Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

[Buffalobiian]

This new party is fated to be dogchow.

I'm glad this depression only lasted an episode. I was already annoyed.

I was getting pissed off too, mainly because the motivations didn't make a whole lot of sense.

Eris said she'd come back when she's more "worthy" of him.

He knows he still has his teacher and his family. He was finding his mother. There's still plenty of motivation there to the point where thinking he'd just fall back into a rut seems... strange.

The burnt hand scene seemed strange. Not in regards to the handshake, but more the fact that it was burnt. I've never seen a fireball hurt someone's own hand before, and if you burnt your hand from skinning animals they're too hot.

[Kraco]

Eris said she'd come back when she's more "worthy" of him.

Is that what the anime version said? The manga translation I read said:

"Right now, we're not a good match for each other.

I'm leaving on a journey, Eris."

I guess for a more positive person, it might sound like she's coming back, but deep down Rudeus is not an optimistic person. He only read it as "We aren't a good match. Farewell." It's not unreasonable either. They went through the dangerous, long journey back, but then she just disappeared leaving behind nothing but a letter that didn't really say anything. Anyone would take it as a negative sign.

[Ryllharu]

Eris said she'd come back when she's more "worthy" of him.

Is that what the anime version said? The manga translation I read said:

"Right now, we're not a good match for each other.

I'm leaving on a journey, Eris."

The former is what Eris undoubtedly meant, but she is notoriously shitty at communication. In general, she's a dumbass who is good at fighting.

Episode 22, she wrote what Kraco posted.

Halfway into Eps 23, she shouted from the mountaintop that she loved him and stated that her goal was to better herself and protect him.

So you are both correct.

She looks like to a Japanese person that she cut her hair and broke up with him because they weren't meant to be together. Who knows what cutting one's hair means in Pervo-World.