Season 1 is the first season of the anime adaptation of Nagatsuki Tappei and Otsuka Shinichirou's light novel series animated by studio White Fox. It is followed by Season 2. The season adapts Arc 1, Arc 2, and a majority of Arc 3.
It was announced at the 2015 MF Bunko J Summer School Festival on July 19, 2015. Season 1 had a total of 25 episodes and had its extended-length first episode premiered on April 3, 2016. The Director's Cut, an edited version of the season that aired two episodes at once, began broadcasting weekly nearly four years later on January 1, 2020, including the Memory Snow OVA in the middle of the season.
Synopsis
A helpless boy acquires the ability to rewind time upon dying, Return by Death.
On his way back from the convenience store, a boy named Natsuki Subaru is suddenly summoned to another world. The helpless boy arrives into this world with nothing at his disposal, except for the one ability he acquired… That being Return by Death, the power to rewind time upon dying. To protect those for whom he cares, and to recover the irreplaceable moments that he so clearly remembers, the boy must strive to resist despair and confront a cruel destiny.[1]
Staff
- Original Work: Nagatsuki Tappei
- Original Character Design: Otsuka Shinichirou
- Director: Watanabe Masaharu
- Series Composition: Yokotani Masahiro
- Character Design and Animation Director: Sakai Kyūta
- Prop Design: Suzuki Noritaka, Iwabatake Gōichi
- Art Configuration: Kinjō Saaya
- Art Director: Takamine Yoshito
- Color Design: Sakamoto Izumi
- Director of Photography: Minegishi Kentarō
- 3D Director: Karube Yū
- Editing: Sudō Hitomi
- Sound Director: Aketagawa Jin
- Sound Effects: Furuya Yūji
- Music: Suehiro Kenichiro
- Music Production: KADOKAWA
- Animation Production: WHITE FOX
- Producer: Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Production Committee
Cast
- Kobayashi Yūsuke as Natsuki Subaru
- Takahashi Rie as Emilia
- Uchiyama Yumi as Puck
- Minase Inori as Rem
- Murakawa Rie as Ram
- Arai Satomi as Beatrice
- Koyasu Takehito as Roswaal L. Mathers
- Akasaki Chinatsu as Felt
- Nakamura Yuichi as Reinhard van Astrea
- Iguchi Yuka as Crusch Karsten
- Horie Yui as Felix Argyle
- Horiuchi Kenyu as Wilhelm van Astrea
- Ueda Kana as Anastasia Hoshin
- Eguchi Takuya as Julius Juukulius
- Tamura Yukari as Priscilla Barielle
- Fujiwara Keiji as Aldebaran
- Noto Mamiko as Elsa Granhiert
- Matsuoka Yoshitsugu as Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti
- Sean Chiplock as Natsuki Subaru
- Kayli Mills as Emilia
- Erica Mendez as Puck
- Brianna Knickerbocker as Rem
- Ryan Bartley as Ram
- Kira Buckland as Beatrice
- Ray Chase as Roswaal L. Mathers
- Christine Marie Cabanos as Felt
- Robbie Daymond as Reinhard van Astrea
- Erika Harlacher as Crusch Karsten
- Sarah Anne Williams as Felix Argyle
- Marc Diraison as Wilhelm van Astrea
- Cassandra Lee Morris as Anastasia Hoshin
- Chris Niosi as Julius Juukulius
- Faye Mata as Priscilla Barielle
- Keith Silverstein as Aldebaran
- Cristina Vee as Elsa Granhiert
- Todd Haberkorn as Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti
Music
Opening Themes
- “Redo” by Suzuki Konomi (eps. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10-11)
- “Paradisus-Paradoxum” by MYTH & ROID (eps. 14, 17, 19-20, 23)
Ending Themes
- “STYX HELIX” by MYTH & ROID (eps. 1-5, 8-11, 25)
- “Stay Alive” by Emilia (CV: Takahashi Rie) (eps. 13, 16-17, 20-23, 25)
Insert Songs
- “STRAIGHT BET” by MYTH & ROID (ep. 7)
- “The Boy's Dream” by Emilia (CV: Takahashi Rie) (ep. 8)
- “theater D” by MYTH & ROID (ep. 14)
- “Wishing” by Rem (CV: Minase Inori) (ep. 18)
Episodes and BD Volumes
| # | Image | Title | Air Date | BD/DVD |
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"The End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End" 始まりの終わりと終わりの始まり (Hajimari no Owari to Owari no Hajimari) |
April 3, 2016 January 1, 2020 (Director's Cut) |
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| 2 | 
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"The Witch of Reunion" 再会の魔女 (Saikai no Majo) |
April 10, 2016 January 8, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 3 | 
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"Life Started in Another World from Zero" ゼロから始まる異世界生活 (Zero kara Hajimaru Isekai Seikatsu) |
April 17, 2016 January 8, 2020 (Director's Cut) |
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| 4 | 
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"The Happy Roswaal Manor Family" ロズワール邸の団欒 (Rozuwāru-tei no Danran) |
April 24, 2016 January 15, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 5 | 
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"The Morning of Our Promise Is Still Distant" 約束した朝は遠く (Yakusoku Shita Asa wa Tōku) |
May 1, 2016 January 15, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 6 | 
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"The Sound of Chains" 鎖の音 (Kusari no Oto) |
May 8, 2016 January 22, 2020 (Director's Cut) |
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| 7 | 
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"Natsuki Subaru's Restart" ナツキ・スバルのリスタート (Natsuki Subaru no Risutāto) |
May 15, 2016 January 22, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 8 | 
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"I Cried, Cried My Lungs Out, and Stopped Crying" 泣いて泣き喚いて泣き止んだから (Naite Nakiwameite Nakiyandakara) |
May 22, 2016 January 29, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 9 | 
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"The Meaning of Courage" 勇気の意味 (Yūki no Imi) |
May 29, 2016 January 29, 2020 (Director's Cut) |
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| 10 | 
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"Fanatical Methods Like an Oni" 鬼がかったやり方 (Oni Gakatta Yarikata) |
June 5, 2016 February 5, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 11 | 
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"Rem" レム (Remu) |
June 12, 2016 February 5, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 12 | 
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"Return to the Royal Capital" 再来の王都 (Sairai no Ōto) |
June 19, 2016 February 19, 2020 (Director's Cut) |
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| 13 | 
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"Self-Proclaimed Knight Natsuki Subaru" 自称騎士ナツキ・スバル (Jishō Kishi, Natsuki Subaru) |
June 26, 2016 February 19, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 14 | 
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"The Sickness Called Despair" 絶望という病 (Zetsubō toiu Yamai) |
July 3, 2016 February 26, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 15 | 
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"The Outside of Madness" 狂気の外側 (Kyōki no Sotogawa) |
July 10, 2016 February 26, 2020 (Director's Cut) |
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| 16 | 
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"The Greed of a Pig" 豚の欲望 (Buta no Yokubō) |
July 17, 2016 March 4, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 17 | 
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"Disgrace in the Extreme" 醜態の果てに (Shūtai no Hate ni) |
July 24, 2016 March 4, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 18 | 
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"From Zero" ゼロから (Zero kara) |
July 31, 2016 March 11, 2020 (Director's Cut) |
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| 19 | 
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"Battle of the White Whale" 白鯨攻略戦 (Hakugei Kōryakusen) |
August 7, 2016 March 11, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 20 | 
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"Wilhelm van Astrea" ヴィルヘルム・ヴァン・アストレア (Viruherumu van Asutorea) |
August 14, 2016 March 18, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 21 | 
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"A Wager That Defies Despair" 絶望に抗う賭け (Zetsubō ni Aragau Kake) |
August 21, 2016 March 18, 2020 (Director's Cut) |
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| 22 | 
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"A Flash of Sloth" 怠惰一閃 (Taida Issen) |
August 28, 2016 March 25, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 23 | 
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"Nefarious Sloth" 悪辣なる怠惰 (Akuratsu naru Taida) |
September 4, 2016 March 25, 2020 (Director's Cut) | |
| 24 | 
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"The Self-Proclaimed Knight and the Finest of Knights" 自称騎士と最優の騎士 (Jishō Kishi to Saiyū no Kishi) |
September 11, 2016 April 1, 2020 (Director's Cut) |
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| 25 | 
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"That's All This Story Is About" ただそれだけの物語 (Tada Sore dake no Monogatari) |
September 18, 2016 April 1, 2020 (Director's Cut) |
Gallery and Videos
Key Visuals
Anime Key Visual
Key Visual 1
Key Visual 2
Director's Cut Key Visual
Character Designs
Trailer
【TVアニメ化決定】「Re-ゼロから始める異世界生活」特報PV
PV 1
Trivia
- On April 1, 2016, a second PV for Season 1 was uploaded by the KADOKAWAanime channel on YouTube. The PV was later was set to private for unknown reasons. Similarly, the previews for each of Season 1's episodes that were uploaded on the same channel were also made private.
References
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