Mushoku Tensei 5 Early Access
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Agreed, he seemed to be treating it like a sparring match, even used all the same techniques he did when fighting Paul. He should have been more than capable of obliterating those guys if he fought to kill, but like you said, I don't think he realized it was a real life and death struggle until he was about to die. It has always frustrated me how none of his teachers have tried to incorporate his casting in his sword fighting. Seems so obvious, as a swordsman who could use his sword to engage and occupy your blade while then using his free hand to send a fireball into your face or bury you to your neck in stone, would be extremely difficult to defeat.
Talon
2022-09-09 18:17:59 +0000 UTCI think a major problem that Rudy has in this regard is his modern upbringing. He pulls his punches to an insane degree, when he should go all out. He doesn't really consider that it is a fight to the death until he nearly dies, he was fighting those guys like he would spar with Paul. His speed of casting is extremely OP in that world although it is hampered by the increased casting cost for the non-verbal spells. Sure that North God user was strong, but Rudy truly fighting could have obliterated those guys. Once he got Eris away from them he could have let loose an intermediate level fireball which would have blown those guys apart, or simply sank them all the way above their heads into the ground but he has been programmed by life in modern Japan to use the minimum force necessary. He carries around low-grade nuclear capabilities (as seen in a later episode) but he holds himself back. It's a frustrating part of character, especially given the normal Isekai power fantasy trope. I've also never understood why he hasn't realized that the swords people are using magic internally to perform some of their feats. How hard is it to realize that no matter how strong someone is, it is impossible to break the damn speed of sound while moving? You would think given his amazing mana control that he would figure out how to be less shit in a melee fight.
Talon
2022-09-09 18:12:22 +0000 UTCGood points here. But I get the feeling that despite the vague knowledge that it's a dangerous world (as evidenced by his fear for Lillia's safety if she were thrown out), he's never even considered that he could be in real danger. After seven years he's confronted with the prospect of death for the first time, and is only just now wondering what would happen to him if he died again. Going into the fight this episode, he played it as I or any of us would an RPG despite being in potentially real life-threatening danger. It looked like huge overconfidence to me, and a resulting reality check when Ghislaine saved him. Then again, he did throw himself in front of that truck to try and save three people he didn't know. So maybe that's just his instinct.
Bellamy
2022-09-02 02:38:36 +0000 UTCI have to disagree with the notion that Rudy thinks he is special or OP. His own stance on his abilities is "It's amazing for my age" but he knows with certainty that there are those stronger than him. Paul has beaten that into him again and again, since even if he is some prodigy that has become a saint level magician at age 5, Paul, an advanced level swordsman (though Paul is somewhat of a special case), still easily demolishes him in a fight even if he uses magic any day of the week. Even his so called "OP non-verbal magic" is something Sylphy learned in a matter of minutes and she has, according to his own estimation, been catching up to him at a rapid pace to the point that she might soon surpass him. Like he literally in this very episode instantly recognized the possibility that those guys might be stronger than him. One of the first thoughts he had once he realized they were really kidnapped was "should I fight them, no that's dangerous as long as I don't know how strong they are". If it was a possibility he would just keep running without fighting them, but he can't exactly do that in this situation, that would mean leaving Eris to get dragged off and turned into a sex toy for some rotten piece of shit. And about the whole "it's been an RPG to him" I would rather say he is simply falling back on the experience he has to deal with the situations at hand. He hasn't interacted with real humans for 20 years, the closest thing to experience in human interaction he can fall back on is his experience from games, manga, anime, LN, he has no other experience. Same with the situation of helping Eris, he simply falls back on what he knows, he has no idea how to deal with that kind of situation in reality but he knows how it goes in games and stories so he uses that as his basis to make decisions.
Ryuuji Gremory
2022-09-02 01:16:49 +0000 UTCRudy is thinking about his own mortality. He DIED, he experienced death. Everything has been fairly safe for him and he just saw two guys get absolutely destroyed in front of him. This story treats everything seriously, including the weight of confronting (or causing) death. I don't think it ever occurred to him to kill those guys, as bad as they were. I don't even think he was considering that he might be in a truly dangerous situation until that sword was flying through the air.
Jake Thompson
2022-09-01 12:42:21 +0000 UTCwhat I do like about the show as well is, that the architecture, interior design and the clothing (besides Ghislaine obviously) is very close to the real deal in medieval europe :D
Fusssel
2022-09-01 12:03:22 +0000 UTCThis episode is Rudy's first encounter with death in this world. Up to now he's treated life in this world as a kind of game. He very nearly dies in the fight and realizes that he could easily have done so - and also realizes that there is no guarantee of another life. This new reality shocks him. Rather than feeling inadequate, I think he's just feeling shock at the realization of his mortality.
Keith Merrington
2022-09-01 11:16:21 +0000 UTCcan we get 2 episodes...?
TheGamerCode16
2022-09-01 08:06:18 +0000 UTCUmmm... I don't think Rudy was shocked after the fight because he wasn't the one and only hero that saved the lady all by himself, but rather because he was genuinely shocked at the decapitated body of a person in front of him. :P Surprised you didn't talk about Rudy first in person experience with death, graphic death at that. Anyways, Eris evolution through the series is amazing and is it obvious she is my favorite?
AndrewMV
2022-09-01 05:09:18 +0000 UTCLet's goo! Best girl Eris is on the scene!
AndrewMV
2022-09-01 04:02:35 +0000 UTCThis moment felt to me like the first true Reality Check for Rudy. His initial detached exploration and curiosity for the life and world he'd been reincarnated in lasted approximately until he discovered that magic existed. Ever since then, it's been an RPG to him. His decisions, the way he interacts with others, his conscious relationship-building is all presented in terms of what he's learned in VNs and LNs. Oh, beast girls. Oh, elves. Oh, magic. I'm going to be the harem king of this world, bet, easy. I can use my 40-year-old NEET brain to out-think any of these NPCs like Paul and Zenith, I can use it to manipulate Roxy and Sylphie. Even his reasons for saving Eris here are based at least partially on the tropes he knows. And despite the fear of being in combat, he's still confident as a seven-year-old boy taking on three grown men. Because of course I can use this OP non-verbal magic, annihilate the enemies and save the girl. Before the guy threw his sword, he even thought "Alright, I win!" as though he were playing a video game. But what he didn't recognize is that these aren't NPC thugs. One of them was pretty advanced in North God sword style. He had no tag, no funny clothes or extra arms, was unrecognizable as a mini boss. Just some guy, but a guy with enough experience to kill Rudy, which he almost did. He confronted death for the first time: potentially his own, and then the headless enemies that Ghislaine cut down like they were nothing. These aren't NPCs; that's real blood. These guys don't have heads anymore. I almost died and there was NOTHING I could have done about it. Absolute reality check. But with Rudy being who he is, how much lasting effect will it have?
Bellamy
2022-09-01 03:58:36 +0000 UTC
