Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu

Mitsuha Yamano could not have had it worse. After failing to enter her university of choice and losing her entire family in an accident, she finds herself plummeting off a cliff due to an especially fragile guardrail. Through what seems to be the only bit of the fortune left in her life, Mitsuha's firm unwillingness to die allows her to be transported to another world, where she ends up surviving.

In this foreign land, Mitsuha wanders around for days before collapsing from exhaustion and being rescued by a little girl named Colette. Not long after, she finds herself in yet another life-threatening situation, and her indomitable will shines once more, granting her an audience with a divine cosmic being. The entity reveals to Mitsuha that she has acquired not only superhuman regeneration but also the ability to transport between worlds at will.

Armed with this new information, Mitsuha brainstorms ways to utilize her newfound power to its full potential. Realizing that she can take goods from Earth and resell them to the other world at a higher price, she resolves to save up eighty thousand gold coins to be able to retire comfortably.

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Yamano, Mitsuha Main

Nagae, Rika Japanese

Sabine Supporting

Maeda, Kaori Japanese

Yamano, Tsuyoshi Supporting

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Colette Supporting

Tachibana, Rika Japanese

Britta Supporting

Maruoka, Wakana Japanese

Ilse Supporting

Saeki, Iori Japanese

Aleena Supporting

Tadokoro, Azusa Japanese

Wolf Fang Captain Supporting

Murai, Yuuji Japanese

von Bozes, Theodore Supporting

Nagatsuka, Takuma Japanese

Ruhen Supporting

Shiraki, Nao Japanese

Shioya, Yoshiyuki Producer

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Hasegawa, Yuri Producer

Senzaki, Masashi Producer

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Mar 25, 2023

Shin18

Recommended

Well-written

With the amount of anime increasing every year, there's bound to have ones that are overlooked or unrecognized, for instance, Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement. Appearing in the low-middle side from Winter 2023 shows and being perceived as "one of those generic isekai" we get in each season, what some people may not know is how the concept's distinctive from most out there.

From the beginning, we get to learn that Mitsuha Yamano, our main character, has the ability to transport between worlds at will and at any given time. And from this information she obtained, she plans on saving 80,000 ... gold (which is equivalent to 2 billion yen) for her retirement where she'll preserve 40,000 gold in each world in case Mitsuha loses the capacity to go back and forth. Now while i wouldn't call the story amazing or anything close, it certainly manages to keep me entertained in every episode. Seeing the different methods she comes up with and the various items of her world she brings to the other world to sell's a pleasant sight. With the mix of fantasy, slice of life, comedy, adventure and even action at times, it brings a nice amount of variety to the table.

As for the characters, the only notable character in this entire series' Mitsuha. Where the enjoyment largely depends whether or not you like her. In my case, i do a lot. Even though she appears to be a cute little child, she's actually shown to be an intelligent, calm and a rational person. She's also good at acting and can even be cunning at times. I appreciate how Mitsuha isn't some one dimensional character or how she isn't those kind of self-insert protagonists we see very often within this theme. On the contrary, the rest of the cast have nothing to write home about. Some people may call them to be unremarkable and bland and while i wouldn't necessarily disagree with that, it doesn't take out the overall entertainment we get from this anime. As long as you like Mitsiha's antics, you will most definitely enjoy it.

I admit however, that the animation and music are pretty average, which can be considered barely passable. The former being plain and unexceptional which doesn't make it stand out from any other series, whereas the latter are pretty forgettable and underwhelming. There were no soundtracks that wants to make me jam at the music which is a bit unfortunate.

Overall, while this anime's not necessarily outstanding, it certainly is far from being horrible. Its' fresh concept is a nice change of pace we see from the numberous isekai anime in recent years. If you simply want an fun, cozy and joyful anime, then i'd recommend this anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 25, 2023

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Isekai/fantasy MCs: I'll be reincarnated from being dead in real life...to be OP, get myself a harem, and the world is my oyster!
Mitsuha Yamano: I'll be reincarnated from being dead in real life...to travel between both worlds and be rich in the fantasy world by selling items from the modern day, all in an effort to earn 80k Gold for My Retirement!

Do you remember a little show called "Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne! a.k.a Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!"? It was a show about the 18-year-old girl Misato Kurihara, who reincarnated into another world ... as the 10-year-old noble's daughter Adele von "Mile" Ascham after meeting God and requesting to have average abilities in her second life, though that didn't always go according to plan. This LN got an anime adaptation courtesy of Project No. 9 all the way back in Fall 2019 to average fanfare, as it should. Well, over 4 years later, the same LN author FUNA is back to give us yet another Isekai series, the 2nd of the author's 3 adapted anime works (and supposedly the best out of the bunch): Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu a.k.a Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement. And to say that this was just as average as the show before it, it's kinda true and not.

The beginning's overly used tropes of getting killed 1001 ways in real life, it's starting to get just as tired, but it's the Isekai concept that will ultimately make or break the series. This rings true for the series's protagonist: Mitsuha Yamano, the young high school graduate who lost her immediate family members in an accident, with karma striking her next by being pushed off a cliff from self-defense against some bullies. But not all hope is lost, for the interdimensional entity of the world, the Maneki-neko (lucky cat statue) comes to seek her at her time of loss, granting her the ability to travel between worlds and vast regenerative abilities for a second chance at life.

NGL, the idea of going to another world to make money for your retirement is an entertaining story. But the problem is that it's so boring when it's all about the same thing as hundreds of other Isekai novels...as such for Rougo 8-manmai's case of "implementing modern technology in a medieval fantasy world". To be able to teleport between worlds is a unique novelty that we've haven't seen in the Isekai/fantasy anime space, but the idea of using modern items in a medieval world, say, using knives and guns for defense, shampoos and soaps for extra fragrance, and TV dramas for the fantasy audience that's something that cannot be experienced in any way...the thing is, no one cares about all this high tech stuff. But when it comes to the topic of food, it suddenly goes into high gear as everyone unequivocally loses their minds, and suddenly thinks that the sole produce is the indefinite gold standard, where in the real world, it's just normal produce that doesn't cost more than a gold coin. It's like combining Ascendance of a Bookworm on the business side and Gate on the military defense side, and who knows what else Mitsuha has on her pile of tricks, all in an effort to acquire 80k gold coins (roughly the equivalent of 2 million Yen).

At first, I would like to give an appaluse to Mitsuha for being money-conscious and being resourceful, only to almost forget that most of that knowledge rings through her deceased Otaku-dom of the older brother Takeshi, whom she always look up to for sound advice. It's certain to say that siblings will help each other, and absolutely in Mitsuha's case, earning her own retirement funds can be an exercise in frustration if things don't go her way, and that's on top of the medieval setting's own issues, like kingdom invasion. Sure, she has the backing of people like Coleen, the somewhat over-doting first friend she made who crushes her with her strong hugs, and Princess Sabine, who is VERY intrigued by all of the technological marvel that Mitsuha transported from Earth after visiting her merchant store, but it paints a picture where soon enough, everyone is going to be dependent on Mitsuha being an obvious monopoly to drive the fantasy world's market out of touch and have her speedrun all the way to achieving her goal.

As expected, the production is kinda nice and neat, but still decent at best. Produced at Felix Film with debut director Hiroshi Tamada at the helm, this show is not the most complex to have it consistently running for its 12-episode run, and for what it has shown us throughout the 3 months, it's just fine and nothing special. Same likewise with the OST, it's just there to do its thing, and is also largely forgettable outside of the main show, though I'll give a small complement to YABI×YABI for their debut ED song, which is kinda catchy, since it's all about the economy at large.

Just like Noukin, FUNA's Rougo 8-manmai...truly is nothing special in the slew of hundreds of Isekai novels and anime that the AniManga industry is seriously oversaturated with these days, but props for trying to stand out and be different somehow in the stem of so many Isekai/fantasy shows of the Winter 2023 season. If I were to gauge this, it would just sit comfortably in the middle of the pack, that's both memorable and not at the same time.

Only try this show if you want to experience something different from an Isekai, but I wouldn't want to invest even a single gold coin in this show ever again.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 6, 2023

Benx2019

Not Recommended

Not a very good anime. Animation in terms of fluidity was pretty average and unimpressive, but also occasionally a little hacky. In terms of the frame to frame... awful. Backgrounds are ugly 90% of the time, characters are drawn average a best. The characters are shallow, not really all that likeable, but occasionally they can be entertaining. Pacing is mostly average, the beginning is painfully slow though. The voice acting is strictly average, not by any means impressive, but not the worst either. Soundtrack is average if listened to by itself, but on top of that it's poorly scored. I hated the first half, and ... could tolerate the second half. Overall it's only really held together by the "not your normal isekai" gimmick, but even with it is below the average anime in terms of basically everything. 4.5/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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