Isekai Henkyo Meshi - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - Raw Meat Pie

[MangaDex]

 

[HDMI1]

Spoiler: Hot woman, completely covered, supposed to be able to steal life with a touch, in the company of a Raven?

 

[DirtEater21]

Thank you for the translation

 

[Elhao]

Wait, did we already know the owner was a reincarnator from Earth or was that just a very casual reveal on page 10?

 

[xanon]

Wait, did we already know the owner was a reincarnator from Earth or was that just a very casual reveal on page 10?

Not so bluntly. There were hints in ch 1 with the twin moons now being familiar and ch 2 has kakiage soba, which is a pretty Japanese specific dish.

 

[HDMI1]

Wait, did we already know the owner was a reincarnator from Earth or was that just a very casual reveal on page 10?

The title does have "Isekai" in it.

 

[Elhao]

The title does have "Isekai" in it.

That only necessarily means that the story doesn't take place on Earth, not that someone from here is the protagonist.

 

[PrivatePublic]

This is good stuff. I might just be a sucker for the "restaurant in another world, rotating character study" genre. . .

 

[Bireus]

Spoiler: Hot woman, completely covered, supposed to be able to steal life with a touch, in the company of a Raven?

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Spoiler: Play a bit of music

 

[fight2live]

hot

 

[favine]

yes, nice question

 

[Forkuth]

This reads a little rough

those gloves
they say they steal life just by touching you

Which implies the gloves are stealing the life force however in the image she isnt wearing gloves which implies the true intention of the original work.

 

[HDMI1]

That only necessarily means that the story doesn't take place on Earth, not that someone from here is the protagonist.

Isekai means that someone from Earth goes to another world, or someone from another world comes to Earth or is sent to a different world. For example "Chill Life at Level 2" (not exact title) has the MC and his replacement summoned from a non-Earth world to another non-Earth world.

If it just takes place on another world with no transfer or reincarnation involved that's just a normal story. Unless you're going to tell me that Lord of the Rings is an Isekai.

 

[HDMI1]

Spoiler: Play a bit of music

The video embed is broken for me. Do you have a direct link?

 

[Elhao]

Isekai means that someone from Earth goes to another world, or someone from another world comes to Earth or is sent to a different world. For example "Chill Life at Level 2" (not exact title) has the MC and his replacement summoned from a non-Earth world to another non-Earth world.

If it just takes place on another world with no transfer or reincarnation involved that's just a normal story. Unless you're going to tell me that Lord of the Rings is an Isekai.

In the strict sense of the japanese word it is.

 

[Forkuth]

Unless you're going to tell me that Lord of the Rings is an Isekai.

Banbarro please dont give them ideas. Rings of power makes it clear they already want to destroy what Tolkien created we dont need to make it easier for them.

 

[EchoGirl]

Thanks !

Even if it's tech ok I feel like I'd get sick eating raw meat even if I could stomach the taste

 

[sarusa]

Wait, did we already know the owner was a reincarnator from Earth or was that just a very casual reveal on page 10?

I think this is the first time we've seen it explicitly, though hinted. And as noted, 'Isekai' is in the title - but in most of them the first chapter has burnt out salaryman / hikki / loner being hit by Truck-kun, picking their cheat skills, and then the manga forgets about it entirely by chapter 4. It's nice to see this one's a little more subtle.

 

[sarusa]

If it just takes place on another world with no transfer or reincarnation involved that's just a normal story. Unless you're going to tell me that Lord of the Rings is an Isekai.

In the strict sense of the japanese word it is.

I'm going to go totally off in the woods here, tl;dr forgive me... 'Isekai' has at least three different meanings.

First, like Elhao said, literally it just means 'another world' so anything with 'another world' would qualify. But it's not really used that way.

Second is 'transported to another world'. Under this interpretation our earliest Scifi/Fantasy work is Isekai. People have been writing about normal people traveling to fantastic lands for thousands of years. One of the first movies, A Trip to the Moon, qualifies. ERB had John Carter of Mars where he is literally just randomly whisked away from a cave to Mars, and with his cheat skills (used to higher gravity) and Earth knowledge he becomes super powerful ruler with the hottest Mars chicks. Also Pellucidar which is technically just Earth center but is effectively another world. HP Lovecraft did tons of things where normal Earth guy goes on cruises to fantastic worlds with magical cats. Tolkien's Narnia and Venus series are 100% this isekai. Manga where fantasy people get brought to Earth is also isekai here, or 'reverse-isekai'. You could KIND of even argue that the Silmarillion (and thus Lord of the Rings) is isekai because it's all about fantasy people coming to Middle Earth from out of the west and being OP. But while Silmarillion is told from their perspective, LotR is not.

Third is 'all the modern Japanese isekai tropes'. 99% of Isekai is total loser who everyone thinks was the weakest gets isekaied / kicked out of his party / is betrayed / is exiled / his parents spurn him but (surprise!) he was actually the strongest!1 And builds his slave cheat harem. 100% undiluted wish fulfilment. There's the girls' version of this too, though it tends to avoid cheat slave harem (aw) and go for 'marries the often yandere prince / king' . This is all SO cliche that even when I run into a fantasy manga with these tropes that's not technically isekai I just lump it under 'isekalike', kinda like a 'roguelike'. I would argue here that LotR is not Isekai even though Bilbo leaves his little world for a larger fantasy world because neither Bilbo or anyone else ever becomes OP.

Anyhow, this seems to be under the second definition. His cheat skill is knowing Japanese cooking, but (so far) he's just running a little inn in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Bireus]

The video embed is broken for me. Do you have a direct link?

It just embeds as a link so watch?v=fPVSwzLxXfY