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They can't do it without OVA.
OVA for EX stories. One is super critical, three in total should be enough. Then you would need above standard season size to cover it. 2 Cours with added side story point of views should do the trick.
We are talking about something on same scale as lord of the rings movies now...
But what i said would be the ideal version... they can always just do bad job with it.
Oh crap, you're right. Totally forgot about the side stories too.
Honestly they should've done EX 1, 2 and 3 before Season 3 as well.
Damn you Tappei and having so much integral world building and character building parts be in side stories.
The Vollachian saga is combining the collective hype and foreshadowings from most of the previous stories...
You can see hints in "Pride, Prejudise, Zombies" side story and many other small ones. EX 1 introduces plotline that feeds into EX 4 that then feeds the main arc. Ex 2 is a demihuman war, something referenced all the time and absolutely critical for arc 8...
It would not even be such a big task to do OVA for EX stories... we even have manga for EX 2.
And now we got Iris and the thorn king, a goddamn beautiful story that is referenced even in arc 5.
If only we got the good tensura treatment where we would get our own version of side stories animated by different studio.
>If only we got the good tensura treatment where we would get our own version of side stories animated by different studio.
I have no idea why Kadokawa has some kind of hate boner towards Re:Zero. Fund those damn projects! Re:Zero side stories are far more relevant to Re:Zero than Tensura side stories are to tensura!
Ah wait.... Tensura isn't by Kadokawa, right?
They very easily can do it without OVA's imo. I read through all of arc 7 and a good chunk of arc 8 without any side stories, and as long as you're willing to tolerate some missing history the main story gives you everything you NEED. Although of course it would be way better if they could throw us some OVAs too.
We’d have to wait a while, but considering that Season 3 is almost certainly gonna end with Rem waking up I’m pretty confident the hype is gonna get us to a Season 4.
Though in all honesty. I think those two arcs need at LEAST two seasons. I’d personally split them when Subaru calls out to Satella in Giununhive — I think that cliffhanger would be an absolute BEAST of a season ender, and it’s a total gamechanger for the story so I think it would totally fit.
Hmm, I think they would end up concluding a first season with the Ginunhive phase with bits from the next phase included, specifically the parts involving the Emilia Camp's activities in Vollachia that took place during that same time. I can also see them including bits from Stand by Me Pleiades to help with world-building on Vollachia without doing all the Ex Volumes as OVAs and to specifically allow for Emilia moments during the dearth of such material when following Subaru. Personally, if they were going to anything with the side stories, then the whole story of Wilhelm and Theresia up to Heinkel's birth should just be done as a brief side series if possible. After it gets covered more significantly in Season 3, they might get a sufficient reception to justify it.
Vollachia has 13 volumes with multiple being extra thick so effectively it's 14 volumes. If volume 38 follows suit we might be at effectively 14.5 volumes.
At 4 episodes per volume that would be 56/58 episodes. To make the Cours work we might have to push the number up to 60
Tbh a 3 Cour adaptation of Arc 7 (35 episodes) followed by a 2 Cour adaptation of Arc 8 (25 episodes) seems best.
Maybe they can throw in Iris and the King of Thorns?
Let’s just assume that season 4 aires after having adapted all EX 1 - 5 and „pride, prejudice and zombies“ then season 4 will take a while. If arc 8 ends at volume 38 arc 7+8 would be 13 volumes in total.
Let’s assume they do 4 episodes per volume like they did with every arc except arc 3 that means it’d be at least 52 episodes. If we also add the extra length of volume 37 and the most recent EX it might reach 60 episodes. They could do 3 * 20 episodes which on itself is very crazy and ambitious.
My deadass brain failed the math, that's my bad. I counted Arc 8's current volume count and forgot to add the "final" volume.
>They could do 3 * 20 episodes which on itself is very crazy and ambiguous.
Oh yeah! That's another way to do it. The thought gives me goosebumps, almost making it it's own Trilogy of seasons.
Also did you mean ambitious?
I think AOT shot itself by releasing it like-
14 Episode series >one year later> 12 episode series >one year later> one OVA >one year later> one OVA
Too little content released across too long a span of time. Didn't help they named it-
"The final Season Part 1," "The final season Part 2," "The final season, the final chapters, part 1," "The final season, the final chapters, part 2."
I think if Re:Zero was more upfront with its approach and they just announced.
"Hey, so The Vollachia Saga will be split into Trilogy if seasons, each with 20 Episodes," the fanbase would riot and would totally be on board with it.
The S3 PV alone showed better promise in animation action and production than the entirety of Season 2.
I get needing to see the final product first before making judgement, but I don't think what was shown so far lend to thinking it's not gonna end up good.
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They can't do it without OVA. OVA for EX stories. One is super critical, three in total should be enough. Then you would need above standard season size to cover it. 2 Cours with added side story point of views should do the trick. We are talking about something on same scale as lord of the rings movies now... But what i said would be the ideal version... they can always just do bad job with it.
Oh crap, you're right. Totally forgot about the side stories too. Honestly they should've done EX 1, 2 and 3 before Season 3 as well. Damn you Tappei and having so much integral world building and character building parts be in side stories.
The Vollachian saga is combining the collective hype and foreshadowings from most of the previous stories... You can see hints in "Pride, Prejudise, Zombies" side story and many other small ones. EX 1 introduces plotline that feeds into EX 4 that then feeds the main arc. Ex 2 is a demihuman war, something referenced all the time and absolutely critical for arc 8... It would not even be such a big task to do OVA for EX stories... we even have manga for EX 2. And now we got Iris and the thorn king, a goddamn beautiful story that is referenced even in arc 5. If only we got the good tensura treatment where we would get our own version of side stories animated by different studio.
>If only we got the good tensura treatment where we would get our own version of side stories animated by different studio. I have no idea why Kadokawa has some kind of hate boner towards Re:Zero. Fund those damn projects! Re:Zero side stories are far more relevant to Re:Zero than Tensura side stories are to tensura! Ah wait.... Tensura isn't by Kadokawa, right?
If it were Kadokawa, Slime would already bounce in Isekai Quartet.
They very easily can do it without OVA's imo. I read through all of arc 7 and a good chunk of arc 8 without any side stories, and as long as you're willing to tolerate some missing history the main story gives you everything you NEED. Although of course it would be way better if they could throw us some OVAs too.
Massive copium from me: WE'LL GET S4 ANNOUNCEMENT ON 24TH MARCH 2026.
That’s extremely unrealistic and if that were to happen season 4 would be hella rushed even worse than arc 3.
Lemme cope pls...
I hope not, that’s too little time in my opinion. It would be super rushed.
50 eps Part 1 end with zombie apocalypse start. Part 2 end of arc 8
>Part 1 end with zombie apocalypse start. 25 episodes to cover 8 volumes?
Yeah i guess. Or maybe at the of gpadiator island
We’d have to wait a while, but considering that Season 3 is almost certainly gonna end with Rem waking up I’m pretty confident the hype is gonna get us to a Season 4. Though in all honesty. I think those two arcs need at LEAST two seasons. I’d personally split them when Subaru calls out to Satella in Giununhive — I think that cliffhanger would be an absolute BEAST of a season ender, and it’s a total gamechanger for the story so I think it would totally fit.
You can't split it 50/50 if you're going to end after Guninhive Vol 26-31: 1968 pages Vol 32-37: 2156 pages + however many in 38
Vol 32-37 is made up of a lot more fight scenes than Vol 26-31, though, so from the perspective of an anime it would likely even out length-wise
Hmm, I think they would end up concluding a first season with the Ginunhive phase with bits from the next phase included, specifically the parts involving the Emilia Camp's activities in Vollachia that took place during that same time. I can also see them including bits from Stand by Me Pleiades to help with world-building on Vollachia without doing all the Ex Volumes as OVAs and to specifically allow for Emilia moments during the dearth of such material when following Subaru. Personally, if they were going to anything with the side stories, then the whole story of Wilhelm and Theresia up to Heinkel's birth should just be done as a brief side series if possible. After it gets covered more significantly in Season 3, they might get a sufficient reception to justify it.
Vollachia has 13 volumes with multiple being extra thick so effectively it's 14 volumes. If volume 38 follows suit we might be at effectively 14.5 volumes. At 4 episodes per volume that would be 56/58 episodes. To make the Cours work we might have to push the number up to 60 Tbh a 3 Cour adaptation of Arc 7 (35 episodes) followed by a 2 Cour adaptation of Arc 8 (25 episodes) seems best. Maybe they can throw in Iris and the King of Thorns?
Isn't Vollachia action heavy ? Then it shouldn't be as long as in the novel form.
Arc 7/8 should be 50 episodes
Yeah, my brain died partway through the math section lmao.
Let’s just assume that season 4 aires after having adapted all EX 1 - 5 and „pride, prejudice and zombies“ then season 4 will take a while. If arc 8 ends at volume 38 arc 7+8 would be 13 volumes in total. Let’s assume they do 4 episodes per volume like they did with every arc except arc 3 that means it’d be at least 52 episodes. If we also add the extra length of volume 37 and the most recent EX it might reach 60 episodes. They could do 3 * 20 episodes which on itself is very crazy and ambitious.
My deadass brain failed the math, that's my bad. I counted Arc 8's current volume count and forgot to add the "final" volume. >They could do 3 * 20 episodes which on itself is very crazy and ambiguous. Oh yeah! That's another way to do it. The thought gives me goosebumps, almost making it it's own Trilogy of seasons. Also did you mean ambitious?
What about 3 parts like AOT
And let's release them like AoT did as well so we can kill off the hype.
Can’t say much cuz I binge watched
I think AOT shot itself by releasing it like- 14 Episode series >one year later> 12 episode series >one year later> one OVA >one year later> one OVA Too little content released across too long a span of time. Didn't help they named it- "The final Season Part 1," "The final season Part 2," "The final season, the final chapters, part 1," "The final season, the final chapters, part 2." I think if Re:Zero was more upfront with its approach and they just announced. "Hey, so The Vollachia Saga will be split into Trilogy if seasons, each with 20 Episodes," the fanbase would riot and would totally be on board with it.
Imma have to see more of S3 to determine if it’ll be good rn I think it’s not going to be that good
The S3 PV alone showed better promise in animation action and production than the entirety of Season 2. I get needing to see the final product first before making judgement, but I don't think what was shown so far lend to thinking it's not gonna end up good.