Re: Zero – Starting life in another world is one of the darkest isekai series. It presents a dark world filled with brutal consequences. The main character, Natsuki Subaru, was summoned to a new world and given a strange power in Return by Death. This allows him to come back to life after being killed, but he cannot choose the point in time to which he returns. Sometimes the same point for weeks, sometimes the save point changes. It doesn’t matter when he returns his initial death is always brutal.
One of the best isekai anime of all time. Re: Zero has an incredibly fresh premise that it explores thoroughly. Subaru has died more than a dozen times Re: Zero anime, and only a few of them can be considered peaceful. Most of his deaths come at the hands of people Subaru has no chance against, which makes him feel even more helpless. Although he suffers constantly, Subaru is able to hold his head high and keep moving forward.albeit with more and more deaths.
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Stabs himself with a knife in his throat
Senseless suicide
Subaru learns that he can control his Return by Death power to a certain extent. Although it cannot choose the exact point to which it returns, it usually does so within a predictable amount of time. At the beginning of the second season, Subaru learns that Rem and her group were attacked by Lai Batenkaitos, the Archbishop of the Sin of Gluttony. The archbishop’s special ability is not only to eat people, but also eat their memories and their personalities.
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When Subaru realizes that no one even remembers who Rem was, he decides to kill himself to reset the save point. He dove into a pile of sharp stones, but returned too late. His save point was after Rem had already been attacked. making his brutal suicide completely meaningless. It’s hard to watch death because it’s also animated in first person.
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Killed by Elsa in the library.
Devoted Beatrice
In the second season of the series Re: Zero, Subaru is trying to organize a lot of moving parts at once. He tries to help Emilia deal with her problems in the Sanctuary, and also find a way to leave with everyone else. When he returns to Roswaal’s mansion, he faces even more problems. He was first killed by Elsa and then returned again.this time escaping to Beatrice’s secret room. He berates Beatrice for not helping the people in the mansion before Elsa bursts into the room and kills him again.
Elsa has killed Subaru several times, and each death is gruesome. She is an assassin who uses giant blades to kill her victims, cutting Subaru into pieces over and over again. Re: Zero usually uses first person view when Subaru dies, every death feels too intimate.
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Obsessed with Betelgeuse
His friends had to kill him
Re: Zero It’s a merciless game of inches. Just when Subaru thinks he has made progress, something terrible happens that sets him back and causes him to die over and over again. Defeating Petelgeuse Romane-Conti, the Archbishop of Leni, was incredibly difficult. Just when the group thinks they have finally succeeded, Felix learns that one of his fellow merchants is actually part of the Witch Cult and possesses one of the Fingers. The situation gets out of control and Subaru eventually becomes possessed.
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He runs into the forest away from everyone. By the time Felix and Julius caught up with him, it was already too late. He asks the couple to kill him. The death itself isn’t that brutal, especially compared to some of Subaru’s other deaths. but its meaning is heartbreaking. Subaru worked so hard to overcome the Witch Cult, but he had to return to the meeting after defeating the White Whale.
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Beheaded by Puck
A quick and sad death
Subaru dies from Puck three times in a row in the first season Re: Zero. The Witch Cult attacked Roswaal’s mansion and Arlam village again and again, and Puck was unable to protect anyone. When Subaru returns to the mansion, all he can do is die. In one of the most brutal deaths, Subaru and Rem are captured by the Witch Cult. Rem is horribly tortured in front of Subaru, using his last strength to free him before dying.
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Subaru carries her body back to the mansion in a daze, only to see that it is frozen. As he slowly freezes to death, Puck appears and quickly decapitates him. This death reminds everyone how hopeless Re: Zero May be. Although Subaru thinks he has made progress by attending the Royal Selection, The cult of the witch is designed to destroy everything.
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Frozen by Pac
Subaru messed up again
Episode 15 of the first season Re: Zero showed several deaths in one. Emilia is hunted by the Witch Cult at Roswaal’s mansion and continues to be killed, but she is not the only one to face their wrath. Subaru returns to Arlam Village and sees that the Witch Cult was already there and killed everyone. He fears the worst and heads to the mansion, but the Witch Cult beats him there too.
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Out of options, Subaru decides to finally open up to Emilia and tell her about his Return by Death ability. Although it doesn’t hurt him as much as usual, it kills Emilia. Puck finds Subaru and kills him in revenge. This is a sad death in the series because it proves that Subaru can’t open up to people without hurting him. He will have to bear this burden alone if he wants to help Emilia.
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Threw himself into the rocks
Tries to fix everything on his own
Start Re: Zero sees Subaru being killed multiple times. He doesn’t know exactly what’s going on and spends most of his life trying not to die. After several deaths at Roswaal’s mansion, Subaru makes a pact with Beatrice to spare his life. The pact works, but Rem dies instead. Subaru is trying to fix the situation threw himself onto sharp stones from a cliff and committed suicide. It’s a shocking death, animated in first person, which makes it even more jarring.
Technically, Subaru’s idea worked. Dying, he was able to go back in time and save Ram, while proving his devotion to the maidservants. It’s a much better death than his other self-inflicted deaths, which ultimately turned out to be inconsequential. Although this death was good for Subaru, watching him dive headfirst into a mountain of sharp rocks This didn’t make it any easier.
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Rem killed him
Subaru tried to explain
Subaru’s first days at the Roswaal mansion were some of the worst. Due to his mysterious Return by Death ability, Subaru smells like he has the Witch Factor all over him. Rem and Ram were immediately suspicious of him and killed him several times because of this. Subaru suspects something is wrong, so he waits outside the attacker’s mansion only to find out that it is Rem herself. Rem not only tracks down Subaru, but she brutally tortures him, killing him.
This is one of the saddest deaths in the series. because of how coldly Subaru’s future friends treat him. Rem hits him with a flail while interrogating him, and Subaru doesn’t have the answers she’s looking for. He is left to wake up in a mansion to once again try to make friends with his killers.
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Killed by bandits
A cruel way to die
Subaru’s third death is sad for completely different reasons than his other deaths. Although his other deaths usually make sense, this death could not have cost less. Subaru encounters thugs in an alley and completely ignores them as he encounters them for the third time. He forgets that they are seeing him for the first time due to his Return by Death ability, and when he tries to run past them, one of the thugs stabs him. They flee the scene as Subaru bleeds to death.
Subaru died from the Great Rabbit, Satella, the Jealous Witch, and Puck, the Beast of the End. His accidental death by cowardly thugs in a random alley. in Lugunica is not on the same scale as his other deaths, which makes it even more brutal. It’s a brutal, cold death at the hands of people too scared to follow through.
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Elsa’s first death
Unexpected death and the first Subaru
Natsuki Subaru was an ordinary NEET before he was sent to the country of Lugunica. He is rightfully confused by what is happening, but travels with an elf named Satella to gain insight into the world around him. When they search for the thief who stole Satella’s (Emilia) emblem, they find the killer Elsa. Elsa cuts Subaru’s stomach before he realizes what’s happening. He dies on the ground, confused by what just happened, and turns to Satella in his final moments.
Subaru’s first death in the series sets the tone early. Re: Zero this is not a friendly series with light-hearted problems. This is a dark isekai series willing to put its protagonist through absolute hell if he is to survive. Elsa is one of the scariest characters in the series. because of its sheer lethality. She is one of the few characters who threaten Subaru’s life every time she appears on screen.
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Dead by rabbits
One of the worst ways to go
Season two Re: Zero I saw Subaru facing even more brutal deadly puzzles. He is constantly trying to find ways to transcend the future and live in the reality that he and all his friends live in. When he passes Garfiel in the Sanctuary, he thinks he finally has a chance to survive. Unfortunately, Roswaal summoned the Great Rabbit, one of the three great Witch Beasts in the world, to the Sanctuary. Re: Zero and the last rabbit anyone would want to see.
Subaru saw a rabbit in the snow and went to pet it. Before he knew what had happened, the bunny bit off his hand. More rabbits came and eventually attacked Subaru, eating him to death. This is probably the most painful death in Re: Zero and is arguably the hardest to watch, making it one of the saddest deaths in anime history. Subaru was beheaded, frozen to death and even maced, but eaten to death – this is a new cruel test for him in Re: Zero.