Re:Zero Season 4 Episode 76: Who Are You?! – Not Subaru? Viewer Reactions to the Shocking Identity Crisis

Subaru’s memory loss, the hunt for the person who killed him, and now a colleague’s corpse with his own handprints – Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 4th season episode 76 (titled “Murder Becomes a Habit”) pushed the mystery to a new extreme. Fans watching live on X (formerly Twitter) were left gasping as the episode delivered one chilling twist after another.

The episode opens with Subaru alone beside Meili Portroute’s strangled body. On his left arm, the same “Natsuki Subaru Sanjo” wound-writing that appeared earlier. “Who are you?!” viewers shouted as Subaru panicked, unsure if he himself is the killer. “No way! Subaru wouldn’t do that!” one fan posted. Another wrote, “I don’t understand anything…”

Meili’s cruel past revealed

Subaru steps outside, barely avoiding Emilia, who worries about him. He snaps at her kindness, spitting “That’s pointless.” It’s the first time he shows such ugly anger, shocking viewers: “Subaru suddenly lashing out – something is seriously off.” Meanwhile, Emilia’s wish to free Meili from the cellar and treat her equally drew warm reactions: “Emilia is too good.”

But the situation worsens when Ram announces that Meili’s “Book of the Dead” has appeared in the library – proof she has died. The group is tense. “Already? That’s morbid… it appears where you can see it?” a viewer commented. Subaru reads the book and uncovers Meili’s grim origins.

Abandoned at birth, Meili was raised by magical beasts, then taken in by assassin Elsa. The audience was stunned to see motherly Elsa nurturing the wild child, even letting Meili bite her without flinching. “It’s been so long, Elsa!” fans cheered. “Surprisingly, Elsa actually acted as a mother figure,” one noted. But the one Meili called “Mama” turned out to be the Witch Cult Archbishop Capella, who used grotesque transformations to instill terror and control.

“Capella? So that’s the connection,” viewers realized. “Capella can turn people back, then,” another speculated. “She’s as vile as ever.” Sympathy for Meili grew: “She never got picked up by decent people… I really want her to be happy from now on.”

Meili was raised as a killer, later imprisoned, then brought to the Pleiades Watchtower. There she met Subaru in the library, where they had a conversation. The next day she whispered to him, “How much of last night’s talk should I take seriously?” – and then Subaru blacked out. When he came to, Meili was dead. Her memory shows the killer as Subaru. But his own memory is blank, and during that gap, he acted like a different person. “Subaru…? Wait, who?” “Who the hell is that?” “That way of talking… it’s the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony,” some viewers noted.

As the group searches for the missing Meili, Subaru grows paranoid. A hallucination of Meili appears only to him, whispering temptations: read the Books of the Dead to learn everyone’s true intentions. Subaru’s murderous impulse surges, caught between the phantom’s prompts and his own humanity.

Things escalate when Meili’s corpse vanishes. Ram, who has been monitoring Subaru through Patrasche’s eyes, confronts him directly. “You failure of a Natsuki Subaru,” she says, cornering him. Subaru’s murderous intent swells. The episode ends on the title card “Murder Becomes a Habit,” sending chills. Viewers loved the abrupt cut to the ending song: “That ED transition was perfect!” “The ending gave me chills – I love it.”

Next week is the final episode of the Loss Arc (episode 11), before the series continues with the Recovery Arc set to air in August.

◆◆◆ TV Anime ‘Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu’ 4th season Broadcast Info ◆◆◆

Loss Arc (11 episodes) – Airing from April 8 (Wed) on TOKYO MX, AT-X, and 21 other stations nationwide.

Recovery Arc (8 episodes) – Begins August 12 (Wed).

(C) Nagatsuki Tappei, KADOKAWA / Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 4 Production Committee

《Kigasawa Masashi》