Am i missing something?

Honestly, just the the fact you say "pedo stuff" show all your criticism is invalid.

Aside from the obviously controversial topics…

After reading your comments, it really just looks like this anime is just not your cup of tea, which is not bad, but it is other peoples’ cup or tea, which is also not bad.

(again not referring to the controversial topics)

You seem to be the type of person to judge anime based on “surface level similarities,” saying something like, “It is just another isekai with an OP MC who learns magic and gets a harem, nothing special”, but this just reveals that your ability to judge anime is limited, since you can’t even see the differences in each Isekai anime that make them unique in their own way.

For example, if I mentioned …

— Rudeus & Sylphie were learning magic together, like kids playing with a new toy. That Sylphie was able to pick up the non-verbal casting, so it wasn’t just some special skill limited to the MC, but others could do it. That later the MC had to recognize that he couldn’t use magic that Sylphie was good at using, because it meant that the MC was not OP, just powerful in what he himself could do.

— Ghislaine, an experienced and powerful warrior, was humble enough to admit that she was uneducated, but wanted to improve herself by learning things like reading and math.

— That it was cute seeing Eris & Rudeus work hard on learning to dance, especially funny that Eris had two left feet, then to see them impress all the guests, even though no one thought it was possible.

Would you actually consider my perspective?

I believe that you would just say that none of this mattered.

Fine, you are free to have your own opinion, but I am also free to have my own opinion.

I enjoyed things about this anime, in the end, that is really all that matters, not what other people think of me for liking the anime or that other people did not like the anime.

(again not referring to the controversial topics)

A already established scientific fact is that your brain age, physical age, affect your mental age. So factually he is a child, the most you could argue for is that he is precocious child, not due to his own efforts of course, but because of the usual experience and knowledge one would get from becoming and being a adult.

Also, another thing:

“I finally understand now. I’m still just a kid. A brat who pretended to be an adult by using his previous memories.”

a quote from Rudy himself.

Sounds like bro didn’t even read past the second sentence of my comment 💀. By toxic tendencies I meant being a pervert in general and touching girls without their consent. Because like I said, I don’t see him as a pedophile, I see him as an immature teenage boy who can’t control himself. He never harmed anyone with it. I’m trying to be mature here and not insult you for no reason but you’re making it hard buddy. Everyone has different opinions, you think I’m a dumbass for my view on Rudy, what if I told you you’re a dumbass for not liking the show? Would you respond with more insults or explain your reasoning instead of just forcing your opinion on me as a fact. I literally said I’m not trying to change your opinion. Let’s just agree to disagree and move on. You really don’t need to get so heated and aggressively reply to every comment who doesn’t agree with you, especially when there’s no substance to your comment except “It’s just not for me and you’re stupid for liking it.” It’s not even about Rudy anymore, you just like to troll.

Well, I know my comment wasn’t about the show specifically but you did say things like “a real idiot here” and call me a dumbass because of my reasoning. Like that’s just how i interpreted things. I understand that people are being aggressive towards you for no reason but my comment was not intended to be aggressive, I was simply stating my opinion. I just got annoyed because of you saying that I’m stupid for no reason.

@Cielord

Yeah, but theres still ecchi scenes involving 9 year olds. nobody wants to see that.
At least that quote clears up a lot of things I was confused about.

I'll just bring in my 2 cents of my experience of the series. Apologies in advance for the essay!

Its a very enjoyable story. Ok, let's start with the premise. A shut-in man who wasted his life away due to alot of unresolved trauma as a teenager is given a second chance at life when he is reincarnated in a fantasy world. Standard setup.
I think one thing that sets MT apart is the committment to showing the protagonist's growth throughout his entire life. Yes, this is going to be Rudeus' life story from birth to death. All the hardships he will struggle against and overcome.

Whether it's overcoming his trauma of leaving his house, stopping his tendancy to treat this world as a video game and the people as characters in a visual novel, he is given reality checks of how he views and treats women when Eris constantly beats the shit out of him all the time, problems with Paul and understanding that he Has a loving and supportive family that he could cherish more, experiencing heart break for the first time and struggling with ED as a young man, developing a natural and safe bond with a woman (through Sylphie).. without sexual attraction or romance as the forefront reason to start a connection. Just getting to know them as a person.

There's so much to the journey Rudeus has come on. Hell, Season 2 Rudeus is soo different from who he was in Season 1. He's still a pervert yeea, that was never the problem. You can be a pervert and still be socially acceptable. The way he viewed women as purely sex objects and not as people in S1. He's much more respectful, keeps his perversions to himself, and helps out others as his friends and not as a manipulative tool to sleep with a girl. Every now and then he fcks up again, like when he held those two hostage for breaking his Roxy figurine model. He had no excuse there. But he makes mistakes as a human and tries to overcome his shortcomings.

The worldbuilding and lore is interesting, especially when it directly affects Rudeus and his circle. The different countries, languages and cultures in this world. The different religions with their takes on marriage (whether you can have only one wife or take multiple wives). The magic system and the mystery of what caused the Mana Disturbance which split everyone across the world.
Rudeus and company's confrontation with Orsted - the Dragon God because of his connection to the Man God. We don't know why the Man God started appearing to Rudeus and continues to try guiding him on a set path.. but he seems sus as hell. And from what I hear, for future content.. we'll slowly get more context and information on what the Man God is and how his presence affects the world.

There's alot of juicy content waiting and I can't wait to see. That's why I like Mushoku Tensei. I don't rank it above Re:Zero, but they're both excellent series.

That's me. I don't know if it answered your concerns regarding the series, sorry haha.

@Kenzolo-folk I assume you dislike murder of innocents, when a series has such thing in it what do you do? You criticise the series for it?

@Cielord

um yeah i would criticize a series if the main character is murdering innocents and its played for laughs or he gets really poor consequences for it.
is this really ur argument to defend 9 year old panty shots and ecchi scenes? jeez.

@Kenzolo-folk Just shows you can't handle bad things in media, i would advise you to watch kid shows.

Also Rudeus constantly face conseuqences for his actions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/q5oqze/does_rudeus_improve_does_he_suffer_consequences/

@Cielord

its not if i cant handle it, its just mid writing. berserk is my favorite manga and Guts kills an innocent kid, as a result he suffers major consequences from it.

"Does rudeus suffer consequences from his actions"
Proceeds to give examples of how every important character suffered consequences except for Rudeus. Is this a joke?
and wtf does this gotta do with 9 year old ecchi?

@Kenzolo-folk

If it was mid writing you would've talked about the mid writing in question instead of complaining about invisible pedophillia.

That post explained how consequences work in Mushoku Tensei and also in real life.

I haven't read all of the comments, but that's definitely not mid writing in itself. Having or not having consequences has nothing to do with the quality of the writing.
If everything had consequences, then everything would have been a really predictable show.

@Cielord

Your reading comprehension is all over the place. When I said mid writing I was referring to when main characters kill innocents and get no consequence for it. Your response was that I just can't handle it, and my refute is that I can stomach it I just don't think the writing is good.


I know how consequences work, I don't need a reddit post that dodges the literal main question to explain it to me. This guy doesn't focus on the consequences of rudeus at all when its the literal topic of discussion. I know the other characters face some type of consequence, whether indirectly or directly - but this post fails to mention rudeus.

@Kenzolo-folk Let's backtrack a bit, i explained you that Rudeus isn't a pedophile, you admitted that (which at that point the conversation should have ended) but continued to complain about the ecchi aspect, which the only thing i can tell you is that you can't handle it, don't watch ecchi shows if you can't handle ecchi.

@Cielord

If i can't handle ecchi? This isn't just any ecchi tho, this shit got children. Not even lolis, like straight up 9-10 year olds. Do you actually hear yourself lmfao. damn sorry for being so soft that I don't want to look at 9 year old panty shots and them undressing, thats my bad, i should stick to kids shows.

Then how can you "count" it? For example, Rudy had ED, which we could say is a bad thing. So by your logic a good thing should happen. If he kills someone and nothing bad happens to him, then it's a good thing, isn't it? How can you compare this stuff? So when can we say that next it should be a good or bad thing? Or how can you say that he didn't suffer enough in his previous life?
And even if you have a numarical was to compare stuff, e.g. raping or killing or torturing worse and how bad these are, it doesn't necessarily mean that the author has the same moral compass as you have.

@Kenzolo-folk Yes you are, also by definition they are lolis. They are fictional drawings not real people so i geniunely don't care.

@Cielord

If some dude said they watch yoai hentai you would probably think theyre gay as fuck. but suddently if someone watches pedo bait its "juSt fiction theyre not pedos". aight.

@Kenzolo-folk Not a pedo bait, tho. Firstly they are fictional drawings, secondly the (main) appeal of Mushoku Tensei is Rudeus character development.
Other appeals are the side characters, romance & worldbuilding, animation & music could also be count. Never heard a single person liking Mushoku cause of the ecchi stuff.

You can't handle ecchi and (falsely) believe lolicon is pedophillia so yea you obviously can't enjoy this show.

The thing you're missing would be the frontal lobe.

bro went in the anime already hating on it and expecting it to be " bad " and gets surprised that....he doesn't like it lol


also " this anime has pedophila and i dropped it because of that....... but know i returned to it!! "

these people are throwing the word around like it's nothing