Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu Part 2 Episode 7 Discussion

Despite how mundane the episode was in terms of plot movement and was a little sad with a character being cut of course with the first part of the episode focusing on the Dead End trio finally moving towards the Central Continent, this episode was actually a lot better than I expected and was a pretty great episode focusing on Roxy and her side of the story at the Demon Continent, and fleshed out her character and emotions more than even the light novel did for me. I did wish that she and her parents spoke in Demon God Tongue but since they were all speaking the same language together with no one else there with different languages to adjust to unlike when Rudeus was there, so you had clear distinctions between languages and the script had to be adjusted to take that into account, the emotions were clearly there and I've never seen crying and breakdowns look so raw and genuine with Roxy's stoic face, to shock, to her eyes subtly watering up and her trying to desparetly clear those out to a complete breakdown of tears and feelings after she recognized how much her parents cared for her despite her lack of telepathy from when she was young.

In a way, Roxy despite being an adult was a kid for all those years and I can relate to that in a way, since I viewed myself differently from the rest of my family given how I can't speak any Indian languages, wasn't raised in India at all unlike everyone and whenever I would go home, they would all speak in Hindi or Tamil while I just nod away while feeling alienated. During those vacations, I always wanted to run away home and never saw anyone eye to eye. Hell, I'm in Canada now and I'm still very distant with most of my family except my parents, who I was even distant with a year ago for many, many months without even texting them how I'm doing during a global pandemic. It took my parents flying all the way from UAE to Canada to surprise me and have real talks with me, try to open me up from my shell besides my comfort zone here and I had similar feelings to with Roxy as well as my own parents. Despite not much being said or done, it felt so powerful and entrancing to watch. The voice acting and visuals really did this justice for that ordeal.

Also enjoyed her conversation with Nokopara too and catching up, fleshes out both of their characters a lot more and its nice seeing Roxy's past in a way with her comrade. Shame that the others are gone now, particularly Blaze who went out at the end of the first part.

As a LN reader, some changes are what they are and I could be upset, but the episode felt so organic and raw, and felt so real with dialogue being limited but powerful, that it all connected with me really well. This was a great episode, even if it wasn't the most integral one to the overall story. Roxy I always felt deserved more characterization and while this was there in the LNs too, the anime made me connect with this a lot more. Well done Bind. It ain't a 1:1 episode as a whole, particularly with the start, but this was still magnificent stuff. More to why I love both medium experiences separately and even more together. Extremely looking forward to those final 5 episodes.