As of July 2026, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 aired in 2016 with 85 episodes — streaming now on Crunchyroll. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1

2016 85 Episodes Animation · Drama ⭐ 8/10

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 has built a real following on and among viewers who want their sci-fi to think as hard as it looks. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. 713 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Yusuke Kobayashi sets the tone, and the world-building does the rest. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 treats its concept seriously enough to follow it all the way through. Season 1 of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- includes 85 episodes. It aired from April 2016 to September 2026. This season stars Yusuke Kobayashi, Rie Takahashi and Yumi Uchiyama. Yusuke Kobayashi and Rie Takahashi lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2016. What separates Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 from lesser genre entertainment is a willingness to let the concept cost the characters something. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

For late-night viewing or a proper weekend binge, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 fits the bill. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Yusuke Kobayashi anchors it with a performance that makes the more abstract moments feel personal. If you have been burned by ambitious sci-fi before, this is the exception.

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🎬 Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
The End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End
2016-04-04
Natsuki Subaru is summoned to a parallel world on his way home from the convenience store. He's entranced at first by the fantasy world suddenly stretching before his eyes, but the cute girl he believes summoned him is nowhere to be found, and soon enough he's utterly lost. Then a gang of punks surr...
E2
Reunion with the Witch
2016-04-11
After being attacked by someone the first time, sliced open by Elsa the second time, and stabbed in the back by punks the third time, Subaru should have been dead, but found himself back where he started in the same parallel world every time. He finally realizes he’s acquired the power to go back to...
E3
Starting Life from Zero in Another World
2016-04-18
Subaru attempts to buy the insignia from Felt and return it to Satella before Elsa arrives at the loot house…but Satella arrives before the negotiations are complete, and Elsa still attacks them.
E4
The Happy Roswaal Mansion Family
2016-04-25
After being badly wounded by Elsa, Subaru somehow survived and awoke in the mansion of Margrave Mathers, in the Kingdom of Lugunica.
E5
The Morning of Our Promise Is Still Distant
2016-05-02
Subaru now lives and works in Roswaal’s mansion, working with Ram and Rem, and finally getting Emilia to agree to a date with him. But the day of their promised date never comes as Subaru keeps going back to the day he first awoke in the mansion. He’s confused at the thought that he Returned by Deat...
E6
The Sound of Chains
2016-05-09
Subaru’s first day at the Roswaal mansion begins for the third time. The first time, he grew weak and died of unknown reasons in his sleep, and the second time, he was killed by an attacker. The sound of chains that he heard as he died the second time replays in his mind, waking him in a terrified, ...
E7
Natsuki Subaru’s Restart
2016-05-16
Standing before Subaru is someone he never expected. The truth of the attacker’s identity leaves him bewildered, and he feels everything crumbling around him as he dies yet again. Then, for the fourth time, he awakes on his first day at the Roswaal mansion. This time, the night of the fourth day pas...
E8
I Cried, Cried My Lungs Out, and Stopped Crying
2016-05-23
Subaru’s first day in Roswaal’s mansion begins for the fifth time. Determined to save everyone this time, he makes it a point to keep his best smile on his face in order to earn the trust of the mansion’s staff. But although he works his hardest to make them like him, his body begins to have trouble...
E9
The Meaning of Courage
2016-05-30
The scattered pieces of the puzzle finally come together, and Subaru realizes for certain that the shaman who cursed him is in the village at the foot of the mountains. He heads there with Ram and Rem and makes sure all the villagers touch him so that he can find out, with Beatrice’s help, who cast ...
E10
Demonically Inspired Methods
2016-06-06
Subaru risked his life to save the children from a pack of Ulgarm, but he was so powerfully cursed that there could be no saving him. Even Beatrice is unable to undo the complex web of curses on him, and says he’ll grow weak and die within half a day. The only way he can survive is if the entire Ulg...
E11
Rem
2016-06-13
Knocked unconscious by Subaru’s attack, Rem dreams of an event in her past that she and Ram would rather forget…a sin for which Rem feels she can never be forgiven. After waking up, she tells Subaru that she’s just committed the same sin again. When the three of them are moments from being cornered ...
E12
Return to the Capital
2016-06-20
At the order of the council of elders that manages Lugunica in the king’s absence, Wilhelm and Felix visit Roswaal’s mansion as emissaries. Emilia is required in the imperial capital right away, so Subaru asks her to take him along. Emilia tells him this won’t be a pleasure trip, but a push from Rem...
E13
Self-Proclaimed Knight Natsuki Subaru
2016-06-27
As Emilia joins Priscilla, Crusch, and Anastasia in a meeting of the royal selection participants, Reinhard enters the hall with Felt. According to a new prophecy seen on the Dragon Stone, there are five priestesses with the potential to be the kingdom’s next ruler. Reinhard announces that Felt is t...
E14
The Sickness Called Despair
2016-07-04
“I just wanted to protect her. That feeling wasn’t a lie. Where did I go wrong?” Rejected by the one who meant more to him than anything, Subaru is still unable to recognize that he may have done something irreversible. He then finds out that some disturbing movement has been detected within Roswaal...
E15
The Outside of Madness
2016-07-11
Upon returning to Roswaal’s mansion, Subaru is greeted by an unbelievable sight and wails that this was not what he wanted to happen. Stricken with despair, everything before Subaru starts to go white as, finally, he hears a voice: “You were too late.”
E16
A Pig's Greed
2016-07-18
Subaru wakes up in front of the appa shop once again. Feeling boxed in on all sides due to his own lack of power to change the situation, he seeks the help of others. First, he seeks the help of Crush, who flatly declines any further involvement passed her contractual obligation of healing Subaru. H...
E17
Disgrace in the Extreme
2016-07-25
A mysterious figure appears before Subaru and his traveling companions. As the looming beast attacks with a deafening bellow amidst the darkness and fog, Rem determines that it will be too difficult to escape…
E18
From Zero
2016-08-01
Subaru laments that he could not do anything or save anyone, and has no options left. Exhausted, he suddenly takes off running at full speed as if he’s made a decision…
E19
Battle Against the White Whale
2016-08-08
To save Emilia, Subaru approaches Crusch to negotiate the formation of an alliance. His terms are a bit difficult for Crusch to believe, but she can see that Subaru isn’t lying.
E20
Wilhelm van Astrea
2016-08-15
Subaru has devoted everything he had, and done all he could do. His passion has captured Crusch’s heart, as well as Anastasia’s cooperation, and they all enter into the battle against the White Whale together.

🎭 Cast of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 1

Yusuke Kobayashi
Yusuke Kobayashi
Subaru Natsuki (voice)
Rie Takahashi
Rie Takahashi
Emilia (voice)
Yumi Uchiyama
Yumi Uchiyama
Puck (voice)
 Rie Murakawa
Rie Murakawa
Ram (voice)
Inori Minase
Inori Minase
Rem (voice)
Satomi Arai
Satomi Arai
Beatrice (voice)

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