Kekkai Sensen ep9, meaning of "playing it backwards in double-time/fast-forward"?


5:54 Zapp said _"What's he doin', playing it backwards in fast-forward?"_ You
could replace _fast-forward_ with _double-time_ according to another set of
subtitles. He was referring to the vampire, but the vampire wasn't even doing
anything. What exactly does it mean?




The vampire they were fighting was regenerating (I guess "playing it
backwards" as in "reverting to a prior, unhurt state") quickly ("in double-
time").

He had previously been severely injured by crashing into the skyscraper and by
Klaus's attack. Note that about 30 seconds prior (in video time, not
necessarily in-show time), he looked like this:

[![injured
vampire](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DLOHj.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DLOHj.jpg)

I think there's a kernel of a pun in here. Zapp says 逆再生の早回しかよ _gyaku-saisei
no hayamawashi ka yo_. The word 再生 _saisei_ has two meanings. One, "play" as
in "to play a video". Two, "regenerate" or "come back to life". The prefixal 逆
_gyaku_ means "the opposite of" or "reversed". So whereas a regular creature
regenerating might be "coming back to life", an eldritch undead abomination
like a vampire might instead be "coming back to life backwards" - _gyaku-
saisei_ , which is also the word you'd use for "to play a video backwards".

I'm kind of reaching here, though; I'm not sure whether that was the
intention.

