Comment by Apol15 on Mushoku Tensei - Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu - Chapter 91

@Apol15 Not gonna lie, it's astonishing to see such a serious take on a manga with an adult MC worshipping panties, with half the chapter being centered around this.

@TotallyAbsurd to be fair rudeus himself had inferiority complex as well he just worship panties

@TotallyAbsurd This is considered the grandaddy of the Isekai genre, every other work bastardizes this story's vision.

Remember Rudeus starts off with past life traumas and the usual perversion and he's the only character in anime I've ever seen go through a legitimate reason to have erectile dysfunction.

@Apol15 And as he explained, one if their first meetings is Rudeus beating the love out of his old man. There's a lot of things to unpack before she even sees him as a good person, being related to him probably feels like an insult.

@Cid Lunius

 Agreed, and let's not forget, her mother's still missing at this point. Meanwhile, Aisha's mother Lilia has already been reunited with her father... though I dunno if she will be accompanying him on his journey to find her. So she's probably also having conflicting thoughts and feelings about that... line what if her dad gets tempted and beds Lilia again? Will she have another sibling that she cannot compare to? 

You brought up the fact that her earliest memory of Rudeus was when he was kicking their father's a** (so she can't equate him with the amazing older brother that their parents were telling them about before the calamity)... but then Paul forgave Rudeus and even apologized to him. So she can't process that. There she was, doing her best to cheer her father up despite missing her mother as well, watching helplessly as he keeps spiraling. And all of a sudden, here comes Rudy, who beats up/bullies her dad, but he was the one who brought back his smile. Which is shortly followed by the reunion with Lilia and Aisha, who also probably made her dad smile even more. 

Now, she's trying her hardest to prove herself in the academy, while Aisha passed with flying colors despite not enrolling... and she's surrounded by expectations from professors who have seen her produgious brother's talents in action. Poor thing's probably feeling all kinds of inadequate right now

@Apol15 This is the kind of stuff I adore this story for: you can trace back every single problem back to an earlier chapter and follow a thread of logic that leads to the current development. It's hard finding that kind of consistency.

@Apol15 100% agree. As well to add, both siblings childhoods were so vastly different. Rudy already being able to read when he was born put him way ahead of literally any other child. And norm was what? Not even like 1 when the calamity happened? Rudy had both parents teaching him his whole childhood as well as Roxy. I'm sure Norm can't even process the information for learnin out of her past traumas. I'm sure lilia made it clear she wasn't Norms mother out of respect to not ruin the family's hierarchy. So Norm didn't have her mother to mother her but a nanny/maid. And her dad I'm sure just got worse and worse over time trying to find the mom and Rudy. Like someone had said in the comments above, norm needs serious psychological help.

@Juicysharkbooty1  As I understand the timeline... Rudy was 5-6 when the two girls were born and he was made to foster with Erin's family barely a year later. He was 12 when the calamity occured, which would have made the girls 5-ish, then it took him 1-2 years to get out of the demon continent and find Paul, so Norn would have been around 7 when she saw him for the first time.

So she was old enough to remember a time before and after the calamity. Also, Rudy was only with his parents for 5-6 years, so he barely had a childhood with them... he had more time with Erin's family than his own.

@Cid Lunius

People love to make this greater than it really is. Probably in an effort of making the story they love and identify themselves with/as, a greater thing than it is. Because, you know, most people don't got nothing going for themselves, so they cope through things they build their identity with. (a.k.a. fans)

I wouldn't call this ED gimmick 'legitimate' though. As if it was as 'easy' of a predicament as depicted here. It was treated 'seriously', but for real, it was written as a bad schadenfreude joke all along. Like "dayum son! you got permanently soft because the broad you traveled with left you without notice, that hurts bro" and he 'healed' himself by banging his childhood friend.

"legitimate"

@TotallyAbsurd The story already provides several layers of drama when it comes to the loss of loved ones by various individuals, the struggle of once again reuniting families, seeing a microcosm of what the estranged individuals go through by using Rudeus as a primary focus, so not taking ED all that seriously is perfectly fine.

Rudeus lost his confidence as a man and that's more than enough of a reason. He solves it by bedding someone he actually has a strong emotional bond with, overwriting the insecurity. Treating it with levity never really took away from the legitimacy, better than him going about everywhere touting he's limp.