Episode
Re:Creators: The Usual Detour, the Way Back
Overview
Meteora recaps the events of the story up until now, providing her own perspective and embellishments while also providing more backstory of each for the creations and their respective series.
Details
- Series
- Re:Creators
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 2017-07-01
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
The Usual Detour, the Way Back is Episode 13 in Season 1 of Re:Creators. It aired on 2017-07-01. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 12: Too Early to Roll the Ending Credits
Souta deals with his feelings of guilt and regret for not being able to save Setsuna Shimazaki and vows to stop Altair. Altair is different from ordinary Creations: Altair's powers grow with each new spin-off story made about her, but Meteora's powers are limited to her character description. Meteora comes up with a plan to revise their character descriptions and get the support of the viewers.
Episode 14: Why We Travel
People have created many stories. Joy, sadness, anger, and deep emotions. Stories stir up emotions and captivate. However, those emotions are nothing more than the feelings of a spectator. What if the characters in the stories had their own "will?" In their eyes, are we, the creators of the stories, like gods? Revolution for our world. Punishment for the land of the gods. Re:CREATORS. Everyone becomes a Creator.
More episodes from this season
Episode 11: The Monster Under the Eaves
With Selesia and Meteora suffering critical wounds, the team is left in poor shape after their battle with Altair.
Episode 15: Waves Approach at the End of Wandering
Hikayu Hoshikawa, a character from the dating sim video game Starry Sky Milky Way, appears in front of the group. Hikayu doesn't possess any abilities for battle but is still required to participate in the Elimination Chamber Festival since she's a Creation. Oonishi, Hikayu's creator, comes up with an idea to help her. Meanwhile, a new Creation joins Altair's side...
Episode 10: Freeze, Die, Come to Life!
Yatouji succeeds in luring out Alicetaria, but is interrupted by Magane and falls prey to her Infinite Deception of Words. Meanwhile, Selesia rushes to help Meteora and faces off against Alicetaria. However, Altair interferes in the battle and makes Selesia's weapon vanish, and Selesia gets stabbed by Alicetaria. With Selesia on the brink of life and death, Matsubara tries revising the story again.
Episode 16: Wonderful Days
The Creators, exhausted after the tight deadlines, and the Creations, who have been executing the plan, get a moment to relax before the real battle starts. The team rallies their spirits for the upcoming battle, each member recalling their own reasons for fighting: To save the world, to return home, to face the past; Selesia and the others enter the Bird Cage, where they lie in wait for Altair.
Episode 9: O Blooming Maiden, Dig a Hole
Mamika is fatally injured in a battle with Altair, entrusts her dying wish to Magane, and dies in Alicetaria's arms. Magane twists Mamika's dying wish, making Alicetaria's rage turn on Meteora. Magane tells Souta about Mamika's death, and makes him believe he's responsible for her death. Mirokuji and Meteora come to save Souta and start battling Magane, when suddenly Alicetaria arrives...
Episode 17: The Rain's Rhythm Shoots Down on the World's Roof
The battle over the fate of the real world and the fate of the story worlds finally begins! Selesia is able to get back into Vogelchevalier again after winning the acceptance of the audience, and faces off against Altair. However, her new powers don't work against Altair, and she struggles in the battle. Meanwhile, Blitz goes to pay someone a visit to tie up some loose ends.
Episode 8: Everything I Can Do
The true identity of the Military Uniform Princess is Altair, a secondary creation of the character Shirotsumekusa from a social game called "Eternal Wars Megalosphere."
Episode 18: Entirely Imperfect We Are
Magane pays Souta a visit while he watches Selesia's battle and tells him that he is just like her because they both use others to satisfy their own desires, laying the groundwork for her plans to make things "more interesting." Meanwhile, Alicetaria, Blitz, and Shou turn against Altair in the Bird Cage, and join Selesia's side instead. However, Altair still has one final trick up her sleeve!
Episode 7: A Small End of the World
Mamika intervenes in a fight between Mirokuji and Blitz in order to stop people who can only reach an understanding through fighting. For the sake of the people in her world, and for the sake of fulfilling her role as "Magical Slayer Mamika," Mamika asks Souta about the truth behind the world. Meanwhile, Nakanogane discovers the Military Uniform Princess's true identity on a video posting website.
Episode 19: If Wrapped in Kindness
Selesia and the others encounter the final Creation, who turns out to be Charon, the hero from Elemental Symphony of Vogelchevalier, the same story Selesia comes from! While Selesia is overjoyed at the reunion, Charon is sick of the endless fighting in his world, and joins Altair, who is trying to destroy the world. Selesia refuses to fight against Charon, and makes up her mind in a big decision.