Isekai Yakkyoku - Vol. 4 Ch. 17.3 - Influenza and the case of a certain pharmacy 3

[MangaDex]

 

[Cyoteblack]

Man, those are some good feels.? ?

 

[azerez]

lol MC actually feels more like villain now, can't really blame the guild

 

[suzubelle]

well this is one heck of an arc
looking forward for more of this series

 

[Rigardo]

Understandable. Dat Avian water, totally worth it!

 

[IvoryPuma]

That water must be some very good stuff.

 

[alacaelum]

@azerez LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ON THE RED CORNER WE HAVE THE PHARMACIST GUILD, their work ethics involve, using untested and unsafe medicine, scamming their patients in believing their methods to increase their profits and stalling the advancement of medical knowledge.

ON THE OTHER SIDE WE HAVE THE DISPENSARY GUILD, they believe in the fairness of treatment of their patients, using medicine made of approved ingredients and modern production methods and in disclosing these new methods for all to use.

MAKE YOUR BETS, WHO WILL BE THE CHAMPION OF THIS EEEEEEEPIC MATCH.

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Disclaimer. This comment is made only for comedy purpose, have a nice day pal and possibly a nice laugh too XD

 

[Vasqueztion]

@azerez
You can't blame the guild? Do you mind explaining your reasoning?

Because, ransacking a store that disagrees with you is totally on the up-and-up.

 

[prankieboy]

thanks for the hard work biamam scans

 

[Xzaral]

From the viewpoint of the guilds Falma is the villain, and while I wouldn't necessarily say he's evil he could be viewed as an antagonist in this situation.

He's utilizing knowledge from another world with more advanced medical techniques, techniques unavailable to other medical professionals.
His sales and marketing techniques are also based on future practices which have had significantly more study put behind them.
He's selling medicines drastically under market value, causing a drastic shift in costs which other businesses cannot afford.
By virtue of how he's been taking the customers of others using these tactics, other pharmacies are risking losing their own stores.
He's now established a guild, which in it's own way is the same tactic the guild has been using up to this point.

While yes for Falma he's using these for the good of others, we see this as the observer. To the Pharmacy guild though who don't realize his intentions he's definitely a villain come to ruin them all and take all the business for himself. This is why Pierre is such an important character to begin interaction with Falma as it begins to help spread his intentions. This of course can STILL be viewed as antagonistic in it's own way as now people have to join his Dispensary guild to get his techniques and recipes. Don't get me wrong, the idea of medicine that works and isn't a poison is good and all, but there's been no opportunity to clearly demonstrate this for the Pharmacy guild. A lot of this is attributed to the Pharmacy guild not giving Falma the time of day, true. But what efforts has Falma made to talk to them? With the backing he has he could make a greater effort to breach this issue with them.

But in the end it's just my opinion about this enjoyable story!

 

[gaigous]

@Vasqueztion IKR, that's what the mafia has done since the beginning, and cable companies do the same thing, they just destroy your livelihood economically instead, monopolies are scary asf.

@Xzaral "Using logic and reason isn't enough. You have to be a dick to everyone who doesn't think like you." - South Park, season 10, episode 13

 

[Kaarme]

@Xzaral
I still think Falma's best stunt was first introducing his own new, competing product, and immediately afterwards have the empress declare illegal the old products sold by the other pharmacies. That was the skin whitening cream. It all happened with no forewarning whatsoever. That was funnily outrageous. I doubt it was the only one, either. In the past the so called medicines often contained lead, arsenic, mercury, and other nice stuff.

 

[WhimsiCat]

@Xzaral:

But what efforts has Falma made to talk to them? With the backing he has he could make a greater effort to breach this issue with them.

The thing is, conversation isn't a one way street.

With the guild openly denying him on their first meeting (and remained hostile throughout, including that dirt cart incident), what can Falma even do?

Even for Pierre here, he only came into contact with Falma out of desperation/on accident, and only after that did he make his choice to go in with open eyes.

If Falma try to use his backing, it'll be seen as power abuse (heck, just by the priest visiting and the pharmacy guild already claim Falma's trying to make more connections there) which will cause lingering grudges so that's not really helping with trying to open their eyes to the new medicines.

Basically, Falma couldn't do anything from his side aside from trying to prove that his medicines work, which they did, and you can see how the guild take that in this chapter (they don't discuss the effect of the medicines, they discuss about MONEY)

 

[biasedrapier]

I call BS on people queuing to visit a newly opened pharmacy.

 

[Drifter]

If the requirements for joining Falma's guild were more parasitic, he could easily be called a villain. As is, the biggest price of admission is swallowing your pride as a professional and taking instruction from a child.

 

[FireCrypt]

Such is the nature of products. If you make crappy products, don't expect customers to come to you when something better shows up. Thing is, in our world, you either improve your products to have a chance at competition, or get ruined. The guild isn't trying to improve. That's their problem. They don't even try to consider why customers left.

Falma doesn't need to put in effort to contact the guild. Why should he? They're openly antagonistic towards him and does not consider what he says. It's not really his problem that they're going broke, and if they wanted help, they should be the ones contacting him.

 

[Dezaki]

@biasedrapier it maybe a pharmacy but they sell some good stuff like candy and cosmetics. Mc's store are becoming a fad now and will generate costumers just by putting his name (like apple). Heck I would quenue a new pharmacy if I can get that good water or biscuits that can only be obtained there

 

[nagisa]

> I call BS on people queuing to visit a newly opened pharmacy.

People DO (or did) queue to visit new stores in less well-off countries. Especially if the stores are of a known brand. Go look up what happened when the first McD opened in Moscow.

 

[aFFi]

@Xzaral

From the viewpoint of the guilds Falma is the villain, and while I wouldn't necessarily say he's evil he could be viewed as an antagonist in this situation.

I don't think that's quite right. If the previous guild was good, and not some kind of Mafia, scamming people a asking for "protection money", yeah, Falma's advantages would make him the antogonist.
But in the current status of the guild, it's like pitying illegal cannabis dealers in Canada because the government just put them out of a job.
The fact is that Falma isn't against sharing his advantages, you just have to ask him.

If the previous guild was sincere, but a bit incompetent, I would agree with you... but they clearly worked with malice for profit.

@WhimsiCat

With the guild openly denying him on their first meeting[...]
Basically, Falma couldn't do anything from his side aside from trying to prove that his medicines work, which they did, and you can see how the guild take that in this chapter

Yeah, and the fact that they didn't even bother to check the competition is so telling on their openness to discussion.

@FireCrypt

Such is the nature of products. If you make crappy products, don't expect customers to come to you when something better shows up. Thing is, in our world, you either improve your products to have a chance at competition, or get ruined.

Not always true. Marketing and fidelization can work miracles. Apple has less advanced, less durable and more expensive products than anyone, but they're still leaders on the market.

 

[FireFish5000]

> This is some good water.
How long till he opens a cafe?