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Reiji Kirio was once an ordinary salaryman until he somehow stepped into a fantasy earth. Setting up a drugstore in the Kalta village, he saves a werewolf named Noella who becomes the mascot of the drugstore, and is assisted by a ghost daughter named Mina.

Written by Kennoji, it originally started off every bit a web novel on Syosetu, then a light novel, was adjusted into a manga in 2018, and finally had an anime adaptation that premiered in July 2021. The official Calorie-free Novel translations are published by Vii Seas Entertainment.

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The calorie-free novel provides examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Several examples.
  • Kururu the elf to Reiji. Aside from Kururu being openly gay and Reiji being straight, Reiji is having none of Kururu'southward extremely aggressive and flamboyant flirting and come up-ons.
  • One of the middle-aged male person adventurers in town to Mina. Aside from him and his other ii adventuring companions being completely, utterly useless and leaving the completion of their quest entirely to Reiji and Noella, Mina does not like how he looks at her and how aggressively he'south trying to court her. In the manga, Mina discreetly tells Reiji to claim she's not in the shop.
  • Demon Rex Garou Ezil to Noella. The former has fallen in honey with her at beginning sight and had literally pledged half the world to her name as a dowry, just Noella is firmly loyal and in love with Reiji.
• Adaptation Deviation: The anime changes the order and details of a lot of plot points and events.
  • The original series and earlier adaptations all show Reiji mysteriously stepping into another earth, celebrating his escaping his corporate slave life, and getting his bearings with his new Appraisal and Potion Making skills. The anime'southward first episode starts with Kirio Drugstore already opened, and Reiji in negotiation with Mr. Alf, the Full general Store owner. If information technology wasn't for the title, 1 would be excused to not even realize this is an Isekai.
  • The anime skips over the entirety of Kirio Drugstore in one case being a dilapidated wreck no one bothered to utilise or tear downwardly and thus, Reiji'due south starting time meeting with Mina. This was also supposed to introduce Gaston, the carpenter, and the running gag of him reverting to his "legendary" skills with the help of super (energy) potions. Anime Gaston'due south kickoff use is some time afterwards the potions accept already been in wide circulation in Kalta, and he was working on the Rabbit Restaurant than Kirio Drugstore.
  • The rokushou nuts were originally delivered by the Kodora, Kalta forest's guardian dragon. In the anime, this role is instead given to a random squirrel that Reiji cures and who starts giving them regular deliveries of the stuff in gratitude.
  • Kururu the elf was supposed to be the first of the elf siblings to meet Reiji, and Ririka met him afterward due to Kururu's (unsuccessful) attempts at wooing Reiji and talking almost his beloved "Daisy". In the anime, Ririka goes to Reiji for help get-go and Kururu meets him during the hunting festival.
• Adaptational Early on Appearance: The Demon King was in Chapter 38 of the original Spider web Novel, several months in-universe and Reiji has had numerous other misadventures and ground-breaking inventions since and then. In the anime, he shows up in the previews of Episodes 2 and iii, alongside being office of the ED from the start.
• Androcles' Lion: The Kodora is a dragon subspecies and the guardian animate being of the forest nigh Kalta. Though normally pacifistic and reclusive, letting the humans pass by and practice their jobs without issue, after accidentally ingesting some hallucinogenic, indigestion-inducing grass it goes on a burn down-breathing rampage. Reiji manages to feed it a detoxification potion and cure information technology of its status, and in gratitude, information technology rewards him with regular deliveries of the extremely rare, extremely valuable rokushou fruits.
• Phone call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": There seems to exist a very broad term when it comes to the definition of "medicine". Equally annihilation from an Energy Potion to Dish Cleaner is called "medicine".
• Crapsaccharine World: Since the story follows the daily life of Reiji running his drug store in a quiet hamlet, information technology looks like a Sugar Bowl. But in this world, there are bandits that regularly attack the village, powerful monsters risking the lives of people who venture likewise far outside the safety of settlements, and the humans are currently engaged in a large war with the demons. Nosotros don't become much of the figures simply a war still has endless hapless young souls taken from their families along with displacing people and ruining lives, as happened with Noella.
• Encounter Allurement: To help Lilica the elf win a hunting competition despite her poor long-range shooting skills and using a less powerful short bow, Reiji invents a monster-attracting spray so the targets come to her instead of vice versa. Though she does win the tournament, she ends up almost overwhelmed by the ensuing swarm of monsters and it was just thanks to funneling them through a choke point and bringing lots of arrows that she made information technology through the event in one slice.
• Encounter Repellent: Fauna-be-Gone is an extremely effective anti-monster-and-predator spray, ofttimes used past farmers and aristocrats plagued by crop-destroying pests. Unfortunately for Reiji, it's simply equally effective on werewolves like Noella and she absolutely refuses to get shut to any area dosed with it or Reiji himself after brewing or using the stuff.
• Eye Scream: Reiji manages to make capsaicin fluid bombs to assistance the Red Cat Brigade fight bandits. During the brewing procedure, he makes a too-large batch, and due to ignorance, tragic overconfidence, or an blow, the Red True cat Brigade and Reiji all terminate up pepper-spraying themselves in the eyes. The bandits this product was fabricated for also get the same treatment and promptly flee the boondocks screaming, never to render.
• Great Offscreen State of war: There's an ongoing battle between humanity and the Demon King's forces, just we rarely get to witness any reference to the fighting as Kalta is very, very far from the frontlines and is not a strategic agree or particularly valuable territory, at that. It does have rippling effects, though:
  • Before Reiji started producing a steady supply of super (energy) potions, they were both in brusque supply and horribly expensive due to about of them being commandeered by the military machine.
  • Many able-bodied young men and workers are off fighting as soldiers, leaving aging quondam men, women, and immature children to pick upward the slack with transmission labor.
  • Mercenary companies take to be hired to supplement the town guard, with the only ones left being the former veterans that are at greater take chances of existence injured and killed than managing to bulldoze off the bandits taking advantage of the war.
  • In Garou Ezil'due south introductory chapter, his servant and adviser Belial is warning him of the potential risk of humans performing a wide-scale adoption of a healing potion that is not simply incredibly effective at treating wounds and illness, it also has none of the drawbacks of being offensive to the senses and is frequently drunk for pleasance, to kicking.
  • The war is the reason Reiji stumbled onto Noella in the kickoff identify: her original home got too close to the encroaching battle lines and Noella either fled lone or was separated from the rest of her group, ending upward alone in Kalta.
• Hot-Blooded: Gaston the carpenter is this under the effects of a super (energy) potion. Apparently, he was like this all the fourth dimension in his prime, which is how he became a legendary effigy among carpenters everywhere.
• Incompatible Orientation: Krull the elf is an out-and-proud effeminate gay man with a torch for Reiji, but Reiji is neither interested in men nor welcoming of Krull's extremely aggressive advances.
• Lighter and Softer: The anime tones down a lot of the violent, offensive, or black comedy of the original.
  • Mr. Alf, the general store owner, is outset encountered fleeing his home with a black eye and other serious injuries courtesy of his beloved wife. In the anime, he's start encountered in perfect wellness, begging Reiji to let Alf act as a distributor for Reiji'due south super (energy) potions, and at no point in time is Alf's married woman ever portrayed every bit physically calumniating.
  • When Mina accidentally gives Reiji her reminder to go woolen panties than a grocery shopping list, Reiji has an Imagine Spot of her putting them on. In the manga, Mina's skirt is raised and the panties are clearly seen, while in the anime, she slips them on while her skirt is still covering her.
  • During Feris and Zeral's introductory chase, in the manga, Noella wastes no fourth dimension putting the basket over her caput and pretending she can't see anything, leaving Reiji and Zeral to their fates. In the anime, Noella doesn't hesitate to put herself up to protect Reiji.
  • In an try to "motivate" Reiji to do a skilful job reversing aging or giving the appearance of it, Countess Flam Valgas relays to him all the insults and mean-spirited talk that other nobles have made at Lady Valgas'southward expense. Reiji believes it's more than depressing than annihilation else but is wise enough not to say information technology out loud to his customer'south face.
• Mundane Utility: Super (energy) potions are revolutionarily effective medicine, capable of healing grievous wounds, temporarily granting the user a surge of incredible free energy, and can even temporarily reverse the effects of aging, like with Gaston the carpenter. Jobs that would take taken him hours or weeks to finish end upwardly done in the blink of an eye with enough of force to spare afterward. Since they're also extremely delicious, many healthy, uninjured people drink them for pleasure, notably Capt. Anabelle of the Ruddy Cat Brigade and Noella.
• Noodle Incident: Reiji asks Zeral why he doesn't break upwardly with Feris, who was then acting similar a jealous, violently possessive, and obsessed girlfriend. Zeral offers to tell Reiji what happened when he suggested but that, Reiji decides he'south ameliorate off not hearing it.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Villagers, ofttimes customers, tend to become all up in Reiji's face much to his displeasure.
• Old Master: Deconstructed with the seasoned carpenters who build the drugstore. They take a lot of knowledge from their decades of work, but all of them are slowed downwards past their historic period. Reiji invents an energy drink simply to help them.
• In one case an Episode: In the anime,there will be at to the lowest degree one musical montage of Reiji producing the episode's conflict-solving product. This is usually interspersed with someone either helping him with the process or only beingness cute. Episode iii is notable for featuring the first montage with just Reiji, then a second, shorter version in the usual multi-grapheme format.
• Production Displacement: Real-life free energy drinks, vitamin drinks, and other pharmaceutical products from Japan are ofttimes referred to in all merely their exact, uncensored names. This is by and large to requite a comparison as to what Reiji has managed to brand a magical equivalent to in this earth, with his most pop production, the super (free energy) potion, existence a fantasy version of Red Bull or similar free energy drinks.
• Product Placement: Parioded. In the kickoff couple of episodes, anytime Reiji fabricated a new medicine, the audience would get comments on how good it is past several villagers equally if they are trying to sell them in real life.
• Slow Life Fantasy: Reiji Kirio, a Japanese salaryman, gets Trapped in Another World and starts a drugstore, where he learns how to treat all sorts of magical and unusual ailments plaguing different people and fantasy races. The story is almost entirely without violent conflict, and is more than near the wacky hijinks of the main case of loveable goofballs.
• Surprisingly Realistic Effect: The capsaicin fluid bombs are extremely effective at debilitating and driving off bandits. After the outset batch, Reiji decides to produce merely on-need, and even then, only equally a last resort, otherwise the world may accept a spate of people and guards being terrorized, blinded, and brought to agonizing tears by a mysterious drug that will inevitably be traced dorsum to him.
• Toilet Humor: When Reiji force-feeds the raging, hallucinating Kodora a detoxification potion, the Kodora releases all those toxins by peeing with the force of a burst pipe, and completely past blow, all over the terribly unhelpful, middle-aged adventurers that dragged Reiji into the quest to subdue information technology.
• Yandere: Feris initially believes that Zeral was cheating on her with other women in the village, and the whole reason Zeral begged Reiji for help was considering she was chasing him with a pocketknife. However, information technology turns out that she just became like this considering of a lack of sleep and after being prescribed soothing tea, she returns to normal.
• Y'all Don't Look Like You: In the anime, a few characters, like Alf and Doz as the most obvious examples, differ from how they await in the manga. To be specific, Doz in the manga was a bald, serious-looking human who wears plate armor, looking like a professional mercenary or a regular soldier, while in the anime he looks much more like a cartoonish gang enforcer; he wears a red cat beanie rather than a bald head; a leather jacket, shirt, and jeans than metal armor; and he wields a lodge that looks like a red cartoon cat paw.

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