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My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World: Volume 1

My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World, Book 1

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My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World: Volume 1

By: Tamamaru
Narrated by: Greg Chun
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Eizo is a middle-aged, overworked software engineer who loves cats.

One night after working late, he saves an injured cat from a speeding truck. The cat survives, but Eizo does not...

Luckily, that cat turns out to be a god-like being who offers him a second chance in another world! Eizo decides that he wants a slower life, one where he can live off the things he creates with his own hands. So, why not become a blacksmith? He does have one other stipulation: a cat companion for his quiet life.

These requests are granted, and Eizo is whisked away to a new world and imbued with blacksmithing knowledge. He soon finds out that his abilities are above average—in fact, his new skills are so overpowered that they're like cheats. On top of that, his cat companion turns out to be a half-tiger girl!

Eizo's blades soon garner attention, and he realizes that he can turn the tides of battle with his forge and hammer. With so much commotion in store, will Eizo truly be able to enjoy a quiet life?

Text copyright 2019 by Tamamaru, Kinta. Translated from the original Japanese by Linda Liu. English translation edited by C.D. Leeson. Originally published in English by J-Novel Club. First published in Japan in 2019 by Kadokawa Corporation. English translation rights arranged with Kadokawa Corporation.

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The reader was fine. I don't know if it was a translation issue or not but there was a lot of detail about dumb things. Also, very early there was a red flag for me. when the author is like "of the 2 remaining doors one or them had to be a bedroom, however one was an office." that is not exact but the however one was an office... the other was a bedroom. Why a however, it's written like word count was the only goal. I wanted to like this, I did. the writer seems to have never even did a 5 minute google of black smiting

To much detail about the wrong stuff.

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The voice actor is good overall but idk what posed them to make the anointing screams it was just annoying an pulled me out of my immersion 🥲

Random screaming...

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The character development is well done and unlike many "Harem RPG's", It's not full of sex. All the characters are about mutual development. The narration is extra-ordinary.

A FUN RPG WITH A TWIST

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The book is exactly as advertised. A slow life as a blacksmith with most of the focus on the day to day of the MC without an over reliance on small details.

The Narrator was new to me but did an exceptional job with only a few minor stumbles on word use. The range of voices are distinct and the female characters are convincingly done.

Very enjoyable as a relaxing listen while I worked.

Slow Life but good story

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This is a fun slice-of-life isekai book. The characters are interesting, there is a fair bit of humor and the stakes are low. If you, like me, loved “Beware of Chicken” and “Legends and Lattes” you also enjoy this book.

The downside is that this book is short. 6.5 hours for the 1st book and a 1 hour preview of the 2nd book. There really needed to be another 2 hours at least because the story seemed to end a bit abruptly with a few plot threads unresolved.

The 1 hour preview helped somewhat but it really feels like book 1 and 2 needed to be combined to make a good story. Overall I would recommend because it was a fun story. But I would start with a different book if this is your first time reading a slice-of-life isekai book.

Good But Short

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story was really good. I enjoyed the descriptions of the action of the sword making process and the pacing was great. I quite enjoy this narrator. there were quite good at doing both male and female voices

great narrator

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it's ok kinda slow tho. . . narrator did good. . . might get next book.

it's ok kinda slow

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just very slow, not a bad book, just slow. so if you want something slow and steady, this may be a book for you.

very slow

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I am not a Japanese speaker and the translation is clean but lacks the pomp and fills needed to make it anything other than slightly awkward. It just doesn’t flow. The story is good but as the title declares is quite and uneventful. Almost served no purpose. I can not fathom a reason to continue the series based on what I just finished and will be content with this as an end.

Overall it’s good, lackluster though

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Very good story, but extremely slow moving. Unfortunately, I kept finding myself wanting to fall to sleep while listening to it. At some point, I felt like I was watching somebody’s boring vacation videos. I’m hoping the story will pick up a little bit in the next book but we shall see.

This was good but slow.

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