Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- poster

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (2016)

Series · 25m episodes · Rated TV-14 · In Japanese

Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Drama, Fantasy, Foreign (non-English), Mystery, Sci-Fi

An ordinary student repeatedly dies in a new world, desperately trying to save a silver-haired girl.

Tense and bleak. A full-attention watch at full speed. Emotionally it is devastating.

Streaming on Hulu and Crunchyroll.

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- parents guide

The thing to know: graphic gore, more than a TV-14 usually carries. Beyond that, some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.

Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the gore.

Scare
Mildly scary
A few tense or eerie moments.
Jump scares
A couple
One or two sudden jolts.
Gore
Graphic gore
Blood and wounds shown clearly.
Violence
Strong violence
Violence is frequent or intense.
Sex and nudity
Mild
Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
Language
Mild
Mild words like damn, hell or crap.

How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.

Three questions

Is Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- scary?
Only a little. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
How gory is Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-?
Graphic gore and strong violence. If graphic gore is a dealbreaker, skip it.
What is Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- rated, and is it OK for kids?
For teens, mostly: it is rated TV-14, with strong violence and graphic gore.

What is Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- about?

Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.

Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)

It leaves things open rather than tying them up.

Cast and crew

StarringYusuke Kobayashi, Rie Takahashi, Yumi Uchiyama, Rie Murakawa, Inori Minase, Satomi Arai

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