Isekai Shounin - Skill <Isekai Tokou> wo Kushi Shite, Yuuyuu Jiteki na Okanemochi Slow Life wo Okurimasu - Vol. 1 Ch. 5

[MangaDex]

 

[lesseffective]

The numbers on those prices seem...way out of scale to be rational. Like, the best I can judge is that they went with a strange 1:1 Yen to gold conversion, and then hit it with mark ups.

 

[didien]

Ooo, another reincarnator! His main business is gonna expand soon.

 

[jasty]

Thanks for the update! I really like the whole father / daughter narrative and need a lot more of it.
The concept that the MC is a lifeline between a father and his long lost daughter is really unique and more compelling for me than this merchanting business.

 

[magnetsmangadex]

The numbers on those prices seem...way out of scale to be rational. Like, the best I can judge is that they went with a strange 1:1 Yen to gold conversion, and then hit it with mark ups.

My fav part of the isekai genre is figuring out where the author is strong, and where they are weak . But yeah. In chapter 1 a gold bar is enough to buy a mansion in Japan, but is a months salary in the isekai. This has interesting implications, like every noble can afford a life sized solid gold statue.

https://mangadex.org/chapter/42049914-2425-4a7c-9d24-be7e29fa5605/13

 

[Nemo2342]

He may save 80k gold coins, but will he bring guns to a sword fight?

 

[Saybah]

Cepatkan bayar!

 

[Elaborate]

Uuurgh, I hate it when the prices are in Yen but they call it "gold" for fantasy reasons.

Consulting the net, the smallest gold coin in history weighs 0.06g and is worth about $4, so 30 000 Gold coins should be at least $120 000, which is a bit much for a few chocolates.

I guess it somehow makes sense in Japan to name your currency "gold", but to me it's just weird. Why name the currency that if you don't use gold coins as a base?

 

[asdfgh1111]

He's selling food from the real world to fantasy people, that might not be the best idea. I really hope none of them have food allergies. I'd avoid anything made with peanuts and/or strawberries if I were him.

That show has stolen far to much of my life.

 

[Chizan]

I guess it somehow makes sense in Japan to name your currency "gold", but to me it's just weird. Why name the currency that if you don't use gold coins as a base?

As the other poster above said, in that world a gold bar is worth a month's salary(see chapter 1), a standard 'Good Delivery' gold bar on Earth is 12,4 kg and worth ~$1,2 million, so if we assume the isekai version of the gold bar being 1/10 of that, ~1,2 kg, that would make it about ~$120.000, it would mean the chocolate cost was about as much as a month's salary.

So I think the author is accurate here if we assume chocolate an expensive novelty...

 

[captain_crunch]

Is that noble kid going to get cavities?

 

[quser]

He's selling food from the real world to fantasy people, that might not be the best idea. I really hope none of them have food allergies. I'd avoid anything made with peanuts and/or strawberries if I were him.

That show has stolen far to much of my life.

It's probably not an issue in an isekai world. Food allergies became so common only recently.

 

[Xakorik]

Pupose?

 

[CountryMage]

My fav part of the isekai genre is figuring out where the author is strong, and where they are weak . But yeah. In chapter 1 a gold bar is enough to buy a mansion in Japan, but is a months salary in the isekai. This has interesting implications, like every noble can afford a life sized solid gold statue.

https://mangadex.org/chapter/42049914-2425-4a7c-9d24-be7e29fa5605/13

Also @Chizan The house is a month's salary in the fantasy world, or a gold bar in modern japan (probably rural Japan), and I think he was talking about the price to build one.

 

[Hoezell]

This manga is interesting.

My fav part of the isekai genre is figuring out where the author is strong, and where they are weak . But yeah. In chapter 1 a gold bar is enough to buy a mansion in Japan, but is a months salary in the isekai. This has interesting implications, like every noble can afford a life sized solid gold statue.

https://mangadex.org/chapter/42049914-2425-4a7c-9d24-be7e29fa5605/13

Yeah, when I read that I though "this must have been inversed in translation, this is not possible" but here we are lmao

 

[ZeroNihilum]

She seems to recognize the chocolate. Probably a reincarnator.

 

[ngungbi]

Pupose?

fixed it,
thanks for reporting it

 

[Elaborate]

As the other poster above said, in that world a gold bar is worth a month's salary(see chapter 1), a standard 'Good Delivery' gold bar on Earth is 12,4 kg and worth ~$1,2 million, so if we assume the isekai version of the gold bar being 1/10 of that, ~1,2 kg, that would make it about ~$120.000, it would mean the chocolate cost was about as much as a month's salary.

So I think the author is accurate here if we assume chocolate an expensive novelty...

But like, the only good point of gold as coins is their rarity? Going around with 1 kg of gold in your pockets would suck...

 

[ShinduPK4]

Thanks for the TL! I really appreciate the TL notes referencing the previous chapters.

 

[panneqaha]

I found that in a lot of fantasy type manga, they tend to go with gold being the default money, either 1 gold = 100 yen/1 dollar (!) or 1 gold = 1 yen (!!!). Probably because tons of RPG/fantasy type games use gold as their default currency. A lot of people don't like having to deal with copper pieces or small silver coins or whatever.

Despite being a 'merchant manga', this is clearly no Spice and Wolf, which is about the only anime/manga that I've seen that's gone in depth into more 'period accurate' style money.