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A pleasant, light-hearted, easy-to-read slice of life story of an OP isekai'd MC and his family.The tone feels drier than Death March and there's less big scale adventure for now (as of chapter 145) ; not as cute as Isekai Yururi Kikou. There's a bit of feeling like the classic Walden but set in an otherworld. Overall, I enjoy it nearly as much.There's a harem of exotic women gathering around the MC now. Their backgrounds are reasonably fleshed out for side characters, enough to keep them from being flat, but short of a full biography. Personalities feel a bit generic, though that might be a translation artifact removing verbal tics and speaking styles from their speech. They aren't bland, though, with each one having their own personal interests and specialties. They're not trophies or mascots; everyone of them working for their upkeep together with the MC.The women like him; romantically for most of them. But none of them have directly said so to the MC, who remains oblivious to their romantic feelings even in his internal monologues. This is likely because the MC was in his 40s, then transmigrated into a 30 y.o. Body while the women look in their late teens or early 20s.There's a bit of world building, but it's slow because the MC is based inside a dangerous forest and doesn't really travel around much.Author's early descriptions of the MC's smithing techniques feel like they aren't quite right. Though I feel that some are problems with the translation. MC is mainly using a smithing technique where he casts steel into molds and then tempers them. It's definitely not the more widely known forging through folding and hammering style. Later on, there's also some explicit handwaving using his cheats and magic.