I'll make sure to use your links in the future!

:o Damn I kinda want to wait and get the full set when it's fully translated since the ln has strayed too much from the wn and I was hoping/wondering if they will release a special edition in the future

@@joseSanchez-ej2oh I'd buy them when they're available. A few volumes are unavailable now because of how popular the series has gotten, like volumes 2, 6, 10 and 13.

Hi is there a difference between a web novel the light novel can you make a video about them

Does this have pictures like manga or just like a book filled with books?

I’m glad I’m not the only one who caught that.

It's a genuine warning. Think on this: it would've taken him about a year to reach Begaritt and Elinalise bowed out because she can't separate herself from Cliff for that long. Roxy would've been dead for a year by the time he arrived. The party would be severely weakened compared to what it was in the book, without Elinalise and Roxy. They would've had no chance in even engaging the hydra. The mission would've failed and they would've all died in the attempt, should they take it. Hitogami would've had the time of his life ripping into the mourning Rudeus: "Look at you, having sped your way to Begaritt with thunder and bluster to save your mother and meet with your beloved teacher again while leaving your pregnant wife at home! And what did you get for ignoring my advice? Your teacher was already dead, you can't save your mother and your father sees you as a failure! All for nothing! Your child is all alone with her mother and your sisters, without a man in the house to protect them, and what a pathetic man he turned out to be! I told you you'd regret it, so aren't you regretting it now for being a failure of a student, a poor son, a horrid husband and a terrible father?" Hitogami couldn't see Nanahoshi instructing Rudeus in reaching Rapan that quickly. And as fate would have it, his reunion with Roxy was the worst possible outcome for that demiurge and his objective of avoiding being done in by Lara: Roxy immediately fell in love with Rudeus. With that, the next time they met, the regret he'd "implied" Rudeus would have gets covered with the bullshit take of Paul and Roxy having survived anyway. I don't buy it for a few reasons: 1) Rudeus brought with him the book that proved most helpful to them in navigating the labyrinth, speeding up their progress, 2) Rudeus reached Roxy at the very last moment, 3) they had trouble recruiting people anyway. So they wouldn't have found someone else to save Roxy, as she would've been dead; and the party would've been permanently kneecapped, reducing Paul's chances of survival further.

​@@Tounushiyoooo this is a pretty good explanation

​@Tounushi LN 18 iirc spoilers. I don't think so. Roxy has a strong fate along with Rudy. Maybe Paul or someone else would be dead but I doubt it. Beyond that, I forget if Nanahoshi has the same bracelet Rudy has that lets the man god not see fates changed. If she doesn't have it then the man god knows the "natural" path before his advice.

​@@TounushiTL;DR: It was both a warning and a threat

Why would Rudy insist a hierarchy? Doesn't he know how lonley orsted must feel and how happy he must be to have a true friend? Come on rudy

He probably wants to pretend to be a salaryman working for the boss cause he was unemployed in his previous life

@@heroricspiritfreinen38 because Rudeus is humble and respects Orsted

Rudy possibly still has fears of orsted. That's why he wants the hierarchy, also Rudy asked for monetary support for helping orsted. So orsted gives Rudy responsibilities and compensate Rudy for doing them. It's about making Rudy feel safe around orsted. After all the first meeting ended up the same way like Kakashi and rin.

@@heroricspiritfreinen38 because his self confidence is one of his biggest flaws, the orsted fight is one of the rare moments he's not holding back and you saw the outcome. in rudy's eyes he got stomped in the 2nd fight. but in orsted's eyes, he had to put in actual effort to kill someone who couldnt use touki and the way wn translation described it he wasn't happy with the fact that it cost him most of his mana. in his defense though its hard to feel special when youre surrounded by the strong. s ranked adventurer dad>saved/trained by sword king> guarded by emperor ranked warrior>"fights" dragon god.

If turning point 1 and 2 can make me go "wtf" and reaction channels also go "wtf"... Turning point 4 will definitely be a... "what in the fkn heill just happened" also I'm soooo hoping that turning point 4 is a movie/ova instead of multiple episodes like in the anime it'll have old rudy just show up like drip goku like "yo... Don't do this bro..." and so you have to watch the ova turning point 4 on what happened to his time would be so HYPED!

​@@lightningjadejavierwhen they do get around to animating it I really hope they don't tone down anything I want it to be as brutal as described in the LN

I spewed my drink when Natalie said that line. Just the way she said it so calmly made me laugh so abruptly.

LOL I was just referencing Yahtzee, but I literally said that out loud every time I saw Turning Point in a chapter title while I was reading the series...

Same i was originally avoiding spoilers but i actually like her content enough that i was swayed lol

@@Phenomatron True that Natalie's is freaking amazing with her content. I wish I had her as a teacher in school, maybe then I would have paid attention in class 😂😂😂

Awww thanks!

Big recommend getting into the LN or WN. The writing is really good and you get way more detail and world building that isn't possible in the anime.

@@tacitus_ I know as much as I would like to have psychical copies of the MANGA, LN and WL getting it in South Africa is the greatest problem

Sylphy will likely be alive in K500-510. I wonder how the scene in the sequel will go where she meets the Rewind Miko? And hears she's the one who summoned Rudeus and Nanahoshi, and is therefore the one directly responsible for the Teleportation Incident. Sylphy was about to shred Nanahoshi to pieces with her magic when she heard her say she's the reason for the calamity. How big of a can of whoopass would Granny Sylphy bring out the moment she understands this?

The writer really created an entire world for things to happen in. I love how shit really hits the fan once in a while and there's a real sense of characters potentially dying. It's amazing how much detail went into the timeline and like you said, the little hints that do play a part later on are extremely enticing

A lot of events can be easily overlooked

Awwww thank you!

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Hope you enjoyed it!

@@NatalieXHunter I did!

The crazy thing is that even after everything that "that person" did, I still never came to hate them completely. It was just tragic that they had resigned themselves to their fate by choosing their side waaaay before Rudeus story ever began.

Is his father dying really that hard on him? I thought Slyphy would die during child birth or worse.

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Seeing Roxy and sylphie die in any timeline physically hurts. The fact that we’re probably going to get a fully animated set of episodes of the life of Oldeus and not exposition.

​@@Darth_Bateman So not just the diary? Honestly going off of the LN, shit still hurt to read seeing how it was such a near possibility

@@ryoud9783 We ain't getting off THAT easy. Our punishment must be more severe.

Right? That was crazy

A true black swan event. It was completely unprecedented and nobody knew what the hell happened. Hitogami was completely sidelined, the Library Labyrinth's Demon King was amused by the diary, and Orsted's fate was permanently altered.

... And it becomes a point of inconsistency that later clues Rudeus on Geese being an apostle.

Rudeus does note the inconsistency and files it away until later, since he has bigger problems on his hands. Then he kinda forgets it after Paul's death. The Blessed Child of Memory looking through Zenith's memories prompts him to remember this and process it again. And even before then he started questioning Geese's loyalties over his mother's disappearance. Must've served as a bit of a moment of panic for Geese that the jig is up. But I have to wonder why nobody else figured this out.

Kinda like LoTR, only Bilbo and Frodo's story that are completely told, but it's actually just a small break between War of Wraths and Dagor Dagorath.

I also love this background btw

I haven't watched it yet. I hear it's good but I haven't started it yet.

Badigadi irks me more. Geese was also always fishy to me. The fact that he kept being an apostle after hitogami took out his whole race and village.

Turning Point 3 is impactful as you said when Rudy defied Hitogami, another thing to note is that Hitogami intended for Roxy to die at the dungeon but Rudeus changed that when he defied Hitogami and decided to save her. Had Roxy died, Lara wouldn't be born and there would be no destined hero to arrive in the world.

I've come to the conclusion that Nanahoshi is the common factor in all Turning Points, with her input serving as a direct disadvantage to Hitogami's future. TP1: She manifests in the world. TP2: She prompts Orsted to heal Rudeus TP3: She gives her teleportation ruin notebook to Rudeus, having him arrive just in time to save Roxy TP4: She assists Rudeus in ambushing Orsted, rather than have him go look for him for Roxy knows how long. Not that Hitogami would give him that long to look before moving in on the family, anyway. Sure, TP 3 and 4 take place up to weeks after the events of the chapters titled Turning Point, but since Nanahoshi and Rudeus are both wild cards in that world, the way things change has to revolve around them.

@@Tounushi what about turning point 5?

@@alexissly8951 is there one? If the first chapter of the sequel is titled that, Imma lose it.

@@Tounushi Happens at the very end Rudi vs Fighting God Turning point 5

Thank you! Yeah, things get very interesting during and after that trip!

The effects of the Turning Points affect their plans, but they have no real input with them. Nanahoshi's input is what turns the tide. TP1: She manifests in the world; Orsted and Hitogami are confused. TP2: She prompts Orsted to heal Rudeus; Orsted goes with it, despite his apprehension at Rudeus being an apostle; Hitogami was blindsided, but his plans aren't affected. TP3: She gives her teleportation ruin notes to Rudeus so he can conduct his journey faster; Orsted isn't involved at all; Hitogami's plan of having Roxy killed is ruined, as well as his intentions of messing with Rudeus. TP4: She's given a glimpse of her own future that helps her cope with failure down the road, and she assists Rudeus in drawing in Orsted rather than him having to go seek him out; Orsted fights one of his toughest battles and recruits Rudeus to make use of his power and descendants; Hitogami's hail Mary of trying to fix what went wrong with TP3 fails due to time travel shenanigans, so he sics Rudeus against Orsted in the hopes that a) Orsted dies, b) Rudeus is out of the way or c) he can draw some other plans against Rudeus' family.

Well, that part of the light novels has been out for ages in Japanese, and people who've read the Japanese would definitely have told us if something as major as Turning Point 4 was changed. Personally I think it's fine as it is - yes, it does give me a massive headache trying to figure out how the Oldeus timeline fits in to all the time loop stuff already established, given it seems to be true time travel rather than a time reset (given Orsted's loops we can assume reset the world like Subaru in Re:Zero, rather than traveling back in time, but Oldeus seems to have just traveled back by himself, so does the time he came from still exist?), but I think it's cool enough as a twist to deserve to be in the story. I don't think it needs to be as well thought out and executed as Steins;Gate because it's not a central mechanic of the story, and the fantasy setting makes it kind of an affordance that we can just handwave that time travel magic is possible but difficult, but certainly, I can see why some people might find it a bit clunky.

For the sake of comparison how impactful those events are to me as a fan, I compare them to Star Wars: I've come to feel about Turning Point 1 the same as I do about Alderaan, and Turning Point 2 the same as the Bespin duel.

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I'm very active on Twitter (@NatalieXHunter) but I don't use any other socials really. My books were mostly a bit adult in nature so I don't really promote them on my channel but they're all on Amazon...

Never considered it on that angle but it fits nicely I wonder when was the time the author first had an idea of the underlying war between orsted and hitogami, as whatever the case it's amazing that it's coherent to that degree (either by coincidence or by design)

I think the 2nd one is actually true

The 2nd one I think is Canon, I think oldeus or his diary was the one that said it, as for the first one I can't guarantee though it fits hitogami's attempts on preventing lara from being born.

Rudeus getting the demon eye also served in getting him to Shirone as well as overall increasing his survival odds. In Shirone, Rudeus' rescue stunt destabilized Pax's mental state as well as his position in the court, weakening a future where he'd take over and create a republic where Laplace would be born. In the end Hitogami's delaying actions were only stretching a rubber band. By the time Rudeus met his teacher again, he'd become a man who perfectly matched the criteria of her ideal romantic partner and the scenario that played out matched her fantasy of finding love with every individual clause fulfilled. To. The. Letter. 1) "She would bump into someone who was tall, manly and fashionably dressed; a young human man with a youthful appeal " By age 16, Rudeus had taken care to strengthen his body, he had Zeniths' and Paul's genes (which he'd already passed on), he wore the cloak selected for him by Sylphy (who'd gotten accustomed to the tastes of royals), and he's still an otaku to the core with his antics. 2) "In the depths of a labyrinth he would save her" Rudeus literally goes through grey stone to reach her once he noticed her presence and saves her from immediate mortal peril. 3) "The two of them would combine their strengths to make their escape and their love would bud and blossom" Rudeus joins the party Roxy's already part of and works closely with her, her interest in him blatantly apparent to all but him. He's looked up to her for so long, she's become his emotional foundation. 4) "The youth would discover one of his friends had died, and she would comfort him. That would be their first night." Paul dies. Rudeus is left in his deepest depression yet, to the point of slowly starving himself to death in his despondency. Roxy brings herself to him and directly propositions him, rousing his interest in feeling the heartbeat and touch of this woman he's spent over a decade worshiping as a god. He regains combat-effective focus the next day after realizing how badly he's messed up. What came after is that Rudeus realized he not only respects and worships Roxy, he also loves her; and Roxy confessed her love to him, crying at the idea of him already being taken and nobody telling her, and that she'd missed the bus of having the man she'd fantasized over for decades. Elinalise gives the final push and her granddaughter gives her approval for their relationship. For Hitogami to interfere in them having Lara, he had to take extra steps. Plan A was to indefinitely delay their meeting and get either of them eventually killed; I believe TP2 prevented this or it was Hitogami's chance for Rudeus to die. Plan B would've been the labyrinth, but Nanahoshi's teleportation guidebook kiboshed that. Plan C was the rat. Plan D was to get her in the splash zone of Orsted's rampage against Rudeus and his allies. After that it's dice rolls against Lara, which for all intents and purposes was past the point of no return.

I would, but I only say it as a reference to Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation haha

Completely throws egg on the face of the concept of a man with nothing to lose. If a man has nothing to lose but himself, he'll fight until he's lost himself and accepts his death. If a man has everything to lose, he'll fight even beyond that, throwing away everything of himself if need be. That reflects to Eris' fight with Ars: Ars would've fruitlessly fought to the death; Rudeus begged, throwing even his pride and dignity away for what he's afraid to lose.

TP1 raised alarm bells that something's gone wrong and that there are new wild cards on the table. TP2 was a surprise, but not too much of an upset for his plans yet. TP3 was supposed to be a done deal, but Orsted's apprentice screwed that up. Roxy WOULD have died in the labyrinth if Rudeus hadn't gotten that teleportation circle location. TP4 indeed is where it all went wrong. Once Lara was born, his fate was all but sealed. But the deal with fate in the setting is that it's not absolute. It's just a very high probability. Hitogami's playing at worse and worse odds, so he'll fight harder and harder to maximize his chances of winning and surviving. Problem for him is, he's ill-equipped with gathering loyalty or predicting movements. He's like an ill-tempered child playing at a grand strategy game with his walkthrough taken away. Even his best effort against Rudeus was trying to herd a bunch of egotists with their own ideals and agendas; he didn't even understand that he'd needed them on the same page.

Not the usual cup of tea but that could be fun. Maybe a bit about eris' side of events.

Haha, I've been waiting for this episode to air just to see if there are any hot takes worth responding to! Though I can see tbh why anime onlies would see Eris very negatively given the episode left out her perspective entirely and made what is actually a misunderstanding look like her being heartless (rather than thoughtless).

@@NatalieXHunter I'm 90% we will get Eris POV next episode. If not I'll be disappointed.

>female ummmm you know the person who does this youtube show is a troon right?

@@ELI_TMWSTWAre you suggesting Natalie is a guy? Would be news to me. Edit: Wait you're saying she's trans? Wow people sure come up with funny words to be hateful. I'm pretty sure Natalie isn't trans. If you got that idea from her having a "low" voice you sure are delusional.

Thanks 😆

I'm going to start doing live readings on stream soon, and I definitely plan to do the IFs, among other Re:Zero side content.

I loved the journey to Rapan, was quite eventful.

@@Rammsoldat especially with the stinky bat bints.

I did actually do some playthroughs of the first Higurashi VN back when my channel was new, but it wasn't a style of content that really worked for me. If I do ever cover the franchise (which I might) it'll be after I've played through it all, though, as it's a bit too deep for me to just want to do anime only content about it. As for Noralities, I only did responses to her hot takes - since the Dragon Maid stuff she's mostly just been covering Ghibli movies and magical girl shows which honestly are not my area of interest when it comes to anime. It's not like some thing where we all just want to rip apart everything she says whenever she makes a video, so unless she comes out with something really wild again I doubt people will be responding to her again. Though, can you imagine if she watched Mushoku Tensei?

​@@NatalieXHunter Ahh, I see... You know, whether or not I can relate to your tastes myself or even know what anime it is your talking about here, I have to say, you're a really nice or at least really chill and level headed person, that it's nice to leave comments sometimes and simply see you heart my comments, or possibly even reply to them. :p You're one of the only youtubers to do something like that... and when it's you in particular, it feels like it actually means something though, and it feels more thoughtful. :? Anyways, yeah, When They Cry is pretty deep, but I mean, I figured since some of your vids are hours long and Re:Zero is a pretty big and complex thing, that if you were ever to run out of content, that could be something that you should check out. ^^; And for Noralities, well... maybe critiquing all of her videos is a bit too mean-spirited... but for her seemingly biased videos, she seems a bit self-righteous at times, doesn't she? :p So defending some kind of viewpoint or other and going against her instead doesn't exactly seem wrong either... I guess everything that needed to be said has already been said though and now she should be left alone, maybe... As for magical girl type stuff, well... Some things may be a bit deeper or mature than others, but I think even the fluffier stuff can have it's surprisingly profound moments too. :p I try to see the best in all genres of works usually, except when I don't and I try and I find myself not liking it despite myself, even if it's popular. :?

Oh, I wasn't saying I didn't like magical girls, just that it's not a genre I have any particular knowledge of to be talking about in a video, iykwim. I don't know much about long running shounen either, so you never see me making videos about someone's hot takes about Naruto or One Piece. So, I'm not about to criticize Noralities for not knowing anything about isekai and weighing in anyway, then go and do the same thing about a genre she knows more about than I do!

It would be, but Hitogami didn't know about Rudeus existing until the mass teleportation incident, and Orsted didn't until turning point 2, so I guess it kinda makes sense.

@@NatalieXHunter I thought Hitogami already knew about Rudy even before the Mana Calamity. He was always trying to contact Rudy. And that he was only able to communicate with him after the calamity.

@@cdyn5480 He can contact Rudy anytime he wants, him saying he couldn't at times is straight up lying.

@@cdyn5480 the thing is, Rudeus was not a threat until the mass teleportation happened. Since Nanahoshi is one of main factor in defeating Hitogami, even if Lara was born, that wouldn't dictate his defeat unless there's a presence of Nana

So did Rudeus get summoned by somebody to defeat Hitogami or am I missing something?

Unfortunately for him, fate is less like steel wire and more like a rubber band. Those delaying actions ended up snapping on his fingers.

LOL I am literally making a video about that now - only it doesn't go into how they meet again or other spoilers from after the anime (that stuff is in my video about Rudy's love life though, if you want the spoilers).

@@NatalieXHunter Yay! That's good cuz I've seen your videos, including the one abt rudy's love life :)

Not yet. It might be something I do at some point but at the moment I have a lot of character type stuff I want to cover rather than going into the geopolitical stuff!

@@NatalieXHunter thanks so much Please do a video of Laplace or pregues I once said that in a previous video I hope it isn't too much to ask But thank you for your awseome videos

I will be doing both of those soon, but they take a while to write.

Haha it's a reference to Zero Punctuation, but also literally what I say when I see a chapter called 'Turning Point'.

Yeah, have you read Old Dragon's Tale? After that I kinda see Laplace as originally good, just messed with a lot.

@@NatalieXHunter Sadly I have not though I do plan to eventually. Been reading different things, Mobuseka for one with quite a few on the back burner. Is there an official release or just the web novel release?

Just the web novel. But it's fully translated and it's a good translation.

@@NatalieXHunter I will definitely check it out. Thank you.

i think mangod vs rudy will not happen cause of rudy's age.

That's exactly how I felt when reading the WN arc. "I can't tell who the disciple was here." My brother in Roxy, it was *you*

That was only season 1 (it was a two part season, like Re:Zero season 2 and various others). Season 2 hasn't been announced yet, but it's only been a day.

LOL someone noticed what I was referencing there!

LOL well, that turning point isn't the first time something interesting happened involving Rudy's basement... Maybe the author is also drinking buddies with Isayama!

I haven't played them - do they have a lot of crazy twists like this, then?

@@NatalieXHunter yes, and the puzzles make your brain hurt. I totally recommend you give them a try, just for the story