They skipped a previous week in order to release this one on fathers day. It was deliberate!

Paul's backstory reveals a further layer as to why he's so desperate to save Zenith. Not only is she his first wife, the mother of two of his children, and the love of his life, he originally fell in love with her because she was so much like his late mother. He'd failed to find a doctor to help her when he was 11 and she died of long-running poor constitution. Pilemon and Amarant, Paul's six years younger brother and his father, blamed him for her death. This fight provides him a new chance to save the woman who is an embodiment of his love for his mother. He not only expects Rudeus' dedication to the cause, he's putting his life on the line for his.

nice react boys!

The setting has no other sanctioned method of burial than cremation. What's done with the ashes afterward is up to individual cultures. Mana pervades everything, even bodies, as Nanahoshi pointed out in S2E9. Excess mana turns animals and plants into monsters and locations into labyrinths. The dead become undead after a time.

Father's Day in Japan is the same day as here in the US, however Mushoku Tensei airs at midnight there, so it does technically come out on Monday. But the Father's Day was 100% on purpose, when you also consider on Mother's Day they revealed that Sylphie was pregnant. If only one of these happened, you could write it off as coincidence, but for both to happen, no way.

Happy Father's day! Zenith got Casca'd. Only if Rudy was half the man Paul was

In the LN rudy had no idea what was happening. The Hydra started flailing its stumps all over the place, and with Rudys forsight he couldnt understand what was happening which is why Paul had to save him

Rudy's mother state is permanent. There is no real cure for her she stay like that for the rest of her live 😢

i love father's day!

anime didn't convey the "freeze" vs the hydra part good at all. rudy was using his demon eye from the get go. he was way too focused on his eye and at that point the hydra was going ham moving the tail, all of its stumps etc... and rudy simply got overwhelmed from tunnel visioning into his foresight and he froze. about the regret thing... he went , gave it his all, saved roxy and zenith but lost the left arm(hand, which btw he named Heracles) and his dad. if he didn't go i believe the regret would be SO MUCH BIGGER. Roxy would be dead, nobody would be able to find her, let alone save her. Paul was hellbent on finding Zenith, the group would still be by his side trying to help find Zenith and they would eventually all get wiped. If not at the 4th then DEFINITELY in the 5th stratum, cuz without Rudy they get no book to tell them how to deal with the swarm of monsters in the 5th(burning that thing to make them go away). Rudy would be kicking himself and blaming himself till the end of days knowing he could help them and he didn't bother. so pick your poison between a) lose your left hand and your dad dies or b) Your Dad dies, Roxy dies, Elinalise (who mind you went there for your sake) dies, Geese dies(who helped with you and your dad getting back in good terms), Talhand dies(ok he doesnt know him) and Zenith is still gone.

Gonna try not to spoil anything but it´s not trauma nor is it amnesia it´s a bit more complicated and if we get a season 4 it´s likely during its second cour where the plot around it comes up.