Isekai de Yakuza Hajimemashita: Yume no Henkyou Slow Life wa Oazuke-chuu - Ch. 5

[MavroVulpis]

TL team name checks out

 

[Hadski]

Man the red herring it's just on silver platter with giant arrow neon light sign that keeps flashing ay?

 

[Alx-Jeager115]

There is no escape from his frie...wife, (otherwise I'll get smacked too, shhh) :v

 

[AbuHajaar]

STOP CRYING 😭

 

[Lucas852m]

At his point bro is just being held hostage

 

[Werebearguy]

Before: Oh, she's a brat.
After: Oh, she's cute.

Penne is a great addition to the cast. Poor girl recognizes the problem but can't do anything but go along with it.

 

[Morthasa]

Well, I can at least say I'm glad she didn't turn into an ongoing gag of "she keeps making things worse for the MC while trying to help him"

 

[Gokudomatic]

Penne got cooked and became limb.

 

[dibblee]

So is he going to let his family know where he's been?

 

[0neDragon]

say don't crows parents miss him/question were he is

 

[FloorRoof]

She properly listened to him without turning her initial resentment into a whole arc! That's more mature than the typical love rivals twice her age. What an unexpected choice for a straight man character.

 

[Shrimperor]

This woulda been better as a H-manga runs

 

[GreenDude1]

Ah. I was wondering how the "harem" tag worked with a female main lead like that.

She said in an earlier chapter that she didn't care how many wives he had as long as she approved of them and she was wife number one.

 

[Schmucklet]

She's perfect with this gap appeal.

 

[orangerain7734]

I was about to get annoyed when she pulled the overused tsundere "you're not good enough" trope, but it actually played out in a funny way, completely on point with the rest of the plot.

I was surprised how understanding she turned out to be and even tried speaking up for him. Even though she failed, they ended up becoming comrades of unfortunate circumstances by the end of it. I'm already liking her a lot.

 

[N2O]

UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH

 

[Elaborate]

Eh, Penne breaks my sense of immersion a little.

It's vaguely possible for there to be a highly competent 10yo yakuza granddaughter.
And yeah, then it makes sense that she fixates on the also very young MC. That's allowable plot setup.

But having a 10yo mob enforcer strains credulity; you need, like, actual strength and reach for that. Even if she has a magical bloodline or something, an adult with that bloodline would still be five times better at the job.

And, yeah, it's possible that the reason their outstanding talents are old or very young is that the generation in the middle got absolutely decimated in a yakuza war, but you can actually recruit new talent, y'know.

From a character design perspective, too, it would have made more sense to make Penne at least 15 years old, so there's a stronger visual identity and she gets more of a 'big sister' vibe.

Basically, the addition of Penne is evidence that the author just wants to add as many lolis as possible to the cast, and is willing to compromise the plot to make that happen. Or that the artist ignores the author's instructions and draws anyone below 20 as a 10-year-old.
Either way, feels like the beginning of a trend.

EDIT: checked out the source material, and as far as I can tell Penne's age wasn't given in the first 15 chapters. She's someone's granddaughter, but that still leaves a lot of margin.
Also, there's more focus on the MC's crafting in the novel; he detects poison with a magic tool he made, for example.

 

[Flyingpantsu]

Imagine that the poisoner is someone who thinks about the group as a whole rather than its individuals, and seeing how the head and the granddaughter are such fools, decided to eliminate them for the good of the organisation. Yeah, that suspicious doc fits.

 

[Dabaws]

I know penne is italian for feathers but as a spanish speaker still sounds weird lol

 

[Kurovah]

oh thank god she actually listened to him