Hype!?

TheYuriBoi said:
It sounds to me like another medicine isekai like Drugstore in Another World and The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent. So in other words it doesn't sound like anything new or interesting at all to me.

MoeGod said:


They're nowhere near similar. This story is more shonen-like compared to those two. There's a greater emphasis on the scientific side of the medicines instead of just "lol magic potion" as well as the action part.

TheYuriBoi said:
It sounds to me like another medicine isekai like Drugstore in Another World and The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent. So in other words it doesn't sound like anything new or interesting at all to me.

Nox--- said:
Totally feels like a complete rip-off of "Honzuki Gekokujou". I don't say that to trash this one, but still, let's get a look. Every last defining trait of "Honzuki" appears transposed here.

-The young adult who dies in our world and wakes up as a kid in another world. Check
-The MC died a relatively stupid death in Japan, because he was way, way too much into his own thing: here medecine, in" Honzuki", books.
-The said kid possibly died, too. Check
-The kid has a particular talent that is actually more something contained in his body that an actual power. Check.
-The Kid will climb the social ladder using his adult knowledge and memories from Japan. Check.
-Nobles exist and have abusive privileges, and the story really revolves around social injustice. Check.
-As in "Lord of the Rings" and "Juuni Kokuki", action is not the focus and magic is meant to be tied deeply into the lore as something special and rare, not this moronic crap every last stinky incompetent LN feels the need to rehash.

Nox--- said:

But they added some things that weren't in "Honzuki".
-Usage of broken French and broken Spanish that makes everything and every name look like the worst kind of LN adaptation. While "Honzuki" again, actually masters its references.
-Lack of understanding of the references used and import of Japanese crap that has nothign to do with the setting (i can't tell how much this applies yet, but it does seem to apply here too, unfortunately). "Honzuki" uses culture and various points of view for the story to depict accurately culture shocks, which should be a given in any isekai (unfortunately, most isekai are simply another Japan with nekomimi lolis, basically Akiba otaku wet dream).

Nox--- said:

Now, just because it is a rip-off doesn't precludes it from being decent, but this means that i will avoid it anyway. At the very least, while looking at the image, i suspect that this one will fail in a few areas where "Honzuki" scored highly, like, for example... understanding what is the European Middle Ages it tries to use as a basis for its setting. I wrote it in my "Honzuki" review, but simply because he writes a fiction doesn't exempts any author from knowing what he talks about. Regarding that, you would need some actual Historical knowledge and clues about World History to realize it. Something that is a given for Europeans and probably most asians, but not for americans, for example, who only ever study about their home country at school. So, as many things, agreeing or disagreeing with my satement will depend a lot on everyone's background.

CiferRenn said:

So you mean it's similar to almost every other isekai that has been released over the last decade? Damn, what an astounding revelation.

CiferRenn said:

Japanese writers not using foreign language correctly has always been a thing and it's not just their fiction.

CiferRenn said:

Then you might as well avoid most work of fiction since they are often inspired/influenced, or in your words, "rip offs" of others

CiferRenn said:
Why read the Dark Tower Series, A Song of Fire and Ice, or even Harry Potter if The Lord of The Ring exists? They're all decent but who cares?