r/MidshokuTrash

I recently watched the first two seasons of Mushoku Tensei and I found myself, to quote Tolkien, disliking it with some intensity. The show constantly treats Rudeus' creepy behavoir as a joke. Rudeus never faces any lasting consequences for his creepy behavoir. At some points, it's even treated as an endearing character trait. The show has a constant need to pander to the audience in a disgusting way and it really got on my nerves after a while.

Aside from that, it had a very cookie cutter medieval fantasy world with a boring elemental magic system. Any challenge that the characters face seems to be solved with relative ease and without much effort. (eg. They walk away from the Dragon god encounter basically unharmed making the moment lose any and all impact. The man god is also used as a convenient plot device to give the character just enough information for the plot to continue.)

Other than the music, animation and production value, I really don't see what's so great about this show.

I genuinely don’t understand Mushoku Tensei and I want to understand.

I found out about Mushoku tensei from all the controversy surrounding Rudeus’ pre reincarnation life. However there seemed to be comments talking about how “people just don’t get it” or “the character development bro”.

So I decided fuck it I’m gonna watch it, i like flawed characters and character development. Sounds like it could be a good story.

When I first watched the opening scene with a degenerate man getting reincarnated I initially thought the story was setting up for more of a focus on Rudeus’ degenerate behavior. However as I kept watching I realized Redeus’ past life wasn’t entirely that relevant to the plot.

Rudeus was a degenerate man, who gets gifted the power to be… more degenerate?

What exactly is the theme here?

I watched a old guy who watches CP and he gets reincarnated, has incredible magic powers, and has sex with little girls.

I can’t really understand Rudeus’ struggles because he basically just got everything he wanted in life. He’s put into a new world and has the power to do more than what others can.

I feel like the story tries very hard to make Rudeus out to be a developing character, when really he’s just the standard power fantasy Isekai MC.

Anyways I’d like to know if there’s some context I may be missing here?

Meanwhile

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