6.3/103 votesLoading...#1 - I Know Hell
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 9/9/2020
Subaru exits the graveyard to find the surroundings engulfed in deep black shadows. With the sudden appearance of the Witch of Envy, everything is swallowed up by darkness. After Garfiel rushes in to save him, Subaru tries to find a way to get them out of danger, but the Witch of Envy is relentless in her pursuit. Subaru finally offers himself as bait to stall her so Garfiel can intercept and attack, but he’s helpless against the Witch of Envy, and everything continues to be engulfed by her shadows.
Director: Yoshito Mikamo
Writer: N/A
7.3/101,302 votesLoading...#2 - Return to the Capital
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/20/2016
At the order of the council of elders that manages Lugunica in the king’s absence, Wilhelm and Felix visit Roswaal’s mansion as emissaries. Emilia is required in the imperial capital right away, so Subaru asks her to take him along. Emilia tells him this won’t be a pleasure trip, but a push from Rem and Roswaal ends in her agreement, so Emilia and Subaru head to the capital. Now all of the candidates to be Lugunica’s next king are gathered, and the royal selection is underway.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/101,377 votesLoading...#3 - Self-Proclaimed Knight Natsuki Subaru
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/27/2016
As Emilia joins Priscilla, Crusch, and Anastasia in a meeting of the royal selection participants, Reinhard enters the hall with Felt. According to a new prophecy seen on the Dragon Stone, there are five priestesses with the potential to be the kingdom’s next ruler. Reinhard announces that Felt is the fifth priestess, meaning it’s time to formally begin the royal selection, but Felt refuses to have any part in it.
Director: Kazuomi Koga
Writer: N/A
7.4/101,387 votesLoading...#4 - The Happy Roswaal Mansion Family
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/25/2016
After being badly wounded by Elsa, Subaru somehow survived and awoke in the mansion of Margrave Mathers, in the Kingdom of Lugunica.
Director: Yoshinobu Tokumoto
Writer: N/A
7.5/101,303 votesLoading...#5 - The Greed of a Pig
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/18/2016
Subaru wakes up in front of the appa shop once again. Feeling boxed in on all sides due to his own lack of power to change the situation, he seeks the help of others. First, he seeks the help of Crush, who flatly declines any further involvement passed her contractual obligation of healing Subaru. His requests to Anastasia and Priscilla similarly go unanswered despite his pleas. Having wasted too much time, Subaru decides to at least try to get Emilia away from Roswaal’s mansion as early as possible. He then takes a dragon car back home with Rem.
Director: Yoshinobu Tokumoto
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
7.6/101,359 votesLoading...#6 - The Morning of Our Promise Is Still Distant
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/2/2016
Subaru now lives and works in Roswaal’s mansion, working with Ram and Rem, and finally getting Emilia to agree to a date with him. But the day of their promised date never comes as Subaru keeps going back to the day he first awoke in the mansion. He’s confused at the thought that he Returned by Death despite having no memory of experiencing anything deadly, but he’s determined to repeat his previous actions up to the point of fulfilling his promise with Emilia.
Director: Daisuke Takashima
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
7.8/101,495 votesLoading...#7 - Reunion with the Witch
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2016
After being attacked by someone the first time, sliced open by Elsa the second time, and stabbed in the back by punks the third time, Subaru should have been dead, but found himself back where he started in the same parallel world every time. He finally realizes he’s acquired the power to go back to the time and place he started from, which he calls “Return by Death.” In hopes of changing the fate awaiting Felt, Satella, Old Man Rom, and himself, Subaru takes off for the fourth time.
Director: Masahiro Shinohara
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
7.9/101,233 votesLoading...#8 - A Flash of Sloth
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/29/2016
With the battle against the White Whale now over, the mercenary force setting up the blockade of the road comes back, Julius at the lead. His arrival gives rise to mixed feelings for Subaru, but after Julius sincerely thanks him for ridding the world of the monster, Subaru finds it in himself to apologize for his past behavior. The group now looks forward, ready to enter the Mathers domain…
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/101,241 votesLoading...#9 - The Self-Proclaimed Knight and the Greatest Knight
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/12/2016
Subaru devises a new plan to correct the mistake of the blank letter sent to the manor, encourage the evacuation of the villagers and move Emilia away from her current location. With these preparations complete, he enacts the second part of his plan designed to cut off the Fingers before severing the Unseen Hand once and for all.
Director: Yoshito Mikamo
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
8.1/101,396 votesLoading...#10 - 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
8.1/101,404 votesLoading...#11 - 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
8.1/101,316 votesLoading...#12 - 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
8.1/101,357 votesLoading...#13 - 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
8.1/101,270 votesLoading...#14 - 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
8.2/101,710 votesLoading...#15 - 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
8.2/101,318 votesLoading...#16 - 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
8.3/101,363 votesLoading...#17 - 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: Yoshiko Nakamura
8.4/101,515 votesLoading...#18 - 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
8.4/101,349 votesLoading...#19 - 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
8.5/101,558 votesLoading...#20 - 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: Yoshiko Nakamura
8.5/101,435 votesLoading...#21 - 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
8.5/102 votesLoading...#22 - Parent and Child
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 7/29/2020
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.
Director: Yoshito Mikamo
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
8.5/102 votesLoading...#23 - Straight Bet
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 1/6/2021
Tragedy strikes the Sanctuary, and Elsa takes aim at both Roswaal’s mansion and the village of Arlam. After being told that all these threats are cruel traps, Subaru can’t help but give in to despair. While he’s stuck questioning himself and unable to come up with a way out of the dilemma closing in on him, Otto shows up and punches him. Thanks to the many feelings packed in Otto’s fist, Subaru finds his hope again.
Director: Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
Writer: Yoshiko Nakamura
8.5/102 votesLoading...#24 - The Day Betelgeuse Laughed
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 2/3/2021
Despite a few inconveniences, like being unable to go outside when she wanted, young Emilia lived a happy life in a settlement of elves with Fortuna, whom she lovingly called “Mother.” However, their peace was threatened by the arrival of the Sin Archbishop of the Witch’s Cult representing Greed, Regulus Corneas. In the present, Shima appears before Subaru and the others as they wait outside the graveyard for Emilia to complete the trial, and she tells them of the events leading up to the birth of the Sanctuary.
Director: Yoshito Mikamo
Writer: N/A
8.5/102 votesLoading...#25 - The Beginning of the Sanctuary and the Beginning of the End
Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 2/17/2021
When Roswaal happily tells the story of how his romance with Echidna began 400 years ago, Beatrice rebukes him for casually calling it a “romance.” Ryuzu interrupts to comment that Echidna saved her, as well. The one thing these three very different people share is their gratitude toward Echidna. But their days spent in both amicable and argumentative conversation about Echidna are brought to an end by one man’s arrival.
Director: Kazuomi Koga
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
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"I Know Hell" is the worst rated episode of "Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-". It scored 6.3/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Yoshito Mikamo and written by N/A, it aired on 9/9/2020. This episode scored 1.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Return to the Capital".