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Mushoku Tensei Season 3 Episode 7: Roxy Gets Tipsy at Home — What Japan Said

無職転生Ⅲ 第7話 酔ったロキシーの「るでぃ」に日本のファンが反応

Mushoku Tensei Season 3 Episode 7: Roxy Gets Tipsy at Home — What Japan Said

Mushoku Tensei III Episode 7 ("The Fourth Stage") gets a bonus beat from TOHO animation's own channel: Rudeus at home, flanked by Roxy and Sylphie, dealing with what the clip's own title calls a very tipsy Roxy.

Across the 218-comment section, one detail dominates almost every reply: the way she slurs his name. The single most-liked comment on the whole video (1,341 likes) is just four words — "Roxy's 'Rudy' is too cute."

From there fans work through Sylphie's own moment (a line about tucking their daughter in), give the voice actor full credit for Rudeus's slightly-too-pleased inner monologue, and thank Studio Bind by name for animating a scene straight out of the source novel's Volume 13. A few just wish they'd gotten to see the "girls' night" material they say got trimmed.

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TOHO animation's own channel posted another "iconic scene playback" clip pulled from Mushoku Tensei III Episode 7 ("The Fourth Stage") — and this one has nothing to do with the episode's actual plot. Instead of politics, summonings, or graduation drama, it's a domestic moment: Rudeus at home with Roxy and Sylphie, and by the video's own title, the entire point of the clip is a very tipsy Roxy.

The single most-liked comment on the whole video doesn't try to analyze anything. It just states the obvious.

Roxy's "Rudy" is too cute.

ロキシーの「るでぃ」が可愛すぎる

@タラコ-u9n1,341 likes

That's basically the whole comment section's thesis, repeated a dozen different ways for the next few hundred replies. Nobody's discussing plot, nobody's theorizing about anything — people just keep zeroing in on the exact way she slurs it, syllable by syllable, like it's a linguistics puzzle worth solving.

It's not even "Rudy" — it's "Ru-ddy." That's what actually gets you…

「るでぃ」じゃなくて「るっでぃ」なの可愛すぎだろ…

@まほch25 likes

Rudeus doesn't get off easy either. His inner monologue during the scene reads as a little too pleased with himself for a man sitting between two drunk women, and commenters didn't let that slide — but they also didn't blame the character so much as the voice actor selling it a little too well.

Casting Sugita for that slightly-gross inner monologue was 100% the right call. Early on — and honestly even now sometimes — you can catch a flash of his old silver-perm motormouth voice peeking through, but it's gotten a lot easier to listen to. Guess I'm just used to it now.

ちょっと気持ち悪い心の声を杉田さんにしたのは正解すぎる 最初は元より最近でもたまに銀髪天パがチラつくけどかなり聴きやすくなった。慣れたのかな?

@Rent-e8c192 likes

Sylphie gets her own moment too, and it's a quieter one — mostly built around one very deliberate line about their daughter that a chunk of the thread decided was the actual best part of the whole clip, tipsy Roxy included.

"Make sure you say goodnight to Lucy properly, okay?" ↑ Sylphie's the best, honestly.

「ちゃんとルーシーにおやすみなさいするんだからね」 ↑ 一旦シルフィ最高ですね

@ネッコ-w9t667 likes

Then there's the actual staging of the shot — Rudeus with a goddess parked on each knee, one on either side — which is the part everyone's actually screenshotting and turning into its own little bit in the replies.

Forget "a flower in each hand" — more like "a flower on each knee."

両手に花ならぬ両足に花か

@hiro_mu-x9t5q143 likes

The closest thing to a real critique anywhere in the thread is gratitude with a wish list attached — someone thanking the studio for the scene, then immediately implying they'd like more of it. It's about as harsh as the comments ever get, which says something about how this clip landed.

Thank you, Studio Bind, seriously — you animated almost every Roxy moment from Volume 13 I actually wanted to see.

13巻の見たかったロキシーほぼ全てアニメ化してくれてスタジオバインド本当にありがとう

@ノラ-u2l51 likes
I live on a planet called Earth, in a country called Japan. Don't you forget it.

俺は地球という星の日本という国に住んでいる。忘れるな

@glass-n3t1,195 likes

Nobody in the comments is actually arguing about anything, and nobody seems to want to. It's just a few hundred people independently arriving at the exact same conclusion, over and over, one slurred syllable at a time — and one very proud reminder from the peanut gallery about which country actually gets to claim this one.

FAQ

What happens in this Mushoku Tensei Episode 7 clip?
TOHO animation's official channel posted an "iconic scene playback" video from Episode 7 ("The Fourth Stage"), built around a scene of Rudeus at home with Roxy and Sylphie — and, per the video's own title, a very tipsy Roxy. It drew 218 comments.
What do Japanese fans like most about the scene?
By far the most popular topic is how Roxy slurs Rudeus's name while tipsy — the top comment (1,341 likes) is simply "Roxy's 'Rudy' is too cute," and dozens of replies pick apart the exact slurred pronunciation.
Is there anything the comments are unhappy about?
Not really — the closest thing to a complaint is fans wishing TOHO had shown more of the "girls' night" scene they say got trimmed, plus one comment thanking Studio Bind for how much of the source novel's Volume 13 made it to the screen.
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