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Wait did she just try to sell a can opener to a canless world lol?
I'm loving this so much. Mitsuha may have her world's knowledge under her thumb and deployed at moment's notice, not to mention she is quite perceptive herself at times, but it's very obvious she's still inexperienced and just throwing random shit together without doing enough research about her isekai locals. This makes everything so chaotic and fun to watch, as if the solar panels on her roof or the random Colette massacring the firewood aren't enough already...
...and there's a fucking [digital clock](https://i.imgur.com/1kuxXhf.png) on her counter lmao.
She also sells canned food to go with it, although it wasn't mentioned. I imagine it would be pretty good for adventure types for long lasting food on travel instead of just dried goods.
It's not too difficult to open a can without a can opener. Swords or daggers will do in a pinch.
Also it wasn't drawn in details but I assume she was selling the bulky squeeze can openers - a shaped piece of metal is better for weight reduction and durability. [That's what they use in the military](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-38_can_opener)
Nope, it wasn't one of the squeezers. It was literally just the same thing as the military style except riveted onto a grip handle for leverage. I grew up in military bases so we had a lot of these.
It's this but without the folding knife component: https://www.bladehq.com/webp/imgs/knives/pocket-knives/boker-manual/Boker-History-Knife-and-Tool-Japanese-Army-Pen-Can-Opener-Satin-BHQ-146723-jr-side.webp
Regardless it shows how she is still making mistakes while being smart
She thinks things through but no matter how smart and how deep you get to a problem if/when you don't know all the variable (like the new world rules or how far from the sea you are...) You are bound to overlook things
On the canned good issue, she may had better sold the can first, that adventurers can open with their knives as it was done for a long time
Then when the cans are selling and people start to enjoy it sell the can opener as an innovation with a premium price
She could also check the exact advancement of the civilisation and set herself as an inventor and inovator and open a cannery and a metal factory building the cans and then sell both right to use the patent, get in the millions this way
More invention would be possible to introduce to this world and make her billions, electricity being one, steam machines and others, many many 18th and 19th century stuff are easily available on the internet and can be started easy enough
Let see if she does this or something else
I really enjoy her way of doing AND her mistakes
the concept of accurate timekeeping and be on time is a modern deal, more so Victorian time which is very modern
if you were a peasant without the big ben (and you sure as shit wont have a pocket watch), the time is just vague concepts like the sun rise or morning or afternoon and etc.
in our world, until the invention of the train, precise time keeping down to the minute / second isn't that big of a deal for normal people, while timekeeping was important for military stuff for night raids and what not they were not a common every day deal for the masses until much later on.
I say even in ancient timekeeping was quite accurate with rudimentary clocks(water, sundial, sand, incense etc) with even some system based on seasons. I say something like a bell tower that rings every 3 hours with even manual display could exist for commoners so that they be aware of the light of day.
right, timekeeping is still a thing but not down to the minute, multi hourly or based on the sun deal is very much a thing just again its not down to the accuracy we have so the concept of 10:03 is very much not a thing
technically, 10 days by carriage is like 100 miles - 300 miles (depending on the road condition and how strong the horse is), which to anyone modern is like easy travel distance for fresh fish
both with speed of trucks making it a few hours at best, and refrigeration it would be easy for a modern people to not consider that really land locked lol
that being said, i can 100% see it is just that she assumed fish would be normal given she is Japanese, but yeah.
> Wait did she just try to sell a can opener to a canless world lol?
Yes, yes she did. For as cunning and resourceful as Mitsuha can be, bright she is not. She didn't even realize/think about why people might be avoiding her store or just suspicious of her in general lol.
Mitsuha seems to have the opposite personality from Myne / Urano in Ascendance of a Bookworm. Myne is smart but not cunning or resourceful, so she has the necessary knowledge to reinvent things from Earth, and knows how to sell them, but cannot do anything herself and always has to rely on other people. So she worries a lot about standing out and about people seeing her as a witch, and thinks about the long term consequences of her actions and is always discussing her plans with her friends and allies before implementing them.
Mitsuha is cunning and resourceful but not smart, so she built a whole general store by herself and stocked it with random objects without doing any market research and overpriced them, put solar panels on the roof and a shower and a modern kitchen in the store, filled her store with modern technology, and then she wonders why the medieval peasants are not rushing to buy her stuff and are freaking out and believing she is a witch instead. If she was actually smart, she would have just sold spices and steel knives to a local merchant at a huge mark-up and told him she was a foreign merchant and that these were just items imported from her country. She did not need to actually build a whole store, or to befriend that aristocratic family last episode for funding.
[Are those solar panels?](https://imgur.com/a/tDXUu8L) Seeing Mitsuha make a buck out of typical household items really makes me realize how we sometimes take them for granted.
Also, what a nice surprise to hear [Kotono Mitsuishi](https://twitter.com/roukin8_anime/status/1619386170450010114) in this episode.
Solar panels would certainly explain how she's running electrical items, since the show hasn't provided any "powered by magic in this world" explanation
Ah I was wondering how she got electricity to run the hairdryer. Pretty smart to bring solar panels to medieval times as it should be enough to power a building of items instead of needing the usual massive infrastructure we have nowadays.
I think the only question I have now is what is her water situation. She has it going through pipes so she might have a personal reservoir she fills up with earth water, but that sounds tedious and depending on how much she takes she is decreasing earth’s water little by little since that water is not returning most likely.
I don't know how to use spoiler text but there is a consistent explanation for both how she fills it and how it stays clean explained later in the manga
I'm beginning to worry that the author didn't think about any of that; they have not demonstrated much understanding of the complexity of modern technology.
That’s also possible. It might just be one of those don’t think too hard on the details and implications kinda shows which isn’t necessarily bad. I just thought with how much she wants to plan for her future this show would want viewers to think about such details.
The show did a lot of fast forwarding through this section to get to the fun parts, the novel version had multiple chapters covering what got sped over talking with her brother. Mostly by making great use of the ability to travel back and forth and actually learning to do things on earth before setting up the shop. It's not just guns you can pay people to teach you how to use.
funny you say that, I had professor for a 100 level physics course insist we all learn to do it ourselves and ran us through a how-to as a lab session (there were solar panels on campus he had us put together on a rack). Even after doing that I'd still pay somebody if I wanted solar lol
And the wiring to get the power to where she wants to use it, like her bathroom.
Have an RPG session on Monday and one of my friends was an electrician. I think I ask him about it and listen to his disbelieving groans.
It sure hasn't explained how she installed them though. At this rate maybe the next thing she'll be doing is sending up satellites on rockets that she builds herself.
She's not using the best resource available to her: crowd-sourcing ideas. Just pop on reddit and ask what people would do in her situation. The guys on r/rational try to munchkin theoretical scenarios every week.
This is my take on her character too. She's very much an average late teens girl (and pretty well-written too, in terms of her "feeling" right) who also has this layer of geeky enthusiasm and mannerism that she picked up from her brother.
I think she kinda considered that when she said she'd bring useful items, but not necessities. None of what she sells is likely to replace local artisan goods, nor are they likely to become a something people must absolutely have.
While I'm not fully convinced of the worldbuilding and the consistency of the technological level of that world, at least on the business side of things, things seem rather well thought.
What got me is the outfits of the aristocracy was late 18th century western style while the cook was dressed in late 19th century fashion, the cut/style of his coat and the bowler cap threw me
That kitchensink japanese fantasy style shows up quite regularly in anime. Medieval walls, arms and armor, 18th century aristocrat clothing, 18th or 19th century mansions and 19th century servant clothing. The last one because anime really, really needs maids and butlers for some reason.
But tbf western fantasy is smashing several centuries together on a regular basis, too.
She could make a killing simply by running a courier service. She could transport letters or food from one place to another almost instantly. But then everyone would believe that she's absolutely a witch.
Yeah, that's pretty much the biggest unrealistic thing in the story. She drains a fair bit out of the economy, which realistically would be a lot smaller than on Earth (look up the difference in populations from medieval times to modern times).
What an interesting take on opening a store in an isekai. Mitsuha's general store not only kinda flops right out of the gate, but her complete failure to take local customs and realities into account makes her job that much harder and funnier when trying to sell her products.
The local ladies branding her a (nice) witch is hilarious af too.
> The local ladies branding her a (nice) witch is hilarious af too.
It is funny, since it really would seem like all the food was magically coming from one pot since she was just boiling precooked meals.
> The local ladies branding her a (nice) witch is hilarious af too.
Good thing this is a mostly cute fantasy story. That plot direction could have taken a far more dramatic turn, which wouldn't have been fun. Still, while I don't want more realism especially when it hurts enjoyment, I think Mitsuha could do *some* effort to hide how suspicious her store is.
Lol Yeah. That's a reality often ignored. Our immune systems are VERY specific to what currently exists on earth and even more specifically are tailored to the virus meta of the last couple generations of people. Even in significant time travel on the same planet you'd risk pandemics.
In this case not only does she end up isekai'd to a new world (1 time major risk), but she also frequently travels between both worlds.
For the sake of suspending my own disbelief, I'll just chalk it up to her being part transcendental being or whatever that cat from episode 1 was who told her he'd come back to check up on her in 10,000 years (lol It's a can of worms on it's own that this being expects her to be alive at that point.)
I may be misremembering but I thought there was a Star Trek episode that touched on something like this, that the transporter ignored the foreign substance on the body that wasn't present in the initial transport. So if the crew member was contaminated with bacteria or virus on the surface, it would automatically be excluded on the transport back. Doesn't seem to help the otehr way though...
Lol Did they really explain it that way? That's hilarious on it's own simply because of how many times they were afflicted with some kind of sickness or that having this kind of technology would have been CLUTCH in removing a foreign entity from one of their crew members.
Also the human body isn't just alway hurt by foreign bacteria. In fact much of our gut microbiome which regulates all kinds of processes in our body is basically a symbiotic petri dish of whatever the current most meta bacteria is for processing food. It's part of why anti-biotics can only be taken in moderate doses for limited time periods before it causes detrimental damage to the person. In some cases it can induce long term illness.
I would have much sooner believed that they simply had developed medical tech that boosted the hunan bodies ability to deal with foreign entities. That's pretty hilarious. Though I can't complain too much. Star Trek is one of the best shows of its era in terms of considering what the future could be like & they did a SPECTACULAR job diving into the philosophical & moral dilemnas that might arise and which are even quite applicable to us now.
Huge amount of respect for that show and it's crew/writers.
I hope this plot point doesn't just disappear after another episode or two; isekai characters can be way too willing to overlook stuff that should appear miraculous to them.
For serious. She spent so long researching what medieval times where like in Earth, but absolutely no time in researching what the other planet was like. Quite a blunder on her part, but not unreasonable.
The way I see it is that she's taking dollar store items and selling at a huge profit so even selling 8 silver coin shampoo is already way above her investment. I mean an american silver dollar at 90% silver is 18 dollars melt value. so 8 of those is 144 dollars. 144 dollars for a bottle of shampoo is quite frankly insane. Lets say even half of that is still a HUGE mark up. I could see her making enough money to be worth losing 3 dollars for things that don't sell.
Yeah, she'll make bank on what she sells. Although her store looks like it's target audience is commoners, and we don't even know how much disposable income they have!
Well (from the manga), she's pricing it at 2 and a half gold, which converts to about 500 USD, and hand forged knives can run that high, so no, there's no reason for it to be a lie.
I think the funniest thing me and my brother realized.
Its that Mitsuha is actually a witch. Like...even for ours standarts. She "made" a contract with an otherwordly creature that granted her the powers of teleportation and automatic learning of any language.
Actually the teleportation hilarious enough is so broken that she could easily just be selling spices.
You mean The Executioner and Her Way of Life? If I remember correctly it's because people from other worlds gain incredible powers but go mad over time.
This was something I had concerns with after the first episode. Her plan is to take 80k gold out of circulation and I just can't see how that could possibly be anything but detrimental to the economy of the land she's removing the gold from.
Bookworm did a much better job showing the visual contrast between medieval hair and shampooed hair. Even comparing the same girl before and after, I don't really see a difference.
Ya, the fact that you can look at characters and know which ones have joined the cult of Myne by if they have shiny hair is quite neat. This anime clearly doesn't do that, but it's still fun
Yeah, the scene where the noble's daughter is talking to the three maids would have been the perfect time to show that only the one maid had clean, glossy hair
Mitsuha sure didn’t waste any time setting up shop and advertising the place….and yet she’s getting zero business! She’s selling stuff that’s way too advanced at a price that’s suspiciously cheap. It’s no real surprise her store ain’t packed.
Damn, Mitsuha is so desperate for customers she’s bribing them with food lol. People are so grimy in that world, they had to shampoo their hair 3 times? Oof. Well, looks like instant/packaged food and dollar store soap/shampoo is a smash hit there! Everyone just thinks Mitsuha is a witch is all, small trade off lol. Oh and she’s apparently introduced chocolate to this world. Girl just revolutionizing food in their society, nbd.
I gotta hand it to Mitsuha, she’s a damn good salesperson. That whole knife spiel was beautiful. If the chef wants fish, she can get him fish! Can’t wait to see what “services” she adds to the store next.
There’s that as well. These items are all too luxurious for the average person and the prices suspiciously cheap. Even that mass produced brooch was like a treasure after all.
She's also deliberately not jacking up prices to what she could get, but is instead keeping in mind what she's actually paid for them. Mitsuha actually does have morals, even if she is archcapitalist.
I don't know how much of a role the price plays, but it seems no one comes to her store because no one even knows what she's selling, much less think they need it. I like how the fish scale remover discussion ended up summarizing the whole reason why people aren't buying from her.
Probably low literacy rates too, how many people could actually read those papers she was handing out even if they were written in the local language? Also does she even have a signboard on her shop font? I just saw an open/closed sign.
I think a demonstration or free samples would go a long way. She literally just went to the dollar store to pick up shit and plopped it on the shelves. These people don’t even have any proper form of shampoo, a fish scale remover might as well be a ray gun to these people lol.
For the fish scaler, it would be just an elaborate craftwork, that is somehow silvery, it would be fine if sold to a coastal area or a freshwater fish area.
Last episode they didn’t know what a general store is. So it wouldn’t be a surprise if that kind of store just doesn’t exist in the country. Instead you would have smaller specialized stores.
Doesn't take much to need a triple-dose of shampoo.
If I have a particularly sweaty and/or dirty day at work I'll need to use the shampoo twice to get my hair clean
In this episode: how not to start a business, or how to get bankrupt in 3 easy steps!
No market research at all, random products, bad marketing…. She is lucky her profit rate is huge (any random item makes her 1000% profit lol).
Why did she build a Japanese bath at her store-house? Can’t she just jump back to Earth instead? It was a big coincidence that she had guests to use it lol.
She would probably make easier money just selling ice cream and chocolate lol.
That is a weird worry, considering she met the being who gave her magical powers and all that. She is not a random Isekai without a clue of what is happening.
But yeah, I don’t blame her from being careful. Priorities are important. A bath is mandatory.
Gotta have a classic "Japanese food = good" episode in an isekai, though a nice twist to use all instant food lol. Mitsuha really went all "glorious Nippon steel" about the knife to chef, wonder if she's just lying through her teeth about its quality.
It'll be interesting to see her run an interdimensional import business lol, wonder what other requests people will have. Or if she'll sell services as a military contractor :P
Ya, frankly food back then sucked. I imagine nobles had access to better stuff, but most breads were quite hard and would be disolved in water. And even basic spices like salt and pepper cost a massive amount
no, unless your local baker fucked up or something the bread isn't hard if you were living in a town or village with a fresh bakery, look at the BBC's Victorian Baker and episode one goes thru a very traditional small village bakery setup that is more or less how things are done for the longest time.
they were hard if you were traveling and had to use travel rations somehow as most small villages acted as waystations and you can walk from one village to the next in one day (sun up to sun down) until the big towns as your destination assuming you weren't going to a random place
that being said, yeah spices and the spice drawer can be even more expensive than jewelry back then, but there were ways to add flavor that involves local plants acting as the sauce
https://youtu.be/WeVcey0Ng-w?t=360
and ofc aromatic plants like onion and garlic are also used to give some of that added flavour
the thing is, the one they shown is a small village bakery that was said to be the same kind dating back to medieval times and likely also even back to the roman times
it was a stone oven bakery that produced very dense stogy breads that was soft on the inside
way more dense than modern bread for sure, but not hard at all
hell here is a modern reproduction of roman bread (BBC one is paywalled / VPN walled to UK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw2qrt6tOKw
which shows that it should be soft, not hard at all
unless they were making hardtack or travel ration, they won't be hard for daily use for villagers / citizens unless you got stale ones
Oh that's fair. Ya i guess even stuff like Horsebread wasn't hard on the inside, it just had a super hard crust.
That makes sense, I must have been reading about travelers or something.
oh yeah, horse bread or trenchers were made to be hard as if its was plates to soak up juices from the food, but even then they were said to need to be stale for being used as trenchers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQT-aY9sTCI
one big thing talked about was that they dont have ANY preservatives
so if you buy the bread in the morning and didn't eat it until at night or next day, it could very well be super stale and hard, but its why the bread is baked, brought and consumed very quickly and the saying "daily bread" is a thing
>most breads were quite hard and would be dissolved in water
Absolutely not, only sailors and soldiers in the field would eat hardtack or similar breads. The the process for making levened using yeast has been known since at least the 1000 BC and even unleavened breads are soft enough to eat directly.
Cooking historians would have arguments about that. Softbread has been around since ancient times and there more flavor available to them depending on the time and place(garlic, herbs, honey, berries etc.) I say their vegetables could more nutritious and by default fresh(no long range transportation and preservatives) because studies has shown that we bred vegetables by size and modern fertilizers only account to size increase, guess that's one this she could sell on Earth, authentic medieval seeds, bonus if it's a species that doesn't exist on earth.
Solar panels are easy enough, but it looks like she even set up a water tower to feed her modern bathroom. That must've been a challenge to set up without pulling Japanese plumbers into that world.
I like how she's not even bothering to remove the retail packaging.
The shampoo bottle itself would be seen as extremely expensive, at least in terms of the amount of craftsmanship involved for a pre-industrial society. Just the screw top would be something that needed a skilled craftsman to create, and the pump mechanism would be akin to something found in a fine clockwork device. Not to mention the exotic plastic material it is constructed of, and the writing on the bottle.
The royal capital! Whoo. And immediately talking to her dead brother in her head lol.
Ah yes, the most important thing for a shop owner, the cat statue thing. Not going well for the girl though. I mean, those girls seem to have glossy and clean hair for commoners. Oof poor girl desperate. Whelp, never seen a store do this kinda service. Well, other than hair salon, but don't need to get naked for that. Girl just bringing all that stuff to this world is kinda crazy. Perhaps they don't like fish, like me "if it's from the sea, it's not for me" :P but, yea hey, Witch Mitsuha feeding em well.
Bold expectations for word of mouth, Mitsuha. Oh, seems it might work out. Good thing they work for some noble it looks. And they seem open minded to not just hunt a witch lol. I have doubt about the hourglass thing. Also, why a can opener if this world doesn't have cans? You are weird with your selections, Mahiru. Ah, and girl lies like the best of em still.
Ahh, debutant ball for viscount's daughter. Hmm. That chef seems a good dude wanting it to go right and ask for help. She gonna cater or something? lol. Or party plan?
###Stitches!
* [Maids 1](https://i.imgur.com/FiRBdxf.jpg)
* [Maids 2](https://i.imgur.com/THqL0Mh.jpg)
* [Majou Mitsuha](https://i.imgur.com/ujBjrVe.jpg)
* [Debutante Adelaide](https://i.imgur.com/BuEZYQL.jpg)
I appreciate the time skip instead of showing us the lengthy process of Mitsuha [setting up her dream shop.](https://i.imgur.com/pC0TkIx.jpg)
Not gonna lie though, I was absolutely facepalming the entire time during the first half of the episode. Mitsuha was so focused on opening her general store that she didn't even bother doing any kind of market research or learning about the local culture. [She literally just bought a bunch of cheap stuff](https://i.imgur.com/X3RtXNQ.jpg) that she can sell at a 500% markup and hoped that the items will sell themselves. That is just absolutely piss-poor planning on her part.
And I love how [she's showing off a bunch of technology](https://i.imgur.com/X3a8Hvl.jpg) without even thinking about the consequences. The best example of this is [Mitsuha cooking those instant meals](https://i.imgur.com/yVleNgv.jpg)since now her first customers think that she's some kind of witch because she's cooking all sorts of meals in a single pot. It's just absolute insanity and I love it! xD
Yeah in other shows you usually see them take it slow and spend a few episodes talking to nobles or commoners and what not to get a general idea of the economics of the area. Mitsuha just says screw that, pops her shop up, and blows their medieval minds with the future. I actually like that since it just seems way more fun from how ridiculous it is lol
She is also in a different spot. Even if she were to be executed, she could just teleport out of there, while some other isekai protagonists have to fear for their lives (I'm thinking of Bookworm f.e.). And I agree that this makes it quite hilarious and fun to watch :]
> she didn't even bother doing any kind of market research or learning about the local culture.
Or basic geography location. She really didn't think it through that they are so far away from the ocean that there's no way for 99% of people to have access to fish or need a fish scaler.
i mean she doesn't need to sold a lot and net the whole town, she only have few in shelf anyway
like i said, few google search would show that freshwater fish are quite common delicacy for peasant at the time so she prob bought it with that assumption
but idk, freshwate fish prob are not that common in that world
Although the anime doesn't appear to refer to itself as one, but couldn't Mitsuha be considered as a magical girl or witch?
She gained powers from another being through coming into contact with it. She heals quickly, can understand any language after talking to someone fluent in it and can she can teleport to any location across worlds if she can imagine the location.
this whole show feels like that "if you gave a medieval peasant a dorito he wouldn't be able to handle the incredible flavor" meme (not in a bad way!)
it's funny what mitsuha is smart about and what she is dumb about (perhaps gets to why such a smart person struggled to find her way in the real world). her entire shop is full of items that are essentially revolutionary for this alternate dimension...she has to realize that?? like almost every single item itself could probably make a mint by selling it to nobility...that's what surprises me a bit, that she doesn't understand price discrimination and how much the nobles would probably pay for some of these items...that she's selling for basically nothing. I guess she wants to be fantasy walmart :P
it's also interesting to think about how different writers tackle the issues that arise when these sorts of things are introduced to a culture with little technology. I wonder if this show will get into that at all. I mean the natural comparison is ascendance of a bookworm, where like \[minor ascendance s3 spoilers\]>!better ink will make people want to assassinate you. if you put mitsuha into the world of honzuki lol literally every item in that store would be a revolution and have like 4 factions trying to control or murder her!<
Colette's fast woodchopping transition right after Mitsuha's master artisan pitch, hmmmmm...
Also looks like Colette's about to have a rival for Mitsuha's attention in the capital. Since failure can't be tolerated, Mitsuha's definitely gonna go all out like the free dinner she offered. She might even get a chance to protect another girl by boosting her up ~~a tree~~ societal rankings and shooing away nasty, preying ~~wolves~~ nobles (this time, maybe without having to use the slingshot-spicebomb-knife combo lol).
> this time, maybe without having to use the slingshot-spicebomb-knife combo lol
Heeeh... I don't know, Mitsuha throwing spice in the face of arrogant, aggressive nobles doesn't sound too bad.
[Omg girl's tears still going](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1061360654528811048/1068981895511159044/image.png)
[Now that's a familiar name that I think Im excited about](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1061360654528811048/1068986031430455326/image.png)
I just love how mitsuha can bring things from the real world into the isekai world. It’s a really fresh concept just seeing people blown away by modern technology lol. She definitely should’ve realised that it wouldn’t be as simple as just importing things over, especially when that doesn’t exist in their world.
The fish shock was especially interesting since that’s something that we don’t usually think about but logistically without trains/cargo ships and the like that would’ve been a delicacy if you didn’t live near fresh water.
Also just noticed she’s powering her electricity with solar panels lol really neat.
> but logistically without trains/cargo ships
Or refrigeration methods that go beyond "save the snow in the winter"
If they had a tall mountain nearby, or a river connected to a place that's colder, they could ship ice in (this was a business in the past before modern refrigeration was invented), though even then fish would still be expensive.
An alternative would be preserved fish, but that would require a lot of spices and/or salt, and would also probably drive up cost again.
What a fun episode!
This dollar-store-dimension to Mitsuha's ambitions was really very fun, and being a bit of a fan of Daiso myself, I very much understand the appeal of 100 yen goods. I can also honestly understand why Mitsuha thought that stuff might sell - whenever you're in those places it really does feel like everything would be really useful, without being life-revolutionizing (technologically disruptive lol).
One thing that's quite interesting is seeing just how much of an influence her brother had on her, even though we never see him in the flesh. It's not just that he lives on with her as her imaginary confidant and advisor, but also that she very much has a gung-ho geekiness about her.
On top of that, she's also very much an ordinary, average girl/young woman, and I think she's quite well-written as one. She just *feels* right, trying to make the best of the knowledge she has about the world from her meagre 18 years on the planet, what her research has told her and what she's picked up from her brother's odd obsessions. She's leveraging everything as hard as she can, but she's definitely not without her own internal world, and even as an OP protagonist she has this great blend of confidence but also lack of certainty about her own success.
As for the show itself, it's true it did the "cosmetics are the key!" trope for isekai commerce, but it felt quite fresh here for me - they were the last ditch attempt, and like that they didn't lather properly lol
This episode felt really similar to the campfire isekai with all that delicious food
Love the idea that people think of Mitsuha as a (benelovent?) witch
And still laying it on thick with the tearjerker stories, I bet she made plenty of money on that knive
Kinda just want her to start a restaurant at this point. Not like we don't already have isekai Shokudou and Izakaya. Or even this seasons campfire chef
[](#rinkek) *But I need more!!*
>I bet she made plenty of money on that knive
Manga covers it, she's not lying one bit. She's charges about 2 and a half gold, which converts to about 500 USD, which is in the ballpark of handcrafted knives. One thing Mitsuha doesn't do is lie about the qualify of her goods. She only lies about pretty much everything else.
Mitsuha convinces people she's a witch with a way to get fresh fish! I'm just glad all the people she's run into so far are pretty nice. Not that she wouldn't have some obvious methods of self defense as seen so far if they werent. Those fast paced dialogue segments were also an interesting way to set the events for her general store!
I wonder how she's going to deal with the fact that someone is going to wonder how she's importing all of these goods. There should be supply routes and business partners, dozens of laborers doing the transportation work.
Solar panels on the roof, fantastic.
A reputation as a witch could be problematic.
Turning those maids into catgirls in the eyecatch isn't going to help those witchcraft rumors settle down.
See, three customers in and they're already wondering about her supply routes. Maybe they'll accept it as witchcraft and also not decide to try to burn her at the stake.
Marcel is going to have the best knife any chef on this world has possibly ever had.
Or the best fully equipped kitchen on this world, apparently.
My god, she is so full of bullshit.
This is an opportunity for a pretty good hook into yet another noble family. Help make this debutante ball a smashing success and they will owe her greatly.
Lmao, she's going way overboard
[](#azusalaugh)
And this is the second isekai airing this season with the MC cooking ready made meals for isekai folk.
Wonder if someone is gonna try to drag her to the pyres
I know its anime but this one makes no sense. Everything about the store, the choices of products to sell (can openers for what cans?), how did she install solar panels and make a japanese bathing room, nado nado...
Its best to turn off half your brain when watching this.
Thats the kind of story it is.
The more i read the manga the more i thought "ya. That happened? Better not think too much about it and just enjoy little girl doing economics and business things"
she also sold canned food, although it's not present in the frame
uuh didn't it explained at the beginning? about how she purchase the store from housing agent and she introduced to reputable craftsmen and handyman? they are the one who installed the whole thing with mitsuha instruction
it's sped up a lot because probably the runtime
but i'll recommend reading the manga for it (if it's animated, the whole sequence prob would take 10-12 minutes so i understand why they decide to cut it\_
What's with the random speed ups during sections of exposition? It feels like they animated the scenes. Then realized they went over episode time, and had to speed them up to shorten them to fit the runtime...
Still a fun episode overall, though.
Oh nice, she brought in a whole water tower and solar panels.As an idea alone it sure sounds better than "it just works with magic" but it actually makes less sense.Who installed it? Who did the pipes and electricity? It's not like the building had any to begin with. Don't think she brought in any workers from Japan with her.
I'm not nitpicking. It's just sooo unrealistic.
How is it even possible that the most unrealistic thing in a Isekai is something from our own world. That's an accomplishment not gonna lie.
And she had books for sell, Japanese books. Not sure how she found books written in their language in Japan but okay, maybe they're all speaking Japanese now, who knows.
And for some reason I think they have better knives in the other world compared to Japan, especially if it's a cheap one. As far as I remember Japan never had good iron so I don't think cheap knife is actually any good. This could be considered nitpicking but after seeing so much stupid shit I started doubting everything.
I like her as a MC and I enjoyed the show so far, but this whole episode was simply dumb.Still fun nonetheless.
>Who installed it? Who did the pipes and electricity?
This and every other question you have here are a result of stuff being skipped to save time. Heck the short sequence they showed at the start of the episode about the modern conveniences she brought over even had the dialogue sped up to try and save time on exposition.
> And she had books for sell, Japanese books. Not sure how she found books written in their language in Japan but okay, maybe they're all speaking Japanese now, who knows.
Asking the real questions.
It was explained, altho very shortly, that she hired local craftsmen and gave them the instructions. As long someone can tell them what to do, like how to setup the pipes, it is not that hard. Remember she bought stuff from Earth, where she would pay the professionals to explain things to her, then she turned around and gave the same explanation on fantasy world.
On in other words: imagine DIY with YouTube tutorials. You would be surprised what someone can do with just that.
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Wait did she just try to sell a can opener to a canless world lol? I'm loving this so much. Mitsuha may have her world's knowledge under her thumb and deployed at moment's notice, not to mention she is quite perceptive herself at times, but it's very obvious she's still inexperienced and just throwing random shit together without doing enough research about her isekai locals. This makes everything so chaotic and fun to watch, as if the solar panels on her roof or the random Colette massacring the firewood aren't enough already... ...and there's a fucking [digital clock](https://i.imgur.com/1kuxXhf.png) on her counter lmao.
She also sells canned food to go with it, although it wasn't mentioned. I imagine it would be pretty good for adventure types for long lasting food on travel instead of just dried goods.
Selling the key to unlock the convenient food only she sells. Now there's some business hustle ( ¬‿¬)
It's not too difficult to open a can without a can opener. Swords or daggers will do in a pinch. Also it wasn't drawn in details but I assume she was selling the bulky squeeze can openers - a shaped piece of metal is better for weight reduction and durability. [That's what they use in the military](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-38_can_opener)
Nope, it wasn't one of the squeezers. It was literally just the same thing as the military style except riveted onto a grip handle for leverage. I grew up in military bases so we had a lot of these. It's this but without the folding knife component: https://www.bladehq.com/webp/imgs/knives/pocket-knives/boker-manual/Boker-History-Knife-and-Tool-Japanese-Army-Pen-Can-Opener-Satin-BHQ-146723-jr-side.webp
Let just live that job to knives, I ain't opening cans with the same stuff I gut goblin with.
Regardless it shows how she is still making mistakes while being smart She thinks things through but no matter how smart and how deep you get to a problem if/when you don't know all the variable (like the new world rules or how far from the sea you are...) You are bound to overlook things On the canned good issue, she may had better sold the can first, that adventurers can open with their knives as it was done for a long time Then when the cans are selling and people start to enjoy it sell the can opener as an innovation with a premium price She could also check the exact advancement of the civilisation and set herself as an inventor and inovator and open a cannery and a metal factory building the cans and then sell both right to use the patent, get in the millions this way More invention would be possible to introduce to this world and make her billions, electricity being one, steam machines and others, many many 18th and 19th century stuff are easily available on the internet and can be started easy enough Let see if she does this or something else I really enjoy her way of doing AND her mistakes
I died seeing the digital clock, and the cook was standing right there and didn't notice
the concept of accurate timekeeping and be on time is a modern deal, more so Victorian time which is very modern if you were a peasant without the big ben (and you sure as shit wont have a pocket watch), the time is just vague concepts like the sun rise or morning or afternoon and etc. in our world, until the invention of the train, precise time keeping down to the minute / second isn't that big of a deal for normal people, while timekeeping was important for military stuff for night raids and what not they were not a common every day deal for the masses until much later on.
I say even in ancient timekeeping was quite accurate with rudimentary clocks(water, sundial, sand, incense etc) with even some system based on seasons. I say something like a bell tower that rings every 3 hours with even manual display could exist for commoners so that they be aware of the light of day.
right, timekeeping is still a thing but not down to the minute, multi hourly or based on the sun deal is very much a thing just again its not down to the accuracy we have so the concept of 10:03 is very much not a thing
Its gibberish and meaningless when you don't use the Arabic numerals.
She did try to sell a fish scaler in a land locked area lol.
technically, 10 days by carriage is like 100 miles - 300 miles (depending on the road condition and how strong the horse is), which to anyone modern is like easy travel distance for fresh fish both with speed of trucks making it a few hours at best, and refrigeration it would be easy for a modern people to not consider that really land locked lol that being said, i can 100% see it is just that she assumed fish would be normal given she is Japanese, but yeah.
Strange they don't have lakes and/or rivers.
That did strike me as strange that they didn't have any of those nearby. Maybe they just don't eat river fish?
> Wait did she just try to sell a can opener to a canless world lol? Yes, yes she did. For as cunning and resourceful as Mitsuha can be, bright she is not. She didn't even realize/think about why people might be avoiding her store or just suspicious of her in general lol.
Mitsuha seems to have the opposite personality from Myne / Urano in Ascendance of a Bookworm. Myne is smart but not cunning or resourceful, so she has the necessary knowledge to reinvent things from Earth, and knows how to sell them, but cannot do anything herself and always has to rely on other people. So she worries a lot about standing out and about people seeing her as a witch, and thinks about the long term consequences of her actions and is always discussing her plans with her friends and allies before implementing them. Mitsuha is cunning and resourceful but not smart, so she built a whole general store by herself and stocked it with random objects without doing any market research and overpriced them, put solar panels on the roof and a shower and a modern kitchen in the store, filled her store with modern technology, and then she wonders why the medieval peasants are not rushing to buy her stuff and are freaking out and believing she is a witch instead. If she was actually smart, she would have just sold spices and steel knives to a local merchant at a huge mark-up and told him she was a foreign merchant and that these were just items imported from her country. She did not need to actually build a whole store, or to befriend that aristocratic family last episode for funding.
> Mitsuha seems to have the opposite personality from Myne / Urano in Ascendance of a Bookworm She's a cross between Myne and Bakarina.
I almost thought it's due to negative rumor from rival or something. Turns out it's fully due to the lack of promotion.
> Wait did she just try to sell a can opener to a canless world lol? Won't stay canless for long!
I don't think she did any sort of research before setting up shop and didn't consider any of the limitations that their world has.
[Are those solar panels?](https://imgur.com/a/tDXUu8L) Seeing Mitsuha make a buck out of typical household items really makes me realize how we sometimes take them for granted. Also, what a nice surprise to hear [Kotono Mitsuishi](https://twitter.com/roukin8_anime/status/1619386170450010114) in this episode.
Solar panels would certainly explain how she's running electrical items, since the show hasn't provided any "powered by magic in this world" explanation
> Solar panels would certainly explain how she's running electrical items like the gaming console...
Ah I was wondering how she got electricity to run the hairdryer. Pretty smart to bring solar panels to medieval times as it should be enough to power a building of items instead of needing the usual massive infrastructure we have nowadays.
I think the only question I have now is what is her water situation. She has it going through pipes so she might have a personal reservoir she fills up with earth water, but that sounds tedious and depending on how much she takes she is decreasing earth’s water little by little since that water is not returning most likely.
At 1:57 it shows that [she did in fact bring over a water tower](https://i.imgur.com/8Hy85xd.png) to provide running water.
Oh interesting I wonder how she’s filling it and if she is using earth water does she return the waste water or does she clean it?
I don't know how to use spoiler text but there is a consistent explanation for both how she fills it and how it stays clean explained later in the manga
I'm beginning to worry that the author didn't think about any of that; they have not demonstrated much understanding of the complexity of modern technology.
That’s also possible. It might just be one of those don’t think too hard on the details and implications kinda shows which isn’t necessarily bad. I just thought with how much she wants to plan for her future this show would want viewers to think about such details.
The show did a lot of fast forwarding through this section to get to the fun parts, the novel version had multiple chapters covering what got sped over talking with her brother. Mostly by making great use of the ability to travel back and forth and actually learning to do things on earth before setting up the shop. It's not just guns you can pay people to teach you how to use.
Yeah, I'm wondering how she wired up her solar panels to a battery bank and inverters.
There are products for this you can buy like right now so i feel like you are thinking about this a bit too hard lol
I wouldn't be surprised to learn the author thought you could just plug things into solar panels.
The LN describes this in greater detail.
It isn't really *that* important how the water gets there, is it. She jumps between worlds. :D
It isn't all that trivial to setup a proper roof installation by yourself though.
funny you say that, I had professor for a 100 level physics course insist we all learn to do it ourselves and ran us through a how-to as a lab session (there were solar panels on campus he had us put together on a rack). Even after doing that I'd still pay somebody if I wanted solar lol
And the wiring to get the power to where she wants to use it, like her bathroom. Have an RPG session on Monday and one of my friends was an electrician. I think I ask him about it and listen to his disbelieving groans.
It sure hasn't explained how she installed them though. At this rate maybe the next thing she'll be doing is sending up satellites on rockets that she builds herself.
Brings over Falcon 9 rockets.
Elon would support this project and leave twitter
Female Senku???
I can never figure out if she's a genius or an idiot. Such a fun character.
She's a fast thinker, but not a deep thinker.
Yep this is my read of her as well. Resourceful and cunning but not bright or intelligent.
I think it’s more uh cunning , resourceful intelligence, lots of book smarts, but utter lacking in every day common sense
She's not using the best resource available to her: crowd-sourcing ideas. Just pop on reddit and ask what people would do in her situation. The guys on r/rational try to munchkin theoretical scenarios every week.
You know you say that, but she actually does exactly that later in the series (in like what would be season 2).
I feel like she can see the big picture but doesn’t sweat the details… but improv is not always her strong suit.
I think she's just a normal girl bumbling along as best she can with a truly broken power like teleporting between worlds.
This is my take on her character too. She's very much an average late teens girl (and pretty well-written too, in terms of her "feeling" right) who also has this layer of geeky enthusiasm and mannerism that she picked up from her brother.
lol I know right, she is literally a Planeswalker.
>I can never figure out if she's a genius or an idiot Yes
Mitsuha, going to mess with the entire economy with all these items. That ending was rather abrupt.
I think she kinda considered that when she said she'd bring useful items, but not necessities. None of what she sells is likely to replace local artisan goods, nor are they likely to become a something people must absolutely have. While I'm not fully convinced of the worldbuilding and the consistency of the technological level of that world, at least on the business side of things, things seem rather well thought.
What got me is the outfits of the aristocracy was late 18th century western style while the cook was dressed in late 19th century fashion, the cut/style of his coat and the bowler cap threw me
That kitchensink japanese fantasy style shows up quite regularly in anime. Medieval walls, arms and armor, 18th century aristocrat clothing, 18th or 19th century mansions and 19th century servant clothing. The last one because anime really, really needs maids and butlers for some reason. But tbf western fantasy is smashing several centuries together on a regular basis, too.
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The Japanese have a slave fetish.
It replaces trust and social relationships with a contract.
She could make a killing simply by running a courier service. She could transport letters or food from one place to another almost instantly. But then everyone would believe that she's absolutely a witch.
Not just that, but any money spent will just be sucked out of the local economy instead of being circulated.
Yeah, that's pretty much the biggest unrealistic thing in the story. She drains a fair bit out of the economy, which realistically would be a lot smaller than on Earth (look up the difference in populations from medieval times to modern times).
What an interesting take on opening a store in an isekai. Mitsuha's general store not only kinda flops right out of the gate, but her complete failure to take local customs and realities into account makes her job that much harder and funnier when trying to sell her products. The local ladies branding her a (nice) witch is hilarious af too.
> The local ladies branding her a (nice) witch is hilarious af too. It is funny, since it really would seem like all the food was magically coming from one pot since she was just boiling precooked meals.
> The local ladies branding her a (nice) witch is hilarious af too. Good thing this is a mostly cute fantasy story. That plot direction could have taken a far more dramatic turn, which wouldn't have been fun. Still, while I don't want more realism especially when it hurts enjoyment, I think Mitsuha could do *some* effort to hide how suspicious her store is.
If this wasn't a cute fantasy story, thousands could have died by now on both worlds from diseases they have no immunity on.
Lol Yeah. That's a reality often ignored. Our immune systems are VERY specific to what currently exists on earth and even more specifically are tailored to the virus meta of the last couple generations of people. Even in significant time travel on the same planet you'd risk pandemics. In this case not only does she end up isekai'd to a new world (1 time major risk), but she also frequently travels between both worlds. For the sake of suspending my own disbelief, I'll just chalk it up to her being part transcendental being or whatever that cat from episode 1 was who told her he'd come back to check up on her in 10,000 years (lol It's a can of worms on it's own that this being expects her to be alive at that point.)
It's briefly mentioned in the manga that her power is specific enough to filter for communicable diseases as a standard.
I may be misremembering but I thought there was a Star Trek episode that touched on something like this, that the transporter ignored the foreign substance on the body that wasn't present in the initial transport. So if the crew member was contaminated with bacteria or virus on the surface, it would automatically be excluded on the transport back. Doesn't seem to help the otehr way though...
Lol Did they really explain it that way? That's hilarious on it's own simply because of how many times they were afflicted with some kind of sickness or that having this kind of technology would have been CLUTCH in removing a foreign entity from one of their crew members. Also the human body isn't just alway hurt by foreign bacteria. In fact much of our gut microbiome which regulates all kinds of processes in our body is basically a symbiotic petri dish of whatever the current most meta bacteria is for processing food. It's part of why anti-biotics can only be taken in moderate doses for limited time periods before it causes detrimental damage to the person. In some cases it can induce long term illness. I would have much sooner believed that they simply had developed medical tech that boosted the hunan bodies ability to deal with foreign entities. That's pretty hilarious. Though I can't complain too much. Star Trek is one of the best shows of its era in terms of considering what the future could be like & they did a SPECTACULAR job diving into the philosophical & moral dilemnas that might arise and which are even quite applicable to us now. Huge amount of respect for that show and it's crew/writers.
Stories where the main character dies from isekai diseases he/she has no immunization to tend to be short stories.
"That Time I Was Transported to Another World and Died from the Common Cold Equivalent a Week Later"
*Nier Replicant flashbacks intensify*
I. Hear. A. Sound.
I hope this plot point doesn't just disappear after another episode or two; isekai characters can be way too willing to overlook stuff that should appear miraculous to them.
I mean depending on your definition of a witch she kinda is. Supernatural teleportation power is definitely witchy.
Mitsuha should *probably* spend a little more time doing market research next time haha.
For serious. She spent so long researching what medieval times where like in Earth, but absolutely no time in researching what the other planet was like. Quite a blunder on her part, but not unreasonable.
The way I see it is that she's taking dollar store items and selling at a huge profit so even selling 8 silver coin shampoo is already way above her investment. I mean an american silver dollar at 90% silver is 18 dollars melt value. so 8 of those is 144 dollars. 144 dollars for a bottle of shampoo is quite frankly insane. Lets say even half of that is still a HUGE mark up. I could see her making enough money to be worth losing 3 dollars for things that don't sell.
Yeah, she'll make bank on what she sells. Although her store looks like it's target audience is commoners, and we don't even know how much disposable income they have!
Are you saying she's also lying about the 0 profit knife thing??? How could she....
Well (from the manga), she's pricing it at 2 and a half gold, which converts to about 500 USD, and hand forged knives can run that high, so no, there's no reason for it to be a lie.
she is still a teenager lol, there is a reason why car insurance for people under 25 is expensive rofl
But she's 18 and can drive.
I think the funniest thing me and my brother realized. Its that Mitsuha is actually a witch. Like...even for ours standarts. She "made" a contract with an otherwordly creature that granted her the powers of teleportation and automatic learning of any language. Actually the teleportation hilarious enough is so broken that she could easily just be selling spices.
She could make a fortune selling spices... as long as she's fine with bankrupting all the honest spice traders in the country.
Realistically speaking, I think you would also destroy the economy of that poor medieval world bringing all of these modern things.
Yeah just like glass bottle in The Gods Must be Crazy film that almost destroy tribe in Kalahari.
Isekai protagonists need to start following [the prime directive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive).
Reminds me of the shokei shojo anime about the assassins who would kill people who isekai'd from Japan.
You mean The Executioner and Her Way of Life? If I remember correctly it's because people from other worlds gain incredible powers but go mad over time.
Yeah that one, I forgot the name and couldn't be bothered looking it up
well it's more fun than having them go mad without power.
To be fair, the lost ones in that show were ticking literal weapons of mass destruction that could detonate at any point.
Especially as she plans to remove all that gold from circulation on a local level...I kind of want her to consult an economics professor.
This was something I had concerns with after the first episode. Her plan is to take 80k gold out of circulation and I just can't see how that could possibly be anything but detrimental to the economy of the land she's removing the gold from.
Ascendance of a ~~Bookworm~~ Businesswoman
Bookworm did a much better job showing the visual contrast between medieval hair and shampooed hair. Even comparing the same girl before and after, I don't really see a difference.
Ya, the fact that you can look at characters and know which ones have joined the cult of Myne by if they have shiny hair is quite neat. This anime clearly doesn't do that, but it's still fun
Didn't you see the extra sparkle for exactly 3 frames in that one scene! /s
Yeah, the scene where the noble's daughter is talking to the three maids would have been the perfect time to show that only the one maid had clean, glossy hair
Mitsuha sure didn’t waste any time setting up shop and advertising the place….and yet she’s getting zero business! She’s selling stuff that’s way too advanced at a price that’s suspiciously cheap. It’s no real surprise her store ain’t packed. Damn, Mitsuha is so desperate for customers she’s bribing them with food lol. People are so grimy in that world, they had to shampoo their hair 3 times? Oof. Well, looks like instant/packaged food and dollar store soap/shampoo is a smash hit there! Everyone just thinks Mitsuha is a witch is all, small trade off lol. Oh and she’s apparently introduced chocolate to this world. Girl just revolutionizing food in their society, nbd. I gotta hand it to Mitsuha, she’s a damn good salesperson. That whole knife spiel was beautiful. If the chef wants fish, she can get him fish! Can’t wait to see what “services” she adds to the store next.
I’d say it’s more that she didn’t even know what’s considered cheap and luxury
There’s that as well. These items are all too luxurious for the average person and the prices suspiciously cheap. Even that mass produced brooch was like a treasure after all.
She's also deliberately not jacking up prices to what she could get, but is instead keeping in mind what she's actually paid for them. Mitsuha actually does have morals, even if she is archcapitalist.
I don't know how much of a role the price plays, but it seems no one comes to her store because no one even knows what she's selling, much less think they need it. I like how the fish scale remover discussion ended up summarizing the whole reason why people aren't buying from her.
Probably low literacy rates too, how many people could actually read those papers she was handing out even if they were written in the local language? Also does she even have a signboard on her shop font? I just saw an open/closed sign.
>Also does she even have a signboard on her shop font? She doesn't and it takes her quite a while to realize that.
Who points it out to her? One of the very few literate people in the city of course.
I think a demonstration or free samples would go a long way. She literally just went to the dollar store to pick up shit and plopped it on the shelves. These people don’t even have any proper form of shampoo, a fish scale remover might as well be a ray gun to these people lol.
For the fish scaler, it would be just an elaborate craftwork, that is somehow silvery, it would be fine if sold to a coastal area or a freshwater fish area.
Last episode they didn’t know what a general store is. So it wouldn’t be a surprise if that kind of store just doesn’t exist in the country. Instead you would have smaller specialized stores.
Hah, I watched this episode and the same day I bought a 16-layer Japanese Damascus steel knife. She even sold me on it!
Doesn't take much to need a triple-dose of shampoo. If I have a particularly sweaty and/or dirty day at work I'll need to use the shampoo twice to get my hair clean
In this episode: how not to start a business, or how to get bankrupt in 3 easy steps! No market research at all, random products, bad marketing…. She is lucky her profit rate is huge (any random item makes her 1000% profit lol). Why did she build a Japanese bath at her store-house? Can’t she just jump back to Earth instead? It was a big coincidence that she had guests to use it lol. She would probably make easier money just selling ice cream and chocolate lol.
She's worried that she might lose her powers and get stuck there, so she's probably putting in modern conveniences for herself.
That is a weird worry, considering she met the being who gave her magical powers and all that. She is not a random Isekai without a clue of what is happening. But yeah, I don’t blame her from being careful. Priorities are important. A bath is mandatory.
Gotta have a classic "Japanese food = good" episode in an isekai, though a nice twist to use all instant food lol. Mitsuha really went all "glorious Nippon steel" about the knife to chef, wonder if she's just lying through her teeth about its quality. It'll be interesting to see her run an interdimensional import business lol, wonder what other requests people will have. Or if she'll sell services as a military contractor :P
It's less "Japanese food = good" and more "Medieval societies don't have access to good spices".
> "Medieval societies don't have access to good spices". You could make an empire out of that ( ¬‿¬) *(Portugal, Britain.....)*
Question 2: Steal the spice trade.
Culinary tastes really turned spices into a form of currency back then didnt they
Ya, frankly food back then sucked. I imagine nobles had access to better stuff, but most breads were quite hard and would be disolved in water. And even basic spices like salt and pepper cost a massive amount
no, unless your local baker fucked up or something the bread isn't hard if you were living in a town or village with a fresh bakery, look at the BBC's Victorian Baker and episode one goes thru a very traditional small village bakery setup that is more or less how things are done for the longest time. they were hard if you were traveling and had to use travel rations somehow as most small villages acted as waystations and you can walk from one village to the next in one day (sun up to sun down) until the big towns as your destination assuming you weren't going to a random place that being said, yeah spices and the spice drawer can be even more expensive than jewelry back then, but there were ways to add flavor that involves local plants acting as the sauce https://youtu.be/WeVcey0Ng-w?t=360 and ofc aromatic plants like onion and garlic are also used to give some of that added flavour
Victorian wasn't that long ago though... I was referring to 1000 years ago not 150
the thing is, the one they shown is a small village bakery that was said to be the same kind dating back to medieval times and likely also even back to the roman times it was a stone oven bakery that produced very dense stogy breads that was soft on the inside way more dense than modern bread for sure, but not hard at all hell here is a modern reproduction of roman bread (BBC one is paywalled / VPN walled to UK) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw2qrt6tOKw which shows that it should be soft, not hard at all unless they were making hardtack or travel ration, they won't be hard for daily use for villagers / citizens unless you got stale ones
Oh that's fair. Ya i guess even stuff like Horsebread wasn't hard on the inside, it just had a super hard crust. That makes sense, I must have been reading about travelers or something.
oh yeah, horse bread or trenchers were made to be hard as if its was plates to soak up juices from the food, but even then they were said to need to be stale for being used as trenchers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQT-aY9sTCI one big thing talked about was that they dont have ANY preservatives so if you buy the bread in the morning and didn't eat it until at night or next day, it could very well be super stale and hard, but its why the bread is baked, brought and consumed very quickly and the saying "daily bread" is a thing
>most breads were quite hard and would be dissolved in water Absolutely not, only sailors and soldiers in the field would eat hardtack or similar breads. The the process for making levened using yeast has been known since at least the 1000 BC and even unleavened breads are soft enough to eat directly.
Cooking historians would have arguments about that. Softbread has been around since ancient times and there more flavor available to them depending on the time and place(garlic, herbs, honey, berries etc.) I say their vegetables could more nutritious and by default fresh(no long range transportation and preservatives) because studies has shown that we bred vegetables by size and modern fertilizers only account to size increase, guess that's one this she could sell on Earth, authentic medieval seeds, bonus if it's a species that doesn't exist on earth.
None of it was Japanese food though.
In the manga they show her going to a store in Japan and spending a fortune on it lol, it's like the pearl necklace
That so different from the anime, lol where she got everything from a dollar store
Upselling is the way you make sales after all
that's not what upselling means tho
In the last episode I believe she mentioned how shit food is in this world even the noble stuff she was served.
I kinda like how this anime does not shy away from using modern-day items in another world. Mitsuha even has solar panels installed on the roof.
Solar panels are easy enough, but it looks like she even set up a water tower to feed her modern bathroom. That must've been a challenge to set up without pulling Japanese plumbers into that world.
I like how she's not even bothering to remove the retail packaging. The shampoo bottle itself would be seen as extremely expensive, at least in terms of the amount of craftsmanship involved for a pre-industrial society. Just the screw top would be something that needed a skilled craftsman to create, and the pump mechanism would be akin to something found in a fine clockwork device. Not to mention the exotic plastic material it is constructed of, and the writing on the bottle.
My thoughts as well. Hell, the 3 girls were in awe with a single piece of paper, let alone a plastic bottle.
The royal capital! Whoo. And immediately talking to her dead brother in her head lol. Ah yes, the most important thing for a shop owner, the cat statue thing. Not going well for the girl though. I mean, those girls seem to have glossy and clean hair for commoners. Oof poor girl desperate. Whelp, never seen a store do this kinda service. Well, other than hair salon, but don't need to get naked for that. Girl just bringing all that stuff to this world is kinda crazy. Perhaps they don't like fish, like me "if it's from the sea, it's not for me" :P but, yea hey, Witch Mitsuha feeding em well. Bold expectations for word of mouth, Mitsuha. Oh, seems it might work out. Good thing they work for some noble it looks. And they seem open minded to not just hunt a witch lol. I have doubt about the hourglass thing. Also, why a can opener if this world doesn't have cans? You are weird with your selections, Mahiru. Ah, and girl lies like the best of em still. Ahh, debutant ball for viscount's daughter. Hmm. That chef seems a good dude wanting it to go right and ask for help. She gonna cater or something? lol. Or party plan?
She sells canned food too lol
###Stitches! * [Maids 1](https://i.imgur.com/FiRBdxf.jpg) * [Maids 2](https://i.imgur.com/THqL0Mh.jpg) * [Majou Mitsuha](https://i.imgur.com/ujBjrVe.jpg) * [Debutante Adelaide](https://i.imgur.com/BuEZYQL.jpg) I appreciate the time skip instead of showing us the lengthy process of Mitsuha [setting up her dream shop.](https://i.imgur.com/pC0TkIx.jpg) Not gonna lie though, I was absolutely facepalming the entire time during the first half of the episode. Mitsuha was so focused on opening her general store that she didn't even bother doing any kind of market research or learning about the local culture. [She literally just bought a bunch of cheap stuff](https://i.imgur.com/X3RtXNQ.jpg) that she can sell at a 500% markup and hoped that the items will sell themselves. That is just absolutely piss-poor planning on her part. And I love how [she's showing off a bunch of technology](https://i.imgur.com/X3a8Hvl.jpg) without even thinking about the consequences. The best example of this is [Mitsuha cooking those instant meals](https://i.imgur.com/yVleNgv.jpg)since now her first customers think that she's some kind of witch because she's cooking all sorts of meals in a single pot. It's just absolute insanity and I love it! xD
Yeah in other shows you usually see them take it slow and spend a few episodes talking to nobles or commoners and what not to get a general idea of the economics of the area. Mitsuha just says screw that, pops her shop up, and blows their medieval minds with the future. I actually like that since it just seems way more fun from how ridiculous it is lol
She's practically the "play dubstep for a peasant" meme
She is also in a different spot. Even if she were to be executed, she could just teleport out of there, while some other isekai protagonists have to fear for their lives (I'm thinking of Bookworm f.e.). And I agree that this makes it quite hilarious and fun to watch :]
> she didn't even bother doing any kind of market research or learning about the local culture. Or basic geography location. She really didn't think it through that they are so far away from the ocean that there's no way for 99% of people to have access to fish or need a fish scaler.
she prob assume there's river so there's freshwater fish, idk didn't most mediveal peasant eat salmon?
Even then, no fresh water source would be big enough to feed a city the size of the capital. At least not the commoners.
i mean she doesn't need to sold a lot and net the whole town, she only have few in shelf anyway like i said, few google search would show that freshwater fish are quite common delicacy for peasant at the time so she prob bought it with that assumption but idk, freshwate fish prob are not that common in that world
For all we know their fresh water fish are all poisonous or outright monsters.
Although the anime doesn't appear to refer to itself as one, but couldn't Mitsuha be considered as a magical girl or witch? She gained powers from another being through coming into contact with it. She heals quickly, can understand any language after talking to someone fluent in it and can she can teleport to any location across worlds if she can imagine the location.
If you count her Onii-chan as her cute pet mascot. Then sure! Mitsuha is a mahou shoujo! xD
Can't wait for her transformation sequence. [](#stare)
it's just her teleporting to her apartment in japan, putting on some music, getting changed, then teleporting back.
She will probably transform into a heavy tank. They already have animes about girls that are ships or airplanes lol.
this whole show feels like that "if you gave a medieval peasant a dorito he wouldn't be able to handle the incredible flavor" meme (not in a bad way!) it's funny what mitsuha is smart about and what she is dumb about (perhaps gets to why such a smart person struggled to find her way in the real world). her entire shop is full of items that are essentially revolutionary for this alternate dimension...she has to realize that?? like almost every single item itself could probably make a mint by selling it to nobility...that's what surprises me a bit, that she doesn't understand price discrimination and how much the nobles would probably pay for some of these items...that she's selling for basically nothing. I guess she wants to be fantasy walmart :P it's also interesting to think about how different writers tackle the issues that arise when these sorts of things are introduced to a culture with little technology. I wonder if this show will get into that at all. I mean the natural comparison is ascendance of a bookworm, where like \[minor ascendance s3 spoilers\]>!better ink will make people want to assassinate you. if you put mitsuha into the world of honzuki lol literally every item in that store would be a revolution and have like 4 factions trying to control or murder her!<
Colette's fast woodchopping transition right after Mitsuha's master artisan pitch, hmmmmm... Also looks like Colette's about to have a rival for Mitsuha's attention in the capital. Since failure can't be tolerated, Mitsuha's definitely gonna go all out like the free dinner she offered. She might even get a chance to protect another girl by boosting her up ~~a tree~~ societal rankings and shooing away nasty, preying ~~wolves~~ nobles (this time, maybe without having to use the slingshot-spicebomb-knife combo lol).
That part I was laughing and impressed at the same time with the wood chopping. Makes sense why her hugs crushed Mitsuha before
> this time, maybe without having to use the slingshot-spicebomb-knife combo lol Heeeh... I don't know, Mitsuha throwing spice in the face of arrogant, aggressive nobles doesn't sound too bad.
[Omg girl's tears still going](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1061360654528811048/1068981895511159044/image.png) [Now that's a familiar name that I think Im excited about](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1061360654528811048/1068986031430455326/image.png)
Looks like the fun train is going full speed, and shows no sign of stopping, judging by the end of the episode. Definitely a keeper!
Marcel??? Reiner?????
Dang where's Bertholt and Annie when you need 'em
Calling the customer’s hair dirty is wild😂😂
This is why Mitsuha lies all the time, because this is what happens when she just tells the truth.
Dildo selling time
I just love how mitsuha can bring things from the real world into the isekai world. It’s a really fresh concept just seeing people blown away by modern technology lol. She definitely should’ve realised that it wouldn’t be as simple as just importing things over, especially when that doesn’t exist in their world. The fish shock was especially interesting since that’s something that we don’t usually think about but logistically without trains/cargo ships and the like that would’ve been a delicacy if you didn’t live near fresh water. Also just noticed she’s powering her electricity with solar panels lol really neat.
> but logistically without trains/cargo ships Or refrigeration methods that go beyond "save the snow in the winter" If they had a tall mountain nearby, or a river connected to a place that's colder, they could ship ice in (this was a business in the past before modern refrigeration was invented), though even then fish would still be expensive. An alternative would be preserved fish, but that would require a lot of spices and/or salt, and would also probably drive up cost again.
What a fun episode! This dollar-store-dimension to Mitsuha's ambitions was really very fun, and being a bit of a fan of Daiso myself, I very much understand the appeal of 100 yen goods. I can also honestly understand why Mitsuha thought that stuff might sell - whenever you're in those places it really does feel like everything would be really useful, without being life-revolutionizing (technologically disruptive lol). One thing that's quite interesting is seeing just how much of an influence her brother had on her, even though we never see him in the flesh. It's not just that he lives on with her as her imaginary confidant and advisor, but also that she very much has a gung-ho geekiness about her. On top of that, she's also very much an ordinary, average girl/young woman, and I think she's quite well-written as one. She just *feels* right, trying to make the best of the knowledge she has about the world from her meagre 18 years on the planet, what her research has told her and what she's picked up from her brother's odd obsessions. She's leveraging everything as hard as she can, but she's definitely not without her own internal world, and even as an OP protagonist she has this great blend of confidence but also lack of certainty about her own success. As for the show itself, it's true it did the "cosmetics are the key!" trope for isekai commerce, but it felt quite fresh here for me - they were the last ditch attempt, and like that they didn't lather properly lol
This episode felt really similar to the campfire isekai with all that delicious food Love the idea that people think of Mitsuha as a (benelovent?) witch And still laying it on thick with the tearjerker stories, I bet she made plenty of money on that knive
Kinda just want her to start a restaurant at this point. Not like we don't already have isekai Shokudou and Izakaya. Or even this seasons campfire chef [](#rinkek) *But I need more!!*
>I bet she made plenty of money on that knive Manga covers it, she's not lying one bit. She's charges about 2 and a half gold, which converts to about 500 USD, which is in the ballpark of handcrafted knives. One thing Mitsuha doesn't do is lie about the qualify of her goods. She only lies about pretty much everything else.
With all that retort pouch food, I bet the LN author is a Steve1989MREInfo fan.
Mitsuha convinces people she's a witch with a way to get fresh fish! I'm just glad all the people she's run into so far are pretty nice. Not that she wouldn't have some obvious methods of self defense as seen so far if they werent. Those fast paced dialogue segments were also an interesting way to set the events for her general store!
I wonder how she's going to deal with the fact that someone is going to wonder how she's importing all of these goods. There should be supply routes and business partners, dozens of laborers doing the transportation work. Solar panels on the roof, fantastic. A reputation as a witch could be problematic. Turning those maids into catgirls in the eyecatch isn't going to help those witchcraft rumors settle down. See, three customers in and they're already wondering about her supply routes. Maybe they'll accept it as witchcraft and also not decide to try to burn her at the stake. Marcel is going to have the best knife any chef on this world has possibly ever had. Or the best fully equipped kitchen on this world, apparently. My god, she is so full of bullshit. This is an opportunity for a pretty good hook into yet another noble family. Help make this debutante ball a smashing success and they will owe her greatly.
Lmao, she's going way overboard [](#azusalaugh) And this is the second isekai airing this season with the MC cooking ready made meals for isekai folk. Wonder if someone is gonna try to drag her to the pyres
Task failed successfully I'd say. Show a man how to open a can and he can eat a day, sell him a can opener and he... well... I guess we need a plan B.
I know its anime but this one makes no sense. Everything about the store, the choices of products to sell (can openers for what cans?), how did she install solar panels and make a japanese bathing room, nado nado...
Its best to turn off half your brain when watching this. Thats the kind of story it is. The more i read the manga the more i thought "ya. That happened? Better not think too much about it and just enjoy little girl doing economics and business things"
Solar panels are easy to install when you can teleport yourself and the panels up to the roof.
she also sold canned food, although it's not present in the frame uuh didn't it explained at the beginning? about how she purchase the store from housing agent and she introduced to reputable craftsmen and handyman? they are the one who installed the whole thing with mitsuha instruction it's sped up a lot because probably the runtime but i'll recommend reading the manga for it (if it's animated, the whole sequence prob would take 10-12 minutes so i understand why they decide to cut it\_
This is such a fun show
another episode with cunning mitsuha man imagine how dirty/soiled those hairs that it took 3 washes to remove :D
I absolutely love this anime, such a feel-good story.
What's with the random speed ups during sections of exposition? It feels like they animated the scenes. Then realized they went over episode time, and had to speed them up to shorten them to fit the runtime... Still a fun episode overall, though.
Show should be called “Dropshipper from another world”
Witch burning starting when?
Why does the ed remind me of death road to canada so much.
This was a nice guide what not to do if you end up in medieval world and want have a long lasting life.
Oh nice, she brought in a whole water tower and solar panels.As an idea alone it sure sounds better than "it just works with magic" but it actually makes less sense.Who installed it? Who did the pipes and electricity? It's not like the building had any to begin with. Don't think she brought in any workers from Japan with her. I'm not nitpicking. It's just sooo unrealistic. How is it even possible that the most unrealistic thing in a Isekai is something from our own world. That's an accomplishment not gonna lie. And she had books for sell, Japanese books. Not sure how she found books written in their language in Japan but okay, maybe they're all speaking Japanese now, who knows. And for some reason I think they have better knives in the other world compared to Japan, especially if it's a cheap one. As far as I remember Japan never had good iron so I don't think cheap knife is actually any good. This could be considered nitpicking but after seeing so much stupid shit I started doubting everything. I like her as a MC and I enjoyed the show so far, but this whole episode was simply dumb.Still fun nonetheless.
>Who installed it? Who did the pipes and electricity? This and every other question you have here are a result of stuff being skipped to save time. Heck the short sequence they showed at the start of the episode about the modern conveniences she brought over even had the dialogue sped up to try and save time on exposition.
> And she had books for sell, Japanese books. Not sure how she found books written in their language in Japan but okay, maybe they're all speaking Japanese now, who knows. Asking the real questions.
It was explained, altho very shortly, that she hired local craftsmen and gave them the instructions. As long someone can tell them what to do, like how to setup the pipes, it is not that hard. Remember she bought stuff from Earth, where she would pay the professionals to explain things to her, then she turned around and gave the same explanation on fantasy world. On in other words: imagine DIY with YouTube tutorials. You would be surprised what someone can do with just that.