Subaru Natsuki is the protagonist of Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World, which began as a Japanese light novel series in 2012 and became a hit anime in 2016. Voiced in Japanese by Yusuke Kobayashi, Subaru is known for his Return by Death ability, which forces him to relive events after dying. Clips of his most emotional lines spread through anime forums, YouTube edits and soundboards, where fans reuse them to joke about failure, retries and dramatic overreactions.