Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu

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Synonyms: Jobless Reincarnation: I Will Seriously Try If I Go To Another World

Japanese: 無職転生～異世界行ったら本気だす～

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Type: TV

Episodes: 11

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 11, 2021 to Mar 22, 2021

Premiered: Winter 2021

Broadcast: Mondays at 00:00 (JST)

Producers: Frontier Works, TOHO, TOHO animation, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures, BS11, Egg Firm, Kadokawa, GREE, Toho Music

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Studio Bind

Source: Light novel

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Ecchi

Themes: Isekai, Reincarnation

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Popularity: #101

Members: 1,313,738

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Despite being bullied, scorned, and oppressed all of his life, a 34-year-old shut-in still found the resolve to attempt something heroic—only for it to end in a tragic accident. But in a twist of fate, he awakens in another world as Rudeus Greyrat, starting life again as a baby born to two loving parents.

Preserving his memories and knowledge from his previous life, Rudeus quickly adapts to his new environment. With the mind of a grown adult, he starts to display magical talent that exceeds all expectations, honing his skill with the help of a mage named Roxy Migurdia. Rudeus learns swordplay from his father, Paul, and meets Sylphiette, a girl his age who quickly becomes his closest friend.

As Rudeus' second chance at life begins, he tries to make the most of his new opportunity while conquering his traumatic past. And perhaps, one day, he may find the one thing he could not find in his old world—love.

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Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu adapts chapters 1-26 of Yuka Fujikawa's manga series and volumes 1-3 of Rifujin na Magonote's light novel series of the same title.

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	1: "Tabibito no Uta (旅人の唄)" by Yuiko Oohara (eps 3-4, 6-8)
	2: "Mezame no uta (目覚めの唄)" by Yuiko Oohara (eps 10)

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"Only (オンリー)" by Yuiko Oohara

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Apr 14, 2024

Elhwing

Recommended

Mushoku Tensei is one of those controversial animes, some people hate it, some people love it, and it seems like this latter category is the majority since this anime is ranked quite high on myanimelist.

Is this a good anime ? Yes definitely, I enjoyed watching this and started watching the other seasons right after. But before we go any further, you should be aware of something IMPORTANT : the controversy is justified and while there aren't any shocking scenes per se, some choices made regarding the main character and his traits are questionnable to say the least. The MC is depicted as a true ... pervert, and in this isekai setting, this will involve moments where the former 36 yo man will fantasize about minor girls he's interacting with in his new life as a young boy. I think that the show took this aspect too far and it hurts the anime, but I'll talk more about this later.

What are the good things about Mushoku ?

- The story delivers. Simply put, many isekais feel generic and uninspired, because it's always the same settings, with more or less the same goals given to the main character, who will quickly form a party and take on a quest to defeat an evil figure in the new world. You can put away all those clichés here because Mushoku Tensei doesn't take the reincarnation feat lightly : we'll follow the new life of the character litteraly from his birth. We quicly understand that this show's narration won't be linear and many things will happen throughout the episodes, many characters will interact with the MC, it's simply refreshing to watch an original story with coherent world building.

- The animation is beautiful. The scenery changes a lot, it's colorful, the character design does the job, the fights are dynamic. Once again, although this is an isekai, it's clearly not playing in the same league as the generic isekais we see each season.

- The ost is amazing as well, and we can praise the anime for its choice regarding the opening, or lack of I should say. What "serves" as an opening is usually a song playing with beautiful landscapes or even scenes that show us small discussions in the daily life of the charcters.

What are the bad things about Mushoku ?

There's really only one BIG problem with the show, and to this day, I can't seem to find a sane explanation for this.

As mentioned above, the man who reincarnated as the main character was a 36 year old creep, a recluse hikkikomori that suffered in his teen years and became "human trash" because of that. In his new life as Rudeus, he's still conscious of his old life, and he kept those virgin's sexual urges and weird fetishes. But what's the point of those, what does it bring for the story ? Well nothing much, that's the problem. Except to appeal to some weird viewers, all those scenes are pointless, even worse, they hurt the show's credibility later on. ( If the anime insists on showing us that Rudeus is a lolicon, how are we supposed to believe that he genuinely wants to help other, protect children etc... in other episodes ? )

To be fair, the idea of giving a second chance at life to a trash human being, and that he's still fighting his inner demons while living his second life is an interesting idea, that justifies the isekai genre and should be used more often. But why did it have to be "this" extreme ? There could have been other ways to make us hate the MC in his previous life if that's really what this is about, and likewise, there could have been other ways to justify his behavior than going for the extreme sexual bullying in his highschool years... It's even more frustrating when you consider the rest of the anime that is almost flawless in every other aspect.

To qualify a bit, the first part of the first season is the worst regarding those cringe scenes, they are less frequent or less questionnable in the other seasons.

All in all, this show is still worth to watch, because it's clearly standing above many other isekais, the story is original and interesting to follow, and the animation as well as the music are also pretty good. However, there is a huge drawback, this anime has a few questionnable scenes where the MC will fantasize about little girls, and no matter how you put it, it's just wrong, don't believe other people that try to give it a meaning, there's no sane justification for this bs and it's hurting the show's coherence that was perfect otherwise. Without those perverted scenes, I would have probably given a 10 to this show, but the anime insists too much with this. The silver lining being that if you can get over those cringe moments, they are less frequent in the next seasons, and the anime changes its tune to give Rudeus a pervert trait that leans more toward the usual comedic relief jokes rather than the full on degenerate mood they decided to pick for this first season.

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Apr 13, 2024

DISKOWN

Mixed Feelings

The initial segment of the debut season of Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu serves as a decent starting point for the series, albeit without any groundbreaking elements. It unfolds at a rather measured pace, primarily dedicated to fleshing out the world, which happens to be one of the anime's notable strengths. However, the characters come across as rather unsavory, making it challenging to fully rally behind any one individual. While the animation holds up well in action sequences, it falls short in other moments. Aside from the animation, the visuals maintain a consistent quality, blending well with the designs of the characters. The series ...

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Apr 14, 2024

cynfest456

Not Recommended

My God! This story is a prime example of how luck can sway the entertainment industry. With the hype around Isekai anime being raised to the roof by entries like: Re:Zero, Overlord, Slime & Konosuba getting big returns for studios and investors, it seemed like a guaranteed success. But alas, when it finally aired, it did more harm than good, denting the genre's reputation irreparably.

As previously mentioned, back in the 2010s, we had gems like Re:Zero, Konosuba, Slime, Overlord, and even Ascendance of a Bookworm, each contributing to the rise of Isekai as the next big thing in the anime medium while this one ... was kept getting ignored by every established studio, Literally. Then someone mistakenly decided to trust Reddit, Twitter and tumblr's opinion and get this one an anime deal causing a noticeable shift in audience interest in supporting isekai stories as fans. It marked the point where the well of good Isekai stories seemed to dry up, leaving behind mediocre tales like this one.

That's why It feels like the studios had to revive the big names like Konosuba, Slime, and Re:Zero AND AIRED THEM ALL IN the same FREAKING YEAR. LOL. The damage inflicted on the genre by stories like this made it necessary to remind viewers of: hey, remember this Isekai? The one you supported back then. We're bringing them ALL back in the same year lol. And its evident that they were missed since even on this site Konosuba is the most anticipated anime of spring 2024.

Anyways, let's dive into this disaster: The author attempts to pass off this narrative as an autobiographical journey, using it as an excuse to disregard proper storytelling conventions and leave loose ends dangling which by the end will be obvious.

So, what's it all about? Essentially, MT tries and fails to depict the redemption of a supposedly flawed character. But in reality, it feels like an overindulgent H-Novel catering to those with questionable tastes. The studio even had to go as far as to censor many aspects of the light novel, particularly the protagonist's disturbing fascination with young girls, turning it into a thin quirk and not full-on lust for them which in the LN he has.

The harem aspect is particularly troubling, with the protagonist essentially grooming his "treasured Pokemon starters" into romantic partners.
The journey he goes on? The incidents? The people he meets? Worthless tbh. This world is generic and hollow. It's all just there as filler to justify his questionable actions, and it doesn't work.

In short, I feel sorry for those who worked hard on this, it seems that they wanted this story to succeed since they were most likely tricked into thinking the story was this beautiful redemption story the internet talked about but when the reception came even the director ran for the hills. Heck, this anime has had 3 different directors work on it and its only has 2 seasons as i write this. How does that even happen? Well. Two of them understood that this story is not what the fans claim to be and left.

0/10

Also, Skip this one and give Frieren a watch instead, you will get pretty much more out of that series than this one which is just him watching the world around him let him off the hook for things that would get a man thrown in prison nowadays.

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