leezodne said:4kicks said:Good on the old man, thinking like a true shrewd entrepreneur, stealing ideas.
Oh good, they dive into a bit more of the financial side of the restaurant. Nope, scratch that. They took one step forward, and two steps back.
Alright, I'm stumped. I can't figure out the
exact reason why he would give the businessman the restaurant's monthly proceeds for Day of Satur/Saturdays. I know he subtracts an amount from the lot for the bag of ingredients brought, but what about the remainder? Being his accountant? Is he holding it for him like a bank? Changing it to smaller coinage to use as change for customers who pay with large amounts and needs to break it up? Foreign exchange currencies between different countries? Or all/multiple of the above? And besides paying employees of another world, it's not like he needs to buy ingredients from there too, so how does the master go about changing the fantasy currencies to real world money (to keep the restaurant running as a business); sell to pawn shop that buys gold?? If he didn't care about profits, he'd take a pretty big hit in the bank book, even if it's only 1 out of 7 days, or more like
especially because it's 1/7 days--those expenses add up. I can already see Gordon Ramsey giving the master a visit for his show on Kitchen Nightmares. Wish they explained a bit more as it's been bugging me.
As for the empire princess, it was sweet and cute and all, but I feel like they glossed over the "pauper's disease" bit, making it sound like it's apparently some kind of incurable deadly disease...but *poof*, all of a sudden an icecream parfait is all it took to cure her, or at least treat the symptoms. Now I wanna know "WTF was the disease then!?"
I'm sorry, but the realist side of me can't overlook all these plot holes, even if this show is meant to be a slice-of-life fantasy story of escapism.
And I bet I'm not the only one who saw them cutting corners on the animations...I hope they fix those for the BD/DVD releases, or else I'd think twice before buying them:
hey @4kicks, i just finished watching the ep and we somehow have similar thoughts. I too, can't seem to get over some facts that might be trivial for others, but I still get troubled by them.
Also, I came to the same question and googled a bit, and instead of finding the actual disease, i wandered off to crunchy roll where
*smudgedragon* said (7/28/17):
"I assumed that the 'disease' the episode was talking about was actually a protein deficiency, similar to what swept the South after the Civil War. The poor, ie paupers, would be hit by it the hardest as anything meat related would be much more expensive in a non-industrialized state/nation, and something only nobility/rich would afford. Regularly eating cheese, milk, yogurt, ect. would easily and quickly reverse it. . ."
also, there were others who said it might actually be a state of mind where depression kicks in and gets cured with just a parfait (or other stress foods).
Do take note that 'healing' from
their world might have been able to heal wounds, but not mental state, or chronic illnesses
or just illnesses in general which may also include deficiencies/lack of nutrients. not to mention that their technology might not have been capable of producing a cure *yet*.
Anyway...
This might just be me and my twisted thinking, but shouldn't the master of the restaurant have more profits than that? (The issue of him not really caring about wealth or whatever)
considering 10,000 yen = 10 silver coins (refer to ep. 1 where he was offering a job),
let's assume 100 silver coins = 1 gold coin
wouldn't 8 Gold coins amount to 800,000 Yen which would more or less convert to 7000~8000 USD? Wouldn't that make him insanely rich even though he reaps that amount only every 7 days? not to mention that would only be 8 gold coins and does not include the rest of the contents of that box. Although the conversion of money is not possible (yet?), as there have been no evidence regarding the matter.
The old man even admitted that being a "Genius of Culinary Innovation" is all a sham, but he's still reaping profits in another world, while 'selling' ingredients to the chef. Isn't that a whole new level of plagiarism? Or would that be considered as a 'discovery' just because it came from a different world? hmm
I want your thoughts on this guys and gals and other creatures from another world ;o