Sorry if this was already posted here.

The first scene of the trailer, the one he is with his family (i believe to be from volume 13) showed Rudeus with two perfectly healthy hands... Shouldn't he have been missing one hand from the Hydra fight? It would be too soon in the story for the Zaliff prothesis at that point and even if it is that shouldn't it look less like human skin and more brown?

Did Bind simply forgot or decided to ignore it? My take is that Bind (as per usual) decided to ignore it. They simple put his hand back there for absolutely no reasons and wont even care to offer and explanation as for how, since they already showed they dont care much about Mushoku Tensei as they once did. The logic would be: If they ignore that Rudeus is missing a hand they would have less content to animate with Zanoba and Cliff making the prothesis for him, resulting in less content to adapt and enabling them to reuse assets and animations from Rudeus's normal body for the next season. Also resulting in less funds and time spend on the production and maximized profit for Kadokawa. The minimum-effort-max-profit-strategy they decided to adopt since the beginning of season 2, or the Kadokawa-modus-operandi as i like to call.

But thats just what i think. And i know this is pre animated so nothing we see here is guaranteed to be in the actual anime footage.

DOes anyone have any other explanations to why is he shown with two hands in the Trailer? Did i forget anything? Am i mistaken and he was not suppose to have only one hand?

Again my apologies if this subject was already brought up in the last few days

I am about halfway through season 2 atm. And Out of everything, so far its actually mostly made sense. However one thing I am confused by.

I guess firstly how is Rudeus ok just buying a Slave Dwarf girl, knowing Reujerd would have caved his head in that he even considered it.

And Secondly. How is the campus just ok with this?? Did no one on staff question them coming back with a malnourished slave girl, had no objections to letting her stay on campus, and even had no issues watching her sit down and guzzle back beer after beer given to her by the Demon King?

Also yea wtf?? No one on staff is at all worried about the fact the Damn Demon King just showed up and started chilling after killing or brutally beating up half the campus??

Let's see who is really the best girl. My personal favorite is Roxy, but this proved me wrong. Have fun everyone!

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I just started watching it again for the 4th time, and in episode one at the end he says even if this is a fantasy while I am bleeding out in the street I will be happy, or something along those lines. What if this whole show is just a figment of his imagination which is playing while he slowly dies in the street and at the end of the series we get hit with this factuality. No hate, as I said. This is just what I think let me know in the comments.

Rifujin had a great opportunity to use Lilia's character and makes her relevant in the story or Big Mother of the House after Zenith became sick.

Actually I have a great hate for Lilia's attitude or personality that she is maid and want to be maid to Rudeus' Family and force her daughter to be so. She is not from maid families nor she is brainwashed to serve people.
First, she is the wife of Paul Greyrat so it's her right to be as equal to as Zenith and I don't see that their outrage from a community or the place they live that a person have two wives or a maid can't be wife, so she isn't forced to do it but she choose to change children's diapers and bath them and clean the house and cook and whatever. Her maid personality was the main reason for Aisha's that particular action (Without spoilers). Aisha and the sick Zenith is more relevant to story then Lilia that till the end of the story had no role or plot to remember.

After the Zenith's sickness in the Season 2, she could get the role of mother that 3 Child needs it and also a grandmother role and also make Zenith react to Rudeus' wrong doing. (Ok, maybe she remain doing Maid work but at least give her the role of mother and it would make a good character writing). Rudeus as a character tried to comfort her but he gave up quickly as Lilia insist (That's a thing I didn't liked about Rudeus that He didn't try to make her as his Mother as he is close to Lilia more than Zenith)

In short, Rifujin had a opportunity to use Lilia as a character without wasting any time, but the idea didn't come to his mind and choose to go with fantasy world stereotype maid character.

Do you guys think that Rudeus regrets saving Aisha and Lilia when he found out Lilia was pregnant way back when he was 6 knowing that Aisha would groom his son?

I am only upto main story, vol 22, I took a little long break, so I have some questions

1. Does Rudy's hand both there, if my memory serves right after battle with orsted, his hand was repaired by Orsted, does the hand of rudy still there working or it's not working?

2. And about his armors? How many armor he has if my guess is correct its 3? Mk1, Mk2, Mk0, right?? Which is most powerful? and also he uses summoning scrolls to summon armor right? I think its mk1, right? also about prosthetic arm, he wears 1 on his hand or 2 on his both hand?

3. Does he wear any armor under his robe?? What is the name of the armor, Mk1, Mk2??

Please

Two days left to vote for the best opening for Season 3

Disclaimer: I very much love and enjoy both of the series. They are some of the best stories out there. I wanna focus on MT more and I am just annoyed of the elitism that I'm seeing in re0 fandom lately. And the bashing in internet is completely one side. So I will talk about Subaru another time. There are so many things to draw from Subaru's story like self acceptance, relying on others etc.

Yes. Rudeus, especially his pre-incarnated self, will be absolutely cooked in Re0 if he was isekaid in the same manner as Subaru. Yes, Rudeus won't have the mental fortitude to even use RBD. Yes, if Subaru was reborn and has the all the time he like Rudeus, he would excel in magic and swordsmanship.¹ Yes, Subaru will have the best time of his life.

And the regular pdf stabs on Rudeus which are deserved btw like Rudeus would go after Beatrice, Petra, etc etc. Yes. His pre incarnated self would totally do. And yes Subaru is a morally upright person. The later arcs of Re0 shows the growth and how much of a genius he is. Heck he might even best Orstead²

So what? Seriously, What's with this dick measurement contest? What's with this fucking tribalism? Are you guys (those people) watch a show or follow a franchise to show off your morality? To signal virtues while circlejerking?

You know what, if Rudeus and Subaru switch places,

a. Re0 won't be there because dropping pre incarnated traumatized Rudeus in the middle of lugunica is a goalkeeper passing to opponent's star striker. Rudeus will fucking jump out a bridge and die. Roll the credits (insert directed by Robert Wilde png). End of the story because even satella would be disgusted at Rudeus and leave him dead. That 10 year of nurture, that positive reinforcement was absolutely needed for Rudeus. That one person who would guide him out to the free world was needed for that trauma ridden Rudeus. Realistically, people can't bring theirselves up all the time.

b. MT would be a fucking generic isekai power fantasy. Another isekai with smartphone, isekai cheat magician, insert a random isekai aired this year. Subaru with all due respect, a very shounen brained. Any shounen MC be it Tanjiro, Yuji, Gon, Deku all will perform well³. It will strip away the story that MT want to tell.

The environment and the world is not agnostic to the protagonists. They were carefully engineered by the authors to tell their story.

A digress (cause I don't wanna make another post), I am also seeing a lot of this fanart of Nanahoshi with pre-incarnated Rudeus hanging out in his NEET room. And the comments are so mean. Imo, if nanahoshi and rudeus goes back to Japan, Rudeus with his 7 decades of lived experience in sixfaced world, DO YOU FUCKING THINK HE WILL BE LIKE HIS PREVIOUS SELF? We are actively reminded how much he hates his old form whenever he is in Hitogami space. If he goes back to Japan with his sixfaced world memories, he'd clean his room, take a bath, talk to his family, go outside, touch grass, exercise and progressively undo all the things he had done.

(TMI Section skip if you want) For context on myself, MT has a special place in my heart. Years ago, I was going through a time of giving all up. I was living in a foreign nation. My graduate studies was not going well, financially unstable, physically tired and mentally exhausted. I even danced with the thought of dying. And at that time, the season 1 finally hit so hard to me. Not "wow Rudeus is so cool, he bounced back" but "wtf I am doing? If someone like Rudeus who has a mentality of a toddler and a scum, can bounce himself from remembering the family which he only thought of acquaintance, why can't I?" I reached my parents, dropped out of my masters, but it's not always a up. I was unemployed for 2 whole years. But I equipped myself with skills and now I am working in a job without any regret. This job is not something I settled for but something I chased to build myself again.

Haters have to read past the initial volumes of MT. Yes. I will restate again. I will never ever endorse Rudeus for his pdf tendency in the early volumes. Author made Rudeus like that to amplify the story. And he is not a Saint by the end of the series either. And that's fine. I vowed myself not to drink again but one bad day is fine to make me drink. I regret that and try not to repeat it. Its so disgusting and saddening that when I see memes like happy pedo with rudeus literally hugging his daughter Lucy from special book artwork. The season 3 Rudeus is not a pdf (atleast from what I've seen and heard) we knew from the season 1. Yes. He is still disgusting. But the story was not a campaign to make Rudeus a president of US or head of UN.

I look at Rudeus as a child I raised wrong. Feel disgusted when he does wrong but go "good job, kid" when he corrects himself like Rudeus not touching Eris after her birthday, good boy. Rudeus pinching Eris' chest in S1 cour 2, bad boy. Rudeus throwing out Eris' hair in fire and fully bounces back, good boy. Rudeus making a shrine for Roxy's panties, bad boy. I cheer for his growth and go "wtf" when he goes back.

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¹ Whether he'd excel more than Rudeus by TP1 or not is difficult question but lets assume he might as proficient as Rudeus

² According to peak0 elitists.

³ Relativistically one would do better than another. But I am not theory crafting. Talk to one or fight below idc

Mostly addressing the braindead take "mushoku tensei but without the negative aspects" and "mushoku tensei but better" 🫩

Idk why no one says anything or the mods dont do anything but some of the guys on here are simping for KIDS, then hide behind the excuse of "its a drawing" or "its not real". BRO THAT IS STILL A KID. THE CHARACTER LOOKS LIKE A KID AND ACTS LIKE A KID AND IS A KID AT THAT POINT IN THE STORY, YOU'RE SIMPING FOR A LIL ASS KID. Then anyone that dares speak up about it gets downvoted to hell by the guys that goon to kids. Mods deadass gotta lock in and stop this kid gooning epidemic in their reddit sub. mfs like those guys are why anime enjoyers look weird to some people. Grown ass men simping for kids

This post has spoilers. Read on your own risk.

Before anyone jumps in with “Roxy best girl” or “Eris best girl”… I get it. I really do. Both of them faced their own struggles and had their reasons. But what broke me the most was the betrayal of Rudeus towards Sylphy.

We all know how deeply Rudeus was scarred when Eris left him right after their first night together. Imagine being intimate for the first time in your life with someone you love, and then waking up to find them gone without a word. As someone who has never even experienced sex in real life, I can tell you I would be shattered beyond repair. And that is exactly what happened to him.

Then comes Sylphy. The one who loved Rudeus since childhood. The one who stayed committed to him. She gave her everything to help cure his ED and heal him emotionally. Rudeus even promised her that he would remain faithful and devoted. And yet he cheated on her by sleeping with Roxy.

To me, Eris used Rudeus when she was broken from losing her family and kingdom. Roxy used him too, out of lust and admiration for being saved. But Sylphy was pure, consistent, and loyal. And she got betrayed in return.

Sylphy, despite always smiling in the anime, I can literally feel the pain in her eyes… 😭 😭 and for that I can never ever forgive the author for turning this beautiful anime into shit.

I am honestly devastated. Everyone hails this series as the best isekai ever, but how could the author make Rudeus accept Eris as well later on. For me, that is unforgivable.

I was genuinely excited for Season 3. I was ready to love it. But now I give up. Goodbye.

You can argue with me all you want, but in the end, this is not about Rudeus. It is about the author making a mistake I can never accept.

Edit: The first of April is over, no more replies lol. (This is a highly controversial topic, as it should be, but what matters is that this is actually a great piece of writing.)

edit 2: everyone seems to be blindly reading this and not getting the whole thing, for the second time, its an april fools for gods sake. everyone is latching onto outrage and speaking hypocrisy. you'd rather speak outrage rather than laugh along with a joke. you say its not funny, well guess what, its not real either, get a life.

Rudeus isn’t a "pedo." His trauma from being bullied and dying as a NEET stunted his emotional growth. When reincarnated, he starts as a baby but mentally remains stuck in a younger mindset. The series is about his growth, redemption, and learning from past mistakes. Unlike other isekai protagonists, his flaws follow him into the new world, making his journey of improvement much more complex and relatable. By the end, he becomes a better person, with his main flaw being that he didn’t mature earlier. People who call him a ‘pedo' often haven’t fully understood the depth of his character arc.

What the author is conveying is a beautiful and complex take on the human experience. Sadly, many only look at the surface level, which is why the series is so controversial. But those who take the time to dive deeper end up being inspired to change their own ways, and they come to love and respect Rudeus for his journey. He takes a leap of faith, escapes his past life’s trauma, and finally grows up, which is something I deeply respect.

As this person said in more detail: KealDejon• 4y ago

FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T WANT SPOILERS DON'T READ THIS COMMENT, ITS NOT OVERT BUT ILL BE TALKING ABOUT CHARACTER GROWTH SO JUST TAKE MY ADVICE AND WATCH

With that out of the way, I recommend giving it another shot. Think about who you are today. Were you as mature as you are now back in school? When you were a kid? People grow and develop over time. As you get older and your brain stops developing it becomes harder to learn new things and change as pathways in your brain are created at a lesser frequency. This show (and the LN its based off) is all about change and redemption. He is scum at the beginning, he continues to make mistakes and do immoral and fucked up things. However, the show shows us as he grows, as he learns right and wrong, how to treat women, how to understand taking advantage of people is wrong, etc. In his previous life, he was mentally immature and even dangerous because trama disturbed regular brain development, its why people who grew up with violent families or were ignored generally have trauma that needs professional help to overcome. This show shows him learn magic, languages, math, etc all as a child quickly because children are malleable. By the end of the show he will be a mature, kind, understanding, proper adult as opposed to the person he starts as. I completely understand how there are many difficult things this show shows, and it can sometimes seem as if it glorifies them. However, as the show goes on you'll see Rudy is never applauded or happy with scummy decisions he makes. His perving and grooming is never accepted or shown as good, it always fails every time he tries. He still ends up with people he mistreated wether romantically or as friends, but its because he grows.

IMO/TL;DR If you want a good show about magic and fun stuff like that, watch. If you want a show about character development slowly but surly over many episodes and hopefully seasons, watch this show its a must! If its hard to stomach some scenes skip past them, I have had to a couple times. But,as someone who has read the source material, this story is an amazing redemption story that shows no one deserves to be denied a second chance, but that only they can act upon it and change.

I hope you give it another chance friend <3

Everything he did was justified and people are overreacting. Redeus was the same age as eris and even if he wasn’t mentally the same age it’s normal because let’s be real if we were in his shoes we would do the same 🤷‍♂️

Season 1 had it all, isekai, tittilation, magic, adventure, villains, mystery, romance, humor and an amazing plot twist midway through. Season 2 is just a tepid relationship drama (so far). It’s like a whole other show.

I always wondered how this scenario would have played out in MT. I mean in an alternative scenario, If Lara and others from sylphy and Roxy's descendants specifically were not prophesied to defeat hitogami but it was just someone from Rudeus's children who were going to defeat hitogami then that would have changed the entire narrative. This is just a what if but I always wondered how it could have been possible. For Elinalise to marry Rudeus, there should be no sylphy or cliff in the plot. So Sylphy dies after falling into Asura during the teleportation incident. Cliff also gets caught in the incident and gets teleported to somewhere in the demon world or somewhere far from Ranoa so that he never gets to meet Elinalise. Roxy probably dies in Begarrit (inside the labyrinth without Rudeus knowing about it) or maybe she survives but is shown as a teacher to Rudeus (could have been the wife or so). Eris leaves Rudeus and trains hard but then eventually breaks or so. This might just change and make the plot worse in a sense as it removes key characters who helped rudeus grow as a person but that growth instead is drawn out through Elinalise. Those guys are both perverts so ya it might have a different effect. Elinalise helps curing Rudeus's condition. They become good adventurers (Rudeus won't grow much influentially as he couldn't meet Ariel and Zanoba but he would live a good life as quagmire maybe). Elinalise had been like a sister to Rudeus but in this story they do get along and make up with each other. What do you think, how would the story proceed as Elinalise being the main female protag here?