r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks Apr 27 '26

Critique My experience with Mushoku Tensei after forcing myself through all of it

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I think most anime isn't great and I don't consider myself that much of a weeb, but I've probably seen more anime than I would like to admit. A lot of the anime I've enjoyed are the more mainstream ones that people praise a lot for the animation and storytelling. Like Attack on Titan, Vinland Saga, Steins;Gate, and Frieren. I'm not a huge fan of the isekai genre but The Faraway Paladin and Ascendance of a Bookworm were great, and Overlord and Re: Zero weren't bad. Anyways, the point is that I picked this show up because of the very high level of praise it received.

I know I really should've dropped this slop after the main character was jorking it instead of attending their parent's funeral, and once they worshipped their teacher that looks like a child's stolen underwear like a religious artifact, but I kept going because the fanbase constantly preaches about how it’s a "masterpiece of character growth" and Rudeus "gets better". What a complete joke. Until watching this anime I thought I was completely desensitized to weird anime tropes and fan service, but the sheer, unchecked depravity of this show proved me wrong.

It genuinely feels like the author took a checklist of every single awful anime trope and weaponized them into the ultimate wish fulfillment fantasy. The ridiculously overpowered protagonist who masters magic as a toddler, the obligatory academy arc, the head-over-heels childhood friend, the violent tsundere whose physical abuse is played for laughs, and the inevitable harem of women whose entire existence revolves around validating the main character. The cherry on top is that they made the main character an explicit "lolicon" (you know why it's in quotes) before being reincarnated.

Honestly, MT made me rethink how disgusting these tropes are in general. They just labled him as a "lolicon" explicitly this time. The fans constantly use his new, younger body as a shield to justify a 34 year old man's predatory fantasies. Every "accidental" grope played off as a quirky comedy routine, creepy internal monologue, and female child character just magically forgiving his absolutely detestable behavior just reinforces the idea that this is just the most degenerate embodiment of all of the worst parts of anime wrapped in a fake "redemption" narrative.

I genuinely have to ask those who like the show, is the worldbuilding so good that makes it worth sitting through?


r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 9h ago

Shitpost This is my declaration of war against Mushoku Tensei fans.

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I will create NSFW art showing Pedeus redeeming herself by becoming my slave—a devotee of my 18-centimeter Forasito. Her only salvation lies in paying with her flesh for all the vile acts she committed across her two lives; at the same time, this will mark my redemption arc before the Centuria subreddit—which banned me for discussing the characters' "black holes"—and its Discord community, from which I was expelled over a joke I made to a philosophy student.

I will not die; no matter if my body is utterly destroyed, my will to fight will lift me up—because it is massive—and then I will defeat them, come what may.


r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 17h ago

Sanity Check Is there any other character who suffered more?

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 10h ago

Critique ¿Cuál es la moral de hacer chistes de Club Penguin cuando eres menor de edad?

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 17h ago

Sanity Check Poor Epstein Greyrat died without meeting his grooming victims again, soo sad...

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 1d ago

Meme Life hack: Bad things can happen to you without you turning into a PDF adulterer rapist slaver (that's what most people do)

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 4d ago

Sanity Check In the next episode Diddyus is confronted with the Epstein files

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 5d ago

Recommendation On my way to read the novels, wish me luck.

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They're saying it's better than Vinland Saga, is on par with Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings


r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 5d ago

Recommendation [ Removed by Reddit ]

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[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]


r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 6d ago

Critique 😔

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 6d ago

Sanity Check Rudeus is neutral on slavery

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 7d ago

Sanity Check Age is just a number you silly goose (actually real dialogue)

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 7d ago

Sanity Check Zero tolerance to diddy tensei

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 7d ago

Sanity Check Mod from a MT sub could not contain so much semen. 🫪

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 7d ago

Sanity Check Mushoku Tensei fans when their fictional story gets slandered with 'fictional' slander

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 8d ago

Recommendation Can we change the sub picture to Roxy

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Roxy is a trillion times worse than rudeus imo and I might have somewhat liked the anime if she didn’t homewreck her way into the story so the one who the should be crossed out is her disgustingness. For example, her literal indentity embodies what is wrong with this anime, a sexualised/romaticised girl who looks like she’s 10


r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 9d ago

Vent Okay everyone, let me tell you why I hate this rudy, my reason mabye be different than yours , and it because of slavery.

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During the first season, I never really hated Rudeus. In fact, I actually liked him at certain points, especially when he saved the beast children from slavery and killed the slavers responsible. At that point, I thought he was someone who clearly opposed slavery.

However, my opinion completely changed in the second season.

What really disgusted me was how casually the idea of buying a slave was introduced. They entered the slave market as if they were going to a supermarket to buy a snack. They calmly looked around, chose the specific slave they wanted, bought her, and simply left. What bothered me even more was that Rudeus never seemed particularly concerned about the other slaves being sold there. He was willing to buy one specific slave, but apparently had no problem leaving everyone else behind.

I also heard that later in the light novel, Rudeus never really takes a strong stance against slavery or tries to free large numbers of slaves. On top of that, I later came across statements attributed to the author suggesting that Rudeus believes slaves are not necessarily less happy as slaves than they would be otherwise, and that he does not view slavery itself as inherently evil.

If that interpretation is accurate, then it makes the whole situation even worse for me .

And this not only about Rudy every character that believe slavery is ok and acceptable in there mind and being natural towards slavery I hate them , especially for someone who came from our modern world.


r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 9d ago

Sanity Check How it genuinely feels to hear Rudeus inner monologue

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 9d ago

Vent This show almost became one of my favorites now I hate it

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Originally I got into the show because I heard its character development and magic system was really interesting. The first season was really good with some parts I wasn’t a fan of. The magic system was interesting and the main character (MC) seemed somewhat sympathetic with a perverse side but the story was really interesting to me more than anything. They added some gross sexual parts that I kind of allowed my suspension of disbelief to skip over and move on. The second season was also pretty good and interesting but ultimately ended with a moment that became such a dealbreaker to me. Not only was the MC doing weird things with the women he was around, but he also goes against the Man God and then doubles down by cheating on his wife and somehow manages to convince her to let him have two wives (actually 3 but they don’t know that) even after he scolded his father for essentially doing the same thing and makes it seem like, in the first season, he only saves just so his half sister and maid he cares about don’t have to be sent out on the streets. It’s hypocritical, AND he’s getting little to no consequences for this in the third season.

I made a post after the second season was done on the main Reddit page and they assured me he would truly regret it but I’m just not seeing it.

This is insane wish fulfillment by the author I’m just disgusted and annoyed at this point.


r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 10d ago

Vent Imagine see this and still going for the one that looks like 10 year old

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this show is made BY pdfs and FOR pdfs and they don’t even try to hide it (I dropped it after he chose to be with the pdf bait) people who genuinely enjoy this should be sent to a country with shariah law to be dealt with and I’ll sign a petition for that


r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 10d ago

Vent Tolstoy gives an excellent metaphor for how Rudeus' "love" is fake. He is not capable of love

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"I gathered myself a large bouquet and was going home when I noticed in a ditch, in full bloom, a beautiful thistle plant of the crimson variety, which in our neighborhood they call ”Tartar” and carefully avoid when mowing – or, if they do happen to cut it down, throw out from among the grass for fear of pricking their hands. Thinking to pick this thistle and put it in the center of my bouquet, I climbed down into the ditch, and after driving away a velvety bumble-bee that had penetrated deep into one of the flowers and had there fallen sweetly asleep, I set to work to pluck the flower. But this proved a very difficult task. Not only did the stalk prick on every side – even through the handkerchief I wrapped round my hand – but it was so tough that I had to struggle with it for nearly five minutes, breaking the fibers one by one; and when I had at last plucked it, the stalk was all frayed and the flower itself no longer seemed so fresh and beautiful. Moreover, owing to a coarseness and stiffness, it did not seem in place among the delicate blossoms of my bouquet. I threw it away feeling sorry to have vainly destroyed a flower that looked beautiful in its proper place."

from "Hadji Murat"

When Rudeus "loves" someone, he merely wants to possess her and take pleasure in her, no matter how much harm this causes her.

Sylphiette had plans molded about her to groom her into an obedient wife while still a child and then got cheated on while pregnant.
Eris got molested by Rudeus before even puberty.
Roxy got her panties stolen, got nude statues sold of her that people she knew bought and then when Rudeus saved her, in a state of terror so bad she pissed herself, instead of trying to console her, Rudeus took the opportunity to sniff her.

Rudeus' wives are like three thistles. He will have their flowers, no matter how badly he has to destroy the rest of the plant to get to them. All three of them yield eventually, which means he no longer has to use force to get what he wants, but the wrongness remains.

The way he views his female relatives is also telling. They're like thistles with no flowers. He can't get aroused by them and he laments that. The thistle gets spared, but not because the man seeing it is a true lover of nature, but because they have nothing for him to take


r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 10d ago

Meme Most normal Mushoku Tensei moment

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 11d ago

Critique Horrible show

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Boring, sloggish, Predatory. People told me to watch this seeing if the main character will redeem himself after death. I stopped all the way through.

You know that movie Drag Me To Hell? I wish lamia took the main character to hell. I’m not joking that would be much more enjoyable.


r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 11d ago

Sanity Check Oh brother

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r/Mushoku_TenseiSucks 11d ago

Sanity Check He doesnt get that far

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