"The Man Picked Up by the Gods" is a work that was born from the novel posting site "Let's Become a Novelist" and is a genre known as the Narou genre. It is abbreviated as "Kamihiro", and the first season of the anime aired in 2020, with the second season scheduled to air in January 2023, which has been a hot topic. It has been about two years since the previous work, so some people may have forgotten what kind of person the main character was. In this article, we will explain about the main character, Ryoma Takebayashi!
Introduction: What kind of story is it?
Middle-aged office worker Ryoma Takebayashi was living a sad life, working for a black company and all alone in the world. One day, he died suddenly from a sneeze while sleeping. After his death, he was transferred to another world by the grace of the gods, and began living alone in the forest under their generous protection. After meeting the duke family who were concerned about his life, he began living in the city. In the city, he will use his experience in slime research while living alone to do business, solve problems as an adventurer, and do various other things.
What kind of character is the main character?
The protagonist of this work is a person named Ryoma Takebayashi. Before his reincarnation, he was a 39-year-old single man who worked as a systems engineer for a black company. Since childhood, he was abused by his father and drilled various martial arts into him, which led to his earnest personality and muscular body. After his father died, he lived with his mother, but then his mother also passed away and he was living alone in an apartment. He has had an unfortunate experience of being involved in incidents and being fired from jobs many times despite no fault of his own. He is an otaku despite his appearance, and is knowledgeable about various trivia. He sometimes makes figurines as a hobby.
Why does he always suffer misfortune? ?
After his reincarnation, Ryoma's mind was analyzed and found to have traces of the Earth God's distorted intervention. According to the analysis, there was a lot of evidence that the Earth God was manipulating Ryoma's circumstances to make him a vicious criminal for entertainment. This is an act that is taboo even for the gods, and there were also traces of the distortion of the lives of several people other than Ryoma, but since the Earth God is superior, it is deemed difficult to pursue. Ryoma was able to acquire a high resistance by repeatedly restraining himself from his criminal impulses every time such intervention occurred.
Life after reincarnation
After his death, Gain and his friends transfer his soul to Sailfall, a different world with a lack of magical power, under the pretext of using the magical power of Earth for Sailfall. After the transfer, he becomes the body of an 8-year-old boy, and although he looks like a child, he has the mind and knowledge of a man in his 40s, which is a very strange existence. However, since his mental state is significantly influenced by his physical age, it seems that he is not like a certain famous detective character who looks like a child but is an adult inside. For the time being, the gods have given him a fictional upbringing so that it will not be unnatural for him to live alone in the forest to which he has been transferred. While living alone, he became absorbed in researching slime by using many slimes as servitude, and in the course of his research, he accidentally discovered how to servitude big slimes, which had been a global mystery. In fact, big slimes do not act as single individuals but in groups, so it was necessary to make a contract with all the slimes in the group that merged. By applying this, he also succeeded in making a contract with even larger slimes that were formed by the combination of more groups. It's amazing how big discoveries can be made by chance.
Meeting with the Duke's Family
Three years after he started living in the forest, when he was 11 years old, he accidentally met Duke Jamir in the forest. Since then, he has been connected to the duke family, and at their recommendation, he settled in the town of Gimul. In the town of Gimul, he registered with the Tamer Guild, Adventurer's Guild, and Merchant Guild, and using his knowledge from his previous life and his slime abilities, he opened a super white-collar dry cleaning shop. Having been overworked in a black company in his previous life, it must have been an indescribable joy for him to create a white-collar company with his own hands. Furthermore, as an adventurer, he is very versatile, defeating monsters and solving difficult problems for the adventurer's guild. Since he is an office worker inside, he has a lot of knowledge despite his appearance age. He also has high physical abilities and the achievements that come with them, so he is highly regarded by the duke family and other related parties. He is an expert in not only magic but also martial arts, and due to the influence of the Earth God, he has a high level of resistance to various things.
About his brutal life
In the world after reincarnation, Ryoma shows off his talents and lives a fulfilling life, but in life he was a series of misfortunes. In elementary school, he had the harsh experience of being falsely accused of assault. Furthermore, his father beat him in front of his teacher. His father didn't care if Ryoma really did it or not, and the reason he beat him was because "I won't have time to train in martial arts," which is an unlikely thing for a parent to say. He intuitively realized that his father was indifferent rather than angry at him, and they became estranged, and several years later his father suddenly died. His father left him no assets, so he lived a meager life with his mother and graduated from university despite struggling with tuition fees. However, at the company he got a job at, malicious rumors were spread about him, and he was forced to resign within a year. After that, he couldn't find a decent job, and the company he got a job at turned out to be a black company. Still, he got a job because it would make his mother's life easier, but shortly after, his mother died from overwork. Since then, he has been hit over the head with a beer bottle by a drunk boss, and was hit over the head by his father, and has been through many things that would have made a normal person go crazy or die. Having experienced such terrible experiences, his "physical pain tolerance level" and "mental pain tolerance level" are very high.
Summary of the main character
Ryōma had a terrible life with a series of misfortunes in his life, but it turns out that it was actually planned, and his experiences in life are put to good use after he is reincarnated. There are many works with the theme of reincarnation, but it is rare to find a work that gives you a deep understanding of the main character before reincarnation. There is no doubt that we will see more of Ryoma's exploits in the second season! That's all for now. Thank you for reading.
