Master (Episode)


 * This article is about the anime episode titled "Master" You may be looking for the manga chapter.

Master (師匠 Shishō) is the second episode of the Mushoku Tensei anime series originally broadcasted on January 17, 2021.

Synopsis
Rudy begins training with his new magic tutor and learning swordsmanship from his father. He makes rapid progress, but traumatic memories from his past life leave him too afraid to go outside. Is his second chance already doomed to failure?

Plot
Rudeus reminisces about his past life, when he was expelled from home and was hit by the truck that killed him while attempting to save some teenagers. He spends the next months training in magic with Roxy until the day of his five-year-old birthday party, when Roxy declares that she has nothing more to teach him and will hold his graduation exam. The next day, Rudeus leaves his home for the first time accompained by Roxy. He gets distressed over his past trauma, when he was severely bullied by his classmates in school that led to him become recluse, but he ends up overcoming it once realizing how Roxy blended well with the villagers, despite all the prejudice she usually suffers due to her foreign traits. In the exam, Rudeus manages to summon a massive thunderstorm and Roxy declares that he passed. Roxy then departs to continue her journey and Rudeus thanks her for everything she has done for him.

Characters

 * Rudeus Greyrat
 * Paul Greyrat
 * Zenith Greyrat
 * Lilia
 * Roxy Migurdia
 * Nanahoshi Shizuka

Locations

 * Buena Village

Adaptation Notes
This episode adapts the following material:


 * Light Novel Volume 1
 * Prologue
 * Chapter 4: Master
 * Chapter 5: Swords and Sorcery
 * Chapter 6: Reasons for Respect

Differences with the light novel:


 * The prologue chapter of the Volume 1 appear as a reminiscence of Rudeus.
 * The clothes of Rudeus before his reincarnation was different.
 * Rudeus explaining how he maintain the Saint Magic Cumulonimbus was cut.

Trivia

 * When Rudy attempts to walk in on his parents having sex to mess with them, he spots Roxy outside their room. In the manga, she's silently spying in them; in the episode she's masturbating to the sound of their lovemaking.
 * Arc System work is credited in the ending for a few posters of the Guilty Gear Series which can be seen behind his bed, one featuring the character Dizzy and another featuring artwork from the back of box of the Dreamcast version of Guilty Gear X. Alongside these you can see a figure of the character Dizzy on his PC and brief game play of Guilty Gear XX once more featuring Dizzy fighting the character Ky Kiske.
 * The author stated that November 22 was when Rudeus dies in his previous life, the same date that the first chapter of the Web novel (11/22/2012), meaning that he was bullied in 1992-1994, and in the flashback the bullies take photos of him with a flip cellphone, but the first flip cellphone with camera was the Sanyo SCP-5300, that was made in 2002.