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Who's the real waifu?! My answer will always be Rem
Machine-translated from Traditional Chinese
This debate has been going on since the first season aired in 2016, almost ten years now, and both sides have been fighting it out on Bahamut and PTT for so long that it still gets dug up and rehashed every now and then. Honestly, I've been a hardcore Rem fan since episode 18 of season one, "From Zero."
Back then, when Rem hugged Subaru from behind while he was completely breaking down and poured out all her feelings, that idiot just replied with "I like Emilia." I nearly smashed my mouse right then and there. So what if Emilia is the officially designated heroine?
Sure, she was the first person Subaru met in the other world, and she did grow after the Sanctuary arc, but none of that changes the fact that she was basically dead weight early on. Rem, on the other hand, did actually kill Subaru during the mansion arc, but that was because her environment forced her to distrust everyone. Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, she gave Subaru nothing but a hundred percent, unreserved trust. What pisses me off the most is that the author clearly knew Rem's popularity was about to overtake Emilia's, and then in season two he just forced her off the stage with the Gluttony Archbishop.
Everyone forgot about her, and even Emilia herself asked that hellish line, "Who is Rem?" It's so obvious they sidelined her just to prop up the heroine. Looking at it now, that move still feels like total BS.
A lot of people bring up the IF Sloth route, saying that in that timeline Rem was willing to elope with Subaru and had two kids with him, basically the perfect wife. Sure, it's just an IF route, but precisely because that possibility exists, it makes Subaru's choice in the main timeline look even more baffling. In the 2022 Nihon poll, Rem still took first place, and the Rem camp's foundation has never lost.
Rem is Rem, the maid who was willing to start from zero with you in episode 18, and that hasn't changed to this day 😭
Back then, when Rem hugged Subaru from behind while he was completely breaking down and poured out all her feelings, that idiot just replied with "I like Emilia." I nearly smashed my mouse right then and there. So what if Emilia is the officially designated heroine?
Sure, she was the first person Subaru met in the other world, and she did grow after the Sanctuary arc, but none of that changes the fact that she was basically dead weight early on. Rem, on the other hand, did actually kill Subaru during the mansion arc, but that was because her environment forced her to distrust everyone. Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, she gave Subaru nothing but a hundred percent, unreserved trust. What pisses me off the most is that the author clearly knew Rem's popularity was about to overtake Emilia's, and then in season two he just forced her off the stage with the Gluttony Archbishop.
Everyone forgot about her, and even Emilia herself asked that hellish line, "Who is Rem?" It's so obvious they sidelined her just to prop up the heroine. Looking at it now, that move still feels like total BS.
A lot of people bring up the IF Sloth route, saying that in that timeline Rem was willing to elope with Subaru and had two kids with him, basically the perfect wife. Sure, it's just an IF route, but precisely because that possibility exists, it makes Subaru's choice in the main timeline look even more baffling. In the 2022 Nihon poll, Rem still took first place, and the Rem camp's foundation has never lost.
Rem is Rem, the maid who was willing to start from zero with you in episode 18, and that hasn't changed to this day 😭
