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Stranger’s Handbook
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Rating(3.9 / 5.0, 318 votes)
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2 | 9% (30 votes) |
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Status in Country of Origin. One entry per line
217 WN Chapters (Complete)
3 LN
3 LN
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Completely Translated
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Every 225.8 Day(s)Activity Stats [Graph]
Weekly Rank: #2000Monthly Rank: #2000
All Time Rank: #786
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On 5804 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #2852
All Time Rank: #1059
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.The main character is suddenly summoned to another world…..and the one who shows up next is a malicious and scheming noble…..obey or die. I’ll try to rise in this world and live on by any means! It’s the story of such a hero.
Comedy and serious scenes? I’m the type that won’t let his guard down even when my magical powers are at a cheat level, I take my medicine while scheming wickedly.
Was I only scared of my surroundings in the beginning? Well, I’ll do my best to become an indispensable hero!
Associated Names
One entry per lineIsekaijin no Tebikisho
Otherworlder’s Handbook
異世界人の手引き書
Otherworlder’s Handbook
異世界人の手引き書
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08/08/18 | HikkiTr | c156 |
07/12/18 | HikkiTr | c155 |
06/23/18 | HikkiTr | c154 |
03/31/18 | HikkiTr | c153 |
03/21/18 | HikkiTr | c152 |
03/14/18 | HikkiTr | c151 |
03/06/18 | HikkiTr | c150 |
02/27/18 | HikkiTr | c149 |
02/17/18 | HikkiTr | c148 |
02/11/18 | HikkiTr | c147 |
- At the end of almost every chapter, with the Main Character as first-person-view, there's a kind of thing he constantly says/repeats. Which turns it into a running gag.
- Another thing to realise is that the Heroine has such a high darkness affinity, that everything she says or shows is almost always completely different from what she feels/thinks inside.
- The MC is basically super strong, but somehow remains a coward despite that. Which appears to be part of the humor. Which leads to the initial running gag. All of this make the story rather unique as well as entertaining. And at the same time you can't really take the story very seriously. Someone remarked in their review that they are discriminating. One of the tag lines in the story is 'misunderstandings'. This makes me think that that person who said that didn't read very far... or basically ignores part of what he was reading. In any case, that person seems to take the story too seriously, for what it really is. In the story they do take discrimination very seriously. There's obviously a difference in culture, so you ought to keep that in mind when reading the story. A difference in culture will often lead to misunderstandings. The people inside the story (namely the faction the MC wound up with (beastmen)) have their own strange code of honor. This code mostly means they need to be strong and just (and apparently swift in judgment), and that's where where the heads will roll whenever they meet 'opponents' (opponents heads that is). The whole summoning was to obtain the MC, not the other people. It all revolves around him. I imagine the other persons who were accidently summoned with him, were basically forgotten by the author. Maybe at one point he'll leave more of a remark about it, but not yet. The author seems to love to leave things hanging, causing readers to misunderstand as well. A few running gags:
The MC says something along the lines of "I'm going to die" or a version thereof at the end of almost every chapter his perspective is shown. (or he says something else 'negative')
One of the presumed running gags is him wetting himself a little at occasion, which the 'beastmen' perceive as marking his territory. Making them think he's strong instead, rather than afraid.
The ones who were killed were attempting r*pe at the time. The killers were honorable knights who acted after hearing an old woman scream and seeing two young men approaching a bunch of women with bad intentions. It serves as a notice to the reader that life isn't valued in the setting, and the people they killed weren't the target of the summons, after all.
Last chapter out was the one where his wife gives birth, I guess that was a great stop point for me too since I hate most stories where the MC gets a child, it tends to change and twist the story while restraining the MC with a lot of bullsh*t daddy drivel (as someone who really doesn't want kids, I find it hard to stomach, fine with adopted children though, or when the initial setting was about someone with a child).
Enough about that though, now onto what I think about this. Well, it was actually fairly good, plenty of humor and I got a good few laughs. It wasn't too interesting, but it was enough to keep you reading and let you smirk while sometimes laughing out loud. There's a lot of comedy and close to no real serious moments... Actually, there is no truly serious moments except for 2 chapters, the prologue and the continuation of the prologue around chapter 100 (some pretty dark stuff about the end of his journey 100 years after he arrived in that world, seems everyone is gone leaving only him behind and he's planning to do something that will result in his death after finishing the "strangers handbook", pretty much a recount of his experiences and the events over 100 years to help future transmigrators, these chapters s**ked and made me quite sad, because I hate endings like that, I feel that it'd have been better if the author didn't add them at all).
So, read this for the light-hearted slice of life comedy. There's nothing serious to see here and no proper plot. Everything moves at breakneck speed compared to what I'm used to. It's hilarious, but sometimes the author tries crappy jokes that just pisses you off. I'm still really annoyed about their first wedding night and that the author can never after that describe their s*xual experiences even once, it's always like "they did it" and it's done. I mean, I don't want a lot of detail, but at least make it a little bit more immersive so that I can imagine that they're doing it...
If something really pissed me off, it's how the characters changed a lot and brilliant settings were dropped for no good reason. As an example, he gets an ability to read his wife's true thoughts because the dark magic twists everything she says and does. This was hilarious and really cute, because she'd say something quite scary and rude but think something really sweet, or it'd be pretty scary thoughts like the typical yandere. It was a great thing. But when their love reach a certain point after perhaps 40 chapters, she starts showing her feelings all of a sudden and the mind reading stops working. She's still stiff and all, but the true meaning of her words is coming across. The issue is that the mind reading would still have been brilliant, because it gives you a really sweet feeling or is just a bit scary, in a funny way, when he can REALLY see her true thoughts and not just the restrained words. But we never saw that ability again, a crying shame. Other good and funny parts of her also disappeared, like her inability to cook properly due to the dark magic. Well... it just turns a bit boring. Especially when Suu is introduced properly after 100+ chapters (she was present around chapter 2 or something though) and starts to serve him, she is a far better woman as compared to the MCs wife (in my opinion), but sadly the author will probably not condone harems at all, which is a crying shame. Overly clingy and obsessive yandere characters are not really my cup of tea, so I really loved that dog eared honest and somewhat eccentric maid way more. Tsk.
Oh well, if you're looking for something that is not serious yet hilarious with high paced comedy, this is for you. It's funny, there's no doubt about that and it shouldn't disappoint unless you hate settings like this. Never read this for the plot, just read it when you want something light and simple.