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On this episode, Rudeus makes a number of silly choices. He lashes out at those that attempt to consolation him after his father’s demise, cheats on his pregnant spouse, and asks his dishonest companion to marry him and enter a poly relationship with out consulting his spouse first. Nonetheless, the context within the episode makes his actions comprehensible, if nothing else.
Rudeus is within the distinctive scenario of getting misplaced his mother and father twice. The primary time in his previous life, he was so caught up in his trauma that his mother and father’ deaths virtually went unrecorded. This time, nevertheless, Paul’s demise (and Zenith’s psychological demise) leaves Rudeus emotionally devastated. That is made much more difficult as a result of in some methods he all the time felt like he wasn’t their “actual son.” Certain, he was biologically their little one, however his soul belonged to somebody who wasn’t associated. Solely after dropping them can he understand that he liked them simply as a lot as his mother and father did – far more than he ever realized.
Enter this Roxy: a lady who’s head over heels in love with Rudeus. She sees him in ache – not consuming or sleeping, nonetheless sporting his blood-spattered garments – and is aware of a approach to distract his ideas for the evening. So she seduces him, and in his weakened psychological state he offers in. Though it’s ostensibly a one evening stand, issues usually are not that easy.
Because the get together returns house, Rudeus is pressured to face the truth that he loves Roxy as a lot as he loves Sylphie (not stunning, since he idolizes Roxy a lot that he prays to her every day). Each he and Roxy can see that if she had met Rudeus once more earlier than Sylphie, she would virtually actually be his spouse now.
It’s right here that Rudeus comes into contact together with his Japanese morals. In his view, monogamous {couples} are the socially accepted norm. Nevertheless, that’s not the case on this world. As Elinalise reminds him, polygamy is taken into account comparatively regular exterior of the Milis religion. The rationale his father’s affair was so damaging to his household was merely the truth that Zenith was a religious follower of Milis. There’s each risk that Sylphie will settle for Roxy as one other lady of Rudeus. Fortunately, whereas Rudeus is a bit preoccupied together with his marriage proposal, Roxy is wise sufficient to postpone such discussions till Sylphie and Rudeus have sorted issues out.
Paradoxically, Rudeus’ betrayal of Sylphie brings Rudeus nearer to his father. When Paul confronted the same scenario, Rudeus vowed by no means to be like his father on this regard. However now that he’s in his father’s footwear, he understands the person higher. It is ironic, tragic, and greater than somewhat heartwarming.
Now to the meta perspective. I can not think about anybody not seeing this coming. From the start, Mushoku Tensei has had three essential heroines: Roxy, Eris and Sylphie. All three had been on equal footing. All of them met him as youngsters, met him once more as younger adults (or grew up with him in Eris’s case) and fell in love with him. In fact this is able to flip right into a harem/poly relationship.
That mentioned, I am regularly impressed by it Mushoku Tensei‘s willingness to confront style kinds like these head-on. The sequence does its finest to set the file straight: discover the attainable real-life penalties and the emotional fallout. This usually makes Rudeus come off as a jerk and leaves various individuals with gaping emotional wounds – but it surely’s arduous to say that it is not a compelling anime to observe.
If something, subsequent week’s episode appears to be like to be much more dramatic than this one. Not solely will we get Sylphie pregnant by a sister-wife dialog, Rudeus should break the information to Norn and Aisha – and I can not think about a world the place that ends effectively.
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Random ideas:
• Roxy has some critical shallowness points concerning her dimension and form. I hope her budding relationship with Rudeus will assist her on this space.
• I can not think about Elinalise proposing the answer to poly relationships if she does not suppose it is actually in everybody’s finest curiosity. There isn’t any means she may threat her relationship with Sylphie, that’s, the one member of her household who actually accepts and loves her, until this had been the case.
• Who had been the opposite members of the group that protected Zenith and Lilia on the return journey (a rogue and a mage, I believe)? Are they new staff, or have they all the time been there within the background at Lilia?
• I appreciated how Rudeus blindfolded everybody besides him and Elinalise when he went by the teleport gate. Nevertheless, I’m wondering how they managed to get the sleigh and the large armadillo down the steps and thru the teleporter blindfolded.
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