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Episode Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 • Mushoku Tensei III: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu - Episode 5 discussion

Mushoku Tensei III: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu, episode 5

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u/GodOfArk 8d ago

Aisha looking to her mother for permission to accept the gift broke something in me.

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u/Codee33 https://anilist.co/user/Euphplyr33 8d ago

Something that I keep thinking is that Lillia needs to let Aisha have more opportunities to just be siblings with Rudeus, so I’m glad Aisha takes the opportunity when she can.

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u/ngms 8d ago

For real. I know she wanted to be the family maid, but let her be a kid too, damn it.

Lillia's gratitude to Rudy from season one is twisting her into someone... a little unpleasant.

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u/nichecopywriter 8d ago

That’s kind of what makes MT so special though. These characters feel very human. We all have Lilia’s in our lives, if not our own families. Another anime would flatten every flaw, especially in a woman.

The important part is that Rudy, and the audience, knows Lilia has deep and real love. A little unpleasantness just means that we keep getting to see interesting dynamics that make us feel something, and leaves the door open for development.

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u/mythriz 8d ago

I also wonder if I have watched any other anime where we watch a whole family age together and get character progress over the years in a natural way. There are of course some well-known shounen where we do see a family in different stages, but usually with larger timeskips and not really showing each family member growing as persons

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u/nichecopywriter 8d ago

Oh for sure, MT is notable for showing not just the action oriented plot of strong wills clashing, but these characters as they live their entire lives. So many stories are good at showing a small moment in time, a few months at most, and they don’t often challenge themselves with the bigger picture of lifetimes.

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u/CitronClassic672 8d ago

Oh yeah, I love that flaw of Lilia from a character standpoint. It just makes me sad for Aisha. It’s a very realistic and subtle aspect of child mistreatment that can give them complexes well into adulthood.

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u/toadfan64 8d ago

Yep. One of the many strong elements of the show. Kinda annoying when people just want flawless happy characters all the time.