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無職転生: 異世界行ったら本気だす [Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu] #5
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel) Vol. 5
FATHER VS. SON
Rudeus and his party arrive in Millishion, capital of the Holy Country of Millis—only to find themselves tangled up with yet another attempted kidnapping. But the real shock comes when the kidnappers’ very familiar boss shows up on the scene. What will this unexpected reunion bring?!
Rudeus and his party arrive in Millishion, capital of the Holy Country of Millis—only to find themselves tangled up with yet another attempted kidnapping. But the real shock comes when the kidnappers’ very familiar boss shows up on the scene. What will this unexpected reunion bring?!
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First published October 23, 2014
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June 2, 2022
Another solid volume in the series! Mushoku Tensei has a slow start but little by little the word has become more real and interesting. It´s not perfect but for sure is fun!!
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January 31, 2015Oh no... Norn... ;_; But seriously... it's hard to imagine that Redeus was an EVEN BIGGER PERVERT in his previous life ... XD >.<
July 14, 2021
Horrible, es el fin de la narrativa. No he sido capaz de no leerlo. No me retracto de la review de esta mañana, pero me parece increíble que se lea tan rapido.
No hay descripciones ni se profundiza en los personajes, es alucinante lo facil que se ha hecho la prosa😔.
Lo peor es que no puedo evitar leerlo, ahi va otro volumen, el 5, creo que hay 16 o 17😑
No hay descripciones ni se profundiza en los personajes, es alucinante lo facil que se ha hecho la prosa😔.
Lo peor es que no puedo evitar leerlo, ahi va otro volumen, el 5, creo que hay 16 o 17😑
July 6, 2024
seriously... two?!
August 11, 2021
Pada dasarnya, aku cukup menyukai volume ini karena banyak mengungkap hal-hal baru tentang perkara bencana teleportasi yang dialami oleh Rudeus dan Eris. Salah satunya ialah fakta bahwa Alphonse yang merupakan pelayan di rumah Eris turut membantu dalam mencari orang-orang yang terkena dampak dari bencana teleportasi tersebut. Dalam hal ini, Alphonse membangun sebuah tempat pengungsian dan berupaya untuk membantu penduduk Fedoa yang terdampar di berbagai tempat di dunia untuk kembali ke daerah asal mereka. Untuk menjalankan usahanya, Alphonse dibantu oleh Paul Greygat yang bertugas sebagai koordinator proses pengembalian orang-orang yang terdampar dari Milis menuju Fedoa.
Di volume ini juga diceritakan mengenai pertemuan Rudeus dan keluarganya (Paul dan Norn) secara tidak sengaja ketika Rudeus berada di Milis. Meski sempat terjadi sedikit konflik, hal tersebut dapat teratasi dengan mudah. Selain itu, di volume diceritakan juga pertemuan Eris dengan Cliff Grimoire yang merupakan salah satu penyihir berbakat di Milis. Meski Cliff masih kurang hebat jika dibandingkan dengan Rudeus, menurutkan Cliff bisa menjadi karakter yang potensial ke depannya. Di sisi lain, ketika berada di Kota West Port, Rudeus bertemu dengan bibinya yang merupakan saudara Zenith. Dalam pertemuan tersebut, bibi Rudeus membantunya untuk menyebrang ke Benua tengah tanpa harus membayar apa pun dan mendapat perbekalan lengkap.
Di tempat lain, Roxy dan kedua rekannya berhasil sampai di Desa Migurd. Selama tiga hari berada di desanya, Roxy bertemu dengan orang tuanya dan mengetahui bahwa Rudeus juga pernah mengunjungi desanya. Ketika melanjutkan perjalanan dan sampai di Kota Rikarisu dan bertemu dengan Nokopara, Roxy sadar bahwa owner "Dead End" yang sempat ia dengar namanya ketika berada di Wind Port adalah muridnya Rudeus Greygat.
Overall, I like so much this volume.
Di volume ini juga diceritakan mengenai pertemuan Rudeus dan keluarganya (Paul dan Norn) secara tidak sengaja ketika Rudeus berada di Milis. Meski sempat terjadi sedikit konflik, hal tersebut dapat teratasi dengan mudah. Selain itu, di volume diceritakan juga pertemuan Eris dengan Cliff Grimoire yang merupakan salah satu penyihir berbakat di Milis. Meski Cliff masih kurang hebat jika dibandingkan dengan Rudeus, menurutkan Cliff bisa menjadi karakter yang potensial ke depannya. Di sisi lain, ketika berada di Kota West Port, Rudeus bertemu dengan bibinya yang merupakan saudara Zenith. Dalam pertemuan tersebut, bibi Rudeus membantunya untuk menyebrang ke Benua tengah tanpa harus membayar apa pun dan mendapat perbekalan lengkap.
Di tempat lain, Roxy dan kedua rekannya berhasil sampai di Desa Migurd. Selama tiga hari berada di desanya, Roxy bertemu dengan orang tuanya dan mengetahui bahwa Rudeus juga pernah mengunjungi desanya. Ketika melanjutkan perjalanan dan sampai di Kota Rikarisu dan bertemu dengan Nokopara, Roxy sadar bahwa owner "Dead End" yang sempat ia dengar namanya ketika berada di Wind Port adalah muridnya Rudeus Greygat.
Overall, I like so much this volume.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 9, 2023
I finally reached the point where the book is sharing far more information than the anime can manage. I’ve met an important character for the plot and the way the author tied it together with Rudeus and the gang is awesome. I’ve also met Cliff and his attitude in the anime finally makes complete sense. Plus, I’ve got to see that Nanahoshi has been doing a few things for a while and that’s fantastic. Plus… that small chapter with the Japanese style food and the owner of the restaurant… I have a feeling this will be so important later on. That’s definitely not a person you wanna make enemies with, so Rudeus is in for some trouble later. I’m liking where this is going, and I gotta say, I’m finally enjoying the books more than the anime. Can’t wait to keep moving along.
January 10, 2022
Wasn't totally awful, I'm just getting bored of the journey and actually would like some destination. Some resolution to the issues. I get that they have to be developed, but for goodness sake stop telling me about every meal in great detail then and get on with the PLOT.
This book had some moments, but out of 350 pages needing 80-100 pages per moment is a bit excessive.
Verdict -- read it so you know what's going on, it's fast and easy, but don't expect much to get resolved.
This book had some moments, but out of 350 pages needing 80-100 pages per moment is a bit excessive.
Verdict -- read it so you know what's going on, it's fast and easy, but don't expect much to get resolved.
February 9, 2021
The ”adventure arc” is lasting longer than I expected, we are three books in by now and it seems like it'll be at least one more volume until Rudeus and Eris get back home, not that I'm complaining, I'm hooked.
August 20, 2021
Pico ficción
April 23, 2021
Three and a half, four for an isekai.
Now that we are a couple of volumes after the plot kicked into gear, I must say that I'm not that on board with this whole thing of getting teleported to the other side of the fantasy world and having to trek their way back. I vastly prefer plots about achieving new things instead of returning to the status quo. However, the world has been permanently altered by the mana disaster that ruined the region the main characters lived in, given that both the village where the protagonist was born as well as the big city where he was working got erased from existence.
In any case, our main characters are Rudeus Greyrat, a forty something years old guy who got isekai-ed from Earth into this fantasy world, and who is currently inhabiting an eleven or so years old body; Eris, a violent, redheaded twelve years old or something girl that the protagonist was teaching to and that he also wants to do sexual things with; Ruijerd Superdia, a demon who is however very honorable and into saving kids and stuff. They had reached the edge of the feared demon continent, where the main couple of kids had been teleported to, and now they have sailed to the continent on the way to their destination. The new land is called Millis or something, or maybe that's the name of the nation there. A mostly theocratic state, with an order of knights keeping the peace and intending to expel every demon from their lands.
The volume starts very strong. As they always do whenever they reach a new place, the main party tries to figure out where they are going to eat and sleep, and they take a day off before they decide how long they are going to stick around, as they likely have to make a lot of money to pay for the passage to their continent. Our protagonist, Rudeus, was walking around when he comes across a group of suspicious looking people carrying a child in a sack. This is a fantasy world where slavery, sexual or otherwise, is one of the main drivers of the economy, but the main party has kept busy freeing slaves from smugglers and such. Rudeus isn't that eager to interfere in this suspicious situation, but he figures that his conscience will bother him if he doesn't, so he follows the punks into a warehouse and confronts them. He ends up fighting against a bunch of low level sword fighters, a low level mage and a low level female barbarian-like young woman dressed with very skimpy clothes, which is what almost does the protagonist in, as he is very easily distracted by bouncing breasts. In the end, though, the locals call their captain: a drunken, rough-looking punk who is however very skilled in sword fighting. While this guy fights our protagonist to the death, at some point they realize that they are related: the drunkard is Paul Greyrat, the protagonist's father.
We of course know that Paul had gotten teleported along with everyone else at home. Thankfully at that time he was holding his daughter Norn, and they both got sent somewhere else on the same continent. After Paul realized what nightmare they got themselves into, and that the rest of his family was in danger, he met up with one of the main servants of the rulers of Roa (them being Eris' family) to form a group that would look for survivors of the mana disaster. Despite Paul being a generally untrustworthy womanizer, he ended up leading this group and moving to the Millis continent, where he could get funds from his missing wife's family. For the last year they realized that most of the missing had either died or gotten enslaved, and he didn't find a single clue of what happened to his wife, his other daughter and his other sort of wife. They initially attempted to buy the freedom of those who had gotten enslaved, but as many of the owners didn't want to sell them, or were asking for a lot of money, Paul's group started kidnapping the slaves back. That's what Rudeus caught them in the middle of doing. The kid that Rudeus attempted to save was one of the bullies from back home: the kid had gotten trapped into sexual slavery. In any case, kidnapping slaves wasn't earning Paul any sympathies with the powerful locals, and he had half of the templars on their asses. Paul had resorted to drinking himself into oblivion to forget that his beloved wife and other daughter were likely dead.
The most interesting part of this volume for me is the first encounter between our protagonist and his scumbag father. You would have expected them to have a happy reunion in which they would leave aside their mutual resentments (the protagonist resents his father for cheating on his lovely wife Zenith, and the father resents Rudeus for being a way too precocious and talented little bastard) to realize that they might be the only family they have left. However, while Rudeus recounts their time trekking through the demon continent as if they had a fantastic adventure, Paul grows angrier and angrier. How wonderful of this talented kid to have spent his last year enjoying a youthful adventure instead of looking for his missing family members; as talented as Rudeus is, he could have found them if they had been teleported to that part of the world. Rudeus, however, never figured out that the mana disaster had affected more people than Ghislaine (their half-feline bodyguard), Eris and himself. The protagonist berates his father for not caring a bit that his own son survived, and accuses him of cheating again, this time with the big breasted sort of barbarian party member of his. They end up beating each other up, only for Rudeus' younger sister Norn to break the fight and defend her father tearfully.
After they part ways, Rudeus is mortified, depressed as he hadn't been yet in this new world: his mother and other sister are gone, his remaining sister Norn doesn't remember him and now even hates him for hitting her father, and the old man has turned into a drunkard who doesn't care one bit about him. When Eris, coming back from an adventure of her own, finds her teacher in such a state, she wants to murder the protagonist's father, but their demon bodyguard spends most of this volume preventing the violent redhead from satisfying her urges. In any case, a monkey-faced former party member of Paul's adventuring team (who served as the protagonist's personal Pieck Finger in the previous volume) convinced the guy to stop drinking and to realize that no matter how weird, perverted and precocious his son is, the kid is still a child, and that Paul should be happy that he hasn't lost him. Paul understands he's being a dick. When father and son get together again, they get along to the extent that they embrace, shed some tears and such. They decide that Paul will stick around on the continent and keep looking for survivors, while Rudeus and his group will continue to the main continent and search there. However, Rudeus mainly wants to return his pupil and love interest Eris back home and to what remains of her family.
Eris was the protagonist in a little sidequest. During their day off, she had intended to hunt some goblins for sport, only to come across a cocky newbie in the local adventurers' guild. The newbie, a magician from some noble family, hadn't bothered to read the rules of the guild, and was trying to join some highly ranked party. Even though Eris had prevented the arrogant kid from receiving a beating, the kid chose to berate Eris instead. Our girl, being the violent, redheaded stepchild that she is, knocked the kid unconscious with one punch, and kept kicking him while he lied on the ground. The arrogant noble ended up pursuing Eris through the streets, wanting to join her party. He was impressed with both her redheaded beauty and her redheaded fierceness. Eris figured that she might as well allow him to accompany her as she hunts some goblins. However, to prove herself further they end up venturing through some dense woods, where they come across a lone female knight that is trying to prevent some child from getting murdered by some other knights or whatever. Eris doesn't know what's going on, but won't suffer a child getting murdered, so she intercedes and massacres the assailants. Although Eris hadn't killed human beings before, she couldn't care less. She's one stone-cold motherfucker. Afterwards, the thankful knight wants to reward her, but Eris pretends that she's a demon (part of Rudeus' ploy to make humans more sympathetic to demons, to Superds in particular, through good deeds). The knight takes it as that Eris isn't interested in rewards or politics, and just wanted to murder some other would-be murderers. After the female knight leaves with the child, the awestruck noble kid offers to marry Eris, but she tells him to fuck off.
The other big plot point is that when our main people present a letter at Customs that should have granted Ruijerd passage to the main continent, the dickhead in charge considers the letter a fake (it's from an important commander that Ruijerd saved many years ago). Because the guy hates demons and Superds in particular, he intends to fuck things up for our main group, but a female knight intercedes: it's the woman that Eris saved during her sidequest. Rudeus is astonished, because he thinks it's his mother Zenith. However, turns out it's his aunt. One of the many coincidences in this series involving the family members of some characters. Because Rudeus' mother's family matters a lot on this land, his aunt unblocks their eventual passage to the next continent.
His aunt is single, attractive and a hard worker, and is eager to dote on her cute nephew (cute as long as he doesn't open his mouth). It's maybe a sign of character growth that our perverted protagonist isn't very comfortable with this big breasted, blonde relative of his pretty much fondling him. Eris doesn't like other females touching her crush, either. In any case, our group ends up leaving Millis on a ship, and the volume finishes shortly after they reach the next port town.
The story goes back to fan favorite Roxy Migurdia, the protagonist's mentor when he was even childier. She had travelled to the demon continent looking for Rudeus, only to fail to run into him on the port town where all of them were hanging out. While Rudeus' party sailed to Millis, Roxy ventured further into the continent. Roxy ended up visiting the same towns our protagonists' had stayed at, where they had worked for the adventurers' guild, and she ends up admitting to herself, to her dismay, that she had passed Rudeus as he continued in the opposite direction. In any case she returns to her hometown, where she experiences again the loneliness of being the only member of her race who can't communicate through telepathy. Roxy is proud that Rudeus kept telling everyone on the continent that his magic abilities were due to her teachings, and hopes to meet the perverted kid again as soon as possible. Personally I hope they end up screwing.
The author also continues with the for now detached subplot about a very attractive, perverted, bisexual princess of the main kingdom, a person we have been told about for a few volumes. In a roundabout way we learn that she has left the kingdom and the local political struggles to enroll into the famous academy of magic that our protagonist wanted to study at from the beginning of the story. I suppose that when we leave this arc behind and the protagonist ends up there, this whole subplot will matter. For now it's mostly an annoying departure.
There wasn't that much to this volume, but this series is always entertaining. The main selling point is the endearing, down-to-earth characters, who for the most part seem like regular people who just happen to exist in a world that surrounds them with weird, fantasy bullshit.
Now that we are a couple of volumes after the plot kicked into gear, I must say that I'm not that on board with this whole thing of getting teleported to the other side of the fantasy world and having to trek their way back. I vastly prefer plots about achieving new things instead of returning to the status quo. However, the world has been permanently altered by the mana disaster that ruined the region the main characters lived in, given that both the village where the protagonist was born as well as the big city where he was working got erased from existence.
In any case, our main characters are Rudeus Greyrat, a forty something years old guy who got isekai-ed from Earth into this fantasy world, and who is currently inhabiting an eleven or so years old body; Eris, a violent, redheaded twelve years old or something girl that the protagonist was teaching to and that he also wants to do sexual things with; Ruijerd Superdia, a demon who is however very honorable and into saving kids and stuff. They had reached the edge of the feared demon continent, where the main couple of kids had been teleported to, and now they have sailed to the continent on the way to their destination. The new land is called Millis or something, or maybe that's the name of the nation there. A mostly theocratic state, with an order of knights keeping the peace and intending to expel every demon from their lands.
The volume starts very strong. As they always do whenever they reach a new place, the main party tries to figure out where they are going to eat and sleep, and they take a day off before they decide how long they are going to stick around, as they likely have to make a lot of money to pay for the passage to their continent. Our protagonist, Rudeus, was walking around when he comes across a group of suspicious looking people carrying a child in a sack. This is a fantasy world where slavery, sexual or otherwise, is one of the main drivers of the economy, but the main party has kept busy freeing slaves from smugglers and such. Rudeus isn't that eager to interfere in this suspicious situation, but he figures that his conscience will bother him if he doesn't, so he follows the punks into a warehouse and confronts them. He ends up fighting against a bunch of low level sword fighters, a low level mage and a low level female barbarian-like young woman dressed with very skimpy clothes, which is what almost does the protagonist in, as he is very easily distracted by bouncing breasts. In the end, though, the locals call their captain: a drunken, rough-looking punk who is however very skilled in sword fighting. While this guy fights our protagonist to the death, at some point they realize that they are related: the drunkard is Paul Greyrat, the protagonist's father.
We of course know that Paul had gotten teleported along with everyone else at home. Thankfully at that time he was holding his daughter Norn, and they both got sent somewhere else on the same continent. After Paul realized what nightmare they got themselves into, and that the rest of his family was in danger, he met up with one of the main servants of the rulers of Roa (them being Eris' family) to form a group that would look for survivors of the mana disaster. Despite Paul being a generally untrustworthy womanizer, he ended up leading this group and moving to the Millis continent, where he could get funds from his missing wife's family. For the last year they realized that most of the missing had either died or gotten enslaved, and he didn't find a single clue of what happened to his wife, his other daughter and his other sort of wife. They initially attempted to buy the freedom of those who had gotten enslaved, but as many of the owners didn't want to sell them, or were asking for a lot of money, Paul's group started kidnapping the slaves back. That's what Rudeus caught them in the middle of doing. The kid that Rudeus attempted to save was one of the bullies from back home: the kid had gotten trapped into sexual slavery. In any case, kidnapping slaves wasn't earning Paul any sympathies with the powerful locals, and he had half of the templars on their asses. Paul had resorted to drinking himself into oblivion to forget that his beloved wife and other daughter were likely dead.
The most interesting part of this volume for me is the first encounter between our protagonist and his scumbag father. You would have expected them to have a happy reunion in which they would leave aside their mutual resentments (the protagonist resents his father for cheating on his lovely wife Zenith, and the father resents Rudeus for being a way too precocious and talented little bastard) to realize that they might be the only family they have left. However, while Rudeus recounts their time trekking through the demon continent as if they had a fantastic adventure, Paul grows angrier and angrier. How wonderful of this talented kid to have spent his last year enjoying a youthful adventure instead of looking for his missing family members; as talented as Rudeus is, he could have found them if they had been teleported to that part of the world. Rudeus, however, never figured out that the mana disaster had affected more people than Ghislaine (their half-feline bodyguard), Eris and himself. The protagonist berates his father for not caring a bit that his own son survived, and accuses him of cheating again, this time with the big breasted sort of barbarian party member of his. They end up beating each other up, only for Rudeus' younger sister Norn to break the fight and defend her father tearfully.
After they part ways, Rudeus is mortified, depressed as he hadn't been yet in this new world: his mother and other sister are gone, his remaining sister Norn doesn't remember him and now even hates him for hitting her father, and the old man has turned into a drunkard who doesn't care one bit about him. When Eris, coming back from an adventure of her own, finds her teacher in such a state, she wants to murder the protagonist's father, but their demon bodyguard spends most of this volume preventing the violent redhead from satisfying her urges. In any case, a monkey-faced former party member of Paul's adventuring team (who served as the protagonist's personal Pieck Finger in the previous volume) convinced the guy to stop drinking and to realize that no matter how weird, perverted and precocious his son is, the kid is still a child, and that Paul should be happy that he hasn't lost him. Paul understands he's being a dick. When father and son get together again, they get along to the extent that they embrace, shed some tears and such. They decide that Paul will stick around on the continent and keep looking for survivors, while Rudeus and his group will continue to the main continent and search there. However, Rudeus mainly wants to return his pupil and love interest Eris back home and to what remains of her family.
Eris was the protagonist in a little sidequest. During their day off, she had intended to hunt some goblins for sport, only to come across a cocky newbie in the local adventurers' guild. The newbie, a magician from some noble family, hadn't bothered to read the rules of the guild, and was trying to join some highly ranked party. Even though Eris had prevented the arrogant kid from receiving a beating, the kid chose to berate Eris instead. Our girl, being the violent, redheaded stepchild that she is, knocked the kid unconscious with one punch, and kept kicking him while he lied on the ground. The arrogant noble ended up pursuing Eris through the streets, wanting to join her party. He was impressed with both her redheaded beauty and her redheaded fierceness. Eris figured that she might as well allow him to accompany her as she hunts some goblins. However, to prove herself further they end up venturing through some dense woods, where they come across a lone female knight that is trying to prevent some child from getting murdered by some other knights or whatever. Eris doesn't know what's going on, but won't suffer a child getting murdered, so she intercedes and massacres the assailants. Although Eris hadn't killed human beings before, she couldn't care less. She's one stone-cold motherfucker. Afterwards, the thankful knight wants to reward her, but Eris pretends that she's a demon (part of Rudeus' ploy to make humans more sympathetic to demons, to Superds in particular, through good deeds). The knight takes it as that Eris isn't interested in rewards or politics, and just wanted to murder some other would-be murderers. After the female knight leaves with the child, the awestruck noble kid offers to marry Eris, but she tells him to fuck off.
The other big plot point is that when our main people present a letter at Customs that should have granted Ruijerd passage to the main continent, the dickhead in charge considers the letter a fake (it's from an important commander that Ruijerd saved many years ago). Because the guy hates demons and Superds in particular, he intends to fuck things up for our main group, but a female knight intercedes: it's the woman that Eris saved during her sidequest. Rudeus is astonished, because he thinks it's his mother Zenith. However, turns out it's his aunt. One of the many coincidences in this series involving the family members of some characters. Because Rudeus' mother's family matters a lot on this land, his aunt unblocks their eventual passage to the next continent.
His aunt is single, attractive and a hard worker, and is eager to dote on her cute nephew (cute as long as he doesn't open his mouth). It's maybe a sign of character growth that our perverted protagonist isn't very comfortable with this big breasted, blonde relative of his pretty much fondling him. Eris doesn't like other females touching her crush, either. In any case, our group ends up leaving Millis on a ship, and the volume finishes shortly after they reach the next port town.
The story goes back to fan favorite Roxy Migurdia, the protagonist's mentor when he was even childier. She had travelled to the demon continent looking for Rudeus, only to fail to run into him on the port town where all of them were hanging out. While Rudeus' party sailed to Millis, Roxy ventured further into the continent. Roxy ended up visiting the same towns our protagonists' had stayed at, where they had worked for the adventurers' guild, and she ends up admitting to herself, to her dismay, that she had passed Rudeus as he continued in the opposite direction. In any case she returns to her hometown, where she experiences again the loneliness of being the only member of her race who can't communicate through telepathy. Roxy is proud that Rudeus kept telling everyone on the continent that his magic abilities were due to her teachings, and hopes to meet the perverted kid again as soon as possible. Personally I hope they end up screwing.
The author also continues with the for now detached subplot about a very attractive, perverted, bisexual princess of the main kingdom, a person we have been told about for a few volumes. In a roundabout way we learn that she has left the kingdom and the local political struggles to enroll into the famous academy of magic that our protagonist wanted to study at from the beginning of the story. I suppose that when we leave this arc behind and the protagonist ends up there, this whole subplot will matter. For now it's mostly an annoying departure.
There wasn't that much to this volume, but this series is always entertaining. The main selling point is the endearing, down-to-earth characters, who for the most part seem like regular people who just happen to exist in a world that surrounds them with weird, fantasy bullshit.
December 2, 2025
This volume feels slower than the previous volumes. The story focuses on training and travel, which provides some character development but lacks excitement. Rudeus continues to grow, but his actions are sometimes frustrating and hard to sympathize with. The worldbuilding is solid, yet the volume does not add much new to make the setting feel fresh. Some of the interactions between characters are enjoyable, especially moments of humor, but they are unevenly spread. The pacing drags in several sections, which made the volume feel longer than it needed to be. Emotional moments are present, but they do not land as strongly as in earlier volumes. The journey itself is interesting, but the stakes feel lower and less compelling. Overall, this volume serves more as a bridge between major events than a standout installment. I am curious to see if the story picks up momentum in the next volume.
May 23, 2024
The main character is a terrible person, but this reads as a redemption story. You get to go on a journey with a weird creepy dude that is starting his life over and trying (sometimes failing) to stop from slipping into his old habits. The story is set in a world with magic and skills. There is plenty of sexual references and terrible internalized monologuing, but the actions of the MC are his attempt at redemption and thank goodness there are no actually graphically detailed scenes in the audio. Guessing by this having been released as a manga/graphic novel or whatever the correct word is for this type of asian comic book, I will absolutely not be interested in the visual imagery.
April 12, 2023
This entire book seiries has been one of the best light novole's that I have read so far. I have seen the anime to this and it stays as close to the book, all be it they leave some things out in the anime. But what I like the most about it is that it doesn't just forget about Rudeus' past life and how it always comes back in some way, for it be good or bad for him.
July 28, 2025
Best novel so far!
Displayed emotions so profound it had me pausing for a moment while reading it.
Also loved the way the side stories were tied together and the introduction of the most powerful character we´ve seen so far in such a casual way at the end and how a common talk had such an impact in his life and probably the story moving forward
Displayed emotions so profound it had me pausing for a moment while reading it.
Also loved the way the side stories were tied together and the introduction of the most powerful character we´ve seen so far in such a casual way at the end and how a common talk had such an impact in his life and probably the story moving forward
July 1, 2021
This is my first ln i've ever finish to reading. I love the drama especially the relationship with his parents. The comedy too despite the comedy its dirty joke but its pretty decent. Well just one thing i dont like its t mc its a perv, but i can put aside on it hehe.
September 15, 2022
En el volumen 5 de Mushoku Tensei se relatan las adversidades que vivirán Rudeus, Eris y Ruijerd a lo largo del Reino de Milis.
Quiero decir que al fin volvimos con un libro de Mushoku Tensei que si me gustó, además de hacerme llorar por cierto reencuentro.
Puntuación final 4,5 estrellas
Quiero decir que al fin volvimos con un libro de Mushoku Tensei que si me gustó, además de hacerme llorar por cierto reencuentro.
Puntuación final 4,5 estrellas
September 20, 2023
There were some very emotional moments; I liked that Rudeus used the regret from his previous life of a broken relationship to reconcile with his father after a verbal and physical dispute. I also enjoyed the side stories of Eris, Cliff, and Roxy as it featured nice character development.
May 16, 2024
Paul versus Rudy. I guess every family has its spats, but I really do appreciate how both were equally right and wrong at the same time. The actual fight was awesome, too.
Very happy with this fantasy series. All the direction changes are smooth and obvious once we get to them.
Very happy with this fantasy series. All the direction changes are smooth and obvious once we get to them.
August 23, 2025
Embora mais lento que as suas iterações anteriores, o quinto volume de Mushoku Tensei comcentra-se no desentendimento entre o Rudeus e o pai. É uma leitura rápida e interessante, onde também aprendemos mais sobre Millis, que é praticamente o Vaticano medieval.
November 18, 2017
สนุกมากกกกกก อยากเขียนนิยายแฟนตาซีสนุกๆ แบบนี้บ้าง
February 23, 2021
I got a tad bit emotional in the reunion scene that was heartwarming
September 13, 2021
Simplemente increíble
December 17, 2021
Acá va el anime xd
April 6, 2022
amazing
September 25, 2022
Back to the human kingdom. It's time for reunion and more adventures.
February 19, 2023
Nos develan las consecuencias y la magnitud de los hechos sucedidos en el final del capítulo 2, llevando a una cadena de eventos emocionales he interesantes.
Uno de mis capítulos favoritos.
Uno de mis capítulos favoritos.
March 9, 2023
A little thought in life can be good, too much a nightmare
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