Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Discussion

So Ginger went back to Zanoba. She really is loyal to him. It will be good for Julie to have her around.

That convo about Eris...

I keep hoping Rudy will teach Aisha some magic. If he wants to give her more options in her life that would be a great way to do it. I wish he'd tried to teach her when they first met. If she'd picked it up she could be casting without incantations by now for sure. She may be too old to pick that up at this point though.

Really wish these episodes were full length. Seriously though one of the only things worth watching this season.
Why doesn't anyone consider maybe Norn misses her mom? Pretty rough to be that young and separated from your mother. As for Aisha isn't getting good grades an incentive to further your education? Also doesn't her mom want her to acheive something more than being a maid? Something she kind of had no other choice to be. Kind of sad for her to be so young and already relegated to such a life.

I feel a little bad for Norn but honestly not that much.

Their dad deserved to get a beating back then and the situation she's in now is completely her own making.

She was like 4 or 5 at the time though and had no idea why he deserved it. Being shipped off to love with someone she doesn't know has to be pretty tough too. She might not have any friends because of Rudy's reputation too, or because of what Pursena and Linia are doing.

I mean, she's basically becoming what Rudy was in his old life in Japan, what he almost became again after Eris abandoned him.

There's at least one other Greyrat there.

Norn's shaped by growing up with her father (who was going kind of bonkers without Rudy's mom). The dad's obsessed with the mom and dragging Norn around with him on adventures. He was the only stability for years and it wasn't that stable. Now she doesn't have him either.

Aisha was with her mom the whole time. Subject to some trauma, but her life was still fairly stable in comparison. They were just in that one town serving a noble I think.

Even with the father Norn was like a mother surrogate and treated as a precious object. While also being compared against Rudy by default since the father currently has a super high opinion of Rudy and tells himself Rudy is fine without him.

So she can't compare to Rudy, only really remembers them fighting, and now feels abandoned.

And she's had no schooling of note to this point, and jumped right in to living alone in a dorm surrounded by strangers. Keeping her commuting would have been smarter.

@marklebid I understand all that, which is why i said i feel a little bad for her. However every action she has taken only makes her suffering worse. Rudy has been nothing but nice to her, yet she runs away and subjects herself to loneliness on purpose. I know she's just a child, but these are still her own choices.

While I agree with a lot of what you said I do think she was going to school while they were living in Millis. She also had those two girls--the chainmail bikini girl and her sister--that were helping look after her while she was with Paul. So she's lost all that and now the people around her that she's supposed to rely on is a sister that she doesn't get along with and an uncle that frightens her.

True, but you can't blame her for that.
The kids in her classes probably know her last name so at the very least they might suspect she's related to Rudy. Especially with how much they look alike. And kids tend to leap to whatever conclusion is the most dramatic. The beast girls probably pay no attention to who and what's going on with the younger kids at the school.

Brother

Must be hard trying to maintain hatred of a person who everyone around you praises. Everything is pointing to you being wrong, but you keep denying it.

Well on the hand that seemed like an oversimplified resolution to a problem that literally ruined his old life but on the other hand I am glad they are not going to spend the rest of the season concentrating on it and trying to resolve it slowly. Rudy's look of despair when he realized he was problem, well done.

So Rudy's shitty dad is going to make him a shitty dad?

It doesn't sound like I am missing much.

@runec Geese sent the letter, not Paul.

Well was expecting this (the OP kinda spoiled this entire episode), the Advice guy is annoying though, wonder what the point of him is other than to give a little preview of what's to come. Sounds like things are going to start to suck. Couldn't he just hire some people to go help his parents? Why not ask Rujierd? I really expected him to go help find his mom sooner, it seems like this whole thing with him at the school and reconnecting with Sylphie and the quick marriage and pregnancy, his sisters was just to set up a difficult decision about going to help save his mom, something he should have done before all of that.

Was that episode even 5 minutes long?

Nice. Glad they didn't leave the end as a cliffhanger until next week. Though I have to wonder if things go that quickly downhill for someone with her skills, how could Zenith still be alive on an even more dangerous level? Wonder how long it was going to take him to say hi (or anything) to Lilia, is she stiil just a maid at this point. I mean do adventurers really bring maids along? She can fight right? Weird. Death flags ALL over this episode, sheesh. Also sounds like Paul is somehow responsible for Elinaelise's curse.

With regards to the Man God and his advice, Roxy would definitely be dead if Rudeus had taken it. This mirrors a similar situation where he followed the advice and ended up missing her in the Demon Continent. Not sure why he's keeping them apart, and now trying to let her die. But Man God at this point cannot be trusted. I do wonder what he'll regret by saving Roxy and Zenith though.

So I'm guessing that Rudy knew where Roxy was because he sensed her magic. If anyone could do that it would be him since a lot of the way he casts spells is by feel.