#kadomon

All Time Favorite - Do I even need to explain? My sheer amount of analysis and dedication of 2 whole featured tags to this doofus speaks for itself.

Favorite Candidate - Really, only Felt or Crusch were in the conversation for me. But I personally vibe w/ Felt more as a Candidate. Her growth is much more profound compared to Crusch’s for starters, but I also feel like compared to Crusch the audience gets to see Felt grow more and develop as a ruler. I enjoy seeing the emotional journey of characters.

It also helps to me that Felt is actually addressing the lower class (and whilst Crusch’s platform is solid) the Valkyrie I feel doesn’t particularly show any signs of wanting to change the Nobility whatsoever which isn’t inherently bad mind you if she can corral them well, but it seems Crusch wouldn’t really provide much of a quality of life change for the ordinary citizen but rather just make the nation itself more able to stand on its feet.

Favorite Knight - Another instance of me liking Reinhard lol what to say. But honestly to add a smidge unto it, Reinhard is my favorite knight when it comes to his dynamic w/ his Candidate. There is more of a push/pull compared to the other Candidate/Knight duos. You can also tell Reinhard as a knight unlike the others is sorta having his position in this role be something of self discovery journey for him whilst the others don’t really have knighthood be like that for them.

Favorite Sin Archbishop - Petelgeuse. He’s just such a mad fucker and I unapologetically adore it.

Favorite Witch - The others don’t have NEARLY as much depth and emotional complexity as Echidna. She’s one of the characters most prone to getting me thinking period in this series. Love anytime she is on screen.

Favorite Side Character - Stride is someone whom challenges a lot of the ideas of free will, fate and the status quo. That was something I appreciated the glimpse into. He’s also just pretty fun in general. Guy is SUCH a supreme asshole at times and it’s entertaining.

Favorite Design - Really, really contemplated Crusch for this spot but Al just barely nudges her out. His design has the dark soul looking helmet which is such a great troll by Tappei on his abilities but the design also does something in this series that no other characters does.

It successfully tricks the eye and helps conceal a significant part of Al as a person via making his missing arm not really that apparent. No other character design (that I’ve seen thus far anyways) plays such a role in perception of a character that it effects one’s view of them that much. Best Writing - It’s the Main Character so one might say more screen time = better writing and thus this was a natural choice, right? But that’s not why I picked Subaru for this position. The reason I did so is that the way Tappei’s written is Subaru contrary to other characters in the series.

Subaru requires a bunch of subtext to pick out the actual nuances of his feelings/thoughts on matters underneath his conscious thoughts which try to point the reader one way. Other characters in the series don’t have nearly as unreliable internal monologues. Even those with huge self worth issues like Rem.

I think it speaks to a very high consistent lvl of skill in writing applied to him that Subaru mimics a human very well in only thinking conscious things he will accept rather then the more uncomfortable or unpleasant thoughts that he buries underneath those conscious thoughts of his. It is not just how Subaru feels a variety of emotions that makes him so human but also his consistent avoidance of things that cause one discomfort.

Underrated - Anastasia. Just. Gets written off a lot I feel? Yet there’s a really solid fleshed out character here that I don’t feel is appreciated enough.

Overrated - Welp, before the pitchforks come. I want to say that I think the idea of Rem is overrated. As a character Rem is honestly excellent. However the perception around her elevates her into a status that I believe isn’t accurate to her as an individual.

Overhated - Honestly, I can’t see how anybody BUT Felix could fill this spot. The guy is literally mass blamed for shit he didn’t even do like supposedly having planted a bomb in Subaru’s gate. Then also Felix gets slandered for brainwashing Subaru when that’s def not what happened.

Most Like You - Gonna be real this is probably the one square I was most hesitant to fill. But. I think that yes, Echidna is actually the correct choice for me.

To break down why that’s the case first is the fact that Echidna isn’t particularly obvious in her kindness and the ways she gets to the kind things she does is very emotionally backwards compared to normal societal standards. I see a lot of myself in the abnormal way Echidna can get to an end result that would be considered compassionate by others but wasn’t exactly borne of empathy.

The second reason I think this is the case is how Echidna is very non-judgemental. She typically tends to listen to someone and only offer opinions when it’s sought. When I’ve given advice to others upon request I am told I match these characteristics a LOT.

Another thing that adds unto me seeing a lot of myself in Echidna is how whenever I look at something I view it through a strictly logical lens unless I put a focused conscious effort to factor in an emotional angle to things.

The final thing that I’d say makes me see a lot of myself in Echidna is that she happens to just enjoy knowing things for the sake of knowing them and no other purpose. I spend a lot of my own time simply learning about the world around me, even things that wouldn’t really be considered practical to know.

It’s all of these factors that translate a fair amount into my commentary analysis of Echidna where I analyze her pretty deeply and attempt to not write her off as being some evil nasty person as much of the fandom does because there’s a bunch of depth here.

Frankly, I believe Echidna is a great showcase from Tappei on a character with truly stunted empathy that isn’t evil as many other works of media would shoehorn a character as for that lack of empathy.

Least Like You - I simply have never been able to reach that childish naivety Emilia is able to muster. Her faith in people is also something I cannot quantify emotionally despite logically understanding why Emilia is the way she is.

It is a bit ironic that I whom identify so much with Echidna cannot link myself with Emilia on any level. It is no wonder Echidna is ruffled by this half elf.

First Favorite - Julius was simply stellar in my initial viewing of the series. I enjoyed him and that was that. Grapehead got dethroned by Reinhard upon me reading the Novels though and seeing the sheer depth to that sus baka.

Character You Didn’t Expect to Like - So. I’m aware the answer of Heinkel here appears stereotypical but I’d like to expand on my POV of this because I suspect it’s different from the standard view.

I didn’t expect to really like Heinkel when initially seeing him because I was somewhat concerned about the idea of Heinkel being utilized to make him seem like the entire problem in the Astrea subplot (and that concern of mine grew when seeing how Julius spoke of him to Subaru when I watched S3) and that Wilhelm was not holding as much blame which was infinitely far less interesting to me.

Thankfully I was wrong and the Astrea subplot was as complex as I hoped it’d be and it wasn’t chalked up to be all of Heinkel’s fault.

Guilty Favorite - I don’t believe I need to explain the guilty part to enjoying somebody as objectively nasty as Capella lol. She’s so vile though and that’s her draw. She does things no other character would do.

Favorite Female Character - Love Crusch so very much. She has a lot of similarities in how I approach the world with how she cuts through BS. Seriously vibe w/ her on that. Ain’t no time for dancing around something 99% of the time. Her design & tomboy aesthetic is also pretty good. My 2nd favorite in the series honestly.

But also some other stuff I love about Crusch is how Tappei portrays Asexuality through her very well. If this were any other series she’d have been romantically into Subaru or Fourier. However Re:Zero is not the typical series.

Instead, it gives us a look how someone can genuinely consider someone a lifelong partner (Crusch to Fourier) whilst not fitting the traditional view of romance as pushed by society at large.

Another thing Tappei portrays well w/ Crusch is how Autism (or what certainly appears like it on Crusch’s end) doesn’t make somebody dumb. Merely unable to grasp certain social constructs as readily.

Favorite Male Character - To nobodies surprise its the sus redhead. There is a post I’ll link below here that has some specifics on what I adore about Reinhard so much if any of you would actually desire to get a more complete answer in one bite sized snippet rather then formulating a picture of what I like about him based on thousands of posts about Reinhard.

Character You Want to See More Of - Probably a bit of an unusual choice but y’all are reading for my opinions so whoopdey doo here it is.

The reason I didn’t go with somebody like Al or Heinkel but instead Miklotov is that this dude blatantly has a bunch of rlly sus things around him that don’t really get addressed at all and are left to implication for somebody to pick up them being weird in the 1st place.

This continues to captivate my attention because Tappei’s modus operandi is leaving hints scattered about to guess at something. Yet Miklotov doesn’t have much detail there despite Tappei having left hints something is up with him.

It contrasts a character like Russell Fellow where Tappei implies something is up with him then leaves sufficient hints around for future plot plays he may make such as the entire Kadomon stuff I’ve harped on endlessly or other things Russell is sure to pick up regarding Subaru I’ve spoken of. In essence the black void of info (where unlike other major ? marks like Al or Russell I have been able to theorize to get a shape of where they are going) around Miklotov and the jarring nature of the sparse details bucking Tappei’s typical modus operandi has made me more keen to get details on this man.

Least Favorite - Ah Puck. Great character for what he is meant to do. My placing him here comes from my immense dislike of him as a individual.

There is a complete and utter lack of self reflection from him and he is extremely controlling. What makes this even more intolerable to me is that Puck is objectively a failure.

In my eyes it’d be one thing if Puck had those traits I naturally find to be the mark of pathetic people IRL but I could tolerate it from a more inhuman POV Puck is operating under if Puck succeeded. The thing is Puck doesn’t succeed at all with how he shelters Emilia and basically makes his desire to protect her backfire.

Anyways. Aside from that intro. Basically, one plot point is I believe Kadomon is a Six Tongue Agent. If anybody would like specific details of scenes with prose & commentary of me reacting in real time to theorycrafting on why I think that, the featured tags has a tag on this theory. But basically.

Kadomon in Arc 1’s Final Loop overhears Subaru speak of doing things multiple times and talking about saving Satella.

A thread of the scene with screenshots of that scene I am talking about if you’d like to glimpse at it yourself will be linked in the replies of this post, because it is unfortunately not letting me insert it here unlike most imbeds which work perfectly fine.

Another thing is Russell (aka whom Kadomon would work for) is in LN 7 is given a Phone. 

A Phone which clearly, does NOT do what Subaru says it does, which will naturally of course make Russell want to look more into who conned him. Subaru will have 0 background prior to his 1st day in the Capitol, which will naturally raise alarms for the guy because wtf? He’s a CIA director. How is he not finding some commoners info???

This plotpoint of Russell being sus at Subaru’s lack of background is something the story indicated, with how sus Subaru’s lack of background is in the Heroic Tale From Zero SS, where below is a thread where I cover how shady this is.

This suspicion of Subaru from Russell will get worse as Subaru’s acts in Arc 3 (specifically the Sloth expedition) would look miraculous that there is 0 causalities. However, Russell will have his buddy Kadomon tell him about the utterance of Subaru being able to do things over multiple times. This, of course, would suddenly make shit make a LOT of sense for Russell.

Unfortunately, if it were mere time travel, Russell may be weary of Subaru but not antagonistic as what next points I’m going to bring imply. 

In LN 9, there is a one liner Felix drops about Kety once he’s captured about getting him transferred to the Royal Capitol, which you can see here.

This Kety fellow is that finger whom blew up the caravans in Arc 3. This is the same Kety whose internal monologue thought of Subaru as a “traitor” and clearly can detect miasma from him as shown here.

If Russell interrogates the guy (as is heavily implied to be something that will occur since Felix said he was sending Kety to the Capitol and they should treat him as a “precious source of information”) then Kety will basically blab about Subaru having Archbishop lvl Miasma and shit like being a former Cult member since that’s currently what Kety believes with the whole “traitor” remark his internal narration showed.

This would, obviously, alarm the hell out of Russell given the earlier statement of Satella Kadomon would pass along to Russell as having been a thing Subaru said. I don’t know Arc 6-9 events, but surely whatever feats Subaru accomplishes likely have more shady shit to help Russell along in being wary of Subaru. 

Moving on from that. There is some commentary in Felt-chan’s Job I covered where Felt talks about Rom speaking of a “wall” people can walk through as one feat of magic alongside “flying clowns” and “talking mirrors” which we know the last two exist, so the first one exists too I logically assume, and I speculate is how Rom maybe got into the Castle Perimeter prior to using the catacombs which the demi-humans built allegedly back in the day according to Ex 2.

I dunno if the Cult or the Candidates would use this way to break into the Castle (alongside the Catacombs helping them break in too) but it smells of foreshadowing to me.

Here’s the specific thread of that for anybody interested so they can see the screenshots of prose themselves + my analysis.

On the Witch Cult, there’s this thread below on how I believe Tappei foreshadowed Sirius plausibly brainwashing entire Capitol at ONCE. It’s actually from a fairly recent released SS, which makes me believe more in what’s proposed there.

Anyways, some smaller stuff now. Another plotpoint is Felix probably making sure Marcos doesn’t die after his head goes bye (perhaps by Sirius making peoples heads go boom) as this snippet below has foreshadowing for.

Another thing I’ll predict is basically Felix essentially screwing the entire Lugunican Leadership via his water magic-

-as this thread foreshadows. Now why would he do it? Less clear, but.

Likely that Capella entices him by saying she can cure Crusch, and Felix knows that not true, but he’s so mentally fucked that he chooses to persist in the delusion and goes along with what he views to be the best way to save Crusch no matter the consequences.

Something else I’d like to predict is Roswaal VS Marcos occurring since we have Marcos in LN 4’s Epilogue blatantly pondering wth Roswaal was up to & considering him sketch, and then here- 

-I go into how Marcos has the perfect skillset to fight Roswaal with and not get instantly folded & thus actually pose a serious problem, because Subaru needs Roswaal’s scrawny ass around, so Marcos will become a sort of Antagonist for the Emilia Camp despite doing the morally correct thing which would be to go after Roswaal.

In the event Marcos does kill Roswaal, I believe Roswaal would transfer into Annerose and that could become something only Subaru is aware of as he has to conspire together w/ Roswaal behind the Camps’s back (since obviously a fair amount of the members may just straight up want to drop Roswaal at that point for another Sponsor if they knew Roswaal was still alive, let alone the horrifying fact he did just kill Annerose in exchange for living whom is a child they’re all fond of) in an effort to help “Annerose” secure her place as the New Camp Sponsor in the wake of a political clusterfuck for the Camp given Roswaal may be accused of treason.

Heck, Subaru may see it as the only viable option for Sponsorship since if Roswaal is publicly condemned & executed for treason, no Noble is going to want to touch the Emilia Camp with a 50 ft pole despite the legendary achievements.

Comparatively, Annerose will look like a fresh slate to outsiders looking in since she’s a child so surely she wasn’t involved with Roswaal’s dealings.

And speaking of Roswaal’s dealings and treason… what Roswaal may be accused of is knowing of the Royal Families Deaths in advance somehow potentially. We had Russell Fellow in King Selection Part 2 blatantly question Roswaal to his face if he somehow knew of the Families’s demise prior to it actually happening.

Russell will talk himself out of that line of logic since Roswaal sponsoring Emilia didn’t make sense to him if Roswaal wanted to take the Throne and had pre-knowledge.

Keep in mind however, this convo occurs BEFORE the existence of Subaru Natsuki coming into the world. Russell’s opinion may have drastically changed due to his knowledge of Subaru Natsuki and Russell seeing his Time Traveller ass clearly being devoted to Emilia only.

It’s not a stretch for Russell to then surmise that if Roswaal was aware of future events, obviously he’d nab Emilia because that gave him access to a Time Traveller. Russell in that convo during King Selection Part 2 distinctly wasn’t writing Roswaal off as stupid for sponsoring Emilia & believed the man had a plan. This would all perfectly explain everything to Russell.

Anywaaaaays, other stuff now. Something else is potentially Raksha (Kadomon’s wife) being a sort of mini-boss for Subaru or something akin to that during the Arc, here’s the thread down below which has me getting into that possibility.

I also predict some kind of Main Story Content for Fourier to have fairly significant relevance, because Marcos will be active this Arc, and here- 

-we can see how Marcos def seemed fairly close with Fourier (so his dynamic with Fourier may be explored in a theoretical Marcos Named Chapter) and obviously the Royal Family plotline & Capella’s ties to them are likely to get addressed.

On the Royal Family, Capella’s obviously going to have a big role in an Arc centered in the Royal Capitol given her clear ties to them.

It is very likely Tappei will reveal the fact Capella has the Lion King Intuition as he foreshadowed in Ex 1 (which I’ll leave a link in the replies to the post of me discussing this w/ the screenshot of it because Tumblrs being a little twit again and not letting me imbed it) that was a high likelihood of something which Capella had. Given the title of the Arc, it also lends credence to this possibility since Capella is likely to be the main antagonist. It could also be referencing Felt however maybe becoming the Ruler prior to the selections end given her Royal status & the fact she does hold the Lion King Intuition so the whole “Land of the Lion King” shtick would make sense if she wins since Lugunica would be Felt’s land.

Also. Miklotov is our source for getting an insight into this Lion King possibility for Capella, so it is likely to be him whom reveals such a thing to the cast & thus audience. Though, it of course could be someone else whom susses it out on their own.

Since we’re on Miklotov, let’s discuss his shady ass. I’m gonna have a thread linked in the replies w/ more detail, but in essence Miklotov does seem tied to Fate in a way that isn’t normal for an individual and seems aware that great tumult lies in the future with his desperate search for the Lion King Intuition even when everything is fine.

Also. Admittedly? Parsing out his opinion of our MC Subaru is tough to me. In LN 4 Miklotov clearly admired the guys loyalty to Emilia & was even genuinely impressed by it contrary to everybody else in that chamber. However, if Russell informs Miklotov about the things he’s uncovered it could certainly make Miklotov not as friendly to Subaru in how he thinks of the guy.

There is also the fact whatever feats Subaru is bound to do in Arcs 6-9 probably would play a part in Miklotov’s view of Subaru (and subsequent wariness of him) but I don’t quite know what occurs in those Arcs thus I can’t exactly try piecing together what Miklotov may think of certain things Subaru has done.

Moving back to sadistic lady, another thing on Capella is I believe we will have Tappei confirm the peculiar missing letter in Arc 4 was her doing and I discuss the supporting evidence for such a possibility in a thread I will unfortunately have to link below again in the replies because Tumblr is screwing me over lmao.

But to basically sum it up in its bare bones essence if one doesn’t want prod the whole thing.

Capella has the necessary path to gain intel on the letter & the necessary skillset to be undetected coupled with her potential LN 3 appearance (which I discuss in more detail in the thread chillin’ in the replies) showcasing that Tappei has a trend of making Capella appear and work in the background with regards to meddling with the Emilia Camp even as the audience would have 0 awareness of her at the time of these incidents.

And also since this is Capella. I’d be remiss to dismiss the possibility of her infiltrating the Cast as a possibility that occurs given her ability to transform. That scenario is going to be curious in that Capella’s appearance did 100% match for Al’s desires but not for Subaru, so she could have slight defects in her disguise or it could be absolutely perfect.

Whatever the case, Capella probably will get unveiled by her acting (despite her being somewhat competent at it whilst being a transformed child) inevitability failing because she is one sadistic women.

Since we’re on the topic of the Royal Family. Let me speak of its infamous kidnapped princess. Felt’s casually got War Criminal Valga Cromwell (who massacred countless humans & relatives who remember their loved ones deaths) in her Camp.

Ain’t no way some of the Nobles who dislike her aren’t gonna expose that scandalous bit of info in an effort to sink her campaign by making her support amongst the populace get set into chaos.

Some other stuff regarding Felt is how we see her ponder about Patrol Guards (in a thread I’ll link below in the replies the origin of my musing of cause Tumblr is being shit again with insertion) with the way she describes these patrol guards and how they felt highly skilled to her made me ponder if some of the Patrol Guards weren’t actually that and were Six Tongue Agents.

If this is true, that gives Russell a lot of influence in the city on a martial lvl without anybody realizing it and the guy may do some bad things to the cast who’d likely trust the guards. Final prediction now. I’ve heard Rickert Hoffman is also due to get a Named Chapter, so likely Rachins will be relevant that means, and Rachins in Felt SS’s has been mentioned to have worked for Russell for a bit previously as a person who did errands for Russell alongside Gaston & Chamberley prior to them all joining the Felt Camp, which you can see the thread with a screenshot of that in the replies since it will not let me insert it here.

Perhaps one of these errands was message ferrying Rachins & Co did, and these ferried messages would’ve been a request from Russell to his network to ferret out info on Subaru Natsuki whom at the time of those ferried messages, would’ve been made just after Subaru made his big splash at the Royal Selection Conference defending Emilia.

This same Emilia Subaru defends looks like Satella 2.0, the name of which Kadomon would’ve told Russell Subaru is familiar with by this point, and Subaru defends Emilia in a way that Miklotov acknowledges made everybody view Emilia in a better light, making Subaru’s outburst potentially seem like a calculated play of a manipulator from Russell’s POV that Subaru did to propel his Candidate.

This idea of Subaru being a manipulator to Russell would further get compounded on in Subaru’s actions post-Conference as in the true timeline, from Russell’s POV it suddenly looks like this shady dude that has connections to Satella suddenly got Anastasia & Crusch together to fight the Whale, conned Russell with a meteor of unknown origin (and the Cult is famous for having relics people don’t understand) that didn’t do what was advertised.

Theeeeen, Subaru miraculously kills the Whale whilst somehow knowing its location despite the fake meteor (and the Whale is connected to the Cult it’d be reported after the expedition most likely) before going on to kill Sloth with no causalities which earlier in this thread I mentioned would make Russell sus by virtue of the time looping aspect of no casualties & figuring out Subaru can loop but.

It would also of course make Russell sus if Subaru maybe was a Cultist at some point given what I’ve just pointed out here about Subaru propelling Satella 2.0 when Subaru has a clear tie to Satella Kadomon overheard. 

Plus, the fact that Subaru seemed to know how Petelgeuse & the Cultists moved (which people on the expedition would report) when NOBODY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD understood how the Cult moves & then also the Kety “traitor” remarks Russell would learn of I delved into earlier + Kety telling Russell Subaru has Archbishop lvl Miasma.