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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 12 - Return to the Capital
    7.7/10(17089 votes)

    #1 - Return to the Capital

    S1:E12

    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:Daisuke Takashima
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 4 - The Happy Roswaal Mansion Family
    7.8/10(17882 votes)

    #2 - The Happy Roswaal Mansion Family

    S1:E4

    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:Masahiro Yokotani

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  3. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 5 - The Morning of Our Promise Is Still Distant
    7.9/10(17495 votes)

    #3 - The Morning of Our Promise Is Still Distant

    S1:E5

    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

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  4. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 16 - A Pig's Greed
    7.9/10(16471 votes)

    #4 - A Pig's Greed

    S1:E16

    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

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  5. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 2 - Reunion with the Witch
    8.1/10(18473 votes)

    #5 - Reunion with the Witch

    S1:E2

    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

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  6. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 13 - Self-Proclaimed Knight Natsuki Subaru
    8.1/10(17391 votes)

    #6 - Self-Proclaimed Knight Natsuki Subaru

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown

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  7. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 22 - A Flash of Sloth
    8.2/10(15767 votes)

    #7 - A Flash of Sloth

    S1:E22

    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:Taisuke Mamori
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 6 - The Sound of Chains
    8.4/10(17017 votes)

    #8 - The Sound of Chains

    S1:E6

    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

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  9. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 8 - I Cried, Cried My Lungs Out, and Stopped Crying
    8.4/10(16824 votes)

    #9 - I Cried, Cried My Lungs Out, and Stopped Crying

    S1:E8

    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

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  10. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 10 - Demonically Inspired Methods
    8.4/10(16340 votes)

    #10 - Demonically Inspired Methods

    S1:E10

    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:Yoshinobu Tokumoto
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 14 - The Sickness Called Despair
    8.4/10(16395 votes)

    #11 - The Sickness Called Despair

    S1:E14

    “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:Taisuke Mamori
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 19 - Battle Against the White Whale
    8.4/10(15841 votes)

    #12 - Battle Against the White Whale

    S1:E19

    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:Daisuke Takashima
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 24 - The Self-Proclaimed Knight and the Greatest of Knights
    8.4/10(15726 votes)

    #13 - The Self-Proclaimed Knight and the Greatest of Knights

    S1:E24

    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

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  14. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 1 - The End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End
    8.6/10(22205 votes)

    #14 - The End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End

    S1:E1

    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

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  15. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 9 - The Meaning of Courage
    8.6/10(16565 votes)

    #15 - The Meaning of Courage

    S1:E9

    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

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  16. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 17 - Disgrace in the Extreme
    8.6/10(16297 votes)

    #16 - Disgrace in the Extreme

    S1:E17

    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

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  17. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 3 - Starting Life from Zero in Another World
    8.7/10(18173 votes)

    #17 - Starting Life from Zero in Another World

    S1:E3

    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

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  18. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 11 - Rem
    8.8/10(16949 votes)

    #18 - Rem

    S1:E11

    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:Daigo Yamagishi
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 84 - Ram
    8.8/10(19 votes)

    #19 - Ram

    S1:E84

    While Emilia faces the final trial in the tower, Ram faces off against Rye.

    Director:Tamaki Nakatsu
    Writer:Yoshiko Nakamura

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  20. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 85 - Shaula / Hero
    8.8/10(17 votes)

    #20 - Shaula / Hero

    S1:E85

    As the battle to conquer the tower nears its climax, Subaru faces the giant scorpion that was once Shaula.

    Directors:Masahiro Shinohara, Yusuke Maruyama
    Writer:Masahiro Yokotani

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  21. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 20 - Wilhelm van Astrea
    8.9/10(16510 votes)

    #21 - Wilhelm van Astrea

    S1:E20

    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:Unknown

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  22. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 23 - Nefarious Sloth
    8.9/10(16450 votes)

    #22 - Nefarious Sloth

    S1:E23

    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:Yoshinobu Tokumoto
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 83 - Good Loser
    8.9/10(19 votes)

    #23 - Good Loser

    S1:E83

    Subaru's two sets of memories have merged, and he leads the others in an all-out war to conquer the tower.

    Directors:Hinako Masaki, Akihisa Shibata
    Writer:Eiji Umehara

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  24. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 7 - Natsuki Subaru’s Restart
    9.0/10(18752 votes)

    #24 - Natsuki Subaru’s Restart

    S1:E7

    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

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  25. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 Episode 21 - A Wager That Defies Despair
    9.1/10(17276 votes)

    #25 - A Wager That Defies Despair

    S1:E21

    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:Yoshinobu Tokumoto
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Return to the Capital" is the worst rated episode of "Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-". It scored 7.7/10 based on 17089 votes. Directed by Daisuke Takashima and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/20/2016. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Happy Roswaal Mansion Family".