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EP. REVIEW: Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation II

And again, it has everything to do with it since Rudeus is, as I've explained for the umpteenth time now, a middle-aged man.

With Gamen's latest reply, we now have simultaneous sub-threads arguing both that Rudy is definitely 100% not >40 years old and also that sure maybe he is >40 years old but really it's not bad because he's an emotional teen so he's perfect for dating teens.

And I've also explained for the umpteenth time I don't see him as a middle-aged man. I count his age from when he was born in the new world. A person who for some reason or other was burdened to carry memories from his old broken self in his previous world. I don't see any reason why those memories should act as chains upon his new life and path he's forging for himself.

Is it so bad for a 4 year old to have a crush on their teacher? And there are stranger objects of worship.

I think you are also missing the point. "Pushing boundaries" doesn't only mean pushing the art form or having a revolutionary "message". If this show make some people uncomfortable, it's pushing the boundaries. By protecting the "feelings" of the audience you just get shows that become more bland.

Legally? They're both adults - and I don't mean that in terms of consent, I mean in terms of neither being a legal child without certain rights that are reserved for adults. Maturity? She's had to grow up fast since the Displacement incident, and both she and Rudy are similarly bad at relationships so far. Life expectancy? Physically they're the same age.... though since Sylphie has elven blood, yep, there's probably going to be some significant predeceasing here. But that has nothing to do with his previous life. Innocence? No, not with Ariel and Luke, an Asuran princess and noble respectively, as her closest friends. They are pervs. Generationally/culturally? They grew up together in the same village, both have experience with noble society, and are now going to the same school. Positions of trust? Neither have one over the other.

Something your argument cannot even manage as the text does directly contradict it. So I guess pudding world it is.

Why do you say they are adults? It seems to me like you just went rigth there on a mental gymnastic course to avoid the main point : One of the menbers is 15, the other is 15+34 years. Don't think about it in termn of apperance, do you really thinks that's a normal and healthy relationship? Rudy isn't a new person bc he carries his memories and experiences from his previous life. Isn't it normal to feel that a +30 year old entering a relationship with a teen is at the very least concerning?

And I've also explained for the umpteenth time I don't see him as a middle-aged man.

...um, excuse me? A 4-year-old doesn't even have the capability to understand what a "crush" is, other than the vague sentiment of "I like my teacher!" They have no concept of that sort of relationship. That's why we all laugh when little kids say things like, "When I grow up, I'm going to marry X!" It's funny because they haven't figured that stuff out yet. If a child that age started displaying behavior that indicated they had a greater understanding of that kind of relationship, it would be an immediate massive red flag that's probably a sign of abuse going on.

Hey, this is anime. How many teenage characters have we seen who fell for their love interest in kindergarten?

Guess people who have memories of past lives, people who are reincarnated, and vampires should all be imprisoned for the crimes of having an edge over "normal" people.

But now I knew all of my missteps. With all the knowledge and experience from my past life, I could finally do it. I could finally live life right.

I had to keep in mind that, while I might have been a jobless high-school dropout, I also had the mental age of a person in his midthirties. I could do this!

A man more than a decade my junior had gotten married, had a kid, and was now struggling with how to raise him. Given my thirty-four-year-history of indolent joblessness, you wouldn’t think I’d be able to outdo him at much of anything.

With all video games I’d played, the idea of a magician loli wasn’t terribly unusual to me.

Underage. Scornful eyes. Socially awkward. That right there was the trifecta.
She was perfect.
I wanted her to be my bride.

I wasn’t sure what to do after patting her on the shoulder. I hadn’t really struck up a conversation with anyone in close to twenty years, so I couldn’t find the words to comfort her. I honestly didn’t know what the right thing to say in this sort of situation was.
No. I just needed to calm down and think. What would the protagonist of an adult dating sim say to comfort someone at a time like this?

One of her hands was inside her robes, moving about rather suggestively. I quietly crept back to my own room. Roxy was in the grip of adolescence, after all, and I had the decency to pretend that I hadn’t seen anything.
Or, well, something like that. I definitely liked what I had seen, anyway.

Of course, it didn’t hurt that my teacher was a junior-high-aged girl at the budding edge of sexual maturity. That was kind of an awesome situation. In my old life, I could have gotten off to that mental image in three pumps.

She looked like she could be the first character whose route I’d try to complete in an adult dating sim.

I didn’t miss my opening. “I like you, Miss!” I couldn’t help it; hitting on cute girls is what I do.

So why couldn’t I just stay here with Sylphie until we were old enough to get by on our own?
Sounded pretty good to me. We’d grow up together…and she’d grow up into my perfect woman.
Hikaru Genji style, baby!

Gweheheh.

[Note: Hikaru Genji fell in love with a 10-year-old, kidnapped her when her guardian died, raised her, and then married her.]

…Crap! No. No. Bad thoughts. Bad thoughts.
What happened to the whole ‘oblivious’ thing, buddy? You’re getting way too far ahead of yourself.
Hm. Well, that said… there’s nothing in the rulebook that says an oblivious protagonist can’t brainwash their childhood friend, right?
Gah! What am I thinking?! But… ugggh.
The girl was only six years old. She was clearly very fond of me, but she wasn’t capable of feeling romantic love yet.
So, uh… yeah. Let’s put all that on hold.
For how long, though? Now that was the question. Did I need to wait until she turned ten? Fifteen? Even older…?
What if she ended up hating me for wasting her time?
Her affection meter was at max for now, but there was no guarantee it would stay that way forever. Could I live with myself if it dropped to zero?
No. Hell no!!! I’m a man who knows my limits, damn it!
Seriously, she’s so soft and warm and fluffy! And she smells so freakin’ good! She’s baring her soul to me right now, and I’m supposed to just sit here slack-jawed?! That’s so messed up! We both know how we feel, so we should just take this to the next level!
Why force myself to waste precious time? Why not just admit I made the wrong call?!
That does it. I’ve decided! I’ll make her into my perfect girl!
I’m…I’m oblivious no more, Sylphieeee!

“Hey, Rudy…letter for you.”

At this point, Paul barged into the room, pulling me out of my own little world—and not a moment too soon. Startled, I pulled away from Sylphie.
My dear father probably deserved some gratitude for that one. I’d been about two minutes away from turning into an extremely pathetic kind of villain.
Still, a man’s endurance had its limits. I’d managed to weather this storm, but there was no telling what might happen next time.

Whenever I breastfed Norn, he… tended to stare. It wasn’t just a curious, innocent gaze, either. There was an element of interest you wouldn’t expect from a seven-year-old.

And I've also explained for the umpteenth time I don't see him as a middle-aged man. I count his age from when he was born in the new world. A person who for some reason or other was burdened to carry memories from his old broken self in his previous world. I don't see any reason why those memories should act as chains upon his new life and path he's forging for himself.

Where does it contradict it? I don't remember anything that directly stated that in the novels.

Guess people who have memories of past lives, people who are reincarnated, and vampires should all be imprisoned for the crimes of having an edge over "normal" people.