My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World
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Spoilers incoming obviously
So you'd think that if you're going to write LN where the gimmick is blacksmithing, you'd do a bit of research on blacksmithing right?
Evidently not.
Good lord, they have the MC making swords by casting them from molds.
But okay. He was given the usual isekai cheat powers, maybe they just let him get away with this.
But then he gets an apprentice and she just doesn't bat an eye at this indicating that apparently this is just how things are done? What?
Swords are forged, not cast. Blacksmiths take a hunk of metal, heated to the point of plasticity, and beat it into the correct shape, getting the grain to be in line longitudinally within the sword, turning the metal into one crystal.
Casting would have the grain going every which way with possible all kinds of horrific internal stress due to uneven cooling.
Literally how did this even happen. Japan even has a well known history of sword making, a major component of which is the meme about the steel being folded 1000 times in the process of having all the impurities beaten out of it.
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@ImaSpacePotato There are volume threads for this series over in the members' section of the forum: Volume 1 and Volume 2, and the blacksmithing comes up in those threads... a lot. You're not the only person irritated by the Blacksmithing in My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World.
As of Volume 2, the quality of the smithing hasn't really improved much, but the cast looks to be expanding and there's some plot going on that isn't blacksmithing related, so there's some hope we'll spend less of this book at the forge then we did in the first book.
I know that's not the most glowing of recommendations, but then I have exactly the same issue with the series you do...
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Ninja'd by @kuali but If you go into the member forum topics we've been nit-picking the author's lack of research into many things including blacksmithing, carpentry, hunting and dressing/butchering, how to fight a bear, and the amount of food 3 people can eat in a week.
To enjoy this series you need to just tune out the "technical" descriptions of most things, tell yourself "a wizard did it", and focus on the slice-of-life character interactions.
I'm enjoying it despite the crafting, not because of it.
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It's a fantasy world and not Earth. Things just work differently there.
That's how I think of it and ignore it at least.
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@terabyte said in My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World:
It's a fantasy world and not Earth. Things just word differently there.
That's how I think of it and ignore it at least.
"wizard."
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I take a rather... 1990s-inspired view on this:
If you're wondering how he eats and breathes
And other science facts
Just repeat to yourself, "It's just a show
"I should really just relax"
For Mystery Science Theater 3000Although Eizo has a few up on Mike, Joel, and Jonah, in that he (1) doesn't have to deal with a member of the Forrester Family and (2) isn't stuck watching bad movies. Although they do have him beat for number of companions who are wisecracking robots.
