Okay, so I'm at chapter 15 rn, and the system of slavery they have in this world isn't really slavery it's actually indentured servitude. The main difference here is that indentured servants have contracts, are paid salaries, and are usually only servants for a few years or as stated in their contracts. Slaves have none of this and are legally considered property with no human rights; so calling this slavery gives a wrong impression of slavery.
Indentured servitude is still an awful system though since it's basically having more rights than a slave but less rights than a servant. Honestly, I think it was a completely unnecessary addition and I don't get why every isekai protagonist has to have someone in a much worse position of power serve them. It doesn't make them look good
Because slavery in one form or another has been and is a constant in history. Indentured servitude also came in a variety of flavors from basically an obligatory employment contract to more or less the chattel slavery everyone thinks of.
Yes indentured servitude can be really bad however manga often doesn't even show that. Much less just because it's common irl doesn't mean it needs to be in every one of these stories.
Not good at names but from what I remember the anime didn't introduce the slime researchers until well after he got the blood slime, the fox girls mom just doesn't show up at all (even when they eat dinner at her house) and I didn't even know that the shopkeeper had a daughter till just now. (Although you do see his grandkid so I just assumed he had a child)
And those are the ones I remember, seems like they cut out any background character that isn't relevant to the plot
Honestly there's a lot left out. Just think of the anime as a family friendlier version, with simpler plots. After all, they can't exactly show Ryouma drinking as a kid, right?
Fair point
And just imagine, the anime is a simplified version of this, but this manga is also a simplified version of the novel!
Maybe it's because I haven't read this in a while but the earth slime seems new to me. Can anyone tell me what chapter he got it?
It first appeared in chapter 34, when Ryoma acquired the new blood slime. (Yapping ahead)
Whilst trying to feed the slimes with the leftovers from the butcher, he found out that one of the slimes evolved into an Iron Slime, and from there, he experimented more, eventually leading him to inject magic onto slimes and finding out which ones had an affinity for it. In the end, he found out that 3 slimes had an affinity for magic, and more specifically, 2 of them liked earth magic, and the 3rd one liked dark magic. They make yet another appearance in chapter 36, and again in the recent chapter with the Charcoal Slime.
Thanks, I love when he gets a new slime. I'm gonna go reread those chapters :]
Why tf did he do that? And not only did he forgive him he has maintained a close enough relationship with him to the point that this creep is one of the first ones to find out about his pregnancy. AND HE LET HIM IN THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE
Cute but chapter 3 was weird tho wouldn't sending him to a foreign country that he knows nothing about only make his social anxiety worse.
right?? it’s so weird
as someone with social anxiety... I can confirm that this is the worst idea possible, lol.
Yes and no, depends on the person. Whilst exposure therapy isn't for everyone, it does help some people. I'm a successful example-- had severe social anxiety after uni which made me asocial and agoraphobic. After six months of not leaving the house and literally not talking to anyone, I decided I needed to take drastic measures. I moved halfway across the globe to a country where I knew no one and relied on a phrase book to communicate lmao It was extremely difficult, but given the choice, I would do it all over again since that decision (no exaggeration) saved my life!
I'm so fucking tired of isekai stories insisting on having slavery. The story would have been completely fine without it, he has plenty of guards that AREN'T slaves so why not just hire another. And the slavery is always "not that bad in this world so it's fine" even though the ox-man was fully gonna accept becoming a human experiment which mean that IS something that you can LEGALLY do to slaves. Having a world with slavery means having a system that allows people to have their rights and bodly autonomy stripped away. It doesn't matter if they treat the slave well a slave is still property in the eyes of the law; and havingyourmain character buy a slave means they support that system.
There is NO ethical way to own a person, and I'm sick of stories pretending there is.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Even if people who are that strong are usually adventurers and whatnot, there could just as easily be a system in place for people who don't want to do that anymore to get work. I think it could be neat having a story with retired, disabled, etc. adventurers being used as security in place of slaves (especially in cases like this where the security is obviously handicapped and gets hired). Ryoma himself mentioned the place felt like a startup temp agency, they could have just done something with that instead I'm not a novel reader so the thought of this having slavery didn't even cross my mind. It just feels kinda icky to have slavery in a feel good story/isekai even when the slave system is seen as a "good" alternative for people down on their luck and the treatment of the slaves is good. Like you said, there's no ethical way to own people and it really annoys me seeing so many isekais with slavery basically try to make their slavery/slave system a GOOD thing. And the isekai's MC just accepts it and buys a person (or a few). There can be objectively good people who own slaves for "good" reasons but that still doesn't make it right to own a person. If the slave plotline doesn't contribute anything more to the story I wouldn't mind tbh I don't like slave systems in isekais but also, if it didn't contribute anything other than him hiring Ox lord then was it really required? I'm just so annoyed and tired of slavery in isekai especially when the MC actually buys a person (｡•︿•｡) I do get it from a world building standpoint and there are stories that I like with parts with slaves (and may mention other countries having slaves) but it's more like. The MC tries to abolish slavery or helps the slaves and they aren't actually buying people. I feel like I don't typically see that kind of action, it's usually just isekais using slavery as an excuse to have the MC buy a person
Wowee that's a wall of text lmao sorry I'm passionate about this