Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Ｒｅ：ゼロから始める異世界生活, lit. Re: Starting Life in Another World from Zero) is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagatsuki Tappei and illustrated by Otsuka Shinichirou. The series has been published by MF Bunko J since January 2014, and also has a sub-series known as Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Ex (Ｒｅ：ゼロから始める異世界生活 Ex, lit. Re: Starting Life in Another World from Zero Ex), which covers the past before the series started.
The light novel series has been adapted into an anime series, which is produced by White Fox. The series has been also adapted into several manga series, with five of the nine currently releaded arcs and several side stories having been adapted by mutiple artists.
Plot
Suddenly, high school student Natsuki Subaru has been summoned to another world on the way back from the convenience store. After being summoned to another world and no sign of the one who summoned him, things become worse when he is attacked. However, when he is saved by a mysterious silver-haired girl and her companion, a spirit named Puck, Subaru cooperates with the girl to return the favor by helping to find something that was stolen from her. When they finally manage to get a clue and go to the place it was gonna be sold Subaru and the girl are mysteriously attacked and killed by someone. Subaru then awakens hours before his and the silver-haired girl's death. After dying a couple more times with the same result he dubs his ability "Return by Death."
Subaru is a helpless boy that only has the ability to rewind time by dying. Despite the despair, can he rewrite history and save that girl from a fated death?
Media
Light Novel
Commercial Messages
Trivia
- On multiple occasions, the author has stated that Subaru's only appearance in a volume cover will be on the series' final main story volume.
- Previously, the author stated that there would be eleven arcs of the story, but that he originally planned for nine, with Arc 2 and an unknown arc being added later.[1] However, Arc 7 was split into two arcs, Arc 8 became the third arc to be added later, and there will now be twelve total story arcs in Re:Zero.
References
- ↑ "Arc 2 itself was something I added because it wasn't in the plan. If it wasn't for that, there would have been nine arcs. Now there's one more arc, and it's going to be 11 arcs." Tweet reply