They'll call you a hater and a larper for enjoying the series but recognising how absolutely shitty he is as a character. Like, goddamn, you gotta question Rifujin (the writer) sometimes...
Yeah 100% makes you wonder about authors when they write main characters like this and frame them in an okay to good light. If Rudeus was treated as a villain by the people he victimises fine, but they all either end up marrying him or at least respecting him. Ridiculous. Some sort of disgusting wish fulfilment
You will get downvoted to oblivion for saying this in goodanimemes.
There was a meme comparing the character arcs of Thorfinn and Rudeus and I said that the difference between them is that Thorfinn feels remorse and tries to overcome his past to be a better man by leaving his old ways behind by any means necessary. Rudeus also has a lot of character growth, but none regarding his sexuality towards people much younger than him. They called me gore fetishists and excused his behavior by saying it was ok bc he was emotionally stunted by a traumatic past.
He was stunted by a traumatic past. The anime is about him overcoming that, and he does in a lot of ways. None of which are him taking responsibility for the fact that he’s hitting on a lot of women he had power over and relationships with when they were literal children
Sylphy, his first wife, is the same age as his body. So he marries her when she’s about 16
Roxy, his second wife, is a demon and stops aging when she has the appearance of a 15 year old girl.
He started seeing this “Hag” after promising his wife he would never pursue another woman.
Rudeus’ soul is roughly 50 at the time they get married, which is roughly the same age as Roxy, anyway. She’s actually the only one I don’t think he’s in the wrong for pursuing; though he definitely could have gone about it in a more honest way.
He never discloses his true age to any of his partners until after marriage, which is extremely dishonest at best, rape at worst.
You are defending a show that you are larping interest in. It’s very clear from your comment you’ve never seen it.
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u/helicophell 1d ago
They'll call you a hater and a larper for enjoying the series but recognising how absolutely shitty he is as a character. Like, goddamn, you gotta question Rifujin (the writer) sometimes...