Mushoku Tensei is a fantasy world that wants you to believe that there is a lot going on, but actually there is not. There is indeed a huge amount of scenarios , characters, skills and magic displayed on the screen. A whole lot of tools, for a whole lot of nothing.
Imagine creating a world full of villages, deserts, forests and every other place that would fit in this kind of world, where animals, humans, beast humans, devil humans, God and a package of creatures live just to waste it with a tremendous useless main character journey?
Rudeus Greyrat is probably some of the most stupid main characters in animes that i ever seen. This idiot here, is a reincarnation of another 30 YEARS OLD idiot, that used to be bullied in our world and because of that he lived the rest of his life doing nothing, just to reincarnate here as a talented young mage for no reason at all, just to be the exactly same loser that he was before.
Does not matter if you have the power or not, you’ll be a loser anyways, because it is not your outside that defines you but your inside.
So a plot that was supposed to be about this USELESS piece of garbage evolving as a person, becoming at least better, just gets stuck in the same repetitive loop of “im loser i can not do that”. It's a mister sad boy anthem that never stops.
The only time that plot shines, is where this peverted man - i don’t even want to start how atrocious is to a 30 year man having relationship with twelve years old kids just because he has now a body of 12 years old is - is where the other characters around him FLAME THE SOUL OF HIM, when they notice how STUPID he is.
But unfortunately, the plot tried to sell to you that he learned his lesson, just a few episodes later he proves that he is still a FAILURE as a human being in all aspects.
DOn’t get me wrong here, i’m not saying that he is a trash character because he cries, or he got bullied, or even because he gave up at some point, i’m stating that regardless of all that, this plot was supposed to get this man a comeback, or at least make him notice how stupid he is, but that does not happenes, and we get the vibes of “how poor he is, he deserved better” going on.
Also there is a lack of substantial problems in this plot, because they waste so much energy with the MC. Like there are no villains, there is no sense of problems getting solved, its a huge pile of themes that never finds the climax.
The art and the sound are amazing, I love the whole world and character customization. Pretty much you could tell a way more interesting story in this world, but they decided to follow the most unnecessary character possible.
What made this more tolerable to watch how the world flows around his crap trama, like his family, his father, his girlfriend, his teacher, his mom, i like most of them, i just feel very bad that they have a person like him in their life.
This anime is a strong disappointment, it is like having a whole lotta of money, just to waste it buying water from some streamer that took a shower with it instead of using the money to help people, or at least do something interesting.
