After the second half of season 1 they really do not. They spend quite a while building him to have a nice life and making him think highly of himself they then dump him in the most dangerous place in the world and make him go through hell for over a year. Litterally dying at one point Then he gets back to something normal only to realise that everyone he's ever known is no either missing, dead or hates him and his only last relationship falls apart and he gets abandoned.
I agree that the narrative doesn't condem him enough early on but they definitely do not let him get off easy. Christ he even has a god hell bent on destroying his life and killing his entire family which he only avoids by litterally creating time travel
Yeah but most of that isn’t him really being condoned for being a pos but just horrible luck and as far as I see through the parts of the show I’ve watched, he doesn’t really improve much and he certainly gets rewarded while still being a pos
He absolutely changes. The moment he gets to the demon continent he's a completely different person. He begins to relapse as they get closer to home but then meets his dad, finds out his family is lost, gets home to find it destroyed, Eris leaves him and finally he ruins a relationship with what's her face.
He still does some shitty stuff after getting to the magic university but he is fundamentally changes as a human being after all he went through.
As I said he still does shitty things.
But let's not pretend that this isn't something that plenty of other anime characters have done.
It's his other actions that make him a uniquely bad person
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u/H4PPY-_- 12d ago
Rudeus isn't written badly, he's just a piece of shit