u/Former-Amish-Throway

Probably the most infamous example of a liar paradox is

What if Pinocchio (whose nose grows whenever he says a lie) said

"My nose will now grow."

If that statement is a lie, then his nose should grow, but of his nose grows, his statement was true and therefore his nose won't grow.

There are other examples of liar paradoxes.

So if Others and Practitioners are bound to be gain said/forsworn even just for saying statements that happen to not be/become true then how would the spirits resolve such paradoxes?

I'm wondering if there are ways to game the system. People exploit computer logic all the time by taking advantage of paradoxes that naturally result from mechanisms.

And Practice in the Otherverse is basically just an omnipresent Turing complete computer.

So could someone hypothetically build a Practice that's fundamentally incapable of being challenged by gain saying/forswearing?

I really like how MT handles issues of identity and society. It's something I considered elaborating on after I finished the first season but I decided to continue onward and see how things develop.

It's a story about overcoming the darkness within, about forging a new purpose for yourself, about the connections we form and how they support us.

The idea of a very adult man getting put into the body of a child is definitely a bit weird and I can see how it'd make people uncomfortable in general even disregarding this particular MC's pre reincarnation flaws.

But aside from the fact that a fictional premise doesn't necessarily need to hold up to morality, it's clear that there's some self awareness about the nature of that premise and more importantly willingness to use it for character growth.

Yeah Rudy uses it to be overpowered, I know very little about isekai so I'm not sure how MT's system compares in OPness to other isekai where the reincarnation starts that young.

And really maybe being OP is a good thing considering the whole idea is having a better start in life. It's not like there still aren't challenges for Rudy. It's not like he doesn't have to struggle and adapt as he meets more people and his ambitions expand.

Before I started watching this show I saw many things online about how the show portrays women poorly or is a male fantasy, stuff like that. That no one should watch it unless they're a woman hater or whatever.

But as far as I can tell neither of those things are true. Sylphie, Roxy, and Eris all are pretty distinctly characterized and independently ambitious outside of anyone else.

I found myself liking them all in their own way especially as they had their own character arcs. And again they learn and change and excel outside of Rudy.

If I had to pick a favorite I'd pick Roxy. The nature of her people and her personality compliments Rudy's own arc. I relate to Roxy the most outside of Rudy.

Her social awkwardness, her introversion, her sort of stagnant maturity it puts up a mirror up to the whole premise.

And to address the elephant in the room yes she came onto Rudy and he didn't exactly rebuff her advances in his depressive state.

I've seen it mentioned before that the anime version downplays how depressed Rudy was and that the original light novel makes Roxy's decision more understandable.

But just based on the anime I think it made a lot of sense for BOTH their characters and for Rudy's development as a whole. It's the kind of frank discomfort MT is willing to depict and explore deeply.

Rudy has a troubled relationship with his desires. Many men can sympathize, including myself. The mating instinct goes deep and it's a lot easier to say to resist that beast than to actually be able to resist that's animalistic tugging.

Roxy has difficulty connecting with others and Rudy has difficulty managing his feelings. The chemistry they have is built on this mutual understanding and it makes sense that Roxy might resort to sex as a means of pulling him back off the precipice of his worst habits.

And it makes sense that Sylphie could understand how this could happen and it's weird that people act like she was obligated to go on some kind of rampage. Her reaction was definitely a bit unusual by the standards of what we'd consider realistic marriage but it makes a ton of sense considering who she already married.

She didn't forget that Rudy was only human and also even pretty high libido by human man standards. She accepts that about him and also doesn't hold any envy of other people that had been in his life roughly as long as she has.

It's not like Rudy just had sex with a random woman on a whim, he did it with someone he already had known since he was a boy. Even aside from the fact that he was in a desperate place it's very natural.

It seems like the haters of this show either can't handle a consistently flawed character being the focus or they can't understand what it's like to be a man.

Let me know your thoughts. I really like this anime and look forward to starting Season 3.

I don't really have much other experience with isekai aside from a few episodes of KonoSuba but I'd heard this show was particularly detailed and good.

A bit late to the party I know. I'd been meaning to watch MTJI for a long time but never got around to it. I was also deterred by how polarized the discourse surrounding the franchise is.

It's definitely willing to marinate in the darkest parts of the human condition, the slow climb to achieving pure nobility of character. I sympathize a lot with Rudy as someone who had to restart their life in a less literal sense.

Anyway, just wanted to share.