Re:ZERO Season 4 Turns To Julius And Ram In Episodes 17 And 18
The two episodes pair Julius and Ram as characters whose losses leave them clinging to what they have left, and the season pays that off with its strongest fight animation and a plot thread about Subaru's Authority of Greed left underexplained.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Episodes 17 and 18 of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 are character pieces. Episode 17 centers on Julius and why Reid dislikes him, since Reid sees his own origins in Julius and wants him to drop the noble facade he clings to. Episode 18 covers Ram's fight with Lye, where she takes Rem's oni power into her body and defeats the Archbishop of Sin.
Episode 17 gives Julius the fight and the history: an orphan brought into a noble family, trained as a knight, carrying manners and dress that Reid reads as a mask. Reid's read is only half-right. Julius' problem is that he clings to the facade, and it takes Anastasia being physically present for him to release his spirits into a new contract and meet Reid toe-to-toe. Anastasia has the same problem, holding memories of Julius until clinging to them prevents her from seeing him at all. Episode 18 shifts to Ram against Lye, and the fight carries the season's clearest choreography and camera work. Ram cannot remember Rem, but the connection holds, and she takes Rem's oni power into her own body to end the Archbishop of Sin. Subaru's Authority of Greed, meanwhile, goes unexplained.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Anime News Network Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 Episodes 17-18