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Urrrrgh, the urge to talk about it! I can’t though - as I’m re-reading the LN right now. At least, until the next episode.
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Urrrrgh, the urge to talk about it! I can’t though - as I’m re-reading the LN right now. At least, until the next episode.
It was an OK episode, I guess. A bit unfulfilling as a season ending episode, but I’m glad to see Mireille joining the ranks after showing her value, without lowering the value of the other vassals.
The whole thing feels so awkward, but I’m glad that it does. It would feel really off if either knew exactly what to say, and how to say it.
Keep in mind that the series are only similar when it comes to the protag hating the goddess, but past that they’re really different. Like, Makoto is by no means as sly and deceitful as Touka, while Seras (the deuteragonist elf in the PV) is there for the drama (unlike Tomoe and Mio).
Still, I think that it’s worth checking out.
It was overall a good episode. A nice mix of action, romance, and the marriage to kick in. I guess that the next episode will be their early life as a married couple?
I wasn’t expecting Lavinia to show up though. My sides went into orbit!
She’s half-lying when she says that she’s just there to “take a look at his eccentric bride”; she’s Oscar’s maternal grandmother, it’s literally her grandson’s marriage. I don’t think that Tinasha knows this because of her wondering about “if witches didn’t intervene”, well, then your hubby wouldn’t be born you baka.
This is likely related to why Lavinia cursed the Farsas’ royal family. Her daughter Rosalia (Oscar’s mother) is dead as the series start; she probably cursed her son-in-law Kevin (Oscar’s father, former king) out of sorrow, or Kevin did some major fuckup when treating his wife.
Aah, I really need to read this LN…
It was a decent ride, I guess. Not overly exciting; but I like how ending the season with Gobjii’s death gives it a “book endings” feel, at the start we see a bunch of goblins being born and then one dying, while the others move on with their lives.
And goddammit Aporou, let a dying person talk.
Depending on how they do it, the animation might be really fun. The story has the same “driving force” as Tsukimichi, of a character wanting revenge on the goddess that dumped him in a world; but it’s far more serious, the overpowered skills aren’t as flashy, there’s no “city building” aspect but a lot of “my strategy beats yours”.
Sofia’s face when Makoto correctly understood how the Prison of Swords worked, and proceeded to destroy the swords, was amazing!
As well as Makoto’s “sorcerer? close combat fighter? nah, I’m an archer!”. Sofia was having such a hard time with Makoto, only to discover that he wasn’t even playing his strongest cards yet.
If not for Rudeus’ monstruous mana pool they would be all dead. He kept a water wall against three heads dragonbreathing the group.
…hard to talk about this episode without giving spoilers on what comes next. (The LN equivalent is vol12 ch9, by the way.) The fight was exciting, and it ended in such a sorrowful note (Paul is dead, Rudeus lost an arm, there’s something wrong with Zenith). A rollercoaster of emotions, really - and it shows how much Rudeus evolved, from the distance towards his Earth parents to the concern about his new ones.
Poor Rudeus, not being recognised by his shishou. …but on her defence would you? He was a kid back then.
It’s a great way to reset the relationship though - now she doesn’t see him as a brat, but as a man. And she’s clearly into him. (And “curiously” in no moment he mentioned to be married to white mama, at most that he is not married to black mama.)
Telling his own son that it’s totally OK to get a second wife, because they’re different, and that once you get used to this life you won’t be able to go back. With a swords analogy. Got to respect Paul for being scum even inside a labyrinth.
Hibiki has no standing ground to call Makoto’s super awesome armour “weird cosplay”. Just saying~
The episode felt like a warm-up for the next one, I’m mildly excited to see Makoto vs Sofia.
Glad to see that the issue was solved in a bloodless way. It might be naive, but it fits rather well the idealism of the series.
So many great things about this episode.
Paul and Rudeus’ mended relationship. He’s certainly better than he was before, as a human being, but still being recognisably Paul - a pervert who tries to brag about stuff and look cool in front of his son. Also mending his relationship with Elinalise, with Rudeus’ internal voice mocking Paul for not knowing that they’re “family” now, mwahaha.
Geese still calling Rudeus senpai, after all those years. That TP book happening to be just perfect to brave that labyrinth would, most of the time, feel like a deus ex machina; but here it felt incredibly natural.
But the cherry on the cake was the end of the episode. It was just… right, you know? Roxy being surrounded by monsters, losing all hope, only to see the threat suddenly gone and some young man - her saviour - walking in, with a smile on his face. They could’ve animated Rudeus reaching her (how did he know that she was there?) but I guess that they’ll do it for the next episode?
Like that other user often says… peak fiction.
Hiya, don’t piss off the nice guy. It’ll never end well.
Ditto. I don’t exactly mind well made 3D, but things done the “right” way are always great.
That scene was hilarious!
Making her a “good hohoho” would be damn great, indeed. But I like how it showed that, even with all her ambition, she’s just a dreamy teen. Talented and capable, sure, but a dreamy teen.
Rudeus did a lot, by not doing the shit that people trying to help depressed people do, that only digs the knife deeper into the wound. He didn’t try to lecture Norn, or that stupid “LotSa PpL HaD iT WoRsE LOL LMAO” +> “stop being a crybaby”.
Comparing her case with Nanahoshi, it’s like water and oil, isn’t it? Nanahoshi was having a meltdown out of frustration and hopelessness, her mindset is completely different from JP!Rudeus and Norn.
Fuck. I really love this series.
It’s nice to see Ars recruiting the three brothers, and actually fixing the relationship of their father with the younger one. And he’s a bit more relatable to Ars in age, Charlotte grew so fast that she literally became a “boob gag character”.
They omitted a few details from the manga, but frankly? I think that it was a good distillation.
That’s mostly for show. The impact of their recent measures on the population pirating stuff is next to zero, and that even if they jail someone you’ll get 10 new streamers on their place.
It was the same thing with the alleged seizure of people streaming for TV boxes. (Mine still works fine, by the way.)
Fuck. This season ending was well made. It’s clear that they tried their hardest to make it bittersweet, and they got it.
Rudeus lost a father, but got a daughter; he lost an arm, but he has Roxy to support him. Norn might have bawled and created drama, but she’s learning how to defend herself. Zenith is disabled, but she has Lilia to back her up. There’s a “but” for every down that they got.
That scene with the grave was specially beautiful IMO. I feel like drinking booze with your parents is special, for both sides - they’re acknowledging that you’re an adult without losing that parent-child link. (Fuck, now I feel the urge to buy a bottle of liqueur and drink with my mum.)
I feel like this is something that Mushoku Tensei does amazingly well, in comparison with a lot of series made for masculine demographics: the main character is powerful, but not invincible. He has to sacrifice things to get other things. And it plays really well with the theme, that it’s worth to go further and chase what you want, that you won’t get things without effort.
I’ll provide some LN spoilers simply because I can’t help but talk about this. I’m excited for season three, after all.
heavy LN spoilers, from multiple volumes onwards
Zenith didn’t lose her memory. The time spent in the mana crystal made her into a Blessed/Cursed Child. She’s telepathic, but lost her ability to talk “normally”. People talk with her, but she only gets an idea of what they’re talking from their thoughts, and then she “talks” and nobody hears it.
Eventually she’ll get a granddaughter to talk with her, Lara (Roxy’s daughter). Lara is not a Blessed/Cursed Child or anything like this, she’s simply inheriting the Migurd ability for telepathy that for some reason her mother lacks. It’s kind of funny because almost everyone in the family will see Lara as a silent kid, except Zenith - who sees her as a chatterbox.
In fact, Lara is the reason why Hitogami was so hellbent on making Rudeus not go to Bergaritt. If Rudeus didn’t meet Roxy again, Lara wouldn’t be born, and Lara is an essential pawn in the fight against Hitogami.