What you get is a charming slice of life story, with a focus on chores, camping, recipes, sharing food with friends, and the joy of slowly getting to know people.
With few intrigues, those intrigues that this story does present are captivating and successfully hook the plot together neatly.
This is a particularly rare example of a competent isekai.
It uses minimalist backgrounds like many in the modern fantasy genres, but the artist still takes time to fill in those spaces with inking or draw backgrounds & set pieces: this is becoming rarer every year, with many artists opting for bold white emptiness & void to fill each panel.
This is a work defined by the mistakes the writers chose not to make, rather than anything that distinctly sets it apart.
I'm genuinely delighted by the, so far, complete lack of institutionalized slavery, nor is there any of the poorly laid out political intrigue common to the fantasy genre.
Bonus points: There's no STAT SCREEN or arbitrary numbering system to track.
The most Native Isekai element is a text alert to show what skills are in use, and a list displayed in the opening chapters of the protagonist's skill acquisitions.
CHARACTERS:
This is a series that doesn't overwhelm you with too many characters, but still makes good use of the distinct faces it introduces each chapter.
This isn't a genre known widely for its lengthy character arcs & personality development, but those on display are borderline unique for the genre.
I won't spoil for you the cast on the cover, but I enjoyed each one and at no point felt like I could find all of them in any other work.
