Crunchyroll has changed the subtitles for multiple scenes from the Re:Zero Season 3 premiere after fans took to X to voice their complaints. The criticism first came from X user @Jaereku, who pointed out multiple flaws in the episode’s dialogue that affected how fans might perceive certain characters and what they meant. Then X user @Proofspace pointed out a day later how the streaming service fixed them.
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Re:Zero Season 3 Episode 1 Review
Diffchecker has both the original and updated version of the first episode’s script so fans can check out a side-by-side comparison of any changes that were made. An excerpt of the script and its changes can be viewed below.
Re:Zero Season 3 kicked off with a 90-minute premiere on Wednesday and placed first in Anime Corner’s Week 1 poll, beating out other big premieres for Dan Da Dan and Blue Box. Studio White Fox has returned to handle the animation production for the season. New episodes of Re:Zero Season 3 are released every Wednesday.
Re:Zero Season 3 will run for 16 episodes, covering the Attack arc and Counterattack arc with 8 episodes each. The Counterattack arc will begin airing its episodes on February 5, 2025. Konomi Suzuki is performing the opening theme song “Reweave” while MYTH & ROID ED performs the ending theme song titled “NUX LOX”.
Re:Zero Season 3 Staff and Cast
Masahiro Shinohara is the director for Re:Zero Season 3 and will also be in charge of the series composition. He will also be directing the first episode of the season and managing its script. Shinohara will also be storyboarding the first episode alongside Goichi Iwahata (prop design) and Risa Suzuki. The rest of the main staff for Re:Zero Season 3 are the following:
- Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Haruka Sagawa
- Music: Kenichiro Suehiro
- Art Director: Ryouka Kinoshita
- Director of Photography: Miori Miyagi
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
- Sound Effects: Yuji Furuya
- 3D Director: Kazuhira Tanaka
- Color Design: Izumi Sakamoto
- Art Setting: Kaoru Aoki
- Editing: Hitomi Sudou
- Monster Design: Keitaro Chiba
- Prop Design: Goichi Iwahata, Noritaka Suzuki
- Animation producer: Shin’ichirou Katou
- Scenario Supervisor: Tappei Nagatsuki
The main cast of the series is reprising their roles for Re:Zero Season 3 while Aoi Yuuki was recently announced to be voicing the role of Capella Emerada Lugunica. The current cast list for the season includes the following:
- Emilia – Rie Takahashi
- Subaru Natsuki – Yuusuke Kobayashi
- Otto Suwen – Kouhei Amasaki
- Beatrice – Satomi Arai
- Garfiel Tinsel – Nobuhiko Okamoto
- Julius Euclius – Takuya Eguchi
- Felt – Chinatsu Akasaki
- Felix Argyle – Yui Horie
- Heinkel Astrea – Kenjiro Tsuda
- Wilhelm van Astrea -Kenyuu Horiuchi
- Crusch Karsten – Yuka Iguchi
- Priscilla Barielle – Yukari Tamura
- Capella Emerada Lugunica – Aoi Yuuki
- Liliana Masquerade – Aya Yamane
- Sirius Romanée-Conti – Chika Anzai
- Anastasia Hoshin – Kana Ueda
- Kiritaka Muse – Koutarou Nishiyama
- Joshua Juukulius – Shouya Ishige
- Al -Tomokazu Seki
- Reinhard van Astrea – Yuuichi Nakamura
Fans can now go back and watch the Re:Zero Season 3 premiere with corrections after Crunchyroll correctly changed the subtitles in some scenes.
Re:Zero Light Novel
The Re:Zero anime series is based on the light novels written by Tappei Nagatsuki and illustrated by Shin’ichirou Ootsuka. The series that once began as a web novel now has 38 published volumes (and continuing) along with five side stories and 10 short stories. Re:Zero has become one of the most successful light novel series of all-time with over 13 million copies in circulation and multiple awards.
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