Our main protagonist of the series is a high school student known as Subaru. Subaru is the lazy type who prefers to stay locked in his room playing games and such. He has no real aspirations for life, he lives one moment at a time. On his way back from a convenience store one night, he suddenly appears in another world. As he looks around him in confusion, he identifies the world as a fantasy land. His play instincts kick in as he begins to assess his surroundings. He discovers that he speaks the same language as the people here, but his clothes and money are of no use. The items he has on his person from his world are also unknown to him, items like his cell phone.

While sitting in an alley contemplating his first move and waiting for a beautiful woman to come along like in most fantasy situations, he is attacked by a group that wants his items. Thinking in the mentality of a game and that he should have super strength, he hits the first two and goes for the third. When the last enemy pulls out a knife, he sadly bows in front of him and begs for his life as he gets kicked. During that time, he is rescued by a beautiful girl with silver hair who has the ability to wield magic.

When he awakens from his beaten state, he finds that he is completely healed, no doubt by the silver-haired maiden. She bids her farewell while she was searching for a thief, but Subaru begs her to help so he can pay her back. Throughout their search journey, they help a young woman who was separated from her mother. Subaru also learns that the girl’s name is Satella and that she is a half-elf. Actually, she is quite surprised when he is not afraid of her.

Their quest to find a thief, when they learn his name is Felt, they venture into the depressions. They are in an old warehouse that is a kind of center for stolen goods. Subaru says that he will enter the creepy place first, so he goes inside and tries to move around the dark room. What he finds inside is a man, slumped against the counter and blood everywhere. By the time he realized what had happened here, he had already been cut down and was lying on the ground. Before losing his life, he saw his friend Satella enter the warehouse and also lose her life.

Then suddenly he is standing in front of a shopkeeper in the middle of town. Cool, right? The story quickly reveals that this is no ordinary person in an ordinary world. Every time Subaru dies, he is taken back to a certain point in time. During the first few episodes, it is the moment when he stands in front of a merchant moments after being transported to this fantasy world.

This is a very well done anime and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to find something new and exciting. It has a typical “boy who finds himself in a fantasy world” plot, but underneath that is something really amazing. We get to see Subaru as he tries to figure out what’s going on and how you got into that world. It’s pretty amazing, I’m just saying! PS her real name is Emilia! 🙂