Mushoku Tensei II: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu Part 2 Episode 10 Discussion

@Akaseaka Here's what happens in the novel,

RIP Paul
Not to be disrespectful, but he traded his life for a vegetable

@V1P3R0P Yeah it didn't happen when he thought they won, that's not what I'm talking about. Now that you mention the tail though I see that Talhand had to protect Roxy from the tail, while Elinalise is jumping over it to avoid it.
Just the way I see it though that shouldn't be enough for Rudy to lose sight/awareness of the last head. I mean there is only one of them now. Just thinking he should be able to dodge or par it with magic or something if he just paid a bit more attention and then everything ends well.
And that's all if he didn't have the eye to see few seconds forward in time. Where was that? I mean with that he for sure would have seen the attack coming, no?

Some people need to realize that just because you notice the cgi, does not mean it’s bad cgi. It was actually really fucking good cgi.

Anyways phenomenal episode and most likely already locked as my episode of the year

Uh...damn.

So, now the real question becomes...was this the "regret" the Man God spoke of (dad dead, arm gone, mom brain damaged), or does it get even worse?

On a non-plot level, huge kudos for including Rudy's ability to see the future, which I've felt has been massively underused considering what a god-tier (literally) ability it is, plus realistically using the necks as weapons even after the heads were removed as well as having the hydra try and remove the cauterized portion to allow regrowth. Someone really thought through many of the plot holes (and filled them) which other animes would have ignored.

do we now till this point (no manga spoilers please) why zenith was trapped in that crystal? was that just the dragons ability to absord magic of some sort or it was something else thats gonna be explained in the future? (if it is just say yes)

@Juukaliz Funny thing is it wasn't a tail that tried to hit Roxy - it was a neck with severed head.Rudy failed to realise that even without the head hydra could still do damage with its necks and that ultimately lead to what you saw.
Here how it was described in LN :

It was then, just as I was using my magic to cauterize the second to last
stump, that the hydra’s body trembled. I didn’t know what that movement
meant. I could see it with my Eye of Foresight, but I didn’t understand it. The
creature was too big.

“You moron!”

“Wait—!”

Before I realized what was happening, Paul had slammed me out of the
way. Something enormous came crashing down right in front of my eyes.

But…it didn’t have a head anymore?

No—there was no head, but it did still have a neck.

The hydra was slinging its headless necks around like spiked whips—
all eight of them! Every one of them was coated in tough scales that could
shred flesh like a cheese grater. It whipped those necks around all at once,
mowing down anything in the vicinity.

“Ruuudyyyyy!” Paul screamed, driving his foot into me to kick me out
of the way.

@Peenutz The fact that there is a lack of much CGI discourse about the episode with a lot of praise still going towards the animation explains how great the staff involved executed the CGI hydra shots and the hydra in general by mixing it with a lot of 2D shots too that look excellent.

RIP Paul
Not to be disrespectful, but he traded his life for a vegetable

Btw why does Rudy still use incantations sometimes? Does it make it less mentally taxing to cast?
The animation during the fight is beautiful
WAIT WHAT WHY NOOOOO
Literally got goosebumps when they showed half of Paul's body laying like that
And that ending... Did Zenith really just lose all of her memories? Like, literally everything? Dear god T_T
Happy father's day everyone

@MangagnaM I have to respectfully disagree with you here about while it's true that all those mentioned are S-rank adventures aside from Roxy the likes of Paul, Elinalise and Talhand are actually not frontrunners in their respective professions. Paul is only Advanced class in all the sword styles, while for example Eris & Ghislaine are both Sword Kings in the Sword God style - Eris also outclasses him in North God style as a North Saint, Paul has versatility over them as an Advanced user in Water God style though. Elinalise did her job just fine as a Tank roll but Talhand was completely useless and only serves to show that the party dynamic was bad overall and goes to show how balance is really needed. So to clarify below

Tank class - Elinalise

Physical Attacker - Paul

Mid-range mage - Talhand

Long-range mage - Roxy, Rudy.

This is a bad dynamic of 'too much magic' in a team and it's very clear that there needs to be at minimum 2 capable attackers. It's a real shame because if either Ghislaine OR Eris had been present then fighting that hydra would have become a cakewalk, but because they were stuck with only 1 capable attacker we got this kind of result when faced against an enemy with a strong magic resistance. For a group of S-rank adventurers you'd think they'd notice the party dynamic wasn't optimal for facing an S-rank dungeon. On top of that Rudy was an otaku that played tons of video games, anyone with any type of fantasy RPG experience or had played any MMORPG knows at minimum to tackle instances you need a minimum of 1-tank 1-healer and 3 DPS.

And in fitting fashion, bots are back to ruin the score of the most important ep of this season. Wonderful... what a shame that this happens constantly.

I cant get over how they didnt use any ost in that last Paul scene. I know quiet can sometimes be better choice than any music, but it just wasnt the case here. It just felt lazy to have such big scene and no music whatsoever. Imagine this scene with something like "Requiem of silence". Would have been significantly better.

RIP to Paul, he may not have been the best dad, but he sure did try his best to be it.
I hope the person who decided to air this episode on fathers day will step into water everytime they walk with socks on.

The thing that saddens me the most is how Norn will feel about this. Her father is dead, her mother is mentally dead and her brother got crippled because she told him to go and save her mother. The great depression will hit her big when she gets the news.

@IzanaSolos You know what the really sick part of that delay is? It's not even Fathers day in Japan when the episode released. They did that purely to fuck with the international audiences.