Finding Subaru

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  @NearlyOnRed · 1 year ago · pinned

  Reminder: Please NO SPOILERS in comments.  Anime-only season 1&2 + Frozen Bond/Memory Snow are all referenced in the video.  Thank you!

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• OA

  @oa-san53 · 1 year ago

  Least extensive Subaru analysis:

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  @Subasubaaaaru · 1 year ago

  Shortest Subaru analysis video:

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  @TehFlashBang_ · 1 year ago

  I think the fact that he’s so divisive is a testament to how well he’s written. A lot of characters in stories are written to be so flat or “perfect” that it’s hard to feel any strong emotions towards them, so a incredibly well written (and incredibly flawed) character like Subaru who, on the surface appears to be a self-insert character, tends to polarize people.<br>He frustrates me a lot, but I don’t think Re:Zero would be Re:Zero without him.

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  @MrBubbabolly · 1 year ago

  Flawed though he is, I see a lot of myself in Subaru. My best became smaller and smaller. I shut myself away. I couldn&apos;t bring myself to go to school. The smiles of my parents were torture to me. I wanted them to hate me. I wanted someone, anyone who wasn&apos;t me, to vault me out of where I was. It took me several years to ever get up and go again. I got a job. I got my license. I started going to the gym. I&apos;m going back to school. Self-improvement is a long journey, and it&apos;s the hardest part of growing up. I&apos;m incredibly blessed to have people around me who believe in what I have to offer. Having people tell you how they see you is scary but incredibly liberating. You can be more than you currently are. You truly can. It&apos;s not too late, you ARE strong enough, and you CAN do it.

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  @lccyn · 1 year ago

  Algorithm, I beg you, uplift this video

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  @Jancho · 1 year ago

  Natsuki Subaru is the greatest written protagonist in fiction. You can analyze his character for hours and there will always be something left unsaid.

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  @dontworryhouston · 1 year ago

  Many people who dislike subaru do so because they see themselves reflected in his shortcomings I think

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  @maskeddog2077 · 1 year ago

  Something about Re:Zero and the audience reaction to Subaru has always bothered me, and it&apos;s how viciously judgmental everything and everybody is toward him, on both sides of the screen.<br>There&apos;s some of this when you show the clips of Subaru getting punched and beaten by Otto with the implication that this should be satisfying to the audience, but I just felt sorry for him, and this happened repeatedly while I was watching the series, I looked at the comments and everybody was shitting on Subaru and I couldn&apos;t help but wonder, are these people even watching the same show?<br>He&apos;s what, 17? 18? It&apos;s hard to imagine anyone in the audience doing one tenth of the good he did at that age and under those circumstances, let alone do better than him. The guy immediately forgave and showed kindness to someone who literally tortured him to death, that alone makes him a damn saint. It would be so easy to hold a grudge and start using the loops to get back at the people who made him suffer, but for all the &quot;ugliness&quot; Subaru supposedly shows, that thought doesn&apos;t even cross his mind.<br>I guess being cringe really is the worst sin of all.

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  @zachduquette3319 · 1 year ago

  Subaru is one of the only characters that I actually feel bad when things happen to him. The show portrays his emotions very well, which not many shows do this. Re Zero is my favorite anime and a masterpiece in my opinion.

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  @kcsupersonic1 · 1 year ago

  I think one of the major things you have to be able to hold in tension when it comes to Subaru as a character is that it is completely fine to enjoy his concept/his ethos as a character while simultaneously not vibing with his character quirks. &nbsp;He is all at once an incredibly deep character who acts and makes decisions based on an incredibly human back story, who also happens to be awkward, emotionally reactive, lacking in self-control, and any lessons he learns have to be brutally and painfully beat into him.<br><br>I personally find Subaru to be both a fascinating and frustrating protagonist but I honestly wouldn&apos;t have him any other way. &nbsp;He&apos;s one of the best examples I can point to in fiction of how to write a protagonist who you can both like and hate all at the same time. &nbsp;I love that he tries his best in spite of his mountain of insecurities and baggage and also hate the way he consistently lets all that baggage spill out in ways that often times hurt more than just him.

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  @Jiroscopio_ · 1 year ago

  I will never understand why he got hate. Where&apos;s the fun in all these perfect MCs? They don&apos;t feel human. Re:Zero was unironically the first anime that ever made me cry... and it was somewhere halfway through the first season. Seeing Subaru&apos;s struggle hit me harder than any other character struggle in any fiction, ever. And I think it&apos;s precisely because of his imperfections, that he actually felt human and relatable to me, and therefore made me cry aswell.<br><br>I can&apos;t help but feel that if someone hates subaru, they lack empathy or emotions to some extent

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