Re:Zero mouse pads for the desk

This page collects Padrift's Re:Zero mouse pads and desk mats: original artwork drawn from Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, printed edge to edge on 3 mm neoprene with a fabric top, a non-slip base and a stitched border. Eight desk sizes are on offer, starting with an 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad sized for the mouse and finishing with a 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm) mat long enough for keyboard, mouse and speakers, and no pad is printed until somebody orders it.

Rem has a page of her own one level down, for designs built around her alone. Everything else in the series lives here: Subaru and his loops, Emilia and Puck, the mansion and its library, the candidates for the throne and the darker corners of the Witch Cult.

A story about trying again

Re:Zero started in 2012 as a web novel by Tappei Nagatsuki, grew into a light novel series illustrated by Shin'ichirō Ōtsuka and reached television in 2016 as an anime by White Fox. Its hero, Subaru Natsuki, is walking home from a convenience store when he finds himself in the Kingdom of Lugunica, a fantasy world of knights, spirits and dragon-drawn carriages. He soon learns that dying there sends him back to an earlier moment. He keeps every memory of the attempt that failed; nobody around him keeps any.

That premise gives the series a strange kinship with games. If you have ever replayed a boss twenty times, learning one more pattern on each run, you already understand how Subaru thinks: fail, remember, change one thing, go again. It makes Re:Zero a natural fit for a gaming desk, and a quietly stubborn companion on a study desk, where the next attempt at a hard problem is the one that matters.

Return by Death as a pattern

Return by Death is never staged as a grand spell. The show handles it as a sudden cut: darkness, a heartbeat, and Subaru standing at his last checkpoint, often on a street he has already stood on many times. Designs inspired by it work with loops and repetition rather than violence: a clock face with its hands running backward, the same scene drawn again and again in fading layers, a ring of identical moments circling one bright point.

Repetition is unusually practical on a long mat. On an XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm), a looping pattern still looks complete when the keyboard covers its middle, because each part of the cycle resembles every other part. On a black desk, deep violet with a single thread of gold keeps the mood heavy without dragging the whole setup into gloom.

Emilia in silver and violet

Emilia is the half-elf Subaru meets on his first day in the capital, with long silver hair, violet eyes and a white outfit trimmed in purple. At that first meeting she gives him a false name, Satella, a choice that only makes sense much later. She is a candidate for the throne, kind to a fault and far more stubborn than she first appears.

Her colors behave like a pastel scheme with extra contrast: white and lavender with a few strokes of deep purple. That makes an Emilia design the simplest Re:Zero art to place on a white desk. Pair it with a white or lilac keyboard and a soft white lamp, and the silver hair stays crisp even under monitor glow. The ice she fights with adds pale blue crystal shapes, which sit well along the top edge of a mat, above the keys, where they frame the scene instead of disappearing under your hands.

Puck for the small pad

Puck, the gray cat spirit who naps in Emilia's hair, was practically drawn for the 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad. He is tiny, round and almost always smiling, with a pink nose and a long tail, and that outline stays readable in the upper corner while your palm covers the rest. Behind the plush-toy look sits one of the strongest beings in the story, which is why a Puck design can be sweet or, with a sheet of frost spreading out behind him, faintly ominous.

A Puck pad also suits a laptop on a kitchen table, a bedside setup or a shared family computer. One small cat says Re:Zero to anyone who has watched the show and simply reads as a cat to everyone else.

Subaru, the ordinary hero

Subaru arrives in Lugunica in a tracksuit and keeps wearing it for a surprisingly long time, surrounded by knights in armor and maids in frills. Art built around him is the most expressive in the series: the forced grin he wears when he is fooling himself, the hollow stare after one loop too many, or the rare moment when a plan finally comes together and he looks, for once, like he knows what he is doing.

On a desk mat, put Subaru at the end away from your mouse hand. A right-handed player wants him on the left, beside the keyboard; a left-handed player wants him on the right. Either way he stays in view at the edge of your typing area, and your wrist never rests on his face during a long session.

The Roswaal mansion

The first long arc unfolds in the mansion of Roswaal L. Mathers, a margrave who wears a jester's face paint and backs Emilia's claim to the throne for reasons of his own. The house is warm and grand: cream walls, long carpeted corridors, a kitchen where Subaru takes a job as a servant and gardens where the maids keep the grounds in order.

Mansion scenes carry more brown, gold and cream than any other part of Re:Zero, which makes them the obvious pick for a wooden desk. Lay a mansion interior on an XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm), under a warm desk lamp on walnut or oak, and the setup starts to feel like a quiet study in one of its wings.

Beatrice and the Forbidden Library

Any door in the mansion might open onto the Forbidden Library, where Beatrice, a small spirit with long ringlet curls and a frilled dress, guards the books and grumbles at every visitor. She speaks in an old-fashioned, haughty way, insists she wants no company and spends the series proving otherwise.

Library art means wooden shelves, book spines in brown and gold and pools of lamplight, and it suits a desk for reading or homework more than one for shooters. A Beatrice design in the 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm) size fits beside a laptop and a stack of notes, and her sulky expression is a fair summary of how most people feel during exam week.

The royal selection in color

Lugunica's throne is contested by five candidates, and each comes with a look that translates directly into a desk palette.

• Emilia: silver and violet, for white, lilac or pale gray setups.
• Crusch Karsten: long green hair and a soldier's bearing, for dark green accents or a desk full of plants.
• Priscilla Barielle: orange hair and a crimson dress, for warm lighting and red keycaps.
• Anastasia Hoshin: lavender hair and the calm of a merchant who has already done the math, for soft purple lighting.
• Felt: the blonde street thief from the first episodes, with Reinhard van Astrea, the Sword Saint, as her knight, for bold red-and-gold contrast.

A candidate's colors make a calmer design than a full portrait: an emblem, a few bands of color, a sword or a ribbon. That works well on the M size, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm), where a strip of those colors runs under a compact keyboard.

The White Whale hunt

Near the end of the first season, Subaru gathers the forces of more than one candidate to hunt the White Whale, a huge beast that swims through the sky in a fog that erases its victims from the memory of everyone who knew them. At the front of the charge rides Wilhelm van Astrea, the old swordsman called the Sword Demon, who has waited years for this fight.

A battle that size needs width. On a 4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm), the whale can fill one side of the mat, pale against a gray sky, while the riders charge in from the other, leaving the middle clear for your keyboard. Cool white lighting suits that misty palette better than any colored RGB.

Patrasche and the ground dragons

Travel in Lugunica runs on ground dragons, large reptiles that pull carriages across the countryside. Subaru's own is Patrasche, a dark-scaled dragon whose loyalty goes far beyond what anyone expects from a carriage animal. A ground dragon makes a good subject for the long sizes, head at one end and tail stretching along the lower edge, and it gives a Re:Zero desk a fantasy-road-trip feel without any of the series' heavier themes.

The Witch Cult and its Gospels

The darkest thread in Re:Zero is the Witch Cult, fanatics who revere the Witch of Envy and take orders from black books they call Gospels. Its leaders, the Archbishops of the Seven Deadly Sins, form a gallery of unsettling villains, starting with Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti, the Archbishop of Sloth, with his twisted poses and his invisible hands.

Cult designs belong on a dark gaming desk: black and deep purple, a closed book with a cracked spine, shadows creeping in from the edges toward the center. Place the keyboard over the darkest area, so the detail stays at the edges, where you can actually see it between keystrokes.

Later seasons, new palettes

The second season, which aired from 2020, takes the story to the Sanctuary, a hidden village sealed behind a barrier, and to Echidna, the Witch of Greed, who receives Subaru at a strange tea party. The third season, which began in 2024, moves to the water city of Priestella. Each arc shifts the colors: forest greens and pale stone for the Sanctuary, black and white for Echidna, bright water blues for Priestella. If the person at the desk prefers the newer arcs, those palettes give a Re:Zero pad a look that has little in common with the mansion art.

Music for a long session

The first season's opening, "Redo" by Konomi Suzuki, and its ending, "STYX HELIX" by MYTH & ROID, sum up the series' two moods, one urgent and one mournful. That contrast is a useful way to choose a design. Bright Emilia or mansion art matches the urgency and suits a desk you share with daylight; Return by Death loops and Witch Cult shadows match the mourning and look right in a room lit mostly by the monitor.

Sizes for a Re:Zero desk

Each design's product page shows the sizes it comes in. For Re:Zero art, these setups cover most desks.

Setup	Size	Good for
Mouse only	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	Puck or a single clock face
Laptop or study corner	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	Beatrice among her books
Compact keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	A strip of candidate colors
Keyboard and mouse	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	A repeating Return by Death loop
Deep desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	A mansion interior
Whole desk	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	The White Whale hunt

For a desk that is long but not very deep, L at 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm) and 3XL at 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm) fill the gaps between the sizes above.

Re:Zero gifts

A Re:Zero pad suits someone who stayed with Subaru through every painful loop, someone who has opinions about the royal selection or a reader who moved on to the light novels to find out what happens next. Choose Emilia for a bright desk, the Witch Cult for a dark one and Puck when you want something small and safe. When you can't measure the desk first, XL is the sensible middle: wide enough for a full keyboard and mouse, shallow enough for almost any desk.

Printing takes 1–3 business days, and the pad then travels from Turkey, usually reaching US addresses 2–5 business days later, so order around two weeks before a birthday to be safe.

Looking after pale art

Emilia's silver and the cream of the mansion show grime sooner than darker designs, mostly where your wrist rests. A weekly pass with a cloth dampened in plain water keeps that patch from going gray. After a spill, or whenever the whole surface looks tired, lower the pad into a basin of lukewarm water with a few drops of mild soap, work the fabric gently with your fingers, rinse until the water runs clear, roll it in a dry towel to take out most of the moisture and let it finish drying lying flat. Machines, dryers and irons are all off limits; the fade-resistant print keeps the lavender soft and the silver bright.

A note on names

We mention Re:Zero, its characters, its places and its powers so you know what inspired each design, nothing more. Padrift has no affiliation with Tappei Nagatsuki, Shin'ichirō Ōtsuka, Kadokawa or White Fox, and the pads carry no sponsorship or endorsement from any of them.