Mushoku Tensei II: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu Part 2 Episode 7 Discussion

its finally back after what felt like forever
another amazing episode
feels like the old mushoku tensei with the adventuring part

Some LN Extra Details (Volume 11 Chapter 8-12/14?)
- For the first time, Rudy is going to disregard Hitogami's advice
- Elinalise trying to convince Rudy that Geese might be jumped to conclusions and sent the letter early. He might also sent the letter because of Paul's pride because of his previous letter.
- Rudy says goodbye to Linia and Pursena and asked to keep being friends and keep in contact
- Nanahoshi told Rudy of the teleportation circles that she and Orsted used to travel throughout the world. With that, it would only took around 94 days round trip instead of 2 years
- The quicker travel method convinced Elinalise to follow when she started to change her mind because of not wanting to leave Cliff
- Naming a baby before leaving for a journey is a taboo in this world, based on Perugius's story of his companion, Feroze Star the Emperor-tier Fire mage facing the exact thing when naming and leaving hic child to battle Demon King Ryner Kaizel.
- Rudy borrowed `An Exploratory Account of the Teleportation Labyrinth`, The Begaritt Continent` and the Fighting-God Tongue` from the library as well as reference incase he has communication issues there
- It took 5 days to reach the nearby teleportation circle in the forest.
- They fought green boar before reaching the teleportation cirle and Elinalise shows how
- The incantation to remove the barrier seems to refer to Holy Dragon Emperor Shirad, which is one of the Five Dragon Generals from the old stories.
- Rudeus freeze a water bottle and cool down the air around them to keep up with the temperature
- They also encountered other monsters such as Treant, Sandworm, an army of Phalanx Ants, Giant Bat, Raptors and Garudas in their days in the desert,
- Rudeus carrying spices reminds Elinalise of Geese doing the same, Rudeus thinks that was common with rogue adventurers and he often seems them carrying spices during his adventuring with Soldat's party.

Differences from LN
- Simplified Rudy's farewell with Linia and Pursena
- Elinalise is a bit more dramatic and and keeps changing her mind between going to Begaritt or staying with Cliff after his proposal
- Cliff's marriage proposal was made during his talk with Rudy and Elinalise that was skipped in the anime
- The farewell with Rudy's friends is a bit weird in LN, the farewell that Rudy did with most of the people is before he found out about the teleportation circle, so they thought they won't be around for two years at least and Linia and Pursena may already graduated by then.

rip a real one eh? guessing that was in the manga?

I *was* wondering why Cliff didn't just come along. Though I'm surprised he's bad at adventuring since he's supposed to be one of the princess' main guards. I guess reflexes trained for people aren't as good against monsters?

great ep, good adaptation.

Skipped a lot of the traveling and the plot with the merchant caravan, but completely understandable. As it's not contributing to the story but only on further worldbuilding and cultural understanding.

I'm happy they're taking their time and 5 more episodes to cover the labyrinth arc.

Just sad they missed Elinalise's nanahoshi joke.

finally we're moving forward. though this mf rudy already almost folded twice, first with elinalise and then with the succubus, elinalise pretty much clutched both times. the design of that place right at the end looks pretty cool tbf.

Weren't those Orsted's clothes? o.O
And not even a week and MC already about to cheat on his wife twice smh.

That aside, I'm glad we're finally getting some adventure after around 12 episodes of lame SoL/Drama storylines. Second half of the episode was really enjoyable, I must say.

Very good episode that had a LOT to cover to get to the Labyrinth portion with enough episodes for that. The pacing despite covering a ton, still was executed better than I would have expected. The Arabian-feel to its music was awesome and was the definite highlight of the episode, some nice little glimpses of world building of Begaritt with the land there, the monsters that Rudeus and Elinalise encountered with that moment with the succubus too that had Rudeus tempted so quickly after promising Sylphie he will be back and nothing will happen lol. Even got Rudeus at the market a bit and showing the food there a little which is good. Considering so much was there, they did an effective enough job in presenting the journey with some good scenes with world building, Rudeus and Elinalise bonding and having weird conflicts like the succubus stuff (which actually felt terrifying here with the succubus design once exposed) and even learning little glimpses of Elinalise's relationships with Paul and Zenith in the past. Overall as a transition episode, it was fun and you can feel that weight of what is to come to be big after this.

Also liked the first half a lot too and while a bit more about Elinalise and Cliff could have been covered, still glad Cliff supported her with the magical implement he made (that at least helped her for some time at least before it was ineffective) and promised to marry her after. Also great seeing Nanahoshi help Rudeus out like that, partly due to her own research and wanting to get home sooner rather than wait for two years but it is clear that Rudeus is an important friend to her as well and was willing to take the risk with revealing about the teleportation circles at the expense of Orsted's warning to not let such taboo and major stuff like this be exposed to others. The little kiss with Norn and Aisha gushing at their brother and his wife like that was cute not going to lie, made a touching separation a bit more uplifting in a weird way.

I'm so excited for these remaining 5 episodes since those should cover my favorite volume in this whole series. Glad this returned fairly well after a week off and considering my expectations for this episode to be lowest in this cour considering the sacrifices made, it was still fun, detailed enough and explored more than I thought in both sides. It is so much better than the manga just deciding to skip the journey altogether to get to Rapan recently.

Onimai looked better my man, all of their time went to onimai.

WHY ONIMAI BIND, THEY ANIMATED THAT SHIT LIKE THEY'RE KYOANI AND THEN YOU HAVE THIS

The Elinalise curse topic is tired and a fat writing L. Rudy being creepy out of nowhere toward Elinalise while sleeping completely took me out of the fun moment of exploring a new part of this world. The ecchi stuff really brings the overall quality down a notch.

not assaulting a sleeping person =/= growth

you guys truly have the lowest possible expectations. bouncing boobs and jingling keys