"The Man Picked Up by the Gods" is a work that was published on the novel posting site "Let's Become a Novelist" and is a genre known as "Narou-kei". The second season of the anime will be broadcast in January 2023, which is a hot topic. Many people would like to review the contents of the first season before watching the new series. In this article, I would like to look back on the first season along the flow of the story! Please note that it contains some spoilers!
Middle-aged Salaryman, to Another World
Ryuma Takebayashi, who works for a black company, was living a sad life of loneliness at the age of 39. One day, Ryoma dies over something trivial. However, he receives a blessing from God in heaven and is reborn in another world as a boy. Ryoma, who ended up living in the forest, becomes absorbed in researching slime, and before he knows it, he is living with many slimes. One day, he meets Duke Reinhard of the duke family in the forest. The dukes are surprised at how Ryoma lives with slimes. Later, the duke returns to the forest with the previous head of the family, Reinbach, his wife Elise, and their daughter Eliaria, and witnesses Ryoma making a contract with a big slime, a combination of slimes. The members of the duke family are surprised that Ryoma has managed to make a contract with a big slime, which was thought to be impossible. Then, when Reinbach invites Ryoma to accompany him on his journey, he decides to leave the forest.
Reunion and the first client
Ryoma goes to a church in the town of Gimuru and reunites with the gods for the first time in three years. Ryoma is to take a combat ability test to join the adventurer's guild. The first request he received from the guild was from a person named Miya, and was completed in a few hours by working with the slimes. Ryoma receives tearful thanks from the client Miya. Later, he is asked to clean the shared toilet, and Ryoma readily accepts and starts cleaning the toilet with the slimes the next day.
Defeat the Demonic Beast!
Ryoma went to the suburbs with Eliaria to teach her how to play magic. Eliaria imitates Ryouma and plays. Ryouma, on the other hand, is taught new space magic and practices it hard. A peaceful day passes like that. However, such a peaceful day is short-lived, and later Ryouma receives a request to defeat a large-scale demonic beast in an abandoned mine, and forms a party with Miya and others to participate. It seemed to be going smoothly, but then he receives information that a group of goblins was encountered deep in the mine and some injuries were reported. Ryouma tries to deal with it somehow using slime.
Ryoma decides to become independent
Feeling that things will not work out if he continues as he is, Ryoma decides to become independent. He wants to distance himself from the people of the duke family and train as an adventurer in the town of Gimuru. When he talked about wanting to start a laundry business using cleaner slimes to earn a living, the Morgan Trading Company was excited about the cleaner slime that can also remove dirt from goblins, and immediately offered to help him open a business. Ryoma is steadily preparing to open a store by searching for land for a store and having someone who can run the store dispatched to him.
Hire employees!
Ryoma heads to the commercial guild to hire new employees. However, many people were reluctant to hire an employee at 11-year-old Ryoma. In the end, the only people left were a man named Fei who had a broken leg, and Fei's daughter Lilin. After hearing their story and understanding it, Ryoma decided to hire them and they continued working. As the store became more and more prosperous, Ryoma began to think about how to make it possible for everyone who worked hard to work comfortably.
Farewell to the Duke's Family
The seasons have passed, and now, when this season ends, Eliaria will go to school in the royal capital, and Ryoma will leave the Duke's family and become independent. As the time of farewell approaches, time passes with some kind of frustration for the two. The people of the Duke's family watch over the two of them with kindness, and Ryoma, who is somehow embarrassed, is shaken. Until now, Ryoma has called Eliaria "Young Lady," but in the end, he calls her by her name. And Ryoma has set off on a new journey.
Review of the first season
The ending of the first season was very good, and the original work could have ended here. It was such a wonderful ending that I thought. The final episode has been highly praised online. However, Ryouma's adventure continues. He will probably meet Eliaria again. Let's look forward to the new story we have yet to see and look forward to the broadcast of the second season! That's all for now. Thank you for reading.
