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EP. REVIEW: Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

helln00 wrote:

Idk it feels to me more like a detective conan situation, his body maybe different but for all intents and purposes he is still whoever that died in that accident

yet in a later novel he specifically says that he is not that guy anymore, even refusing to say his old name and says that he is rudeus greyrat.

Going into the argument of his mental age. From my point of view it's better to think the either he's stuck at his original age; stuck at his original age and gradually synchronizing with his body age and becoming a mix of the 2; or the previous option but with him fully adjusting himself to his biological age which is what I believe it is happening seeing his changes from right after his reincarnation to the point he is now, spoiler[and it's supported by the happenings of the novel.]
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To keep counting his mental age normally from the point he died makes no sense, because think about it, if a kid died at 12 years old, and lived again to 12 years old, I don't think anybody would think of him as a 24years old adult.
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And with Rudeus, there is the fact that he is/was a literal manchild.
He stoped having contact with the real world when he was still a child, he spent over half of his like isolated, and his mental development got stumped with it. I'll not say that he still has the mind of the kid he was when closed himself, but he definetely doesn't have the full mind of an adult.
If at some point he decided to go into the real world in his previous life, he would probably need heavy therapy to help him adjust and be an adult, precisely because he didn't get the chance to go through that the natural way.

So the best answer for Rudeus real mental age would be "its complicated." He's definetely not a child, but he's also definetely nor an adult. It's a weird mix of the 2, plus the influence his current brain is having on him.

Sure later, and he might be different by that point, but now its like hearing a person saying that they are no longer an alcoholic while downing a bottle of vodka. And the fact that he remembers his old names means that for the most part he is who he was, he just doesnt like it, which is atleast something tbh.

@maximilianjenus I assume that is from the webnovel, as this is the Seven Seas translation;

spoiler[“Ah!” The staff standing in the corner of the room caught my eye.
I couldn’t forget Eris’s feelings either. The money may have come from Philip and Sauros, but she was the one who planned the party for me and came up with the idea of giving me that staff. She was the one who worried over our conversation at the party and came here to comfort me tonight before I fell asleep. She thought about me all day long today.
Yet a moment ago, I’d been about to violate her out of lust. There was a girl who genuinely considered my feelings as a person, and I tried to have my way with her.
Remember how happy she looked when she was talking with that maid before? You just tried to trample all over that.
]
Only a snippet as it would be too long to quote otherwise.

They're pretty similar here, but do remember the webnovel does differ from the light novel in some areas...

@maximilianjenus I assume that is from the webnovel, as this is the Seven Seas translation;

spoiler[“Ah!” The staff standing in the corner of the room caught my eye.
I couldn’t forget Eris’s feelings either. The money may have come from Philip and Sauros, but she was the one who planned the party for me and came up with the idea of giving me that staff. She was the one who worried over our conversation at the party and came here to comfort me tonight before I fell asleep. She thought about me all day long today.
Yet a moment ago, I’d been about to violate her out of lust. There was a girl who genuinely considered my feelings as a person, and I tried to have my way with her.
Remember how happy she looked when she was talking with that maid before? You just tried to trample all over that.
]
Only a snippet as it would be too long to quote otherwise.

They're pretty similar here, but do remember the webnovel does differ from the light novel in some areas...

Right, as you yourself said in the thread about Seven Sea’s changes, this translation is a bowdlerized version of Rudy, so it really isn’t helpful in trying to defend his actions. We can safely assume the worst is more correct, which continues to add to a severe lack of any kind of change let alone redemption.

I'd be interested to know if Seven Seas kept the scene that immediately follows that one in the LN, where spoiler[Rudeus wakes up to find he's had his first wet dream]. It's a short comedy bit, but I'm also kind of relieved it wasn't in the anime. (There's nothing actually wrong with it, but it definitely undercuts the serious side of the scenes leading up to it.)

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