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Mar 12, 1:20 AM
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I am almost fully caught up to the web novel, being at chapter 50 of arc 8. I just wanted to list my favorite web novel arc sections/ individual chapters. This is a list of my top 20 chapters:
I purposely didn't include arc 1-3 but in anime terms because I didn't end up reading them, episode 13-15, 18, 20/21 and 23-25 are the best from them. I don't think arc 1 has enough substance but we'll see as we edge closer to the end of the series. Either way, the foreshadowing and rereading and rewatching will be fun regardless.

Arc 4: 16-19 Natsuki Family
Arc 4: Ch 42, Value of life
Arc 4: Ch 129, choose me

Arc 5: Ch 42, Newest Hero and Most Ancient Hero
Arc 5: 71-74, Astrea Affair 77: Nameless Knight

Arc 6: Ch 25-29, Pleiades Battalion Vs Reid section
Arc 6: Ch 39, Ruins
Arc 6: Ch 53 54, A Voice Chimed & Re:Zero Starting Life in a Different World From Zero
Arc 6: Ch 61: “Stand Up”
Arc 6: Ch 70, The Earnest Star
Arc 6: Ch 73&74, Natsuki Subaru
Arc 6: Ch 85: Good Loser
Arc 6:Ch 89, Shaula

Arc 7: Ch 52-54 10 second hell
Arc 7: Ch 75, I know

Arc 8: Ch 7, Todd Fang
Arc 8: Ch 12, Natsuki Subaru and Vincent Abellux
Arc 8: Ch 23, Louis
Arc 8: Ch 38, Rowan Segmunt
Arc 8: Ch 44, How to respond to faith

I wanted to also rank my top 3 phases from Arc 5-8:

#1:Phase 6, #4 of Arc 6 and then #3: phase 1 of arc 7 and 8 are about the same to me. The starts of those arcs are solid, even if it drops off a bit in arc 7.
iGotIceInMyRiceMar 12, 1:59 AM
Mar 12, 6:07 AM
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i wanna comment on this but im at volume 20 light novel so i dont really have an opinion yetπŸ™
Mar 12, 10:55 AM
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Web novel, Arc 6, chapter 48: Murder becomes a habit.
Mar 13, 2:16 PM
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Yosakusan said:
Web novel, Arc 6, chapter 48: Murder becomes a habit.

I just reread that chapter because you said it. Omg that chapter was the most horrific chapter of arc 6 minus the tunnels in phase 1. Meili is a pretty good moral dilemma in Subaru’s mind and it honestly sucks that her character arc has stopped there.
Mar 20, 2:18 AM
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arc 6 chapters 73 & 74 i think are the best chapters in re:zero and offers such a insanely powerful payoff to 6 entire arcs of character development, but something about arc 7 chapter 75 hit me in a place emotionally that i wasn't expecting. honestly out of all the chapters i've read the one i felt the most emotional reading was arc 7 chapter 75, theres something so powerful about the exchange between
that nearly broke me. i can't really confidently explain why, i want to say because of the fight before it and tanza
which just made everything come together.

im currently still on arc 8 chapter 33 but i think my favorite chapters from arcs 4 - 8 has been:

arc 4 chapters 16 - 19 (i read LN so i'm guessing those web novel chapters covers the first trial)
arc 5 chapter 42
arc 6 chapters 73 - 74
arc 7 chapter 75
arc 8 chapter 23
Mar 23, 6:38 AM
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MrResidentFox said:
arc 6 chapters 73 & 74 i think are the best chapters in re:zero and offers such a insanely powerful payoff to 6 entire arcs of character development, but something about arc 7 chapter 75 hit me in a place emotionally that i wasn't expecting. honestly out of all the chapters i've read the one i felt the most emotional reading was arc 7 chapter 75, theres something so powerful about the exchange between
that nearly broke me. i can't really confidently explain why, i want to say because of the fight before it and tanza
which just made everything come together.

im currently still on arc 8 chapter 33 but i think my favorite chapters from arcs 4 - 8 has been:

arc 4 chapters 16 - 19 (i read LN so i'm guessing those web novel chapters covers the first trial)
arc 5 chapter 42
arc 6 chapters 73 - 74
arc 7 chapter 75
arc 8 chapter 23

I just caught up and the last phase of arc 8 that’s out, especially the last 4 chapters leading up with Garfiel and Heinkel vs someone and then Cecilius and Al vs someone was incredible. Cecilius’ name chapter was top 3 imo. It was so damn well written and how cecilius rewrote his own destiny. Actually fucking beautiful. I was grinning and almost tearing up at how hype it was. Have fun catching up and now I am like everyone else who has to wait for the next batch. πŸ™‚‍↕️
Mar 25, 10:48 PM
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MrResidentFox said:
arc 6 chapters 73 & 74 i think are the best chapters in re:zero and offers such a insanely powerful payoff to 6 entire arcs of character development, but something about arc 7 chapter 75 hit me in a place emotionally that i wasn't expecting. honestly out of all the chapters i've read the one i felt the most emotional reading was arc 7 chapter 75, theres something so powerful about the exchange between
that nearly broke me. i can't really confidently explain why, i want to say because of the fight before it and tanza
which just made everything come together.

im currently still on arc 8 chapter 33 but i think my favorite chapters from arcs 4 - 8 has been:

arc 4 chapters 16 - 19 (i read LN so i'm guessing those web novel chapters covers the first trial)
arc 5 chapter 42
arc 6 chapters 73 - 74
arc 7 chapter 75
arc 8 chapter 23

I just caught up and the last phase of arc 8 that’s out, especially the last 4 chapters leading up with Garfiel and Heinkel vs someone and then Cecilius and Al vs someone was incredible. Cecilius’ name chapter was top 3 imo. It was so damn well written and how cecilius rewrote his own destiny. Actually fucking beautiful. I was grinning and almost tearing up at how hype it was. Have fun catching up and now I am like everyone else who has to wait for the next batch. πŸ™‚‍↕️
@iGotIceInMyRice currently on chap 40 rn, phase 3 been a bit slow but im looking forward to the newest phase. thank you kind stranger
Mar 26, 12:25 AM
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God there's too many. Particularly memorable ones I've starred.

Arc 4:
Ch 16 - A Morning in the Natsuki Household
Ch 17 - Love Story
Ch 18 - Parent and Child β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 19 - Homework β˜†β˜†
Ch 68 - The Taste of Death
Ch 75 - That Person
Ch 76 - ≠Satella
Ch 77 - Lonely
Ch 78 - These Sounds to Make You Shed Tears
Ch 79 - End of the Dream β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 106 - Otto Suwen
Ch 110 - A Reason to Believe β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 116 - With Grandmother, With Mother, With Sister; As Grandson, As Son, As Brother
Ch 120 - Elior Forest, Glaciated Evermore β˜†β˜†
Ch 123B - Happiness Reflected on the Water β˜†β˜†
Ch 125B - Starting as Revenge
Ch 128 - I Love You to Your Blood and Guts
Ch 129 - Choose Me β˜†β˜†β˜†
Appendix - The Advent

Arc 5:
Ch 14 - Sword Demon, Under the Moon
Ch 17 - That Ever-Present Armor
Ch 19 - Theater of Malice
Ch 29 - Gorgeous Tiger
Ch 30 - Tiger and Cat, Under the Moon β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 42 - The Newest Hero and the Most Ancient Hero β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 59 - Regulus Corneas β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 62 - Commend of the Warrior β˜†β˜†
Ch 67 - Liliana Masquerade
Ch 71 - Sword Demon vs Former Sword Saint
Ch 73 - Thearesia van Astrea β˜†β˜†β˜†

Arc 6:
Ch 14 - Faith Built Upon the Sand
Ch 15 - Scattered to the Sand
Ch 28 - Julius Juukulius
Ch 29 - Loser
Ch 34 - Coming Out of the Convenience Store, There Was a Wonderous World
Ch 46 - Meili Portroute
Ch 48 - --Murder Becomes a Habit
Ch 53 - A Voice, Chimed β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 54 - Re: Starting Life in a Different World from Zero β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 61 - --Stand Up β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 73 - "Natsuki Subaru" β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 74 - Natsuki Subaru β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 75 - Rui Arneb β˜†β˜†β˜†
Ch 79 - READY STEADY GO
Ch 83 - Ram
Ch 85 - Good Loser
Ch 88 - I Ask Thy Will
Ch 89 - Shaula
Ch 90 - Hero

Arc 7:
Ch 53 - What Lies Beyond the Eleventh Second
Ch 54 - The Utopia of Chaosflame
I'm not caught up after this point.

Best phases/volumes are difficult to rank, because I want to say so many. The last two volumes of Arc 4 are consistently peak, as is the last volume of arc 6. Volume 25 is genuinely unsurpassable as of this moment.

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