Takarakuji de 40 oku Atatta ndakedo Isekai ni Ijuu Suru - Vol. 5 Ch. 22 - Mass Consumer
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1. The gate is a MacGuffin. Just roll with it.
2. His house is in the middle of nowhere, deep in a rural area full of bamboo forests (to get away from sharks that smelled his lottery winnings). Deliveries take time, even a few days after ordering. Days which he doesn't always have. He buys mostly in bulk, so it's far easier and faster to just drive to the nearest big box store like Walmart (or "Joinz" in this case) to get what he needs and put it all in his car, rather than having to wait at his house all the time for every little thing, like he had to for the specific items delivered previously. And considering that he can't always be at his house (being in another world and whatnot), waiting for online deliveries isn't the smartest option in his circumstance.
1. The gate is a MacGuffin. Just roll with it.
2. His house is in the middle of nowhere, deep in a rural area full of bamboo forests (to get away from sharks that smelled his lottery winnings). Deliveries take time, even a few days after ordering. Days which he doesn't always have. He buys mostly in bulk, so it's far easier and faster to just drive to the nearest big box store like Walmart (or "Joinz" in this case) to get what he needs and put it all in his car, rather than having to wait at his house all the time for every little thing, like he had to for the specific items delivered previously. And considering that he can't always be at his house (being in another world and whatnot), waiting for online deliveries isn't the smartest option in his circumstance.
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Agreed. His experience and knowledge extends as far as being an average salary man office worker...not exactly the kind of person that would be able to revolutionize a fantasy world all on his own, solely based on a photo-memory of highly specialized skills. It's also the reason I've been really into this youtube channel lately: How To Make Everything about that very topic of highly specialized skills attempted by your average Joe.
It always does make me do a double take when reading other manga series, to see someone like an average high-school kid that's a master programmer, or mechanical engineer with zero experience, or capable of doing literally anything with ease, and other such stories. I usually have to turn a part of my brain off for that plot point and just move past that to enjoy it as it is, trying my best not taking it too seriously, as there's little point getting too worked up over it.
Agreed. His experience and knowledge extends as far as being an average salary man office worker...not exactly the kind of person that would be able to revolutionize a fantasy world all on his own, solely based on a photo-memory of highly specialized skills. It's also the reason I've been really into this youtube channel lately: How To Make Everything about that very topic of highly specialized skills attempted by your average Joe.
It always does make me do a double take when reading other manga series, to see someone like an average high-school kid that's a master programmer, or mechanical engineer with zero experience, or capable of doing literally anything with ease, and other such stories. I usually have to turn a part of my brain off for that plot point and just move past that to enjoy it as it is, trying my best not taking it too seriously, as there's little point getting too worked up over it.
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wait i forgot, what was the black hair dude plan? or just whats everyone plan for the mc right now?
i know the noble lady wants the maid to seduce him or something like that
while the daughter became interested on him on her own accord
the rest of the plans i forgot, help pls
i know the noble lady wants the maid to seduce him or something like that
while the daughter became interested on him on her own accord
the rest of the plans i forgot, help pls
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He wants to free his slave sister from his father, anyway he can, which is how he got Zirconia involved.
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Thats why I put it in the bingo card.
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thanks for the links, i was kinda skeptical about the negative interests, but i guess just letting the money sit in a common investment accound would suck, im guessing the bank straight up put him in contact with a money management firm so that his assets dont sit there doing nothing.
He wants to free his slave sister from his father, anyway he can, which is how he got Zirconia involved.
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Thats why I put it in the bingo card.
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thanks for the links, i was kinda skeptical about the negative interests, but i guess just letting the money sit in a common investment accound would suck, im guessing the bank straight up put him in contact with a money management firm so that his assets dont sit there doing nothing.
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This chapter was a little confusing or dumb. I kinda wish the author put how much MC has spent of their money and how much interest he would have earned. Putting that effort in would have added another element to the story and a good way to give a timeline.
@boag that card needs "female beastmen only have the ears and tail of their species while the rest looks 100% human"
Slavery is in a way understandable as that is pretty much the only way one could get a loyal friend/family/ally or w.e. Just because they have slaves doesn't mean they are treated bad. Shield Hero gave good reason for Naofumi to get Raphtailia and Firo with how much of a cunt bitch and garbage are
@boag that card needs "female beastmen only have the ears and tail of their species while the rest looks 100% human"
Slavery is in a way understandable as that is pretty much the only way one could get a loyal friend/family/ally or w.e. Just because they have slaves doesn't mean they are treated bad. Shield Hero gave good reason for Naofumi to get Raphtailia and Firo with how much of a cunt bitch and garbage are
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For the first part, google nekomimi.
For the second part, its precisely because it automatically gives the MC a loyal "pet/onahole" why its on there. Theres no natural development of characters, its just used as skip all, just like the MC having knowledge of everything.
For the first part, google nekomimi.
For the second part, its precisely because it automatically gives the MC a loyal "pet/onahole" why its on there. Theres no natural development of characters, its just used as skip all, just like the MC having knowledge of everything.
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As a reminder, Lavender = 1) Expectation 2) "Please answer me".
Since it wasn't mentioned, I'm assuming the string of the pendant is the (red, think? Edit: white, i.e. come back soon) "Dearest" bracelet Valetta made for him. I'm not quite sure how lavender translates to isekai-effects, maybe some kind of truth-aura.
Re: interest rates and money, his financial advisor is probably incompetent if he's just put it all in a bank savings account. if he can't get a stable, positive ROI on some kind of investment or another with $350m USD+ , that's not credible. At that point, he could hire a team of people full-time to maximize his investments for him; a mere 1% of $350,000,000 USD would be three and a half million, or 35 people costing $100k/year, just working for him.
Since it wasn't mentioned, I'm assuming the string of the pendant is the (
Re: interest rates and money, his financial advisor is probably incompetent if he's just put it all in a bank savings account. if he can't get a stable, positive ROI on some kind of investment or another with $350m USD+ , that's not credible. At that point, he could hire a team of people full-time to maximize his investments for him; a mere 1% of $350,000,000 USD would be three and a half million, or 35 people costing $100k/year, just working for him.
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Yeah negative interest is a thing.
In Japan, instead of having too many people spending too much money or investing in bad investments, their economy as a whole has too many people saving money. They're the complete opposite of the United States etc, not enough debt spending, etc.
To try to encourage investments or spending and debt, the Japenese Federal bank (*Sic) set their interest rates at negative to try to get their citizens to actually use their money.
Yeah negative interest is a thing.
In Japan, instead of having too many people spending too much money or investing in bad investments, their economy as a whole has too many people saving money. They're the complete opposite of the United States etc, not enough debt spending, etc.
To try to encourage investments or spending and debt, the Japenese Federal bank (*Sic) set their interest rates at negative to try to get their citizens to actually use their money.
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@animekek69 Yah. I guess if I total all of his spending it hasn't yet added up to 1M$ yet.
@b33fy Regarding the significance of the lavender...
I don't think the color of the string is ever specified in the *N, but it's mentioned that her hair also smells like lavender. It's up for debate whether it's a case of her giving him something that smells the same as him, or she actually gave him hair (like we sometimes see with a locket), though I personally prefer the latter, despite the cries of 'Yandere!'
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@boag Is Nekomimi only for cats since neko, cause there sure are a lot of other nekomimi styled beastmen?
While that is true in some manga which I don't mind if its done well. Not sure if there are any that don't fuck their slaves or after the slave seal is broken. I don't think Naofumi has fucked Raphtalia, but I don't know. I know he doesn't fuck Firo lol. I still stand by what I said that a slave is a good way to get accustom to an unknown place in a trustworthy manner. I doubt the "governments" would provide material on such things. You could potentially expose yourself as an alien trying to do everything on your own when you are nearly as sure as you would be doing the same task on your home world.
Yeah it can or just does kill character development, but those are the trash isekais we read between the releases of the good isekais and other mangas we like.
@givemersspls oh, so there is not going to be some arc where he runs out of money and needs to find a new source of income to buy shit? I don't know if I've ever heard of negative interest rates. I would rather keep my money in my house and buy a large safe. Do people in Japan not take out loans? Do banks not invest in companies to earn the bank even more money? The dude would have lived better if he moved to the USA, Australia, Canada, Most Euro Countries and lived off the interest of his winnings. Though picking the right bank matters I'm sure.
While that is true in some manga which I don't mind if its done well. Not sure if there are any that don't fuck their slaves or after the slave seal is broken. I don't think Naofumi has fucked Raphtalia, but I don't know. I know he doesn't fuck Firo lol. I still stand by what I said that a slave is a good way to get accustom to an unknown place in a trustworthy manner. I doubt the "governments" would provide material on such things. You could potentially expose yourself as an alien trying to do everything on your own when you are nearly as sure as you would be doing the same task on your home world.
Yeah it can or just does kill character development, but those are the trash isekais we read between the releases of the good isekais and other mangas we like.
@givemersspls oh, so there is not going to be some arc where he runs out of money and needs to find a new source of income to buy shit? I don't know if I've ever heard of negative interest rates. I would rather keep my money in my house and buy a large safe. Do people in Japan not take out loans? Do banks not invest in companies to earn the bank even more money? The dude would have lived better if he moved to the USA, Australia, Canada, Most Euro Countries and lived off the interest of his winnings. Though picking the right bank matters I'm sure.
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i was under the impression that nekomimi was a catch all term
i was under the impression that nekomimi was a catch all term
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The word you're looking for is "kemonomimi." Which literally translates to "beast/animal ears." And includes all from dog, cat/nekomimi and even the ridiculously obscure ones. Whether it would cover something like antennae or something I don't know for sure.
The word you're looking for is "kemonomimi." Which literally translates to "beast/animal ears." And includes all from dog, cat/nekomimi and even the ridiculously obscure ones. Whether it would cover something like antennae or something I don't know for sure.
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How to Make Everything is a really good channel. It's hilarious how often I get sidetracked on isekai novels and end up opening a ton of wikipedia and other various links for research on such things. And HTME is actually one of the few people that I have seen that go from "okay, I want to make/get X, so what and where do I have to dig out the base components from the ground?". I also enjoy watching Survival Skills Primitive and their various channels where it's basically two dudes in the jungle starting to make the basics of civilization and survival infrastructure from hand. These guys started from literally just digging with rocks and their hands and started making their own huts, stone tools, bricks, well and water purifier and are even moving into working with bronze. Granted, it's edited so we don't see them digging for about 15 hours to make their well or otherwise busting their asses doing manual labor. And, again, it's not as detailed as HTME is. But it does give you an appreciation of what early humans had to learn and do, and what some people living in impoverished places still have to do today.
Cody'slab also had an excellent "making gunpowder from scratch (from urine)" series before Youtube decided it was somehow too dangerous to show people to piss on straw for a year and make a cannon that shoots a ball a few feet. Lemme tell ya: anyone that thinks that they can be isekai'd away and just easily make gunpowder: good luck. Carbon will be easy, but sulphur and potassium nitrite/saltpeter? Eh... And part of Cody's video was trying to get those nitrites out of the breakdown of the plant material over time. Unfortunately it looks like he got nitrites, but not potassium nitrite. Hence why the black powder didn't work well at all. And as "Release That Witch" (the webnovel for now anyways, also interesting that the author of that also dipped into the difficulty of sourcing it in such a low tech society and he ended up getting saltpeter from the people that used it to preserve ice, and eventually the MC got super particular about toilets and livestock in order to make sure he had enough shit and piss to make both fertilizer (because one witch made plants grow and it consumed nutrients) and black powder) showed, making smokeless powder is a whole other kettle of fish to deal with. That's getting into serious need for legit chemistry there. Thankfully you can get away with a lot with just black powder.
How to Make Everything is a really good channel. It's hilarious how often I get sidetracked on isekai novels and end up opening a ton of wikipedia and other various links for research on such things. And HTME is actually one of the few people that I have seen that go from "okay, I want to make/get X, so what and where do I have to dig out the base components from the ground?". I also enjoy watching Survival Skills Primitive and their various channels where it's basically two dudes in the jungle starting to make the basics of civilization and survival infrastructure from hand. These guys started from literally just digging with rocks and their hands and started making their own huts, stone tools, bricks, well and water purifier and are even moving into working with bronze. Granted, it's edited so we don't see them digging for about 15 hours to make their well or otherwise busting their asses doing manual labor. And, again, it's not as detailed as HTME is. But it does give you an appreciation of what early humans had to learn and do, and what some people living in impoverished places still have to do today.
Cody'slab also had an excellent "making gunpowder from scratch (from urine)" series before Youtube decided it was somehow too dangerous to show people to piss on straw for a year and make a cannon that shoots a ball a few feet. Lemme tell ya: anyone that thinks that they can be isekai'd away and just easily make gunpowder: good luck. Carbon will be easy, but sulphur and potassium nitrite/saltpeter? Eh... And part of Cody's video was trying to get those nitrites out of the breakdown of the plant material over time. Unfortunately it looks like he got nitrites, but not potassium nitrite. Hence why the black powder didn't work well at all. And as "Release That Witch" (the webnovel for now anyways, also interesting that the author of that also dipped into the difficulty of sourcing it in such a low tech society and he ended up getting saltpeter from the people that used it to preserve ice, and eventually the MC got super particular about toilets and livestock in order to make sure he had enough shit and piss to make both fertilizer (because one witch made plants grow and it consumed nutrients) and black powder) showed, making smokeless powder is a whole other kettle of fish to deal with. That's getting into serious need for legit chemistry there. Thankfully you can get away with a lot with just black powder.
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@givemersspls I knew Japan was a bit fucked, but that is pretty bad. I am sure there are loads of factors, but not having enough young people and families producing kids with an ever aging populace can't be good for them. Sure it is great that people are living longer as that is proof of our success in improving peoples overall health. Yet, people retire around 65 and after that its a toss up when you'll die. You could have <5 years or you could live well passed 100. I do think it would be better if the elderly were able to rejoin the work force doing menial things that are not back braking and are not too hard. People should be transitioned out of work, not just dropped. That is far too expensive. That is my 2 cents.
@ boag ahh, i just figured neko=cat which I guess could include any beastman which has a relation to a cat. Calling Lycanthropic beastmen nekomimi seems wrong to me.
@definitionofinsanity that is a much better word, now I just gotta try an commit it to memory lol
@ boag ahh, i just figured neko=cat which I guess could include any beastman which has a relation to a cat. Calling Lycanthropic beastmen nekomimi seems wrong to me.
@definitionofinsanity that is a much better word, now I just gotta try an commit it to memory lol
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Unfortunately, a lot of older folks in Japan had had retired are returning to the workforce - by necessity in a lot of cases. Or, even sadder, just never retire. You see a lot of this in the country from what I understand of older people that have had farms, regardless of size, and the kids (if they've had them) have moved away. Meaning a lot of people just keep working until they die. And it's unlikely their families will take over. I imagine a few people in Japan are making a killing buying up farm land from the survivors of the deceased parents/grandparents where the family doesn't want or can't take over the lands and just wants to sell.
Of course in America you have something similar with a lot of older and retired people taking part-time jobs or working as a greeter at Walmart, something low impact and just to keep them busy and help supplement their retirement savings. Unfortunately, in Japan, it seems like a lot of the older folks are doing much more labor intensive work than they should have to be doing - and they seem to be doing more out of necessity than choice.
@givemersspls can probably comment on this, too, but I've heard that Japan's job market in general is quite fucked compared to other nations. Everyone loves to think of Japan as this glorious modern technological wonder, but... We have to keep in mind that attendants are everywhere. They still primarily use fax machines in offices. And they have the god damn ATM inside the fucking bank and cite it's for "safety/security reasons" (because the instances of muggings at ATMs in Japan or someone putting a chain around one and driving off with one are OBVIOUSLY SO NUMEROUS in Japan). All of this stubbornness, sure, but it's also to insure someone has a job. Remember during the Great Recession of ~2007? Y'know how people in "legacy positions" - positions that were historically important but no longer necessary - got fired and you had tons of people that have worked for decades with a now obsolete jobskill out of work? That's changed into job security in Japan. "Why, yessir, I'm the ATM screen squeegee guy. I'll have a job secured until I die, literally all I do is wipe down screens all day long and it's a full-time job with benefits." (...I'm kinda joking and hoping that there isn't a literal job position like that. With Japan you never know.)
Unfortunately, a lot of older folks in Japan had had retired are returning to the workforce - by necessity in a lot of cases. Or, even sadder, just never retire. You see a lot of this in the country from what I understand of older people that have had farms, regardless of size, and the kids (if they've had them) have moved away. Meaning a lot of people just keep working until they die. And it's unlikely their families will take over. I imagine a few people in Japan are making a killing buying up farm land from the survivors of the deceased parents/grandparents where the family doesn't want or can't take over the lands and just wants to sell.
Of course in America you have something similar with a lot of older and retired people taking part-time jobs or working as a greeter at Walmart, something low impact and just to keep them busy and help supplement their retirement savings. Unfortunately, in Japan, it seems like a lot of the older folks are doing much more labor intensive work than they should have to be doing - and they seem to be doing more out of necessity than choice.
@givemersspls can probably comment on this, too, but I've heard that Japan's job market in general is quite fucked compared to other nations. Everyone loves to think of Japan as this glorious modern technological wonder, but... We have to keep in mind that attendants are everywhere. They still primarily use fax machines in offices. And they have the god damn ATM inside the fucking bank and cite it's for "safety/security reasons" (because the instances of muggings at ATMs in Japan or someone putting a chain around one and driving off with one are OBVIOUSLY SO NUMEROUS in Japan). All of this stubbornness, sure, but it's also to insure someone has a job. Remember during the Great Recession of ~2007? Y'know how people in "legacy positions" - positions that were historically important but no longer necessary - got fired and you had tons of people that have worked for decades with a now obsolete jobskill out of work? That's changed into job security in Japan. "Why, yessir, I'm the ATM screen squeegee guy. I'll have a job secured until I die, literally all I do is wipe down screens all day long and it's a full-time job with benefits." (...I'm kinda joking and hoping that there isn't a literal job position like that. With Japan you never know.)
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