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Mushoku Tensei: Valid Criticism

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  Mushoku Tensei has always been a show with morally debatable characters. In the second episode, we see a man disregard his parent's funeral to masturbate at home. In the fourth episode, we see a man cheat on his wife and impregnate his maid. And in the sixth episode, we see a man who molests a child thrice below his mental age. There has almost never been an episode where I did not see arguments on the common themes of sexual objectification and chauvinism in the show. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many has been turned off by the perverted nature our protagonist Rudeus exudes. At best he would enact voyeurism or gawk at any female with a sliver of human skin. At worse, he would talk about grooming a child to be his perfect wife or commit sexual assault on a minor. These are all acts that are no doubt morally reprehensible in modern conventions. The common counterarguments then would be that the world of Mushoku Tensei is not modern. Taking place in the morally-archaic medieval era, it