Mushoku Tensei Author Responds to Harassment and Slander

[00:00] Bro, the animator's barely disguised fetish. Like, what do you mean they're going to go with the highly detailed grippers for this scene for Aerys? Like, there there is this whole sequence right here where straight up it just like

[00:15] Aerys dives off the cliff to train and you just see the full front view of her feet. It's like, bro, you you know, yeah, yeah, you do. Yeah. You know for a fact whoever animated this, they are they they love

[00:31] feet. Okay, that they 100% they love feet because like what do you mean? Now, with that being said, and now that I got your attention, we need to talk about the main subject of this video, and that is the um harassment, slander, and drama

[00:46] that has been circulating around Mushiku Tensei, but also the author um actually kind of commenting and confronting all the slander that the series has been getting since season 3 started to air over a week ago. And so I want to uh

[01:02] right here. So basically someone responded to the offer on June 15th. And this was a post made on um July 12th. Basically this was almost a month later

[01:15] that this quote retweet happened. And someone said in Japanese, as you could see, said, "Bro, listen up for a second. We're on your side, especially voices from overseas, let alone from the West. You don't need to pay them any mind. I

[01:28] Why the hell do you have to care about what other people think? Just ignore the haters. You don't need to worry about overseas viewers. Keep making your work fans, I want you to keep drawing more manga and light novels like this from

[01:46] alone. We're your fans, and we'll always have your back. Don't let slander or trolls get to you. Just make the work uh make the work you want to make freely. prepping for season 4 right now. You don't need to sweat the criticism

[02:04] blowing up on X about this anime. X is full of overseas folks who have no like Musha Coutensei from now on. That way even more fans can enjoy it. Uh we

[02:16] love you Rujin. And so Rujin actually responded to this uh post literally yesterday and said thank you. But even without being told, I most ignore the

[02:28] aunties. I'll talk about that in a second. Auntie's comments anyway, and I'll write the work I want to create for myself. I've been doing that all along, and that's what I have been saying. I don't have the decision-making power on

[02:40] whether to make season 4 or not. But if it's decided to if it's decide to make it, I'll do my utmost to help as much as I can. So basically this is a very short and simple response but it kind of clarifies and the offer doubles down on

[02:55] what they've already said in the past. For those that have no idea what I mean by that is Rujim the offer of Mushikutensei has a track record a history of basically doing whatever the [ __ ] he wants. He he he will not censor

[03:09] himself. This man has went on record on official post and stuff saying that he is not going to censor himself. He's not going to bend the knee. He writes what he wants to write. He writes for himself and he will even gatekeep his own work

[03:21] to himself. For instance, he will write something that's amazing, but he will only allow himself to read and see it and nobody else in the entire world will is next level gatekeeping, which honestly I I I respect it. I I really

[03:36] do. But the point here is is that the author of Mushku Tensei has always basically stood firm in their beliefs that they will not censor themselves and that they will continue to write fiction that they want to write and problematic

[03:49] themes if they want to write stuff like that. And more or less this entire statement is a double down or in this case triple or quadruple down than anything else at this point. But one of the big things that is really drawing a

[04:01] lot of interest from this post I think is very important is his statement right here. ignore the auntie's comments. Anyways, now for those that have no idea what this dialogue means, let me um let me give some little bit of details. So,

[04:16] anti is a pretty used term in the anime manga community for those that try to defend fictional content. For instance, the lolli body type. And the fact that you have Rifuja, the author of Musha Kotensei, literally saying aunties is a

[04:32] pretty interesting statement. Now, obviously this could be just a Google translate or a GR translate doing finicky stuff and maybe this is not know, translate it in the comments and see for yourself. But basically,

[04:46] aunties, at least in the conversation piece around Mushiku Tensei and other represents like, you know, problematic character designs. And the fact that the

[04:58] author said something like this is just really interesting. It leads me to believe that he is very much aware of the controversy around for instance the loi body type that is obviously kind of dumbed down to body shaming at this

[05:12] point, but also just the fact that he said this shows that he is very much aware of all of the harassment that has been happening for the series. And I know for a fact regardless of him putting on a front and a strong, you

[05:26] know, front and face and all that trying to show that it's not affecting him. At the end of the day, I know for a fact there is probably a certain aspect of it Refuge since he's been on the internet for a very long time and he is someone

[05:42] problematic in this day and age. it um is something that uh has probably drawn him a lot of criticism for almost a decade plus. So I do think that he's probably grown accustomed to it, but I do think since Mushkotensei has reached

[05:58] to such a wider audience in these last few years, it's probably something that or back down or get scared or not want to say what he wants to say because I,

[06:10] that he literally is just saying this so publicly in front of everyone, mad respect, honestly. I really, really love this man. He is probably one of my

[06:22] favorite offers in a very long time because he stands by what he believes. But um yeah, it's um it's a little bit sad as well though, the fact that he it shows he is aware. He is very much aware of what has been going on. And I

[06:39] that on his tweets. And I cannot imagine his DMs, like his direct messages on what they look like and all that because uh just the crazy stuff I get. I cannot imagine what he gets in his DMs. So, oh my goodness. is probably an absolute

[06:54] nightmare in terms of if you try to read through all of them. With that being said though, I um really I I think there is one thing I do also want to point out that's very fascinating about this situation and

[07:07] that is the fact that Mushiku Tensei apparently is doing very well in Japan. Japanese anime rankings. So basically, Mushiku Tensei is doing so well in Japan

[07:20] that it's ranking incredibly high, which is very fascinating because obviously Mushiku Tensei has been uh doing suboptimal, so to speak, when it comes to IMDb. For those that don't know, it's basically something that's become very

[07:33] popular as of late for a lot of different popular anime to be rated ratings for IMDb. And um basically when Re:Zero was coming out, it was getting

[07:45] constant nines and tens. JJK is well got stuff like that soul leveling. You get ratings that are kind of in the sevens and the eights and it's it's kind of weird because it's like the episodes are just without even trying to be biased. I

[07:59] mean there is a layer of bias because I love the series, but they're really good episodes. Like it is actually incredible. And the fact that they're someone watching Mushik Gutensei and you're three seasons deep, it is weird

[08:14] to see so many one out of 10 ratings on the episodes. And I did a little bit of looking into it and um a lot of the ratings truthfully I I'm just going to ratings and you sort by countries, a lot of the one out of 10 or two out of 10

[08:30] ratings is from India. Now I'm just going to be blunt here. The country is known for botting and scams and stuff like that. I'm just I'm just gonna say it like it is. We all know it's that's just I'm gonna say the facts. And pretty

[08:44] much Mushkutensei is getting stuff like this and it's very strange. Like it just when you see stuff like that on IMDb, it just it feels, you know, like it's with a lot of the u the ReZero community basically trying to shove Mushkuti into

[09:00] the dirt, it honestly is just very annoying. So, if you enjoyed my video, also leave a comment. It helps with the algorithm and more people to discover my

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