"possible but rare to have more than one divine protection" *Reinhard on screen* Reinhard over here with a passive ability to give himself passive abilities

I love how "realistic" the magic system is. It's hard to explain but it feels like the magic in Re:Zero isn't like in any other fantasy anime.

Subaru: "AL Shamac!" Jimbo's dad: "welcome to the shadow realm Jimbo"

Summary (what I learn from video) Fire = temperature Water = flow (can manipulate life) Earth = solidify Wind = acceleration Yin = debuff Yang = buff

The magici ability to use fire I never thought it could be used to control the temperature to make lice as well awesome

My take is that Tappei meant that as in magical skills, Roswall is likely much more skilled, but Puck is just overwhelmingly strong. So it's ranking in regards to technique, but Puck is just brute magical strength.

I wanna point out that it’s a misconception even within the re:zero universe that Yin magic is ‘debuffs’, it’s simply such a rare element to have an affinity with that advanced users of it essentially don’t exist as no one lives long enough to learn lost forms and it’s so rare that yin users don’t meet often, let alone enough to pass knowledge of the magic down through generations. [SPOILERS FROM NOW ON FOR ANIME ONLYS] Beatrice is the ONE known exception to this, as she is a great spirit with a Yin affinity, and has spent 400 years learning about it and becoming likely the most advanced Yin user in history, she’s capable of utilising the element to its full capability, and through her we find out that Yin magic is actually at its core the manipulation of space and time, the most basic of spells like Shamac manipulate space slightly to cause visual and auditory illusions, but the highest form of the same spell, which has been lost to time except in betty’s case, is capable of sending its target to another dimension entirely. Additionally, Beatrice’s Minya spell appears to just be crystallised Yin mana, but the way they damage their target and the way Betty describes them tells us otherwise, the mana arrows created by the spell are actually made of mana that has been frozen in time, or ‘stagnant time’ as Betty says, this is why they can’t be deflected and are so deadly, if one pierces you it begins freezing you in time until your body crystallises into stagnation as well, at which point you fall apart. There’s so much more to it and the way that spell forms can be manipulated in the imagination of the magician before being released means that even Subaru can alter it to make the Minya arrows more deadly, explosive, serrated etc and advanced yin users like Betty can cause the shards of the arrows to stand perfectly still acting as immovable fields of razor blades or even create rifts in space time with a spell like Minya, which she does while fighting the great rabbit to annihilate some of them. Her door crossing is also a manipulation of space, as is her ability to nullify gravity, teleport herself and others both short and long distances, and more recently her ability to warp the space time around herself and Subaru to create an effect similar to regulus’ authority, preventing those inside the distortion from being touched by anything and everything from the outside, as it simply cannot pass through a barrier of warped space and frozen time, just with a mana limiter rather than the way regulus’ authority works.

7:46 Man you would need to store mana for at least 400 years for a Al Shamac

Whenever I thought about magic systems I thought about deciding magic into categories like gravity magic being used to either control objects or control yourself (I. E. Flight and weight) or heat magic being used for cold and hot, so when I heard you mention that fire and ice where part of the same affinity I was like ey, somebody finally pushed that dynamic.

So basically, yang magic is Crazy Diamond

"Al Shamac can literally transport the target to another dimension". Interesting. VERY interesting. I feel like there's something REALLY IMPORTANT about this fact, but it's probably not important to the entirety of Re:Zero and Subaru as a character.

Wow I have rewatched this show a bunch of times but I have never noticed the different incantations rem used in the whale fight

black clover: used fire magic to heal everyone: wtf

Who is the second one to be able to teleport? Satella? She did teleport Suburu from another dimension thats kinda advanced to me at least.

I love how Re:zero has soooo much more worldbuilding then other isekai. What I love about it the most is that the world of Re:zero feels life a fantasy world where the main protagonist was isekai'd instead of an isekai world centered around the protagonist and plot and without it it wouldn't make sense.

Echidnut: earth wind and fire me: AL SEPTEMBER!!!

I like it that people with Divine protection in re zero is like foreshadowing us in the real world. We have people who have latent talents, gifts or should I say gifted people.

I like how Re:Zero's author created fire magic with the basics of thermodynamics. Edit: this was actually fun. I like videos exploring the world building of a show/game (ie. Magic system, world biomes, politics, etc.) especially in anime. Nice vid dude, you get a sub from me. Also Re:Zero is ♡♡♡

Lad, you are posting weekly bangers. Thank you for satisfying my rezero cravings. Hyped for s2 in about 2 months time

"Al Waifu!" "Al Harem!" Why isn't it working?

Echidnut is greater than or equal to Reinhard Van Astrea

Echidnut you've already doubled in subscribers since I started watching you Keep up the good work : )

The Earth, Fire and Wind part queuing the music had me dying lol, I had to rewind it back just to realize the unintentional yet intentional pun 😂

I believe in the web novel it's said that Altemillion is originally only intended to be able to control the weather over the size of a small village. The fact that it even went as far as it did is a bit of a surprise with how little time he spent building up the mana for the spell.

Came back for AL SHAMAC 🤩

Thanks to this video, now I can cast magic in Re:Zero. “10 out of 10 you'll learn a lot of lore”. Time to drink forget juice.

Love your vids also re zero season 2 hype

FINALLY! SOMEONE WHO GETS IT!

the magic system in re zero is quite unique, saw the whole anime series twice and had no idea the words before the spell had any meaning

Keep up the fantastic work with the Re:zero Vids Echidnut i would say that Beatrice, is very powerful with her Yin magic

Great video! Man Tappei has created a really intricate and interesting setting for his story, hasn't he? Every chapter I read it feels like more and more unexplained systems get touched on and refined, and more pieces start to click together! Your channel has quickly risen to be one of my favorites, I get the feeling that you love this series just as much as I do. Keep up the good work man!

Good stuff man. This is very useful info. I actually didn't know a lot of this.

Reinhardt: I don't need magic cause I have des damn blessings boi.

Wait, so Reinhard doesn’t have magic? I mean, wow, imagine if he was as skilled as Julius in magic, he’d be even more busted, and he’d probably have like fifteen divine protections that let him cast his magic instantly and flawlessly and always at full power, god, he’s already so fucking busted, just imagine, there wouldn’t be any conflict in the story, Reinhard would just win

HOLY SHIT I NEVER EXPECTED AL SHAMAC TO APPEAR IN THE ANIME

It was an honour in attending your astounding video! This quality knowledge will certainly be of use in improving my knighthood. I will be wishing for your video soon!

8:24 You are amazing for this

Keep up the good I love the content you’re making

Another great vid :^) thanks for the comprehensive breakdown ^^

Great content my dude, keep up the great work!

your content is so great! keep it up! lets hope you get big boast on subs when second season drops!

If i could have an affinity for any of the types of magic but irl, i would want Fire/Temperature affinity or Yin Affinity Imagine wielding the power to basically be a walking Air Conditioner Or just *sHAAAAAMAAAAC*

This video is well made. Kudos to the creators. This is the only rezero vid that does not yield crappy videos just to gain viewers. The editing is spot on.

Very great and detailed video glad you put this back up

Well,explained,good choice of words,didn't spoil to much,and fine editing skills 9/10

Nice video thanks for explaining how magic works in Re:ZERO

I'm so glad I got to see your channel blow up

The video is finally back, cheers!

I am really grateful for your work and the effort you put into it... Now I understand this universe better.

Thanks for this video, I'd recently decided to read the novels from the end of Arc 3 after rewatching the anime, and even though I understood the magic system in Re:Zero was more complex than those usually in anime, this video was really helpful in elaborating on that. I really appreciate how in-depth this system is, reminds me a lot of Fate/Stay Night's magic system (the novels for that series are also super detailed about how magic works), and the concept of mana and od is very similar between the 2 series as well.

Great video! I would like to see another video about the Authorities and how they affect people along with Divine Blessings.

I'm making a power system in my shonen manga and its called Zen Two which is a martial arts technique that focuses on the manipulation of prana (life energy). I know that Re:Zero also calls magic prana but prana in my manga series is directly drawn from the original hinduistic version the word and concept of ki/chi/qi. Zen Tai is way too complex for me to explain in this comment but it basically centers on the idea that prana is basically everything as well as being the life blood of the universe. Prana is also treated as something very special and sacred since when someone unlocks their ability to use it they are usually considered to be awakened or enlightened and can never go back to how their lives were before. However if it is used incorrectly it has a variety of consequences such as accelerated aging or insanity. Prana also deals with opposing forces living together in harmony as well as self discovery and the idea that true strength comes from maturity and understanding rather than latent power and pure force of will. This system also demands that one must be strategic to win fights.

Where were you all this time I ve missed you ♡good video♥

love your vids

Glad this video is back

very nice video hope to see more

Also, if I remember correctly, the author recently tweeted that Anastasia has the weakest gate out of every character, with Roswaal still having the best one...

“So I wouldn’t recommend trying that in home” Me: WAIT U CAN DO THAT?!

Love your vids

Love the channel, llooking forward to your next video, its rems birthday afterall

Your breakdown is fascinating because other than Return by Death, I don't remember there being any magic in the show at all...Yeah, no idea how I failed to remember that, haha! Thanks for the cool video :D

*Fire Magic makes you shoot Ice* Makes sence..

Dude you deserve more than 1000000 subscribers I swear you are awesome

wow 100k already ? CG !

A little adding. In terms of incantation difficulty (from easiest to hardest): divine blessings->magic->autorities. Don't ask why (cause some explanations might touch arc 6 spoilers).

7:30 Aand, we just saw Beako cast the Al Shamak

As someone attempting to run a DnD campain set in the world of re:zero I can't thank you enouch for this, there's only so much info the wiki can give and You are a lot better at explaining it

Instructions weren't clear so I blew up previous universe. Fortunately this universe Echidnut was clear AF. Thank you Echidnut. 🙏🏻

Legend has it David has watched this video to figure out why Puck is the Great Spirit of Fire.

7:38 YES, MC HUMAN HAVE EXTREMELY INSANE POWERFUL SHAMAC

I love this channel best channel :D

nice video, i like it a lot

The most powerful being in Re:Zero A *blob fish* with the sloth authority

Thank you so much, I have been wondering why puck was a fire spirit and yet still uses ice.

you got my like with the Yang joke :)

I believe ur 100 percent correct dude keep it up broham

Now I am more hype about the upcoming next season of Re: zero😆😆

Really still confused on how beatrice was able to use wind magic in memory snow

Wondered were this went, going to show my friend but it was gone thought I went crazy

As an anime only this was a very informative video. I'm hyped for season 2!

First Love your vids!

How do spirits work in this world, like are they actual spirits or something more physical? I know that some can be artificially created so they seem kinda weird.

Oh??this video is back 😊

This was nice, you left me no choice than to sub.

Al shamak is just sending you to the shadow realm

Echidna, looks like it reads A-kid-na, so ima call her such.

We gone need that video on divine protections G

Od Laguna giving Reinhardt every divine protection is the equivalent of putting all of your levels into one stat

The true magic is that if this beatrice sits on your lap you will end up in the prison's cell faster than the rotation of black holes

My incantation : M U D A

This was on Houston Hones playlist :D

Interesting. Didn't know the magic system of Re:Zero was this deep. Never noticed Rem using those different Huma spells, kinda works like Final Fantasy in that its like Fire, Fira and Firaga. The whole using fire to make ice isn't new but it is rare. (Several fantasy novels and games do things like that but its absolutely more common to see ice as its own element or as part of water) I'd be interested to see all the spells once the series is over just to read thru them all. (don't want to ATM cause I'd like to avoid spoilers as much as possible)

Question about Al Shamak. Would the spell teleport the target to a dimension of nothingness (the shadow realm, if you will) or to another world, like Earth or other fantasy worlds?

11:36 you cant say his divine protection is useless in general. He became one of the best merchants o.0 being rich and having good connections is also a power :D

I had to rewind when you suddenly played September in the background. Lol

🚫🧢can’t wait for the new episode

Emilia Be Like Its So Hot That It Became Ice

Got a good question for ya. Why don't witch cultists chant the spell when they cast those fireballs?

Nice

I really appreciate the andrew yang addition