Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu

Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu (老後に備えて異世界で８万枚の金貨を貯めます, Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement, Roukin / Saving 80,000 Gold Coins in the Different World for My Old Age) is a Japanese light novel series written by FUNA. The series originated on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website, before being published in print with illustrations by Tōzai by Kodansha beginning in June 2017. As ofJuly 2021, six volumes have been released. A manga adaptation, illustrated by Keisuke Motoe, began serialization on the Niconico-based Suiyōbi no Sirius platform in June 2017. As of December 2021, the manga's individual chapters have been collected into nine volumes. An anime television series adaptation is set to premiere in January 2023.

Synopsis
Mitsuha Yamano falls off a cliff, at which point she finds herself transported to some sort of medieval European fantasy world! While there, during a battle with some wolves that almost costs her her life, she realizes that she has the ability to come and go between Earth and this new world. Mitsuha decides to use this ability as much as she can. Why? To save up for retirement, of course! She sets her sights on saving eighty thousand gold coins—and this is the story of her schemes to get there!

(Source: Sol Press)

Novel
Written by FUNA, the light novel began publication on the novel posting website Shōsetsuka ni Narō on November 2, 2015. The series was later acquired by Kodansha, who published the series with illustrations by Tōzai under their Kodansha Ranobe Books imprint beginning on June 29, 2017. As of March 2023, eight volumes have been released.

In November 2018, Sol Press announced that they licensed the light novel for English publication. They released two volumes before going defunct. After Sol Press lost the rights, Kodansha USA announced at Anime Expo 2022 that they licensed the series for English publication.

Manga
A manga adaptation, illustrated by Keisuke Motoe, began serialization on Kodansha's Niconico-based Suiyōbi no Sirius manga service on June 14, 2017. As of February 2023, the series' individual chapters have been collected into eleven tankōbon volumes.

In November 2018, Sol Press announced that they also licensed the manga adaptation for English publication. They released one volume in 2019. After Sol Press lost the rights, Kodansha USA announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 that they also licensed the manga adaptation for English publication.

Character
"I don't know if this is The kingdom, The Empire, or The Republic. But I'll earn 2 Billion and win life! FUHAHA!! FUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! The Ambition of Yamano, Mitsuha begins here."

- Mitsuha Yamano

Mitsuha Yamano, who suddenly lost her parents and older brother in an accident, falls off a cliff one day just before graduating from high school. She gained the ability to freely come and go in the world of medieval times. The goal is to save 2 billion yen worth of Japanese yen and 80,000 different world gold coins so that even if the ability to transfer suddenly disappears, it will be safe until old age. She says goodbye to the mountain village girl Colette, who she first met in another world and overcame hardships together, and goes out to the city. In town, she met the lord of the count, Count Bozes, and with the souvenirs she bought in Japan and her performance, she gained the sympathy and support of the count's family. Outside Japan in her original world, she buys weapons for self-defense and learns how to handle weapons in a mercenary group.

Mitsuha goes to the royal capital to open a grocery store that sells products purchased in Japan, and helps the third princess, Sabine, who has come to the store incognito, when she is attacked by a thug. When the neighboring empire invaded the kingdom with dragons and other monsters, she hired a group of mercenaries from Earth and transferred them to repel the imperial army. Mitsuha, who has become a hero to save the country, is praised by the people of the royal capital as the "Princess of Lightning Priestess", and she is given the rank of viscount and territory by the country.

Personality:


 * Mitsuha is an intelligent person. She uses her intelligence to solve her and others problems, with answers and solutions unfitting of her age, to others surprise as they still think Mitsuha is very young with Mitsuha's short stature.
 * Mitsuha is a great actress. She is also very cunning, as she avoids tough situations by twisting others words to fit her situation.
 * Mitsuha is able to keep a calm composure and think rationally in tough situations, akin to a pseudo-realist.
 * Mitsuha is also compassionate to the point, where she would sacrifice her own life in order to save someone else. She also is reflective of her actions. She would cogitate about the effects of her actions and how they would affect those close to her. She does this to avoid any trouble with those close to her.
 * Mitsuha is capable of cogitating different ways to use her abilities and the useful effects they would have as well.
 * Finally, Mitsuha is also ruthless, having no mercy for her enemies, garnering the praise of mercenary group Wolfang's Leader.
 * Basically, she has a positive personality and high communication skills, and although she failed the university entrance exam (because of the above, she was not in a condition where she could concentrate on university entrance exams, and was originally a school she wanted to pass, but she was smart and wise.) The rotation is also fast, and things such as making connections and business strategies are carried out well.
 * At first she had a feeling of loneliness from the loss of her family, and although she didn't show it, she was dragging on. She therefore hates losing someone, is merciless to those who try to take it from her, and is afraid to offend her saying behavior that does not seem like a girl). She is also strict on things like corruption, embezzlers and merchants who demand bribes.
 * On the other hand, Mitsuha is somewhat lax, and she doesn't notice until her points out a fundamental mistake, or she unconsciously speaks out what Mitsuha thinks and criticizes others. There are many blunders, such as being caught. Mitsuha also has a slightly lower sense of shame, and is treated as a slut when she appears in public in a bikini (even though there was no concept of a swimsuit in another world). By the way, she opened a general store in a different world, and many of the products are from the earth, but she sells them at quite rip-off prices because the people in the other world don't know the value here.

Abilities
While falling, Mitsuha accidentally clenched her fist around an invisible object in midair while 'I Don't Want To Die' thoughts flood her head. Suddenly, she heard something scream in pain before losing consciousness, then awakening in a forest in an unknown location. She soon found out that the forest was not on Earth, it was in another world.

Upon her death to eager to rescue Colette to the wolves, her soul is transferred to the unknown realm by the god whose figure of a waving cat her big brother bought a souvenir. As for Mitsuha, it gave her a certain ability to able help her in the unknown world. Due eager to survive she contracts the mercenary Wolf Gang to train her to hold a weapon (Firearms, knife, etc.). Later in the series, she can learn martial arts for close combat fight for defense. And thanks to her brother's knowledge of Otaku, Mitsuha can survive in the new world.


 * 【Teleportation】 - Ability to travel to any location or world (inter-world transfer) that the user is familiar with. This includes places the user has seen on TV or the internet, as long as a solid image of the place exists.
 * In order to prevent the spread of disease between the two worlds, things such as bacteria and viruses are left behind. This could be used to treat someone who is sick, although this function of the teleportation ability has not been tested on someone who is sick.
 * This ability can only be used to move to another world. If the user wants to move to a location within the same world, they must first teleport to the other world before teleporting back to the desired location. Since the time until the activation is "almost 0 seconds", it is about 0.1 to 0.2 seconds. She can also activate herself and if you are in danger, she can escape to the real world. It is activated by saying "Transfer!", but it can also be activated by thinking. The number of times the ability can be used is unlimited.
 * Mitsuha can teleport or move instantaneously from one location to another without physically occupying the space in between or transfer matter (beings/objects, including themselves) or energy (mental energy) from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.
 * Since it is possible to teleport to another world with an 8-story building, at least there is room for that size. Specified objects can be transferred not only to another world but also to anywhere in the world. Also, since bullets and gunpowder inside the gun can also be teleported and erased, it can be activated without looking at it directly, if you think about it with common sense and know in advance that it is there.
 * During the work, you can transfer not only yourself, but also otherworlders and earthlings, transfer the entire combat vehicle unit to intercept the Imperial Army, and even transfer the equipment of hostile forces and large sailing ships. It is an invincible ability depending on how it is used, such as erasing it and removing cancer cells. It may have been secretly experimented outside the story, just not depicted in the work.
 * By the way, this transfer ability is explained to everyone else by deceiving them by saying that they are wasting their own life force.
 * 【Language Comprehension】 - Ability to understand and copy the languages of those that the user converses. Works by scanning the brain of the person the user is talking to and copies their language. When you hear a different language from the other person, it is automatically translated into Japanese, and when you have a conversation, the foreign language is transmitted to the other person. It is necessary to listen to it once, but it is possible to acquire not only the language of foreign countries on earth, but also the language of monsters.
 * 【Restoration】 - Ability to gradually heal any wound over time, including lost limbs and scars. Although unconfirmed, the ability to heal wounds may also prevent aging. The recovery of wounds such as injuries over time becomes more reliable and faster. Damaged parts and wounds that are likely to leave marks (according to the mysterious existence, "in 1 to 3 months") will be restored to normal.
 * 【Increased Strength】 - Increased ability to move heavier objects. Potential side effect from the restoration ability.
 * Note: It is unknown if this is an actual power the Mitsuha possesses. In chapter 19, Mitsuha is carrying a package of various metal ingots for Randy and when she gives them to him, Randy seems to struggle with carrying them. This implies that Mitsuha is now stronger than the blacksmith when she was noted as being weak in earlier chapters.

Mitsuha has prepared a clear answer to the proposition, "Even if you prepare a weapon, can you kill people?". Mitsuha doesn't have the slightest idea that "respect the other person's life", "even if you catch him, just tell him instead of killing him". The reason is that in the end, as soon as you let it go, it will attack you, or it will attack another person. "I won't kill ordinary people", If you stray from the path of a human being, say "heredo" and you are no longer human, "Enemy soldiers can be killed even if they are not here."
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Ultimately, Mitsuha's philosophy is, "If you attack me, are you prepared to face the same thing?". In fact, she shot and killed an assassin who tried to assassinate Marquis Aiblinger during the Empire's invasion, and shot and killed several people when the carriage he boarded when she was assigned to territory was attacked by bandits, and the combat proof had already been complete.

Since Mitsuha's mental combat rules are the monkey method, when encountering thieves, it's a clear judgment just because one person pulled out his sword. Therefore, it is an attack posture similar to the "evil, immediate, slashing" of the former Shinsengumi 3rd division leader and lieutenant inspector of the Metropolitan Police Department, who appears in the manga of ronin "non-killing".

Tv Animation
On July 26, 2022, an anime television series adaptation was announced. It is produced by Felix Film and directed by Hiroshi Tamada, with Akihiko Inari writing the scripts and Yūki Fukuchi designing the characters. It aired from January 8 to March 26, 2023, on ABC and TV Asahi's ANiMAZiNG!!! [ja] programming block. The opening theme song is "Hikatta Coin ga Shimesu Kata" (光ったコインが示す方, "How the Shining Coin Is Revealed") by Kaori Maeda, while the ending theme song is "Yappari Economy" (やっぱりエコノミー, "As Expected, It's Economy") by YABI×YABI.


 * Staff
 * Original Author - FUNA
 * Director - Hiroshi Tamada
 * Series Composition - Akihiko Inari
 * Character Design - Yuki Fukuchi
 * Monster Design - Kazutaka Ema
 * Clothing Design - Michiru Hagiwara, Hitoshi Nakazono, & Hideyoshi Takahashi
 * Prop Design - Mahiru Shintani, Azusa Miyabi, yUneshi, & Hiroshi Ogawa
 * Firearm Design - Hideyoshi Takahashi
 * Military supervision-Takeyuki Ayabe
 * Art Setting - Shinobu Takahashi
 * Color design-Eri Kojika
 * Director of Photography - Rikiya Hirooku
 * Editing - Masahiro Goto
 * Sound Director - Nobuyuki Abe
 * Music - Tetsuya Takahashi
 * Music Producer - Masaki Fujie
 * Producers - Yuri Hasegawa, Yoshiyuki Shioya, Daiki Kakizaki, Nobuhiko Kurosu, Gaku Nakagawa, & Masashi Sakizaki
 * Produced by Kazuhiro Kanemitsu
 * Production Producer - Tomohito Naka, Yuta Kikuchi
 * Animation Production - FelixFilm
 * Production - "Roukin8" Production Committee

At Anime NYC 2022, Crunchyroll announced that they licensed the series. Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu was released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 31, 2023.

Reception
Rebecca Silverman from Anime News Network praised the illustrations and latter half of the first novel, while criticizing the novel's story for making what Silverman felt were weird narrative choices.

External Link

 * Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu ─ Official website at Shōsetsuka ni Narō (in Japanese)
 * Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu ─ Kodansha Comic Plus (in Japanese)
 * Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu ─ Suiyoubi no Sirius (Manga)
 * Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu ─ Shonen Magazine [Magazine pocket] (Manga)
 * TV Anime "Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu" Official Website (in Japanese)
 * Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu ─ TV Anime - Official (@ roukin8_anime)- Twitter
 * Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu ─ Wikipedia (in Japanese)
 * Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu ─ Wikipedia (in English)

Trivia
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