English Dub Review: By the Grace of the Gods “Ryoma and the Second Shop”

Overview

While on a quick job outside of Lenaf, Ryoma encounters the smash boar, a monster terrorizing the town. The monster is tough, powerful, and looks delicious.

Our Take

Ryoma takes that towering wild smash boar down without breaking a sweat. Helping out those adventurers party of Filly, Lurie, and Ken also on the expedition of collecting herbs, looks like they struck gold instead, which came in handy later with them corroborating that he didn’t hunt the smash boar illegally, but killed it in self-defense. Using the meat to create a nice dish from his previous life. Pioro seeing business opportunities in everything easily gave me a good laugh laughing each time with Miyabi being annoyed by her father’s antics.

As Ryoma proceeds to open a second shop, he manages to hire some great employees to work there and help out who seem like kind people, and it’s clear that Ryoma is providing an excellent work environment. Something we see he strives for after the experiences at his job in his previous life. Ryoma going around to check on everyone during their first day was sweet, you can tell he cares about his employees in a meaningful way.

Overall, this was a decent episode that moved at quite a brisk pace. I think the charm of this is the number of people Ryoma has met, there are a lot and all of them have names, it is hard to keep track but is cool since they aren’t just bland individuals. As Miyabi readies for the Royal Academy with Eliaria bound to join together, things are looking good on all fronts. The next venture for Ryoma: through Serge going to the magic item market, he’s able to create his own. With everything at the second shop now running smoothly it’s time to return home and decide the next move…