Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

[KrayZ33]

The creepy human god is a non-descript, faceless annoyance that torment Rudy with cryptic warnings and self-admitted poor advice (or is it?!) for his own amusement and driving some plan that we're not fully aware of. As the machinations of petty gods ought to be.

That reminds me, since it's been a while, was it just Goblin Slayer or this show as well that made the gods (of all races) seem like they are scheming and doing something in the background.
The human god was a "not to be trusted" figure, I'm pretty sure... but I forgot why. I remember something very important happened in the first season when he appeared... and it was only hinted at.

He was the "human god" was he not? Or does this universe not have a god for every race?
Conflicting memories show up between Goblin Slayer, Mushoku and Divinity Original Sin 2 in my head.

Maybe I'll rewatch it... the BDs came out a few months ago after all.

[Ryllharu]

Huh. Elinalise really is a proud and happy slut. Good for her, though even as open as she is about her...uh...needs, she still calls Paul scum...

Roxy's view of love is almost too pure and innocent. Considering she's the oldest, BY FAR, of Rudy's potential romance partners, and we already know she's sexually active and interested in the idea, it was honestly a little surprising that her fantasy was as cliché as you can get for an adventurer. She basically wants a sheepish though courageous younger man to save her faux-damsel style. That also puts Rudy squarely in her strike zone. The general discomfort with this series' implications continues...

It was amusing that the missed connection is Roxy's own fault twice over.

I guess Eris really is falling for Rudy.

That reminds me, since it's been a while, was it just Goblin Slayer or this show as well that made the gods (of all races) seem like they are scheming and doing something in the background.

Conflicting memories show up between Goblin Slayer, Mushoku and Divinity Original Sin 2 in my head.

Goblin Slayer is implied to be a D&D/Sword World RPG game (that's what Lodoss War is based on), crossed with The Punisher.

DOS2 is full of very petty gods. There's some very specific stuff from that game that I absolutely won't spoil here, but it seems to be the closest to this.

[DarthEnderX]

It was amusing that the missed connection is Roxy's own fault twice over.

I was not amused. Near misses between people looking for one another has always been one of the most frustrating tropes to me.

[Kraco]

I was not amused. Near misses between people looking for one another has always been one of the most frustrating tropes to me.

Yeah, it's somewhat frustrating, although it's also realistic. It's easy to miss another person in a city. Unlike the audience, the characters themselves aren't aware of it, so for them missing the other by five meters is no different from missing them by a hundred kilometers. Personally I dislike the kind of opposite scene more: A coincidence where a person spots another one randomly, in a place not frequently visited far from home, at the exact worst possible moment. That trope is often used to create cheap drama for romance stories in the way of misunderstandings.

[Ryllharu]

I was not amused. Near misses between people looking for one another has always been one of the most frustrating tropes to me.

It's a little different here, I think. It's not two people trying to find each other and inexplicably missing each other through plot contrivances, which is infuriating. That's the example of them passing each other in the alley or at the docks on the two boats. I'm with you there. But they were in the same city for days and days.

This is Roxy, specifically, failing. Them missing each other is entirely her own fault.

She's a former adventurer in this very city. She has connections. People know her. She deliberately steered them all away from Dead End (Rudy's party) out of irrational fear. The dwarf guy is asking around. Elinalisa is whoring it up to get personal pleasure while also asking for information in other back alleys. They're both doing the legwork.

Roxy steered them away from a well-traveled, well informed mercenary party for stupid personal reasons. She even saw them later, and ran away at full speed.

There's not that many humans on the demon continent regularly, or within the interior. Seeing Eris alone should have been an opportunity to ask Eris is she ever met a boy that met Rudy's description, or Zenith's, or Lilia's.

I assume that now Roxy is going to travel all the way to her hometown, still looking for them, only to learn that they were headed the way she just came from over a year ago, with Rujerd.

[Kraco]

This is Roxy, specifically, failing. Them missing each other is entirely her own fault.

You are expecting too much from her. She's mortally afraid of the Superd, so she's not going to go chat with Eris, whom she suspects to be associated with a Superd. Furthermore, she noticed Eris is really powerful, so Roxy likely wouldn't even imagine Eris being some brat from the human continent who has only been for a year among the demons. For all we know, they might have also been asking the wrong questions. If they are asking for rumours about human victims of a teleportation incident, it might not make people think about a tough mercenary gang that has lately been making a name for themselves.

[DarthEnderX]

There's not that many humans on the demon continent regularly, or within the interior. Seeing Eris alone should have been an opportunity to ask Eris is she ever met a boy that met Rudy's description, or Zenith's, or Lilia's.

She doesn't think Eris is human. She thinks she's some kind of red-haired Superd.