Tensei Mae wa Otoko Datta no de Gyaku Harem wa Okotowari Shite Orimasu - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

[MangaDex]

 

[Volttekka]

7 months later, still hoping for a new chapter

 

[owlcity24]

Same, it’s up to ch 10 in the raws now

 

[KE1tea]

i hope this didnt get dropped...
we all know it did 😭

 

[Robinisback]

God, we need more chapters.

 

[Gudachiz]

hoping someone picks this up

 

[SuplexSensei]

This is cute. Yes, the art and the slice-of-lifey shenanigans.

Hopefully someone picks this up (?)

 

[mahtan]

This is cute. Yes, the art and the slice-of-lifey shenanigans.

Hopefully someone picks this up (?)

You are cute.
I want to pick you up.


I want to believe the swimming lessons are to get used to water and not because the Mc do not know how to swim as an adult japanese man.

 

[Noophieu]

I thought he doesn't want a reverse harem? Because this is how you get a reverse harem, the best way to get to a man's heart is through his stomach after all.

 

[Basic_human]

100% sure his friend would reincarnated


Kinda gay but still acceptable

 

[Kaarme]

This already got my hopes up when it didn't have the usual idiotic yen-equivalent money system, but then it had to introduce that even more moronic "hairy barbarians don't even know how to eat" before the enlightened Japanese person shows them the way. I'm not saying Japan wouldn't have a rich and deep culinary culture, it sure does, but at the end of the day, a good chunk of it was imported from abroad, the same as everywhere in the world. You can tell this stuff was never intended to be read by anyone outside of Japan.

 

[BrunoUwU]

I just dont care about anything related to cooking in manga, like stop wasting time drawing that and keep the story going. It’s tiring because they always put something culinary of Japan.

 

[Primo_Itoko]

dude already was 100% gay for Tenma

 

[Zblurth]

This already got my hopes up when it didn't have the usual idiotic yen-equivalent money system, but then it had to introduce that even more moronic "hairy barbarians don't even know how to eat" before the enlightened Japanese person shows them the way. I'm not saying Japan wouldn't have a rich and deep culinary culture, it sure does, but at the end of the day, a good chunk of it was imported from abroad, the same as everywhere in the world. You can tell this stuff was never intended to be read by anyone outside of Japan.

I fucking hate when people take older period and think people where absolute idiots.
Did they have a smaller knowledge base than today humanity yeah... but also try to find someone that know all of that by themself, when you look into the history of engineering, just look into cathedral and how they where made, look into the history of maths and science, in fucking astronomy they where calculating the movement of the star by just looking at them...
People where NOT idiot.

Also just look at food culture over the whole world and pretty sure everything that could have been cooked in all the way that it could have been cooked with what they did have as tool have been tried at some point

 

[Kaarme]

I fucking hate when people take older period and think people where absolute idiots.
Did they have a smaller knowledge base than today humanity yeah... but also try to find someone that know all of that by themself, when you look into the history of engineering, just look into cathedral and how they where made, look into the history of maths and science, in fucking astronomy they where calculating the movement of the star by just looking at them...
People where NOT idiot.

Also just look at food culture over the whole world and pretty sure everything that could have been cooked in all the way that it could have been cooked with what they did have as tool have been tried at some point

Indeed. There's so much that could be done without making it look idiotic. Our modern world has a whole lot of culinary innovations an isekaied person could miss, without making it look like the locals don't even know how to eat. Not to mention you don't need to go back that far to remove much of the whole international food culture. Japanese people seem to end up in pseudo-European fantasy cultures most of the time, for some reason, so it makes sense they don't find their beloved soy sauce (which is such a huge cliche already). I have to say the authors that make the isekaied person move around and discover new local dishes are the best, as far as the obligatory isekai food obsession goes.

I don't have a particular problem with the MC missing Japanese food. When a person from Country A moves to Country B, especially if the distance isn't just across the border, they very often miss some dishes from home even in RL. So, that much is realistic. Just don't turn it into cheap nationalism by saying the local food is worthless in comparison.

 

[HaphazardMage]

I think bro might actually be an egg

 

[MrSkeltal]

Stuff like this is about as close to trans acceptance as Japan gets. Weird that a culture which is so big on femboys is so behind on accepting trans women.

Also, yeah, prior to western intervention, Japan ironically had some of the worst nutritional diversity among similarly developed nations. They barely innovated their cooking methods and most people thought that you could eat only rice and be healthy. Malnutrition was so common that Japanese people used to think it was a normal disease. Even when they had enough food to eat, they just only ate rice, radishes, and foraged seasonal food like berries and fruit. Villages that farmed wheat or barley were also generally better off, because wheat is a much better source of nutrition than rice. Especially considering yield per hectare.

The malnutrition obviously doesn't include fishing villages, who would need to try very hard to be malnourished. A diet of only fish, seaweed, shellfish, vegetables, and whole grains is basically a power diet. Thinking about it, you often see a common trend in Japanese media of people with "weak constitutions" moving to coastal towns because "the air is better" or other stuff like that. I'm willing to bet this superstition arose from this.

 

[Lucky]

Stuff like this is about as close to trans acceptance as Japan gets. Weird that a culture which is so big on femboys is so behind on accepting trans women.

Also, yeah, prior to western intervention, Japan ironically had some of the worst nutritional diversity among similarly developed nations. They barely innovated their cooking methods and most people thought that you could eat only rice and be healthy. Malnutrition was so common that Japanese people used to think it was a normal disease. Even when they had enough food to eat, they just only ate rice, radishes, and foraged seasonal food like berries and fruit. Villages that farmed wheat or barley were also generally better off, because wheat is a much better source of nutrition than rice. Especially considering yield per hectare.

The malnutrition obviously doesn't include fishing villages, who would need to try very hard to be malnourished. A diet of only fish, seaweed, shellfish, vegetables, and whole grains is basically a power diet. Thinking about it, you often see a common trend in Japanese media of people with "weak constitutions" moving to coastal towns because "the air is better" or other stuff like that. I'm willing to bet this superstition arose from this.

I'm sure a very dedicated and learned individual could make a convincing thesis on the genderswap manga trope being used either by those reading or maybe even those creating to be an outlet for their gender dysphoria, and maybe even a source of trans acceptance.

This first chapter definitely made me think of that too.

Also yes the food shit bothered me. I don't know when wine was popularized as a marination technique (although I would not be surprised if it's earlier than medieval period) but pretty much every culture knew to make food with vegetable seasonings including garlic and they knew about marinating.

 

[Kreate]

Japanese authors just have no idea the lengths people go to to make their food taste better. Wars have been fought over access to consumable recourses. But these people don't even have the concept of marination?

 

[zips]

once again an isekai is enlightened by the wonders of japanese mayonnaise or whatever