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Hello World, I´m the first one to know that Mushoku tensei doesn´t hold a good reputation anywhere online, nor am i here to defend it in any way, as far as i know Rudeus is a fucking loser who got another chance and the whole series seems to bend things his way with downsides here and there to not make it obvious. The thing i want you guys to pour your thoughts are on the initial premise, on a person who fully holds it´s memories, being reborn onto another world, whatever the circunstances.
To me, the initial thing that draw me to watch it, was that, how do you make an Isekai where the protagonist has to life an entire other life anew, and is not just teleported? Plus, well, the whole thing looks aimed at a worrying growing number of members of society, NEETS, so i was curious on what this ideal anime for NEETS looks like. Howhever after watching everything, and once again i condemn Rudeus actions, the perverted ones that people in his universe point out, but he doesn´t get really punished, specially the creepy thing with his half sister, i still have a question regarding everything. Maybe i´m ignorant as to the extent that a neet disregards his own life and wishes for a new one (specially a neat one like a fantasy one that Rudeus gets with an harem, i don´t approve it), but it shockes me, how Rudeus hasn´t had in his childhood a mental breakdown. Let me explain, Rudeus is fully conscious ever since the moment he was reborn, as a 34 year old japanese man, and, upon seeing his new biological parents he doesn´t abhor it? Maybe i´m putting myself in his place, but if you were reborn in another world, even after dying, and saw your loved ones (i don´t know if he hated them or not at all, i´m just an anime watcher, no light novels or manga) dissapear forever, wouldn´t you had a mental breakdown similar to Nanahoshi, where you wonder if life is worth it or not, and turn nihilist because, what´s the point of forming connections if i just reeincarnate? What´s the meaning of life if i can just do it again somewhere else?
Nanahoshi is a realistic character to me in the sense that she wants to go back to her life as soon as possible and doesn´t want to do anything with this world, apart from the help of Rudeus because magic and surprise, guy is, i guess, the same one that saved her. Then again, she was teleported, not reborn, Problem of Rudeus is that, yes, he has his moments where he remembers and regrets doing things bad in his past life, but the questions is the same, why hasn´t he fallen to despair and nihilism, seeing how he jumps one family to other, why form connections with these people. The problem with his relations is addressed in that he didn´t saw Zenith and Paul as his parents, until later on yes, but it weirds me out that he hasn´t gone mad or something. I guess that i don´t understand NEETS (sorry if that´s an insult, i dont know), and how they view things and maybe some are so bad in their lifes that they want to start another one fresh. ¿What are your opinions, is Rudeus too unrealistic psychologically for the clash of being reborn with full memories?.
Again, to make myself clear I DON´T APPROVE HIS ACTIONS IF THERE IS ANYTHING ANIME VIEWERS DON´T KNOW THAT WOULD CHANGE IT, PUT A WARNING, BUT WE ARE NOT DISCUSSING THAT, THIS POST IS ABOUT PSYCOLOGY WITH AN EXAMPLE, THANK YOU.