The Fake Alchemist

[LiniaLunaria]

I would say this is one of those cases where the editor lets the mangaka do whatever he wants because whatever he's doing is kind of working, at least in Japan. As this manga is tracking well enough, with both volumes even ranking on Oricon with very positive reviews.

I mean, volume 2 sold like 15k copies in just 4 days, and this was only for the physical edition.

Good info sir..

 

[AlphaN3RDsIgMa]

This is just a shittier version of that one Pixie/Twitter series from two-ish years ago. Almost the exact same premise just different execution and this one is much worse. Feels like this should be tracking at a 6.0 and not a 7.5. Can't see this improving all that much, feels like the author will lose the plot by chapter 20 and this gets axed.

 

[xXPenisXx]

 

[eduplicate]

I do really want to see where this is going and genuinely have no idea what to expect. A full pickup translation job is probably going to be complicated because there's a lot going on, and it's not clear where anything is going.

 

[DemonHide]

This shit's confusing. There's some interesting concepts at work here, but it's hard to figure out exactly what's going on half the time. Part of it is the piss-poor scanlation for most of the early chapters, but even when it's decent, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

 

[SixthTheIntellectualSense]

This one is a real doozy.. Stuff went from 1 to 10 to pi to e to cake to 🚦 faster than you can comprehend

 

[Sorenmageofmareth]

The bitches be crazy. Only Pettan is love.


His choices are legit for a guy not aware he's in death battle. And wanting to make a living.

The save ability is hehe life saving.
If he didn't care he could just ditch the ingrates in the mirror.

He's been slowly gearing up and it's been effective. He's just not a gun guy.

 

[MangoGex4Life]

I like this story even tho the alchemy recipe explanation is lots of words and always make me wanna sleep.
The main dude aughhhhh this man is DUMB AF.
This gOd is telling you to pick skills cuz ur being deployed to another world…and you see all these magic/combat etc skills…
its safe to assume that things are gonna be dangerous so Don’t Choose Dumb skills!
Alchemy or magic durrr ill choose the real boring one cuz I watched Full Metal Alchemist and it looked KOOL
Magic maybe close to Alch, however, it just you being limited to scrounging around for recipes vs you doing the same with magic, but its up to your mana endurance hmmm come on. Idk I could be wrong, maybe Im overthinking Alch.

Our boy here was chuggin that nice-guy, simp sauce too much.
Glad he has Nora to make up for his lack of testosterone. I agree with other commentors that shes really the MAIN.

As for psycho anti-meat, civil rights, murder but-not-murder-cause-I-think-what-im-doing-is-right crusader…she needs to be put down.
Sadly, along with rabbit/cow as they can speak to the authorities.

Cant say much about that Alch mage hooters lady other than I wanna know what the Mochi Elf did to get that treatment. It better be good for that level of disrespect.
Honestly if it was me I would get my shit together and see how Alch can be used defensively, try my best to heal Mochi Elf, and then GTFO of Dodge.

 

[LiniaLunaria]

Im reading it on pixiv on the author's page. Its bonkers full of crazy characters ahahhaha it doesnt conform to traditional storytelling and it makes things interesting by making you think it goes like this but goes south so fast its like hand feeding a lion some meat..

 

[taenuarhew]

WTF It was good even if the main character is bland as fuck ( "cheat ability" my ass he's the weakest of the weakest -> if you can do anything can't you do things that make you powerful little by little so you stay hidden and you can afford it ? (try using luck potion on you first for instance))

I've just finished ch 4.4 and wtf is that cheat and unsensical character coming out of nowhere ? Alchemy, magic, hex, ect she can also see the future ??!!! And to top it off : ONE OF HER MAIN GOAL IS TO FORBID PEOPLE FROM EATING MEAT
One of the most unsensical character I've ever seen ...

PS : Are you fucking stupid ?! Out of everything you coud have picked you chose a fucking crystal that makes you go back time but erases your memory ?!!!!

The only clue would be that the crystal you just made is now broken (I'm assuming), so you need to do something different than what your current plans were in order to avoid a repeat. Still a very dumb power since you won't even know why you died and apparently you randomly lose additional memories on top of it.

 

[taenuarhew]

I would say this is one of those cases where the editor lets the mangaka do whatever he wants because whatever he's doing is kind of working, at least in Japan. As this manga is tracking well enough, with both volumes even ranking on Oricon with very positive reviews.

I mean, volume 2 sold like 15k copies in just 4 days, and this was only for the physical edition.

Just like how One Punch was drawn by an amateur who made a really nice story before it got syndicated by a major artist, this one was also an unskilled artist being picked up. The new artist has followed the original story extremely closely apart from the number of chapters being reduced (from 38 down to 11) by putting more pages in each chapter and fitting the cells into the pages better.

So it already had huge following and they didn't want to piss fans off by messing with whatever made it work.