Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
bluexnils
I honestly don’t get the massive hype at all — if anything, the show straight-up disgusts me. Mushoku Tensei feels like one of the very few places where pedophilia isn’t just tolerated, but actively defended or even celebrated by parts of the fanbase.
Season one was somewhat interesting, if you ignore the disgusting and cringe moments for a second. The animation is obviously amazing, the overall journey has potential, and a lot of the side characters are genuinely cool.
But season two? For me it mostly revolves around fixing his impotence so he can go back to sleeping with minors. And that’s somehow framed as meaningful character development.
What really annoys me is the mental gymnastics people use to justify it. On one hand, they argue that “he’s basically just a kid too.” On the other…
Read at the sourceAlissfontes
There are some really cool elements here, and even some of the problematic character interactions are interesting and funny in their own way, but there are some really terrible anime tropes in this series that make it hard to recommend to anyone I know.
Over-sexualization and excessive fan service frequently diminish the potential of shows like this, turning what could be extraordinary into just another forgettable series. What's the attraction of a panty shot during a supposedly intense, perilous scene? Or prominently displaying large breasts for no other reason than to showcase them? Or the harem genre overall, which might be interesting if it weren't for the absurd manner in which these women fawn over the main character.
Read at the sourcesadamhusssain
not good
Is the story unique? no
If it was predictable, did you enjoy it anyway because you like this genre/set-up? no
Do you think the art style is fitting for the story? meh
Were the characters well-rounded? no
Did they have flaws and strengths, or were they one dimentional cardboard cutouts? so one dimentional it rivals the trashy seasonal isekais
Did the characters react to situations and events in a realistic way? no
Do you think others will enjoy/dislike this series, even if you didn't? Why? no cus its bad
anime list lemme post this shi I don't wanna write an entire essay to be able to publish a review
Read at the sourceDISKOWN
The first installment of Mushoku Tensei II: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu falls short of expectations. While it maintains visual and animation standards akin to the prior season, it notably reduces the intensity and quantity of its action sequences. Instead, the focus shifts towards exploring interpersonal dynamics and emotions. Although this shift isn't inherently negative, Part 1 unfolds at a noticeably slower pace. Additionally, several of the new characters are introduced to the series through supplementary side content rather than within the primary storyline. Apart from Rudeus’s introspective journey and trauma resolution, the core storyline lacks substantial content, adding to the sluggish pacing of the installment. Moreover, Mushoku Tensei II: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu Part 1 fails to pr…
Read at the sourceShiro099
Absolutely dog shit! Not recommended at all.
Story starts from were it ended, nothing too extraordinary MC forgets his mother and again started to fuck around, basically he only think from his dick, mopping over Eris left him, he got so delusion about it that he got ED well what would you expect from a pedophile.
animation was pretty mediocre in 2nd season only priority scenes were well animated.
Sound design was pretty medicore as well as the OsT, there's litrally nothing to expect anything from the MC.
Author need to just make a hentai it would be far better for him, everyone in the series is horny as fuck wanting to get laid.
Not recommended watching at all.
Read at the sourceDOSS300
After the controversial ending of it’s first season, I was expecting the second season would somehow address the issues I and many others had with this series. The second season not only fails to improve any of the shortcomings of Mushoku Tensei, it doubles down on them. Almost every aspect I praised about the earlier parts of this series, has either been watered down or been removed completely. Except for one or two, none of the new characters are at all interesting, worldbuilding has been put to the wayside, production values has had a noticeable downgrade, and this season was just an unbearable booooring slog to sit through. Like an entire span of episodes where almost nothing happens, even the most cliche high school anime would have had me more engaged during it’s runtime.
Characters…
Read at the sourceBarrakudr
This show is so.. SO BAD. I just can't believe that it's considered peak fantasy by so many people. This season's starting arc was the worst part, I truly considered to rate the whole season 3/10 because of the sheer physical pain from it's storytelling. I'm not joking, can't imagine that there is even one single person who didn't cringe from Rudy's maniacal obsession over Roxy's panties. In every stressful or just really any emotional moment in the first arc, the panties must play a role - he squeeses them in his pocket or smells them, or just thinks of them. It's so pathetic and cringe, I just can't take it. And the story is centered around his pp not getting hard, because his ex-loli girlfriend (she's like 14-15? when they sleeped together and he's >30yo + 15 (in isekai world) - that's…
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I reupload my review. I was scared when I saw Gigguk's video because some people decided to trashtalk me in my comment section.
So i decided to temporary delete my review. Hope that you will remain polite, my opinion stay just my opinion.
If you're too busy to read the whole summary here are two points from my review:
- BAD ANIMATION
- BAD ARC
First of all, please take note that I am a big fan of Mushoku, and therefore I have high expectations.
If you like the season 1 for animation, battle scene, scenario... , I couldn't recommended you to watch this part.
This arc is like a wide pause between some interesting arc. An arc focus on a "slice of life/romance" life of Rudeus.
The main plot of this arc is the fact that the MC suffer of an ED and want to find a solution to cure it.
We will j…
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The ending of the first season left the story in a really awkward place. With two of our three protagonists getting deleted from the story and Rudeus turning into a bit of a doomer, there was always going to be some weirdness to the transition. While I do think that they could have handled it much better and there are problems that really didn't need to be there (mostly concerning Rudeus), the end of the third episode left me hopeful for what was to come. Sure, Sara is no substitute for Eris and Soldat didn't exactly put his best foot forward, but I could see that with some time they could be molded into a solid cast of characters. Sike, we are going to Hogwarts now. Fuck all the time spent on these guys, you arent going to see them ever again. You would think that Rudeus would have better…
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Mushoku Tensei II: Welcome to Incel Hogwarts
Just watch Ep4, Ep9, Ep11 and Ep12 and you'll miss absolutely nothing of consequence. This season has all the trappings of a filler arc, but I'm told it is actually a quite condensed version of what happens in the manga. God knows what dreck they must have cut if THIS is what we're left with.
Story: This season the plot alternates between Rudy crying and Rudy assaulting a series of teenage girls in an attempt to reclaim his manhood. His erectile dysfunction is a physical manifestation of his depression and anxiety, but the episodes spend an inordinate amount of time focusing on the symptom and not on the cause.
Artwork: Basically fine. The cracks show during fast-paced action sequences involving magic as it seems like there are frames missing…
Read at the sourcesedziwoj
So it should be Isekai, Adventure, Fantasy, but what we get is School Drama.
All this is better done by many other anime, more emotions and character are better build than in this one. Plot armor are used too, so happen that falling, so happen that land on x, so happen that it was in y place, and... yeah. (and was few of this multiple things happen at once so scene could happen)
Animation is bad, but I watched a lot worst and it didn't stop me, because story was interesting, this... I skip some episodes, because they was nothing interesting in them. 90% of this season could be skip if someone introduced herself as normal person would do.
MC problem which take 5% of season or more, yeah is a problem, but when you mother is missing, when you still searching others you care, it can wait, be…
Read at the sourceOda_Sakunoske
That season is absolutely disappointing. As someone who read the whole LN multiple times I can say that while they're following the story quite well, they are throwing out some of the small but important phrases and jokes so some of the scenes make much less sense and may be confusing. What's even worse, the quality of the show in general dropped drastically compared to the first season(which was amazing, by tha way). It's painful to look at those cheap animations, poorly drawn frames and other stuff after what the've done in the first season. Hope it would change later, because the story itself is amazing and I'm really looking forward to it being animated
Read at the sourceAlphaG74
Look how they massacred my boy...
I wont build an objective critic about this, I'm really disapointed by this season.
I think MT season 1 was a masterpiece, especially part 2. I genuinely think Mushoku Tensei is the best anime I've ever watched, despite the fact that there are a lot of really out of pocket "ecchi" scenes I cannot bear, they did depict a man that is deranged, scarred by his previous life and those scenes brought authenticity to the character of Rudeus.
As we follow him on his journey we watched him grow much more mature, responsible, sociable, we witnessed the rebirth of a man who wanted to change.
But in this season, we saw a pathetic downfall, of our main character, wandering in low tier "humor" (can we really call that humor?), and following the pityful quest of the los…
Read at the sourceGsarthotegga
Season 2 got off to a rocky start with the episode 0 special, having largely unimpressive production values and only serving to establish various supporting characters who didn't yet have enough of a stake in the story to be compelling on their own or are more reliant on dynamics with other characters. From what I've heard, the problem here is an adaptation dilemma. Once we get to episode 5, Rudy meets Fitz, but we already know this is Sylphy in disguise. In the light novel series, Sylphy's identity and the events of episode 0 are revealed later on. Since this is a visual adaptation with voice acting, Sylphy's identity would be obvious either way, and Rudy comes off as a dolt for not noticing; there are so many clues (on top of the direct admission) given to the audience that one might que…
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What a terrible run, what was once an interesting anime in a sea of generic isekai has become yet another generic isekai.
This season is basically divided in two parts: the first one is mostly about Rudeus having a relationship with a side character that gives of that filler feeling to it since they won't have any active role or relevance to the main story; the second part is about Rudeus meeting Sylphie, but they just keep on stalling this meet, or rather having Sylphiette reveal who she really is.
This season is also the cringiest so far, edginess levels that are very embarrassing to watch, the first part is the worst.
And we spend 12 episodes with Rudeus trying to fix his impotence, I am baffled with how bad the story is written, at times we are supposed to believe he is a 15 years o…
Read at the sourceAntithesis
Everything this anime was praised for in the first season--high production values, cinematic direction, extensive worldbuilding and engaging turning points--is now nonexistent as it hones in on all the things that made this a nauseatingly unpalatable work from the very beginning. The only thing that remains this season is what Mushoku Tensei has always been at its core: An unsophisticated and unprofessional generic power fantasy isekai with fetishistic eroticism as its defining characteristic.
Mushoku Tensei wants to have its cake and eat it by being a pensive fantasy epic about redemption with immersive worldbuilding whilst incorporating trashy seasonal ecchi power fantasy elements operating on hentai logic into its narrative. Instead, the former narrative style gets engulfed by the lat…
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This very well might be the most controversial anime of the last few years. I want to make one thing clear though. Mushoku Tensei is an anime and Light Novel, NOT a political statement. Are the controversial aspects of MT cause for concern and gaping holes in the consistency of the show? Depends on how you look at it. But it isn't fair to the series if it is judged based on today's standards as it is clearly in some medieval/fantasy world.
Mushoku Tensei season two can be separated into two arcs essentially, the post-Eris adventuring arc and then the Ronoa school of magic arc. The first arc is standard Mushoku Tensei, business as usual. Rudy, being the stud that he is, goes adventuring solo, finds a group of people, and does his thing. Obviously, I don't want to spoil things but then he…
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Studio Bind continue to show the world what a masterclass in adaptation looks like. Monologue omissions and minor detail changes aside, Mushoku Tensei Season 2 captures the spirit of the Light Novel in a way that few other anime adaptations have, and shines brightly as a paradigm of fantasy writing.
This season really exemplifies why me and so many others love Mushoku Tensei. The richness of the world, Rudeus’ character development, and how real all the characters feel is on full display. Thanks to Bind’s beautiful direction, you really get a sense that you’re right there in the world with Rudeus. Growing and learning alongside him. The main theme of this season is accepting loss and moving forward. Following last season’s finale, Rudeus is a broken husk of himself. Literally at rock bott…
Read at the sourceLucianael
...I don't delete my old writing, something something transparency type shit, but dear god, I don't recommend anyone read this. It's not good, doesn't make me look good (how terrible), just overall quite dumb. If you still want to read it, you do you, but don't you dare think that this implicates me; I am an enlightened centrist now, all quibbles of the past are beneath me, I have seen god and speak his words, my voice is that of reason, and I no longer make any mistakes ever.
I have also updated this review from an 8/10 recommended to a 5/10 Not Recommended, because I don't want my old ignorance to still influence the review statistics.
[So, a quick disclaimer, I like this show, so if you think that because of that my opinion is invalid, kindly piss off]
If you don’t care about the co…
Read at the sourceTheRealist68
Imagine this scenario. You get home after a long day of work and doordash some orange chicken from your local Chinese restaurant. When you receive your food, you realize that your little to-go container doesn’t have orange chicken in it; hell, it doesn’t even have Chinese food in it. You stare down 3 tacos, chips and queso, and a fucking canned horchata from a Mexican restaurant you’ve never heard of. You have more questions than answers, especially since both restaurants can’t do anything about it and Doordash is offering you an insulting 6.90 in credit off of your 25-dollar meal as a pittance. With no other options, you eat that meal, and it’s damn good, about as good as that orange chicken you were supposed to have. You’re able to go to sleep that night in a fairly positive mood, althou…
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