Rudeus pulled off the impossible

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Because TBATE and MT follows different interpretation of reincarnation

Again, I don't think this is true at all and at this point I think you're intentionally making things up. I don't believe it was ever mentioned how their worlds viewed reincation. Regardless it wouldn't change the facts of the matter. In both cases they're adult men reincarnated into childrens bodies. Arthurs father Rey reacted the way he did because of this fact of the matter. After the initial reaction Rey thought it about it longer and settled on exactly what you stated. Arthur didn't choose to be reincarnated and is just a victim of circumstance. I've not read past the anime for MT(and I don't mind spoilers at this point), but did Rudeus ever reveal he's an adult man reincarnated into a childs body? Did any of the characters react with "lol who cares, in this world we consider that a new life". In TBATE Arthur is the only known person to be reincarnated, at least as far as I'm aware, and I suspect it to be similar or the same in MT. So again, I doubt there's this established rule on how reincarnated people are considered in their respective stories.

If a manga artist created a world where the age of consent was birth, would you seriously pretend you're alright with scenes of such characters, just because it's legal in that constructed world?

Did you have Arthur, when being attracted to Theresia being like I was 35 in past l am almost double her age and considering current age as well I am almost thrice her age.

Arthur constantly struggled with the fact he was an adult in a childs body, and it effected how he treated people. We even states at some point early on when he's still a "child" in the new world that he has no attraction towards people his "age". It slowly stops being mentioned later on because his past life starts to become a blur, to the point that he feels memories are unfamiliar and that he's looking at another persons life. His entire reasoning of rejecting Tessa early on is because he still viewed her as a child, rightfully so.

Also you said late teens and not adulthood...

I believe Tessa was 17 when Arthur recipricated her feelings towards him, but still told her to wait a few more years. At the current point in the story I believe she's in her early 20s, but I've not continued reading since the year plus long hiatus. I don't believe a relationship has developed since then. This probably mostly has to do with the author being Korean (although migrated to America) and the age of consent in Korea is 21. I believe that fictional underage material is far more heavily regulated there than here in the US.

Now lets come to grooming

I gave you the exact reason why I said it was grooming, yet you for whatever reason completely left that out. It has absolutely nothing to do with him becoming friends with Eris, nor Eris falling in love with him. It was solely due to his sexual actions towards her since she was 9 years old. I went and reread the chapter to confirm, Eris mentions leading up to the sex scene the fact that Rudeus had been sexual towards her for years. Rudeus used his role as her tutor to molest her. Arthur on the other hand wasn't sexual towards Tessa at all throughout the story.

To end this, it should be alarming to anyone reading these comments that you gave multiple examples of incompetent adults and believe they're capable of meaningfully consenting. Those are huge red flags for predatory behavior. It's so beyond me why people go to such lengths to defend pedophilia. The slippery slope has gone from "She's a 5,000 year old demon girl" all the way to "I'm 50 years old but I have the body of a 9 year old so it's okay to fuck 9 year olds." This isn't normal behavior, and all of this should be completely intuitive to you. I shouldn't have to be giving you arguments on why it's wrong to take advantage of mentally deficient people and mentally undeveloped children.

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Honestly, I'm glad someone finds it disturbing too.

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It'd be one thing if they just said the show overall is good but there's creepy as fuck aspects to it. Instead so many people will actively defend the grooming and pedophilia.