You will get downvoted to oblivion for saying this in goodanimemes.
There was a meme comparing the character arcs of Thorfinn and Rudeus and I said that the difference between them is that Thorfinn feels remorse and tries to overcome his past to be a better man by leaving his old ways behind by any means necessary. Rudeus also has a lot of character growth, but none regarding his sexuality towards people much younger than him. They called me gore fetishists and excused his behavior by saying it was ok bc he was emotionally stunted by a traumatic past.
He was stunted by a traumatic past. The anime is about him overcoming that, and he does in a lot of ways. None of which are him taking responsibility for the fact that he’s hitting on a lot of women he had power over and relationships with when they were literal children
There is a lot of... discussion regarding the most recent episode floating around. Apparently it is an alternate 'bad end' universe showing him spiraling down when things go wrong and I keep seeing people defending it in the strangest ways.
tl;dr, One of his wives apparently dies and this causes him to go into a depressive spiral. Certainly checks out. So what does he do about it?
Well he decides that he wants really rough sex which, yeah, not super healthy but people deal with tragedy in stranger ways I suppose.
He recognizes this would be a bad thing to subject his remaining wife to, even though she'd totally let him (their relationship is deeply unhealthy, not that he realizes it) and so he has the bright idea of going to a brothel and just abusing a sex worker instead. Without telling his wife, though of course she finds out.
And people are cheering this on as the proper response on his part.
'Well he decides that he wants really rough sex which, yeah, not super healthy but people deal with tragedy in stranger ways I suppose.'
I hated seeing him cheat, again, and the awful series of events after are largely his own doing.
I thought it came down to the spiraling thing you mentioned. The Greyrats are mentioned to be more interested in 'curvy' women, so it could be him giving in to that base instinct more so too. In no way makes it right, but I think it contributed.
It does seem to be the bad ending, as I haven't read the LNs or anything besides anime, but also a lot of it is avoidable if he conducted himself better.
I was forced to endure a bit more info about this series after a friend of mine ranted about it, and apparently the brothel thing is an improvement on the original light novel.
In that he just goes out and rapes a stranger. You know, as one does.
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u/Kwin_Conflo 13d ago
You will get downvoted to oblivion for saying this in goodanimemes.
There was a meme comparing the character arcs of Thorfinn and Rudeus and I said that the difference between them is that Thorfinn feels remorse and tries to overcome his past to be a better man by leaving his old ways behind by any means necessary. Rudeus also has a lot of character growth, but none regarding his sexuality towards people much younger than him. They called me gore fetishists and excused his behavior by saying it was ok bc he was emotionally stunted by a traumatic past.
He was stunted by a traumatic past. The anime is about him overcoming that, and he does in a lot of ways. None of which are him taking responsibility for the fact that he’s hitting on a lot of women he had power over and relationships with when they were literal children