Danica Davidson
August 31, 2021 
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation’s second cours was supposed to start in July, but its release date has been bumped back to October 3. With this approaching, a new trailer has been released that’s just under a minute long.
When the episodes come out, Funimation will stream them for American audiences. They gave this description of the anime’s setup:
“The story follows a 34-year-old man who is killed after trying to save someone from getting hit by a car. He soon finds himself reincarnated in a magical world as Rudeus Greyrat, except that he gets his whole life reset, starting as a baby.
With all of his knowledge from his previous life, and a new heaping helping of magical ability, Rudeus quickly becomes a formidable warrior ready for adventure. Oh, and he’s still a total pervert.”
The series is being done at Studio Bind, with Manabu Okamoto of Gamers! working as director. Character design is being done by Kazutaka Sugiyama, who has previously worked as the animation director for DARLING in the FRANXX.
The original light novels and their manga adaptation are being released in America by Seven Seas Entertainment.
Creator Rifujin na Magonote talked about the perverted angle of the main character after getting some backlash, saying, “There are a lot of people who can’t accept how in Mushoku Tensei, the protagonist remains a pervert even after he reincarnates. It’s the same in the original work. But it’s not as if he has loads of regrets about being a pervert in his previous life. That’s why in the isekai he doesn’t necessarily think, ‘I’m going to live life seriously! That also means stop being a perv!’
“Tentatively speaking, in the original work, he’s 100% a perv and 0% serious at the point when he is born. When he decides to ‘live life seriously,’ it settles down to 20% perv and 80% serious, but since the anime doesn’t include that moment of change, the perv ratio feels bigger compared to the original work.”
He continued, “I think that as his level of understanding goes up, he will do less criminal actions and other things that ignores other people’s feelings. However, his fundamental nature as a perv won’t change, so if you’re one of those people who think that being a pervert in and of itself is bad, I hope you don’t sweat it too much!”
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, and its sequel, Manga Art for Intermediates, with professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
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