Kimi no Risou no Maid ni Naru - Ch. 1

[Saybah]

Nice try lady but this clearly a scam so you can get all his money.

 

[Al_Azif]

Let's see
-childhood friend
-main heroine
-step sister
-step mother
I'm guessing we're getting a female rival from another wealthy family and a transfer student next.

 

[DeOneChester]

Tired of slaves in your isekai? How about slaves in your generic romcoms?

 

[PureDisgust]

so he just bought her for $6,5m? Worst trade deal ever.

$6.5m? You're off by a digit, it's $64,000,000.
Yen is 0.0064 to the Dollar, meaning the easiest+closest result you'll get is by dividing by 20. 1,000,000,000/20 = $50,000,000.

It's even WORSE than you thought.

Ignore this, I'm big dumb

 

[TophatKiyaki]

$6.5m? You're off by a digit, it's $64,000,000.
Yen is 0.0064 to the Dollar, meaning the easiest+closest result you'll get is by dividing by 20. 1,000,000,000/20 = $50,000,000.

It's even WORSE than you thought.

Uhhh, no mate. That's just bad math... and I can tell you that as someone who is terrible at math. Ironically you're trying to make a very simple problem overly complicated when in reality you're dealing with a flat multiplier which means you can just push the values up by the number of 0s in the multiplicative value. In this case, 9 0s in 1,000,000,000
0.0064 - 0
0.064 - 1
0.64 - 2
6.4 - 3
64 - 4
640 - 5
6,400 - 6
64,000 - 7
640,000 - 8
6,400,000 - 9

Or you could just, you know, plug it into any calculator lol, which is how I imagine most people in this thread initially got that value (Myself included, just googled "1 billion JPY to USD").
0.0064 x 1,000,000,000 = 6,400,000

As for the manga itself, its probably gonna suck and get dropped. Art is good but EVERYTHING in this chapter save exclusively the main character being absolutely stacked is extraordinarily generic. Though ironically, I find myself intrigued just because of that one element. I find myself curious how the author intends to make us care about an MC who is billionaire levels of rich... I mean, he's already kind of broken the suspension of disbelief here. Not only is the MC not an insufferable twat despite having grown up unfathomably rich and privileged, but we're supposed to believe a kid who can throw money around like that has trouble making friends? Sure, they may be superficial, but he's a student still for fuck's sake.

Either way, I'm willing to be surprised. I doubt I will be, but hey.

 

[Heckmelon]

Generic romance where the woman is a damsel in distress and treated like an object number 5045

 

[PureDisgust]

Uhhh, no mate. That's just bad math... and I can tell you that as someone who is terrible at math. Ironically you're trying to make a very simple problem overly complicated when in reality you're dealing with a flat multiplier which means you can just push the values up by the number of 0s in the multiplicative value. In this case, 9 0s in 1,000,000,000
0.0064 - 0
0.064 - 1
0.64 - 2
6.4 - 3
64 - 4
640 - 5
6,400 - 6
64,000 - 7
640,000 - 8
6,400,000 - 9

Or you could just, you know, plug it into any calculator lol, which is how I imagine most people in this thread initially got that value (Myself included, just googled "1 billion JPY to USD").
0.0064 x 1,000,000,000 = 6,400,000

As for the manga itself, its probably gonna suck and get dropped. Art is good but EVERYTHING in this chapter save exclusively the main character being absolutely stacked is extraordinarily generic. Though ironically, I find myself intrigued just because of that one element. I find myself curious how the author intends to make us care about an MC who is billionaire levels of rich... I mean, he's already kind of broken the suspension of disbelief here. Not only is the MC not an insufferable twat despite having grown up unfathomably rich and privileged, but we're supposed to believe a kid who can throw money around like that has trouble making friends? Sure, they may be superficial, but he's a student still for fuck's sake.

Either way, I'm willing to be surprised. I doubt I will be, but hey.

Whoops, lol

 

[Doutorfunga]

Of course the "lonely student with no friends" has an absolutely stunning childhood friend who is into him. I know they need to draw in the actual lonely students with no friends somehow, but it's just disingenuous at this point

 

[Radicool21]

Seeing all this lucky bastard get all the bitches while I'm struggling at life

The funny part is it's not even from the generic "ooh he was vaguely nice to me once" nah he's just fucking loaded

 

[banjomarx]

bruh.... "I make my own money" has 10 million dollars he can just slap on someone despite being in highschool, lol ok sure bro I totally believe that

 

[HunterCO]

They really scraping the barrel lol

 

[Thesadchief]

Based off of the cover image i can only assume the childhood friend will get jealous and join in on his maid harem all tsundere-like

 

[ichypa]

I mean, an "or anything else" is an "or anything else," I guess. I'll give it three chapters.

 

[KiteBlue]

bro can write a billion check like nothing but doesn't already have some housekeeper on hire?

 

[nidaime]

sighs

adds to library

 

[lenovoaxioo]

I wonder if that 1 billion is his personal asset or shareholder's/company's money.

 

[deathmailrock]

Honestly...... I really hope the author won't drag out the romance.

We don't need sex scenes... but let her and him just be done...

And maybe his childhood friend will be banged too...

Like, if the author doesn't drag out the romance and sh*t, then this could actually be decent...

 

[IJustReadEverything]

Im sorry childhood friend. You've lost. The game was rigged from the start.

 

[ShinduPK4]

There are two maids on the cover, and the other one seems to be his childhood friend, who is supposed to hate him right now.
So let me take a quick guess - she doesn't hate him, she'll get immediately jealous the moment she hears about the living situation of those two, and will demand to be employed as a maid too to "keep things wholesome" or some shit like that, giving the author a way to delay and ruin romantic scenes.

 

[MangaMonger]

The fact that spending this money on her means nothing to him truly makes the whole situation... so unengaging. Same energy as Narou-kei "I casually used my cheat skills and modern day tech knowledge to save the kingdom, after casually saving the princess from assassins and agreeing to be her bodyguard for a little while, because I have nothing better to do after being kicked out from the hero party because I didn't correct their assumption that I was weak because I'm level one although my stats are secretly around 9 billion each".

Other people are also pointing out that the romance is probably also going nowhere. Just what I love, the low effort power fantasies of Reiwa combined with the endless romantic misunderstandings and cowardice of Heisei.