My Isekai Life “That Cold Looked Troubling” Review
My Isekai Life “That Cold Looked Troubling” is the fifth episode of the My Isekai Life anime. Leaving off from the end of episode 4 where our heroes see Riccardo for the first time they finally enter the village. Entering Ricaardo Yuuji learns the snow is unusual and none of the villagers were prepared for it, as such the firewood has already been used up. Disappointed he can’t try Ricaardo’s famous cuisine without cooking fires, Yuuji figures out how to use his slimes to dry out freshly chopped trees to make perfect firewood. The town chef, grateful for the wood, cooks Yuuji one of his finest dishes in gratitude. Seeing the rest of Ricaardo is still short on wood Yuuji joins the local foresters and shocks them by procuring enough wood for the entire town to last several weeks. Yuuji receives yet another meal but the chef reveals it is not his best food as the fields where the town grows its famous herbs is plagued by monsters that eat them. Proudwolf and the slimes help locate the boar-type monsters and defeat them. They also find a crystal orb which turns out to be Dragon Grace refined into a cursed crystal that is absorbing all the magic in the area and causing the snow. Following other crystals set in a circular pattern Yuuji locates the pattern’s centre and, despite Dryad’s unhappy permission, destroys the forest around the centre, revealing an old house with a trapdoor leading underground.
Finally Unveiling The Truth
This was a fun episode, Yuji’s use of his magic to bring day’s worth of firewood simply to eat Ricaardo’s food and it being his main motivator when helping was hilarious. This is the first episode really where it’s plainly obvious a lot of the source material has been skipped in favour of getting to a quick resolution. As an anime only viewer it doesn’t affect me at all and I can just enjoy it for the cheesy fun that it is but some manga readers will likely be annoyed by that. I still loved it, it’s this season’s guilty pleasure and I’m gonna embrace that.
