What did you think of the episode?
What was your favorite scene or moment?
Are you enjoying the series so far?
What do you expect or want to happen next?


Its probably better it wasn't picked up by crunchyroll, the probably would've censored it to hell to suite their wants.
isnt subarus power also shit with the fact that he never knows when his spawn point could randomly move ahead by a lot
They are both shit, really.
On the one hand, Shinpei's checkpoints move forward but on the other hand, it does not give him enough trauma, allowing him to think objectively.
In Subaru's case, his checkpoints remain constant for a loop but the trauma takes away his ability to think objectively hampering his decision-making, a big XXXing weakness for one who loops.
That said, in Subaru's case, it is possible to make RBD OP by walking the path of a sage.
I mean I'd imagine Shinpeis gonna have a good amount of trauma seeing his sister and friends die so many times and dealing with himself dying that many times.
I think most of the reason he appears calm is because a sane person in that situation with those shadows realizes if he hesitates and if things don't work out, he's fucked no matter the circumstances because these shadows have super human powers.
Yeah but its nowhere close to obstructing his ability to think logically, like in Subaru's case.
"how Shinpei alters their future" judging by what we see in Episode 5 toward the end , it feels more like it works on multiverse theory which means the changes only take effect for him and the realities he left still exist.
Cuz we see that exactly happen while he's in between that reality and the next , the reality doesn't disappear , he disappears and everything gets eaten by the shadow behind him.
The 25 episodes will cover all of the manga?
Yes, it's a complete adaptation
looking at the manga, most of the time, they have between 10-24 pages in a chapter, the first chapter is obviously a chunky one, and the last few are also a decent length, so idk how the pacing will be affected, trying to cram something like 150 chapters (if they had an average number of pages) worth of information into 25 episodes, an average of 6 chapters worth of content into one 20 minute episode.
I'm not exactly sure what this is, but during the ending of this episode, while the credits roll and its showing the cast members, there's a pixelated name at the bottom of the cast list. I'm not sure what/who exactly this is as A) I cant read Japanese and B) Its pixelated, but I'm assuming it was the voice of the massive shadow. It was such a niche thing that I don't know how I even noticed it, but it was still cool none the less.
The atmosphere, man, so horrifying and well-done. Seeing the mountain of corpses like than and THEN seeing them disappear, they conveyed the horror quite well.
The Mother made an appearance as well. Looked quite dope, what with the red contrasting with Shinpei's blue.
Its strange that boss shadow let Shinpei be executed like that. Would have expected him to bind badass onee-san so she couldn't shoot him but slip-ups happen, I suppose.
But it seems the loop system has a downside with the starting points gradually moving forward but at the same time its great that Shinpei doesn't have to bear the trauma from death, allowing him to think objectively, unlike the other loopity-doopity guy.
Damn It's getting better and better imo. It certainly didn't feel like a 5/25 episode, holy f*ck, more like culmination/endgame. The graphics looks so nice, atmosphere is almost on point, not overly dramatic yet making you feel involved. I feel so hyped for the next ones, now it's time for a shinpei's strategy on how to move forward with limited, as we learned in this episode, lives. For now my top 2 of the season with spy x family <3
I‘m surprised a lot of people are comparing this to Re:Zero rather than to Higurashi, as that one is a lot more similar. A „disease/illness“ killing people in some deserted place (village vs an island), not knowing which character is „good“ in each timeloop and it all being connected to a festival and some kind of god (who look eerily similar ngl). Hell, it even has a lot of cicadas lol. Not that I mind tho, I‘m a big Higurashi fan and so far this show is doing an incredible job at scratching that specific itch for me.
It‘s kind of weird how this is only the 5th episode, yet so much has already happened, and it felt weird already seeing the „end game boss“ so to speak. Though the pacing isn’t really unpleasant and it makes sense in-universe. Just makes me wonder what the rest of the 20 episodes are gonna be. Hopefully it doesn’t flop
two years late, but i think the main difference is the point of view, the way the narrator chooses to unpack the story. While higurashi is really slow at pacing, and chooses to let the viewer stimulate decide by themselves what is happening until the climax is reached. The narrator of summertime render gives every information needed on the first few episodes, and i suppose the rest will be rather focused on the action, unlike higurashi which for a matter of fact choosed to. be a mystery show till the end
A part of me hoped that this was the real Ushio, and not a shadow :( Summer Time Rendering is basically Re: Zero but 10x better, in my opinion:
1) The MCs
Subaru is a dumbass. He's constantly out of touch with reality despite all the dying, he acts like a buffoon to everyone he meets, he makes very obviously stupid decisions. He's only ever "traumatized" occasionally but quickly recover by the next episode immediately; which isn't even trauma. Trauma is a mental health issue that LASTS for MONTHS and frequently affects your ability to think in some way. Trauma isn't, "I got killed by some cute maids then I got nightmares for 1 day, then completely recovered afterwards." Calling Re: Zero an accurate depiction of mental health issues and trauma is a mockery to people who actually suffer from those issues.
Whereas Shinpei can behave like a somewhat reasonable human being, constantly is thinking, planning, and just makes for a far more common sense protagonist.
2) The plots
Re: Zero does not have a coherent plot; it constantly jumps from arc to arc without really connecting those arcs until season freaking 2. In arc 1, Subaru is fixated on saving a cute stranger girl whose name he doesn't even find out until the end of the arc, and some thieves. Why? Why is any of this happening? Who is Elsa? What does this arc have to do with the following arc with the maids and the mansion? We don't find out until season 2. Everything is so vaguely connected. What is Subaru's overall goal? How do any of the events that happen connect to that goal? Nothing is clearly connected. It's just "shit happens" the anime.
Summer Time Rendering fixes this issue by simply focusing on making a coherent plot; there is ONE overarching conflict, a clearly defined end goal; to find out wtf is going on with these shadows, to stop this apocalyptic thing happening, to save everyone's' lives.
3) The reset points.
In Re: Zero Return by Death is absolutely broken, despite the anime and its fans claiming otherwise: Subaru's restart point is not even explained whatsoever until season freaking 2. And when it IS explained, it is so vague that it's always convenient. There is only ONE time where Subaru resets at the wrong time. But aside from that, nothing like that happens again.
In Summer Time Rendering, the anime makes it clear now that there IS a limit to Shinpei's time travel powers: every time he dies, the reset point is moved slightly forward. And because ep 5 has established that Shinpei has a deadline to save everyone's butt, this actually does something that other time travel anime and video games I've seen NOT do: add an actual sense of urgency. Shinpei CANNOT take his time and reset unlimited number of times, unlike whiny Subaru.
AND to top it off Summer Time Rendering does something that other time travel anime/games I've seen and played have mostly NOT done which is: make it so that the antagonists CAN learn of the MCs time travel abilities. Summer Time Rendering has clearly established: the antagonists CAN learn of Shinpei's time travel schtick and when they DO they're smart enough to keep him alive and restrained, essentially fucking Shinpei over completely. Because Shinpei, like Subaru, is not a badass: they can both only rely on their time travel abilities, their wit, ability to communicate and gather info. It's actually terrifying that the antagonists can render Shinpei useless through this.
By far and away the best anime I've watched in years. Holy shit it's so good.
One question I have is whether the time loop necessarily goes forward a little each time, or whether this is actually tied to how long he survives for. He died quickly the first time, less quickly the second, and much longer the third.
In the end that may end up being an extraneous detail in a show like this though.
I know people were talking about how the shadows can learn from his previous memories, but that doesn't seem like it would transfer across loops. It's only once he gets 'copied' with that flash that they learn his memories and realise he's looping. I think it would be quite immersion-breaking for that to carry across the loop as the logic doesn't really work. The danger is nevertheless that if he is copied during a loop, he's in more and more danger each time as they realise immediately how much of a threat he is.