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The story
Popular VTuber Pekora sparked a stir when she expressed outrage while watching the anime “Jobless Reincarnation,” reacting angrily to the infidelity scene involving the protagonist’s father, Paul — and the backlash spread all the way to the original author. On 5ch threads, while Paul’s affair kept getting slammed, commenters repeatedly questioned why almost nobody calls out protagonist Rudeus himself for his own past of stealing heroine Roxy’s underwear. Posters also pointed to the deep-rooted ethics typical of the “Narou-style” isekai genre, and argued that excessive fan defense is actually fueling the backlash rather than calming it. In the end, opinions never converged.
What people said
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If he weren't wearing a hot-guy skin, that'd just be a straight-up sex offender.
Getting a free pass just because he's handsome, naturally lol
Pekora really is the top dog (most influential VTuber right now), huh
Doesn't feel fair unless Zenith (Paul's wife) chews him out for it too.
Well, he was a minor at the time…
Isekai reincarnation stuff is only watched by older single women who've failed at life and convinced themselves that if they got reborn, they'd become a beautiful girl, have their life go great, and get popular with men.
That's on your vocabulary. If you come at it with middle-school-girl level one-liners like "trash," "scum," "gross" — basically just trolling — no fanbase in any community is going to take that well.
He's clearly got the skill to write an interesting story, so he should just dial that stuff back.
Wait, is Pekora's reaction actually getting to them?
The 🐰 fandom's (Pekora's, going by the bunny-ears emoji) pile-on against Paul is actually landing lol
In the end it's all for his own sake though, right? I don't know much about the series, but I'm not a fan of that logic.
I feel like this one's pretty bad too, but unlike Paul she never gets criticized at all.
Elinalise's chastity got scrambled by a curse, so…
Ranting on social media about a novel or anime script with "Gross! So gross!" — are they drunk or something?
Back in the Showa era, there were idiots who'd actually complain in person to an actor for playing a villain role on a drama.
Before reincarnation he's a sex offender secretly filming his niece, and after reincarnation he's a sex offender who steals panties and treats them like a sacred object — that's an undeniable fact.
Going by the presumption of innocence, he's not technically a criminal.
Did the author actually think this was funny?
The dirty jokes are middle-school level.
Or does it come from some condescending bias like "well, the gross otaku watching Narou-style isekai are fine with this anyway"?
That's how most controversies go.
Some idiots go on a rampage with defenses that are way too much of a stretch, and it ends up getting even the bystanders on the sidelines to start piling on too.
Messing with a real person is on a totally different level from a simple dirty joke, though.
Slime (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) can do collabs but Jobless Reincarnation can't — is that really down to compliance issues?
You'd think at least Roxy and Eris could still manage a collab, though.
Is he even in this lineup?
Isn't it weird to start criticizing that now?
He's supposed to be a modern person though — it's pretty messed up if his morals are stuck at the same level as some ancient work of fiction…
Background and Key Points of the Debate
“Jobless Reincarnation” has been known since it first aired as a show that invites scrutiny over its ethics, thanks to elements like the protagonist’s past as a NEET shut-in in his previous life, or the storyline where the heroine’s underwear gets treated as a “sacred relic.” This time, an outside perspective — a VTuber’s live reaction — reignited a long-simmering point about an internal contradiction: the father’s affair gets slammed, while the protagonist’s own past misdeeds get a pass. The thread was split over whether to treat this criticism as a legitimate question about the story’s internal consistency, or as an overreaction to a work of fiction. There were also comments pointing to a pattern seen in other past franchise and VTuber controversies — where overly aggressive fan defense ends up turning even bystanders against them and spreading the backlash further — making this a debate that goes beyond just one series.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Sad News] Jobless Reincarnation Guy Finally Gets Even the Original Author Dragged Too lol.”
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