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* StupidEvil: Ivy's village, after their FaceHeelTurn. Despite knowing how crucial the fortune-teller is for them, they punish her with MurderByInaction for helping Ivy; then they make it impossible to bounce back from their ruin, by continuing to post costly bounties on Ivy.
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* StupidEvil: The chief and his loyalists in Ivy's village, after their FaceHeelTurn.village. Despite knowing how crucial the fortune-teller is for them, they punish her with MurderByInaction for helping Ivy; then they make it impossible to bounce back from their ruin, by continuing to post costly bounties on Ivy.
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* GoldSilverCopperStandard: The place Ivy lives in has copper dals, silver gidals, and gold radals. One gidal equals to 100 dals, and 1 radal equals to 10 gidals. Coins also come in different forms depending on their value.
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* GoldSilverCopperStandard: The place Ivy lives in has copper dals, silver gidals, and gold radals. One gidal equals to 100 1000 dals, and 1 radal equals to 10 gidals. Coins also come in different forms depending on their value.
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* {{Magitek}}: Chapter 6 of the anime has Ivy opening an account in a bank, which gets her a metal plate she can use to get money like a credit card.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: When Oght learns Ivy is almost 9, he's shocked because he thought she was 7.
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** The leaders of Ratome's city guard, Oght and Veravera, know Ivy's secret, and keep it because they can tell Ivy's a good kid and that she doesn't deserve the shit she would be put through if the secret were revealed.
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** In the anime's fifth episode, when Ivy mentions she comes from Ratomi people note she was lucky to escape. This foreshadows the collapse of the local economy.
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:A woman that Ivy meets at the Blazing Swords' camp, Mira, looks extremely similar to [[Manga/RisingOfTheShieldHero Malty S. Melromarc]] and at first seems sweet and friendly, but turns out to be a malicious kidnapper aiming for our heroine.]]
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:A woman that Ivy meets at the Blazing Swords' camp, Mira, looks extremely similar to [[Manga/RisingOfTheShieldHero [[Manga/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero Malty S. Melromarc]] and at first seems sweet and friendly, but turns out to be a malicious kidnapper aiming for our heroine.]]
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:A woman that Ivy meets at the Blazing Swords' camp, Mira, looks extremely similar to [[Manga/RisingOftheShieldHero [[Manga/RisingOfTheShieldHero Malty S. Melromarc]] and at first seems sweet and friendly, but turns out to be a malicious kidnapper aiming for our heroine.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Just after Ivy's parents start treating her differently, the hungry girl finds fruits which taste extremely sour, though she remembers them as having been sweet before. See SelfFulfillingProphecy for the lowdown.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: FaceOfAThug: When Ivy arrives to Ratome, she's scared of the gate guard and the guard at the adventurers' field because of their looks, never mind the way the former treats an alcohol smuggler at the gate. Both of them turn out to be good people, the former helping her find a decent second-hand tent at a reasonable price, and the latter protecting her from a bunch of adventurers attempting to browbeat her into giving them that same tent and giving her a high-quality potion to apologize for not intervening sooner.
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** Just after Ivy's parents start treating her differently, the hungry girl finds fruits which taste extremely sour, though she remembers them as having been sweet before. See SelfFulfillingProphecy for thelowdown.lowdown.
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** Just after Ivy's parents start treating her differently, the hungry girl finds fruits which taste extremely sour, though she remembers them as having been sweet before. See SelfFulfillingProphecy for the
** In the anime's fifth episode, when Ivy mentions she comes from Ratomi people note she was lucky to escape. This foreshadows the collapse of the local economy.
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* FutureShadowing: In the flashback in Episode 3, Femicia's brother mocks the fortune teller because she only has one star, foreshadowing the problems she will have when she's shown to be starless.
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* FutureShadowing: In the flashback in Episode 3, Femicia's brother mocks the fortune teller because she only has one star, foreshadowing the problems she Femicia will have when she's shown to be starless.
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* HopeSpot: Ivy stays several days in the first town she finds after escaping from Ratomi and ponders living there, since everyone she's met so far is quite nice to her. However, when she sees the {{Wanted Poster}}s of her in several shops and the bounty hunters trying to capture her, she realizes she won't be safe there and leaves.
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* HopeSpot: Ivy stays several days in the first town she finds after escaping from Ratomi and ponders living there, since everyone she's met so far is quite nice to her. However, when she sees the {{Wanted Poster}}s of her in several shops and the several bounty hunters she knows are trying to capture her, she realizes she won't be safe there and leaves.
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* EvilDetectingDog: Sora is very good at detecting creatures and people that might wish harm to Ivy.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Without having any "stars" in her tamer skill, Ivy shouldn't be able to tame monsters ''at all'', yet she chances upon the slime Sora and after playing with it for a bit, she tames it, to her surprise. Since nothing is really known about that particular species of slime, due to its fragility, she chooses to keep it secret when she's in town.
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Without having any "stars" in her tamer skill, Ivy shouldn't be able to tame monsters ''at all'', yet she chances upon the impossibly weak slime Sora Sora... and after playing with it for a bit, she tames it, to her surprise. Since nothing is really known about that particular species of slime, due to its fragility, she chooses to keep it secret when she's in town.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Ivy's parents start treating her differently as soon as her starlessness is revealed, eventually descending into outright abuse.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Ivy's parents start treating her differently as soon as her starlessness is revealed, eventually descending into outright abuse. She once imagined her own mother saying that she would be better off ''not being born''.
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* {{Bowlderization}}: While Ivy suffered near-death abuse by her own father, the worst she gets in the anime from her Starless status revelation is being thrown out of the house by her siblings and driven out of her village be everyone else.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: While Ivy suffered near-death abuse by her own father, the worst she gets in the anime from her Starless status revelation is being thrown out of the house by her siblings and driven out of her village be everyone else.
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* GodIsDispleased: Ivy mentions a picture book which describes God smiting a person into starlessless for their sins. We see no evidence that she's done anything to warrant this in ''her'' case, however.
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* GodIsDispleased: Ivy mentions a picture book which describes God smiting a person into starlessless for their sins.sins of being starless. We see no evidence that she's done anything to warrant this in ''her'' case, however.
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* BagOfHolding: The normal ones hold more they they seem able to as well as making their loads lighter and stopping time for the items within, keeping potions and food from degrading. The inferior/degraded ones don't stop time and seem to vary in their carrying capacity and ability to lighten loads. At one point Ivy finds ten in a dumping ground, but only five of them are any use to her.
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* BagOfHolding: The normal ones hold more they they seem able to as well as making their loads lighter and stopping time for the items within, keeping potions and food from degrading. The inferior/degraded ones don't stop time and seem to vary in their carrying capacity and ability to lighten loads. At one point Ivy finds ten in a dumping ground, but only five of them are any use to her.
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** Ivy becomes very adept at trapping wild mice and does so often. For one thing the meat can sell for a good price because when dried it's a popular ration with healthy demand and most people in the area prefer to hunt bigger game for profit, and for another she's a small kid and a couple of wild mice make a solid meal. Her inner voice also advises her to dress the meat and wrap it up neatly, which keeps it fresh and makes less work for the shopkeep, earning her a bit of extra money.
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** Ivy becomes very adept at trapping wild mice and does so often. For one thing the meat can sell for a good price because when dried it's a popular ration with healthy demand and most people in the area prefer to hunt bigger game for profit, and for another she's a small kid and a couple of wild mice make a solid meal. Her inner voice also advises her to dress the meat and wrap it up neatly, which keeps it fresh and makes less work for the shopkeep, shopkeeper, earning her a bit of extra money.
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* CursedWithAwesome: A variant: Since Ivy's too weak to kill the poisonous snakes the chemist pays for, she has to trap them alive, which makes them ideal for his medicine--unlike the damaged and tattered specimens adventurers being in. As a result, he pays top (fantasy-equivalent-of-dollar) for them.
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* CursedWithAwesome: A variant: Since Ivy's too weak to kill the poisonous snakes the chemist pays for, she has to trap them alive, which makes them ideal for his medicine--unlike the damaged and tattered specimens adventurers being bring in. As a result, he pays top (fantasy-equivalent-of-dollar) for them.
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:A woman that Ivy meets at the Blazing Sword's camp, Mira, looks extremely similar to [[Manga/RisingOftheShieldHero Malty S. Melromarc]] and at first seems sweet and friendly, but turns out to be a malicious kidnapper aiming for out heroine.]]
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:A woman that Ivy meets at the Blazing Sword's Swords' camp, Mira, looks extremely similar to [[Manga/RisingOftheShieldHero Malty S. Melromarc]] and at first seems sweet and friendly, but turns out to be a malicious kidnapper aiming for out our heroine.]]
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: The fortuneteller of Ratomi started out as the only person who knew that Ivy remembered her previous incarnation, and blossomed into a mentor/ParentalSubstitute for the three years Ivy spent living in the woods nearby.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: The fortuneteller of Ratomi started out as the only person who knew that Ivy remembered her previous incarnation, and blossomed into a mentor/ParentalSubstitute TheMentor[=/=]ParentalSubstitute for the three years Ivy spent living in the woods nearby.
* TheMentor: The fortune teller becomes one for Femicia, teaching her how to survive on her own in the forest.
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* SecretKeeper: When Ivy was a small(er) child, Ratomi's fortune-teller explained to her that she was one of the rare people who had memories from her former incarnation and that she ought to keep it secret. As such she was the only other person who knew about it.
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* SecretKeeper: When Ivy was a small(er) child, Ratomi's fortune-teller explained to her that she was one of the rare people who had memories from her former incarnation and that she ought to keep it secret. As such such, she was the only other person who knew about it.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Episode 3 is mostly dedicated to Ivy dreaming of her past and what led to her exile and escape.
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* FutureShadowing: In the flashback in Episode 3, Femicia's brother mocks the fortune teller because she only has one star, foreshadowing the problems she will have when she's shown to be starless.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: The anime revealed that Femicia was Ivy's original name from before she ran away from her home village.
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** The anime revealed that Femicia was Ivy's original name from before she ran away from her homevillage.village.
** Ivy's hometown's future teller is called Ruba in the anime.
** The anime revealed that Femicia was Ivy's original name from before she ran away from her home
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* Expy: [[spoiler:A woman that Ivy meets at the Blazing Sword's camp, Mira, looks extremely similar to [[Manga/RisingOftheShieldHero Malty S. Melromarc]] and at first seems sweet and friendly, but turns out to be a malicious kidnapper.]]
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* Expy: {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:A woman that Ivy meets at the Blazing Sword's camp, Mira, looks extremely similar to [[Manga/RisingOftheShieldHero Malty S. Melromarc]] and at first seems sweet and friendly, but turns out to be a malicious kidnapper.kidnapper aiming for out heroine.]]
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* HopeSpot: Ivy stays several days in the first town she finds after escaping from Ratomi and ponders living there, since everyone she's met so far is quite nice to her. However, when she sees the {{Wanted Poster}}s of her in several shops, she realizes she won't be safe there and leaves.
* ImportantHaircut: Ivy does this at the beginning of the story, in order to disguise herself as a boy and symbolically shedding her life in Ratomi and embracing the new, including her MeaningfulRename.
* ImportantHaircut: Ivy does this at the beginning of the story, in order to disguise herself as a boy and symbolically shedding her life in Ratomi and embracing the new, including her MeaningfulRename.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Ivy talks to her previous life voice, she does it in a way that she seems to speak to the other side of the fourth wall.
* MagikarpPower: As a no star tamer, the weakest slime is probably the ''only'' monster Ivy can tame. Said slimes are rare and normally die quickly, so fragile that even rain and wind can kill them. But after being tamed and fed stale potions by Ivy, Sora steadily grows stronger and develops abilities normal slimes do not have.
* MinorLivingAlone: Ivy had to flee into the forest at age 5, and is travelling on her own in a world with monsters roaming the streets between towns, starting at age 8, because her parents would beat her for so much as looking downcast because her place at the kitchen table disappeared when she came back from the temple with only one skill, and "starless" at that. Then at age 8, she learned the fortune teller, who treated her kindly, was denied life-saving medicine and died. THEN her own father and the village chief began conspiring to murder her, so she fled the area entirely.
* MagikarpPower: As a no star tamer, the weakest slime is probably the ''only'' monster Ivy can tame. Said slimes are rare and normally die quickly, so fragile that even rain and wind can kill them. But after being tamed and fed stale potions by Ivy, Sora steadily grows stronger and develops abilities normal slimes do not have.
* MinorLivingAlone: Ivy had to flee into the forest at age 5, and is travelling on her own in a world with monsters roaming the streets between towns, starting at age 8, because her parents would beat her for so much as looking downcast because her place at the kitchen table disappeared when she came back from the temple with only one skill, and "starless" at that. Then at age 8, she learned the fortune teller, who treated her kindly, was denied life-saving medicine and died. THEN her own father and the village chief began conspiring to murder her, so she fled the area entirely.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When In the anime, when Ivy talks to her previous life life's voice, she does it in a way that she seems to speak to the other side of the fourth wall.
* MagikarpPower: As ano star no-star tamer, the weakest slime is probably the ''only'' monster Ivy can tame. Said slimes are rare and normally die quickly, so fragile that even rain and wind can kill them. But after being tamed and fed stale potions by Ivy, Sora steadily grows stronger and develops abilities normal slimes do not have.
* MeaningfulRename: The main character chooses to rename herself "Ivy" because it's a plant that, no matter how much it's stepped on, it still grows strong.
* MinorLivingAlone: Ivy had to flee into the forest at age 5, and is travelling on her own in a world with monsters roaming the streets between towns, starting at age 8, because her parents would beat her for so much as looking downcast because her place at the kitchen table disappeared when she came back from the temple with only one skill, and "starless" at that. Then at age 8, she learned the fortune teller, the only person in her town who treated her kindly, was denied life-saving medicine and died. THEN her own father and the village chief began conspiring to murder her, so she fled the area entirely.
* MagikarpPower: As a
* MeaningfulRename: The main character chooses to rename herself "Ivy" because it's a plant that, no matter how much it's stepped on, it still grows strong.
* MinorLivingAlone: Ivy had to flee into the forest at age 5, and is travelling on her own in a world with monsters roaming the streets between towns, starting at age 8, because her parents would beat her for so much as looking downcast because her place at the kitchen table disappeared when she came back from the temple with only one skill, and "starless" at that. Then at age 8, she learned the fortune teller, the only person in her town who treated her kindly, was denied life-saving medicine and died. THEN her own father and the village chief began conspiring to murder her, so she fled the area entirely.
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''The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash'' (最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました, ''Saijaku Tamer wa Gomihiroi no Tabi o Hajimemashita'') is a LightNovel written by [=Honobonoru500=] and illustrated by Hama. First a WebNovel serialized in the Shousetsuka ni Narou website on November 2018, it was acquired by TO Books a year later, on November 2019. It has an ongoing {{Manga}} adaptation by Fukino in TO Books' own manga website Comic Corona on February 2020. An {{Anime}} adaptation was announced on November 10, 2022, to be produced by Studio Massket, and is scheduled for release in January 2024 with Creator/AinaSuzuki and Creator/MutsumiTamura in the lead roles.
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''The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash'' (最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました, ''Saijaku Tamer wa Gomihiroi no Tabi o Hajimemashita'') is a LightNovel written by [=Honobonoru500=] and illustrated by Hama. First a WebNovel serialized in the Shousetsuka ni Narou website on November 2018, it was acquired by TO Books a year later, on November 2019. It has an ongoing {{Manga}} adaptation by Fukino in TO Books' own manga website Comic Corona on February 2020. An {{Anime}} adaptation was announced on November 10, 2022, to be produced by Studio Massket, and is scheduled for release in it began airing on January 12, 2024 with Creator/AinaSuzuki and Creator/MutsumiTamura in the lead roles.
roles. Website/{{Crunchyroll}} has licensed the series as part of its Winter 2024 Anime Season.
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* MundaneUtility: Tamers can use their monsters' abilities to do remarkably normal jobs, such as delivering mail or getting slimes to eat trash.
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** Tamers can use their monsters' abilities to do remarkably normal jobs, such as delivering mail or getting slimes to eattrash.trash.
** People use magic for things like creating water for their animals or making a fire for cooking.
** Tamers can use their monsters' abilities to do remarkably normal jobs, such as delivering mail or getting slimes to eat
** People use magic for things like creating water for their animals or making a fire for cooking.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After indirectly murdering their fortuneteller for associating with the starless pariah Ivy, and spending tons of money to try and get someone to kill an eight-year old girl, Ratomi village goes bankrupt. Ain't that a shame?
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After indirectly murdering their fortuneteller for associating with the starless pariah Ivy, and spending tons of money to try and get someone to kill an eight-year old eight-year-old girl, Ratomi village goes bankrupt. Ain't that a shame?shame?
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Ivy talks to her previous life voice, she does it in a way that she seems to speak to the other side of the fourth wall.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Ivy talks to her previous life voice, she does it in a way that she seems to speak to the other side of the fourth wall.
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[[caption-width-right:225:Meet Ivy the no-star trainer and Sora the slime on their journey to explore the world.]]
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* WrongContextMagic: Most slimes eat organic matter. Some rare slimes can eat inorganic matter. No slimes are supposed to be able to eat both, but Sora eats potions in glass bottles. Slimes aren't supposed to be able to heal people, but Sora can. Justified in that he's a variant of slime that usually dies when the wind hits it too hard, so no one's been able to study them much.
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* WrongContextMagic: Most slimes eat organic matter. Some rare slimes can eat inorganic matter. No slimes are supposed to be able to eat both, but Sora eats potions in glass bottles. Slimes aren't supposed to be able to heal people, but Sora can. Justified in that he's a variant of slime that usually dies when the wind hits it too hard, so no one's been able to study them much.much.
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* CursedWithAwesome: An variant: Since Ivy's too weak to kill the poisonous snakes the chemist pays for, she has to trap them alive, which makes them ideal for his medicine--unlike the damaged and tattered specimens adventurers being in. As a result, he pays top (fantasy-equivalent-of-dollar) for them.
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* CursedWithAwesome: An A variant: Since Ivy's too weak to kill the poisonous snakes the chemist pays for, she has to trap them alive, which makes them ideal for his medicine--unlike the damaged and tattered specimens adventurers being in. As a result, he pays top (fantasy-equivalent-of-dollar) for them.
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''The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash'' (最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました, ''Saijaku Tamer wa Gomihiroi no Tabi o Hajimemashita'') is a LightNovel written by [=Honobonoru500=] and illustrated by Hama. First a WebNovel serialized in the Shousetsuka ni Narou website on November 2018, it was acquired by TO Books a year later, on November 2019. It has an ongoing {{Manga}} adaptation by Fukino in TO Books' own manga website Comic Corona on February 2020. An {{Anime}} adaptation was announced on November 10, 2022, to be produced by Studio Massket, and is scheduled for release in 2024 with Creator/AinaSuzuki and Creator/MutsumiTamura in the lead roles.
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''The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash'' (最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました, ''Saijaku Tamer wa Gomihiroi no Tabi o Hajimemashita'') is a LightNovel written by [=Honobonoru500=] and illustrated by Hama. First a WebNovel serialized in the Shousetsuka ni Narou website on November 2018, it was acquired by TO Books a year later, on November 2019. It has an ongoing {{Manga}} adaptation by Fukino in TO Books' own manga website Comic Corona on February 2020. An {{Anime}} adaptation was announced on November 10, 2022, to be produced by Studio Massket, and is scheduled for release in January 2024 with Creator/AinaSuzuki and Creator/MutsumiTamura in the lead roles.
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''The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash'' (最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました, ''Saijaku Tamer wa Gomihiroi no Tabi o Hajimemashita'') is a LightNovel written by [=Honobonoru500=] and illustrated by Hama. First a WebNovel serialized in the Shousetsuka ni Narou website on November 2018, it was acquired by TO Books a year later, on November 2019. It has an ongoing {{Manga}} adaptation by Fukino in TO Books' own manga website Comic Corona on February 2020. An {{Anime}} adaptation was announced on November 10, 2022.
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''The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash'' (最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました, ''Saijaku Tamer wa Gomihiroi no Tabi o Hajimemashita'') is a LightNovel written by [=Honobonoru500=] and illustrated by Hama. First a WebNovel serialized in the Shousetsuka ni Narou website on November 2018, it was acquired by TO Books a year later, on November 2019. It has an ongoing {{Manga}} adaptation by Fukino in TO Books' own manga website Comic Corona on February 2020. An {{Anime}} adaptation was announced on November 10, 2022.
2022, to be produced by Studio Massket, and is scheduled for release in 2024 with Creator/AinaSuzuki and Creator/MutsumiTamura in the lead roles.
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[[caption-width-right:225:Meet Ivy the no-star trainer and Sora the slime on their journey to explore the world.]]Saijaku teima wa gomi hiroi no tabi o hajimemashita .
Alternative : The weakest tamer started a garbage-picking journey. ; 最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました。
Author(s) : Honobonoru 500, Tou Fukino
When Ivy was born into this world, she remembered her past life.\\
Remembering her preincarnation, she strove to avoid strife.\\
But fate curdled at the status check, when kids learn who they are.\\
For she had only one skill - Taming - and not a single star.\\
Ivy was weak from the start - at most, she could tame a slime.\\
Her parents hated her for it (apparently, being weak is a crime?)\\
Only one woman in her village would treat her as her own.\\
But after she "died", Ivy got the hint and ran from home.\\
She met a slime and named him Sora (she's a gamer?)\\
And such begins our story - of a small girl who's a tamer.\\
With a Manga adaptation.
! Associated Tropes:
Alternative : The weakest tamer started a garbage-picking journey. ; 最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました。
Author(s) : Honobonoru 500, Tou Fukino
When Ivy was born into this world, she remembered her past life.\\
Remembering her preincarnation, she strove to avoid strife.\\
But fate curdled at the status check, when kids learn who they are.\\
For she had only one skill - Taming - and not a single star.\\
Ivy was weak from the start - at most, she could tame a slime.\\
Her parents hated her for it (apparently, being weak is a crime?)\\
Only one woman in her village would treat her as her own.\\
But after she "died", Ivy got the hint and ran from home.\\
She met a slime and named him Sora (she's a gamer?)\\
And such begins our story - of a small girl who's a tamer.\\
With a Manga adaptation.
! Associated Tropes:
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[[caption-width-right:225:Meet Ivy the no-star trainer and Sora the slime on their journey to explore the world.]]Saijaku teima ]]
''The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash'' (最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました, ''Saijaku Tamer wagomi hiroi Gomihiroi no tabi Tabi o hajimemashita .
Alternative :Hajimemashita'') is a LightNovel written by [=Honobonoru500=] and illustrated by Hama. First a WebNovel serialized in the Shousetsuka ni Narou website on November 2018, it was acquired by TO Books a year later, on November 2019. It has an ongoing {{Manga}} adaptation by Fukino in TO Books' own manga website Comic Corona on February 2020. An {{Anime}} adaptation was announced on November 10, 2022.
In this fantasy RPG-like world, people are given a defined class as they come of age, with a class and rank system based in stars. The better the rank and stars, the better received the people are.
But for a young girl named Ivy...it was not. Although she had some memories about a past life, she couldn't remember anything of it. The class that was given to her was "Tamer", the weakesttamer started a garbage-picking journey. ; 最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました。
Author(s) : Honobonoru 500, Tou Fukino
When Ivy was born into this world, she rememberedone of all classes, and without stars to boot. Scorned and neglected by her past life.\\
Remembering her preincarnation, she strove to avoid strife.\\
But fate curdled atown family and village, the status check, when kids learn who they are.\\
For she hadonly one skill - Taming - and not a single star.\\
Ivywho cared for her was weak a fortune-teller who lived nearby, who also gave her the means to survive in the wild, far away from her parents' abuse.
But one day, thestart - at most, she could tame a slime.\\
Her parents hated her for it (apparently, being weak is a crime?)\\
Only one woman in her village would treat her as her own.\\
But after shefortune-teller suspiciously "died", and Ivy got was being hunted for the hint crime of being "starless". After learning that she would be next, Ivy packed things up and ran away from home.\\
She metthe village. Soon, she befriends a particular slime on the way, taming it, and named him Sora (she's both set up in a gamer?)\\
And such begins our story - of a small girl who's a tamer.\\
With ajourney to survive in this world.
Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment has licensed both the Light Novel and Mangaadaptation.
! Associated Tropes:adaptation on October 25, 2019, and June 14, 2020, respectively.
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''The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash'' (最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました, ''Saijaku Tamer wa
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In this fantasy RPG-like world, people are given a defined class as they come of age, with a class and rank system based in stars. The better the rank and stars, the better received the people are.
But for a young girl named Ivy...it was not. Although she had some memories about a past life, she couldn't remember anything of it. The class that was given to her was "Tamer", the weakest
Author(s) : Honobonoru 500, Tou Fukino
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Remembering her preincarnation, she strove to avoid strife.\\
But fate curdled at
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Only one woman in her village would treat her as her own.\\
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And such begins our story - of a small girl who's a tamer.\\
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Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment has licensed both the Light Novel and Manga
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* ExactEavesdropping: While sneaking around the village, Ivy luckily hears about how the mayor talking to her dad about how they've discovered she lives in the woods and their plans to kill her.
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* ExactEavesdropping: While sneaking around the village, Ivy luckily hears about how the mayor talking to her dad about how they've discovered she lives in the woods and their plans to kill her.
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* NeverMyFault: Ivy's home village, especially the chief, all blame Ivy's "starless" feature for all their woes. Fact is, the village chief is both corrupt and incompetent. It's only because of the local fortune teller that was keeping the village afloat with the signature crop. Denying her medicine for associating with Ivy is what dooms them to abysmal poverty. The nearby towns don't believe the chief's self-serving narrative, tearing up Ivy's wanted poster every time the village chief sends it out.
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* NeverMyFault: Ivy's home village, especially the chief, all blame Ivy's "starless" feature for all their woes. Fact is, the village chief is both corrupt and incompetent. It's It was only because of the local fortune teller that was keeping the village afloat with the signature crop. Denying her medicine for associating with Ivy is what dooms them to abysmal poverty. The nearby towns don't believe the chief's self-serving narrative, tearing up Ivy's wanted poster every time the village chief sends it out.
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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Tamers are supposed to be able to speak to their animals and sense their intentions, but Ivy can't do this with to Sora (as far as she can tell). Whether or not this is because she's starless or due to Sora's own peculiar qualities is unclear.
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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Tamers are supposed to be able to speak to their animals and sense their intentions, but Ivy can't do this with to Sora (as far as she can tell). Whether or not this is because she's starless or due to Sora's own peculiar qualities is unclear.
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[[caption-width-right:225:Meet Ivy the no-star trainer and Sora the slime on their journey to explore the world.]]Saijaku teima wa gomi hiroi no tabi o hajimemashita .
Alternative : The weakest tamer started a garbage-picking journey. ; 最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました。
Author(s) : Honobonoru 500, Tou Fukino
When Ivy was born into this world, she remembered her past life.\\
Remembering her preincarnation, she strove to avoid strife.\\
But fate curdled at the status check, when kids learn who they are.\\
For she had only one skill - Taming - and not a single star.\\
Ivy was weak from the start - at most, she could tame a slime.\\
Her parents hated her for it (apparently, being weak is a crime?)\\
Only one woman in her village would treat her as her own.\\
But after she "died", Ivy got the hint and ran from home.\\
She met a slime and named him Sora (she's a gamer?)\\
And such begins our story - of a small girl who's a tamer.\\
With a Manga adaptation.
! Associated Tropes:
* AbusiveParents: After learning she's a starless, Ivy's parents start treating her more and more badly, until her father starts outright viciously beating the five-year-old girl while her mother does nothing to stop him. The potions the fortune-teller gave her may have been the only thing keeping her from being killed, and fortunately she leaves home shortly after this.
* AndroclesLion: After Sora saves the life of a mortally-wounded Adandara (a 2 meter+ pantherine creature) by healing it, the dreaded beast becomes protective and loving toward them.
* AnimalThemeNaming: Ivy's home village, Ratomi, and a few of the nearby villages, towns, and cities have the term "rat" in them.
* BagOfHolding: The normal ones hold more they they seem able to as well as making their loads lighter and stopping time for the items within, keeping potions and food from degrading. The inferior/degraded ones don't stop time and seem to vary in their carrying capacity and ability to lighten loads. At one point Ivy finds ten in a dumping ground, but only five of them are any use to her.
* BewilderingPunishment: At age 5, Ivy is taken by her parents to the local temple to appraise her inherent skills, as is the norm. She learns she has [Tamer] and no stars, and her second skill slot is empty. The next morning, without explanation, she wakes up on her own. Since nobody bothered to wake her, she finds that her place at the kitchen table is missing, and when she's seen downcast and confused, her father yells at her that the rest of the family are the ones troubled by her "failure" and she gets the ever-loving shit beat out of her, forcing her to head to the nearby woods to find food to feed herself. Eventually, even coming home to go to bed starts getting her beat around too, so she takes to the forest, full-time. The only one who will treat her kindly is the fortune-teller who saw this coming, but not why. Then the fortune-teller is denied life-saving medicine for the "crime" of associating with her and her father conspires with the village chief to kill her, both of them deluding themselves into believing she'd somehow be happy to be struck down like a rabid animal.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Without having any "stars" in her tamer skill, Ivy shouldn't be able to tame monsters ''at all'', yet she chances upon the slime Sora and after playing with it for a bit, she tames it, to her surprise. Since nothing is really known about that particular species of slime, due to its fragility, she chooses to keep it secret when she's in town.
* BoringButPractical:
** Ivy's past self encouraged her to do a lot of running and build her stamina, which turns out to be useful when she has to start wandering.
** Ivy becomes very adept at trapping wild mice and does so often. For one thing the meat can sell for a good price because when dried it's a popular ration with healthy demand and most people in the area prefer to hunt bigger game for profit, and for another she's a small kid and a couple of wild mice make a solid meal. Her inner voice also advises her to dress the meat and wrap it up neatly, which keeps it fresh and makes less work for the shopkeep, earning her a bit of extra money.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Blue potions heal and prevent infection, green potions reduce pain, red potions heal illnesses and all potions go drastically off-color (often murky black or white) when they've gone completely stale.
* ConspicuousConsumption:
** Since potions have short shelf lives and are cheap and easy to obtain and make (at least the blue and green ones), people tend to throw them out when they get a bit old and lose some potency rather than after they've gone stale and are completely ineffective. They're also used to train and practice the act of potion-making, with less-than-satisfactory results getting tossed out. As such, a search through a village dumpster can yield ''dozens'' of low-quality blue potions. Though they're less effective than fresh or perfectly-made potions, they still ''work'', and Ivy is pleased to get them--needing to drink four or five potions to get the same effect as one hardly matters when she can collect, as mentioned, a few dozen every day. Besides, Sora will drink tons of blue and red potions at a time no matter ''how'' far gone they are.
** This seems to be the case with a lot of magical items as well, as there are many places where adventurers have dumped their old stuff. Since slimes can eat either inorganic or organic matter, the world has fortunately not been overrun with garbage.
* CrapsackWorld: Travel between towns is dangerous as there are monsters and bandits on every road. Superstition is rampant. Criminal groups kidnap people and sell them into slavery. In fact, Ivy has to flee her home town because when she came back from the temple, ''at age 5'', her family acted as if she didn't exist, '''on a good day''' because she was found to be a "starless" monster tamer, meaning the fact that she tamed Sora, at all, is a minor miracle, and was treated by her home village as if merely looking in her direction would invite god's wrath.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Broken/Crumbled Slimes like Sora are a variant of slime which are perfectly healthy (if physically weak to the point of not being able to turn themselves over under their own power) but perish if you so much as poke them, and generally have a lifespan of a single day if they're lucky. However, a steady diet of blue potions seems to have improved Sora's constitution considerably.
* CursedWithAwesome: An variant: Since Ivy's too weak to kill the poisonous snakes the chemist pays for, she has to trap them alive, which makes them ideal for his medicine--unlike the damaged and tattered specimens adventurers being in. As a result, he pays top (fantasy-equivalent-of-dollar) for them.
* ExactEavesdropping: While sneaking around the village, Ivy luckily hears about how the mayor talking to her dad about how they've discovered she lives in the woods and their plans to kill her.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Just after Ivy's parents start treating her differently, the hungry girl finds fruits which taste extremely sour, though she remembers them as having been sweet before. See SelfFulfillingProphecy for the lowdown.
* FunctionalMagic: People seem to have degree of magical ability outside of their jobs, which they can use for things like starting fires.
* GenreSavvy: Ivy's previous incarnation was an experienced gamer and sometimes sees things coming before she does, such as needing to build her stamina and warning her to prepare for the worst after her parents' reaction to finding out she's starless.
* GodIsDispleased: Ivy mentions a picture book which describes God smiting a person into starlessless for their sins. We see no evidence that she's done anything to warrant this in ''her'' case, however.
* HealingHands: Minus the "hands". After consuming a large number of blue potions, Sora develops the ability to heal injuries by enveloping them. He's also started eating red potions, which cure illnesses.
* HearingVoices: Ivy's past self exists as a voice in her head who sometimes speaks to her.
* IndestructibleEdible: Unlike in most media, this is averted with potions, which decline in quality until they hit the point where they become useless. Blue and green potions seem to go bad more easily than red ones, since they're mentioned as being especially light- and heat-sensitive and wind up in dumpsters more often.
* IneptMage: As a starless, Ivy's got practically no magic to her name, even for her Taming job. Theoretically, one should be able to increase their magical power and their reserves of magic with practice, but that either doesn't work for Ivy (and she's tried, as you might imagine) or the improvement is so insignificant she hasn't noticed.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: The fortuneteller of Ratomi started out as the only person who knew that Ivy remembered her previous incarnation, and blossomed into a mentor/ParentalSubstitute for the three years Ivy spent living in the woods nearby.
* TheJinx: Starless people are considered bad enough omens for some people to think they belong dead, which is one reason Ivy has to watch out.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After indirectly murdering their fortuneteller for associating with the starless pariah Ivy, and spending tons of money to try and get someone to kill an eight-year old girl, Ratomi village goes bankrupt. Ain't that a shame?
* MagikarpPower: As a no star tamer, the weakest slime is probably the ''only'' monster Ivy can tame. Said slimes are rare and normally die quickly, so fragile that even rain and wind can kill them. But after being tamed and fed stale potions by Ivy, Sora steadily grows stronger and develops abilities normal slimes do not have.
* MinorLivingAlone: Ivy had to flee into the forest at age 5, and is travelling on her own in a world with monsters roaming the streets between towns, starting at age 8, because her parents would beat her for so much as looking downcast because her place at the kitchen table disappeared when she came back from the temple with only one skill, and "starless" at that. Then at age 8, she learned the fortune teller, who treated her kindly, was denied life-saving medicine and died. THEN her own father and the village chief began conspiring to murder her, so she fled the area entirely.
* MontyHaul: Zigzagged: On the one hand, magical items and potions seem to be relatively easy to create and maintain, in comparison to other fantasy worlds, with dumpsters being full of such items. On the other, the quality of magical items and potions erodes over time until they eventually become useless, though the time it takes seems to vary depending on the item.
* MundaneUtility: Tamers can use their monsters' abilities to do remarkably normal jobs, such as delivering mail or getting slimes to eat trash.
* MurderByInaction: After she falls ill, the fortune-teller of Ratomi is denied the red potion which would have saved her life by the village head because of her association with the starless Ivy.
* NeverMyFault: Ivy's home village, especially the chief, all blame Ivy's "starless" feature for all their woes. Fact is, the village chief is both corrupt and incompetent. It's only because of the local fortune teller that was keeping the village afloat with the signature crop. Denying her medicine for associating with Ivy is what dooms them to abysmal poverty. The nearby towns don't believe the chief's self-serving narrative, tearing up Ivy's wanted poster every time the village chief sends it out.
* PotionBrewingMechanic:
** Although it's unclear what exactly making a potion entails, blue potions in particular are implied to be incredibly easy to create, considering they teach ''children'' how to craft them for practice and even these throw-away potions have ''some'' efficacy.
** Ivy doesn't know how to make potions herself (yet?), but she does have knowledge of healing herbs which are better than nothing and help stretch out her supply.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Justified. Ivy is a sweet, sensitive, 8-year-old girl whose only "crime" is wanting to live when her home village decided to kill her because she was found to be "starless." People who are good to her are usually kind and decent. People who want to harm her are obviously scum.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Ivy has memories of a past life, supposedly.
* RiteOfPassageNameChange: Part of the process of naming a tamed creature is giving the creature a name while announcing your own. The main character (who didn't think she could even tame a creature to begin with) gives the Broken/Crumbled Slime she tames the name "Sora", and chooses a new name: "Ivy", rejecting the name her abusive parents gave her.
* SecretKeeper: When Ivy was a small(er) child, Ratomi's fortune-teller explained to her that she was one of the rare people who had memories from her former incarnation and that she ought to keep it secret. As such she was the only other person who knew about it.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Ivy's home village drives her out, treating her as the harbinger of calamity, even her own father prepares to come at her with a sword "because she'd be happy to be sent back to god," and for good measure, the village chief denies the village fortune teller some much needed medicine so she dies because the fortune teller is the only one who treated Ivy kindly, and helped her prepare for her long and dangerous journey. SURPRISE! The fortune teller ''can tell the future'' and is indispensable to the village economy because she's the only one who can tell when their signature produce is at optimum ripeness. Picked a day or two too early and it will never ripen. Picked a day or two too late and it's spoiled rotten. It isn't long before the village economy tanked thanks to the death of said fortune teller.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Tamers are supposed to be able to speak to their animals and sense their intentions, but Ivy can't do this with to Sora (as far as she can tell). Whether or not this is because she's starless or due to Sora's own peculiar qualities is unclear.
* SpiderSense:
** Although Ivy has very little magic to her name it's enough to make her able to sense the presence of others and how dangerous they are, which seems to be something anyone can do. However, because of her low reserves, if she casts even one spell, she cannot use this ability until her magical power restores itself.
** As Sora grows more powerful, it seems he becomes ''really'' good at detecting the presence of other beings.
* StealthExpert: Years of experience living in the forest have made Ivy able to hide her presence very well, which saves her life on numerous occasions.
* SunkCostFallacy: After Ivy's fled the area and the economy of the village of Ratomi tanks, the village chief repeatedly submits "Wanted" posters of Ivy to the adventurer's guild for ever increasing nonsensical reasons, presumably thinking that if Ivy is brought back to the village and killed, this will somehow return the village to prosperity. The reason this behavior fits the trope is that each and every submission becomes more expensive as the adventurer's guild investigates each claim, and finds the village chief less and less trustworthy with each submission. It eventually reaches the point where the adventurer's guild just decides to ignore his village in its entirety.
* SweetPollyOliver: On the advice of the fortune-teller and the voice of her past self, Ivy allows people to think she's a boy.
* UnPerson: After Ivy's discovered to be starless, the villagers of Ratomi treat her this way, except for the fortune-teller.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Ivy's parents start treating her differently as soon as her starlessness is revealed, eventually descending into outright abuse.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: After buying a high-quality secondhand tent, Ivy is accused of stealing it by a group of adventurers she's never seen who demand she give it back. After the leader is caught lying by Roygourd the guard, it turns out that this particular group of adventurers were thieves wanted for pulling off this scam numerous times in the past.
* WrongContextMagic: Most slimes eat organic matter. Some rare slimes can eat inorganic matter. No slimes are supposed to be able to eat both, but Sora eats potions in glass bottles. Slimes aren't supposed to be able to heal people, but Sora can. Justified in that he's a variant of slime that usually dies when the wind hits it too hard, so no one's been able to study them much.
[[caption-width-right:225:Meet Ivy the no-star trainer and Sora the slime on their journey to explore the world.]]Saijaku teima wa gomi hiroi no tabi o hajimemashita .
Alternative : The weakest tamer started a garbage-picking journey. ; 最弱テイマーはゴミ拾いの旅を始めました。
Author(s) : Honobonoru 500, Tou Fukino
When Ivy was born into this world, she remembered her past life.\\
Remembering her preincarnation, she strove to avoid strife.\\
But fate curdled at the status check, when kids learn who they are.\\
For she had only one skill - Taming - and not a single star.\\
Ivy was weak from the start - at most, she could tame a slime.\\
Her parents hated her for it (apparently, being weak is a crime?)\\
Only one woman in her village would treat her as her own.\\
But after she "died", Ivy got the hint and ran from home.\\
She met a slime and named him Sora (she's a gamer?)\\
And such begins our story - of a small girl who's a tamer.\\
With a Manga adaptation.
! Associated Tropes:
* AbusiveParents: After learning she's a starless, Ivy's parents start treating her more and more badly, until her father starts outright viciously beating the five-year-old girl while her mother does nothing to stop him. The potions the fortune-teller gave her may have been the only thing keeping her from being killed, and fortunately she leaves home shortly after this.
* AndroclesLion: After Sora saves the life of a mortally-wounded Adandara (a 2 meter+ pantherine creature) by healing it, the dreaded beast becomes protective and loving toward them.
* AnimalThemeNaming: Ivy's home village, Ratomi, and a few of the nearby villages, towns, and cities have the term "rat" in them.
* BagOfHolding: The normal ones hold more they they seem able to as well as making their loads lighter and stopping time for the items within, keeping potions and food from degrading. The inferior/degraded ones don't stop time and seem to vary in their carrying capacity and ability to lighten loads. At one point Ivy finds ten in a dumping ground, but only five of them are any use to her.
* BewilderingPunishment: At age 5, Ivy is taken by her parents to the local temple to appraise her inherent skills, as is the norm. She learns she has [Tamer] and no stars, and her second skill slot is empty. The next morning, without explanation, she wakes up on her own. Since nobody bothered to wake her, she finds that her place at the kitchen table is missing, and when she's seen downcast and confused, her father yells at her that the rest of the family are the ones troubled by her "failure" and she gets the ever-loving shit beat out of her, forcing her to head to the nearby woods to find food to feed herself. Eventually, even coming home to go to bed starts getting her beat around too, so she takes to the forest, full-time. The only one who will treat her kindly is the fortune-teller who saw this coming, but not why. Then the fortune-teller is denied life-saving medicine for the "crime" of associating with her and her father conspires with the village chief to kill her, both of them deluding themselves into believing she'd somehow be happy to be struck down like a rabid animal.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Without having any "stars" in her tamer skill, Ivy shouldn't be able to tame monsters ''at all'', yet she chances upon the slime Sora and after playing with it for a bit, she tames it, to her surprise. Since nothing is really known about that particular species of slime, due to its fragility, she chooses to keep it secret when she's in town.
* BoringButPractical:
** Ivy's past self encouraged her to do a lot of running and build her stamina, which turns out to be useful when she has to start wandering.
** Ivy becomes very adept at trapping wild mice and does so often. For one thing the meat can sell for a good price because when dried it's a popular ration with healthy demand and most people in the area prefer to hunt bigger game for profit, and for another she's a small kid and a couple of wild mice make a solid meal. Her inner voice also advises her to dress the meat and wrap it up neatly, which keeps it fresh and makes less work for the shopkeep, earning her a bit of extra money.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Blue potions heal and prevent infection, green potions reduce pain, red potions heal illnesses and all potions go drastically off-color (often murky black or white) when they've gone completely stale.
* ConspicuousConsumption:
** Since potions have short shelf lives and are cheap and easy to obtain and make (at least the blue and green ones), people tend to throw them out when they get a bit old and lose some potency rather than after they've gone stale and are completely ineffective. They're also used to train and practice the act of potion-making, with less-than-satisfactory results getting tossed out. As such, a search through a village dumpster can yield ''dozens'' of low-quality blue potions. Though they're less effective than fresh or perfectly-made potions, they still ''work'', and Ivy is pleased to get them--needing to drink four or five potions to get the same effect as one hardly matters when she can collect, as mentioned, a few dozen every day. Besides, Sora will drink tons of blue and red potions at a time no matter ''how'' far gone they are.
** This seems to be the case with a lot of magical items as well, as there are many places where adventurers have dumped their old stuff. Since slimes can eat either inorganic or organic matter, the world has fortunately not been overrun with garbage.
* CrapsackWorld: Travel between towns is dangerous as there are monsters and bandits on every road. Superstition is rampant. Criminal groups kidnap people and sell them into slavery. In fact, Ivy has to flee her home town because when she came back from the temple, ''at age 5'', her family acted as if she didn't exist, '''on a good day''' because she was found to be a "starless" monster tamer, meaning the fact that she tamed Sora, at all, is a minor miracle, and was treated by her home village as if merely looking in her direction would invite god's wrath.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Broken/Crumbled Slimes like Sora are a variant of slime which are perfectly healthy (if physically weak to the point of not being able to turn themselves over under their own power) but perish if you so much as poke them, and generally have a lifespan of a single day if they're lucky. However, a steady diet of blue potions seems to have improved Sora's constitution considerably.
* CursedWithAwesome: An variant: Since Ivy's too weak to kill the poisonous snakes the chemist pays for, she has to trap them alive, which makes them ideal for his medicine--unlike the damaged and tattered specimens adventurers being in. As a result, he pays top (fantasy-equivalent-of-dollar) for them.
* ExactEavesdropping: While sneaking around the village, Ivy luckily hears about how the mayor talking to her dad about how they've discovered she lives in the woods and their plans to kill her.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Just after Ivy's parents start treating her differently, the hungry girl finds fruits which taste extremely sour, though she remembers them as having been sweet before. See SelfFulfillingProphecy for the lowdown.
* FunctionalMagic: People seem to have degree of magical ability outside of their jobs, which they can use for things like starting fires.
* GenreSavvy: Ivy's previous incarnation was an experienced gamer and sometimes sees things coming before she does, such as needing to build her stamina and warning her to prepare for the worst after her parents' reaction to finding out she's starless.
* GodIsDispleased: Ivy mentions a picture book which describes God smiting a person into starlessless for their sins. We see no evidence that she's done anything to warrant this in ''her'' case, however.
* HealingHands: Minus the "hands". After consuming a large number of blue potions, Sora develops the ability to heal injuries by enveloping them. He's also started eating red potions, which cure illnesses.
* HearingVoices: Ivy's past self exists as a voice in her head who sometimes speaks to her.
* IndestructibleEdible: Unlike in most media, this is averted with potions, which decline in quality until they hit the point where they become useless. Blue and green potions seem to go bad more easily than red ones, since they're mentioned as being especially light- and heat-sensitive and wind up in dumpsters more often.
* IneptMage: As a starless, Ivy's got practically no magic to her name, even for her Taming job. Theoretically, one should be able to increase their magical power and their reserves of magic with practice, but that either doesn't work for Ivy (and she's tried, as you might imagine) or the improvement is so insignificant she hasn't noticed.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: The fortuneteller of Ratomi started out as the only person who knew that Ivy remembered her previous incarnation, and blossomed into a mentor/ParentalSubstitute for the three years Ivy spent living in the woods nearby.
* TheJinx: Starless people are considered bad enough omens for some people to think they belong dead, which is one reason Ivy has to watch out.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After indirectly murdering their fortuneteller for associating with the starless pariah Ivy, and spending tons of money to try and get someone to kill an eight-year old girl, Ratomi village goes bankrupt. Ain't that a shame?
* MagikarpPower: As a no star tamer, the weakest slime is probably the ''only'' monster Ivy can tame. Said slimes are rare and normally die quickly, so fragile that even rain and wind can kill them. But after being tamed and fed stale potions by Ivy, Sora steadily grows stronger and develops abilities normal slimes do not have.
* MinorLivingAlone: Ivy had to flee into the forest at age 5, and is travelling on her own in a world with monsters roaming the streets between towns, starting at age 8, because her parents would beat her for so much as looking downcast because her place at the kitchen table disappeared when she came back from the temple with only one skill, and "starless" at that. Then at age 8, she learned the fortune teller, who treated her kindly, was denied life-saving medicine and died. THEN her own father and the village chief began conspiring to murder her, so she fled the area entirely.
* MontyHaul: Zigzagged: On the one hand, magical items and potions seem to be relatively easy to create and maintain, in comparison to other fantasy worlds, with dumpsters being full of such items. On the other, the quality of magical items and potions erodes over time until they eventually become useless, though the time it takes seems to vary depending on the item.
* MundaneUtility: Tamers can use their monsters' abilities to do remarkably normal jobs, such as delivering mail or getting slimes to eat trash.
* MurderByInaction: After she falls ill, the fortune-teller of Ratomi is denied the red potion which would have saved her life by the village head because of her association with the starless Ivy.
* NeverMyFault: Ivy's home village, especially the chief, all blame Ivy's "starless" feature for all their woes. Fact is, the village chief is both corrupt and incompetent. It's only because of the local fortune teller that was keeping the village afloat with the signature crop. Denying her medicine for associating with Ivy is what dooms them to abysmal poverty. The nearby towns don't believe the chief's self-serving narrative, tearing up Ivy's wanted poster every time the village chief sends it out.
* PotionBrewingMechanic:
** Although it's unclear what exactly making a potion entails, blue potions in particular are implied to be incredibly easy to create, considering they teach ''children'' how to craft them for practice and even these throw-away potions have ''some'' efficacy.
** Ivy doesn't know how to make potions herself (yet?), but she does have knowledge of healing herbs which are better than nothing and help stretch out her supply.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Justified. Ivy is a sweet, sensitive, 8-year-old girl whose only "crime" is wanting to live when her home village decided to kill her because she was found to be "starless." People who are good to her are usually kind and decent. People who want to harm her are obviously scum.
* {{Reincarnation}}: Ivy has memories of a past life, supposedly.
* RiteOfPassageNameChange: Part of the process of naming a tamed creature is giving the creature a name while announcing your own. The main character (who didn't think she could even tame a creature to begin with) gives the Broken/Crumbled Slime she tames the name "Sora", and chooses a new name: "Ivy", rejecting the name her abusive parents gave her.
* SecretKeeper: When Ivy was a small(er) child, Ratomi's fortune-teller explained to her that she was one of the rare people who had memories from her former incarnation and that she ought to keep it secret. As such she was the only other person who knew about it.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Ivy's home village drives her out, treating her as the harbinger of calamity, even her own father prepares to come at her with a sword "because she'd be happy to be sent back to god," and for good measure, the village chief denies the village fortune teller some much needed medicine so she dies because the fortune teller is the only one who treated Ivy kindly, and helped her prepare for her long and dangerous journey. SURPRISE! The fortune teller ''can tell the future'' and is indispensable to the village economy because she's the only one who can tell when their signature produce is at optimum ripeness. Picked a day or two too early and it will never ripen. Picked a day or two too late and it's spoiled rotten. It isn't long before the village economy tanked thanks to the death of said fortune teller.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Tamers are supposed to be able to speak to their animals and sense their intentions, but Ivy can't do this with to Sora (as far as she can tell). Whether or not this is because she's starless or due to Sora's own peculiar qualities is unclear.
* SpiderSense:
** Although Ivy has very little magic to her name it's enough to make her able to sense the presence of others and how dangerous they are, which seems to be something anyone can do. However, because of her low reserves, if she casts even one spell, she cannot use this ability until her magical power restores itself.
** As Sora grows more powerful, it seems he becomes ''really'' good at detecting the presence of other beings.
* StealthExpert: Years of experience living in the forest have made Ivy able to hide her presence very well, which saves her life on numerous occasions.
* SunkCostFallacy: After Ivy's fled the area and the economy of the village of Ratomi tanks, the village chief repeatedly submits "Wanted" posters of Ivy to the adventurer's guild for ever increasing nonsensical reasons, presumably thinking that if Ivy is brought back to the village and killed, this will somehow return the village to prosperity. The reason this behavior fits the trope is that each and every submission becomes more expensive as the adventurer's guild investigates each claim, and finds the village chief less and less trustworthy with each submission. It eventually reaches the point where the adventurer's guild just decides to ignore his village in its entirety.
* SweetPollyOliver: On the advice of the fortune-teller and the voice of her past self, Ivy allows people to think she's a boy.
* UnPerson: After Ivy's discovered to be starless, the villagers of Ratomi treat her this way, except for the fortune-teller.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Ivy's parents start treating her differently as soon as her starlessness is revealed, eventually descending into outright abuse.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: After buying a high-quality secondhand tent, Ivy is accused of stealing it by a group of adventurers she's never seen who demand she give it back. After the leader is caught lying by Roygourd the guard, it turns out that this particular group of adventurers were thieves wanted for pulling off this scam numerous times in the past.
* WrongContextMagic: Most slimes eat organic matter. Some rare slimes can eat inorganic matter. No slimes are supposed to be able to eat both, but Sora eats potions in glass bottles. Slimes aren't supposed to be able to heal people, but Sora can. Justified in that he's a variant of slime that usually dies when the wind hits it too hard, so no one's been able to study them much.
