| Title | : | Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel) Vol. 7 |
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| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
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| Publication | : | First published August 25, 2015 |
Alone and forlorn, Rudeus arrives at the city of Rosenburg to search for his mother, Zenith. Despite his attempts to focus on the task at hand, Eris’ absence weighs heavy on his heart, and so Rudeus gambles on a dangerous new venture to distract himself from his newfound loneliness―accepting an A-rank job all by himself.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel) Vol. 7 Reviews
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This was one of the least "Mushoku Tensei"-ish volumes so far. The previous one finished that whole arc about getting teleported to the other end of the world, and then figuring out how to return home. I had expected that our protagonist (a forty seven years old guy who got reincarnated from Earth into a fantasy world while retaining all his memories, and who is now thirteen) would have travelled around with his love interest Eris (a redheaded stepchild), but Eris seduced him into losing her virginity (and obliterating his), and then she decided that she might as well disappear.
From Rudeus' (our protagonist) perspective, Eris fucked him, she thought he wasn't worthy of her time, and fucked off. He ends up depressed, lonely and with terrible self-esteem. He decides to travel north into some much colder lands in which many people have trouble getting by. His plan is to work as a freelancer for many adventuring parties and make himself famous in the process, hoping that his name would reach his missing mother's ears. He has to put on a mask of cordiality and general friendliness, because he won't get anywhere if he relies on his current feeling that everything he's done so far is meaningless, and that there's little point in continuing.
He gets tangled in the affairs of your average adventuring party: a tough frontliner, a kind and diplomatic mage and a feisty archer. The archer is a fifteen years old girl who hates Rudeus because he looks like a noble, and nobles failed to save the archer's (her name is Sara) family when some monsters attacked her village. Rudeus proves himself very useful with his advanced magical aptitudes. However, during an intense run in a dungeon, they almost get wiped out. Rudeus sticks around to shoot down as many enemies as possible, but Sara, knowing that Rudeus will get overwhelmed, returns and saves him. Later on, this adventuring party returns from a mission without one of the guys (confirmed dead) and Sara, who they haven't seen dying. Rudeus decides that he will repay her for having saved his life, so he ventures into a blizzard to save her in turn. Rudeus has weather modification magical abilities, so the main obstacle gets dispelled immediately. In any case, after some fighting, he ends up finding Sara quite battered, but both return alive.
From then on Sara becomes understandably more kind towards the protagonist, as well as intimately interested in him, or at least that seems to be the case. In the middle of all this, the protagonist was trying to avoid a bigshot local adventurer called Soldat, the leader of a hardcore party, who everytime he saw Rudeus he berated the protagonist for being a phony. Soldat could read that Rudeus was acting a role, and Soldat being a cynic that didn't want any part of Rudeus' "good-hearted, selfless freelancer" act, gave him shit constantly. In any case, Sara pushes hard for her and Rudeus to go up to his room and have sex. However, Rudeus can't get it up. He's come to associate now having sex with the betrayal he suffered at Eris' hands. The sexual encounter is a complete disaster, and as Sara leaves, she makes a point of insisting that she didn't really care for Rudeus that much, that this was her just trying to repay a debt.
Rudeus is broken. He knows he won't be able to take running into Sara again, which means no more adventuring with her party. As Rudeus drowns his sorrow with alcohol, Soldat comes in and berates Rudeus harder. The protagonist snaps, and his sixteen years old or something self attempts to beat Soldat up. The guy, however, doesn't fight back. He comes to feel that the protagonist wasn't a slimy phony, but someone who was trying to get through a very dark period of his life without ruining his relationships with everyone around him, as well as trying to find his missing mother in the process. Soldat learns that Rudeus' dick don't work no more, and accompanies him to visit a prostitute. The prostitute is a kind and dedicated woman, but Rudeus fails to get it up either.
As they leave the red district, both him and Soldat drunk nearly out of their minds, Sara and her party leader, both of who had been searching for Rudeus in case something terrible had happened to him, hear him say that Sara is a kid and that she can't compare with a real woman, or something to that effect. Sara slaps him, tells him to never contact her again. Rudeus also loses the respect of Sara's party's leader, someone who had been kind and who cared for him.
Rudeus has had enough, and nearly kills himself right then and there. Soldat offers him the alternative of simply leaving the city with him and adventuring with his party as something of an attached freelancer. Rudeus is eager to sever ties and go monk regarding any personal relationships of any kind, and he goes along with Soldat's offer without telling anybody.
Sara and her team come to the conclusion that something was up with Rudeus, and they convince an angry Sara to at least talk to him and figure out what mental state the protagonist was in. However, Sara learns that Rudeus has skipped town and that she will likely never see him again.
Rudeus spends around a year adventuring with Soldat's party. He doesn't feel any connection to them nor to the tasks he's performing: he's merely working for a paycheck. He hasn't gotten any closer to rescuing his mother. However, this volume ends with Elinalise, a horny elf that we know from the last volume was trying to locate Rudeus to tell him his mom's location, catching wind of where Rudeus has spent time recently.
Until this volume, Rudeus was a lighthearted, casually perverted kid who diligently worked to figure things out about his circumstances to make sure that he could keep the people he cared about safe. In this arc, Rudeus has no one, and he can't find in himself the interest to care about anyone. After his recent disappointments, he doesn't want to open himself up to any further pain.
I suppose that soon enough he'll try to enroll into the Ranoa university of magic, where likely his beloved childhood friend Sylphiette is studying, and that'll be a breath of fresh air for him.
By this point of the series, you are already invested in the characters. But it's a big fantasy world, and more often than not many characters we care about are busy not being in the same area as our protagonist, something that other isekai fantasies have done their best to avoid. In many ways, "Mushoku Tensei" is the oddest of the bunch. -
嗚嗚第二季動畫大概無望 只好看小說了
魯迪烏斯居然哭哭了一整集XDD 不過我本來就不喜歡艾莉絲所以...
總覺得兩個人還是比較像姊弟吧. 雖然艾莉絲是喜歡他沒錯, 但魯迪烏斯對她的情感就很微妙. 但以男性角度來說這樣也許就四捨五入算是愛情了? (作者應該是男的吧??)
下一本應該是學園了吧, 唉實在不喜歡學園題材, 希望不要連續太多本都耗在學園裡面啊~ -
Having finished seven of these books by now I'm surprised how the quality of this series never drops, if anything this is the best volume so far.
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Haven't read this volume on my first reading of the series. This is essentially a filler volume which explores the event during a timeskip after Eris leaves him.
Is this a necessary book for the overall plot? No, by definition filler is not an essential part of a story. But is this volume worth reading? Yes, absolutely. It explores Rudeus's character nicely and does good work to fill in blanks of the timeskip. -
Incuriosito dalla versione animata ho deciso di buttarmi sul mondo delle light novel. Si tratta di una lettura tutto sommato piacevole, però purtroppo certi aspetti sono trattati in maniera troppo superficiale.
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The new dynamic with the new cast of characters was refreshing
And while much of Sara’s interaction felt a bit of rehash of Eris’s, the very different demeanour and characterisation of Rudeus made it all feel exciting and new, although in a depressive way seemed more mature, although more self deprecating as well. And this sort of fulfilled my gripes in the my previous book’s review.
It really was sudden, and it really does haunt him. The departure of Eris, as well intended as was portrayed, has left rudeus in a rut.
The plot for searching for Zenith sort of gets aside, as we see rudeus spend a year... being depressed
The prose is still the same. Again is the tendency to explain away everything, which is fine, but I am increasingly left wanting at times
However, Sara’s voice did sound a little different from rudeus’s. a gripe I’ve raised before, where I found every character to sound like rudeus.
But I must mention. This is only the case in first person povs of different characters. In places where there is 3rd person narrative, the world and characters do shine more.
The twist and the slap at the end was a bit visceral lol
Anime like tropes but done well..??
But still the question I have is, what was the reason? If these escapades with the crimsons doesn’t lead to anything them it feels like a waste of time. But I do hope that we return to them, since despite the cliche like characters, it was a good time reading Rudy interact with new people.
Still read it, still enjoyed it
Can’t say I’m going to enjoy the “high school” plot though coming next volume
They even have a student council, so it speaks to the author’s origins as well
But I digress.
I can’t wait for the long awaited reunion between the 2 most powerful mages and I hope it is done some justice. -
Di volume kali ini diceritakan setelah ditinggalkan Eris, Rudeus kembali melanjutkan perjalanannya ke Utara Kerajaan Asura untuk mencari keberadaan ibunya. Dalam perjalanan ini, Rudeus akhirnya mendapatkan julukan Quagmire oleh para petualang karena kepandaiannya mengendalikan sihir tanah dalam membuat lumpur. Selain itu, nama Rudeus kian terkenal setelah ia berhasil melumpuhkan naga merah dengan seorang diri.
Dalam volume ini juga, Rudeus bertemu dengan Elinalise yang datang menemuinya untuk memberikan kabar mengenai keberadaan ibunya yang terdapat di benua begaritt. Di titik ini juga, Rudeus juga mendapatkan undangan oleh Akademi Sihir Ranoa untuk menjadi siswa khusus di akademi tersebut. Berkat saran Hitogami, Rudeus akhirnya memutuskan untuk menerima tawaran untuk melanjutkan pendidikan di Akademi Sihir Ranoa.
Ditemani oleh Elinalise, mereka berdua pergi untuk bersekolah di Akademi Sihir Ranoa. Ketika di Akademi, Rudeus bertemu dengan seorang senior bernama Fit-senpai. Di akademi juga, Rudeus juga bertemu dengan miko bernama Zanoba yang sempat membantunya ketika berada di Kerajaan Shirone. Kemudian di volume ini juga menceritakan kehidupan sekolah Rudeus selama di Akademi Ranoa dan kesehariannya dalam mencari info mengenai bencana teleportasi yang sempat dialaminya.
Jujur, volume kali ini cukup singkat jika dibandingkan dengan volume-volume sebelumnya. Namun, cukup menyenangkan akhirnya Rudeus bisa memasuki sekolah lagi. Dan aku percaya pasti akan banyak misteri yang terungkap selama Rudeus di sekolah, terutama mengenai siapa sebenarnya Fit-senpai. Aku juga menantikan di volume-volume selanjutnya dapat menceritakan perkembangan kemampuan Rudeus lagi. -
I love this series!!! After finishing the anime(just one season right now) I had to keep going with the series!
Getting to have more behind Rudeus’s mind and personal struggles was a nice touched to picking the light novel vs manga. We get to see a big turning point in Rudeus and his life as a growing teenager. Loss of first love, struggles with intimacy, and being confused of who you are and what your purpose is is what makes this series stand out in its genre.
A lot of people have issue with this series for seeming like pedo fuel, but it honestly hands coming of age and teens experiencing sex and love really well without coming off as porn. *flares are Where the Crawdads Sing* nothing is wrong with tackling the subject, it’s when it’s handled wrong when it’s an issue, and I feel like the author takes it very seriously on how they handle it. -
Great Read
Rudeus is broken hearted over the disappearance of Eris. He throws himself into dangerous adventure guild jobs, but ends up working with other parties as temporary help. He builds a name for himself in hopes of his mother hearing about him. Sara is a young archer who takes an instant dislike to him. However, she softens when he rescues her after she is left for dead. Unfortunately, as their relationship becomes more intimate, erectile disfunction rears it's head to cause mutual misunderstandings that disrupt their budding romance. I like the action, humor, and tentative romance. I look forward to the next book. -
Really good book. I love the new depression arc and how everything transpired. Furthermore, a big thing that I noticed was that compared to other isekai manga/anime when the protagonist gets in a similar situation to rudeus normally they would get really powerful and become a solo player(solo leveling/tbate). However, Rudeus was just a normal person who wanted to live a basic life and help people. With the ending of the novel being about the ranoa magic university I hope that since Rudeus is near the university since he has been traveling around that area that he will go to school there like he has wanted todo since the first book.
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This is the first light novel I have to look for because I can't wait for what will happen after the third season of anime (which is already amazing). It stands true to the spirit of Isekai. It describes the thoughts and sufferings of the main character so true that I can also relate. Definitely recommend!
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Una historia interesante, un poco más tranquila que el resto, pero que da una visión muy realista de las consecuencias del abandono y como estas pueden no solo mermar, si no que afectar directamente el actuar de un hombre.
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Rudeus's pain is so clearly seen throughout the book. The trauma left behind by Eris, so clearly haunts him.. It kinda brought tears to my eyes.
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I like it, but isn’t the best at the moment, this volume was 3/4 boredom, the best come at the end.
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Libro de relleno
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Half of this book is just seeing a deeply emasculated man being miserable and oh boy am I here for it
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So having finished and been head over heels for the anime, I decided to take upon my second light novel series, ever. Mushoten's anime was an extension of S&W for me in many aspects. Truth be told, the writing of the LN is nothing alike S&W, mostly due to Rudy's behaviour, but I trust it'll improve over time in regards of the author and the characters.
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amazing
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What a great side story, I hope Rudeus gets to meet Sara again down the road.
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Doesn't like the fact the red hair leave him
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4.5
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3.5
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No me aburrió pero tampoco fue lo mejor, sin embargo varios de los nuevos personajes me encantaron sobre todo Soldat Heckler y Timothy.
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The Adventure still continue. It's to find her mother, The main character hopping from town to town.
