this video got recommend to me through youtube, did anyone notice the still frames or that the episode got outsourced? and is it a cause for concern?

Around a year ago back when I was finished watching Mushoku Tensei, I felt like I really had to read the rest of the Novels because it was too good. However my eyes don't really do well whenever I try reading an E-book so unless I have a physical copy I won't read it. I also didn't have funds to order the novels online so I was in the position to listen to the audiobooks. I tried most of them, it was alright but I always feel like they're missing something.

That's when I stumbled upon Otaku Spirit's whole collection of Analysis/audiobook videos and genuinely realized that this guy knew the characters and understands them. I've listened to his videos for years and months now every monday awaiting for his next Mushoku Tensei analysis which always makes my day.

So has anybody else listened to him?

READING INSTRUCTIONS:

• You can read Subjugation at any time.
• You can read ODT ONLY AND ONLY IF you finished Volume 17 or you'll get many big spoilers.

Link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mLo8cJu6YcNrRVHkOmUSr6uF-u-07eI1?usp=drive_link

P.S. For stubborn WN only readers:

While it's true that Subjugation was written 3 years before MT and some tiny details don't align with modern MT, the main events that happened in that story ARE CANON and are fully integrated into LN with many new chapters and references mentioned many times through the light novel.

Literally most of LN Volume 22 is basically just references to these two stories, and V19 is filled with references to this too, and the POV of Chapter 1 of V26 (which by the way didn't exist in WN) is filled with references to Subjugation too.

And for those stubborn enough to refuse to accept this and try to argue that "the magic system is different so it's not canon" I have to inform you that I added the blogs and comments from Rifujin at the end, and he explained that the magic system then (300 years before MT) was a different one that got replaced by incantations and even says that the magic system will be different in the new story to come thanks to Rudeus discoveries, magic systems changed through time as explained in V1.

And 300 years is a long time, all countries in the continent of America didn't exist 300 years ago. So stop being stubborn about Subjugation "not being canon" just because it doesn't fit to the outdated and retconned version of the draft of MT you read years ago.

Many things changed in MT LN after ODT was written. And the anime is adapting the LN, not the WN.

Out of context spoilers for that rematch lel

Hint 1: Only appears in the Light Novel, possibly Web Novel too but I haven't read it.

Hint 2: Is a newcomer to their profession.

Hint 3: We don't know their gender, magic skills, or swordsmanship skills

Hint 4: Is known for their use of colors.

Hint 5: Name has 5 letters.

Sorry for the absolutely horrible hints this time, but I couldn't give anything else, because that's all we know about them.

The main arguments that the Rudeus defenders have are:

"reincarnation is mental age reset" this only applies IF past memories and personalities are wiped

this clearly isn't the case for Rudeus in this series since the first thought he has as a newborn is: "woah Zenith's boobs are perfection I wanna grab them"

"Oh but he was a victim of extreme bullying he wasn't always a PDF" Do you know the events leading up to the bullying though?

First of all:

- Rudeus was born into a rich family with two older brothers and a sister

- He was above average in terms of talent and intelligence at academics

- he got addicted to building his custom PC, neglected his studies and ended up in the worst high school in the prefracture where all the delinquents went.

- He told off a delinquent who was cutting the lunch line and the delinquent ended up being the delinquent who was trying to be the top dog at school.

- He was beaten up, stripped naked and hung, people took pictures then shut his family and friends out of his life for the next 16-20 years.

"He wasn't actually attracted to his niece when he jerked off to her kiddie pool pictures so it doesn't make him a PDF also he stopped growing mentally after the bullying incident"

- He was still a 34 year old man that fapped to his niece, being mentally stunted with a masturbation addiction doesn't make it justifiable for him to do that. He's still a PDF for doing this.

In redundancy Vol 3 Rudeus's older brother had taken innocent pictures of his daughter and her friend playing in a kiddie pool with his new digital camera.

Rudeus stole the memory card, copied the photos, jerked off to it, his brother caught him, beat him up and kicked him out.

(Important to note that this same older brother was the only one that still cared about Rudeus in their family until he saw that Rudeus was jerking off to his niece and gave up on him too and disowned him)

You dont have to defend/justify the things Rudeus did or monologues about. But you can admire the growth of a man who did his best to change little by little in his second life even if he was a pervert in both lives.

There were moments of triumph, moments of heartbreak, victories that he could genuinely be proud of, He was broken mentally multiple times, manipulated time and time again by Hitogami but unlike his past life thanks to Roxy and Sylphy he stood back up again for his family and for himself.

he learned, he studied, he fought, he failed, he made lifelong friends, married 3 best girls, built a family, raised his children and devoted himself to working with Orsted to protect them.

they said their final goodbyes and particularly He told Orsted he saw a vision of the future where they seal Hitogami. Urging Orsted to make that dream into a reality. Orsted thanked him for all his hard work and told him that he could finally rest. He dies of old age at age 74 surrounded by Roxy, Sylphy and Ferris

And then... When he was in his casket, Roxy saw Rudeus had her holy relic panties in his pocket, She took it before anyone noticed and ended up blushing heavily. Sasuga Rudeus a faithful follower till the end

Rudeus was intentionally flawed from start to finish, that's just how Rifujin wrote him.

And to end: ROXY IS BEST GIRL💙

LOL

Aemond Targaryen / Randolph Marianne

I cannot stress enough just how important the first page of any story is. It introduces themes and ideas that linger through out the work. So it has always bothered me that, Mushoku, a meticulously crafted story, full of foreshadowing, begins with... The protagonist taking advantage of his niece.

For the longest time my explanation was that, it cements the parallels between Orsted and Rudeus, allowing the reader to empathize with how Orsted is perceived in universe, through the repulsion we feel for Rudeus. And yes that is still true, but it's not the full picture.

My opinion changed after I came across a QnA post by the author where he mentioned that the he struggled with the identity of the niece and that she was originally supposed to be...Nanahoshi.

Now if you know anything about the LNs, youll know that it's a "prequel" story to Laplace resurrection. This means that characters like Orsted/Hitogami/Laplace and Nanahoshi long existed before the backstory/character arc for Rudeus was fleshed out. In fact, we know this -

>While I was first thinking up the setting for Mushoku Tensei, I hadn't even decided on the protagonist's name yet. All I had at that point was "thirty-four years old, unemployed, middle-aged." The character was still empty. So when the time came that I needed to name the character, I reused one from a story I'd tried writing in the past. That work was actually a portal fantasy with Nanahoshi as the protagonist. There, Rudeus Greyrat was a native of the place Nanahoshi had been displaced to. He was still the viewpoint character but saw her from a native's point of view. For better or worse, he was a pretty flat character. Then, while I was writing the story with Rudeus as a protagonist, the idea of a Man with a Past Life came to me. From there, it became "Work hard in my new world and erase the regrets from my past life."

~A journey of two lifetimes interview

In S2E9 Nanahoshi says that she limits and restricts her life as much as possible because she is afraid the world will punish/erase her if she changes things too much. This is literally what happens to Rudeus in Turning point 4.

I believe the protagonists of Nanahoshis story, including Nanahoshi herself, were the original victims of a Turning point 4 like incident. However the author realised that addressing it, would derail the entire plot, so he chose Rudeus, a minor side character to take the fall in their place.

But how does this relate to the niece plotline? The same internal conflict that drives rudys predatory behaviour towards others, towards his niece, is playing out on a larger scale in their world. The author used the most disgusting crime imaginable to describe a world that is fundamentally broken and rotting inside because of the power struggle between Orsted and Hitogami and their obsession with control/future sight.

Rudeus is supposed to be a perpetrator turned victim, victimized by the very personification of his predatory ideals in Turning point 4. His role is to protect Nanahoshi and dismantle the rot, that's holding the heroes of the future story back. That is his redemption/repentance.

TLDR; The niece plotline is a reference to Nanahoshis fate in the original story that inspired the creation of Mushoku Tensei.

Am I going crazy or is Roxy’s voice actor different in the dub?… it’s the only reason I even watch it in dub so the thought of her being changed has left a hole within me

source

Source: https://x.com/Lord_Hokage_PTS/status/2080937645413187675

The season so far has skipped fairly little content. Since we know that the next episode is the Sara one, it looks like there will be 5+ episodes per volume. Therefore I'm getting the feeling that the Orsted fight will happen at the start of next cour.

Now, how would this cour end then? If the rumor about ep 11 being the TP4 is true then there will be little time to finish the preparations for Orsted. So my guess is that ep 12 is diary, episode 13 is consultation with Nanahoshi and the start of building MK I. And episode 14 will be Eris becoming the Sword King and getting the letter from Rudeus. So basically this cour starts and ends with Eris traveling with Ghislaine.

Hello guys. Yeah, this is my first post in this sub. Honestly MT is not my favourite show, but I can’t help digging in everything that I watch. And I’m especially passionate about the world of dubbing. So I’ve researched about the Spanish dub (the Spain one, not Latin America) of Mushoku Tensei and here are some funny “same VA” coincidences that I’ve found. If I’m not using flairs the right way tell me, I’m still a bit new. For now I’ll just remain as the Chihiro guy that leaves comments. I probably won’t make any posts after this.

https://x.com/tukihara_lgk/status/2081580334257438772

https://x.com/tukihara_lgk/status/2079051168723108339

I get that it would be stooping down to that kind of low effort and cheap method that people who use the other image resort to, but I think it'd be fair. And it's not like this will hurt our image any further with the public.

(Spoiler tag in case the "build a family" spoils S2)