After Reinhard’s mega entry and Subaru’s inspirational speech in the previous episode of Re: Zero, everyone is extremely motivated to drive the threat of the Witches cult away from the city of Priestella.
Re: Zero is back this week, and it shows just as much promise and hype as the previous episode, along with an important announcement for fans. In this article, we’ll recap the 8th episode of Re: Zero season 2 and reveal the release date of the upcoming episode as well.
1. Re: Zero Season 3 Episode 9 Release Date
The 9th episode of Re: Zero will be released on Wednesday, the 5th of February, 2025. It can be streamed through its official sources like Crunchyroll and YouTube (Muse Asia).
I. Is Re: Zero Season 3 On Break?
Yes, Re: Zero Season 3 will be on break till February 2025. The anime has gone on hiatus after the completion of the first arc, named “The Attack”, the anime will be back with the second arc, “The Counterattack Arc”, on February 5th, 2025. Here’s the visual for the same:
2. Re: Zero Season 3 Episode 8 Recap
The episode began with a discussion between everyone assembled at the city hall about the demands of the witches’ cult. They knew that the artificial spirit referred to Beatrice but didn’t know where the Book of Wisdom came from. Much to everyone’s shock, Otto announced that he was the one who brought the Book of Wisdom to Priestella. He explained that he was charred up when he had received it, so he had given it for repair in the city.
After this, Priscilla walked into the room with Liliana and declared that she’d be cooperating with everyone to drive the witches’ cult away. Subaru excused himself from the group along with Otto after this and found out that Otto acted on his own because he didn’t trust Roswaal, so he wanted to have the Book of Wisdom restored to read its contents to find out if Roswaal could be trusted.
Right after his conversation with Otto, Wilhelm showed up and told Subaru that Crusch had woken up and that she wished to see him. On visiting her, we got to see the sorry state Crusch was in due to the effects of the dragon blood. This made Subaru feel bad but also helped him discover that the curse could be transferred to him when he touched her. He transferred a bit of her curse to himself, but Crusch asked him to stop, as her pride wouldn’t let her accept any more kindness from him.
After asking Crusch to trust him with everything else, Subaru left and conversed with Wilhelm about the enemies they were to face. This is when Wilhelm revealed the identity of the two cloaked cultists from that fight. He told Subaru that one of them was Eight-Arms Kurgan and that the other was Theresia van Astrea, his dead wife. He explicitly told Subaru not to let Reinhard know about this and explained that there is an enemy with abilities of necromancy which is capable of manipulating dead bodies.
Subaru and Wilhelm later joined everyone else in the city hall, and they reached a decision on how to split their forces to beat the Witches’ Cult. Priscilla and Liliana would deal with the Archbishop of Wrath at District 4. Wilhelm and Garfiel would deal with the Archbishop of Lust at District 1. Julius and Ricardo will be fighting The Archbishop of Gluttony, and finally, Reinhard and Subaru will be fighting the Archbishop of Greed, who is likely the strongest Archbishop in Pristella.
Meanwhile, the scene shifted to Emilia who was in a bridal gown inside of a chapel. The wedding ceremony for Regulus Corneas and Emilia was being conducted, but right before exchanging vows, Emilia told Regulus that there were a few things she wanted to tell him before the wedding. Regulus, too, said he had a few things to tell her and proceeded to tell her that she was forbidden to show any kind of emotion on her face after marriage.
Emilia found this unacceptable and went on a spiel about what marriage truly is and disapproved of how he referred to his wives with numbers. She then spoke of how she felt cherished when Subaru referred to her as “Emilia-tan” and emphasized how important a name is, as it is not something superficial as Regulus said it was. Nothing in this conversation piqued Regulus’ interest other than the name “Subaru”. He got all riled up and asked to explain why she brought up another man’s name right before their wedding.
To this, Emilia responded that she didn’t know what it meant to love anyone, but she knew she’d know what it meant to love a man one day. However, she already knew who that man would be, so she would never truly be Regulus’ woman. Right after this, Regulus raised his hand against Emilia, and the chapel door blasted and fell on Regulus, revealing the entry of Reinhard and Subaru.
3. What To Expect In Episode 9?
After the anime returns from its break in 2025, we can expect to see everyone headed out to their respective district to fight their respective archbishops, as planned. The fight between Regulus and Reinhard would likely unfold, and the episode would be highly eventful.
Since Subaru showed up without Beatrice, her involvement or role in the next arc remains unknown; however, after she regains her strength, it is likely that she’ll join Subaru’s fight later.
4. About Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-
Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World is a Japanese light novel series written by Tappei Nagatsuki and illustrated by Shinichirou Otsuka.
The plot is based on Subaru Natsuki, the protagonist who gets sucked into a fantasy world on his way home from the convenience store. He gets attacked by a group of thugs and is beaten to a pulp immediately, but this girl from the fantasy world named Satella saves him.
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