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Mushoku Tensei (WN)
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Rating(4.3 / 5.0, 1277 votes)
5 | 70% (889 votes) |
4 | 13% (162 votes) |
3 | 5% (66 votes) |
2 | 4% (50 votes) |
1 | 9% (110 votes) |
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One entry per lineYear
Example: 2012
2012
Status in COO
Status in Country of Origin. One entry per line
24 Volumes / 261 Chapters (Complete)
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Yes
Completely Translated
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One entry per lineEnglish Publisher
One entry per lineRelease Frequency
Every 217.6 Day(s)Activity Stats [Graph]
Weekly Rank: #10271Monthly Rank: #3280
All Time Rank: #1288
Reading List [Graph]
On 12684 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #5171
All Time Rank: #138
Description
Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.A 34-year-old NEET otaku, chased out from his house by his family, found that his life is reaching a dead end. He then recalled that his life could actually have been much better if he had made better choices in the past.
Just when he was at the point of regret, he saw a truck moving at fast speed, and three high schoolers in its path. Mustering all the strength he had, he tried to save them and ended getting run over by the truck, quickly ending his life.
The next time he opened his eyes, he is reincarnated to a world of sword and magic as Rudeus Greyrat. Born to a new world, a new life, Rudeus decided that, “This time, I’ll really live my life to the fullest with no regret!” Thus starts the journey of a man yearning to restart his life.
Associated Names
One entry per lineJobless Reincarnation ~ It will be All Out if I Go to Another World ~
無職転生
無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~
無職転生
無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~
Related Series
Mushoku Tensei Redundancy (Side Story)Mushoku Tensei (LN) (Light Novel)Mushoku Tensei – Jobless Oblige (Spin-Off)Mushoku Tensei – Old Dragon’s Tale (Spin-Off)Mushoku Tensei: Subjugation of the King Dragon King. (Spin-Off)Recommendations
Sevens (6)The Second Coming of Gluttony (5)
Release that Witch (4)
Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) (4)
The Elf Is a Freeloader (3)
Dream Life (3)
Recommendation Lists
Date | Group | Release |
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11/14/21 | Mushoku Tensei Discord | christmas 2019 ss |
12/24/17 | Ebisu Translations | Christmas 2016 ss |
05/16/15 | Kaezar Translations | v24 epilogue |
05/16/15 | Kaezar Translations | v24 final story |
05/16/15 | Kaezar Translations | v24 side story |
05/16/15 | Kaezar Translations | v24c261 |
05/16/15 | Kaezar Translations | v24c260 |
05/11/15 | Kaezar Translations | v23c259 |
05/06/15 | Kaezar Translations | v23c258 |
05/02/15 | Kaezar Translations | v23c257 |
04/29/15 | Kaezar Translations | v23c256 |
04/28/15 | Kaezar Translations | v23c255 |
04/27/15 | Kaezar Translations | v23c254 |
04/27/15 | Kaezar Translations | v23c253 |
04/22/15 | Kaezar Translations | v23c252 |
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The story is about the life of a person, and doesn't solve all problems. It's great that the world does not only revolve around the MC, as I might to get to see more from this world in the future.
It really seems like Rudi never gets any stronger once he entered school. He doesn't learn any of the spells that the alternate Rudi learned. In fact, all his increased power comes from equipment made by his friends.
MC goes into the base to free the s*aves. He enters the room and sees the s*aves, who are all kids. His resulting thought process immediately upon entering the room is this. "Holy crap what?! These kids are all beast people?! And they look just how they do in the
'comics' ?!" *See's brutal maiming and scars on kids* ".... This is f*cked up as all hell" and then he proceeds to decimate the filthy s*ave traders. How would you feel if you walked into a room full of naked people of the opposite sex? His reaction is realistic, and it separates him from a lot of other MC's who are too thick in the head to be anything but a neanderthal. He actually recognizes s*xual stuff for what it is instead of ignoring it. He's the kind of guy who steals panties but then never actually looks at them naked. Not out of cowardice, it's that he has a line he doesn't cross. He's like Sanji from One Piece but he is actually good enough to get laid.
He actually never wanted a harem. He was adamantly against it. His 'one wife for life' upbringing was strong, hence why it hit him so hard when the first girl he slept with ran away without explaining. Some people think the fact that the first girl he slept with ran off was unrealistic, but the actions she took lined up pretty well with her established character and the events leading up to that very moment (if people would FREAKING READ THE STORY). Anyway, he gets married to someone else, then the first girl comes back and expects him to be with her. But the MC is mad that she left him without telling him her reasons for doing so and plans to reject her. Why does he accept her in the end?
His future self comes back in time to tell him how his wife eventually dies, and the first girl (Eris) endlessly tried to comfort him. He rejects her for 40 years after as respect for his wife. Eventually she dies saving his life, not out of lust, but because she just cares so much about him. He realizes how cruel he was for rejecting someone who would literally follow him for 50 years just to die saving his life. This was, like, one of the 5 good reasons his future self decided to travel back in time with a su*cide spell to warn his past self.
. The harem is slow, and the fact that the MC, despite his residual pe*verted personality, did NOT want a harem in the first place really speaks to his true character.
The MC is still a little kid after reincarnation. Despite wanting to go outside to explore the fantasy world, he gets serious anxiety from the combination of having experienced death and failure from attempting to be outgoing in his previous life. His parents hire a mage to teach him magic, and with her help he finally overcomes his fears. (I say he overcomes fears, but it's more accurate to say he overcomes the shackles of buried shame he had been carrying all of his past life. It's serious stuff.). She teaches him magic stuff for a couple years, and then when she is leaving she gives him a trinket (which later in the story saves his life).... And also a single pair of panties by accident. Whenever he is anxious, or see's someone who is extremely anxious, he thinks of his teacher and takes action with confidence. His memory of her is like his fallback. Hence why he started idolizing her when it why time for her to leave. Why did he worship the panties instead of the trinket??? Because it's FUNNY. Some people just don't understand the concept of a running gag. And yes, he DOES pray to BOTH the panties and the trinket.
[Original review]:
This story was enjoyable even though it dabbled in a ton of cliches. Here are the key points that make this story great where other reincarnation novel fail:
Most stories mess up the initial image of the 'tr*sh neet'. In this story, the MC is a (literally) nameless nobody who continues to live off of his parent's money even though they are already dead. He is so numb he didn't even go to their funerals. While in the past he had always had the potential to be a superior version of himself, his fear of the unknown and the natural desire to separate oneself from others out of guilt and self loathing cause him to become a wasted recluse. He drowned himself in the internet and 'stuff' to numb the pain.
The KEY part of this setting is that the MC has no 'real name'.
This is something DELIBERATELY done for effect. In the future in the magic world, an old battered future version of himself comes back to past in order to warn himself and uses his real name as proof, a name that has never ever been spoken in the magic world.
"I am from the future. My name is _________." The MC recognizes it as his own name from the 'real world'
I can't even remember a single of the japanese names of countless other reincarnation stories of the same genre. This is done so that YOU the reader can insert YOURSELF into the story indirectly. While you have no control over the plot or some of the dumb things the MC does, his flaws being resolved are ones that all people can relate to one way or another. You can sense that the MC is REALLY trying to turn his life around, so much that he has to continuously challenge himself in order to not allow himself to be satisfied with 'just enough' because being 'just enough' is what lead him to this position in the first place (The MC has a legitimate and justified fear of becoming complacent). Like this, you end up legitimately cheering him on from the sidelines, because his thought process, history, and overall character is centered on relatability.
Because it's embarrassing. You don't like to see YOUR character lose at all. It just feels bad, right? Anyone who has an Original Character of their own know about this. They end up giving their character no flaws, and typically, a fantasy power that has limitless potential. It makes for a boring story.
Here, the MC's 'edge' is having being born an infant with the mind of a 40 year old millennial. Once he gets the chance, he trains himself to grow in magic. The 'cheat' is that in this world, long ardurous (and cheesy) chants must be used to utilize magic, but the MC can ignore it. This isn't exactly an exclusive cheat, as he easily teaches it to a friend of his. He simply discovered that magic growth scales much greater at a child's infancy stage. As a result, the MC has about 5 times more magic than the average mage at around 6 years old and needs no chants. While his growth is good at first, his magic growth stagnates at a certain point. He got to where he was using basic science, and molecular theory.
While this seems like an absolute cheat, he has defined weaknesses he must overcome.
Basically, the MC is not the strongest. At his peak at the end of the series, he is placed 7th in the world ranking of power. This is a generous assessment, as ANY of the higher rankers can most certainly kill him. Even after aquiring an ability to see 2 seconds into the future, in his hands it's about as useful as observation haki in One Piece.
- The three female characters that the MC eventually falls in love with get introduced early on. Now, I honestly hate harem stories. It is the red flag that turns me away from a story. One thing that makes harems disgusting is the fact that the girls unconditionally throw themselves on the MC and fail to develop any sort of interesting character traits that differ from 'being with the MC'. And honestly? This story is no different.
What this story DID do differently was space things out. At the start of the story, the plot set one girl to be his main love interest where two others would become side accompaniments. But then bam, the main love interest and the MC get separated for years. MC gets paired up with one of the accompaniment girls and both get thrown into the wild, on a separate continent. After getting a guide, and taking years to get back to their home, the girl finds out her family was wiped out. In despair, the two hook up, but the girl finds she is lacking so leaves to go train. However, the MC gets no warning, so his heart is legitimately broken in the face of being dumped HARD. After wandering for years in the mountains (so depressed he is impotent) in search of his mother who went missing, he goes to a magic school to find how to cure his annoying and depressing impotence. There he meets girl number 1 finally after years. After ALOT of drama, they finally get together and get married. He gets word of where is mother is being held, so drops everything to join his dad in rescuing her. This is where they meet up with accompaniment girl #2. His dad dies saving his mom, who has become a vegetable. While the MC is depressed, girl 2 sneaks into his life by essentially taking advantage of his depressed state away from his wife. Feeling he must take responsibility, he accepts her as his second wife. And then the first girl her hooked up with comes crashing into his life after finishing her training. Which is why he has a harem. And honestly, it is pushing it with the harem. However, the plot is so integrated and layed out I can't deny it is the best setup for a harem I have read. To me this is one of the best web novels ever and certainly one of the best 'in another world' stories.-
- The antagonist/main enemy does not fall into a "demon king" trope.
Mushoku Tensei is the best in its genre. This story is about the life of Rudeus Greyrat.