Transition to Another World, Landmines Included

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“Hey there! I’m a Dark God! Not a bad one though, I swear!”

So quipped the dark god (or so he called himself) before he sent my classmates and me away into another world, following our deaths in an accident that no one could have seen coming.

And what a swell guy he was, creating new skills at our behest and offering us all kinds of support. How is he a dark god again?

…There definitely used to be a time when I thought that way, at least.

We should have been more careful. There are probably dozens of my classmates who thought they were getting their hands on a real cheat skill, something that would make them invincible, but now they have to deal with some rather unfortunate repercussions. I mean, he was pretty clear right from the start that we wouldn’t be getting any actual cheat skills.

I suppose they might just be reaping what they sow, in the end.

Oh, me? Well, I’m joining up with a couple of friends. We’ve known each other since we were kids, and now we’re set on leading lives where we won’t have too much to worry about. This new world we’re in might feel like a game, but it’s really anything but.

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Isekai Teni, Jirai Tsuki.
TIWM
To Another World... with Land Mines! (LN)
異世界転移、地雷付き。
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Brave Armadillo
Brave Armadillo rated it
September 19, 2018
Status: c5
Intriguing start for a story. A busload of people (mostly high school teenagers) die and are given points to purchase their reincarnations with. For example, choosing to become an elf costs 20 points, 50 points if you want to be a half-vampire. A human body is free.

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Spoiler

Landmine #1: The points you get is based on your original body. Fat and s*upid kids get far less points to play with than smart and athletic ones. "Average" kids get roughly 100-150 points.

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Yes, you CAN purchase any cheat you want, even the "Steal Another Person's Skill" cheat (100 points).

Spoiler

Landmine #2: ALL cheats have a hidden demerit to them. You will never know that the person you stole a skill from gets it back instantly if you die. Also, you will be giving the person you stole from 5 years of your life, multiplied by the level of the skill you stole. So if you steal a level 20 skill you will probably die instantly (and your 'victim' gets a MUCH longer life for free).

You want two times normal experience gain? Sure, but you'll need TEN times more experience to go up a level.

The only skills that do NOT have a demerit are the generic ones you can find in any RPG (Bonus To Bows, Toughness, Bonus To Water Magic, etc.)

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You can purchase the "Help" function which will tell you about that stuff above, but it costs a whopping 20 points.

Once our main characters have reincarnated, they discover that

Spoiler

Landmine #3: They're in the middle of nowhere with no equipment (no point in bow skill bonuses if you don't have a bow, no point in a bonus to water magic if there's nobody around to teach you) and only a pocketful of change to live on if they make it to a town, and even if they do make it to a town there's no guarantee that they'll be able to make a living there or that the money they have is enough to purchase equipment or training with.

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So far the main story hasn't kicked in yet, so it's still too early to tell if this will become yet another generic slice of life "slow living" fantasy or not. All I can say is that it is a great start for a "struggling to rise from the bottom" story. <<less
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novaes
novaes rated it
May 14, 2020
Status: c10
tl;dr - 'Show, don't tell' in Another World, Chekhov's Landmines (not) Included. The introduction to the novel should be the catch, but I only caught myself repeatedly yawning.

Not to degrade on the efforts of the translator (which were actually well above standard) but this story is pretty awful. They called it "landmines included" but they are clearly not included, because nobody in the OG cast has them! So what was even the point? If you are going to introduce Chekhov's Landmine, you need to bloody well use it! All we... more>> get are offhand mentions of possible landmines for offscreen events.

It gets worse. One of the main characters is 'show, don't tell' incarnate because she has a deus ex machina and just knows stuff, which sucks out even more of the fun since she conveniently already knows everything and can answer any questions they have, so they never have to even try. And you bet! The author loves to use her over and over again. In fact, at least half the story so far is her just infodumping about the world.

No adventure, no excitement, no mystery, no suspense, overcoming obstacles by growing as a person or anything, you know, interesting. It's just some people sent to a magic land to... find a job (?) while Haruka impersonates an encyclopedia. Even a magical normie slice of life can be fun, but this story is so drab and boring that there's nothing enjoyable to be found. Now, I can appreciate the effort the author made when fleshing out the world, but then they completely ruined it with Haruka, the magical exposition and explanation fun-sucker and betraying the premise of the story's actual title. What an absolute waste. <<less
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SassyCanoeWizard
SassyCanoeWizard rated it
April 28, 2020
Status: c35
Outstanding novel. After seeing other reviews I noticed that most of them take into account only first few chapters. I can't say that story degraded as new chapters were translated, no, it's the other way around. Thanks to translator's efforts we get to see novel getting its own peculiar charm (Translation quality is top-notch)

  • Characters possess distinct behavior patterns
  • Novel has a lot of conversations. And although topics that are being discussed are vital to future well (or not so well) being, they usually do include few snide remarks
  • Despite main cast not losing their spirits (they continue to uphold cheerful attitudes) their future prospects are grim. Their conditions are poor compared to those of previous world. And protagonist with his friends are trying to find a way out of such a situation, they develop encountering 'everyday landmines'. Those aren't as dangerous as entity's skills but being complacent may kill
  • Encounters with other classmates are also worth mentioning. Although protagonist and his friends didn't take any dangerous skills not everyone was so prudent
  • There's not much of action, but when action comes, its description is considerably good. Whole story is written much better than average opened status, killed a monster, enrolled in guild, hunted goblins, nabbed a girl
I m not a fan of slice of life. To me slice of life means that either protagonist... more>> secured everything he needed and live well off or doesn't really get to change much, that story at very least isn't full of unexpected twists and turns. Following such description this novel isn't slice of life. Pacing isn't simply slow and conversations and thoughts aren't simply redundant, through them we get to see outlines of mental images getting clearer, we get to see actual development, resolute will to change bringing results <<less
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Alundric
Alundric rated it
May 4, 2020
Status: v1c7
Overall 3.5

Story 4.0 a slow type story with character and world progress.

Plot 3.5 slow paced not slice of life so what do you expect? Just imagine tate no yuusha or a man who picked by the god opening with 3 to 4 chapter spreaded. If you can't handled the slow opening, I guess you may skip up to chapter 10.

... more>> Translation 4.0 the translation is quite solid and the flow was keeped.

Readability 2.0 sorry due to published as picture in the website. I understand the reason to do that, but it doesn't mean that the use of small font (11 calibri?) makes the reading easy. I did use magnifying mode literally in my laptop and still missed some lines.

Conclusion

If your eye can handle how the translation are being displayed then I recomend this story, but if not, better move to another novels.

For me I would rather save my eyes than reading this novel. <<less
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Carmeops
Carmeops rated it
April 30, 2020
Status: c50
the starting idea is interesting, promising some action, but it devolve quickly into slices of life

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Spoiler

basically, a school bus crash, all the kids get transported with added skills, about half of them get "landmine" skills that kills them in the first weeks and those who got good skills are barely above a regular peasant level in the other world

they won't become some sort of heroes or become overpowered, but with luck and work, they can expect to make a living and live a decent life, probably never leaving the surrounding of their first town, no exploration here

the main group plan for the future, selling cooking and craft, hunting wild animals and harvesting plants, around chapter 50 they get into helping setting up a restaurant, they complain a lot about cooking and do something about it, etc...

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so, yeah, I added slices of life and cooking to the tags..

basically if you want to read an isekai, not in the eyes of "cheat protagonist X" but instead thru the lense of "npc adventurer A B C" who worries about leaving enough money aside for their old days where they are too old to work, etc, then this is your jam, kind of a slow story <<less
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witzK
witzK
March 22, 2020
Status: c18
After more chapters got translated, my rate for this novel still remain at 5.

The pace is quite slow but the story still progressing smoothly. The explanation also fit perfectly into the characters conversation.

While I find most slice of life story too boring, this LN could be one of my favorite. The most strong point of this LN is that it settings are reasonable and feel real even with the fantasy elements.

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Old comment.

There are too little translated chapters to decide an actual rate but I will give it 5 for now.

Reasons:

    • Good world building and reasonable story progressing.
    • Characters are not too dumb or too smart without reason. At least the author give the reason why the characters know or not know of somethings.
    • It is well translated. The translator really did a good job here.
Warning: It is a typical "Isekai" work, so if you are bored with this genre already don't read it. <<less
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The Hamster Overlord
The Hamster Overlord rated it
April 17, 2020
Status: --
The novel is good overall, no cheats, no harem, romance is only hinted at, the adventures are kinda fun.

I'd give it a shaky 4 or a very super titanium alloy strong solid 3++

Here are the problems:

... more>> I'd say, the way most of their classmates are dumb is a bit unrealistic.

The way the don't interact much with people outside their group is kinda boring.

The characters outside the group are poorly flashed out.

The novel can be slow. There can be fillers that can be skipped entirely as they are neither interesting or important to the story overall. One and done kinda things.

The magical world's Alchemy can be a bit unrealistically convenient. No spoilers, but it's at least not used as a plot device.

The story can be repetitive in some aspects.

Japanese food is not as "nippon banzai!!!" as many other novels, but... It's there. The entire miso, rice and other things you associate with Jp cuisine are written about a lot more than I personally would like.

Despite all this, the story is a bit more interesting than most novels out there in the same Isekai genre and can be fun to a lot of people to read to waste some time. <<less
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DeirdreH
DeirdreH
March 30, 2020
Status: c6
Only six chapters have been translated so far and yet four translators have worked on this series and none of them agree on how to number the chapters. What a mess.

The story is probably good, but it won't be possible to know for sure until it gets further along. The author seems to be taking a realistic approach in terms of world building that rejects several common (yet nonsensical) fantasy tropes. If he can pull it off this story will be a refreshing change of pace.
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omegadir
omegadir rated it
December 31, 2021
Status: c230
I read raws till volume 8 and then dropped because of how slow and boring it is. Its yet another "slow life in another world" novel there main characters don't have any goals besides "live comfortably" until either author or reader grow tired of them. This in itself is not are minus but novel can't offer anything which you can't find in hundreds of similar works on net. Characters is bland and boring, plot is non-existent, total lack of any end goal and absence of any suspense or drama. If... more>> its you first novel about "slow life in another world" then you will like it but if you read any similar novels then its another cutting cutter bland mass work which take no risk and tread no new ground. There is nothing exiting or unexpected in this novel so read it only if you have no other reading material. <<less
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zadumu
zadumu rated it
November 15, 2020
Status: c9
The synopsis and title are misleading as the main characters aren’t directly affected by the land mines so there’s very little issue with just skimming through the prologue. I was pleasantly surprised by the first couple of chapters but quickly realized some major issues with the story. The first is that the female of the group should have been the main character, she makes all of the decisions, is the only one to actually do anything, and due to one of her skills the group is pigeonholed into going along... more>> with it. It’s awkward reading from the perspective of someone who doesn’t do anything especially when there hardly any internal monologue. However, the biggest problem is the story is boring, the author is more concerned with heir 3rd rate realism to even let the characters or the readers enjoy the p characters new lives. The main group are all non humans and they barely address it when they get the new world. Two of the character gained magical powers and didn’t even try any magic until the second day they were there. <<less
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Spiritogre
Spiritogre
July 19, 2023
Status: v7
5 Stars

Seeing the cover and title I thought that was a comedy LN. Luckily (?) it isn't. It's more the typical Isekai where a group of friends, instead of one person, works for their living as adventurers and faces some hardships. There is no further goal, just survive and work hard.

Really annoying was the messed up timeline. This is not a web novel but an edited light novel and even a translation, correct? Did nobody recognize this? In vol. 1 they spend at least six weeks doing stuff realistically more... more>> like 8 weeks, though (definitive time used is 2 weeks herb collecting, 2 weeks fruit collecting + additional training + hunting + drying stuff, a few days off and so on). In vol. 2 at the beginning it says they are there for 4 weeks a few pages farther in they find one of their classmates in the forest and it suddenly is only 2 weeks they are there. That's really sloppy.

Also the authors general knowledge is a bit "imperfect", meaning not fully correct especially when it comes to stuff from Europe. Other things, he obviously looked up at Wikipedia, which is also unrealistic, that a high schooler knows the exact data of stuff in their head.

In general so far I enjoy to read it despite such annoying flaws, though.

A small update. The series still has this annoying consequential errors like it says they have slain 30 Orcs and a few pages further it's 80 since the author must have recognized that 30 was way too low after what happened and was said before. So why wasn't the 30 changed? Also the translations looks like it has been written on a smartphone or tablet since it has the typical spelling errors you get from auto correction on those mobile devices. It also means that nobody really cared about proofreading.

What I really don't like in a story where the whole class is transported to another world that most of them, especially the guys, turn into evil rapists or manic killers. That makes no sense at all. Those people were socialized in Japan and should act accordingly, they might just adopt a little to the new surrounding and become more rough but should keep their general values. This is almost a trope at this point since it happens in many novels but it just doesn't make any sense, like at all. On the contrary, in "reality" they would try to care for each other and try to protect each other and even if there was a narcist among them he would be shut down by the group.

Besides those points I still enjoy reading the series.

Current Vol. 7 update, it gets better, the last couple of volumes have less errors and less Wikipedia knowledge but concentrate on a really nice fantasy story. <<less
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Remaaake
Remaaake rated it
April 8, 2023
Status: v3c2
To Another World... With Landmines is quite misleading and boring to be quite honest. At first you could take it literally that the MC reincarnated and somehow has landmines as weapons like I did three years ago. Now the story revolves around Nao and his childhood and highschool friends as they start a new life in a fantasy world. Nao starts as a jack of all trades master of none character while his friends chose to become the backline and frontline respectively. After a while they start to find out... more>> that their former classmates are dying like flies because they chose to be dumbasses. Soon they start adventuring and fighting until they find they're two more friends who are the thief/rogue and a magician archetype.

Here's where it gets disappointing for me. The MC does nothing other than stick around and say that his friends are doing better than him. Like his being insecure but it's just so low that he kinda forgets that he doesn't really have a role in the story and the party other than giving POV and criticizing his friends imo.

Haruka who is the brain and the mastermind of the party somehow knows about everything and it's just killing the story with all of the infodump, like at some point the author needs to understand that this mary sue character isn't an omniscient being. Im legitimately disliking this character because she is close to the MC but knowwws about everything that it takes the fun out of experiencing the world created by the Author.

Speaking of the World, There isn't even a mention of the entire world or countries, history, culture, laws, royalty, politics. The story is set in primarily one town and it seems like it will stay that way for a while. Anything related to this will probably be said by Haruka since the author is obsessed with her.

Touya is your comedic relief character and brawns over Brain personality. That's about it.

Yuki is your naive and cheery girl whilst being the bu*t of the "freebie" jokes and other sarcastic comments.

Natsuki is your introvert and reasoner of the group.

Now where does the main character Nao fit in? I honestly don't know since anything about his character is actually fairly realistic but for the most part right now he is pathetic.

He just compares himself with other characters and is actually doesn't have anything to do in the story currently. It feels like Haruka is more of a main character than the actual MC is. Hell most of the party members are fairly likeable except for the two. One is being too uninvolved and One is being too involved.

In the end I should just say it. This is a slice of life story and is not one of those action filled once that will fill appetite for fantasy or isekai. The story is just forcing itself to be realistic instead of embracing the fantasy concept. The magic in the story is just for combat and convenience, Haruka actually does something else while MC is just too dumb I guess? Bro is just so lost I don't know how to describe him at all lol. <<less
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thendavesaid
thendavesaid rated it
February 14, 2023
Status: --
I wrote a really long review, so I'll put the conclusion at the start as well: interesting premise marred by a failure of the author to actually execute, either with "land mine" skills or sticking with the theme of working hard and earning the power ups as an adventurer in a new world. Blatant misandrism is extremely off-putting. Story takes the common Japanese trope of passive male leads and straps it to a rocket, pushing it into orbit.

I was reading the light novels but I had to stop about a... more>> third of the way through book 4. The series starts out ok. MC/Narrator Nao, his best friend Touya, and his other female best friend Haruka are transported to another world with the rest of their classmates when their souls were s**ked into a void by a self proclaimed "evil god" after a bus accident killed the whole class. The "evil god" lets them pick skills from menu to create their character builds in a new world, with small hints to avoid the seemingly cheat skills that come with hidden downsides, the "land mines" from the title. None of the main characters pick the land mine skills, so the whole starting sequence is kind of pointless except to emphasize how reasonable the main characters are.

The story seems to constantly emphasize how pathetic the two male characters are, and how perfect the female character is. The characters are assigned points based on how well they lived their lives to grow as people in the first life, and Haruko was so good at life that she had 200 hundred points to start, compared to 150 for Nao and 120 for Touya. It gets worse from there as Haruko was the only one of the group that picked the General Knowledge skill, which is basically the common sense of the other world. She therefore leads the group in every single decision, because the other two characters know nothing and thus their opinions on everything are flawed. Side note, Haruko was the most beautiful girl in the classroom as well.

Fine, whatever, the logic is sound enough that you can live with that. The problem lies in that the author continues to make the two male leads completely henpecked followers even after they've spent some time in the world. Haruko has life skills like sewing, cooking, and superior interpersonal skills, which relegates the male characters to mere manual labor in anything outside of fighting. It gets worse when two other females join the group, the almost-as-beautiful-and-competent as Haruko girl named Natsuki, and the cute, petite, energetic character trope Yuki.

The group of five have no interpersonal conflicts because the male characters either don't have opinions, or their opinions are overruled by the females. The females always agree with each other. There are hints that the two most beautiful girls are both attracted to Nao, but it doesn't go further than very small hints.

Because the male characters lack the life skills that the two perfect females have, and that Yuki learns from those two, and because the two male characters for some reason don't learn the life skills like Yuki, they spend all their time working hard on training their combat skills and magic. Despite this, they are less capable than any of the females. Even Yuki, who starts way behind the two male characters in combat ability is equal to or better than Nao by the time I quit reading. In book 3 the male characters spent half a day of training to learn a defense boosting skill, while the three females learned two defensive skills skills and one strengthening skill within a few hours. In book 4 Haruko learned fire magic and then became as good as the main character at his most frequently used spell within three days, while the main character had been practicing fire magic for months.

There's the problem with that too. The theme of the series and especially the first two books is basically how to live and thrive in another world without cheat skills. Practical decision making, patience, and hard work are the keys to life. It's basically real life, but in another world with magic. This completely goes out the window by book 4. The characters are basically OP for people who have been adventuring for a few months. Probably at the level of moderate veterans who have been adventuring for 5-10 years. It's hard to say because the books only briefly touch on other characters. The main characters never interact with other adventurers. The side stories briefly touch on other students from their classes, all of the males are essentially suicidally incompetent or barely able to tie their own shoes. There's one female who briefly interacts with the group to be a bit*h and dig her own grave by using a landmine skill, and a side story about three females who will probably become legendary adventurers because they luckily took high level synergistic abilities despite not communicating with each other until after they made their choices.

See a theme here? Yes, men are all emasculated incompetents, females are all geniuses or jealous b*tches. You don't see it much in the beginning, but the author piles it on later. I think some of it is supposed to be humorous, like Touya always being dumb and energetic only to be shot down by the practically thinking women. It just happens so much and without any redeeming actions by any of the male characters that it becomes extremely distasteful. It's just awful.

It's awful like the food, which the author goes on and on about how bad the food is in the other world. Except the food in the inn that the Haruka was able to find for them. That's the only good food in the ENTIRE TOWN. That is until Nao goes and finds a female elf that is in distress on the one time he goes off on his own during a break. She's in distress and he offers to help. He helps by immediately going to get two female characters and coming back to the elf in distress and they brainstorm a way to save her restaurant. So now there are only two good places to eat in the entire town. Not including the food Haruko makes, because somehow she not only knows how to make jerky, which is not a staple Japanese food, she can make jerky better than any of the locals can make any kind cuisine, despite only using salt to flavor her jerky. There's some mention that the cooking skill helps improve food flavor with no other factors involved, but Haruko only has level 1 cooking, and that implies that nobody else but the inn owner, the elf cafe owner, and Haruko have the cooking skill in the whole town. Was this paragraph too much talk about food? Well, if you didn't like it, you'll really hate all the talk about food in the books.

The author is also obsessed with adding extra useless information. A thousand words talking about the number of fingers and toes an orc has and comparing it to cats, dogs, and ungulates. Another thousand words talking about how location and property values affect rental prices of homes. Another thousand words from Nao mentally monologuing why Haruko's decision makes so much sense for all these reasons, which is why he won't voice his opinion on the matter. The writing is probably 30-40% useless, obvious, or irrelevant information.

The characters can get rich enough to buy a large plot of land and build a brand new mansion on that land just by doing the most basic adventuring tasks. The explanation being that older and more experienced adventurers want to move onto better paying tasks for more glory. This belies the reality that if the economic niche that they are exploiting existed like that for so long, someone would have filled it already. After all, they aren't innovating, they're simply doing the same job every beginning adventurer does, except with skills that are only slightly above the other beginners. The story occasionally touches on how poor and miserable adventuring work usually is, and how many adventurers quit after a few years and fall into basic day labor jobs like construction. You'd think that an experienced adventurer who had built up a handful of skills in his lifetime would just drop down a rung on the adventuring ladder and do the things the main characters are doing to exploit that economic niche, instead of falling completely out of the adventuring economy altogether. Quite convenient plot hole.

Conclusion: interesting premise marred by a failure of the author to actually execute, either with "land mine" skills or sticking with the theme of working hard and earning the power ups as an adventurer in a new world. Blatant misandrism is extremely off-putting. Story takes the common Japanese trope of passive male leads and straps it to a rocket, pushing it into orbit. <<less
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yamibae
yamibae rated it
January 1, 2023
Status: v4
Pretty average story at best. Despite what the title or blurb implies it is mostly a slice of life story with the typical isekai elements of having a strange need to find modern or japanese goods/food. The only unique part of the entire story is that the 3 main characters, later on 5 are all given skills that are not exactly "cheat skills" but functionally are about the same as cheat skills as they're still significantly stronger than an average person. The story starts slow and continues at the slow... more>> pace with hardly any movement power wise in fact I think most people would stop paying attention to power levels after volume 1 since it doesn't matter much.

Overall not a recommendation unless you want to just binge anything. There is no romance or whatnot in the novel as well it's just slice of life with a bunch of kids living in a new world, no real overarching plot or story development. <<less
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memetichazard
memetichazard rated it
May 4, 2022
Status: v2
I'm basing my review primarily off of two volumes the official translation, which appears to have shuffled the side stories around at the very least.

As a work so far, it's been quite good but nowhere near being a masterpiece. This has definitely been a "slow-life in a fantasy world" story so far, though its main selling point lies in how it's two degrees more realistic than the typical isekai. The eponymous land mines are really only part of this premise and aren't directly involved in the story afterwards, unless you... more>> consider getting a dose of reality where you'd expect an isekai trope to be a landmine. Indirectly, the protagonists consider other classmates who have picked trap skills to be such landmines and do end up dealing with the fallout.

Character-wise, we've got the POV Nao, who's an average boy with only his good looks going for him, Touya, who seems to have traded a point or two of INT for WIS, and Haruka, who is the socially adjusted Hermione Granger of the group.

Story-wise, we're dealing with a group of kids who were smart or lucky enough to pick good builds and start off together, and are now carefully trying to make a living after being isekai'd with only the benefit of a small advantage - well, small compared to other isekai stories. This means that the first volume has been primarily about stabilizing their situation in the new world, and the second has been about chasing after a few short term goals now that they've achieved said stability.

The writing is somewhat exposition-heavy, due to it lampshading its subversion of isekai tropes. It's not too heavy to be enjoyable, though, and some parts of it are a bit charming, like when it goes into depth into how they experiment with drying out fruits for storage and profit (and thank god this isn't yet another another fantasy-apple named appu), or when they discuss why they can't just let one of their classmates that just joined them have a bit more privacy when they need to #2 while out in the woods.

I'm not a fan of how the individual volumes don't seem to set up concrete story blocks (or establish that they're part of a multi-volume story arc). The first one technically qualifies, but only if you squint and only in retrospect after you start the second volume. The characters have been pretty static so far as well. So overall it's been an episodic series where they collect achievements and milestones.

I'm rating it 4/5 as an enjoyable read with somewhat weak characters (Haruka is fun but Nao is as dull as a butter knife). <<less
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Plue
Plue rated it
July 5, 2020
Status: c38
Ignore the title, the landmines don't matter at all.

Basically the main characters picked near optimal skills anyways, including two real cheat skills that are basically wikipedia for the new world.

Still, it's not a terrible story. Will continue reading it to see how it develops.
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sorvani rated it
January 22, 2024
Status: v8
Good slice of life story. As others have said the Landmines are quickly overwith for the most part and mean nothing to the rest of the story. The author likes ot go into too much detail a couple times per volume, but the story itself is a good one.

It is certainly not unique for the genre, but still a good story.
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mojiman100
mojiman100 rated it
December 26, 2021
Status: ss7
The storytelling is very slow but I find it's pleasing to read, someone please pick this up!! It's hard to find a novel that has a good skills system, a decent story, and a somewhat realistic MC.

One thing to note is that the story focuses more on the daily life of the MC group more than combat which might not be enjoyable for some people.
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