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 produced by Felix Film aired from January to March 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)
List of published books[]
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.
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 29, 2017 | 978-4-06-365027-3 | April 26, 2019 (SP) April 18, 2023 (KUSA) |
978-1-64-729210-2 |
| 2 | December 1, 2017 | 978-4-06-365045-7 | December 14, 2020 (SP) July 18, 2023 (KUSA) |
978-1-64-729211-9 |
| 3 | May 2, 2018 | 978-4-06-511899-3 | July 18, 2023 (KUSA) | 978-1-64-729211-9 |
| 4 | January 9, 2019 | 978-4-06-514550-0 | November 28, 2023 (KUSA) | 978-1-64-729273-7 |
| 5 | August 30, 2019 | 978-4-06-517347-3 | April 23, 2024 (KUSA) as Vol 4 | 978-1-64-729313-0 |
| 6 | July 2, 2021 | 978-4-06-519781-3 | July 23, 2024 (KUSA) as Vol 5 | 978-1-64-729331-4 |
| 7 | August 2, 2022 | 978-4-06-528788-0 | October 15, 2024 (KUSA) as Vol 6 | 978-1-64-729365-9 |
| 8 | March 2, 2023 | 978-4-06-531306-0 | February 25, 2025 (KUSA) as Vol 7 | 978-1-64-729405-2 |
| 9 | March 1, 2024 | 978-4-06-534789-8 | June 24, 2025 (KUSA) as Vol 8 | 978-1-64-729442-7 |
| 10 | January 31, 2025 | 978-4-06-538569-2 | — | — |
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.
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 1, 2017 | 978-4-06-510503-0 | January 7, 2019 (SP) April 18, 2023 (KUSA) |
978-1-94-883804-7 |
| 2 | May 9, 2018 | 978-4-06-511383-7 | June 13, 2023 | 978-1-64-651820-3 |
| 3 | January 9, 2019 | 978-4-06-514100-7 | August 15, 2023 | 978-1-64-651847-0 |
| 4 | May 9, 2019 | 978-4-06-515415-1 | December 12, 2023 | 978-1-64-651848-7 |
| 5 | December 4, 2019 | 978-4-06-517801-0 | February 13, 2024 | 978-1-64-651849-4 |
| 6 | June 9, 2020 | 978-4-06-519726-4 | April 16, 2024 | 978-1-64-651850-0 |
| 7 | December 9, 2020 | 978-4-06-521588-3 | June 25, 2024 | 978-1-64-651851-7 |
| 8 | June 9, 2021 | 978-4-06-523515-7 | August 13, 2024 | 978-1-64-651852-4 |
| 9 | December 9, 2021 | 978-4-06-526108-8 | February 18, 2025 | 978-1-64-651853-1 |
| 10 | August 8, 2022 | 978-4-06-528783-5 | April 22, 2025 | 978-1-64-651948-4 |
| 11 | February 09, 2023 | 978-4-06-530569-0 | — | — |
| 12 | December 7, 2023 | 978-4-06-533826-1 | — | — |
| 13 | October 8, 2024 | 978-4-06-537082-7 | — | — |
Character[]
The protagonist of this work. 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.
History Details[]
After her parents and older brother all die in an accident, she receives the ability to fly across the world to something resembling God while crashing off a cliff on the railing of a travel place with a defective ship and fertilizer. Mitsuha, who had been having problems related to higher education and employment, decides to use this ability to prepare for his old age.
Thereafter, while falsely claiming to be an aristocrat. She decides to accumulate assets in this world (Japan) and the other world (the other world) by using his ability to pass other worlds without permission. She will also scan the brain of the person with whom she has a conversation. You will gain the ability to acquire that person's language knowledge around the middle of the first book. She also used that ability to master English by talking to people who used English.
It is believed to be the first time that the Kingdom has been invaded by the Alder Empire. When the Aldar Empire invaded, she conversed with Wolf Gang Leader and even learned a number of languages, including orcish, ogre, and dragon languages.
After she died in her domain, she wrote a blog called "Help me everyone!" While managing the territory she created a blog called "Viscount Territory Management Report" and received various supervision from various experts. Eventually, she invited four people (Sages) who often gave him advice - "McCoy" in charge of medicine consultation, "Yamaou" in charge of mining and forestry consultation, "Himono" in charge of dissolution (fishery consultation), and "Endou" in charge of agriculture consultation. Since no ordinary person would believe the word that they had been to another world, they were careful to invite them and said that they helped them for three days and two nights, each in his or her own area of expertise.
Other works of FUNA writers who are authors of this work (Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life? and I Shall Survive Using Potions!), the protagonists of these works were gifted with cheat abilities including universal potion production and the strongest self-sufficiency ability in the worldview, while other abilities other than the ability to transfer are almost non-existent. Because of this, their physical abilities are at a mediocre level, so they are the ones who receive many relatively rugged forms from the beginning, such as falling off a cliff to their deaths, fighting wolves, and suffering serious injuries, or getting an arrow in the shoulder. Still, she is ten million lucky that she has the "Restoration". She said that even severe wounds that leave her with part loss or scarring will automatically heal over time, but that she will not grow at all because of it.
However, she learned firearms management methods and marksmanship from the mercenary company Wolfgang, and through these he also bought self-defense weapons and ate them using them in various battles, and when she saved herself at the time of the invasion of the Alder Empire, Alexis particle slander "I did not try to hear much advanced civilization, but I will not weigh myself any more" and did not hesitate to give a hostile party bullets she have developed a personality that gives me the "Ugh, blackening!" In the process, "Don't be shallow with modern weapons, Fantasy!" was chanted as an added bonus. This part of my life was already showing signs when I learned marksmanship in the mercenary corps. I learned marksmanship by saving guns from them in the self-defense dimension while being careful to spend time in another world where security was unstable compared to modern Japan, but this process had already fed my mind that "people and evil people who try to hurt me must be killed. This is the point that the son of Count Bozes, his own guardian personality, was seriously injured by the invasion of the Alder Empire, and his son jumped out of the plane properly with a particle.
As a side note, Sabine and Colette were also given self-defense pistols at the Wolfgang Mercenaries to practice shooting, but what took Mitsu several days of practice was completed in one day for Colette and a few hours for Sabine. Of course, this also applies directly to hit rate.
Here he is quietly giving out attributes thanks to his firepower, but he can't handle it and so he says, "What the hell shall we, the territory, fight with?" asking if he would buy an armored vehicle equipped with a 20mm or larger machine gun for the territory army equipment. The scene is repeatedly shown where he gives up the idea.
As is typical of the protagonists in FUNA authors' works, he frequently blows off all sorts of drips with anime and game-related material. Of course, like the other main characters, the otherworldly people are not sure what is going on, but later they give it all up and just blow drips with impunity, and the exciting chunibyo is also in full bloom.
Since he gave up on being a dead weight, he often takes Colette and Sabine with him to visit Earth. Nominally, he takes them with him to familiarize himself with Earth so that if the worst should happen to the Kingdom of Zeglise, he can evacuate them there, but what he does is just sightseeing on Earth. The sisters are good, sell well, groove, grab lobster, eat pheasant and eat to know.
In another world, she is "Princess Mitsuha von Yamano, who has fled alone to avoid a battle for royal authority on a distant continent," and on Earth she is "Princess Nanoha" of another world, who summoned Earth's heroes (Wolfgang mercenaries) in a national crisis situation. This name "Princess Nanoha" was not given by Mikawa herself, but by the members of the mercenary group, and yet as soon as she heard this name, she said, "What is this if I am not to use any magic bombardment?!".
Despite his bro-com temperament, he even shouted in the middle of the work, "My dear brother!" he even shouted at one point in the film. Whenever he is in danger, the first thing he thinks of is his brother, and thanks to this, his brother's room was the place he came back to when he first returned to the earth. No need to say more, seeing that even in the very first half of the first volume, there is an expression "to Miho, whom my brother loved".
And he is enormously rich. He secured interests in all the discoveries, inventions, and new products derived from his achievements. The share is probably the largest, but the problem is converting these earnings into yen. As you can work part time without permission, but seeing that a bribe is required to issue, is located. Then he created an art trade site in Japan called "Colette". (So the only people who kept 10 times more than the buyer never hear the desire to buy, but geeks everywhere there is the law. )
Of course, the intelligence officers of various countries would not just put a girl with the ability to travel between other worlds and Earth. At first Mitsuha tried to just talk to him, but Mitsuha pulled her in to talk to her at a sweet store where a lot of young women go. Naturally, "a girl talking to men dressed in black" stood out so much that they ended up delivering her to the police and continue eating. On the way there, the situation was grasped even as the Russian language flowed into my head and the Russian agent was speaking English. And there were agents from many other countries in that restaurant besides this agent, thanks to which the U.S. Public Safety was ignorantly happy to get information about agents from other countries so furiously.
After acquiring knowledge of the Russian language, she spoke in Russian "Лояльность к Родине" as the words his country's hero did. I put it straight into the text without translation and readers could not understand it. So let's do a direct search. Well, it means "oath to the fatherland". Mitsuha liked the Russian agent very much because he mentioned Tokarev, AK-47, RPG-7, etc. along with this. After that, he received business cards from all the agents, through which he held a meeting with them. And in this meeting, she was in the morning sky and received various jewelry and dresses, but she liked very much to receive a wooden ship from a small country. To this he urgently proposed to present a large ship in another major country, but there was no way he could maintain it so that he would have to use it in another world where technology was falling in the first place, and he could not use it even if he received it in Sankai, where he planned to reverse engineer the technology after receiving the ship and replicate the ship, so that it would become a rubber pyoto. Naturally, he rejected the idea. At this meeting, Mitsu said, "I will give the concession to the country that presents me with the one I like best," but in the end, this small country won. Incidentally, the Russian agent gave him a Tokarev, an AK-47, and an RPG-7. You lied to the The brave country was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics! she hit it. And the Russians, reassured by this, explained that Russia had become the Soviet Union in the Union and then turned into Russia again, to which Mitsuha, again as planned, said, "Yes, indeed, the country of the brave was a region of the Soviet Socialist Republic", but it is now a Ukrainian region of Russia. But as we all know, Russia and Ukraine are...
Currently, they are engaged in espionage activities where they are collecting various kinds of information by infiltrating alone into the Kingdom of Burnell, which is trying to expand into the New Continent. The problem, however, is that they are very flamboyant. At the first party, she casually gave a pearl necklace and a ruby necklace to others. In this world, of course, artificial gems are of course, and the style of pearls is not even dreamed of, which means that pearls and rubies are tremendous rarities in their own right. Of course, they are a few steps lower than Mitsuha's gift to Countess Bozes. In the narrative of the work, "Half of the water width is not an atomic bomb." From the point of view of the one who doesn't have it, it's half a waterspace or an atomic bomb or there and there". Well, it made it easier to get into the center of power and gather all kinds of information.
Recently, she has been working on a top-secret plan to erode the capital power of the Burnell Kingdom. The idea is to remove power from within by selling large quantities of salt, sugar, spices, and other things that have little industrial value and disappear when eaten at low prices. And since it is made in Japan, it is a product several steps above what is distributed on other worlds.
When we said we would not do business with China on Earth, when China kidnapped Sabine and Colette in retaliation, they got them back on their own, and then moved to another world after terrorizing Chinese government facilities or media facilities (broadcasting companies, etc.) with their shifting abilities to paralyze China, and the highest one in China tried to apologize somehow, but could she was unable to do so.
Thereafter, the guards prevented the King and King Arhyunhee from leaving the road to press the seat to ask the location of the country they are in persistently in the Vanel Kingdom, and declared war when they accepted it as a declaration of war against their own country, and finally retreated after receiving an apology from the front on behalf of the King of the Vanel Kingdom.
Moreover, people who tried to do industrial espionage in their own territory were transferred to a deserted island that is not even on the map, even if they were sent by the Countess Bozes family, the closest family in the kingdom, and the interrogation was hello never met, and the counterintelligence people trapped on a deserted island in the wind without knowing how long they are trapped here. They will live a life of survival, and in this way, the 28th person has already been sent to a deserted island, and those who came first will live on a deserted island for several years, effectively separating their families from their lives. No matter how much industrial espionage is done, we can see the callous side of it when a person is sent to a deserted island without killing him or her and without knowing how long the imprisonment is for, even though he or she was just ordered by a superior in a status-based society, and his or her family and life are made separately. In the position of the hit man, it can be seen that he would rather be put to death. In this way, Mitsuha has the most cruel character among the main characters of FUNA works to the extent that he always shows a scary form if he reverses his own planting. Compared to Mikawa, he is miles away from traumatizing the fairies by kidnapping Napda to attack and whaling for his own purposes, and even if he fraudulently claims to be a goddess (and when it comes down to it, Celes, the being he believes to be a goddess in that world, is not a goddess either.) Kaworu, for example, who forgives you even if you cause damage to him to some extent as long as you do not try to harm him and his friends, and in fact, he even lets you live your life, are angels and the same.
However, this too requires normal participation. By volume 2 standards, the population of the territory is 676 and the number of spies is 28. While 25 people have to eat one person to keep him alive, confining the counterintelligence people only to prison is a serious matter that may cause financial difficulties for the territory in the long run, even if it is manageable now. There is a limit to how much we can invest in Mikawa's personal assets... And we didn't just throw them on a deserted island from the start. They put them in a regular prison, but later, so many spies came that not only were prisons in short supply and guards had to be stationed all the time, but also food expenses increased, so they thought, "Why not rather throw them on a deserted island so that they can live on their own among themselves?" With the cooperation of our mother country on Earth, we discovered several suitable uninhabited islands in the process of exploring the Kingdom of Burnell. She also sent her own subordinate, who has the code name No. 6, to see and hear her regularly. Therefore, she knows everything about who came under whose direction, etc., which she confirmed during interrogations. When they see that she also provide special meals such as alcohol from time to time, they take care of it. And because even in Mitsuha's position, they don't want to keep throwing them on uninhabited islands, they are willing to lead the new recruits if the nobleman who sent the spy voluntarily apologizes, but so far no one has apologized and they keep catching them. So if they return them as they are without any reason, there is a possibility that they will cause problems with "abducting of another noble" who will block this on the side of the noble who sent the spy, so they want to release him but they have not been able to unravel this issue.
Details to be added...
Abilities[]
"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
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 the athletic ability is on par with a girl's age. Reaction speed is about the same as avoiding bullets from a few meters. Teleportation is anything in sight to win outside the field. Shoot and kill opponents whose transfer does not work. Avoid the opponent's attack by transferring. If you still can't win, transfer to the real world and escape.
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Her older brother was a so-called otaku and had a wealth of knowledge about other worlds and military affairs, so she learned everything from him. She was later trained to handle firearms. She is also brave enough to give money to thugs who get involved and to face robbers who attack him without hesitation. Mitsuha is by no means an apostle of justice, but if she or the people who support her are attacked and the other party is declared an enemy, she thinks like a banker with the motto, "Counterattacks will be doubled." She is a girl with a strong sense of defense. Armament is the result of measures for her to safely operate in a different world that is similar to the Middle Ages on Earth. Always equipped with a small pistol Walther PPS for self-defense, a main pistol Beretta 93R, and a 38-caliber revolver (specifically named S&W M940 in the anime) as a backup against bullet jams. there is Equipped with folding knives, hunting knives, and short swords as needed.
Initially, I was considering equipping myself with grenades, but due to Mitsuha's devastating sense of throwing, the captain told me to give up grenades, so she gave up. |
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."
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".
Details to be added...
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.
| Episodes | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date |
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| 1 | "Mitsuha Goes to Another World" Transcription: "Mitsuha, Isekai ni Iku" (Japanese: ミツハ、異世界に行く) |
Takashi Kobayashi | Akihiko Inari | Hiroshi Tamada | January 8, 2023 |
| Mitsuha Yamano loses her parents and brother in an accident. She gets in a fight with bullies and is pushed off a cliff, but lands safely and realises she has travelled to an alternate world. By visualising what her otaku brother might have done, she wanders until she is found and taken in by a girl named Collette, and decides to get used to this new world. While foraging, she and Collette are attacked by wolves, only for Mitsuha to abruptly return to Japan. Realising she can travel between worlds, she grabs several weapons, travels back and kills the wolves. She is confronted by an interdimensional being who explains that when she fell off the cliff, her strong will to live stole some of his power so she can now travel between worlds and heal all injuries. He lets her keep the power and leaves, promising to visit in a few millennia. Collette’s father pays Mitsuha gold for the wolf carcasses, and Mitsuha realises she could use her power to become wealthy enough to retire in both worlds. She thus makes it her goal to amass a fortune of 2 billion Yen, roughly 80,000 gold coins. | |||||
| 2 | "Kingdom of Ambitions" Transcription: "Yabō no Ōkoku" (Japanese: 野望の王国) |
Michita Shiraishi | Akihiko Inari | Yumiko Ishii | January 15, 2023 |
| Mitsuha begins identifying ways common Japanese products would be profitable if brought to the new world. Learning the feudal lord, Claus Von Bozes, is a good man, Mitsuha decides to make her fortune in the royal capital but promises Collette she will return one day. Teleporting to Japan, Mitsuha converts all her assets to cash, then she travels to South America to meet Wolf Fang, a private military company, where she purchases guns and training in shooting and self-defence. She also negotiates a deal with the commander to exchange the other world's gold coins with Earth money, and researches medieval feudal societies to decide what products to buy and sell for the easiest profit. Deciding she is ready, she teleports back to the other world and enters the village ruled by Claus Von Bozes. | |||||
| 3 | "Mitsuha Plays the Part!" Transcription: "Mitsuha, Enjiru!" (Japanese: ミツハ、演じる！) |
Ryōji Tanaka | Shin'ya Murakami | Hatsuki Tsuji | January 22, 2023 |
| Mitsuha is prevented from meeting Claus without an invitation, so she fabricates a meeting with his sons by feigning being hit by their carriage. Having made a good first impression, Mitsuha gifts Claus a Swiss Army knife, with which he is instantly intrigued. At dinner at his mansion, she meets Claus’ wife Iris, sons Alexis and Theodore, and daughter Beatrice. Mitsuha claims to have fled her country to allow her beloved younger brother to inherit, avoid a succession dispute and intends to support herself as a merchant, starting by selling a medium quality pearl necklace. However, Iris reveals pearls are so rare that an entire necklace of them would be an instant national treasure no amount of gold could buy. Taking pity on her ignorance, Iris agrees to hide the necklace from the public in exchange for enough gold to open a general store in the capital. The family continues to be impressed with Mitsuha’s innovative business sense, and she finds herself reminded of her own parents and brother, causing her to cry. The next day, Claus sends her to the capital in his carriage with a letter of official sponsorship and an invitation to visit them again anytime. | |||||
| 4 | "General Store Mitsuha" Transcription: "Zakkaya Mitsuha" (Japanese: 雑貨屋ミツハ) |
Tsutomu Yabuki | Ayumu Hisao | Chihiro Kumano | January 29, 2023 |
| Mitsuha reaches the capital, leases a shop and fills it with Japanese products. Unfortunately, her products are so foreign her first customers aren’t interested, and only stay for a shampoo demonstration and lunch which, despite being exotic to them, are just cheap boil-in-the-bag meals. Seeing showers, a gas cooker and multiple different meals emerging from a single pot, the customers fear Mitsuha might be a witch. Regardless, Mitsuha sells shampoo, moisturiser and jewellery, including complimentary chocolates. The customers, maids in a mansion, show the chocolate to chef Marcel, who is so impressed he shows their employers, Viscount Reiner and his daughter Adelaide. They are so intrigued by the tale of being served fresh fish for lunch, despite being a ten-day journey from the ocean, they demand Marcel investigate. From Marcel’s questions, Mitsuha realises she messed up by stocking fresh fish, but still sells Marcel a professional chef knife. Marcel reveals it will soon be Adelaide’s debutante ball which absolutely must be a success, so he asks Mitsuha provide fresh fish so he can impress the noble guests. Sensing an enormous potential for profit Mitsuha agrees to help cater the entire ball, for the right fee. | |||||
| 5 | "Producing a Socialite!" Transcription: "Ojōsama o Purodyūsu!" (Japanese: お嬢様をプロデュース！) |
Shō Hamada | Ayumu Hisao | Hatsuki Tsuji | February 5, 2023 |
| Reiner and Adeleide sample Mitsuha’s food for the ball and are so impressed they even pay her to provide Adelaide’s dress, jewellery, the alcohol and plan the schedule of entertainment. Adelaide also purchases shampoo and body-wash. Mitsuha spends days teaching Marcel recipes for party foods focusing on fresh fish. Claiming to be measuring Adelaide for her dress, Mitsuha blindfolds her and teleports her to a professional dressmaker on Earth. The ball begins, and Adelaide stuns in an exquisite dress highlighted by special effects from a projector on Mitsuha’s laptop. Mitsuha panics when she encounters Claus and Iris, who brought sons Alexis and Theodore as potential suitors for Adelaide. Iris had been concerned Mitsuha’s shop was closed but is relieved she was just busy arranging the ball. Disaster strikes as the guests eat so much fish, the kitchen completely runs out. To avoid embarrassing Adelaide, Mitsuha deploys the dessert of biscuits, sweets, cake and alcohol to give Marcel time to prepare vast servings of French fries. The ball is such a success that many nobles demand their sons fight to marry Adelaide as soon as possible. Mitsuha’s food enters high demand and becomes known in noble society as Yamano Style Cuisine. | |||||
| 6 | "Beatrice the Charmer" Transcription: "Onedari Beatorisu-chan" (Japanese: おねだりベアトリスちゃん) |
Michita Shiraishi | Shin'ya Murakami | Hiroshi Mita | February 12, 2023 |
| The chef to Baron Turk, a guest at the ball, barges into Mitsuha’s store and demands fresh fish as the Baron is no longer satisfied with his cooking. Mitsuha insists she only provides fish on special order, so he almost attacks her. Iris and Claus intervene and promise to report his actions to the Baron. Iris drags Mitsuha back to their home for dinner, as she has not visited in weeks. Beatrice insists Mitsuha cater her debutante ball in two years time. Claus is fascinated by the food and special effects and Mitsuha is forced to lie about where she gets her products. Mitsuha is surprised when Beatrice reveals girls become engaged at ten years old and married by fifteen. As a high school graduate Mitsuha is already older than this. Beatrice asks Mitsuha what type of man she would marry and Mitsuha quickly realises she was sent by Iris plotting to get Mitsuha married. Days later a wanted murderer hides in Mitsuha’s store but is apprehended by four bounty hunters from the Mercenary Guild. Sensing an interesting possibility for some RPG experiences Mitsuha asks if she can hire the mercenaries for a job. | |||||
| 7 | "The Adventure of Mitsuha" Transcription: "Mitsuha no Daibōken" (Japanese: ミツハの大冒険) |
Masayuki Iimura | Shin'ya Murakami | Hatsuki Tsuji | February 19, 2023 |
| Mitsuha asks the mercenaries; swordsman Sven, spearman Zepp, swordswoman Gritt and archer Ilze, to take her hunting. After returning to Japan for modern camping equipment and a crossbow. Mitsuha learns that currently mercenaries are struggling for jobs and many have resorted to banditry. The group are amazed by Mitsuha’s tent, lighter to start fires and canned soup, so Mitsuha considers providing supplies in bulk to the guild to improve working conditions. She attempts to bathe while wearing a bikini but is scolded by Gritt and Ilze since bikinis don’t exist so by their standards Mitsuha is a nudist. Mitsuha is attacked by a boar she kills with her pistol but inserts crossbow bolts into the bullet holes, preferring the others not learn about guns. Returning home Mitsuha uses a swimsuit magazine to prove bikinis are normal in her country and is surprised by their reaction to photographs. Wondering if art will sell Mitsuha uses her teleporting power to teleport the shapes of famous statues out of solid rock, but none of them look right. She is able to sell the statues as demons to repel evil spirits, but feels no sense of accomplishment for her lack of artistic skill. | |||||
| 8 | "Mitsuha Visits the Royal Palace" Transcription: "Mitsuha, Oshiro e Iku" (Japanese: ミツハ、お城へ行く) |
Yūta Takamura | Ayumu Hisao | Hatsuki Tsuji | February 26, 2023 |
| A young girl named Sabine visits the shop that Mitsuha suspects to be a princess. A group of thugs kidnap the girl for human trafficking but Mitsuha subdues them with a stun-gun. Mitsuha is summoned by the king who is grateful she rescued his daughter Sabine. Seeing the King and his Chancellor Sahr have bad vision Mitsuha sells them reading glasses and subtly informs the king she can’t be bribed to do his bidding. The king is impressed but has Mitsuha investigated. Days later Nelson Adler, owner of Adler Trading Company with a Royal business warrant, threatens Mitsuha to hand over her shop. Mitsuha arranges to meet Nelson later to sign the documents. She also arranges for Sabine and Sahr to be present so that when Nelson is rude and lecherous to Sabine Sahr immediately confiscates his Royal Warrant and warns all other trading companies not to mess with Mitsuha. Nelson is forced to retire in disgrace. The king is thrilled Mitsuha manipulated events to let him prosecute the Adler Company which is rife with corruption and rumours of human trafficking. Mitsuha makes a fortune selling reading glasses to older men with bad vision. A desperate woman visits Mitsuha for help. | |||||
| 9 | "Tales from Paradise Restaurant" Transcription: "Rakuentei Kitan" (Japanese: 楽園亭奇譚) |
Ryōji Tanaka | Ayumu Hisao | Hatsuki Tsuji | March 5, 2023 |
| The woman, Aleena, works at a diner owned by her parents Bernd and Stella. The son of a rich man tried to seduce Aleena, but she refused as she is in love with her father’s apprentice, Anel. Since then, their chef left to work for the rich man and Bernd was beaten by thugs. Sensing a conspiracy Mitsuha agrees to help and trains Aleena and Anel in Yamano Cuisine which, due to its rarity among even nobility, can be sold for inflated prices. She hires Gritt and Ilze as waitresses, including Sabine who volunteers for fun. The rich man, his son and Bernd’s former chef attempt to have Bernd arrested for selling fake Yamano Cuisine, even asking chef Marcel to confirm the food is fraudulent. However, Marcel confirms it is genuine since Mitsuha herself is present. By coincidence Iris and Claus visit the diner to see Mitsuha, as does the King looking for Sabine. With their help the rich man, his son and the chef are exposed as the thugs who assaulted Bernd and imprisoned. Mitsuha also does some matchmaking between Anel and Aleena. After expenses Mitsuha’s profit is a mere 1 gold but she doesn’t mind as she got more satisfaction from her good deeds. In the countryside a monster horde appears. | |||||
| 10 | "Then Let It Be War" Transcription: "Naraba Sensō da" (Japanese: ならば戦争だ) |
Michita Shiraishi | Akihiko Inari | Masaharu Tomoda Hiroshi Tamada |
March 12, 2023 |
| Mitsuha attends a party at Wolf Fang headquarters on Earth. After a few days without customers Mitsuha begins offering discounts to adventurers who bring other adventurers to her shop. The King is disappointed Sahr’s investigation of Mitsuha found nothing about her past but is content she is not a threat to the kingdom. Mitsuha is abruptly summoned by the King and asked to flee with Sabine to another country, as the neighbouring Alder Empire is preparing to invade with 3000 monsters and 20,000 soldiers, plus several nobles who have turned traitor against the king. Sahr involves Mitsuha in the council of war where an assassin attempts to kill Commander Aiblinger. Mitsuha kills the assassin with her pistol but Alexis is gravely injured. Angry and desperate Mitsuha transports Alexis to earth for lifesaving modern surgery and reveals her secret to Wolf Fang’s Commander, hiring his entire army to fight in the other world. The Commander is sceptical of her story so Mitsuha transports him as proof, just in time to save refugees fleeing from goblins that are somehow unharmed by bullets. | |||||
| 11 | "The Messenger Goes into Battle" Transcription: "Himemiko no Shutsujin" (Japanese: 姫巫女の出陣) |
Motohiko Niwa Michita Shiraishi |
Shin'ya Murakami | Motohiko Niwa | March 19, 2023 |
| Mitsuha is able to scare the goblins away with fireworks, which also exposes the enemy monster tamer controlling them. Inspired by his first real fight in years the Commander agrees the whole Wolf Fang Company will fight as paid mercenaries. As the army approaches the city Wolf Fang, on Mitsuha’s orders, take out the officers and monster tamers, terrifying the soldiers who are mostly forcibly conscripted peasants from the Empire, and setting the monsters free to cause havoc during the retreat. Even the Empire’s flying wyvern squad is taken out by the vehicle Wolf Fang was named after, an armoured truck with two roof mounted 20mm auto-cannons. The kingdom hails Mitsuha by her unfortunate nickname, Messenger of Lightning. The enemy commander refuses to surrender yet and reveals the Empires secret weapon, an immense dragon. | |||||
| 12 | "Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World" Transcription: "Isekai de 8-Man-Mai no Kinka o Tamemasu" (Japanese: 異世界で8万枚の金貨を貯めます) |
Hiroshi Tamada | Akihiko Inari | Takaaki Ishiyama | March 26, 2023 |
| Using several drones with holographic projecting equipment and her world-shifting ability to confuse the dragon, Mitsuha directs Wolf Fang into attacking the beast. When the dragon becomes irritated enough to try and breathe fire, Mitshua shoots an RPG into its open maw, mortally wounding it. The Empire's forces immediately turn tail, and Mitsuha allows the Wolf Fang Commander to keep one of the dragon's fangs before sending them back to Earth. In the aftermath, Mitsuha is invited into the castle to be rewarded, where she coaxes a huge payment for the mercenaries from the assembled nobles and is made a citizen and viscountess of the realm. Returning to Earth, Mitsuha learns that Wolf Fang has sold the dragon fang to a researcher. She returns Alexis, who has recovered, to the kingdom, and with business having come to a standstill due to the war, Mitsuha closes the store and moves to her new fiefdom to resume her retirement plans from there, inviting Colette to serve as her retainer. | |||||
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)
See Also[]
- Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!, another light novel series by FUNA
- I Shall Survive Using Potions!, another light novel series by FUNA
- The Eminence in Shadow, another light novel series illustrated by Tōzai
- Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!, another light novel series illustrated by Tōzai
- Ansatsusha de Aru Ore no Status ga Yuusha yori mo Akiraka ni Tsuyoi no da ga, another light novel series illustrated by Tōzai
- Isekai de Skill wo Kaitai shitara Cheat na Yome ga Zoushoku Shimashita: Gainen Kousa no Structure, another light novel series illustrated by Tōzai
- Isekai Cheat Survival Meshi: Tabete, Tsuyoku Natte, Mata Taberu, another light novel series illustrated by Tōzai
- Isekai Shuzaiki, another light novel series illustrated by Tōzai
Trivia[]
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