Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Discussion

Dangit Sylphitz, Just tell him already!

In the first season they real quickly mentioned that Sylphie went a bit nuts when she found out about Rudy getting sent off. We finally got to see a bit of that.

So Nanahoshi said it was five years ago that the teleportation incident happened. So that would make Rudy 15 now.

ugg...I hate the new reply function....I want it to quote the post not just @ someone....

Anyway. I was just coming back to point this out. He had just turned 10 when the transportation happened. Pretty sure he was 7 when he got sent to live with Eris, so it's been 8 years since he last saw Sylphie.

This also points out that time works differently in this world, or else runs at a different pace. She seemed to indicate she was summoned during the accident. Yet she appeared 10 years after Rudy reincarnated. Maybe she doesn't age because her body is still tied to time in Japan, and time in Japan runs at something like a thousand times slower than time in the new world.

@HOOfan_1 Interesting theory. I was thinking maybe because she's not really integrated into the world the way Rudy is. I don't think Rudy is subject to being erased like she was talking about either.


Don't care for the reply/quote thing either. It's just cumbersome. The 'conversation view' is terrible too. I immediately switched back.

Ughh and here we assumed Sylphie couldn't tell him, now it's just because she's worried he forgot her? That makes it even dumber, didn't he already say he remembered her? What does she want?
As for mask girl, interesting stuff. Wonder why Rudeus chose not to reveal it was him who tries to save her. I think she summed up pretty well the reasons she hates this world as being the same as critics of this show, interesting, so it's on purpose.
Quite thw reaction from Sylphie, cool to see her let out some emotion when she's been so shy otherwise.
Also an isekai-ed Japaneae girl in a white mask is pretty much the same as Shizu from Reincarnated as a Slime. Is there no subsequent isekai that didn't "borrow" from this?

@MenchiK1 All he told Fitz was that he had found his family, but that he was still looking for a friend of his that had been caught in the mana disaster. I'm sure Sylphie assumed he meant her at first, but she's obviously having doubts now. I figured she was just using the princess as a convenient excuse to keep her shades on.

What the heck do these two even talk about, though, that he's never even mentioned Sylphie's name or made a specific enough reference to her that she would think he might not remember her? Considering that they're specifically working on the teleportation incident together, and that he already referenced her once, it's a bit crazy that she hasn't come up at all since then.

Also I'm guessing that what happened in this episode must have taken place before Badigadi showed back up again at the school. It was winter when that happened and it definitely wasn't during this episode.

@zkeleton Probably a similar reason to why Rudy didn't tell the Japanese girl he was the one who saved her. He guards himself to an extreme degree, for fairly obvious reasons.

@Xuhybrid True, but if he was going to open up to anyone, I think it would be Fitz. He even asked her some questions about her background.

Well, we all know what she has to do to get him to loosen his tongue. Ply him with alcohol.

She better be ready for a 3-hour spiel about his ED.

Not sure how I feel about this entire arc just being about getting his boner back.

Admit it, you know this arc is good.

Besides, the last time we had a dick focused arc was Handyman Saito and that turned out to be one of the most intense emotional roller coaster rides ever.

Not sure how I feel about this entire arc just being about getting his boner back.

@runec What if I rephrased it as,

"Beset on all sides by his greatest fears from his first life -- school, Rudy struggles to gain acceptance with his classmates all while working tirelessly to release the seal on his little demon lord."

I just wish we were getting more magic while at magic school. He came here to study summoning, but anything he's learned about it has been totally off camera. And he's been worried about not making much progress with his magic since he was six or seven years old, but we haven't seen him do anything about that either.

I think if this arc had some kind of thread holding it together it would work better. Yes, he's studying the teleportation incident, and yes he's trying to pump up his muscle. However, we only ever see him talking about learning about the first thing without knowing whatever it is he's learned, and we always knew the second thing was something that would have to work itself out. So there hasn't really been something we've seen him consistently doing/learning about the whole time he's been here. I think a good magic school arc (or arcs) need a purpose for the MC to focus on, and while we have that here, we're basically only ever told about it and not really shown it. The second thing it needs is for the mc to learn some magic, which hasn't happened at all.

And the whole thing with Sylpie has been more frustrating than anything.