ACTION PACKED ARC - Re:Zero Arc 5, Phase 4: Summary & Analysis

[@AsarathaHSYT]

Hey guys! This video wasn't 'rushed' by any means, but I definitely wasn't working at full capacity on it. I unironically got covid lmao. Sorry if this one isn't up to standard

[@hypnotic313]

Emilia freezing all the wives was proud of her overall growth. It's a stark contrast to when she accidentally froze her entire village. this showed her strong control over her powers that she shyed away from previously.

[@nekogamer2508]

Her control over fire is impressive

[@kimihikokimizuka2165]

The only reason Emilia freeze the entire village because pandora said that and her ability is something like absorbing the fire out of things around her which makes thems freeze as it's temperature suddenly dropped so u can't aim it like the attacks she usually use with ice

[@deepdawn1284]

We learned The Witch Cult has been divided to two separate factions. While the Radical faction is led by Regulus and Moderate faction was led by Betelguese and unnamed person presumably Flugel. Witch of Vanity is the one leading the cult today since we heard her granting titles to sin archbishops.

[@kostas4005]

By looking at sin archbishops you can't say they have a clear leader. They do petty things on they own, united only because they hated by people. Looks like only Capella has some greater plan.

[@deepdawn1284]

@@kostas4005 Clearly Pandora has higher status than the Archbishops. Regulus also refer Pandora with the “-sama”. Which he has some kinda respect

[@kostas4005]

@@deepdawn1284 Yes she may have some control over archbishops but they are mostly interested in their own things like wives/food/simping Satella/simping Betelgeuse not in Pandora's plans. Only Capella wants something more.

[@garmadoncar6670]

For satella's name, it seems to be derived from the word satellite, which could link her to the moon. Additionally, when the author wrote a genderbent version of arc 1, her name became Luna, further supporting the moon connection.

[@crispy...spy...]

At first I was like nah lol Then I saw genderbent and Luna Now I'm wondering 🤔could you be on to something

[@demifolk8940]

also watch the re zero anime and see how much importance the moon has, its almost always there during important scenes. the stars and moon connection seem to be there, so it makes sense. this makes me wonder if theres a character meant to represent the sun. although the sun is just another star technically i think its easier for us to make this connection because satellite is a common word for us, for a japanese person this connection is more difficult to make. but another point to make is that every witch satella was with is named after some mythology. in fact, they have nothing to do with stars whatsoever. its only characters introduced AFTER the disaster from 400 years ago. and since flugel created the pleiades watchtower, which was created after the disaster. i think we can assume he had some part in naming all the archbishops. he was possibly inspired by satellas name, or even gave her the name to begin with.

[@jahterminatedlmao5473]

im glad moist critikal started doing in depth anime analysis

[@gigachad7321]

"blood guts bowels and titties" -Moist Critikal

[@torchperish]

Always fun to see an anime only's first reaction to peak fiction. There are a lot of cool fights that happen in this arc so some juggling back and forth was to be expected, but I'm hopeful that the anime will smooth out the pov shifting issues and make it flow better. Looking forward to the finale of arc 5 as well as future arcs if you do them. I definitely think a live stream for the final chapters is a cool idea too!

[@mckalejoshvargas8013]

It the LN, it was also stated that the POV switches was made better so I that's a good indication because the anime follows the LN

[@KingLAO2964]

This is hype. The crusade against Greed has begun. Can't wait for your future thoughts about this series. I always look forward to watching these videos. Keep up the great work. I wish you a great day from Germany

[@vortechstg4091]

"When they swaped to watch Ricardo think he's on the team" This kinda sounds like a shot at Ricardo but he's probably the second strongest on their side after Reinhard so he's definitely on the team. Only other one who might be stronger is Wilhelm.

[@AsarathaHSYT]

I NEED TO SEE HIM GO OFF THEN!!

[@vortechstg4091]

@@AsarathaHSYT Unfortunately, the best we have in the main series is when he fought Ram in arc 3 and when he fought Kurgan earlier in arc 5. He does have a great fight in the Kararagi Girl Meets Cats side story though. That and the two side stories that come before it (Anastasia's Rising in Life Memorial Day and Anastasia's Kararagi Merchant Path in that order) are really good. They give a lot more character to Anastasia and Ricardo. They're not too long either. Actually, just between arcs 5 and 6 would be a really good place to read them.

[@xsenoxs3306]

You forgot to mention how in the light novel Reinhard got launched onto moon and jumped back to earth

[@animeloverhaven]

Your re:zero vids are great. Good to watch after not rereading arc 5 in a while

[@aquatras1449]

You are doing great! Definitely a good video! Would love to see reactions you mentioned at the end as well.

[@someguy4405]

It was criminal not to mention Reinhard getting launched to the moon and jumping all the way back.

[@allin3ss]

That didn’t happen in the web novel, which Asa had read. It’s a light novel only moment

[@someguy4405]

@@allin3ss aw you're right (just listened to the web novel version)

[@ilamenoetro1542]

​@@allin3ss in the light novel when Reinhard was launched into the moon, Emilia and Subaru had to fight Regulus on their own. So if that never happened in the web novel, was Reinhard always assisting Emilia and Subaru?

[@canudont1990]

cant wait to see some of this hopefully next week

[@karch1755]

In terms of paceing ln is a lot better in this phase chapters with Otto, Julius and Garfiel happened in prolog and Subaru fight was only alternately with Priscilla fight. And Kirikata didn't have any involvement with Otto meeting Gluttony

[@jvaliente9094]

oh well, i guess regulus is an inspiration for gojo's infinity.

[@Falooze]

Why do you sound like Penguinz0 but younger

[@rickysmith7624]

I would definitely like to see your reaction to the last chapters

[@gforme2203]

You did not forget about Louis. There are 3 gluttonies each for one great mabeast Also I think the wives not dying is important in political point of view. I may cause problem as subaru proclaimed to save everyone and then killed 50 people and some rumors could spread around Emilia considering her lineage. Also camps that get more wins will get good lead in royal selection

[@dvanepope5602]

Dude stop joking. There is no such thing as political Responsibility in re zero... Especially for emilia.

[@dvanepope5602]

@Temperance dude, there is no such thing as bad reputation for Emilia in re zero. Tappei doesnt give a f.

[@dvanepope5602]

@Temperance thats te worst possible way of plot tappei can choose. if by the end emilia wins royal selection just because others cant physically compete it will be an utter garbage ending.

[@dvanepope5602]

@Temperance Crusch is almost for sure confirmed to get her full form back jsut like anastasia. i dont see the problem here.

[@Jdawgg.0]

Another LN change that I think is just ridiculous is the fact that Reinhard literally got launched to the moon by Regulus. I know Reinhard is different but that’s one crazy feat to be fine after just jumping back

[@AsarathaHSYT]

LOOOL i heard about this but I forgot to mention it. thats so wild

[@Jdawgg.0]

@@AsarathaHSYTsome are speculating that he saw something major about the world from up there because a Q&A from Tappei said his Arc 5 POV would be a spoiler for the future but I wouldn’t be suprised if it was just included to simply showcase that he is in fact built different

[@caper7635]

Another thing I like about this change is how it pairs with Regulus’ death. Because the Re:Zero world is flat, as Regulus falls through the earth we have that moment where he wonders what would actually happen if he kept falling. Would be fall forever? These two moments together are like a sudden whiplash of world building on a literal cosmic scale - fitting for combat that is between gods.

[@herbertwalter8693]

​@@Jdawgg.0 maybe he had a talk with the stars

[@yasuki416]

When did that happen???!???

[@VaradMahashabde]

Regulus is dope

[@Sumthins1ck]

just read reinhard,subaru and emilia vs regulas and goddam when they animate it its gonna be amazing so much overpowered bs on both sides

[@proxtreme97]

My crack theory is that the dragon sword of Reid can only be used against people powerful by means of magic, or skill. My other crack theory is that Reid is supposed to represent divine protections in the hero trio while Flugelhorn represents authorities(we know he had at least sloth) and volcanica represents magic(he is literally mana). The dragon sword Reid can not see authority users as strong opponents as they are not conventionally strong. They are ancient and odd. They override divine protections apparently and probably can’t be sensed by the sword

[@garmadoncar6670]

When you finish arc 5, be sure to read "Gorgeous Tiger Reloaded" Which wraps up garfiel's plot line fore this arc. Its part of the Web novel but its not translated by witch cult translation, instead by heretic translations

[@dvanepope5602]

Louis was never mentioned before. You didn't forget anything. Also to note, volachia is not fascist lol. Its a militaristic meritocracy.

[@AsarathaHSYT]

a society based on power sounds pretty fascist to me

[@dvanepope5602]

@@AsarathaHSYT its by far the least fascist because it has absolutely no discrimination of race and looks. Although i may just not understand what you mean by fascist there.

[@VJ-Vice]

I mean Volachia is moreso meant to be a parallel to Sparta than anything else. Facism implies totalitarian governmental control and a lack of social mobility, both of which are not the case in Volachia since social mobility is very much a thing there. Now that's not to imply that Volachia isn't brutal, it is, but it doesn't seem accurate to call it facist either.

[@ramennnoodle]

@@VJ-Vice Fascism is defined by ultranationalism, which usually takes the form of a belief in racial purity like you see with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Vollachia doesn't really see any of that and is actually pretty diverse, so I'd hesitate to call them fascist.

[@kostas4005]

@@ramennnoodle Long live Vollachia!(x100)

[@brendenkuku5071]

I was thinking the same thing too that in the future I do believe Subaru gain all the authorities of the witch factors. I kind of did wish tappei would make Subaru just a little bit stronger. I’m not saying to turn him in a reinhard, but make him less useless in a fight as the arcs go on. Because I want Subaru to make another boom moment, like when he made a contract with Beatrice and fought off the great rabbit.

[@jaredsmith7240]

We got Badigadi from Mushoku Tensei facing off with Garf, this is legendary

[@Nice-gh2hy]

Great review and I totally agree on the pacing part. I remember how I read the WN of arc 4 within 2 weeks, but it took me about 3 months to get through arc 5 because of the pacing and how they would switch pov mid fight which, yea wasn't the best imo.

[@alivecoy]

I think satellas name might be a japanified way of saying stellar? thats the closest guess i have tbh

[@AsarathaHSYT]

im leaning towards satellite. sa-te-ra-i-to fits. satella could be argued to 'orbit' subaru like how a moon orbits a planet? spitballing tho

[@cawfeecatt1553]

Satella is another word for moon I believe.

[@dvanepope5602]

Sorry for so many comments but oh maaan! The ending of the phase is preluding to something amazing!

[@boncayaomeivrickurt4941]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH archbishop of greed is down i repeat he is dowwnnn

[@FaustSinner]

Once you finish Arc 5, will you be doing Arc 6?

[@AsarathaHSYT]

Yes!

[@nishigimasato3992]

Her name is satellite because she just kinda hangs around

[@memerofblaviken6326]

You’d think Reinhard would keep a second sword on him that, while not as op, wouldn’t be so picky.

[@konpekinogomi]

any chance youll be doing the latest chapters?

[@ronantheronin3521]

Vollachia is a social darwinist nation, not a social nationalist one.

[@dvanepope5602]

Also there is quite a short but cool story about the history of his one ring and the reason why he never allowed his wives to express emotions.

[@shoehunter3928]

Minor minor spoilers for the genderswap if (litteraly just an alternate name for a character) Satella is based off of 'sattelite' as seen by her name being something akin to moon for the male version

[@kanyenortheast3546]

Satella is also very close to Stella, which is “of Latin and Italian origin meaning ‘celestial star’,” according to the internet

[@iiitrifle9895]

Eh, the whole isekai thing can still be easily moved to this arc. Even *now* in this arc, it's still only being brushed upon.

[@heysiri3327]

Despite the pronunciation appearing more ambiguous when it is spelled like Vollachia, I still prefer it over Volakia, as the light novels do, translating it literally rather than liberally.

[@Twoseconds001]

Reinhard is so broken its crazy

[@addicthing5294]

what IF Reinhard can use his sword against Subaru?

[@terrance4887]

If you get the chance you should definitely check out Summer Time Rendering. It’s a new anime airing this season. Won’t spoil but if you like Re:Zero you’ll like this one. 👍

[@dvanepope5602]

I like how you used elden ring theme)

[@aztecfighter5]

Ahhh he never read the if stories

[@MoppetMage]

Regulus my beloved

[@braydenleaderofthetirkins1143]

Just curious, but have you ever considered doing a video on My Hero Vigilantes?

[@AsarathaHSYT]

truth be told i do not think vigilantes is that great but i do kind of address it in my upcoming video this sunday

[@randomhuman121]

9:09 💀

[@andrewshultz6160]

I always pronounced Pleiades plee-uh-dees

[@ajay-_-4922]

AL big sus...

[@FMN3095]

is your wife at gunpoint with a deadline to make this video?

[@boncayaomeivrickurt4941]

reinhardt's skill he pirated online 🤣

[@lucyadam9128]

Let me tell you that liliana chapters will be very annoying to get through

[@AsarathaHSYT]

gulp

[@kostas4005]

Pacing is truly slow. And you yet to see the worst part)

[@dvanepope5602]

Its not slow, the changes of pov are abrupt

[@AgentNero9]

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