Could Rudeus Survive in Re:ZERO? 

Rudeus: incantationless spell Subaru: spelless incantation

There's no doubt he'd end his journey upon meeting Betelgeuse, mostly because he doesn't get a second chance...

So about that. Rudeus wouldn't have Return by Death and wouldn't really be connected to the witch cult at all. So he would probably just not get into all of the situations Subaru gets in in the first place. And as just a random person living in one of the major cities (With some exceptions) you're at least decently safe in the re:zero world. Especially with Reinhardt going around and keeping all of the potentially world ending disasters to a more local scale.

Interesting concept, I do feel like you based it on end of anime Rudeus who just happens to be 17 as opposed to Rudeus in Mushoku Tensei at 17. There's a big difference. That being said, assuming Rudeus doesn't just side step all the conflict, the chance that he dies just from being careless and not realizing he's in danger is decently high. He tends to do that a lot.

"he doesn't act like a blizzard employee anymore" holy shit that was brutal lol

I love how Regulus can just one shot anything with a swipe of hand

"Elsa: I gonna open your belly" "Rudeus: Hell yeah !"

7:05 are we not going to talk about the transition

Petelgeuse is a spirit, and he can only possess a person with a high affinity for spirits that isn't already contracted with one. This makes Subaru eligible, since he had a high affinity and wasn't contracted with anyone until he got Beatrice. This excludes Emilia (who had Puck) and Julius (who had Ea and other smaller spirits).

"Could Rudeus Survive in Re:ZERO?" Yes, yes he could. All he has to do is not follow Subaru's path and just live a quiet life. What is forcing him to do what Subaru did? EDIT: My basis are the author's own "What If" stories. Each of them shows how things would've turned out if Subaru had made different choices and Sloth If shows Subaru could've chosen a quiet life, so Rudeus could do the same.

To be fair to Rudy, I think he would go into this world with far fewer assumptions than Subaru. He's inquisitive and likes to experiment to see what the rules for the world are. He might even ask Clown Sama if he has a library so he could read up on the world and learn more about it. I also think he would be willing to ask a lot more questions to people to find out about the witch cult, the dragon, and the witches. Since clown Sama's gossipal would tell clown that Rudy is just a competent man, I don't think clown Sama would have the same desire to use Rudy like he used Subaru. Clown knew Subaru could somehow try things again and again. He would probably just know Rudy is also good at magic and uses a different form of magic than his own. So I doubt clown would be as harsh with his own self made trials for Rudy. They might even geek out about magic together. It's sort of nuts how the story would most likely drastically deviate from Subaru's and how most of that actually just comes from Rudy having matured more than Subaru by that age. Fun experiment

I disagree Julius being the King or Emperor Class Swordman. I don't think he can even parried the Sword of Light that Ghislaine can cut his head off in seconds. He may be a Saint Swordman at most because his speed still look very slow compare to Eris vs Ruijerd combat scene.

Yep, I agree completely, If Rudeus followed the same path as Subaru the only enemies that could actually kill him would be the archbishops of Sloth, Greed and another one that would show up when the next season airs, basically all the enemies that have some sort of secret gimmick that can't be revealed without thinking outside the box, sheer luck or trial and error. If you really think about it, Subaru's return by death is miles ahead more powerful than anything Rudeus has, but boy does it come at a steep price xD Also, if the Rabbit is attracted to mana, wouldn't he be Rudeus's first enemy in this world regardless of anything that Rudeus decides to do?, the dude is a vortex of near infinite mana after all.

Now if Rudeus had Return by death aswell thats another story lol, but that attack he did on Orsted is later perceived to be God level magic meaning without Orsteds Wrym gate that would of exploded like a nuke so it probably wipe out those rabbits and probably the entire area including himself especially if you give him his staff which would multiply that attack by 5 times. Rudeus real weakness is his body, which wouldn't be much stronger then Subaru but without the knowledge gained from return by death it would be extremely hard to progress.

Rudy doesn't have Subaru's extreme hero complex so yep he would survive.

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Re:ZERO and Mushoku might be some of the most polar opposite protrags in isekai. Subaru is a true mediocre person in all aspects, but with a good heart and the most overpowered cheat possible, unlimited revives, which he uses to form good strategies. Redeus is a magic genius that can go toe to toe with the most powerful people in the world, but the creative ways he uses incantationless spells give him the edge. Subaru always does everything the hardest way possible, in comparison with Rudeus which gets out of many problems though talking.

I think rudues wont die since he's not subaru, Subaru's summoning is planned while Rudues is literally gonna be a random stranger By what i mean, Subaru's every movement in the Re Zero world right after he was summoned was based on the gospel's orders which Rudues will not experience, Roswaal ordered the Insignia to be stolen which made Subaru meet Emilia (looking for her insignia) and eventually leading him to the Mansion, if any of those didn't happen, Subaru would either find a job in Lugnica so he can eat or just roam around until he finds a purpose.

I am not sure if by 17 Rudi already has his second demon eye but even if he doesn't Rudeus has cast spells that covered more than 5 miles when he fought Orsted for the second time. When he rescued Roxy he froze an entire floor of a dungeon with all the monsters in it but made sure to not affect Roxy. With his second Demon Eye he can kill people from beyond the 5 miles radius without trouble and use the giant meteor, the nuke or the spell that insta froze an entire forest. Also, he was given a ring by the Death God that keeps him safe from possessions.

Rudy would probably be able to defeat the rabbits by freezing it Edit: I forgot that the anime skip it but when Rudy was in the forest he tried to use wind magic to fly. He failed and he drop to the ground. Braking all of his bones. When that happens a lot of monsters came and tried to eat Rudy. So he used ice magic to freeze all of them. Rudy was very far away from the village. Dispite that, the ice also able to effect the village. The Beastman saw how powerful Rudy is and felt lucky that he wasnt angry when they falsely imprison him

Now this is what a real Isekai fan does. Hell with all those annoying '>' debates.

It took me some time to register "rudi would only last a few minutes,like he did with eris".

Rudeus at 17: shoots limitless canon rocks and fire balls while hidden inside a magic armor that he can sumon any time he wants, and he also brings down tunder and turns he surrounding area to mud , the armor alone can jump over a city and destroy anything that it punch.... The only thing that can defeat him is a sword god or orsted , i don't believe he will lose at 17 Maybe the young rudeus would die at day 1 but not the married rudeus.

7:45 ...rudeus has 1 spell that annihilates everything in the area of ​​2km except if your name is orsted (although it consumes most of its mana pull)And he knows a wide range of wide-area spells and has various tactics for these situations, such as absolute zero (enchanted frost nova), cummulunebus + lightning, fire storm, sand storm, and tornado

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For the last point in the vid, while I agree that rudeus can pass the trial I don't think he would take the contract, I guess he will doubth echidna the same way he doubts hitogami

The weird thing about Rudeus is his anomaly in his body, as it's been explained that Rudy is actually, inhabiting a soulless boy. It's explained when he asked orsted whether he killed the real Rudeus Greyrat's soul when he came into the world but no he actually just possessed it and make it his own. That's the thing about crossing worlds, the logic wouldn't line up well enough on how each of those soul possession of Geuse's works and how it conflicted with Rudy's constitution.

There's actually easier way to calculate 17 y/o Rudy's fight: 1. Can the enemy fight on a swamp? 2. Can the enemy eats cannon shots in the face, regularly, at near point blank range?

“Short answer, no” Damn, I felt that

Rudeus might be stronger than Subaru, but would he get Emilia? Probably not, because he’s much more cultured, so he’d choose Rem.

Actually, I think 17 year old Rudeus has already learned flashover. The saint Lv. fire magic. All he has to do is overpower his flashover spell and he can singlehandedly wipe out the entire great rabbit.

It's a little unfair to compare fully trained Rudeus with out of the store Subaru but well... always a pleasure to see Re Zero content here!

rudeus would be like the best guy to kill the rabbits

Rudeus will find a way to get Emilia's holy relic

Oh I enjoyed this video for sure! I totally agree that Rudeus wouldn't survive the Re: Zero world, but yet again, all his development as a person truly changes his decisions and improve a lot his abilities. So the path would have been totally different... I would assume that at the beginning he would tried to get information about the world (if he's not trying to return to the 6 sides world) and ultimately end up on some sort of magic academy or in the presence of some ruler of the country. After all, that's what he usually does, stay close to the rulers of some territory and gain their favor somehow (Boreas; Migurds; Dedoldia; Ariel on the academy and later on Asura; Orsted; the pope on millis; the list goes on). So on that perspective I don't know if he would have met Emilia. Crusch or Priscilla seems more likely, thinking that he would gain their attention and later tried to recruit him somehow.

0:52 The short and realistic answer is yes because of plot armor 😂

7:43 . I am not sure if you have read light novel , but rudy has a spell with the aoe of 1/3 of an entire forest which he used to fight orested for the second time . Unofficial god tier fire spell . Also he is very strategic so he could just freez the rabbits without killing them or just trap them in a quagmire(he has a lot of mana , in web novel he turned an entire portion of a forest into a swamp) , many other ways . I think you probably underestimate him . Rudeus is smart and analytical . With betelgues i think he requires a proper body with good affinity to take over . I donno i may be wrong . well , anyways . It was an entertaining video to watch . Thanks

Rudeus doesn't have to choose, he'll leave his progenies all over the place regardless

Oh yeah Hitogami he appears in my dreams-

Love your commentary 😂

I dont know if the 17 year old rudeus already has it but you know that he has god class magic later on so 8km destruction is not really a problem even emperor can do this little bit easy

Rosswall isn't gonna fall to his death, his body is extremely enhanced to the point where he can somewhat fight garfiel.

Gotta give respect for that "des" impression hahahaha 5:29

Rudy is strong enough to create a nuke(stated in LN) because of his absurd mana pool that fire ball he was about to hit orsted with would've(if landed) been equivalent to a nuke, seeing how even orsteds "shield" broke and we know Orsted is STRONK(he did that thinking he would die anyways so he dumped his absurdly large mana pool into that one fire spell hoping it would atleast bring orsted down with them)

6:00 "and unless Rudeus gets extremely lucky..." BOI. Rudeus' luck is God-tier level. The number of time he would've died if he wasn't the luckiest man of MT is insane.

Now, the question is, if Rudeus was subaru? Could he handle return by death? Could Subaru survive in the world of Mushoku Tensei? YES!

Well a few thing: 1. Rudeus need to have the mindset to gather an army first, which without return by death there's no way he can prediced that Whale will show up at first. Redeus is strong but him alone still cannot penetrate White whales' magic defense , and he'd be devoured by the mist for sure. 2. Betugeouse actually cannot posses Redius btw since he has no affinity to the elemental spirits so that part no need to worry. However w.o knowing Betugeous clones abilities in advance, Rudeus would have a hard time fighting him still. 3. Gluttony is a lot stronger than it first shown though in the later arcs, and they have 2 of them that can fight/ steal abilities. I dont think Redeus can defeat them in a fair fight.

This seems more like "Could Rudeus handle Subaru's obstacles" lol. Anyway, as someone who's somewhat deep in both LNs, IMO even if 17 yr old Rudeus is somehow lucky enough to survive the Betelguese encounter, he'd get wrecked by Regulus, due to his body basically being stopped in time. He'd also definitely die to Wrath, as her ability is just straight up instakill hacks, unless he somehow got a second chance like Subaru did. He definitely stand a chance against Lust and Gluttony tho. Assuming he went through the same thing as Subaru did, he's highly likely to die in Pleiades too. Tho he could definitely breeze through enemies in Arc 7 so far.

The problem with killing the White Whale is that I'm not sure if Rudeus has much of an army with him. How would he prepare for it? "There's a massive threat in this one area near the tree just trust me bro." Although one thing we can all agree on is that if Rudeus and Regulus had 100 battles, Regulus would win all of them.

pretty sure you have no idea how strong a sword king is... a sword king could use sword of light to blitz anyone in season one so i dont think that julius king-emperor

Betelegeuse cannot possess every person at will, he could only possess Subaru because of RBD. This does not apply to our case. Also, while Regulus has completely overpowered attacks, he is bad at fighting, not a joke. It's useless without knowing his power, but as long as you dodge his attacks you can live to figure it out another day. In short, Rudeus *could* survive in Re:Zero. Would he? Idk. Violence is unpredictable. But none of this matters as Rudeus would never care for Emilia in the first place. Subaru is fucking insane and sticks by her in spite of enormous danger. But Emilia is nothing to Rudeus, and he would prioritize his family above everything else. He would just walk away from the whole royal selection, and would just get a house, a harem, an office job and live happily ever after until someone bothers him specifically.

I believe rudy's limit would be regulus/above, unless he discovers how his powers work. But if we are talking about pure destruction, he can easily go beyond the scale of the great witches tbh.

Bruh you r giving no credit to rudeus. By the age of 17-18 he is perfectly capable of fighting against orsted (tho he loses) to protect his family and he stops being a loli con too...

Rudeus would 100% survive in the world of Re Zero. Why you ask? Let me quote something Rudeus says, "The Coward does not look for trouble", in other words Rudeus would steer clear from any form of conflict unlike Subaru.

Echidnut has God tier scriptwriting skills.

I don't think Rudeus can be possessed by Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse is drastically, drastically, horrifically, weaker than Rudeus, and would likely get overwhelmed, we saw Subaru fight back and he's weak as fuck

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Kind of unfair to frame the world as dangerous when in reality Rosrow was setting up all those death traps in motion for Subaru in particular.

I don't think he'd get bodied by betelgeuse like you say, his possession only works on compatible targets, people closely associated with witches and the like. that's why everyone was surprised when subaru mentioned he would be potentially affected by the posession after his reset in episode 24. Assuming the possession doesn't work between his demon eye and his spells I think rudeus would have more than enough firepower to beat him unless he got surprise killed by the hand. Additionally, he would definitely be able to launch a spell capable of destroying all the rabbits at once, even if we assume he's still a kid. During his battle with orsted where he almost died, the novel describes how his last ditch fireball that Orsted absorbed with his magic shield had the power of a nuclear bomb. Simply put, had orsted not absorbed the magic with his shield, the entire mountain would have been blown to smithereens

What a genius video idea also I'd like to thank Echidnut the goat for getting me more interested in Mushoku Tensei

The Great Rabbit is Dark Souls' strongest enemy. Wait, I mean Re:Zero

"He doesnt act like a Blizzard empoyee anymore" had me dead.

Subaru - Granted the authority of Deadly sins Rudeus - Blessed by Man God

Rudy would try to use his dating "technique" on every girls in rezero

The edit at the end made me laugh. The music was such a nice touch.

I like how this guy asked for 17 likes, and now he gets thousands of likes

"it's like giving your little sister to play dark souls and say her to speedrun it without dying" and showing Aisha who is a literally genius who can do absolutely everything

Hard yes he would simply evade most problems. Which waifu would he pursuit?

The Blizzard Employee line almost got me laughing ou loud. I tip my hat to you, Echidnut

7:20 I love how he used pekoras BGM for the rabbit Part

I love that even when the shows ended you’ve said fuck it I’ll talk about new shows AND MY PASSION AT THE SAME TIME

"He doesn't act like a Blizzard employee anymore" holy shit

PLEASE make more of this imaginary rudeus journey in re:zero world

Future Rudy could time travel and manipulation gravity to a certain extent so just give him a power buff.

7:42 rudeus made a spell called nuclear explosion which he used against orsted when he met him for the first time, and it says that if orsted didn't use that weapon that absorbed that attack he and everyone over there would have died and it was an attack that could have been as damaging as an actual nuclear explosion .

Idk if you read the light novel but rudeus could make an explosion equivelant to our worlds nuclear bomb so the rabbits are easy match tho he has to use considerable amont of mana

I had to interrupt my happy time to watch this because no way in hell I'm missing such a thing, now you better do a "Could Subaru Prosper in Mushoku Tensei?" soon, or else I... I will wait until the end of the video to put a like instead of instantly!

He under estimates the power of Rudeus. I'm not going to disassemble every assertion, but... Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti: Petelgeuse is not able to possess just anyone he wants to. The party in question has to actually be compatible. It's very unlikely that Rudeus would be compatible, as we're assuming he's NOT been selected by Satella, and does not have strong spirit affinity (probably why Satella can form her bond with Subaru, and is why Satella was able to kick Petelgeuse out, as they were both in the same place in Subaru's heart). Regarding his hidden hands, he could easily nullify them with rain, or mist, or sand storm, etc. Which he would likely think to do, as he's a strategist, and he has the eye of foresight. That's assuming Rudeus allowed the fight to happen at close proximity, where Petelgeuse's power was even an issue. The Great Rabbit: Rudeus could easily clear this monster on his own. Remember, his earth magic is pushing the divine tier at this point. He could easily erect an earth cage around the rabbit, much like what Subaru did, hedge them all in, and then end them however he wants. Drown them by filling it with water. Drop fire ball on the area big enough and powerful enough to glass bowl the whole thing. Fill the area with some water and hit it will a fully powered lighting spell. (Which he has by the time he's 17.) Crush them all with more earth magic. Suffocate them by closing the area up. Really, not very difficult to take them out. And again, Rudeus is a strategist, unlike Subaru, he would totally work this out.

7:22 love the peko music with the great rabbit lmao

I am fairly sure there is a condition for Betelgeuse to possess. I am fairly sure only people qualified get taken over and I imagine rudeus is qualified. Also another thing to consider is Rosswall is also very physically strong. He sharpened his body into weapon in case his magic stopped working. It’s said he also had an OP shockwave attack aswell. There are some other thing aswell making Rosswall very OP. So I think it would be tough for Rudy to beat him. But since Rosswall can’t use healing magic Rudeus does have an advantage. But if Rosswall can manage to get close and do a killing blow he would win.

This brings out some real questions- 1. Who will win in a fight between Ostread and Reinhard? 2. Who is Superior Rem or Roxy? Edit: I am disappointed by the fact that you are arguing about Ostread and Reinhard more than Rem and Roxy.

7:45 Yes he has a spell shown that would do even more it is the nuke spell he used against orsted if he would be able to used it surrounding him he should be able to survive otherwise he dies to in the explosion and he has some even more op things in the light novel but that would be heavy spoiler territory

At this age Rudy is able to create nuclear explosion from magic. In the story he had not needed it yet. But there will be the forth turning point.

Just a info for fans , rezero crossed 11 million LN sales including side stories and manga sales. Series is getting more popular each year . Hoping for a season 3 announcement. Lastly first of all rudues is too op in his own world with his mana pool being the highest one and subaru is weak as fuck but he gains power through struggle so I believe rudeus will survive but unless he meets any witches and this thing - 🐇

The correct scenario of Rudeus getting double-isekai'ed has already been explored people. Refer to "Lust If."

First of all, the premise is off, the "Earth-life Rudeus" is the one who will be summoned, not the "Reincarnated Rudeus". Which means his current mental state is the worst thing to have in Re:zero world. Short answer, he won't survive long. On the other hand, Subaru won't also last long in MT world because he won't have access to RBD. But if we assume that "Reincarnated Rudeus" then it is a different story overall. Your estimates to Re:zero characters using Mushoku Tensei power rankings are way off. Roswaal's combat prowess is almost on par w/ Garf in human form, so he possess a body that can easily withstand a fall from a high place. The assumption that 17y/o Rudeus is still a degenerate is way off(which is most of the agruments mentioned in the video). 8km also a bad estimate, those rabbits won't be nice and form a straight line of 8kilometers and instead will surround its prey. If it is 8km² area full rabbits then Rudeus has a way to end them, even if you double their size to 16km². I'm guessing this video is only a premature "what if" scenarios. If so, expecting another video after properly reading both stories.

Yoo the last bit Im hoping it’s a preview of Subaru fairing in the Mushoku tensei world lol

Could Rudeus survive in ReZero? The answer is pretty simple cuz Rudeus will fight till death to stay in a realm with the unparalleled waifus of rezero

I mean...Emilia is too pure for Rudeus

“You know when a boomer or a woman” O my god

Everyone seems to highball rbd and forget about the human god that assists Rudy lol Even if he dies the god can do some shenanigans to let rudy live to entertain himself

I think Goku could probably survive in Re:Zero although I'm not 100% certain.

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Roswal: **Flies while making a menacing speech and charging some massive fuckoff spell** -Rudeus- Soulflame Rujyak: "Lol. LMAO."

Hitogami ,after binge reading the whole ln i know that dude like the back of my hand

8:19 the whole roast about alinitys cat. Lol😂😂😂

I think Rudeus would develop some bdsm relationship with Ram, her being the master ofc (or not...)

For the great rabbit I think Rudy could solo it. Whenever he first fights orsted he fires off that blue fire spell that orsted blocks if you’ve read the light or web novel it says that that blast was imagined as and was going to be on the same destruction capabilities as a nuke. He wasn’t thinking of his surroundings or about his companions he was on the verge of death and wanted to just take orsted out really. Idk if all of those rabbits are surviving a nuke he’d have to be far away tho unless he’d die with them. Basically if he’s close ya the rabbits still win since he still dies anyway but with others ya he could do it

Rudy pees his eyes wet when he sees sum red crayons doubt he'd even make day 1 through subarus horrors