The story follows the adventures of Ryouma Takebayashi, a 39-year-old extremely abused, exploited, and overworked salaryman who goes home to bed one night, to suddenly find himself in a completely white room with three people he's never seen before claiming to be gods from another world.
Thinking this is an over-work induced dream, he is completely nonchalant about the whole thing even after being told that he's dead and a disembodied soul—up until he's told how he died, by sneezing so hard his pillow slipped out from under his head and he smacked his head on the concrete floor, resulting in a hemorrhage. Since he lived alone, he went untreated and died, prompting a Freak Out.
Once he manages to calm down, the Fantasy Pantheon reveals that their world is suffering a severe mana deficit, so to keep everything going, they're taking a huge bunch of mana from Earth that has no use or need for it and he's going to come along for the ride. Ryouma then gets reincarnated into an 8-year-old body and before the gods return to their divine realm, they give him one important mission:
"Have fun, and enjoy your new life."
Provides examples of:
- Adapted Out:
- The anime shows very little from Ryouma's life on Earth. Each of the light novels has a side story chapter, which details the fallout from Takebayshi's death. Ryouma might be happy to know that his death was the catalyst for a great deal of long-needed Laser-Guided Karma happening to his former company, particularly to his abusive superiors.
- The anime also leaves out one interesting thing about Alchemy, and how Ryouma can make it work well: it's a form of magic created by the Gods at the request of one of the previous "transferees", who went on to be known as The Alchemy King. The main reason that no one's had much success with it since, leading to alchemy and alchemists gaining a shifty reputation, is that it requires a knowledge of chemistry to really work well. The light novels go into a lot more technical detail about how Ryouma does this.
- Adaptation Expansion: The last third of Episode 9 of Season 2 focuses on the camping trip Eliaria and her classmates take part in, an incident that, in the light novel, is only mentioned Eliaria visits her parents during a school break and brings along her friends.
- Beyond the Impossible: Ryouma does things with slimes that the God of Creation didn't think were possible. This was largely a function of evolutionary pressure: slimes that had adapted well-enough into a certain environment quickly outbred and stole resources from any possible budding evolutions, and since they reproduce by splitting there was no chance for the slimes to mutate. It took Ryouma giving them safe-haven and artificially-induced mutations to get where they are now, much like domestication did for many animals.
- Big Eater:
- Invoked and justified by some minor characters - there's actually a skill called Food Storage, which allows your body to consume several times your stomach's normal capacity, then store it so you don't need to eat for several days afterward. Used mainly by adventurers for long missions in uncertain territory.
- Ryouma mentions that due to his Earth life, he can never turn down a free meal, so he tends to overeat and over-drink at parties and feasts.
- Blessed with Suck: Children born with naturally large stores of mana, such as Eliaria, are capable of casting incredible spells... but more likely than not they end up being dangers to themselves and others as all that power is difficult to control and even learning spells is a difficult task. More often than not, they first have to train to limit their capabilities before anything can be done with it.
- Ryouma has to keep much of his powers and the full extent of his capabilities secret for fear of getting kidnapped by criminals, rival governments, and other unscrupulous people for their own ends, especially since aside from being a known friend of the Jamil Duchy, he's an unremarkable young boy with no family or connections to speak of, so he can "mysteriously disappear" quite easily. They push him into the Tamer's Guild as soon as possible so he can get a reputation for himself and the freedom to use his full potential.
- Born Unlucky: Ryouma in his Earth life. In the books, it's mentioned that his colleagues had an in-house Running Gag about it - to the point where they semi-seriously wondered if he'd been cursed. Among other things, Tabachi (the co-worker who was the closest thing he had to a friend) was warned "Don't ever get on a plane with Takebayashi!". On a good day, the plane would be cancelled or delayed; on a bad? Ryouma was on five planes in two years that needed to make emergency landings!
- Brown Note: Nightmare Limour Birds are an advanced species capable of using dark magic. Their songs can debilitate large groups of adventurers by how mentally scarring it is; to people with high Mental Resistance like Ryoma, however, it just sounds like an awful racket.
- Continuity Nod: Occasionally, a person or place that appeared or was mentioned earlier in the novels will come up again. For example: In LN vol 4, Ryouma travels to Lefun in order to open a second branch of Bamboo Forest. While there he meets Miyabi, the Beastkin daughter of his main Merchant Guild contact, discovers that she's about to attend the Academy in the capital, and suggests she look up his friend Eliaria when she's there; she becomes a member of Eliaria's girl squad in LN 5. In LN vol 3, Ryouma hires a trio of young women who've come from the same village to find work after the main market for their farming village's crops dried up. In LN 5, the village is so grateful for Ryouma's treatment of the girls that they send him a large amount of wheat, barley, and sesame seeds; during Gimul's founding festival, he uses the crops to make several Japanese staples for Bamboo Forest's food stall, and the barley tea is so popular that Miyabi's father helps found a new company to merchandise the tea, giving the village a new market for their crops.
- Crime of Self-Defense: The reason Ryouma was stuck in an abusive work environment and being worked to death with no other viable options is due to an incident about fifteen months prior to the start of the story note . He was shopping in a convenience store when multiple men armed with pistols note and high on illegal substances start shooting up the place, and then level a gun at the clerk. Not able to escape, Ryouma beats them down and disarms them; he's put on trial, found innocent by virtue of legitimate self-defense, and while he's simply trying to put it all behind him and return to a normal life, the relatives of the gunmen go to the media whining that "yes, they did a bad thing, but he didn't have to hurt them so badly." Not wanting the bad press, his co-workers and bosses pressured him to "retire" and left him with little to no prospects until he was stuck in an abusive company so bad, his bosses see nothing wrong with getting drunk and smashing glass bottles on the back of his head!
- A Day In The Lime Light: The 9th episode of the anime's second season is devoted to Eliaria as she begins attenting the Academy and befriends Miyabi and some of the other students there.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance:
- A very odd example at the start of the series. The duchy family, House Jamil, and their escorts come to Ryouma's home in the mountains. It's perfectly okay for him to mention that Scavenger slimes go through and eat his food waste and his excrement in mixed company. But when he's asked where cleaning slimes come from, he can't find a gentle way to mention that it requires feeding your used bathwater to a normal slime, and when one of the family knights Hughes bluntly states it, he gets slapped silly by all the women present.
- Played for Laughs with his laundry business. Even without the slave-like conditions and the many perils of being working class in a Medieval Fantasy like this, Ryouma is an amazing boss even compared to his modern counterparts. His employees treat all the benefits and perks they have like a furnished and well-maintained employee dormitory, free meals (cooked by a dedicated chef), regular breaks, days off, and vacation time as unbelievably magnanimous, while in his head, Ryouma is constantly terrified of being accused of being an abusive employer and have the weight of the (non-existent) Department of Labor come down on him. What isn't Played for Laughs is that all this is from his trauma working and dying because of an abusive and exploitative Black Company that did much worse.
- When Ryoma meets a group of orphan kids who became adventurers because they lost their previous job cleaning latrines, Ryoma's priority is to protect them from people stealing what little money they make. He has been in the new world for so long that children younger than him working full time isn't abnormal or immoral anymore; if anything, it's expected!
- Dishing Out Dirt: The "Earth" school of magic includes Break Rock which turns large rocks into smaller stones and dirt, Rock which compacts dirt into blocks and clods, and Create Block, a combination of the two that creates usable construction bricks. Combat skills include Earth Needle which conjures up a double-headed spear from the ground.
- Drunk with Power: An unfortunate fate for many a reincarnated soul in this new world. The gods are not omnipotent nor omniscient, so they have to take a chance whenever they bring a soul from earth to help channel their mana into their world. Sometimes, it works fantastically, like with the progenitor of House Jamil founding taming magic or with Ryouma; sometimes, it causes them to be on edge till the day they die once more, with how they can and could likely cause an apocalypse. Since the gods are on strict nonintervention rules, once they CAN step in, it's probably too late for the rest of the world.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Ryouma has incredible magical power, an army of slimes hundreds and eventually thousands strong, created several revolutionary new subspecies that Gain, God of Creation, didn't realize were possible, and discovered the answer to many secrets that plagued the Tamer's Guild, like how Giant Slimes are formed. This is all without even knowing that the Tamer's Guild exists, not having access to their research, personnel, and facilities, and all by his lonesome in the middle of nowhere, to boot. To the dismay of House Jamil, the Guild gives him the most basic rank possible, as their standard is "what's the strongest, rarest monster you can tame?", not "what can you do with them?", and slimes happen to be considered a stepping stone to taming stronger monsters at best, or outright useless critters at worst. Downplayed with the Adventurer's Guild who recognize his talents but must follow proper ranking protocol and set him at the lowest rank, but promise to fast-track his rank. Averted with the Merchant's Guild, whose guildmaster takes Ryouma very seriously before and after his business success, despite his age.
- Elemental Magic: Much of the magic of the series is based on the elements, subdivided into various schools. Most people are only able to master one or two schools and even those that can harness all of them are prone to becoming a Master of None.
- Entertainingly Wrong: When the Jamil family meets Ryouma in his forest home, they ask why a kid like him is living alone in a cave, albeit incredibly well-built and maintained. They ask him about his past and use a magical analysis tool for his basic stats, take what bits and pieces they're able to get, and construct in their minds a childhood so abusive, it's a miracle he's not a Misanthrope Supreme. They're not entirely wrong: it just so happens Ryouma did live a horrible life on Earth, but not in the manner they're imagining, like being forced to pull a carriage instead of a horse and being whipped for failing to do so - Ryouma was actually reminiscing about his former job pulling a one-man rickshaw.
- Fantastic Racism:
- Slimes are deemed useless in general, but the taming guild is so convinced of this that being tasked to study them is their equivalent of being Reassigned to Antarctica. Some of them even try to sabotage Ryoma just because he is running a successful business using slimes.
- Even though they live peacefully alongside each other now, there used to be a rift between humans and beastmen.
- Festival Episode: One arc features Ryouma participating in Gimul's Founding Festival. Among other things, he hunts down tunneling ants that threaten to destroy the roads and cut off supplies and tourists both, he helps a traveling troupe of performers rehearse and ends up joining them, and starts his own stall, introducing many people to Japanese staples like barley tea.
- Foreshadowing:
- Genre Savvy readers are sure that the Jamil's mentioning in LN 6 that the population of monsters has increased considerably in the last three years (ie, since Ryouma was reincarnated) is going to be significant later.
- Also, Kiriluel warning Ryouma that the Church has a tendency to try and worship people with Godly Blessings, setting them up as saints. Having one is rare; having four like Ryouma (and smart money is on his getting at least one more) is extremely rare.
- Funny Background Event: In the anime, during the Mine Extermination arc, a board is setup outside the entrance with crude drawings of the monsters encountered so far. As each is reported wiped out, an X is drawn over the picture; however, if you look at the Small Rats, you can see that instead of one big X there are half-a-dozen smaller X's painted all over it. One viewer theorized that someone really did not like rats.
- Possibly the Adventurer's Guild worker who was sweat-dropping and talking in a slightly upset tone of voice when describing the rats?
- God Is Good: All the gods of this new world are good and decent, even the God of War, and Ryouma makes friends with all of them.
- Hammerspace: Under the "Space" school of magic are Item Box and Dimension Home, which allow the user to open up a portal to a pocket dimension for storing a certain amount of items. Dimension Home has the distinction of being a straight upgrade in capacity than Item Box as well as having oxygen which allows living things like slimes and even horses plus the carriage they're hitched to be stored safely, though it's unknown if there's an upper limit. Aside from Ryouma himself, House Jamil's head butler Sebas is very skilled in these plus other Space magics.
- Heal the Cutie: Ryoma's life in a new world is essentially the gods' way of doing this, having seen how much he suffered on Earth.Lulutia: That face! It's so much brighter than it was before! He looks every bit like a normal kid, doesn't he?
- Hero of Another Story: Most of the people who came to the fantasy world before Ryoma were all so powerful and achieved so much that they have become historical figures. Of particular note is the female progenitor of House Jamil, who created Taming Magic and revolutionized the world with the many new uses for tamed monsters. note
- An Ice Person: "Ice" magic is frequently used for combat, either offensively with Ice Arrow or defensively with Ice Wall, providing cover against projectiles or to wall in your opponents.
- Inventor of the Mundane:
- Ryouma and his business partners reap massive rewards for his inventing or creating a magical equivalent to waterproof fabric and washing machines in a pre-industrial Medieval Fantasy. The sheer efficiency, utility, and cost-effectiveness just cannot be beaten.
- In LN 6, one of his poison slimes evolves further, with the potential to create vaccines. Ryouma muses he's going to have to be very careful about this idea, given that a previous Transferee with saint-level powers of healing ended up causing almost as much societal damage as she did medical benefits.
- He's far from a unique case and every other-worlder from Earth has done the same, revolutionizing the world by accident or intentionally. Some examples include a mage that developed an incredible new target-shooting device, a "Clay Pigeon" launcher to train his unique magic spell, "Shotgun"; a legendary entrepreneur who designed and established an elaborate commercial air-travel and shipping system using flying beasts, dubbed the "airport"; and House Jamil's ancestor, who was a simple animal-lover who ended up creating a new, much more emphatic, humane, and versatile way to train and use monsters through Taming magic.
- Iyashikei: Unlike many other Isekai stories, Ryoma is not given the mission to fight evil demons or face great calamities in the new world. Instead, the gods who summoned him simply tell him to "have fun and enjoy a new life". For the most part, that's indeed what happens.
- Jerkass God: Although Ryouma is never informed of this, the gods of the new world come to this conclusion about the god of Earth. Earth's god is not only sucking up all the happiness and joy on the planet for unknown reasons, but forced Ryouma to suffer [Trials] which are nation-level tribulations, and when he overcame them, rewarded him with abilities that not only were completely useless to Ryouma but he wasn't even informed of them. This explains why he's such a power-house in the new world.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Ryouma's death triggered an avalanche of this for his abusive former company, as detailed in the side stories that appear at the end of each volume of the Light novels. To start: Ryouma's colleague and sort-of friend Tabachi is sent to check on him, accompanied by a Spoiled Brat supervisor. When they find Takabayashi's body, the supervisor has a tantrum and starts kicking and verbally abusing the poor guy's corpse, much to Tabachi's horror. The apartment supervisor calls the police, and the supervisor is arrested on charges of assaulting the police officers that arrest him. One of Takebayashi's neighbours, Urami, is a journalist who witnesses this and thinks there's a story in it. This triggers a social media blitz, because the supervisor acted in a similar fashion on the train journey to Takabayashi's place, and someone was savvy enough to film it and release it on the internet. After this, the dominoes start falling swiftly - Urami himself confesses that he's having trouble believing just how easy it was to dig up dirt on the company once he started.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: from LN vol 8, when Ryouma's having a drinking party and catch-up with several of the Gods;Ryouma's POV: If I were a light novel protagonist, I imagine that the readers would be complaining to the author that the plot was moving way too slow right now. I could probably chalk that up to how fulfilling my life had become by now.
- Little Bit Beastly:
- The Beastmen are a sentient race that all have animal ears, tails, and other exotic traits that make them distinctly non-human. They live just fine alongside humans.
- A group of adventurers that Ryouma occasionally joins up with for large-scale operations (and become his friends) includes beastgirls of cat, dog, rabbit and tiger types. Interesting to note is that the rabbit beastgirl specializes in healing magic, rather than fighting, and the dog beastgirl is said to be by far the best tracker in the party. Later, Ryouma meets Miyabi, who is not only a kitsune (not fox) beastgirl, but a descendant of a previous "transferee" (the one who invented the airport and revolutionized the cargo industry).
- Magikarp Power: The reason slimes are overlooked by tamers aside from practice for beginners is that they are near the bottom of the food chain, are initially weak, and in and of themselves useless. But because they've got a powerful Adaptive Ability, if they're properly nurtured, they can do pretty much anything one can imagine. As Ryouma owns thousands of them, even an army of monsters is no match for them.
- Make Some Noise: Ryouma is able to harness Air magic into pure sound; it has devastating effects on anything with incredibly sensitive hearing, such as the time he knocks unconscious hundreds of cave bats and a gigantic army of goblins with Sound Bomb.
- Making a Splash: Water magic is very frequently used for hygiene, with Mist Wash to spray down the walls of large areas like the excrement pits of a communal toilet. It's also the most frequently used for recreation, with Bubbly Water creating soap-like bubbles or even be used as a volleyball if made strong enough.
- Mundane Utility: Ryouma has incredible, heroic, almost godly abilities that he frequently uses for everyday purposes and convenience.
- His army of slimes do chores like laundry, equipment and body cleaning, pest control, and waste disposal. They turn out to be exceptionally useful and profitable, as his Scavenger slimes let him stop the abandoned public toilets from causing a massive, crippling disease from spreading out to the rest of the city; his Cleaner slimes save adventurers the trouble of disposing of valuable equipment that's been soiled beyond usability, especially because of Goblin Grime; and his Sticky slimes pave the way for incredibly useful advanced materials like water-resistant fabrics, fine yet extremely tough thread and general adhesive for construction work.
- His incredible control over all forms of magic are used to do things like spontaneously make ice cubes to chill water before serving it to guests; shoot fire to cook food or light his path; and use water magic to blow bubbles.
- Musical Theme Naming: Eliaria's Rimel birds are named after musical terms.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Rimel/Limour birds are very hard for monster tamers to attract as familiars; not only do they only gather in large flocks during specific circumstances, the tamer must attract them by playing music, and there's no certain type of music to do that. Contracting one or two birds is considered impressive. During the third LN/twelfth episode of the anime, Ryouma and Eliaria attempt it. Ryouma manages to attract no less than six Rimel birds, including a very rare Nightmare Rimel bird, which can use dark magic. But Eliaria attracts nine Rimel birds, including an even more rare Phantom Rimel bird, which can use light magic. Both children are praised extravagantly, however, including a party in their honor - this is considered an Awesome moment in-universe.
- Power Incontinence: A common fate for those born with vast stores of mana, such as Eliaria Jamil. If they get the necessary years-long training and education, they can become incredible mages, but until then, they are dangerous to themselves and people around them for how little control they have and how devastating an accidental spell or miscast can be.
- Puppy Love: Ryouma and Eliaria are both 11 years old, but there's plenty of Ship Tease and fans joking that House Jamil's enthusiastic support of him and his endeavors are all a ploy to raise his social status enough so he can officially marry into the family at best, or be able to keep him on as one of their most skilled and powerful retainers at worst. The first season's opening makes it even more blatant by having the pair on a day long outing, i.e. a date.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Eliaria's girl squad at the Academy is a downplayed version of this, as they're all rich and/or noble. Eliaria herself is isolated due to her immense magical power; her first recruit is Michelle, a Bifauxnen whose field of academic research relates to alchemy (regarded as only for hucksters); almost instantly followed by Miyabi, the beastman daughter of an extremely wealthy merchant (Ryouma suggested she look up Eliaria at the Academy); another is a Master Swordsman in the making who's rejected all other training squad offers because all they do is ogle her and ignore her abilities, or are clearly looking to ride on her coat-tails for better grades; their last recruit is a dog-beastman whose fighting technique specializes in traps and ambushes - in other words, spying and assassination.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: Ryouma's death by sneezing would be ridiculous until one reads just a bit further and notes that his father loved taking a bat and beating him down by hitting him in the back of the head for failing to maintain a "perfect" martial arts stance, beginning at five years old, and Ryouma had been receiving other blunt-force trauma to the back of his head from gangsters, delinquents, and even his bosses in the "Black Company" he was most recently working with. Naturally, the injuries quietly piled up until the force of a sneeze smacking his head to the floor from the height of a pillow was the last straw.
- Reasonable Authority Figure:
- Unlike his previous life on Earth, almost all of the executives that Ryouma meets and interacts with are all calm, fair, and honest folk who ascribe to Enlightened Self-Interest. Aside from House Jamil, there is also Grisella, the Master of the Merchant Guild who uses her incredible people-reading and analytical skills to support the next profitable business, and Serge Morgan, president of the Morgan Trading Company who is Ryouma's first business partner who benefits handsomely for fairly compensating him and treating him like an equal.
- Possibly justified by the setting: Gimul is a large and important mining town - but it's a town, not a city,note and in transition since the mine output has been reduced. Six degrees of separation and old-fashioned networking is very much in force, here; getting a reputation for not playing nice or outright ripping off potential colleagues can severely affect a merchant's ability to do business or an Adventurer's ability to form parties to take on higher-rated and thus higher-paying jobs.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: In the Tamer's Guild, this means being assigned to "Slime Research". Save for one exception, Ryouma's fellow slime researchers and eventual tamers were forced onto the job due to a lack of skills qualifying them for better work or internal politics forcing them to it. Not only is the task about the least respected position in the Guild, but it's also so poorly funded that the researchers resort to stealing the meat that's supposed to be Slime feed, as they can barely afford to feed themselves with their limited grants. As Ryouma quickly realizes, the Guild was also unintentionally sabotaging any actual science they could have done. The haphazard supply of feed meant that the slimes were fed anything the researchers could spare, leading to random evolutions because slimes evolve based on their diets; the researchers on the task never noticed a correlation and eventual causation thanks to the lack of control, for which the higher-ups punished them once again for "failure to get results". It's such a glaring and tragic oversight that Ryouma decides not to explain what went wrong and his breakthroughs in Slime Research for fear of crushing their spirits even further, all that work and suffering was All for Nothing while Ryouma himself had a lovely time as an independent, unqualified researcher in the middle of nowhere.
- Reincarnate in Another World: Ryouma was a 39-year-old salaryman who died in Japan, and gets reincarnated into an 8-year-old boy in a new world. He's far from the only one, as the Gods frequently explain or Ryouma finds out for himself.
- Ridiculously Fast Construction: Create Block can be used to turn dirt into building blocks and with the Sticky slimes' help, Ryouma has all the manpower and adhesive he could ever need to build in the span of hours what would have taken days to weeks. The only weakness is that interior work is too delicate for them, so things like floor tiles, shelves and built-in furniture need to be done by human hands.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Played for Laughs in LN 6. A side chapter with the Jamils shows Reinhart and Elise gearing up for the noble's social season; part of this involves many less wealthy families appealing to the Jamils for loans. They can't just turn them all down, because that would affect their reputation among the nobility, especially since the majority claim to be for increased measures against monsters. Meaning the couple have to spend quite a long time appraising the applications, and it's both hard work and very boring. Reinback, on the other hand, has decided to leave on a trip and take Sebas with him!
- Shock and Awe: Ryouma can create very large amounts of electricity, using Squall. The first use shown in the anime was to sterilize a giant pit he was cleaning by electrifying the water he sprayed on the walls, superheating it to kill microorganisms while also drying the surfaces in the process.
- Shout-Out:
- From LN vol 7:Ryouma's POV: They nonchalantly reached for their weapons, but before they could grab them, the four bandits at the back suddenly collapsed. It reminded me of when a famous detective would start his deductions in a certain popular anime.
- Later, while headed to the Jamil estate, Ryouma wonders what their home looks like:Ryouma's POV: I imagined something like a castle in a certain magic kingdom.
- From LN vol 8: Ryouma's outside as everyone else working on the wedding pavilion heads in.Ryouma: "And then there were none... I remember reading that book." The book, of course, was a murder mystery and not nearly as quaint as my own situation.
- From LN vol 7:
- Slow Life Fantasy: Ryoma was a Japanese Salaryman who passed away from overwork and was offered a chance by three gods to be reborn in a new world as a child. He takes the offer and begins living alone in a forest, taming slimes and training them to do simple tasks. He is later found by a noble family that adopts him, and finds that his extraordinary work ethic (which he retains from his prior adult life) and skill at commanding and cultivating slimes makes him an extremely productive member of society. The premise gets somewhat deconstructed when it's revealed that his mind is slowly regressing into that of an actual child, meaning that he would be unfit for any grander adventure even if he wanted to try it.
- Space Master: The "Space" school is the most utilitarian seen so far; many of its spells like Item Box and Dimension Home are prized among servants and merchants for their ability to store inanimate objects and sometimes living creatures, if the user is skilled enough. Warp is also used to get around quickly, either as a convenience while travelling or to get the jump on unsuspecting foes.
- Spell My Name With An S: The most extreme version of this so far are the birds that both Ryouya and Eliaria attract as familiars: 'Rimel' birds in the Japanese spoken/subtitles, 'Limour' birds in the English translations and dub.
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Combat spells using elemental magic generally involve creating weapons and projectiles out of thin air. The most common and practical example is are elemental Arrows, such as Fire Arrow. Ryouma also displays the ability to create a spear out of earth called Earth Needle.
- Sugar Bowl: For Ryouma, life is very sweet in this new world. Sure, there are still problems, but they're few and far between.
- Teleportation: Warp is a mid-level spell under Space magic, allowing the user to travel between points in space in an instant. It requires some training to be truly useful, as the user both needs a solid mental image of their destination alongside the magical power to get there. There's also implied to be an actual 'teleport' spell, but it seems to be a short-range version of "Warp", limited to immediate line of sight.
- Those Two Guys: Ryouma's employees at the first Bamboo Forest tend to come in these: Carla and Carme are twins, Fay and Lilyn are father and daughter, and Jane, Maria and Fina are all the same age and come from the same village. The only solitary person in Bamboo Forest (aside from Ryouma himself) is Chelma the cook. In LN 4 onwards there's a few other employees who work security, but they're all adventurers who have Bamboo Forest as a side hustle.
- Time Skip: In the very first episode/chapter. Ryouma is re-incarnated as an eight year old, but the story proper starts when he's eleven.
- What Were You Thinking?: At various points, the gods of this new world peek in on Earth, but can't figure out what Earth's god is thinking.
