Jobless reincarnation is often boasted about like its the best isekai out there, and after sitting through all 11 episodes.... its nothing of the sort. The story isn't anything outlandish, its the typical man-dies-and-is-reborn trope.
♡ TLDR: the anime would be worthwhile, if it did not take rape/sexualization of children as a joke. The people who ignore this massive problem entirely are part of the problem with current day isekais.
♡ It scored points for me when he had to learn the language, how to read and write, etc without it just coming to him. Him thinking through his problems throughout the story was a nice benefit, and i love some of the supporting cast, like Sylph, or Roxxy. They are characters with an actual backstory that make sense and benefit the protagonist in one way or another. The MC is shown to have ptsd from bullying, and works through some of his trauma in a mature light early on. I also love the traveling aspect, and how its close to reality with how he accidentally focuses on the wrong thing, or how characters die if they dont plan out adventures properly. Of course, the animation itself is beautiful. Those are the "goods".
♡ The negatives are based off morals, but pretty prominent nonetheless. Firstly, a majority of the beginning six episodes are jokes around a 30-something NEET who did nothing but jack off to women and watch anime getting reincarnated. and within the first episode he uses him being a baby/young child as an excuse to grab tits, watch women masturbate, listen to sex, steal underwear, etc. The random sex scenes are out of place and leave an unwanted taste in my mouth. They serve no real purpose to the story, besides being tinder to revealing his trashfire of a personality. The father is repeatedly shown to cheat with other women, and so far as gets the maid of the household pregnant- but the mother decides to let it slide and raise the maids child as her own... for some reason? I suppose there is a reasoning behind it, being a show set in a fantasy older time period, but its still a questionable action. Later in the show, an older man offers to tie up his twelve year old daughter and let the MC rape her to settle a coupe. The mc declines, but regrets it and later ends up assaulting her anyways. And its all brushed off as a cute joke, to which neither character ever looks back on.
♡ There are other isekais that handle topics like sex or rape in a mature light, like shield hero, or even re:zero, though im personally not a fan. I was really hoping for something big with how much the show was hyped up, and perhaps that was my fault, but it really let me down in my expectations. it was a struggle to even get past episode 6. I know that some die hard fans will say that the sexual content is just a joke, or its anime and to ignore it, but it shows a lot about ones character to laugh and brush off rape/sexualization of minors, anime or not.
I hope the show, when it does inevitably return, deals with the MC realizing his viewpoint of sexualizing all of the literal children in the show is wrong, and how it needs to change. At the very least, i hope he stops doing it. Of course- there are places the show shines , but until they stop focusing on sexualizing the young female cast, its nothing to get worked up over. This is just another isekai with a seven deadly sins approach to women.
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