The Fake Alchemist - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

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Glad someone picked this up! Couple thoughts:
  • The coloring on Page 3 is done poorly and makes Nora look way lighter than she should be, but then on the subsequent color page, she looks fine. So strange.
  • For those seeing parallels with Apothecary-san Will Make Battered Elf–chan Happy, the pre-serialization version of this series precedes it by over 1.5 years, so.
  • Slave magic works really fucking stupidly in this universe. So far my only issue with the series.
 
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Holy crap, that's some heavy things happened in the 1st chapter alone for a comedy manga
 
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First read this felt like the usual isekai cheat slave waifu bullshit , but I went to read the translated pre-serialization after this chapter[...]
and seems like the elf is a long term project so far (in the pre-serialization) rather than just a 1-2 days of potion bath or magic healing. Art is a nice upgrade but the "slave healed is actually a super epic warrior" bullshit will still be coming if I have to guess.

Well, until then.

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Glad this serialization finally dropped, it's such a quirky and nuanced world. I'm looking forward to this moving forward quite a lot.
 
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Hmmm...you know what fine. I can say a fair bit about how vanilla and uninspired the start of this is. But I'm SLIGHTLY interested if only because I like the dynamic going on between the characters. I'll see where this goes for another chapter or two.

Thanks for the translation.
 
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Oooh, looks like someone finally translated the serialized version. You made quite a lot of different translation choices from me. I also saw a couple of mistakes, and even a line you didn't seem to fully translate too on page 12. Not gonna fully nitpick you though. I just hope you put in as much care into the story as I'm doing, I'll keep updating the web comic meanwhile.
 
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Oooh, looks like someone finally translated the serialized version. You made quite a lot of different translation choices from me. I also saw a couple of mistakes, and even a line you didn't seem to fully translate too on page 12. Not gonna fully nitpick you though. I just hope you put in as much care into the story as I'm doing, I'll keep updating the web comic meanwhile.
Im really enjoying the web comic, I had no idea there was a serialized version. Thanks for translating.
 
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Its a shame this is rushing the plot so hard. Its fine for most of us because we have the context from the web comic, but this has skipped a ton of context of who the MC is that I think will really hurt how many new readers try chapter 2.
 
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The MC seems not too bright regarding anything outside his area of expertise. Dude's already in a findom situation and it's not even one chapter in.
 

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