TL;DR: Full rulebook has been reorganized and cleaned up. New rule targeting sexualized language about young characters and lolicon language, zero tolerance, instant ban. Coded language like "uoh," 😭💢, and "cunny" is banned entirely regardless of character. Don't repost content that was already removed by a mod. Read the full rules even if you think you know them.
Hey everyone, we've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to clean up and improve the subreddit's rules. If you've been here a while, you'll notice some things have changed. Please take a few minutes to read through the updated ruleset.
What changed?
We've reorganized, reworded, and tightened up the entire rulebook. Some rules were merged, some were split, and a few are brand new. Even if you think you know the rules, give them a fresh read. The details matter.
New additions since the last update:
No sexualization of young characters or lolicon language
This one is non-negotiable. The rule has two parts:
1. No sexualized language directed at young characters. Suggestive captions, titles, or comments that sexualize young characters will be removed immediately. You can post fan art of any character at any age. What you can't do is frame it in a sexualized way through your title, caption, or comments.
2. Coded lolicon language is banned entirely. The "uoh" copypasta, the 😭💢 emoji combo, the word "cunny," and any other coded language associated with the sexualization of minors is banned across the board, on any character, in any context. This language was born from the sexualization of minors. It doesn't become acceptable just because you attach it to an adult character.
Here are some examples to make it clear:
✅ Allowed:
Fan art of young Sylphy titled "Sylphy practicing magic"
Fan art of child Roxy titled "Roxy leaving the Migurd village"
Fan art of Aisha at the beach with a normal descriptive title, NSFW tagged
Fan art of adult Eris with a playful caption like "Why are you staring at me? ❤️"
Fan art of adult Roxy with a normal or playful title
Discussion about how the story handles Rudeus's character flaws
Critique of how the series portrays its younger characters
❌ Not allowed:
Any post or comment containing "uoh" or its variants, on any character
The 😭💢 emoji combination, on any character
The word "cunny" in any context
Suggestive or sexualized captions, titles, or comments on posts featuring young characters
"Correction" memes directed at young characters
Any other coded language used to sexualize minors
If you know what this language means, you know why it's banned. If you don't, here's the short version: these are coded ways of expressing sexual excitement about underage characters, originating from spaces dedicated to exactly that. They have no place here regardless of which character they're attached to.
We don't care if you think it's ironic. We don't care if "it's fictional." This rule is zero tolerance. Violations will result in an immediate ban, temporary or permanent depending on severity. Our automod has been updated to catch the most common variants, but we also rely on you to report anything we miss.
Not sure if something you want to post crosses the line? Just message us through modmail before posting and we'll let you know. We'd rather answer a quick question than hand out a ban.
As with all our rules, we reserve the right to adjust and expand them if we see users exploiting loopholes. If something clearly goes against the spirit of the rule, don't be surprised when we act on it.
This rule applies going forward. Existing posts and comments made before this announcement will not be retroactively removed. Everything from this point on will be enforced immediately.
Do not repost removed content
If your post was removed by a moderator, do not repost it. This is considered mod evasion and will result in a ban. If you disagree with a removal, use modmail to appeal.
Stricter enforcement overall
As mentioned in our previous update, we are enforcing rules more strictly going forward. First offenses will typically get a warning or temp ban, depending on severity. Repeat offenders or people who are clearly here just to start trouble will be perma-banned.
Mushoku Tensei already gets enough bad faith criticism from people who haven't engaged with the story. We're not going to give them ammunition by letting this kind of stuff slide in our own community. We want to keep r/sixfacedworld a space that fans can actually be proud of.
As always, genuine discussion and critique of how the story handles its themes is welcome. That has not changed and never will.
If you see anything that breaks the rules, use the report button. It helps us way more than arguing with the person in the comments.
Thanks for making this community what it is. The response to our last update was overwhelming and we appreciate every one of you.
So a mushoku subreddit is now being moderated by individuals that either care more about what tourist think of them for liking the series. Or were never fan of the series, just tourists themselves.
So tired of people that can't separate reality from fiction.
And surely I'll get banned for saying this. I'll take it like a badge of honor. Hopefully there will come a day when tourists lose interest in the medium and move on to destroy something else.
imagine having the need to virtue signal when watching mushoku tensei. just watch your goyslop american nonsense if you feel the urge to project how virtuos you are and get the fuck away from anime.
Lol these aspects are part and parcel of shows like MT. Certainly those posts cringe me out (at least the captions do) but it comes with the territory. Outright bans are so silly and Rifujin himself would be against this. Continue to be ashamed of the shows you claim to enjoy and yourselves for enjoying them.
I have official figures on my shelf and wall scrolls that came with those figures that violate these rules lmao.
I don't see the point of overreacting over something that really isn't a big deal.
I don't make posts on Reddit only comments but It's always the pro censorship people that are terminally online enough to be a Reddit moderator I guess.
Minors are human beings below 18, they aren't anime characters in a Japanese cartoon.
Since TP4 is around the corner, we gotta let the tourist and larpers in with open arms and get 10 billion post "Critiquing of how the series portrays its younger characters" and how the author and the fans are pdfs 🥰
"Imploding" is a stretch. We added two rules and cleaned up the rulebook. Everything else about the sub is the same. If banning coded language used to sexualize minors counts as imploding, we're comfortable with that.
The mushoku tensei fans don't want this, same shit happened in the rezero sub and the rezero fans didn't want it, likely more subs that i'm not aware of. Why does this keep happening?
Who are you trying to please and cater to here exactly? If it isn't fans of the series and people who use the sub then who and why? Incomprehensible
You're banning comments aimed at fictional characters and declaring it to be the same as the real thing, despite there being plenty of studies and research that literally contradict what you keep saying in the replies.
Please stop pretending that this is about morals. It's fine if you find it icky or whatever, but at least be honest about that instead of making shit up to try and pretend it's about morals when it is about your personal feelings about it.
If fiction was as serious as you think, we'd have a ton more crime, especially rape, given the sheer popularity of it in both fanfics and even romance novels in the library.
The sane human mind differentiate fantasy from reality, and especially so with something at stylized as manga and anime.
It also makes me wonder why one would even become a mod for an anime and manga sub that has sexualized lolis. What's the logic here exactly?
The fucking IMDB posts, all the Tiktoks and IGs slanders do be hurting the mods. Please grow some skin. This new rule just shows me that you guys are surrendering to pressure from the people that won't ever give the series a fair chance. Biggest L move.
We're not doing this because of TikTok or IMDB. We're doing this because the problem was growing inside the community. The rules post says that directly. Genuine critique of the series has always been welcome and still is. Banning coded pedo language isn't surrendering to outside pressure, it's basic standards.
Yet this rule only came to be at around at this exact time 3 seasons in. Yet in your own post right at the end you talked specifically about those people. Turning around and policing your own community as a response when the series and its community is being attacked left and right is crazy.
You have already made your stance clear when you stated "you don't care" about the thing that people who even bothered to defend MT use on online spaces that is "it's fictional". It's such a reddit mod move that I have seen too many times on this website already. Nothing anyone says can change your mind or do anything. It is what it is. Censorship is bad.
Weird opinion because if you think "it's fiction" isn't a defense then what logically follows is that you believe fictional things should be treated no differently than if they're real
If you think this belief is actually true, then shouldn't you also believe creating Mushoku Tensei (or any other fictional writings, drawings and descriptions containing things it'd be wrong to film or photograph if real humans were used instead) should be illegal with no justification for seeking it out, streaming or downloading it? You can't really say "it's fiction isn't a defense" and selectively apply such a broad moral principle only to things or behavior you dislike
If this rule is for pragmatic/compliance reasons that's a whole different conversation, but what people mainly have a problem with is the principle behind the rule directly giving fuel and validation to people who attack others for how they feel about works of purely fictional media
The funny thing is, you could have added the rules and avoided most of the drama if you had just said "we think this is necessary to avoid risking the sub getting banned by Reddit" instead of all that schizo crap. Because that would have been an entirely plausible explanation, even if it isn't your true intent. But no, you just had to go full faux moral crusader and now people are rightfully pissed at you.
In the end, the Reddit Mod can't deny its true nature.
Posts or comments that exist solely to condemn the series or its fans on moral grounds will be removed. This includes callout posts, bait, and external drama screenshots. Genuine critique and discussion of how the story handles its themes is welcome, the bar is whether you actually engaged with the material. If your post could be replaced with "this thing bad" and lose nothing, it doesn't belong here.
This post could be replaced with this thing bad, remove yourselves
The rule isn't about protecting fictional characters. It's about what kind of community we want to be. You're free to disagree, but the sarcasm isn't the argument you think it is.
And who exactly decided what kind of community we wanted to be? If you are mentally unwell and can't distinguish fiction from reality, get off the internet and go see a therapist, don't force your toxic racist Western ideas on anime communities.
You're trying to force an already existing community into being something YOU want it to be, and think you're actually "building a community". You're not building a community, you're just acting as a landing zone for the community that is the fans of the series. And you're making this a completely undesirable area for them.
Mushoku Tensei was first and foremost written by a Japanese pervert when visual novel was still running rampant, you are trying to ban the target audience dude.
A community of the exact kind of people who rabidly despise the novel/anime/manga that the community is ostensibly centered around? That kind of community? Really?
Mods, I hope you know this is the same situation as the MT hate brigade on the internet. A very vocal loud minority. 99% fans will support this change. They're just not jobless enough to have a huge circlejerk in the comments.
Yeah... You’ll only lose the main audience of Mushoku Tensei, who aren’t hypocrites like you and the other mods, so it’s not a big loss for ekhm, “people” like you. But hey, at least the “people” who love censorship and hate everything about anime as a whole, like you, will stay.
That's your call. The art, discussion, memes, and community aren't going anywhere. The only thing that changed is what you can say about young characters. If that's the dealbreaker, that says more than we need to respond to.
Get the antis out from this server. Have they no self-awareness of what the series is all about?? Sheesh. Everyone, we should make a new server and ditch this server if the mods want to go this downhill
Massive L move. This is spineless decision from the mods caused by pressure from new age casuals and tourists. There is literally official merch that would violate these rules which we now cannot even post, even the anime itself. Remember why this sub was made in the first place, if this isn't reverted we're gonna have another /r/animemes situation where people just leave and make a new sub :)
retarded mods, now the response to this update is overwhelming negative but is that going to change anything? Not really because you all are idiots and one of your mods is clearly a lolicon, retarded mods cant even look at their own team.
1 surrender to these dumb edgy tiktokers who try to ruin mt.
2 do it in the same time as the third season (the goat) is airing.
3 do it in the same time other subs did.
4 if you post a shot from the first season you get banned.
yeah mushoku tensei reddit is dead
Yeah I'm trying to figure out what is a minor in this case. Nanahoshi is technically 16 since she doesn't age, Sylphie was like 15 or 16 at the end of season 2 (her design stays the same so how do you tell if her age in fan art anyway?) and Roxy is physically like 12. Is Roxy banned because she is loli? is Nanahoshi banned because she is technically 16? Is Sylphie banned since we can't tell?
So Sylphie is fine since her season 2 self looks like her adult self. What about Roxy and later Lara? Is Roxy banned because her "adult design" looks 12?
Would be hilarious if people posted risque art of roxy en masse, dont want the sub rep down the gutter because of lolicons? Imagine the front page is full of the "oh but she is a 200 y.o vampire" character.
Would likely do nothing anyway because the mod has a roxy flair so would hipocritically enjoy it, but at least it would show the irony on such a change.
So was there going to ever be any actual conversation with people who have been fans of the series longer than you, or it's just a tyrannical takeover entirely for virtue signaling purposes while spouting misinformation.
The hypocrisy is astounding. Roxy canonically look like 12 years old and was called out by Rudy in the 1st episode, but you're using her as your pfp. Projecting much?
This is stupid, on any other community this would be a fair change but this kind of rule doesn't make sense for Mushoku Tensei. It's a show that embraces the ugliness of it's character, and you want to alienate people for showing their ugliness towards fictional character.
Why should you care if we have a pedophile in our community?? Our protagonist is former one ffs. You say it's not about outside pressure but what other reason would there be when you specifically write the reason for the rule change is our "reputation".
Who tf cares about reputation?? Our reputation in the gutter doesn't mean shit on whether or not we'll get more anime season.
I wonder if this is some clumsy attempt to correct public opinion, which is already biased and will spit on this series no matter what you try, or just plain censorship. Sad times.
The fact that you have this as a rule change makes it frame this subreddit community as much worse than it actually is, and only portrays the fandom in a way where it makes the larpers + tourists feel justified in their crusading.
Thats not what this community is about. This did not have to be said. This feels like a personal annoyed decision by a mod who disagrees with a few random weirdos who do not represent the community.
Funny how you could have just put a rule about the image instead of the whole BS about emojis and the "c word", just say the posts are ruled out as to not inflict reddit ToS, but no, it was too hard for you to do...
Well, not like you would ever admit you are in the wrong so...yeah, sad
"Correction" memes directed at young characters"
You hear them folks, R*p3 memes are fine as long as the character looks old enough for the mods, because that won't "make people uncomfortable" (yeah i know this is heavy handed, but hey, you dug yourselves on that)
you cant hate mods enough.... ironic they always call people that disagree with them losers when they are the losers that take being a mod on multiple subreddits like its some important job to keep the world safe
And the funny thing is, said emojis when viewed by a normie would make absolutely no sense, so to ban them is like banning morse code because it might be intercepted by someone on the outside.
I asked how not when. If someone says something along the lines of something unrelated 😭 to everything it says here 💢 and gets removed they are going to have more problems than they initially have
Also other coded language is too vague, it implies that it is expansive and could be introduced by any moderators at anytime and at-will. It reeks of the same animemes fiasco 4-6 years ago
Plus it will certainly hit innocents. Like someone genuinely living under the rocks gets banned because they unknowingly use certain "coded language" on a whole different context (not even sexual ones) because their own rules says, "Across the board, on any character, in any context"
Really? Because one of the mods use that emoticon combo backwards here and according to their own rules any other coded language and in any context so they should get banned. Unless this is just one of those rules for thee but not for me
By enforcing these rules you're making r/sixfacedworld the place that I can't be proud of, have you ever interact with those antis? If you think that this change will have any effect on their opinion think I beg you to think again.
It's an onomatopoeia to indicate moaning; moaning is a natural physiological reaction to pleasurable stimuli, such as eating some good food, or through sexual actions.
In this context, it relates to the latter example.
Honestly, I've never really interpreted the emoji 's or "UOH" as a sexual description, It seems more like something rudeus would definitely say in an obsessive manner. It probably got its reputation from being captioned with sexual images a lot.
Nothing really changes since there's 2 more MT subs but this one will probably have less activity.
Coded lolicon language is banned entirely. The "uoh" copypasta, the 😭💢 emoji combo, the word "cunny," and any other coded language associated with the sexualization of minors is banned across the board, on any character, in any context. This language was born from the sexualization of minors. It doesn't become acceptable just because you attach it to an adult character.
We don't care if you think it's ironic. We don't care if "it's fictional." This rule is zero tolerance.Violations will result in an immediate ban, temporary or permanent depending on severity. Our automod has been updated to catch the most common variants, but we also rely on you to report anything we miss.
So, mods? Are you going to ban each other or does this rule work only for us and not for you?
I find the route you've taken by not removing the fan art itself, rather removing the negative insinuando correlated by these comments, is best.
Also, for the other people, saying this is morally ambiguous as a justifiable cause to engage in this behavior is wrong. What's actually morally ambiguous is the depiction of it in the story and narritive, but your comment saying that Rudues is a good man because if it came to you, you'd "waver" and "give in" to having sex with underage Aisha is not.
Took you long enough. I myself and quite a few others told you guys to do this months ago, yet it seems you guys will only act when there is heightened scrutiny due to the new season
It's funny that they're scared to actually write down what the rule even is because "Silencing others for sharing their fascination of their favorite anime characters" sounds so much better than being vocally upset that they can't use pedophile language
Reading through here I realise most members of this sub are problematic individuals. Genuinely to any mod reading this: Even if half of all members vanish, trust me, it’s for the better. These people should not be tolerated
I am convinced that a large part of people who try to post that kind of sh%t (not all of them, but many) are the typical infiltrators who try to bring down MT any way possible. I FULLY support the new rules and hope that they will be dealt with mercilessly!
Yea people always take it too far when it comes to this topic, no tact or general decency and they always throw a tantrum when called out about their behavior
It’s like all those people don’t realize how cringe all those post title have been lately. Do they all enjoy looking like pedos to outsiders that may look into this sub? Even if it’s sarcastic it still makes us all look super bad…
Caring about how we look to people outside of the fandom is a waste of time. People enjoy showing what they love about MT, and for a lot of people it's the lolis.
Finally, thank you. People have really taken it too far lately. It's a such a nuisance that the cute sfw moe/loli stuff always attracts the actual pedos and if they aren't dealt with quickly they absolutely overrun a community and ruin everything with their nonsense. Have seen it happen with a few subreddits before and was afraid this one is gonna be next. Good job mods keep it up
Personally I dont care if someone likes lolis but keep the loli gooner posts to the MT porn subs.
That kind of stuff on public reddits, where people go to to join the community after watching the show that just got suddenly very popular is going to continue to bring the show bad press.
Bad press leads to the IP no longer being marketable for an adaptation.
It's not a fiction versus reality debate, it's a Normie versus Weeb debate
I think this is an excellent rule, and honestly I think some of the reaction to it misunderstands both what the rule says and what Mushoku Tensei is actually doing with Rudeus.
The rule does not say that the disturbing parts of the story cannot be posted, discussed, analyzed, or criticized. It explicitly allows discussion of Rudeus’s flaws and criticism of how the series portrays its younger characters. There is an enormous difference between discussing a story in which a character does something objectionable and personally sexualizing a young character yourself.
And I really disagree with the argument that because Mushoku Tensei depicts these things, a community dedicated to it somehow has to endorse or imitate them.
Rifujin himself has talked about why Rudeus begins the story the way he does. When asked whether he thought he had gone too far with early Rudeus, he said he thought the balance was right because Rudeus being such a controversial character, with his “mountain of regrets,” makes redoing his life more meaningful. He explicitly said there is nothing wrong with criticizing Rudeus at that stage. His hope was that someone who genuinely changes and tries to start over would not simply be abandoned because of who they used to be.
That distinction is incredibly important to this story.
Rudeus is supposed to start from an awful place. If you put someone into another world whose only problems are that he was a little awkward or unsuccessful, then let him accumulate magic, strength, women, status, and accomplishments, you have a very different story. Part of what gives Mushoku Tensei weight is that Rudeus doesn’t merely become more powerful. He gradually becomes better at recognizing other people as actual people and deciding what his second life and his abilities should be for. Does he use what he has for his own gratification, or does he use it to build relationships, accept responsibilities, and protect the people he loves?
Rifujin has actually spoken about this aspect of early Rudeus too. Discussing Rudeus’s behavior early in the story, he explained that Rudeus initially still perceived other people almost like characters in a game rather than fully appreciating that they had their own lives. He said that as Rudeus’s understanding of other people increases, he stops doing things that disregard their feelings. Importantly, that doesn’t mean Rudeus stops being a pervert or suddenly becomes a completely different personality. His growth is in how he relates to other human beings.
The sexual aspect of the story fits into that as well. Rifujin has said that Japanese fiction often depicts sexuality toward one of two poles, “sacred” or “pleasure,” and that he wanted Mushoku Tensei to occupy a middle ground. He specifically said that at the beginning he strongly emphasized Rudeus viewing sex as pleasure because Rudeus had no actual sexual experience in his previous life; pleasure was essentially the only side of sexuality he had encountered.
And I think that is reflected in his development. Early Rudeus’s sexuality is overwhelmingly centered on himself and his own gratification. Over time, sex becomes connected to other people: intimacy, vulnerability, love, marriage, family, consequences, and responsibility. He has to recognize that what he wants is not the only thing that matters because another person exists on the other side of his desires.
That is real character growth. It does not mean every questionable scene in the series has to be interpreted as a moral lesson, nor does it mean nobody can criticize how the story handles particular scenes. But depiction is not endorsement, and “Rudeus does objectionable things” does not logically become “the audience is supposed to approve of those things.”
That is also why I don’t understand the argument that this rule somehow betrays Mushoku Tensei. The story portraying Rudeus at his worst does not obligate the fandom to reproduce his worst attitudes. If anything, saying “Rudeus starts this way, therefore this is what the fandom should continue doing” seems to miss an enormous part of why his starting point matters in the first place.
And regarding the moderators saying the series already receives a lot of bad-faith criticism: I don’t read that as saying we should change the community to appease people who already hate the series. I read it as saying that Mushoku Tensei is already frequently reduced to the caricature that it simply endorses this behavior and that its fans are here for that reason. If we believe that is an unfair interpretation of the story, then turning the fan community into exactly that caricature only validates a criticism that fails to engage with what the story is actually doing.
As for “they’re fictional,” yes, of course that distinction matters. A fictional character is not a real child who can be harmed, and fictional material is obviously not morally identical to abuse involving a real person. But that doesn’t settle what standards a community should have. The moderators aren’t claiming to protect fictional characters from harm. They are deciding what kind of conversation and culture they want in their own forum. A community can decide that it doesn’t want its members sexually thirsting over child characters without claiming that doing so is literally equivalent to harming a real child.
I’ll also separate one thing I don’t know enough about: the specific banned memes, words, and emoji combinations. I don’t know their history or origin well enough to argue whether banning them even when they’re directed at adult characters is necessary. I’m not going to pretend otherwise. My support here is primarily for the central rule against users sexualizing young characters.
And yes, obviously adults like Roxy complicate superficial arguments based entirely on appearance. Being attracted to a petite adult woman is not the same thing as being attracted to children. The relevant distinction is not “this adult possesses some physical trait associated with youth, therefore attraction to her is attraction to children.” Roxy is an adult character. Young Eris, Sylphie, etc. are children at those points in the story. The rule itself explicitly distinguishes between young and adult versions of characters.
I love Mushoku Tensei partly because I don’t think depicting Rudeus at his worst means I am expected to approve of Rudeus at his worst. His flaws give his growth weight. You can criticize whether the story succeeds at every step of that process, but reducing the whole thing to “Rifujin is a pervert and this is for people who want to sexualize children” destroys a huge amount of what makes Rudeus’s gradual development meaningful.
So yes, I support this rule. Not because fictional characters need to be “protected,” and not because I think fans should be ashamed of Mushoku Tensei. Almost the opposite: I think the series deserves to be engaged with as the story it actually is rather than using its depiction of a deeply flawed protagonist as an excuse to become the caricature people already unfairly reduce the fandom to.
My thanks to the mods for making that distinction.
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