What's the context of this show and the "all just a test"? Did something terrible happen to them but then some higher up just wave their hand and fix everything?
Okay so I had to rewatch it to remember the context cause its been so long and I nearly balled up when the scene came on. Worse yet, I was watching it on crunchyroll and Re:Zero ads popped up making me realize that I could actually watch something thats good. So here's the context behind it. I also gave the show too much credit cause it didn't happen in episode 3. It happens in episode fucking 2. In episode 3, our MC kills a dude, actually kills him. And its just kind of waved off.
Basically our MC has the ability to rewrite enchantments on gear and write his own. Only masters can do that, and something world building where in a vacuum would be interesting, but in the whole makes me even more infuriated, is that the better the enchantments the more expensive said item is.
In episode 1, the MC finds a blue haired woman getting robbed in an alley and he saves her and they fall in love immediately. I fucking despise insta love too but its not enough to get me to drop a show or think its a red flag so I continued watching. So the blue haired girl is getting harassed by this rich kid, and the MC protects her. Also the rich dude is cartoonishly evil and angry all the god damn time. Like he has no other emotion except anger. So to protect her, he invites her to his house.
At his house, he asks his grandmother if he can rewrite her student uniform to protect her better. At first the the blue haired woman is all for it, but then the grandmother says that by doing so it will hike the price of her uniform to top class. Then the grandmother asks if she is worthy to recieve the enchantment or something. Which first problem arises right there. What does being worthy or not have to do with anything here. Because its expensive? That's the only reason given. Which makes no goddamn sense.
Then we go to her refusal which her refusing also makes no sense. Your boy toy aint giving it to you because its expensive or some shit, he's doing it to protect you. Not to mention he's the one thats doing the enchantment so if he wants you to have it wouldn't it already mean that he sees you as worthy to begin with?
So whatever. She refuses and bursts into tears. Dramatic music plays in the background. She gets up from her seat and says she isn't worthy or some shit and the grandmother hugs her. Then she says that it was all a test or something and the background turns into sparkling gold, the music gets even more dramatic and vomit rises in my mouth. The test was if she had a greedy heart or whatever which also makes no sense. Like, her grandchild wants to give it to her as a gift to protect her from the rich guy. There's nothing greedy about accepting a gift, no matter the fucking price or whatever.
And then she goes ahead and makes it anyway which I'm just emotionally clocked out by this point. Like, I've seen some tropes and cliches done before with nothing to make them exciting, but not only did they use a cliche and not deviate from it in the slightest, but they somehow made it worse.
The reason why I dropped jobless reincarnator. Really great show overall with how it started, the characters, world building, everything! But somehow, everyone seems to conveniently excuse the fact that the main character is an unapologetic pedophile when talking about it. I mean, it's kind of a big thing.
I really love that show and I don't really get the whole Rudeus thing. Well, I mean I get it, but not how people portray it as. Rudeus is a shitty person. He's a dude that has done nothing in his previous life except lusting after anime girls and he never even went to his parents funeral. Then he gets reincarnated and wants to live the life he's never had. And even when he tries to do the uncomfortable shit, the world punishes him for it.
The best way I can explain it is I don't like Rudeus for his character. I like Rudeus because of his growth as a character as he matures and slowly becomes a better person. Also the anime has god tier animation. I'm planning on picking up the light novels but I'm poor as hell.
