Why is he such a divisive character?

>>279767073 (OP)
Because some people think portrayal means endorsement and others don't.
For the former, a pedophile MC is a dealbreaker. For the latter, it's a unique flaw to give him.

>>279767073 (OP)
normies hate pedos more than anything. Not even murderers get as much hate. It doesn't matter if he never hurt anyone or if he's now physically a child as well. He's deserving of only suffering and can never be redeemed because he displayed attraction towards a child once.

>>279767073 (OP)
they try to make some deep story about him recovering from his trauma but it takes like 5 minutes and then he just becomes a pedo again
which is fine and i dont care but the whiplash is real and it just feels dumb

>>279767073 (OP)
uhh maybe because he's a pedo? he's not even pedophilic in the same cute way lolicons are, it is in this instead primitive and disgusting way
>>279767286
it isn't a unique flaw or anything lol it's wish fulfillment on the side of the author
>>279767337
this is because ordinary people are very close to pedophilia themselves, so they're just projecting

>>279767381
t. didn't read or watch it

>>279767286
I think it's ok if there is a redemption arc
He was a disgusting individual in his past life, and we know how he ended up that way. We can see him getting better and better, but it takes a whole lifetime to change, it doesn't come in one defining moment. It's a sobering

Also, if they are calling him a pedo because he liked other children while he was a child because they assume he is mentally an adult because he has memories of his past life, I don't think that's how reincarnation would actually work. He lives in a child's body, he has a child's brain, but with maybe some extra wisdom that he is too young to digest yet. But I don't know if my view of reincarnation applies to this piece of fiction to any degree. I just assume it does. Maybe i'm coping because I want to like the anime

>>279768891
>it isn't a unique flaw or anything lol it's wish fulfillment on the side of the author
NTA but honestly at first I got the impression that all this was a big self insert fantasy of the author. I'm not so sure now. There is clearly more to it

>>279767286
Why does Araragi get a pass but not him?

>>279769375
Araragi isn't just an all-powerful gigachad god

>>279769407
He isn't an all-powerful gigachad god either

He was jerking off to images of his niece that lived with him in the very beginning. Only got isekaid because he saved some school girls, which he only did prolly because he's a pedo, and then specifically likes girls because they look like lolis once he's reborn, and then gets rewarded with two girls who will look like children forever. The whole thing is a pedophile fantasy.

>>279767286
>flaw
it'd be a flaw if it hinders you

>>279767073 (OP)
flaws aren't explored deeply enough and then he just gets super rewarded with everything one could ever want. also
>polygamy

>>279767286
>flaw
It's less of s flow and more of a trait for a specific audience to self insert.

>>279769623
>two girls who will look like children forever
Who are these two?

>>279767073 (OP)
he is evil manipulative scumbag that has no charisma and gets rewarded for being a subhuman
all his struggles feel fake and unearned

>>279767073 (OP)
pedos aren't likeable

>>279769773
>>279769789
Rance is a beloved figure here and he's the same.

>>279769375
He doesn't.

>"He's a pedo, he deserves to die!"
>He immidiately dies.
The anti-pedo crowd should love this story. It's even funnier when you have christian viewers who can't forgive him. So much for redemption.

>>279769848
rance is simply popular with other scumbags just like rudy

>>279769946
The funny thing is, there are even worse isekai protagonists than the one in MT who did worse things in their prior life, and then also diddle little kids in the new world (world's greatest assassin isekai, and that shitshow beginning after the end), but nobody is talking about them.

>>279770001
>but nobody is talking about them
probably because no one watched that shit kek

>>279767337
>physically a child as well

But we both know that's not the case — you're arguing in bad faith. Rudy is in his 30s mentally by the time he meets Sylphie and Eris which is what matters the most. I actually do like the show but when normalfags whine about the pedophile shit they're valid for doing so.

>>279770022
Understandable in the case of tbate, since that show's production value is so bad, even the most hardcore fans of it were crying their eyes in utter despair, and want it to be forgotten forever.
the world's greatest assassin isekai though was mildly popular. or at least, it didn't have dead threads when it aired.

>>279769848
And he is equally a shitbag.
Your point?

>>279769848
Yeah, but most people won't deny he's an awful person. Plus, tons of people hate him, even on this site.