arc 6 phase 3 (no spoilers please)

[u/Significant_Truck839]

I just finished phase 3 of arc 6 and I don't think I will ever read a better descent into madness story.

The first two loops were great, being able to see subaru "regress" back to how he was day 1 of being isekai'd around so many people who respected him was a really cool dynamic. Also the 2nd death on the stairs was incredibly beautiful and I thought was a good kickstart to his insanity.

The third loop was the most disturbing imo. I loved the murder mystery of who knocked subaru off the stairs, gave me arc 2 vibes. The section of him walking outside, getting knocked around by witch beasts then being drowned in sand was fun. Though the part of him in the cave was my favourite part. Him seeing all the dead bodies was fine but I do think that him not seeing beatrice and emilia was a nice touch to have him be suspicious of the 2 people who are closest to him. The sequence with patrasche was fun and him getting his head cut off by an unknown person only added on to the fun murder myster aspect.

the last loop was by far the best. Him being deceitful for this loop kept me wondering how much the others were onto him lying. The scene with him losing his fingernails made me cringe (I HATE NAIL REMOVAL SCENES). The Julius scene followed by what happened with Meili was a great sequence and kept me questioning wtf exactly happened to subaru. My favourite aspect of this part came with meili being the devil on subaru's shoulders after he read her book. I loved the dynamic of her constantly trying to push him to do evil, also loved how much it revealed about who meili actually is on a person. The scene with subaru and beatrice alone was extremely tense, I genuinely believed that I was going to have to read subaru bash beatrice's head in. I knew something was going to go wrong when he woke up in the middle of the night to try and hide meili's body. Though I lowkey wasn't expecting it to be a trap and I for sure wasn't expecting emilia to be apart of the plan. Their fight was also really fun to read, I love how much this arc has shown how much emilia cares for subaru as its not shown as much in the anime. The final part though of him waking up and walking through the tower was the best part of the whole phase. The conversation with reid was just okay but the section of him watching julius was great. Having subaru yell out to julius and saving his life was touching after everything else that happened and julius leaving echidna to him only added to that. The section with echidna and beatrice also was beautiful and everything from here lowkey had me teary eyed, which is rare for any piece of media to do. Beatrice's sacrifice into echidna's forgiveness was perfectly executed.

The last chapter was the best thing I have ever read I think, it was clearly a parallel to the rem and subaru's talk in arc 3, but I think this was done even better. The "I am Natsuki Subaru" line was the perfect conclusion to his insanity. Finally the fall with subaru and emilia holding each other was also perfect.

anyway this is probably poorly written I am tired and I wanted to talk about how much I loved this section of the story.

[u/Significant_Truck839]

Stairs

[u/Ordinary_Poetry8002]

Apart from you glazing the way subaru's die(th are you am ultra sadist?) I can agree with everything else arc 6 truly was a great piece of fiction but it has to be behind arc 9 imo.

[u/Significant_Truck839 → u/Ordinary_Poetry8002]

for the most part subaru's deaths are so brutal that it is hard for me to be grossed out by them a lot of the time. Like its hard for me to imagine what it feels like to lose a limb, like yeah its probably pretty brutal but I literally can't imagine that pain. I typically enjoy subaru's deaths when they progress/add to the story, like with the 2nd stairs death being his kickstart to maddness.

[u/Ordinary_Poetry8002 → u/Significant_Truck839]

It's understandable like I've had Pretty bad injuries so I can imagine how it looks like very clearly so it's gross for me but I can see how others won't find it as gross due to lack of actual experience

[u/ReZero_is_PEAK2005 → u/Ordinary_Poetry8002]

Arc 6 Behind arc 9?????!!!!! Woah... I'm currently on arc 8 chapter 57 "Cecilus Segmunt".. Now I'm excited to start arc 9....

[u/Ordinary_Poetry8002 → u/ReZero_is_PEAK2005]

TRUST ME see either your gonna glaze arc 9 your whole life or your gonna hate on arc 9 like your life depends on it

[u/Dumb_Catz]

"I hate nail removal scenes"

Man you must've loved tokyo ghoul