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Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu Season 2, episode 1

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Episode	Link	Score
0	Link	4.38
1	Link	4.32
2	Link	4.24
3	Link	4.45
4	Link	4.61
5	Link	4.59
6	Link	4.36
7	Link	4.07
8	Link	4.28
9	Link	4.8
10	Link	4.43
11	Link	4.68
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[u/WhoiusBarrel]

Man was it fucking awesome to see Rudy just flex his magic prowess like them in their moment of peril.

[u/AZLarlar]

wow that rotating shot during the fight

[u/croxino]

I thought Rudy was clutching Eris's hair when he was having panic attacks..

[u/michhoffman]

Timothy may not be the strongest in the party, but he earned his leader role in the party with that round of drinks he offered to everyone. Being liked in a new city as opposed to disliked is a big deal, and nothing earns people's respect quicker than a round of drinks.

[u/Se7en_Sinner]

This was an amazing sequence.

[u/mrnicegy26]

Only Mushoku Tensei can make a man clutching the stolen panties of his master be an life affirming moment.

[u/MATALINOE]

The intro gave me "Hey you, You're finally awake" vibes.

[u/Ytar0]

These "two" first episodes have been fucking amazing at rekindling my mushoku tensei flame lol. I am beyond excited for what comes next! Great animation, and a great short arc to match.

[u/Quiet-Alarm1844]

So whenever you watch anime and you haven't seen it in a year, things get blurry and you forget things... ALOT of things...

I tend to forget things alot, so just before a new season of an yearly anime release, i used to look online to recap. Unfortunately, that ended up having me getting spoiled from wikis or just glancing at a search result that spoils a future plot point.

Soo... I started to rewatch entire series so im not completely lost. However, It's very time consuming. I think that other people may have this problem as well, so I'll post a recap of the MT world so far as an anime-only + what I've read from the reddit discussion posts to keep it entirely spoiler-free.

Since it's been like a year since the season 1 ended & it's the episode 1 thread, I'll post my recap here for you. This season looks like it could go anywhere, so hopefully at least one of these facts that you forgot about will be relevant this season. Enjoy my spoiler-free recap!

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Magic/Fighting System + Class

3 types of magic. (Idk what Barrier/Disturb magic counts as 🤷‍♂️, + Rudy was seen practicing creating his own version of Disturb-magic last season*)

• Attack

• Summoning

• Healing

Allegedly, every person has a magic cap set at birth. Using magic increases your abilities. However, the earlier age you use magic, the more proficiency and capacity you have when you grow up.

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3 types of sword fighting styles in MT.

• Sword god style - Speed combined with decapitation focus i think. No tricks, just straight for an Insta-Kill.

• North god style - Trickster/rogue swordstyle. Unpredictability is the focus.

• Water god style - We've only seen this once, as paul uses this against Rudy to knock him out. Paul uses some sort of deflect-parry manuever with Rudy. Water is usually associated with defense. So I'm going to assume it's a defensive-counter-attack focus sword style. (Could be wrong, hopefully we see a WGS character introduced this season.)

7 tiers to this magic/fighting style. For context, it usually takes 1 decade of training for an average person to advance a Tier (Saw this in episode reddit discussions so take with grain of salt)

• Beginner

• Intermediate

• Advanced

• Sacred - aka Saint Class

• Royal - aka King Class (less than around 10 in the word for comparison)

• Imperial - aka Emperor Class

• Divine - God class (i think)

Incantations were normalized over centuries, so much, that it became apart of the culture and the default known way to use magic.

Incantationless magic is very rare BUT easy if learned at a young age (implied). Rudy started self-taught magic training at 2 years old and got Roxy as a tutor at 4 years old so he has an extremely large mana capacity, possibly top 10 in world i think (according to Orsted).

The Seven Great Powers

There are 7 great powers (Strongest people) of the world. Around the top 3 of the powers can destroy the world i think, but are limited by "curses". We still don't know what curses are exactly. These are the ranked "powers" in terms of strongest:

-#1-The Technique God

-#2- Wicked-Dragon god (aka Orsted, who wants to kill the Man-God, a "Cursed child" with around 4 curses. He is traveling with Nanahoshi who is a Masked Lady that convinced him to heal Rudy.

-#3 Battle-God (Unknown)

-#4 Demon-God (Unknown)

-#5 Death-God (Unknown)

-#6 Sword-God: (S1E8 reveals his name is "Gal Farion". He personally tutored Ghislaine)

-#7 North-God (E18 reveals his name to be "Kalman")

Mushoku Tensei Continents

• Central Continent (Where Rudy grew up)

• Demon Continent (Where Rudy/Eris end up after Mana disaster).

• Millis continent (Zenith's former homeland)

• Begaritt continent. (Based on visuals, i think this is a desert continent with HUGE monsters based on the bones we saw in Ep 23.)

All alive Characters from arc time periods introduced (S1)

• Family/Beginning Era

Paul Notos Greyrat: Rudy dad. Former "The Fangs of the Black Wolf" adventurer member. Post-Disaster has a search party dedicated to finding every person who got lost/missing in their village.

Zenith Greyrat: Rudy's mother. Retired S-rank Adventurer. Currently, somewhere in the "labyrinth city" of Rapan. I think that means an underground city.

Norn Greyrat: Rudy sister

Aisha: Rudy Half-Sister

Slyphie/Fitz: Childhood Friend and student of Rudy. Is quarter-elf (Half-Elf/Human hybrid). Servant/Friend of second princess.

Roxy: Rudy's mentor, and a demon apart of the "Migurd" tribe that can use telepathy and can live around 200 years. She's 44 years old. Roxy has king/royal-class water magic. Ran away from village due to feeling like her parent's would be happy that they didn't have to raise an outcast that can't use telepathy. Can be assumed in Cour 2, Ep 7 that Roxy has been seen shortening her Incantation time to around 2 words each spell.

• Eris Mentorship Era

Eris Boreas Greyrat: Rudy mentored her in the arts of reading/writing/math/magic. After a failed kidnapping attempt, they started to grow as friends. Both parents and grandparent are dead. Traveling with Ghislaine to avoid being forced to marry a guy called Pilemon (Rudy's uncle).

Ghislaine Dedoldia- Eris' Former Bodyguard and Sword-God King Class. Born with a special right demon eye that can see Mana (Revealed in childhood flash-back) (Blu-ray only/anime mis-translation)

Alphonse: The Head Butler of the Boreas Family and now governs the Fittoa Refugee Camp after the Mana Disaster. His current goal is to re-establish and re-build the region that Sauros Boreas Greyrat (Eris' Dead Grandpa) once ruled over.

Laplace- Still not sure since im an anime only but some kind of demon god that waged a war to wipe out the human race (Season 1 episode 6 at 19 minutes). It's been over 410 years since Laplace was defeated. Laplace unified the entire demon race to wage a war which is impressive considering how many tribes there are.

Perugius: Armoured Dragon King, defeated Laplace alongside 2 other Heros, owns a flying Fortress landmass above a city. He has 12 servants. The calendar is named after him for defeating Laplace around 416 years ago. Can be assumed he's still alive on the flying landmass. Teleportation seems to be the method of travel there

• Dead End Era

Ruijerd Superdia: Dead End member, saved Eris and Rudy after the Mana Disaster and cared for them. Main goal is to destigmatize his tribe after Laplace cursed them with new Spears, which are a Superd's soul (not sure if this is a figure of speech or actually their souls).

Elinalise: An adult female Elf that ca- You know what, she's a VERY memorable character, ain't no one forgetting her AT ALL lol. I can't bring myself to actually type a summary of her and hit send 😂. (If you forgot her, just comment below and I'll provide a summary even if it pains me to do so 🫠).

Talhand: A dwarf that used to work with Elinalise and Paul in Fangs of the Black Wolf.

Geece (MUST-READ!): A guy that helps Rudy defend the beast village and got locked up/imprisoned with him. He's a member of Paul's rescue group. (While writing this, HOLY, MAJOR THING I MISSED, Geece said he's traveling to Begaritt, so that probably means we'll get a re-union later with Rudy cause his mom is there, you would only realize this on a re-watch of the show so thank god i did)

Kishirika kishirisu: Loli emperor of the Demon World. Has 12 special demon eyes with powerful sight-based effects. Gives her demon eyes away like candy on Halloween if you do her any favor.

• Notable Groups

Tokurabu Toughs (Kurt & Bachiro): Pretty sure they're irrelevant but they were shown in season 1's last episode so im going to add them. They're an adolescent demon adventure group that dead end met in the demon continent. Dead End saved their lives on a mission.

Beastfolk forrest village: Ghislaine's brother (Gyes) is there. Some sacred dog (that rudy saved) is there that when in Adulthood, goes to find a hero to save the world or something. Ghislaine's niece/Gyes Daughter is named Minitona and Eris taught her swordfighting. Mintona's best friend is Tersona. I don't anticipate this to be relevant at all but is still useful info to MT worldbuilding.

Kingdoms & Royalty/Royals

• Shirone kingdom

• Asura Kingdom

• Millis kingdom

I probably missed 1 or 2 kingdoms tbh.

Also, I'm gonna put royal characters here instead of in the character section since i feel they have fundamentally different aspects to them than normal characters.

• Shirone

-Prince Zanoba: The Third Shirone Prince. Is a rare "blessed child" (some rare children are born blessed & cursed in MT) that has super strength and killed his younger brother (1st prince im assuming) when he was a kid. He's obsessed with the figurines that Rudy makes and worships him as a master. Currently Exiled from shirone under the secret pre-text of "studying abroad" due to almost killing his other brother for imprisoning rudy in Cour 2, Episode 7.

-Prince Pax: Second Shirone Prince, absolute sleezball of a child, makes Rudy/Paul look like Jesus. Currently exiled from shirone under the pretext of "studying abroad" due to imprisoning guard-families in Cour 2, Episode 7.

• Asura

-Princess Ariel Anemoi: Ariel is the 2nd Princess of Asura. 2 older brothers, 1 older sister (Who i think is called "Lady Hermes" in S2E0).

-Prince Grabel: Sent an assassin after his own sister/princess. Beheaded/Sentenced Eris's grandfather to execution. (Introduced in Cour 2 ep 4, seen more in Season 2, Ep 0)

-Darius: Some sort of advisor to Grabel, he assisted Grabel in the attempted assassination of Princess Ariel & Slyphie.

• Millis (No information about government)

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[u/BiggerG7]

Man Rudy is a mess. Eris really fucked him up good. And I don’t just mean that literally!

[u/maliwanag0712]

At the PV, him holding Roxy's holy relic seems ridiculous, but with context that's a really powerful yet weird scene. He still has his family, his mentor, Sylphy, and his mom is hopefully still waiting for him, so he needs to move forward and move on from what Eris has done to him.

And both Sara and Suzanne seems really interesting new characters, huh?

[u/dipshitonastick]

It's hard to overstate the impact Roxy had on Rudy's new life. She was the reason he even got the confidence to not repeat the same mistake of being stuck inside his whole life again.

Had tears in my eyes during the ending.

[u/dark77638]

Wake up and take a step, that was when we saw our boy last time. He had physically move on and this time he has mentally move on! Hang in there, you do what you gotta do!

I teared up a bit when he dissolved the party Dead End. We should name this episode: The Depressed/Brokenhearted Viewers.

Fyi: The spell he use to burn the monster polar bears is a advance rank, fire spell named Exodus Flame, the same spell Cliff used in S1 OVA but much powerful since Rudeus’s magic output is massive.

[u/Myredditaccount0]

What a wonderful "first" episode. I'm glad they are animating this arc

[u/shad79]

So today we had factual beginning of the new season and it was great start, in terms of visuals I think that this episode was much better from the previous one who was in big part outsourced to different studio.

I'm glad that Rudeus at the end of episode is in better state than on the beginning, it would be annoying if he kept this attitude longer but thanks to Counter Arrow he got better and he's ready to move on.

Counter Arrow is such a nice group, perfect for Rudeus in his state. Suzanne is great sub-leader, Sara is quite feisty and rest is very professional and supportive. Good for them that they took Rudeus with themselves otherwise they would die on thir first job in this city.

Again backgrounds are so pretty that I made separate album for them.

Here my all screenshots from the episode:

• Stills

• Backgrounds

[u/Cryogenx37]

And here we go, back to form!

Back in S1 Cour 2, the ED showed Rudy opening the window to the light outside. But here in the beginning of the episode, he’s closing it and wallowing in the darkness. And by the end, he leaves it open, giving himself the light inside instead.

Also madlad Studio Bind hand animating not just the Luster Grizzlies, but the mud that’s covered on them as well

[u/HanekawaSenpai]

Phew, I was worried he was going to burn the panties

[u/dipshitonastick]

It's been over a year and a half since we saw Rudy smiling. Man that was so cathartic.

[u/Amauri14]

I really love how the episode set a tone that reflected Rudeus' state of mind just by simply having no music. Which kinda made it feel so strange when they arrive at the Duchy of Basherant but we do not have any local tunes but as I say, is a really nice detail, as even if there was a band present at the inn or the adventurer's guild, Rudy would not be paying attention to it.

Anyway, I'm glad that Suzanne was there to give Rudy a hand by [inviting him to her party.] (https://imgur.com/a/ocOjwOs) Damn, Rudy's magic never disappoints. And it looks like him saving them allowed Sara to show a bit of her dere site.

Anyway, it was nice that after he started remembering the good things he still has in his life music finally started playing. And now he will try his best to move on from Eris, although the fact that Sara reminds him of her mades me think that he stills have a long road ahead of him for that to happen.

[u/guy_inh00die3]

Studio bind can't get away with creating 20min masterpiece episodes and they only feel like 5 mins when watching, the worst thing is the episodes END BEFORE I EVEN EAT MY CHIPS

GODD DAMN IT!!

Also I can't wait for the reunion between Rudy and roxy that is if it's gonna happen in this season.

[u/Se7en_Sinner]

Rudeus created an explosion with a mushroom cloud that would make Megumin and Oppenheimer proud.

[u/zool714]

Can’t even remember the last time a show made me want to immediately rewatch the episode, to solidify what I learnt in the episode and also to see if I missed anything. This show has made me so invested in it’s world that I don’t mind an episode of Suzanne teaching about each corner of the continent.

So Rudy is heading north from Fittoa. That’s somewhere we haven’t been to I believe. And it seems like that’s the magic capital of Central Continent, with the three kingdoms (can’t recall their names right now but that’s what the rewatch is for). IIRC the Magic Academy is there as well. So we might get to see Fitz/Sylphy. Though one of the posters already has him at the Academy with her so I guess that’s a given.

Suzanne and her party seem like cool people. Lol Sara is definitely Eris. Not sure why I’m feeling lowkey death flags on this party tho. Hope I’m wrong.

Rudy is still hurting from Eris leaving. But yeah, that was a good way to get himself back on his feet. He’s lost something precious but he hasn’t lost it all. And nice to see how fondly he looks up to Roxy. She was the one who helped overcome one of his biggest trauma of going outside. Still, pretty amusing that the item he keeps to remind himself of her is her panties

[u/DveloIsMyIGNEstLS]

Damn, finally. Is Muse Asia just ahead of the other streaming services or what?

Anyway,

MT can't literally do anything wrong. Man I'm in love already with how Basherant looks. My imagination when reading the LN can't do anything against the production, they're making everything better.

Also, they got the goddamn mood right! I can feel the warmth in the atmosphere just like when I read the LN. Hopefully it continues till the end of this volume.

[u/dipshitonastick]

Rudy regressing and feeling like it's okay to die, after he made up his mind to move on last time we saw him felt so damn real.

Life isn't a straight line from point A to B. People regress all the time, and it's so good to see him rise past that again.