I finished watching season 2 and wanted to share my opinion. In my opinion, the theory that Satella = Emilia, who traveled back in time, is one of the most logical (attention, closed causal paradoxes). Emilia traveled from an unspecified future after meeting Subaru, became a Witch and went insane, but she didn't forget about the strange guy and arranged everything so that Emilia could meet him in the future. This leads to some interesting conclusions: 1. Subaru is bound by causality and can only perform actions that follow Satella's plan from 400 years ago, so it makes sense that he should do things that lead Emilia to the royal throne, which results in the incident that sends Emilia back in time and turns her into Satella. 2. Emilia's (Satella's) story is looped and doomed from the very beginning to such a final outcome that can't help but cause sadness. 3. If Subaru had decided to simply leave, as he wanted to do with Rem, it's quite possible that the point of rebirth would not shift, and as a result, immediately after his death at an old age surrounded by children and grandchildren, for example, he would find himself on a market in Lugnica 60 years ago. Quite a prospect. 4. This follows from the fact that the number of his deaths, as Echidna said, can be unlimited. 5. Even worse, if in such a case the point of rebirth shifted, and he returned to the morning of his death from old age, unable to do anything and it would be REALLY ETERNAL. 6. If the romantic line with Emilia literally consists of "royals in the bushes" and follows Satella's plan (which can't be any other way!), then the romantic line with Rem, in my opinion, is a manifestation of Subaru's free will and choice. Figuratively speaking, Subaru and Emilia are protagonists whose fate and causality have PRESCRIBED them to be together, whereas Rem is a side character with whom these categories don't work. Also, I believe that the world in Re:Zero is a simulation, because in the "real" world, even with the help of magic, erasing a person from history and the memory of all people, reversing time, rewriting events, and reversing cause and effect in a snap of your fingers is simply impossible. However, a similar motion can be accomplished in a world that resembles a file system. Just delete the file directory pointer and nobody will remember it anymore, approximately like that.
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