No it’s not. It’s equivalent to one light novel with around 300-400 pages. Bible is around 1500. Besides bible is not that long. I read book longer than that so it’s not really huge deal if something exceed that size
Well stormlight archieve one book is 1500 pages. And also it’s not fair to think rezero as a single book. It should be counted as 40 books as of arc 10 by the standard of light novel. And webnovel are usually really long
STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE MENTION!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 [I don’t interact with the fandom at all due to a fear of spoilers, so just pretend I put a really good and relevant joke here that only someone who reads the books would understand]
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u/ArutoTRLye and Roy Took a Bite of My Memories — Now They Need TherapyMay 12 '26
I’m not sure if page numbers are the best thing to go on for Bibles considering how compact the text usually is in them.
Audible shows that recordings of the Bible usually come out at anywhere between 70-85 hours depending on the narrator’s speed, which feels like a good 20 hours longer than even the longest fiction book I’ve seen on there.
Yeah I’m not exactly Christian so I’ve never read through the whole thing but I do know that if the font and word layout of the Bible was the same as any regular day modern novel the book would probably be a good 2-3x thicker.
750-790k words, the bible is shorter than i thought it would be but all i remember reading it was pretty much idly during church before the proceedings started so maybe i just imagined it as much more
u/joggle1I Tried to Comfort Subaru, He Started Crying About BunniesMay 07 '26
Then there's the EX volumes. Plus the ~1000 side stories that haven't yet been published in the EX volumes. And the Ifs. And the tons of details in the web novel that's been cut from the final volumes if you want to be really complete.
I'm pretty sure Tappei spends every waking moment either brainstorming or writing stories for the Re:Zero universe.
Arc 8 feels short, even considering it is less chapters than 7. It really feels like Arc 8 is just part 3 of Arc 7. Arc 7 is kind of long, but its split into different parts so the pacing felt fine. It took me about 2 months reading 30-60 minutes a day on average.
I've only read arcs 6, 7, and 8. If I had to chose one to read it would always be 6. 7 and 8 go together and they're really good, but its hard to match arc 6. Studio Reverie has a great audio book on youtube and they were a big reason I loved the arc so much. I strongly recommend it if you want to read the arc.
Oh thanks. Wasn't sure Witch cult translation was WB or LN. I have read arc 5,6 and half of 7. Don't have time these days to read it all. Would love to
Witch Cult is the web novel. The LN is copyrighted so you won't be able to find it for free unless you find a pirated Google doc or something. I've heard of people doing it, but the web novel/witch cult is good.
I do wish the LNs weren't so expensive because I'd love to support the LNs, but the series is so long that its hundreds of dollars to buy it all :/.
The WN is the rough draft, it always has a little more "fluff" that is edited and revised to make the LN, as with any rough draft. However, later arcs are much closer to the finished product than earlier arcs. The differences are pretty small at least from arc 6 onwards.
Some notable differences that I know about:
Arc 4 WN is much longer than the LN if I'm remembering correctly.
Arc 5 Liliana is a lot different, at least from the anime. Many WN readers hate her because her chapters are long and she is obnoxious. I think they changed a bunch of her part and made it better for the LN. She's totally fine in the anime, which usually follows the LN quite closely.
A bunch of the earlier arcs aren't even translated. Most translators are focusing on other rezero content because the anime did a good job adapting it.
Later arcs:
Arc 6 and onward there are very few significant changes. There is the one skipped loop in the cave, Tappei said he wanted to save that kind of death for later so they cut it from the LN.
Other than that, I can't think of any really important changes up to where I am in arc 8. There may be some that I haven't heard about, you'd need someone who's read both to be certain, but I'm pretty sure there are at least no really important changes. It would be small bits of lore or doing events in a more effective orders, small changes that make it better, but don't change the overall story.
Take this with a grain of salt as I don't recall the source, but I head the initial plan was to write 11 arcs, but 7 got so long that it was split in two and now there's gonna be 12. Hence why 8 feels like part 3 of 7. It literally is.
Anyone who wants to start reading rezero then they should opt for light novel instead of webnovel. Webnovel is much bigger and acts more like a draft. Anime adapts light novel so it’s more canon and each volume is not that big too. I could finish a single volume in a day. So until mid arc 7 you should just read light novel
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u/Mohib964Echidna Offered Knowledge. I Asked for a Hug. She Just StaredMay 07 '26
this is me with arc 7 and 8. if it was alone i would brute force the WN but i haev to read side stories too for it that's why i havent read it yet. When those two get release i am skimming through arc 9 and 10
It's the same for me but it happens only when one starts to read a novel they haven't read... But once you get into it, you just can't stop yourself from reading just one more chapter adter binge reading 100 chapters in one go and it's 4:00 Am
You know arc 7 was really boring at some parts but they have highest peak of all rezero. Especially phase 4 and 6 was so good that I couldn’t stop reading. But if you have problems with pacing then light novel is really good in that regard. So you can just wait for English translation of ln to complete arc 7
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u/Mohib964Echidna Offered Knowledge. I Asked for a Hug. She Just StaredMay 07 '26
yeah i heard ln pacing is good. i am only waiting off for any season 5 announcememts, than i will read it.
Reading is fine in my opinion ideal for bus rides, i read the entirety of watch him die again and again (~1700 pages) in like two months so go for it and put you imagination to work
I started reading WHDAAA recently aswell, like 2 weeks ago. And now im on the most recent chapter... So uh yeah, like 700k words whatever in 2 weeks i guess, probably not very healthy lol. That fic is like crack though, i love the concept of it. Feels like something teenage me would fantasize about. Its a bit sloplike but in a good way. Would highly recommend it to anyone who likes the idea of it.
Jokes aside, I think Re:Zero is not a very begginer friendly LN, especially if you're not used to read that much. I'd really love to read it all, but the length and the lack of translations aside from english really push me back, since I not only need to read but translate in my head what's going on
It took me a year to read arcs 1 through 5 (I'd already seen the anime), Im still in arc 7 (nearing the end) and I have not read the sidestories. I love the novels bur man this is not a journey I'd recommend someone with no free time to undertake
I am reading the WN arc 6 right next to the anime releasing and honestly it feels like the anime is paced so much bettet than the novel, it genuenly takes a while to read the novel but watching the anime just gives you a faster experience. Though I still think giving the WN a read is worth it cause a lot of stuff is cut in the anime, like the anime gets done with the aftermath of priestella in a quick montage while the WN actually spends a whole chapter (maybe even more i don't remember) just about it, this may seem small but it leads to a lot of confusion, like my friend who hasn't read the WN before didn't even understand why they even had to go to the sage (maybe he's just stupid tho idk). Plus garfiel's reunion with his mom was so much better in the WN.
I tried to read the web novel, but after 20 minutes reading 1 chapter (I didn't even finish it because it was too long) I realized that this shit is impossible to finish. This shit make One Piece looks short.
Not in the web novel its not. Web Novel chapters are quite a bit shorter than light novel chapters because especially in arc 1, they are cut off more often
I like reading and will probably getting the light novels translations, but they aren't that far ahead of the anime, like just 1 arc, and the side content and web novel are kind of a pain to read, sometimes side content gets deleted without warning from witch club translations and you can tell the web novel really needs that editing that goes into the LNs.
I have all the trinity Seven manga… i got to vol 23 and just couldn’t keep up. Theres so many characters it got to a point im like theres so many of you that look the same so who tf is you again
I mean, if they could just make official ln audiobooks maybe those that are scared of words of words (like me) could experience it. I'm surprised that until now they don't have one. Other major light novels like Tensura and Mushoku Tensei have one. Why Re:zero doesn't have one yet ? Does anyone know the reason ?
We live in 2026. Eyes are not needed to read. Grab your local clanker and force it to read it for you while you lay in bed relaxing
If you dont like the stupid robot voice, there is a youtube channel that dubs the webnovel. They are at the start of arc 7. They are a bit slow on the uploads tho
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u/Bol767If Loving Natsumi-chan Is Wrong, I Don’t Wanna Be RightMay 07 '26
its not that much to be honest, if you have consistence and like it a lot you can end a volume in 1-2 weeks, i bought the whole arc 6 before the anime release, but didnt read it, so last week for it dont looks like i only wasted money, i started reading the vol 22 like crazy and ended it today
Last week I went and bought a legion tab gen 3 just for reading, as well as all the en ln volumes for rezero, even pre-ordered vol 29. Started reading them at the end of last week and today I just reached volume 3.
I fear I'm addicted and I'll get through 3ish volumes a week at this rate lmao
Next I might do rascal does not dream, or danmachi... not sure yet but I do wish all 44 rezero volumes were already out in english. Guess now I'll have something new to look forward to I suppose.
A volume a day is definitely easily achieved with an afternoon to spare.
I’m not sure if it’s true, but I always assumed they were called ‘light novels’ due to being ‘lighter’, easier reads compared to more traditional novels, so I’m surprised people are so put off by the thought of reading them.
I can read webnovels but lightnovels are harder to get into somehow. Prob cuz of the short chapters of webnovels I can easily go back to.. and easy access via browser
I always wonder how tappei got all that energy and creativity to write more than 5 million words like damn, that’s really a lot for a story that’s not even finished yet
for some reason hardly anyone is recommending Studio Reverie. its a very good fandub of the re:zero WN, if you dont want to or cant read the novels then its a superb alternative.
Honestly it's not even the text, the problem is that the first novel was just written... really poorly, at least in terms of prose. Idk if it gets better later or if it's due to localization errors, but it's written like a 5th grader wrote it...
I have a question for everyone who loves rezero. I say love bc you guys must understand the story quite a bit and most likely take pride in it so…my question is why does the mangaka make most of the cast pedophiles??? I’m genuinely curious fr and w that being said he’s most likely a pedophile himself would u guys agree w this question? Or no?
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u/PocketRice3 Newbie May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Reminder that one of the April fools what if stories is longer than THE BIBLE.
Edit: greed is relatively short, Wrath is much longer