Re:Zero Guide: Every Episode, the Director’s Cut and Where to Stream

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Series guide

Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World
  • TV Series
  • 2016-
  • 23-52 min
  • TV Tokyo, AT-X (Japan)
  • Coming-of-age anime and manga
  • Isekai
  • Fantasy anime and manga
Stars
Yūsuke Kobayashi · Rie Takahashi · Inori Minase

Images: Crunchyroll / TVmaze

Where to watch Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World

Re:Zero streams on Crunchyroll in the US, included with a subscription. One thing to know first: Crunchyroll’s season 1 is the 13-episode Director’s Cut, a re-edit that pairs the original 25 broadcast episodes into 50-minute ones. Seasons 2, 3 and 4 are there as aired.

Streaming options in the United States, updated Sep 15, 2026. More from crunchyroll.com. Service logos are trademarks of their owners.

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Season

Season 1 · 25 episodes · 25 aired · Apr 4, 2016 to Sep 19, 2016

  1. E1Apr 4
  2. E2Apr 11
  3. E3Apr 18
  4. E4Apr 25
  5. E5May 2
  6. E6May 9
  7. E7May 16
  8. E8May 23
  9. E9May 30
  10. E10Jun 6
  11. E11Jun 13
  12. E12Jun 20
  13. E13Jun 27
  14. E14Jul 4
  15. E15Jul 11
  16. E16Jul 18
  17. E17Jul 25
  18. E18Aug 1
  19. E19Aug 8
  20. E20Aug 15
  21. E21Aug 22
  22. E22Aug 29
  23. E23Sep 5
  24. E24Sep 12
  25. E25Sep 19
  1. S1.E1 ·

    The End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End

    A convenience-store run ends with Subaru Natsuki standing in an unfamiliar market city, where a silver-haired girl's stolen insignia pulls him into trouble he is badly unequipped for.

    Directed by Masaharu Watanabe

  2. S1.E2 ·

    Reunion with the Witch

    Armed with a grim new understanding of what happens to him when he dies, Subaru picks a different route to the stolen insignia and finds the capital's underworld hard to steer.

    Directed by Masahiro Shinohara

  3. S1.E3 ·

    Starting Life from Zero in Another World

    The standoff at the loot house turns into a fight nobody present can control, and afterwards Subaru learns a little more about the half-elf he has been helping.

    Directed by Kazuomi Koga

  4. S1.E4 ·

    The Happy Roswaal Mansion Family

    Waking up healed in Roswaal's mansion, Subaru talks his way into work as a butler and meets the twin maids Ram and Rem, plus a librarian spirit with no patience for him.

    Directed by Yoshinobu Tokumoto

  5. S1.E5 ·

    The Morning of Our Promise Is Still Distant

    Determined to work out how the past few days really went, Subaru retraces old steps around the mansion while Ram and Rem keep a close eye on him and Emilia teaches him to read.

    Directed by Daisuke Takashima

  6. S1.E6 ·

    The Sound of Chains

    Treated as a guest rather than a servant, Subaru quizzes Beatrice about magic that can drain a person's strength and starts counting down to a night he expects to go badly.

    Directed by Hideyo Yamamoto

  7. S1.E7 ·

    Natsuki Subaru's Restart

    Suspicion inside the mansion hardens into something far worse, and Subaru's attempt to explain himself to Emilia runs into a force that will not let him speak.

    Directed by Yoshito Mikamo

  8. S1.E8 ·

    I Cried, Cried My Lungs Out, and Stopped Crying

    Back at the first morning again, Subaru throws himself into butler work and magic lessons, chasing a theory about where the danger around the mansion actually begins.

    Directed by Manabu Okamoto

  9. S1.E9 ·

    The Meaning of Courage

    A supply trip to the village with Ram and Rem becomes a night search through the forest, where the missing children are not the only thing moving among the trees.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  10. S1.E10 ·

    Fanatical Methods Like a Demon

    Cursed and running short of time, Subaru borrows a village sword and heads back into the woods with Ram to hunt the beast behind the attacks and bring Rem home.

    Directed by Yoshinobu Tokumoto

  11. S1.E11 ·

    Rem

    Old history between two sisters surfaces as Subaru faces the tamer behind the mabeasts, and afterwards he tries to give Rem a reason to look forward instead of back.

    Directed by Daigo Yamagishi

  12. S1.E12 ·

    Return to the Capital

    A month of quiet ends when Emilia is summoned to the capital for the royal selection, and Subaru meets the rival candidates and their knights in a hall with no room for outsiders.

    Directed by Daisuke Takashima

  13. S1.E13 ·

    Self-Proclaimed Knight Natsuki Subaru

    Emilia's standing as a half-elf is picked apart in the throne room, Subaru appoints himself her knight without asking, and the argument that follows costs him more than pride.

    Directed by Kazuomi Koga

  14. S1.E14 ·

    The Sickness Called Despair

    Recovering at the Karsten estate, Subaru trains with Wilhelm and takes advice from Crusch and Felix, until word of trouble at Roswaal's domain puts him back on the road.

    Directed by Mamoru Taisuke

  15. S1.E15 ·

    The Outside of Madness

    The road home delivers Subaru into the hands of the Witch Cult and an Archbishop who sees straight through him, while Rem tries to reach the meeting place in time.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  16. S1.E16 ·

    The Greed of a Pig

    Knowing roughly when the Cult will move, Subaru goes candidate to candidate asking for help, takes hard lessons in negotiation, and settles for hiring a merchant caravan instead.

    Directed by Yoshinobu Tokumoto

  17. S1.E17 ·

    Disgrace in the Extreme

    Fog on the highway brings the White Whale down on the wagons, and afterwards Subaru finds the people he relies on remembering recent events very differently than he does.

    Directed by Yoshito Mikamo

  18. S1.E18 ·

    From Zero

    Stripped of hope and back at the fruit stall, Subaru is confronted by Rem over who he has become and has to decide whether anything is left worth starting again for.

    Directed by Kazuomi Koga

  19. S1.E19 ·

    Battle Against the White Whale

    Rather than chase the Cult first, Subaru pitches Crusch and Anastasia an alliance against the White Whale, then rides out with two armies to a lone tree on a foggy plain.

    Directed by Daisuke Takashima

  20. S1.E20 ·

    Wilhelm van Astrea

    The whale hunt opens with Wilhelm leading the blades and Subaru offering himself as bait, until the beast's fog turns the battlefield into something much harder to fight.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  21. S1.E21 ·

    A Wager That Defies Despair

    Studying the whale from far too close, Subaru works out what the armies are really fighting and stakes the whole campaign on dragging it down to the ground.

    Directed by Yoshinobu Tokumoto

  22. S1.E22 ·

    A Flash of Sloth

    The strike on the Witch Cult opens with Subaru walking in alone to bluff an Archbishop, a plan that holds right up until the Cult shows how it protects its own.

    Directed by Kenji Takahashi & Mamoru Taisuke

  23. S1.E23 ·

    Nefarious Sloth

    Freed from an illusion on the road, Subaru races to empty the village, only to find that the evacuation itself is where the Cult has been waiting.

    Directed by Yoshinobu Tokumoto

  24. S1.E24 ·

    The Self-Proclaimed Knight and the Greatest Knight

    With a far better picture of how the Cult fights, Subaru rewrites the plan from the strategy meeting onward, sets a trap for the Fingers, and goes after Sloth himself.

    Directed by Yoshito Mikamo

  25. S1.E25 ·

    That's All This Story Is About

    The fight at the cliff comes to a head with Julius swinging at what he cannot see and Subaru serving as his eyes, and a promise to Emilia still waiting to be kept.

    Directed by Masaharu Watanabe

Broadcast order, 25 episodes. Episode 1 ran 52 minutes. Crunchyroll carries the 2020 Director’s Cut instead: the same season re-edited into thirteen 50-minute episodes.

Season 2 · 25 episodes · 25 aired · Jul 8, 2020 to Mar 24, 2021

  1. E1Jul 8
  2. E2Jul 15
  3. E3Jul 22
  4. E4Jul 29
  5. E5Aug 5
  6. E6Aug 12
  7. E7Aug 19
  8. E8Aug 26
  9. E9Sep 2
  10. E10Sep 9
  11. E11Sep 16
  12. E12Sep 23
  13. E13Sep 30
  14. E14Jan 6
  15. E15Jan 13
  16. E16Jan 20
  17. E17Jan 27
  18. E18Feb 3
  19. E19Feb 10
  20. E20Feb 17
  21. E21Feb 24
  22. E22Mar 3
  23. E23Mar 10
  24. E24Mar 17
  25. E25Mar 24
  1. S2.E1 ·

    Each One's Promise

    Victory curdles the moment Subaru finds that nobody else remembers Rem, and the alliance with Crusch's camp has to be rebuilt around a loss the others cannot perceive.

    Directed by Masaharu Watanabe & Naoko Takeichi

  2. S2.E2 ·

    The Next Location

    Back at the manor with its new staff, Subaru is pointed toward a walled-off settlement called the Sanctuary, and a detour on the way in ends in a stranger's invitation to tea.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  3. S2.E3 ·

    The Long-Awaited Reunion

    Emilia's route through the Sanctuary's barrier runs into a trial at an old ruin, and Subaru is drawn into a test of his own that begins somewhere far too familiar.

    Directed by Kenichi Kawamura

  4. S2.E4 ·

    Parent and Child

    The trial drops Subaru into the life he walked away from, where a quiet walk with his father forces him to say out loud why he could never measure up.

    Directed by Yoshito Mikamo

  5. S2.E5 ·

    A Step Forward

    One trial cleared and two still waiting, Subaru hunts for another way past the barrier while Emilia keeps stalling on hers and Puck stays strangely absent.

    Directed by Baito Akai

  6. S2.E6 ·

    The Maiden's Gospel

    Offering to take the trials in Emilia's place lands badly with everyone, so Subaru rides for the manor with Ram to ask Frederica why she handed over the teleport stone at all.

    Directed by Kazuhiro Ozawa

  7. S2.E7 ·

    Friend

    An argument in Beatrice's library exposes the book she has been taking orders from, and Subaru's pitch to the Sanctuary's guardians gets him locked up rather than heard.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  8. S2.E8 ·

    The Value of Life

    Roswaal explains what Beatrice is really waiting for, Otto and Ram force an escape, and Subaru discovers what the Sanctuary looks like once the snow sets in.

    Directed by Baito Akai

  9. S2.E9 ·

    Love Love Love Love Love Love You

    Echidna opens her space to the other Witches, giving Subaru a chance to learn what the rabbit mabeasts are drawn to, and a chance to say things he has never been able to say.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  10. S2.E10 ·

    I Know Hell

    An abandoned laboratory beneath the Sanctuary explains where Ryuzu came from, and Subaru finally lets Emilia see how much he wants her to lean on him.

    Directed by Yoshito Mikamo

  11. S2.E11 ·

    The Taste of Death

    Taking the tome from Beatrice reveals nothing written inside it, and at both the manor and the Sanctuary the people Subaru is trying to protect run out of room to retreat.

    Directed by Kazuhiro Ozawa & Baito Akai

  12. S2.E12 ·

    The Witches' Tea Party

    The second trial makes Subaru watch how his deaths land on the people left behind, and Echidna puts an offer to him that the other Witches urge him to refuse.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  13. S2.E13 ·

    The Sounds That Make You Want to Cry

    Shaken out of the tea party, Subaru confronts Roswaal about the terms he has quietly been setting, then is cornered by Otto, who is done being kept on the outside.

    Directed by Kazuomi Koga

  14. S2.E14 ·

    Straight Bet

    With Otto's help Subaru stakes a wager on saving both the manor and the Sanctuary, and Emilia tells him about the frozen forest she came from.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  15. S2.E15 ·

    Otto Suwen / A Reason to Believe

    Otto leads Garfiel on a chase through the trees while Subaru catches up with Emilia at the ruin and tries to say plainly what he thinks of her, flaws included.

    Directed by Kazuhiro Ozawa

  16. S2.E16 ·

    Nobody Can Lift a Quain Stone Alone

    Garfiel's fury turns out to rest on a decade-old wound about his mother, and Subaru fights him for the right to make him look at it again.

    Directed by Kazuomi Koga

  17. S2.E17 ·

    A Journey Through Memories

    Emilia's trial returns her to a childhood in a forest village, to her aunt Fortuna, and to the sealed door that visiting strangers keep asking about.

    Directed by Takashi Sakuma

  18. S2.E18 ·

    The Day Betelgeuse Laughed

    While Ryuzu shares what her own trial gave back to her, Emilia has to walk forward into the day her forest changed and face what was waiting there.

    Directed by Yoshito Mikamo

  19. S2.E19 ·

    The Permafrost of Elior Forest

    The last of Emilia's memories play out at the seal, and in the present Subaru, Otto and Garfiel put their demand to Roswaal face to face.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  20. S2.E20 ·

    The Beginning of the Sanctuary and the Beginning of the End

    Roswaal's history with Echidna and the raising of the Sanctuary's barrier surface, while in the present his argument with Subaru comes down to whether anyone can change.

    Directed by Kazuomi Koga

  21. S2.E21 ·

    Reunion of Roars

    Negotiations having failed, Subaru's group splits for the manor, Ram squares off with Roswaal beside the crystal, and Garfiel meets the intruder already inside the halls.

    Directed by Takashi Sakuma

  22. S2.E22 ·

    Happiness Reflected on the Water's Surface

    Subaru returns to the library to argue Beatrice out of the ending she has accepted, while Emilia's second trial shows her a life she was never allowed to have.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  23. S2.E23 ·

    Love Me Down to My Blood and Guts

    Fire spreads through the manor as Garfiel takes on Elsa, Emilia faces the third trial alone, and Ram gambles everything on getting her hands on one book.

    Directed by Kazuomi Koga

  24. S2.E24 ·

    Choose Me

    Snow closes over the Sanctuary and Emilia steps out to hold the line, while at the burning manor Subaru asks Beatrice, one last time, to choose him.

    Directed by Kazuhiro Ozawa

  25. S2.E25 ·

    Offbeat Steps Under the Moonlight

    With the Great Rabbit still loose, a new contract gets its first real test, Roswaal is made to answer for what he did, and Subaru's service to Emilia is made official.

    Directed by Masaharu Watanabe

Split cour: episodes 1-13 ran to September 30, 2020 and 14-25 resumed on January 6, 2021.

Season 3 · 16 episodes · 16 aired · Oct 2, 2024 to Mar 26, 2025

  1. E1Oct 2
  2. E2Oct 9
  3. E3Oct 16
  4. E4Oct 23
  5. E5Oct 30
  6. E6Nov 6
  7. E7Nov 13
  8. E8Nov 20
  9. E9Feb 5
  10. E10Feb 12
  11. E11Feb 19
  12. E12Feb 26
  13. E13Mar 5
  14. E14Mar 12
  15. E15Mar 19
  16. E16Mar 26
  1. S3.E1 ·

    Theatrical Malice

    A year on, the camps gather in the watergate city of Priestella over a rumoured magic stone, and Subaru's evening among the crowds ends with a sermon from a Sin Archbishop.

    Directed by Masahiro Shinohara, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya & Risa Suzuki

  2. S3.E2 ·

    A Showdown of Fire and Ice

    With only minutes to work with, Subaru tries repeatedly to keep a child out of Wrath's hands and learns how harshly the Archbishop's power punishes a straight fight.

    Directed by Ichinosuke Akikaze

  3. S3.E3 ·

    Gorgeous Tiger

    Wounded and carried underground, Subaru learns the Cult has taken the towers ringing Priestella and made a demand the city has no clean way to answer.

    Directed by Takashi Nagayoshi

  4. S3.E4 ·

    Operation: Take Back the Government Office

    A counterattack to retake city hall pits Subaru's allies against the Cult's resurrected swordsmen, while Emilia wakes somewhere considerably less survivable.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  5. S3.E5 ·

    A Dark Torrent

    Inside city hall the hostage situation proves to be Lust's trap, the watergates open over Priestella, and Emilia is handed the Cult's next set of demands.

    Directed by Kazue Otsuki

  6. S3.E6 ·

    Conditions of the Knight

    Pulled from the flood, Subaru learns what the dragon's blood has done to him, watches Liliana sing back Wrath's grip on a shelter, and states plainly who he intends to save.

    Directed by Masahiro Shinohara, Ichinosuke Akikaze & Kazue Otsuki

  7. S3.E7 ·

    The Newest of Heroes and the Most Ancient of Heroes

    A stray metia reopens contact with Emilia, and Subaru is talked into addressing the whole of Priestella himself to loosen Wrath's hold on the frightened refugees.

    Directed by Masato Gotō

  8. S3.E8 ·

    The One I'll Love Someday

    Otto produces the ruined tome he smuggled into the city, Wilhelm names the two corpses fighting for the Cult, and the camps split into teams for each Archbishop.

    Directed by Hidekazu Hara

  9. S3.E9 ·

    City Scramble

    The counterattack goes out across Priestella at once, with Wilhelm and Garfiel meeting the corpse swordsmen while Reinhard tests what makes Greed so untouchable.

    Directed by Ichinosuke Akikaze

  10. S3.E10 ·

    The Plan to Conquer Greed

    Capella walks into a plan she did not see coming, Priscilla puts herself between Wrath and a crowd, and Subaru starts to make sense of the shape of Greed's Authority.

    Directed by Yasuaki Fujii

  11. S3.E11 ·

    Liliana Masquerade

    Liliana climbs for a clear stage while Priscilla holds Wrath's attention, and the bard's own long road to Priestella turns out to be the weapon the city needs.

    Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

  12. S3.E12 ·

    Regulus Corneas

    Emilia returns to the church to talk with the wives, Subaru applies what he has worked out about Greed's heart, and Reinhard is handed the duel he was asked for.

    Directed by Kazue Otsuki

  13. S3.E13 ·

    The Warrior's Commendation

    Otto buys time against Gluttony alongside the city knights, Al meets Lust in the tunnels, and Garfiel sets out to earn the full attention of the empire's strongest swordsman.

    Directed by Masahiro Shinohara

  14. S3.E14 ·

    Theresia van Astrea

    Wilhelm's fight with the woman wearing Theresia's face runs its course, and the life she led before the White Whale is laid out from the beginning.

    Directed by Hinako Masaki

  15. S3.E15 ·

    A Hideous Dinner Party

    Julius and Ricardo find Roy far beyond them, Al springs his trap on Lust, and Otto works out exactly how Gluttony has been outclassing everyone it meets.

    Directed by Ichinosuke Akikaze

  16. S3.E16 ·

    The Result of the Battle for Priestella

    Beatrice holds the line against Gluttony until Felt arrives with the one weapon that might end it, and the battle for Priestella closes on a cost nobody has finished counting.

    Directed by Mamiko Sekiya

Split cour: the Attack Arc ran to November 20, 2024 and the Counterattack Arc resumed on February 5, 2025. Episode 1 ran 90 minutes.

Season 4 · 17 episodes · 16 aired · Apr 8, 2026 to Sep 16, 2026

  1. E1Apr 8
  2. E2Apr 15
  3. E3Apr 22
  4. E4Apr 29
  5. E5May 6
  6. E6May 13
  7. E7May 20
  8. E8May 27
  9. E9Jun 3
  10. E10Jun 10
  11. E11Jun 17
  12. E12Aug 12
  13. E13Aug 19
  14. E14Aug 26
  15. E15Sep 2
  16. E16Sep 9
  17. E17Sep 16
  1. S4.E1 ·

    The Reason I'm Taking You With Me / Gorgeous Tiger Reloaded

    With Julius eaten out of everyone's memory but Subaru's, Anastasia – and the fox spirit now sharing her body – proposes a journey to the Pleiades Watchtower.

    Directed by Masahiro Shinohara

  2. S4.E2 ·

    Overcome Sand Time

    The desert itself refuses to let the party reach the tower, and once Ram finds them a way through, something at the top of it begins shooting.

    Directed by Hinako Masaki

  3. S4.E3 ·

    The Keeper of the Watchtower

    Separated from the others in a passage beneath the sand, Subaru, Ram and Foxidna choose a direction at a fork and find the air down there working against them.

    Directed by Hidekazu Hara

  4. S4.E4 ·

    A White Sky Asterism

    Awake inside the watchtower at last, Subaru meets the woman who has guarded it for four hundred years and takes a run at the riddle sealing the library.

    Directed by Tamaki Nakatsu

  5. S4.E5 ·

    Stick Swinger

    The library proves to hold the memories of the dead, the tower proves to have rules, and the party's only way forward is the exam waiting on the floor above.

    Directed by Takashi Nagayoshi

  6. S4.E6 ·

    Julius Juukulius

    Julius insists on facing the tower's swordsman again and again, and Subaru refuses to let him keep doing it alone.

    Directed by Daisuke Eguchi

  7. S4.E7 ·

    Walking Out of the Convenience Store and Into a Wondrous World

    Julius presses Anastasia for the truth about what is riding along with her, while the tower's trials keep asking the group questions it would rather not answer.

    Directed by Kazuhiro Ozawa

  8. S4.E8 ·

    Who Are You?

    Thrilled to be in another world and unable to remember any of it, Subaru goes looking for the cause of his amnesia and learns that the tower's staircases are not safe.

    Directed by Hinako Masaki

  9. S4.E9 ·

    Empty Shell

    Driven out of the tower and back through the miasma below, Subaru returns paranoid enough to suspect everyone, and loses stretches of time he cannot account for.

    Directed by Shinya Kawabe

  10. S4.E10 ·

    Murder Is a Habit

    A Book of the Dead lays out a life Subaru would rather not have read, and Ram begins asking the one question he cannot afford to answer honestly.

    Directed by Masato Gotō

  11. S4.E11 ·

    Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World

    Mabeasts swarm the watchtower while Subaru, out of ideas and out of trust, is told by Emilia exactly what the two of them have already come through together.

    Directed by Yūdai Ishikawa

  12. S4.E12 ·

    From Now On

    Leading with the truth this time, Subaru earns Ram's trust, catches the person at the staircase, and offers a way to live that does not end at the bottom of it.

    Directed by Tamaki Nakatsu

  13. S4.E13 ·

    Stand Up

    Reading the swordsman's book sends Subaru somewhere souls are sorted rather than stored, where the Archbishop waiting for him knows precisely where his memories went.

    Directed by Hinako Masaki

  14. S4.E14 ·

    Five Obstacles

    Gluttony gets inside the tower, the exams stop staying in their own rooms, and a new sense stirring in Subaru's chest begins telling him where his allies are.

    Directed by Shinya Kawabe

  15. S4.E15 ·

    A Single-Minded Star

    Shaula admits what she has been holding back about the tower's rules, and Subaru spends loop after loop hunting an order of battle that actually holds.

    Directed by Hidekazu Hara

  16. S4.E16 ·

    Subaru Natsuki

    Among the Books of the Dead is one with Subaru's own name on the spine, and whatever he has been missing waits on the other side of reading it.

    Directed by Kazuhiro Ozawa

  17. S4.E17 · · Up next

    Good Loser

    Directed by Akihisa Shibata & Hinako Masaki

Two cours: the eleven-episode Loss Arc ran April 8 to June 17, 2026, and the eight-episode Recapture Arc began August 12, 2026.

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Crunchyroll’s season 1 is thirteen episodes, and the show has twenty-five

This is the ordering trap, and it looks like missing episodes. Open the Re:Zero page on Crunchyroll and the season selector reads “Season 1: Director’s Cut – 13 Episodes”, then “OVAs – 2 Episodes”, then seasons 2, 3 and 4. The broadcast season 1 was 25 episodes. Nothing has been dropped: the Director’s Cut, released January to April 2020, re-edits those 25 into thirteen 50-minute episodes with several altered scenes and some additional footage, which is why its titles join two originals with a backslash – episode 2 is listed as “Reunion with the Witch \ Starting Life from Zero in Another World”, the second and third broadcast episodes in one sitting. The odd number works out because the broadcast premiere was already double length at 52 minutes: one long opener plus twelve pairs is thirteen. The table above is the broadcast order, with the original air dates, so you can map either way – and the season 1 record sets the two cuts side by side.

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A still from the official Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World trailer. Image: Crunchyroll

Two consequences worth knowing. First, the Director’s Cut is currently the only way to watch season 1 on Crunchyroll in the US – the 25-episode cut is not listed on the series page. Second, it is not simply the same footage in longer blocks: scenes were changed and material was added, so the two cuts are genuinely different versions of the same season rather than two packagings of one. An episode ending that was a week-long wait in 2016 is now a mid-episode beat, and the arc the show is most famous for lands harder in one go. Neither cut is the wrong one, but a guide that says “season 1, 25 episodes” without saying this sends people looking for twelve episodes that were never removed.

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A second look, from the other official Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World trailer. Image: Crunchyroll

Everything after season 1 is as broadcast, and it is split into cours rather than seasons, which is the other reason the table looks like it has holes: season 2 ran to September 2020 and returned in January 2021, season 3 broke between November 2024 and February 2025, and season 4 opened on April 8, 2026 with the eleven-episode Loss Arc before the Recapture Arc started on August 12 – eight more episodes, nineteen for the season. We previewed that half in our Recapture Arc report, and our season 4 episode schedule has every remaining date and time. White Fox has animated all four seasons, with Masaharu Watanabe directing the first two and Masahiro Shinohara the last two, and Masahiro Yokotani writing throughout. If the premise itself is what you are unsure about, our explainer on how Return by Death actually works is the one mechanic the whole series is built on.

Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World cast 14

  • Yūsuke KobayashiSubaru Natsuki
  • Rie TakahashiEmilia
  • Inori MinaseRem
  • Rie MurakawaRam
  • Satomi AraiBeatrice
  • Takehito KoyasuRoswaal L. Mathers
  • Yūichi Nakamura
    Yūichi NakamuraReinhard van Astrea
  • Kōhei Amasaki
    Kōhei AmasakiOtto Suwen
  • Nobuhiko Okamoto
    Nobuhiko OkamotoGarfiel Tinzel
  • Sean ChiplockSubaru Natsuki (English dub)
  • Kayli MillsEmilia (English dub)
  • Brianna Knickerbocker
    Brianna KnickerbockerRem (English dub)
  • Ryan BartleyRam (English dub)
  • Kira Buckland
    Kira BucklandBeatrice (English dub)
Director
Masaharu Watanabe, Masahiro Shinohara
Writer
Masahiro Yokotani
Music
Kenichiro Suehiro
Studios
White Fox

Photos via Wikimedia Commons. Yūichi Nakamura: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0; Kōhei Amasaki: numan ch-ヌーマンチャンネル-【公式】, CC BY 3.0; Nobuhiko Okamoto: adiSubs, CC BY-SA 4.0; Brianna Knickerbocker: dmgice, CC BY 2.0; Kira Buckland: Crimson Comedian, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I watch Re:Zero?

All four seasons stream on Crunchyroll in the US with a subscription, in Japanese with subtitles or in the English dub.

Why does Crunchyroll show 13 episodes for season 1?

Because it carries the 2020 Director’s Cut, which re-edits the original 25 broadcast episodes into thirteen 50-minute ones with several altered scenes and some new footage. The maths works because the broadcast premiere was already double length.

How many episodes of Re:Zero are there?

82 have aired: 25 in season 1, 25 in season 2, 16 in season 3 and 16 of season 4, which is still running. Season 4 is scheduled for 19 in total.

Do I need to watch the OVAs?

No. Crunchyroll lists two of them separately from the seasons, and neither is required to follow the main story.

When did Re:Zero premiere?

April 4, 2016. Season 4 began April 8, 2026 with the eleven-episode Loss Arc; its second half, the Recapture Arc, started August 12, 2026.

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