Kajiya de Hajimeru Isekai Slow Life Chapter 114 Discussion

While generally inoffensive as jp web novels go (little to no mention of breast size or eternally at fault MC which is fantastic for a harem novel), it really has a LOT of filler. Now I understand that this is a slice of life, and the filler is the point, but there are a lot of chapters that don't develop character, plot, setting or action. Now not moving these elements forward is not the end of the world if was not for the fact that in its place we have blacksmithing scenes which follow identical prose, For instance:

1. MC needs to do some blacksmithing task

2. MC bangs out sheet metal, which as he says every time his cheat makes it easy.

3. MC shapes into sword, dagger or theme weapon (halberd spear) for the current chapters, which as he says every time his cheat makes it easy.

4. MC does the final shaping of the sword (often at this point we have moved onto another chapter), which as he says every time his cheat makes it easy.

5. MC will sharpen the sword (sometimes if we are lucky the author will remember that weapons need tempering and quenching), which as he says every time his cheat makes it easy (Picking up on a theme?).

6. MC will then transport the weapons to his local dealer with assortment of wafuis. (sometimes this is a whole chapter in itself).

7. MC will greet/mention the gate guard and if he knows them (why am I mentioning this part, because apparently it is important enough to the author for him to do it every time).

8. MC will sell weapons and make requests/ seek updates on requests and then go home (the going home is often a chapter as well)

9. Repeat for more chapters.

Now this example is fine for background plot that the regular story can sit on... except this IS the plot, and the background plot is the VERY infrequent happenings of the wider world.

Please do not get me wrong it is not totally bad it’s just very tedious and takes a long time to pay things off. It’s a lot of empty calories and while it works if you binge 50 chapters together it makes for painful reading on a chapter-by-chapter release schedule.

Much like the novel itself it makes for good filler for when you don’t have anything else to read.