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EP. REVIEW: Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

I would be mad too if a random guy came and ripped the coat I got from my gf. And she is a violent type of girl so that kind of action is understandable.

I just realised something about this ep tat stuck out and I couldn't figure why.

Is there Rice and Beef in this world? I think I remmember seeing cows but not rice. His monolouge about wanting it felt strange, cause he definitely haven't eaten it in the past 10 years. I do feel sometimes like somehow like the first 10 years of his life is almost strangely static and almost skipped over somehow despite all that happens.

It means that you show things without the the presentation distorcing much the scene one way or the other, it lets the viewer pass the jugdement.
Like when some putting a x scene in an exagerated way like in many anime in a way that it's far enough from reality to take seriously.

Or, with an example, it would be like watching "Friends" without the background laughs where the scenes become downright creepy.
The character inside may be trying to be funny, but without the laughs to tell how we should think of the scene, we have the freedom to see for what it is.

Another example are the cases when an story shows all the actions of seomeone as bad or in a bad light, only to reveal later that they were innocent. But the original scene itself passes the jugdment for us that those actions were evil. Like that old guy home alone.

That's the important part, it shows in a way that there is no message. It simply is and happens. We know that it's bad and the anime does not try to hide it.

Maybe that's because I have the context of the original novels. He beats himself up quite a bit later for some of his actions, at times with some of the very arguments other people use.
And in the novel he is ALWAYS self-reflecting about his mistakes and opinions. A smaller example is in Vol. 1 when he initially blames most of the reasons he never left home after becoming a hikikomori on his parents, and later admiting it was mostly his own. And he is always in this flux.
So when he goes in his into his most disgusting antics, the main reaction that follows the "wtf is he doing?" is of "when will he fix that as well" instead of of the pure wtf.

I see that as more of there is no problem being a pervert, the problem is how you express this.
Also, Rudeus will keep being a pervert and what will change is that he will stop expressing that in an unhealthy and damaging way.

The best bet I have for the why the anime did that is that japan does not see sexual things in media with the same in the same most of the west does. So it didn't go over the line over there.
That scene from EP.8 was the make or brake for me in the novel. If wasn't for his self torturing right after I would have probable dropped it. But in the novel he also has more bad traits to fix..

He is not a genius. He had years and years of studying magic and that was mostly the only thing he had to do since he couldn't leave his home. He has more magical capacity and his knowledge from past life, but that's all. During all these years he is still stuck on the same level he was when he graduated from roxy. And in terms of battle potencial he couldnt defeat even a pair of bandits with real experience.

I just realised something about this ep tat stuck out and I couldn't figure why.

Is there Rice and Beef in this world? I think I remmember seeing cows but not rice. His monolouge about wanting it felt strange, cause he definitely haven't eaten it in the past 10 years. I do feel sometimes like somehow like the first 10 years of his life is almost strangely static and almost skipped over somehow despite all that happens.

errr. no, that is why silphie was shown using chantless magic, to show that eudy iw not special in that way. he only has his memories of his previous life, but he has no advantage over the world natives besides that.

maximilianjenus wrote:

errr. no, that is why silphie was shown using chantless magic, to show that eudy iw not special in that way. he only has his memories of his previous life, but he has no advantage over the world natives besides that.

When did this happen? I dont remember seeing this so far?

Sure but the author also has full control over the anime project(this studio was created specifically for it) and as noted before had no problem with showing actual crotch grabbing and but not the self reflection after the fact. And to your point about japanese not seeing sexual things in anime......eh what do you mean exactly? this is the country that showed the toothbrush scene, Interspecies Reviewer, Kuzu no Honkai, Aku no Hana( which also had teenage rape), Cross Ange( all the rapes) and currently Redo.

Dude it has been only 10 years, he started reading when he was like 2-3, and managed to blast a hole through his house at the age of like 5 and after training with Roxy summoned a giant storm, not including the fact that he doesn't need incantation and like had to choose to use incantation to make it more normal. Even in the first ep when he commented on reading, there was even a joke that he is a genius, not also including learning another new language just from reading the books. Its like if a kid got a chemistry set one day and then in less then a year had made plastic explosives. Its like hardwork if the work was easy. He isn't completely OP but thats like saying he's not 1st in the world, he is only number 5.

No, what I meant with that is that Japan does not see sexual themes with the same weight as west does. So they have a bigger tolerance towards sexual themes in media.

errr. no, that is why silphie was shown using chantless magic, to show that eudy iw not special in that way. he only has his memories of his previous life, but he has no advantage over the world natives besides that.

No, what I meant with that is that Japan does not see sexual themes with the same weight as west does. So they have a bigger tolerance towards sexual themes in media.
As can be seen by the examples you mentioned.

Also, as should be common knowled by now, no author has full control over an anime project. I think a recent series even exposed much of this side of the industry.
The one who has the final word is always the one paying the money.

Picking up reading in 2-3 years is not that hard if you already have a grasp of concepts and words, and with a phonetic writing system. His parents read to him in bed and he ended up picking it up. And again, he didn't have anything better to do during those years other than read and train his magic.

TheWa_rudo wrote:

No, what I meant with that is that Japan does not see sexual themes with the same weight as west does. So they have a bigger tolerance towards sexual themes in media.

Rule of thumb -- it's rarely useful to talk about how "Japan", or any other country with a nine-digit population, views sexuality. Any opinion you might consider characteristic of Japan, I guarantee you there are lots of people who strenuously dissent. Just like how there are French people who don't eat bread and British people who want to abolish the monarchy.

(And it's especially dangerous to generalize from media targeted at, and largely made by, otaku. This subculture is not representative of the whole. Even a successful light novel anime doesn't have the reach of Demon Slayer or a Ghibli movie.)

I am not talking about the Human tongue, but the demon tongue that he picked up in the 2 years at Eris's place, that was done arguably even faster with him even speaking it by the time the incident happened. You try just reading a dictionary of another language for 2 years and see how much of it you can speak.

And you say he had nothing better to do, he was acting for the most part as a regular kid with friends, he wasn't reading and training all day and as you noted before, his magic skill supposedly stagnated after training with Roxy so he wasn't doing that either.

And as someone noted before, his incantation-less chants can be considered special ( I mean Roxy's reaction to him saying that in ep 1 should tell us as much)

helln00 wrote:

And as someone noted before, his incantation-less chants can be considered special ( I mean Roxy's reaction to him saying that in ep 1 should tell us as much)

Rare, not special. It's not like it's some special power that only he can learn.

spoiler[As I pointed in a previous comment:
Silphy will later develop the theory as to why some people can use it and others can't, and later create a pratical method so that evey mage can silent cast while terying it on Rudeus grand-apprendice.]