Feb 16, 2020
While I generally tend to enjoy the type of isekai that takes the route of the everyday villager/commoner in another world, many others take the transition from a modern day Japan to a medieval time fantasy world a lot more seriously than Isekai Nonbiri Nouka. If I had to describe this manga in one word, it would be "vague".
The manga starts off focusing on the MC setting up his life as a farmer, testing his abilities and tools to create a life for himself in a new world. However, things come way too easily to him for my tastes with almost every new upgrade or
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relationship being tossed in with general exposition. Almost every problem or concern is announced and immediately rectified with the world just handing him the answer with no real dilemma. For example, the MC worries that winter is coming and I was interested in the problems he would face. So many opportunities could have been explored from the difficulties of maintaining food over a long period of time to the feelings of isolation and boredom that must certainly have affected early farmers. But he simply stores some food, makes some adjustments to his living arrangements and just goes through winter in a few panels of exposition with literally no hassle.
Finally, the interactions between characters is just laughably bad. Monsters just show up to help him out of nowhere simply for the sake of answering some of the problems he faces. They also immediately trust him/help him with no reason except maybe food which makes zero sense as they resemble carnivorous animals. I found this to be really disappointing as I saw it as a good chance to explore of the concept of early domestication.
Eventually, the first humanoid character arrives which gave me hope this manga would start to expand a bit more now that there would be more dialogue. But even she immediately trusts him and even jumps into a relationship with him between the space of like 4 panels with no explanation whatsoever. Nor do we get even so much as a question of where she came from by the MC who seems to be way too easy going with the way the world just hands him whatever he wants/needs per chapter. No one has a real personality so far that is shown with even the dogs being labeled in one panel as "serious" or "playful".
I don't know if the novel goes into a lot more explicit detail that the mangaka is simply glossing over but this concept has been explored in much more engaging routes that I simply can't recommend this manga at 11 chapters in. In its defense, it is decently drawn and might interest some that prefer a more laid-back slice of life approach to the genre.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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