Nah I'm convinced This is written by a 5yo

WartarcJunior said:

i completley agree man, the idea of the shownisnt horrid in nature, a pedophile who is just a bad person getting a second chance to start over and be better is neat on paper. The issue for me is execution, he gets rewarded with the very thing he seeks, being women of child age, over and over but we have yet to see true change. Yes, therw has been change he is diff from ep1 to now, but he still ends up having sex with eris... why reward him with what he wants? if we as an audience are supposed to see him as bad and becoming good giving him what he wants is a poor way to do it.

Personally, i think if they wanted depressed rudeas arc in season 2 they couldve done the same thing with eris leaving him except for a diff reason. Maybe he tried to hit on her but she gets upset about this because shes mourning her family at the moment. Then he wakes up to her gone saying she needs space from him and time to think. She can still care for him in this timeline just doesnt give the "bad person" what they want. That way season 2 starts with rudeas reflecting on what hes done. He may actually realize huh i shouldnt use women for theif bodies.

Idk i feel that would be better personally.

SentiOnikawa said:
It's like you only watched the first cour of season 1 and then skipped to the end of that season. Rudeus makes a huge leap from a child pervert and predating Eris to becoming a genuinely decent person. He helps change the reputation of an entire race, saves the children of another race from slavery, and goes about doing a ton of good things without asking for a reward. He educates Eris and only makes figures of other people who he admire. There is a genuinely decent person there who now feels abandoned by the two people he had pretty much come to rely on. The difference here is, he now has both the confidence and resolve to keep going despite.

Also, when did Rudeus get rewarded for his behaviour ever? You could do a compilation of every time the world punished him for even a slight misstep. The bath scene with Sylvy? Paul came down on him and he had to apologize. The stuff with Roxy? She very clear didn't appreciate his perversion and seemed reluctant to teach him at times. With the maid, that relationship was screwed by day one and he had to work hard to rebuild it. Eris turned his family jewels into mashed potatoes by the time they were into adolescence. The village with the beast-people imprisoned him and took away his clothes as a form of shaming him due to a misunderstanding, albeit one he didn't exactly make a good argument for himself over.

Your proposed concept is just trash and runs against how the characters have developed thus far. Rudeus by this point is mature enough not to casually insert his old habits into a situation anymore. He legitimately cares for Eris and wants to look out for her. In turn, Eris felt inadequate beside him because he was always protecting her and was just better at handling most situations than she was. By the fortune of having at least lived long enough to gain experience and then some, Rudeus was incidentally a better "adult" than Eris and it very clearly affected her. Couple that with the fact that she had just lost everything and she's clearly depressed and struggling to deal with herself and meanwhile here is Rudeus basically shouldering everything on her behalf. She slept with him because a) she, too, has come to care for him and, b) she wanted to become an adult and this was the first step in her mind.

When sleeping with Rudeus didn't change anything for her, she likely felt that until she could stand as his equal in all things, she needed to forge her own way. She needs experience, and she is aware of this, however subconscious that awareness is. Rudeus, on the other hand, felt abandoned first by what was basically a mentor and good friend, and then by a girl he loves. In his eyes, he failed as a person once again. Him being depressed makes sense. He doesn't need some terribly-conceived, barely competent contrivance that contradicts his character development to make this arc make sense. Your lack of media literacy is not the fault of the author.

WartarcJunior said:
To the second half of the argument I never disagreed on Eris I actually agree, I always liked Eris and I liked the idea of her splitting because she was tired of him protecting her. I even enjoyed a lot of what happens with Paul specifically when dealing with Rudeus. I thought I mentioned it in my original post, but I do recognize he does change form beginning to where we are now. however, the biggest issue I have is the end of season 1. I do not disregard what had happened to that point and I even can appreciate it. The thing that completely threw off the new season and where it is heading for me is the sex scene. I just do not think it was necessary even one bit. Personally it appeared to be a reward for him progressing but the reward was the exact thing that he should have been changing on from the beginning. The show presents Eris leaving as a negative to Rudeus so we see him hurt after but it does not present the event of the sex itself as a bad thing. We even see rudeus all proud of himself after when all I could think was "wow that almost 40 year old fucked a child" like I just couldn't get passed it. Then season 2 starts this way and I simply do not feel bad. Hes sad because this girl left him and I am kind of happy she did. There is 100% things within the show that I truly enjoy as I stated most content with Paul and Eris specifically, I just do not feel that where the show is currently at, especially the newest episode, is heading in a good direction at all. 

SentiOnikawa said:
There wasn't a sex scene, though? There was a setup and it's obvious where that led, but they never showed child titties or a shadow, or had Eris moaning over a still of something innocuous. It showed them getting into it, then cut to the morning after. Also, it shows us that Eris feels comfortable enough with Rudeus to make him her first, that this is her choice, and that she feels this is something she needs to do. Is sex necessarily the most effective way to convey these things? I would argue that yes, given the context, it makes sense why it happened.

I don't get this concerning fixation you and other people like you have with Rudeus's age in his past life or the fact that he retains his memories from that point. He was relentlessly bullied and became a hermit who was also a piece of crap. He got visited by Truck-kun and reincarnated with his memories intact. For all intents and purposes, your whine (and yes, it's a whine) is that he has the mind of an adult which, as the show very much indicates is the furthest thing from the truth. Rudeus acts incredibly immature and incredibly inappropriate and the story makes it very clear that nobody is tolerating his crap, child or not. He learns very quickly to either be clever or grow up really damn quick. He chose the latter with a pinch of the former.

I think if you're thinking about adults sleeping with children, that's not a fault of the show. If he didn't retain the memories of his past life, the premise wouldn't make sense. You say he's 40, but how? He acts more like a horny teenager with serious restraint issues and is such a socially-inept individual due to the traumas of his past life. I would say mentally he's the furthest thing from someone who was nearly 40 in his past life that you could be mistaken for believing he died before he even graduated high school, not that that makes his fixation for Eris any better. He clearly lacks the moral aptitude to determine that his behavior is not always appropriate or tolerable. It's only when he matures over time that he starts to consider his actions more thoroughly, although he's still making some very silly mistakes (like his rant to Soldat while Sara was behind him in the most recent episode) that most of us have made at one point or another in our youth.

I never considered Rudeus to be an adult after his death. He's very clearly still lacking both the maturity and morality of an adult, and only through his experiences in this world has he even begun his journey into becoming one. Being an adult physically does not preclude that someone has the maturity or wisdom to present as an adult. Hell, a term of mockery "man-child" is often used to describe people like Rudeus largely because they lack the ability to handle themselves appropriately in a given situation.

I think the writing is great, as do others. Your issue is what? Rudeus has depression? Sara, after having her life saved and seeing Rudeus is both kind and reliable, can see a relationship with him? That Rudeus's reaction to his depression causing him to have erectile dysfunction (and yes, depression can actually cause ED), his reaction was misinterpreted by Sara as him finding her unappealing? That he became a loudmouth after a night of drinking and tried to kill himself not due to a physiological issue, but because despite his best efforts, it felt like he was constantly having crap piled on? His behavior, again, isn't how an adult would handle things. Being unable to get hard, drinking all night, and then being a loud-mouth in public isn't the norm for adults. It's how people who have unresolved issues and/or are still too young to handle themselves properly behave. Rudeus very clearly fits into the latter camp.

probjodye said:

chill bro,drink a glass of cold water,drop this and watch dora the explorer instead ez

Scp-4666 said:
Bro is speaking fact.
I 💯% agree with you, bro.
Trashiest anime in the universe.

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