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Re:Zero Second Season 2nd Cour adaption

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Been seeing stuff on twitter a lot about this adaption being lackluster or underwhelming. So I wanted to ask people who've read the Web Novel or Lightnovel to tell me what's been wrong with this adaption so far cause I'm very confused.

N29 5y
Nothing's wrong....people just love to complain:
1) to seek attention
2) or for no fucking reason
- RobloxDabber 5y
  I swear Re:Zero always gets hate for no reason
  TidePodChan 5y
  Probably because it's a mediocre series that plays with your emotions to make you think its a great series
  RobloxDabber 5y
  Bruh it is a good series tho... I already argued about this and you want more smoke smh
  TidePodChan 5y
  wait have we done this already?
  RobloxDabber 5y
  Lmao yes, it was about how you can't turn your brain off to this series and you just ended it with "I just don't like it" which wasn't what I was arguing in the first place....
  continue this thread →
  SKYL1MIT 5y
  weird right. I have like 3 friends of mine who don't like it .-.
  RobloxDabber 5y
  Bruh what’s they excuse?
  SKYL1MIT 5y
  bullsh*t I think they are saying this because I like the anime so much
mrahhal 5y
It's a great adaptation. That's by far the consensus of the majority. There are a few outliers but that happens with any series. Also, it's the only series where the studio cares enough to produce consistent 30 minutes episodes with no OP/ED/AD slots on TV.
proma21 5y
My opinion: Pacing is horrendous and the dialogue is redundant. Part 1 was better produced.
Frezzy 5y
Honestly you shouldn’t always listen to Twitter it doesn’t matter how popular something is you’ll always find someone getting mad at a show on there.
- Hakase 5y
  but equally, you should never listen to Anilist.
  Frezzy 5y
  @Hakase Fair
- daveonater 5y
  I just wondered what the hell was happening but you right
Payton16 5y
The web novel is and has always been better. That doesn't mean that this season is bad though. It is still good, but I will admit that I think the adaptation of season 1 was better.

But the web novel is paced the same way the whole way through: very very slow, dialogue heavy, and descriptive. This means things were cut out from the light novel and anime, accidentally, that were incredibly important, namely:

Stuff taken:
- Roswal contract with Subaru so that if he dies, then he's forced to follow Roswal's orders and vice versa. Leaving this out greatly reduces the risk and weight of the rest of the season.
Stuff added:
- Dumb thing with Roswal putting a spell on Emilia so she will be depressed, which I don't even understand that well.
- Puck coming back for reasons, despite the fact that there's no way fredericka's magic crystal has the capacity to contain a great spirit.
- daveonater 5y
  Oh boy yeah um that Roswal part is mighty important lmfao oh man
  Payton16 5y
  I mean cmon why would subaru just give up after he died once, and submit himself to roswal? The contract's existence is what makes this half of arc 4 so tense and high-stakes.
  SnappyDragon64 5y
  WN -> LN change, it was moved.
- mrahhal 5y
  
  but I will admit that I think the adaptation of season 1 was better.
  
  If you truly think that then you either haven't actually read the first 3 arcs in the novel, or you don't remember just how much it was actually butchered. Most volumes were adapted in only 2 episodes (especially arc 3), and they removed much more important scenes than I can count, and also pretty much all references to future characters.
  
  Removing scenes (yes even important ones) is almost a standard of adaptations of novels. You can't do anything about it. But at least in this season, they went the extra mile and tried to fit as much as possible in extended episodes.
  
  Dumb thing with Roswal putting a spell on Emilia so she will be depressed, which I don't even understand that well.
  
  He prevented Puck from being able to respond to Emilia calling him to drive her into a corner. It's quite simple.
  
  Puck coming back for reasons, despite the fact that there's no way fredericka's magic crystal has the capacity to contain a great spirit.
  
  How can you even possibly say that. You have no idea what the crystal really is. It wasn't even present in the Web Novel. The anime follows the LN, something I find myself repeating again and again and again.
- SnappyDragon64 5y
  IIRC the contract stuff was moved to the end in the LN, so it'll be adapted in the last episode.
  
  The puck & spell things are also WN -> LN changes.
Removed 5y
[Removed]
- daveonater 5y
  Roswall backstory silly? I mean I won't argue with anything else but his story makes sense within the context of the world of Re:Zero.
Unlimited 5y
Best season by far but that's not really saying much considering season 1 is mediocre
- Removed 5y
  [Removed]
  Unlimited 5y
  Thinking re:zero season 1 is good immediately makes all your other opinions invalid
  Unlimited 5y
  I don't care about the psychological nonsense I just want an interesting plot for gods sake
Dimmadeezy 5y
I'm bored out of my mind watching this season. So much so that I dropped the show and I doubt I'll ever pick it back up. When the plot doesn't progress for nearly 20 episodes and all we get is exposition and backstory, you can't be surprised if people think it's boring.