TV SERIES · 2016–present · JAPAN
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
- Network
- TV Tokyo, AT-X
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 85
- Studio
- White Fox, KADOKAWA, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
- Original title
- Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活
38 archived facts 3 topics 2 sources Last reviewed Sep 2026
Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find…
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8 Facts From Behind the Scenes of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
- #013
Masaharu Watanabe was selected by Yoshikawa to direct Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- because Watanabe had previously done key animation work for the studio.
- #015
Kyūta Sakai was chosen as character designer and chief animation director for Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- because Yoshikawa believed she could do justice to the novel's art while keeping animation quality consistent across the 25-episode run.
- #023
Watanabe's main instruction to the Re:ZERO staff was to capture the novel's mood as fully as possible. The scriptwriters debated how to condense the dense source material without losing its central elements, and Nakamura recalls composition notes that ran for pages.
- #025
After joining Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Nakamura and Umehara had to revise their view of the main character and rewrite scenes in which they had made Subaru appear "cool".
- #026
At Watanabe's direction, Nakamura rewrote Subaru's telling of The Red Ogre Who Cried in episode 6 several times.
- #027
The staff struggled to choose the song for Subaru's ringtone heard in the closing scene of episode 19, weighing "Kanpaku Sengen", "The Beard Song" and Princess Princess's "M" before selecting "Yoake no Michi" from Dog of Flanders.
- #029
For Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Watanabe instructed composer Kenichiro Suehiro to use human voices in the Return by Death sequences, to score emotional scenes as he would for a drama or film, and to go all out on suspenseful scenes.
- #031
Watanabe requested songs echoing Hans Zimmer's score for The Dark Knight, and on several occasions in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, including episodes 7 and 15, he used an entire song, which is unusual for most anime.
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