Isekai Yakkyoku - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - The House of Medicis and Falma's Power
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To many stupid blushings for a 30 year old guy.
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Since he can create just about anything, he should be able to create a shadow that follows him around. That way no one will notice anything strange about him.
@Insignificant He may mentally affected by his teen body. Hormones plays a huge role.
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@CyberianGinseng Or you know just outright create the medicine instead of just the chemical ingredients. Seriously the magic aspect is totally blowing the story.
There are people that can control Fire, Water, Wind and Earth. Then because the writer is a goddam idiot he adds in the "Non-Elemental Can do anything super omega not seen in a thousand years god tier magic". Then proceeds to top that off even further by making him have essentially unlimited mana pool. This fucking isekai trope sucks massive amounts of interesting storytelling out and just becomes a power fantasy.
The author could have just Isekai'ed a Modern medical researcher into a medieval fantasy world and given him nothing but his medical knowledge and he goes off to open a shop and cure diseases or renders medical aid to adventurers. Then have him defend himself with friends or chemical attacks. Arcs set up acquiring materials for medicines and curing epidemics or even curing fantasy afflictions. But no. We got Super Magic man. The entire world of threats, tension or antagonists neutralized and all elements and materials just appear like a nuclear 3d printer top it all off with instant diagnosis vision. All within a single chapter of lazy power fantasy nonsense writing.'
Fuck this character man.
There are people that can control Fire, Water, Wind and Earth. Then because the writer is a goddam idiot he adds in the "Non-Elemental Can do anything super omega not seen in a thousand years god tier magic". Then proceeds to top that off even further by making him have essentially unlimited mana pool. This fucking isekai trope sucks massive amounts of interesting storytelling out and just becomes a power fantasy.
The author could have just Isekai'ed a Modern medical researcher into a medieval fantasy world and given him nothing but his medical knowledge and he goes off to open a shop and cure diseases or renders medical aid to adventurers. Then have him defend himself with friends or chemical attacks. Arcs set up acquiring materials for medicines and curing epidemics or even curing fantasy afflictions. But no. We got Super Magic man. The entire world of threats, tension or antagonists neutralized and all elements and materials just appear like a nuclear 3d printer top it all off with instant diagnosis vision. All within a single chapter of lazy power fantasy nonsense writing.'
Fuck this character man.
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@Drinkfist @CyberianGinseng My guess is that he can only make one element/molecule at a time, so solutions (multiple different types of molecules) wouldn't be possible. not only that, but imagining every ingredient at once in the correct stat mixture and production is probably full of faults, the MC seems like the guy to take little risk with his work.
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Poor horse has no armor, but he sure looks determined!
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@JJTheWeeb your pic made me fear the worse for my computer
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I love how his “shadow” of his past life was smiling while he made the medicine... dying because of doing what you loved isn’t the worst way to go
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Ellen is such a damn cutie, even in platemail.
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A lot of what can be done now is only possible because of the basic infrastructure supporting actions and choices. The fact that a lot of chemicals which took literally centuries to develop are now readily available for testing and advancement. Even something as rudimentary as sodium bicarbonate would be a nightmare for someone to develop from scratch in a primitive world (unless they got ridiculously lucky and found one of the few places where it can just be extracted from the water table as is with only minimal purification needed).
Even advanced knowledge of chemicals and their curative applications wouldn't give someone the requisite knowledge to develop them completely from nothing more than natural sources. And to the best of my knowledge, scientific education in university doesn't usually go into vast detail regarding the history of each discovery.
While I kinda agree that dishing out limitless power out of nowhere is a complete tension-breaker and doesn't make for much of a plot, I don't expect the story would work too well at the opposite extreme either. Too many isekai protagonists end up completely destroying immersion by conveniently just "inventing" things they somehow remembered from a past life but with absolutely no regard for just how difficult those things might be to produce. Better to cheat in the open with a given explanation than simply ignore cheating happening behind the scenes.
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Setting the bar a bit high, aren't you?
A lot of what can be done now is only possible because of the basic infrastructure supporting actions and choices. The fact that a lot of chemicals which took literally centuries to develop are now readily available for testing and advancement. Even something as rudimentary as sodium bicarbonate would be a nightmare for someone to develop from scratch in a primitive world (unless they got ridiculously lucky and found one of the few places where it can just be extracted from the water table as is with only minimal purification needed).
Even advanced knowledge of chemicals and their curative applications wouldn't give someone the requisite knowledge to develop them completely from nothing more than natural sources. And to the best of my knowledge, scientific education in university doesn't usually go into vast detail regarding the history of each discovery.
While I kinda agree that dishing out limitless power out of nowhere is a complete tension-breaker and doesn't make for much of a plot, I don't expect the story would work too well at the opposite extreme either. Too many isekai protagonists end up completely destroying immersion by conveniently just "inventing" things they somehow remembered from a past life but with absolutely no regard for just how difficult those things might be to produce. Better to cheat in the open with a given explanation than simply ignore cheating happening behind the scenes.
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Every comment here seems to be attacking the story, so I guess I will too.
I feel like the fact that he doesn't have a shadow is something that is impossible to hide. The brain uses shadows to perceive depth, and the part of our brain that filters our senses is always looking for things that are out of place. When he walks down the street, everyone should be freaking out, or at least staring at him.
I feel like the fact that he doesn't have a shadow is something that is impossible to hide. The brain uses shadows to perceive depth, and the part of our brain that filters our senses is always looking for things that are out of place. When he walks down the street, everyone should be freaking out, or at least staring at him.
Thanks for the chapter!
Unfortunately for MC due to the differences in the laws of physics, variances from presence of magic, and other things his medicines are not only effective, but highly addictive with severe withdrawal symptoms. Also, due to stress Ellen is going to become alcoholic and drink herself to death within a week. Furthermore, not only doesn't he have a shadow but no reflection either resulting in a cult trying to exorcise him with blessed onions stuck where the sun don't shine repeatedly until he croaks or gets his shadow back. Oh well, could be worse. (I'm kidding so this all isn't happening.)
Btw, seems kind of odd that Blanche has had chicken pox for 3 weeks without him noticing anything sooner. Was he too busy to notice her missing before? That's the thing I hate about manga and stories is where jumps from scene to scene and time to time while leaving out crucial details like scene A is present time, and scene B is x hours later, or scene C is y days later and so on. Like that river MC almost shot out of whack, while it was in the family teritory did it take 10 mins, an hour or two or how long from where met Ellen to get to there? Then again, how come nobody mentioned the river swelling up and acting like a snake for a bit?
@Insignificant That's because he spent all his time doing research and advancing medicines. Probably never went on a date much less had any personal interaction with a woman outside of business.
Unfortunately for MC due to the differences in the laws of physics, variances from presence of magic, and other things his medicines are not only effective, but highly addictive with severe withdrawal symptoms. Also, due to stress Ellen is going to become alcoholic and drink herself to death within a week. Furthermore, not only doesn't he have a shadow but no reflection either resulting in a cult trying to exorcise him with blessed onions stuck where the sun don't shine repeatedly until he croaks or gets his shadow back. Oh well, could be worse. (I'm kidding so this all isn't happening.)
Btw, seems kind of odd that Blanche has had chicken pox for 3 weeks without him noticing anything sooner. Was he too busy to notice her missing before? That's the thing I hate about manga and stories is where jumps from scene to scene and time to time while leaving out crucial details like scene A is present time, and scene B is x hours later, or scene C is y days later and so on. Like that river MC almost shot out of whack, while it was in the family teritory did it take 10 mins, an hour or two or how long from where met Ellen to get to there? Then again, how come nobody mentioned the river swelling up and acting like a snake for a bit?
@Insignificant That's because he spent all his time doing research and advancing medicines. Probably never went on a date much less had any personal interaction with a woman outside of business.
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