoshiko Nakamura

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  18. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 50 - Offbeat Steps Under the Moonlight
    9.6/10(67 votes)

    S1:E50

    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

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  19. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 59 - City Scramble
    9.6/10(64 votes)

    S1:E59

    While the others deal with the other Archbishops, Subaru puts his plan to stop Regulus into action.

    Director:Ichinosuke Akikaze
    Writer:Masahiro Yokotani

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  20. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 62 - Regulus Corneas
    9.6/10(64 votes)

    S1:E62

    Emilia seeks the aid of Regulus's wives in dethroning the little king once and for all.

    Director:Kazue Otsuki
    Writer:Yoshiko Nakamura

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  21. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 63 - The Warrior's Commendation
    9.6/10(64 votes)

    S1:E63

    Capella uses Al's admiration for Priscilla against him, and Garfiel fights the legendary "Eight-Arms" Kurgan.

    Director:Masahiro Shinohara
    Writer:Eiji Umehara

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  22. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 64 - Theresia van Astrea
    9.6/10(63 votes)

    S1:E64

    Wilhelm finds himself face to face with his beloved wife who died years ago.

    Director:Hinako Masaki
    Writer:Eiji Umehara

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  23. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 66 - The Result of the Battle for Priestella
    9.6/10(63 votes)

    S1:E66

    Otto and Beatrice battle Gluttony, the last of the Sin Archbishops terrorizing Priestella.

    Director:Mamiko Sekiya
    Writer:Masahiro Yokotani

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  24. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 68 - Overcome Sand Time
    9.6/10(64 votes)

    S1:E68

    Subaru and company struggle to cross the Auguria Dunes on the way to the Pleiades Watchtower.

    Director:Hinako Masaki
    Writer:Yoshiko Nakamura

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  25. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 69 - The Keeper of the Watchtower
    9.6/10(64 votes)

    S1:E69

    The party is separated just before reaching the Pleiades Watchtower. Subaru awakens to find he's underground.

    Director:Hidekazu Hara
    Writer:Yoshiko Nakamura

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Outside of Madness" is the best rated episode of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- season 1. It scored 9.8/10 from 39,405 votes. Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Shunsuke Nakashige and written by Eiji Umehara, it aired on July 11, 2016.