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At the Tamers Guild, Ryoma learns raising his rank will be difficult due to how unimpressive slimes are. Instead, he joins the Adventurers Guild where Guild Master Worgan
accepts him immediately after witnessing Ryoma's warrior abilities. At the lowest rank of G, Ryoma takes his first G ranked job, to clean the home of Miya, a cat beastkin. 44"Clean-Up Duty, with the Slimes"
Transliteration: "Suraimu-tachi to Seisō Sagyō" (Japanese: スライムたちと清掃作業)Kyōhei ŌkazuKazuyuki FudeyasuOctober 25, 2020 (2020-10-25) With help from his slimes, Ryoma not only cleans Miya's house, but make some repairs on it, much to her joy, and she increases his reward out of gratitude. In his next job, Ryoma is tasked to clean the communal toilets, amid suspicions the toilets are not being properly maintained due to embezzlement perpetrated by the local authorities. While Reinhart investigates the matter, Ryoma discovers the toilets are contaminated with miasma. Upon knowing of this, the Jamil family attempts to
dissuade Ryoma from continuing the task, but he convinces them he is the most suited for it. The guild then sends Miya along with some
other adventurers to keep the population away from the toilets until Ryoma completes the cleaning. After the job is done, Ryoma reminisces about his mother, who used to stay awake to welcome him home after work until her death, and cries tears of joy when the Jamil family welcomes him home in a similar fashion. 55"The Lady's Training Session, with the Slimes"
Transliteration: "Suraimu-tachi to Ojōsama no Kunren" (Japanese: スライムたちとお嬢様の訓練)Tomihiko ŌkuboKazuyuki FudeyasuNovember 1, 2020 (2020-11-01) Following Ryoma's advice
playing with magic is a good way to learn, Eliaria asks him to teach her how to play. Ryoma also asks Camil to teach him attack magic.
The beginning segments with Sara and Counter Arrow were oddly realistic in the way they showed the cautious social improvements a depressed person attempts to make; this
realism got turned up to 11 when they showed a sudden downward spiral with plenty of self-destruction. Most anime don’t use depression as a catalyst for character development; if they do, the depression is short-lived and resolved linearly. As stated above, neither of these happen in Mushoku Tensei season 2. The conversation with Nanahoshi is a glorified 20-minute info dump: an info dump that I was on the edge of my seat to consume. I generally dislike info dumps of this magnitude, but the sheer impact of the information being dumped and the extracurriculars with Sylphy during the conversation kept it interesting. Or hell, even the way they characterize side characters. There are 12 characters either introduced or re-established and expanded on this season, and none of them feel like a waste of time that won’t be utilized as the series goes on; characters like Sara have
fulfilled their duty to the plot and won’t appear for much later feel like their arcs are completed: they don’t need extra development to make them feel like quality. Side characters that received incomplete characterization, such as Zanoba and Cliff, were set up to be reused in the latter parts of the story. On paper, this seems like a fairly simple decision to make that clears a pretty low bar of establishing your side characters to a great extent before you make them do important things in the plot, but you’d be surprised. Many anime skip this simple step that honestly gives out pure brownie points to viewers who consume the entire series.
Time to address the elephants in the room.
Consolers features many characters
drawn in an anime-ish style, and often uses Japanese Visual Arts Tropes. Cross Heart is a manga, except it was written by a Spanish author,
originally in Spanish and English, and published for free on DeviantArt. Crystal Heroes has a somewhat 70s/80s shoujo art style to it as well as using several manga visual tropes. Danger Zone One employs a visual style specifically drawn to appear like a manga. Demon Candy: Parallel is drawn in a Yonkoma fashion. Devil's Candy mixes manga-esque art with typical Western settings. Fitting, since the duo behind the series were veterans in the OEL Manga scene and got a one-shot of theirs published in Shonen Jump. Dominic Deegan's style has been described as being on the cheap end of animeshun. The Dreamcatchers Masquerade uses an anime-influenced art and animation style. Earthsong is a Fantasy Webcomic with manga inspiration. El Goonish Shive's visual style has always been anime-inspired, and grown more so over time.
