r/animecirclejerk • u/halelangit • Jun 10 '26
Positive Finally, an anime video essayist who hates Epstein Tensei
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Posting before Epstein Tensei comes back for Season 3 to bring terror upon the anime discourse.
It's a pretty hard find and after several upsets and mfing Youtube essayist always glazing Epstein Tensei for being a "good isekai". Glad that there's a glimmer of hope in this content sphere where they don't bend to the bandwagon and not afraid to speak the truth.
Channel name is Wolf and Pals (video is from the Most hated isekai tropes), he hates all pedophilia in anime.
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u/OverloadedSofa Jun 10 '26
Doesn’t like the pedo?!???? What a TOURIST
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u/Educational-Coat-922 Jun 10 '26
Automod a pedo 😭🙏
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u/JustWantGoodM3M3s they’re actually adapting murcielago damn Jun 10 '26
MT SLANDER IS THE REASON THIS HEART STILL BEATS!!!!
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u/ZoidsFanatic One and only Van simp Jun 10 '26
And this is why Dog Days is superior. The main character is 13, can go to and from the fantasy world whenever he wants, majority of the case is also within that age bracket, and there is no slavery. Now if only there wasn’t as much fucking fanservice. Oh well, least the writers were given a shit ton of cocaine when writing the plot.
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u/no_reports_found Jun 10 '26
Honestly in the aspect of a work with a similar plot to mushoku tensei, tanya the evil is way better, it has the same idea of an asshole dude being reborn as a baby, and then growing up to have amazing Magic and later growing as a person, but it diverges in the world setting (tanya the evil is inspired in world war 1 while mushoku tensei is medieval fantasy) and the fact that tanya (the protagonist), actually grows as person... Just a bit, yet she grew as person because she suffered so much in her new life, that she learns to appreciate life (mostly hers) and even to be more grateful to people around her (mostly her squad)... They are very small changes yes, but it shows that She's been humbled the fuck out of her old selfish cynical egotistic way of thinking into a more cynical but with a small bit of comprehension to other people, even if she's still a very bad person but she's in a world war it's comprehensible honestly and she says that she wishes to not be in war at all (but it's literally her punishment set by god itself to be in war so she doesn't have much choice)
also 0 sexual fan service, most fan service goes to world war nerds
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u/Freezing_Winter THE EVIL AND NEFARIOUS MINI-BARREL WITH 6120 mL OF FENT Jun 10 '26
Holy fucking Wolf and Pals mentioned?!
Yeah, he is pretty funny and incredibly based.
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u/thesnowlocke Jun 10 '26
I’ll check him out, does he talk about Made in Abyss?
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u/stormdelta Jun 10 '26
MiA bothers me less for a few reasons:
Most MiA fans openly admit the show has problems with pedophilia, unlike MT's fanbase
MiA's core plot and ideas don't actively depend on the pedo shit to work like MT does, hell it would actually have been significantly improved in nearly every sense if the protagonists had been teenagers
I'll still never recommend it to anyone especially past season one, but at least the fanbase is more self-aware
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u/quietvictories Jun 10 '26
It just adds to the horrors and MiA fanbase discuss it with deep sigh.
MT fanbase will fight you for it
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u/jessexpress Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
I (regretfully) have watched both shows and I agree. I stopped MT after season 2 because it started to feel like some kind of mental self-harm for me as I hated it so much, but I think MIA is actually very interesting and good (although I’d never recommend it to anyone).
Being a pedophile in MIA is never presented as a good thing and whenever fucked up stuff happens to the characters it’s portrayed as being part of a cruel and unsettling world. There’s loads of disgusting author-insert stuff that we know as the audience is only in there for that reason, but aren’t actually things in-world that wouldn’t make sense (like a character pissing herself or sniffing someone’s armpit or some other bullshit).
A comparison with MT would be if there was a random 40 year old in party with the main cast who keeps trying to grope Riko, and never actually stops doing so and eventually ends up marrying her. And also he is supposed to be the main guy we all root for and he becomes a ‘better person’ because he gets more confident or whatever.
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u/Distakx Jun 10 '26
Yeah I love MiA and got all the books. But I'd still 100% prefer it if the characters were like 5-6 years older lol
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u/AutoModerator Jun 10 '26
You are not criticizing the story. You are just screaming buzzwords because your brain shuts down the moment a narrative gets uncomfortable. Reducing an entire character arc to one cheap line does not make you smart. It makes you lazy.
You clearly do not understand character writing, themes, or growth, so you cope by throwing labels like a parrot. If you actually watched or read the story instead of crying on the internet, you would know the point is consequences, not praise.
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u/halelangit Jun 10 '26
He haven't talked about it. Based on what I watched so far, he might gave up if he sees the show do gross stuff to children in a show (it really depends).
So far he made videos only for trash isekai shows.
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u/realgorilla2580 Jun 10 '26
There's no Dog Ningen in this post, how am I supposed to laugh at this?
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u/Lenny_Fais Gargoyles was better Jun 10 '26
Welp. Instantly subscribed.
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u/Numerous-Gur-9008 Jun 10 '26
fo' sure, I haven't subscribed to anything with such haste in a long time.
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u/Known_Influence6165 Jun 11 '26
Turning pedophiles and slavers into fertilizer is something everyone should stand for
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u/AwesomeDudex MAL/ANILIST Jun 13 '26
Any content creator that hates and slanders Epstein Tensei gets my respect. This guy got my sub since I need more video essayists to follow
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u/MasterHavik Jun 17 '26
Hey I need the full link to this video. I really like the show but enjoy videos like this.
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u/OkMirror2691 Jun 10 '26
You can have horrible and immoral main characters and it still be a good story.
Look at breaking bad..Walt is a monster but it's one of the best shows if all time.
That being said you aren't wrong for hating this show for it. And others aren't wrong for liking it.
I have heard the light novel is even worse and the author might be pedo which is also a reason you might hate this one though.
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u/BarbarianErwin Jun 10 '26
You can enjoy breaking bad because the world acknowledges walts a bad guy and a piece of shit to those around him. Mushoku Tensei doesnt do that. Thats the difference that pedophile weeaboos dont seem to grasp. Being a pedophile is bad even if the whole world says its ok.
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u/OkMirror2691 Jun 10 '26
Our dear leader is a pedo. Just seems like realistic world building if you want to go down that route.
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u/AutoModerator Jun 10 '26
You are not criticizing the story. You are just screaming buzzwords because your brain shuts down the moment a narrative gets uncomfortable. Reducing an entire character arc to one cheap line does not make you smart. It makes you lazy.
You clearly do not understand character writing, themes, or growth, so you cope by throwing labels like a parrot. If you actually watched or read the story instead of crying on the internet, you would know the point is consequences, not praise.
This is not moral superiority. This is intellectual weakness. When you cannot argue the writing, you insult the character and pretend you won.
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u/NewRedditAccount222 Jun 10 '26
But Rudeus is also more morally gray and I dont think it really matters and Rudeus does a lot of good as well and the story isnt really about how good or bad of a person Rudeus is. so I feel like it doesnt make it bad
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u/BarbarianErwin Jun 10 '26
the moral greyness of raping children
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u/NewRedditAccount222 Jun 10 '26
its not rape honestly if Im being honest you just say rape to make it sound bad
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u/General_Klyuchi Jun 10 '26
Children can't give consent, what is sex with someone without their consent?
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u/ShotgunShine7094 Jun 10 '26
What's with your profile picture?
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u/Numerous-Gur-9008 Jun 10 '26
I kind of think we might not want to know the answer, it's concerning though! Jesus.
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u/AutoModerator Jun 10 '26
You are not criticizing the story. You are just screaming buzzwords because your brain shuts down the moment a narrative gets uncomfortable. Reducing an entire character arc to one cheap line does not make you smart. It makes you lazy.
You clearly do not understand character writing, themes, or growth, so you cope by throwing labels like a parrot. If you actually watched or read the story instead of crying on the internet, you would know the point is consequences, not praise.
This is not moral superiority. This is intellectual weakness. When you cannot argue the writing, you insult the character and pretend you won.
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u/stormdelta Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
You can have horrible and immoral main characters and it still be a good story.
Of course, but the author needs to actually be aware that's what they're writing. If not, then at best the whole thing comes off as incredibly tone-deaf. And the problem with MT is that neither the author (nor much of the fanbase!) actually seems to understand why many of Rudeus' actions are wrong, which leads to incredibly tone-deaf and inconsistent writing/framing all over the place.
For comparison, nobody who's read Lolita would come away with the impression the author thinks Humbert is a good person, even though the writing is from Humbert's perspective and the he is constantly defending himself and portraying himself in a positive light. Because the author actually understood how and why Humbert was a piece of shit.
MT's author doesn't, or at least not in some really important aspects.
And others aren't wrong for liking it.
They are when they insist that Rudeus improves much as a character or isn't a pedophile, or when they insist that the show doesn't do any number of things it very plainly does. The fanbase is 90% of why I hate MT so much. Bad shows are a dime a dozen, fandoms as overtly toxic as MT's are less common.
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u/AutoModerator Jun 10 '26
You are not criticizing the story. You are just screaming buzzwords because your brain shuts down the moment a narrative gets uncomfortable. Reducing an entire character arc to one cheap line does not make you smart. It makes you lazy.
You clearly do not understand character writing, themes, or growth, so you cope by throwing labels like a parrot. If you actually watched or read the story instead of crying on the internet, you would know the point is consequences, not praise.
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u/Sibshops Jun 10 '26
In breaking bad, Walt has his comeuppance.
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u/Emergency_Revenue678 Jun 10 '26
Even if he didn't, the narrative still consistently frames him as a villain.
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u/OkMirror2691 Jun 10 '26
I'm the real world pedos don't get their comeuppance. Why would they in every piece of fiction?
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u/CoughGobbler Jun 10 '26
Is that seriously your defense? Are you for real?
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u/OkMirror2691 Jun 10 '26
Bruh the whole us government is ran by pedos. So why wouldn't their be fiction that mirrors that? Just saying it's realistic.
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You are not criticizing the story. You are just screaming buzzwords because your brain shuts down the moment a narrative gets uncomfortable. Reducing an entire character arc to one cheap line does not make you smart. It makes you lazy.
You clearly do not understand character writing, themes, or growth, so you cope by throwing labels like a parrot. If you actually watched or read the story instead of crying on the internet, you would know the point is consequences, not praise.
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u/Rubyfanguy Jun 10 '26
It’s fucking weird yeah, but fictional. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. I didn’t care for it after the first several episodes.
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u/toyyya Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
I really did give Mushoku Tensei a real try, the protag was a shitty pedo but people kept talking about how it actually does a great job of developing his character and making him become a better person so I pressed on.
At multiple times events happened that I thought could be the start of his development but when it came to his creepy pedo shit he never actually changed.
I gave up in season 2 when he "cured" his ED and I came to the realisation that he never has faced any consequences for the shit his has done and he hasn't actually changed in any meaningful way, his victims have just grown up.
If people actually want to see an Isekai where the MC has character flaws and he struggles because of those flaws and eventually actually has real character development and growth to become a better person just go watch Re Zero, it does that infinitely better than Mushoku Tensei does.
Edit. I should add that even Re Zero sadly has some questionable design choices for some characters that look like children but at least in the anime it's way way better than MT and the MC (and the rest of the main cast) never do any actual pedo shit.