TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy- (月が導く異世界道中, Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Dōchū, lit. "Moon-led Journey Across Another World"), is a Japanese web/light novel series written by Azumi Kei. It was first released online in 2012 on the website Shousetsuka ni Narou, later moving to Alphapolis in 2016. The novel has been adapted into a series of Light Novels illustrated by Matsumoto Mitsuaki, and a manga illustrated by Kino Kotora; both are published by AlphaPolis. It later received a July 2021 anime by C2C. In March 2024, Hanashi Media announced they had licensed the light novels for English release, with the first volume releasing digitally on March 30, 2024.

Ordinary High-School Student and archery hobbyist Makoto Misumi is called into a fantasy world by the god Tsukuyomi, in order to be a hero due to a promise his parents made in the past. However, the Goddess of this world isn't as thrilled to have him there due to his looks, and kicks him to the edge of the world to fend for himself. Now, with his ridiculous amount of Mana and ability to understand every language except the one used by the other world's humans, it's up to Makoto to find his own way!

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Tropes featured in TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy- include:

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Makoto's short sword, can become a lot sharper with his Realm/Sakai. Tomoe's katanas are another example.
• Action Girl: Tomoe and Mio, as well as many other female adventurers and demi-humans, are extremely powerful combatants.
• Adaptation Distillation: The anime adaptation removes a lot of the exposition and worldbuilding from the novel and manga. It also removes backstory information for characters like Patrick Rembrandt and excludes several side characters altogether.
• Adventure Guild:
  • One founded roughly a millennium ago that has spread around the world, providing adventurers with benefits reflecting their rank and strength (e.g. an ID card that contains various bits of information and can even be used for communication, which is given upon merely joining the guild) through a widespread magical network. Thus far we haven't seen what most of those benefits are, as Makoto and his followers haven't been that interested in them.
  • We later meet the Guildmaster, Falz a.k.a. Luto, the supreme dragon of Myriad Colors, who powers the entire magical network themselves, who reveals a dark twist to this trope. The guild wasn't founded to empower hyumans, but rather to manage and restrict them, as Luto feared that the Goddess's excessive favoritism towards hyumans would lead to the collapse of the world's balance. The "benefits" are traps designed to attract those would be consumed by their greed, who would inevitably die at the hands of a threat that they couldn't handle in order to feed their ambitions and desires. While some do manage to survive and become extremely successful and wealthy, Luto views this as a positive as it provides further motivation for the greedy to strive (and perish) for their goals.
• All Myths Are True: Pretty much all mythological gods appear to exist, including Tsukuyomi and others such as Susanoo, Shiva/Daikokuten, Yatagarasu, Athena, the Fates (Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos), Poseidon and so on.
• Almighty Janitor:
  • Makoto. Level 1 adventurer in a universe where even small children are usually double digits or more. A clueless merchant running a small general store in a universe where the merchant guild system specifically is designed to prevent general stores from working. A somewhat ugly looking, spindly teenager wearing what amounts to noble clothes. And a Person of Mass Destruction who can effortlessly destroy armies, countries and the landscape around him by accident if he's not careful.
  • Tsukuyomi also qualifies because it's revealed later in the story that he was helping literally every other Deity on Earth with their duties, and now that he's out of commission by sending Makoto to The Bug's world all the other Gods are struggling to do their own jobs, despite, you know, only having their own duties to do and not, what is likely, about 100 or so at once like Tsukuyomi had to.
• Artifact of Death: If anyone else besides Makoto were to wear one of his mana suppression rings or robe, the item would immediately suck their mana dry, thus killing them.
• Artifact of Doom: Makoto's rings are extremely dangerous to normal people as they have a high mana siphoning property and high capacity to fill them. So, any person who isn't Makoto will be drained of their mana in a very fast manner, which is lethal in this world. After one of Makoto's rings has been filled with his mana, it doubles as a very powerful bomb that can go off accidentally if not handled properly.
• Artistic License – History: In-Universe. After Tomoe draws out and watches the many historical dramas from Makoto's memories, she takes how they represent Samurai culture as fact. Makoto has to remind her at times they are dramas and don't always portray things to the proper historical context. Tomoe has has a moment of despair when she learns how she treats her wakazashi and tachi because of the dramas is inaccurate to how a Samurai should treat them.
• Attempted Rape: After "rescuing" Makoto from a prostitute, both Tomoe and Mio are upset by him not making any moves on either of them, yet seemed eager to sleep with a prostitute. Then both start stripping and binding him down, and he barely escapes them by casting an ice spell and simultaneously teleporting out of the inn.
• Badass Adorable: Tomoe's first fragrment and Komoe are Tomoe's kid-sized clones that are still just as superhumanly strong and dangerous as the original. In chapter 101 of the manga, Komoe brutally murders two men who had kidnapped Rinon with no effort whatsoever. She is then carried around like a child by a thankful Toa.
• Badass Crew: Makoto, Tomoe, Mio and Shiki: a teenager who went through the magical equivalent of Training from Hell by living on Earth, a world without any magic; an ancient giant dragon with Mind Manipulation powers and a Everything's Better with Samurai hobby; a giant spider with a near infinite Healing Factor that used to be considered a living natural disaster; and a centuries old Lich and magic expert.
• Badass Teacher: Makoto and Shiki become temporary teachers in Academy Town. They are incredibly successful in training a small group of students in actual combat, as opposed to the theoretical combat the Academy teaches; their students are considered uncouth for doing things like "moving" or "dodging" during combat.
• Balanced Harem: Tomoe and Mio are established as equal love interests for Makoto from the start.
• Batman Gambit: The Goddess gets one up on Makoto during the Fall of Rotsgard Academy City when the Mutation Crisis is happening. When she needs him to help defend Limia, she uses her very obvious golden light teleportation magic, making a brilliant pillar of light over Makoto in the night sky. While he resists intially, Shiki, who is trapped in the teleportation with Makoto, notes if anyone sees them resisting the teleportation, it would ruin all the good will they earned being mutant slayers, providing relief supplies, and be branded as enemies of hyumans. Makoto is furious but releases his magic resisting the teleportation and is whisked up to the Goddess' domain.
• Battle Couple: In the backstory, Makoto's parents were two of the strongest adventurers in existence.
• Bears Are Bad News: Bears exist in Asora and are strong enough that the strongest orc warrior barely survives encountering one.
• The Beautiful Elite: Deconstructed. Hyumans are all extremely attractive much in the same way elves are considered in other fantasy settings, due to the ridiculously high standard of beauty of the local goddess. However, this has also resulted in them being weaker and less intelligent than normal humans from Earth, partially due to environmental factors, such as Earth having heavier gravity, partially because of the Goddess screwing over their culture because she cares more about beauty than anything, which has caused things like a low standard of education, to the point that the merchant guild's "incredibly difficult" entry exam that nobody has ever gotten perfect consists mostly of math questions that would be considered elementary school level on Earth.
• Big Eater: Mio started as a huge and ravenous spider monster; even after assuming human form, she can still pack away the snacks handily.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: During the Rotsgard Academy arc, Makoto is concerned about being with Mio and Tomoe at the very public festival in case the Goddess spots him and learns about Mio and Tomoe, or worse tries a forced teleportation. Shiki notes that while spying on them might happen, they have developed new telepathy magic that is harder to block and Tomoe has devised countermeasures to teleportation magic, and being near him would help block any attempts. While Makoto is still leagues above them in brute power, he appreciates his followers being able to protect him.
• Bookends:
  • Season 1 starts off with Makoto being unceremoniously dropped from a great height by the shitty Goddess after she casts him out and she hopes the fall might kill him. Makoto ends the season with Sophia Bulga dropping Makoto from an even greater height in hopes of killing him. But where Makoto was panicked and inexperienced in the former, he now has experience in combat and lets loose a powerful water arrow upon Sophia and Lancer, creating a vast lake as a consequence.
  • Season 2 has a symmetry for Makoto. He starts the season where a young girl is pleading for help to save her village. Makoto ends up wearing a mask and defending a young girl's small village from bandits murdering them. He ends it with the Goddess demanding Makoto save the capital of Lymia. Makoto ends up battling to save Limia from demons while wearing a suit to conceal his identity. He saves another young girl, this time someone closer to him personally and both forces are easily destroyed by his overwhelming power.
• Boring Insult: When Makoto and Shiki arrive in Rotsgard Academy City, they encounter Illumgand and three boys from the academy causing trouble. The boys arrogantly tell Makoto off for interferring and try to indimidate him by showing off their "powerful" magics by floating a few feet off the ground. Makoto has seen Mio and Tomoe effortlessly destroy a town in a pissing contest between the two and he fought Sofia and Lancer with his own powerful magics. He simply asks the young men if that's all they are doing as he is unimpressed at all by this demonstration of "power." This infuriates the boys even more, but Shiki easily magically curb stomps them and sends them running away with their tails between their legs.
• Bullying a Dragon:
  • Princess Lily and Tomoki, upon encountering Tomoe for the first time. Tomoki attempts to steal her katana, openly gobsmacked that he cannot even draw it from its sheath despite his Goddess granted ability to "use all weapons", while their Dragon Tamer tries to enslave Tomoe. After this doesn't work, Tomoki tries to use his mind control on Tomoe with Lily's permission, which similarly fails.
  • This happens repeatedly to Makoto. Notable examples include Sophia attempting to kill him, thinking he was working for the Goddess, resulting in Makoto's final attack from about ten miles up, where Sophia transported him, hitting the ground like a magical nuke and the creation of a new lake, the Church extorting his recipe for healing potions out of him, but the biggest may be when the Merchant Guild Leader, Zara, tries to crush Makoto's fledgling company at the request of several powerful politicians and companies. This includes demanding 90% of Makoto's profits, knowledge of Makoto's techniques for moving materials around, et cetera. It is only later that week, during the Variant Crisis, that Zara realizes just how much danger he could have been in, had Makoto been less shocked and more angry.
• Call to Adventure: The gods summoned many individuals from Earth to be heroes in other worlds. Subverted with Makoto as he is chosen by Tsukuyomi but rejected by the local Goddess. Played straight with two others who have been chosen by the Goddess.
• Calling Your Attack: Justified, since it's the nature of magic through magical incantation. Magic can be used without an incantation, but it makes it weaker.
• Cast from Hit Points: Several abilities explicitly exchange lifespan for power. The Rose Sign is one of them, burning out the caster's remaining life for a giant burst of magic and power; As are the drugs that Lily researched and has been giving Tomoki and his allies.
• Chainmail Bikini: The blessing Physical Beauty allows a warrior to become more powerful, the more revealing their armor is. This blessing is averted with the Hunk since the Goddess tends to favor androgynous looks, meaning it is played straight with Bishōnen, who tend to be more exposed.
• Change the Uncomfortable Subject: While in Tsige, Tomoe and Mio witness a prostitute hitting on Makoto. Infuriated, they drag Makoto to their hotel room, and his refusal to explain how he feels about them only makes them angrier. They decide to just have sex with Makoto, binding him with Mio's webs and Tomoe's mists filling the room. Makoto escapes with a blast of ice magic and portals to the Demiplane, landing in a tree. Emma comes upon him, clothes ripped, covered with webs, and mist floating around him, and simply says he can't go around in his current state of dress and tells him the Dwarves have new garments for him. Makoto is mentally thankful she didn't make him explain the situation.
• Chekhov's Gunman: The Goddess mentions she already chose a hero from her own world. They did not appear until chapter 23. In the anime, they are mentioned once more at the end of season 1 with images of them and not properly introduced until the second season.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Tomoe and Mio become rather violent when anyone threatens Makoto and will regularly fight with each other over who gets to spend time with him.
• Closest Thing We Got: The quest from Rembrandt Company. Mr. Rembrandt actually needs some Ambrosia flowers for the potions but because going after those are dangerous, he must settle for eyes of the strayed insects which mostly consume Ambrosia, which is considered the less dangerous option. It is fit to compare the former by many swarms of middle level monsters and their respective Mooks in an area and latter as just one swarm of a middle level monster Mook Lieutenant and its mooks.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: This when we first see Rembrandt's name uttered by his enemy (in that case, the shaman) and we get to whom or why it happens later.
• Combat Hand Fan: Mio uses a fan in battle.
• Combat Pragmatist: Makoto, due to his near sociopathically emotionless nature. This comes back to bite him when he idly kills three brainwashed assassins and said three assassins had friends who were trying to help them recover.
• Common Tongue: Justified. The language all hyumans use is not learnt but given by the goddess at some sort of baptism, so all hyumans speak one "hyuman language". Non-hyumans can learn it with time. Makoto, who's only been there a few months at most, only learns the grammar, spelling, and words but his pronunciation is off.
• Crapsack World: A world overseen by a flawed Goddess who values looks over ability or character, racial discrimination, Hyumans (humans) and humanoids are preferred by the Goddess and she neglects everyone else, many communities are fighting for "better land" (read: not an arid desert or frozen wasteland) especially the Demon race who even consider a frozen wasteland filled with monsters as better than their previous home and a war between the Hyuman and Demon race with many people trapped as bystanders.
• Cue the Sun: In the anime and manga, after the Goddess unceremoniously drops Makoto into the wastelands, Tsukuyomi tells Makato that he will survive this fall and that the dismissal means the Goddess has stripped him of the title of hero, so he should live his life as Makato chooses. In both mediums, the sun is seen rising behind Makato^note In the former the sun is seen rising in the horizon while Tsukuyomi has paused Makoto's fall high in the air. In the latter, it is after Makoto lands and looks up with determination. signifying the start of his new life in this new world.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Those who go up against Makoto, Tomoe, Mio, and Shiki meet a quick and sudden defeat, with some exceptions.
    • When Makoto takes on some bandits attacking a remote village, he first silences the encampment so no one can make or hear a sound, ambushes them with arrows and then launches a fire spell to take out the rest. Only the leader tries any resistance by throwing a sword at him. It breaks on Makoto's armor.
    • One example of this is the fight with the Variants in Rotsgard. After it is established that the local government needs small platoons of troops to take out a single one, Makoto and his friends casually kill 15 of them without breaking a sweat while walking down the street.
    • Makoto vs Tomoki. The latter is extremely rude to everyone he meets and gets the former alone. He demands that Makoto sell him Tomoe, offering him 3 brainwashed maids in exchange. Upon being refused, Tomoki has the girls pull weapons on Makoto, explaining that he can tell Makoto is weak and just happened to brainwash his 3 strong retainers. Wrong. The latter quietly uses magic to lock the door, enhance the soundproofing of the room and puts all the witnesses to sleep. Makoto then proceeds to beat Tomoki against the wall, punching him more times than he could count, bashing his face in every time he tried to speak, until he got bored. He then heals Tomoki and walks away. Sadly, this event is just what Princess Lily needs to manipulate him into seeking more, dangerous power. Specifically, the refinement of his mind control skill into a form of drug that can be used remotely.
  • Chapter 101 of the manga details a fight between Komoe and two thugs who kidnap Rinon. Once Komoe tracks them down, seeing the men have a weapon out and now plan to try to silence her, Komoe destroys the scum. One is bisected laterally, with his blood and innards splashing everywhere and the other is stabbed in the back before being frozen and shattered.
  • The Battle of Kaleneon:
    • Of the Highland Orc-Mist Lizard unit sent to fight the demons in the captured city, the only injuries the former had is one orc stepping hard on a mist lizard. The demons are destroyed completely.
    • Tomoe laments her easy fight as the demons stationed at the spot she needs for a special mist gate are destroyed by her in minutes.
• Curse: An enemy of Rembrandt places a curse on his wife and daughters which gradually turns them into berserking monsters. Left untreated, it will eventually kill them.
• Deal with the Devil: More like Deal with Jerkass God, but still applies as basically sending their kid to a Crapsack World. Makoto's parents, when cornered by danger 20 years before, made a deal with the goddess presiding over their homeworld to grant their wish; she moved them to Earth's Japan. In return, she wants one of their kids to be sent to the parents' homeworld. Tsukuyomi (another god) chose Makoto.
• Death World: Earth is regarded as one due to its extremely low mana, which largely prevents the blessings of the gods from affecting people and its high gravity. Basically all Terran Humans are the equivalent of John Carter of Mars on other worlds, making them superstrong and magically powerful even without the blessing of a deity. This is one of the reasons why other worlds tend to summon Earthlings as Heroes.
• Deconstruction: Of the typical Story-Breaker Power protagonist that isekai light novels use. Everyone who fully understands how strong Makoto is treats him as a living Doomsday Device, one that absolutely must be kept as far away from politics and taking sides in conflicts as possible, lest he start wiping entire civilizations out. Fortunately for the world, he's more interested in being a merchant... which he's decidedly less than talented at. We even get to see some Alternate Timelines where Makoto does start taking sides, all of which have led to The End of the World as We Know It. Thus, a running theme through the story instead becomes about the consequences of giving teenagers ultimate power itself, rather than how they derail existing plot lines. Also, a few Deconstructed Character Archetypes are present, notably the one of Charm Person Tomoki, using his "charm" ability to brainwash beautiful and busty women into his personal harem, but also to get everyone else consider he's a good guy (because of not having people with other opinion around him, he ends up becoming a Tautological Templar) and to get things he want for free.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Makoto is only seen as plain-looking by human standards of Earth. By the hyuman standards of the other world, Makoto is quite ugly and people think he looks much closer to a demihuman in appearance.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": Makoto has this reaction when called by honorifics initially. He wants to object the residents of Asora calling him Waka (Young Master) but decided not to after seeing everyone's enthusiasm.
• Dragon Rider: Discussed but Averted with Makoto and Tomoe. He initially believes becoming master to a giant flying dragon will make travel easier. Because of their power imbalance, their 80:20 contract means Tomoe must take on the humanoid form of the dominant Makoto. Thus, she cannot carry him in the sky.
• The Dragonslayer: Sofia Bulga's title is earned after her slaying of the Supreme Dragon Lancer before the series started. She continues her journey and kills three more Supreme Dragons to acquire their powers and abilities.
• The Dreaded:
  • Tomoe is one of the 7 superior dragons known as the "Invincible" and the second highest level adventurer.
  • Mio is known as "Black Calamity Spider" and is the highest level adventurer.
  • Makoto:
    • Makoto earned the title "Devil" by accidentally destroying both an entire hyuman and demon army, the aftermath of which created a lake, though almost no one knows that it was him that did it. Most only know it was someone who was summoned by the Goddess. After effortlessly dealing with Io, it makes the Demon Lord Zef, his children and the 4 Demon Generals terrified of him especially and Kuzunoha in general. Further, his unconsciously overflowing magic aura is able to terrify a bunch of adventurers when not suppressed. Tomoe compares it to a bunch of Demon Lords appearing out of the blue.
    • The leader of the Lorel Union, having grasped just how powerful Makoto is, quickly goes from interested to worried to openly terrified as she realizes the implications of having Makoto running around free, able to react to untold number of Political, Racial, Religious and Financial factions who don't understand his strength and thus might provoke a reaction by accident.
    • The Water Dragon, Waterfall, is openly polite and nice to Makoto when they meet, up to and including offering Makoto magic books on Interdimensional Summoning and Travel. However, the second he leaves the room, Waterfall turns to Hibiki and begs her to find some way to seal Makoto away, because he's so powerful that nothing in the world — not even the Goddess — can stop him. The Interdimensional Summoning and Travel spellbooks are part of this plot, with the hope that Makoto will simply send himself back to Japan and no longer be a threat due to no longer having magic.
• Driven to Suicide: the usual result when victims of Tomoki's brainwashing are freed of it.
• Elemental Hair Colors: Tomoe has blue hair, as befitting her water elemental alignment. She wishes it was black like a Japanese samurai, though.
• Elemental Powers: Six different elements that can be conjured and manipulated with magic. These elements are: water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, and darkness.
• Equalizing the Interspecies Romance: Tomoe, a dragon, and Mio, a Giant Spider, become infatuated with Makoto after he defeats them in battle. After entering a slave contract with him, they turn into beautiful human girls, thus avoiding the complications of trying to have a romantic and sexual relationship with him in their original forms. Makoto is still reluctant to give into their advances because he knows their true forms.
• Ethical Slut: Falz, the guild leader of the Adventurer's guild, aka Luto, the Supreme Dragon of Myriad Colors, the native Crystal Dragon Jesus. As an immortal shapeshifter, he has been married 10 times, to both men and women; he prefers having sex as a woman but thinks love between men is superior. He also has a fetish for otherworlders, his 10 husbands and wives having been otherworlders and openly wants to get Makoto into bed. That said, Falz wants to woo Makoto and doesn't try to coerce him into a relationship.
• Everything's Better with Samurai: Tomoe being a self-proclaimed samurai, having become obsessed with them based on watching old Samurai and Detective movies in Makoto's memories.
• Exotic Extended Marriage: Makoto is surprised to learn polygamy is fairly common in the Goddess' world because the Goddess encourages hyumans having multiple spouses to have more chances of passing on good genes to the next generation.
• Extremely Easy Exam: Makoto is told that the Merchant Guild test is extremely hard and barely anyone passes on their first try. He finishes with more than half the time left and scores an unprecedented perfect score. Since the Goddess of the world prioritizes physical beauty above all else, the education level is terrible. Makoto compares the questions to grade school math problems.
• Extreme Omnivore: Mio and the Alkes were insatiable Big Eater Extreme Omnivore monsters with little sanity. Thanks to Makoto's mana they regained their sanity and self-control. In return they swore an Undying Loyalty to him.
• Failed a Spot Check: Makoto receives a few intelligence reports from Lime but fails to realize he is talking to Lime without the needs of his signs to be understood. It is a few days later when Makoto puts this together and then learns Tomoe has made Lime a half-human half-dragon hybrid. His failure is lampshaded by the anime's narrative when he notes he must remain vigilant and aware of his surroundings only to then realize his failure.
• Fake Ultimate Hero:
  • Mills Ace for Zetsuya. The public knows him as the highest level adventurer in there and someone heroic, but in reality, he is the leader of a local crime organization and faked his level.
  • In a variation, Tomoki, despite given various luxuries and indulgences to keep him pliant, is considered by Princess Lily and Gritonia as little more than a Human Weapon to serve their ambitions to wipe out the demons and expand their empire, with him experimented on multiple times to the point he will likely die young. Whatever respect he does have is due to widespread propaganda and exploiting his charm skill.
• Fantastic Nuke: Some of the attacks shown qualify as this.
  • Makoto's magic attack which wiped out 2 armies and created a lake. Specifically, it was one ungodly huge ice spell that froze everything in a very large radius, shattering it all into component atoms and then melted, filling the resultant crater and connecting several rivers. Only a handful of people survived on both sides and the lingering mana from the spell drives monsters away for miles around.
  • One of the heroes, Tomoki, has one too, actually called "Nuke." It literally summons a nuclear blast, complete with radiation aftereffects, which Tomoki can ignore due to his immortality blessing at night — but as a status effect, it can be simply cured away with magic.
  • Makoto eventually figures out how to use the material his rings are made out of as ammunition, causing huge explosions whenever he does.
• Fantastic Racism: The Goddess and Hyumans severely discriminate against demi-humans. Makoto simply not grasping how racist the Hyumans are bites him on multiple occasions.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Mio attempts to be a good housewife by learning to cook meals for Makoto, though this is hampered by her Extreme Omnivore nature making it hard to tell what other people can actually eat.
• Field Power Effect: Makoto's Realm can apply all sorts of effects, from increasing his power, hiding his magic power, healing others, negating magic and can expand to let him see and hear anyone within it. Sadly, he's restricted by how many things he can do at the same time and he has to use a good portion of it to restrain his own mana.
• Foil: Hibiki, the Heroine of Limia and Tomoki, the Hero of Gritonia are a study in contrasts. Both in turn emphasize the traits of Makoto, chosen by Tsukiyomi and those chosen by the Goddess.
  • Hibiki is a female take on the Stock Light-Novel Hero. A natural Genius Bruiser who found nothing at all challenging in her homeworld, Hibiki nevertheless remains essentially The Paladin even after being brought to this world. Noble, courageous and skilled, Hibiki seeks to enact social change for the better gradually through progressive reform. Her party is very conventional being a Damager, Healer, Tank combination of a White Magician Girl, a Black Mage, a Stone Wall fighter and a Lightning Bruiser warrior. A member of the Limian royal family secretly fights within Hibiki's party out of love for her. Hibiki fights as part of the vanguard in her party but is versatile enough to drop into any role that is required in battle.
  • Tomoki is a deconstruction of the Stock Light-Novel Hero. He is chosen solely for his good looks. He lacks any special skills and has been bullied heavily throughout his life. Unlike Hibiki who was transferred "as is", Tomoki was radically transfigured by the Goddess into a blonde, older form. A Dirty Coward who ran away the moment his life was even at the slight hint of danger, Tomoki rapidly slides into evil under the machinations of his party members. Tomoki basically seeks to use his charm powers to rule Gritonia as his personal harem and treasury without any heed for the welfare of the people. Tomoki's party consists mainly of people with rare and unconventional classes. Aside from an Imperial Guardsman to serve as a tank, the rest of his party are a Gadgeteer Genius who fights using golems and a Dragon Summoner. The member of the royal family in Tomoki's party is openly affiliated with it but does not fight on the front lines serving as The Strategist and logistician. Tomoki in battle is basically a one trick pony, blasting the enemy with high level firepower.
  • Makoto is functionally a Heroic Neutral more interested in cooperation and harmony between the various races. In chapters set in the Lorel Union, we learn that many other Japanese Otherworlders also held similar beliefs. This implies that Makoto acts more in accordance to how most Japanese would act as opposed to the heroism of Hibiki or the hedonism of Tomoki. In addition, while Hibiki and Tomoki's struggle involves gaining strength for their purposes, Makoto's trouble lies in controlling and restraining his massive amount of mana, lest he frighten or hurt people by accident. Finally, Makoto's "party" is made up of his servants, non-humans (given a human appearance due to the effects of the servant contract) who are individually strong or skilled enough to be the Final Boss (or at least Elite Mooks) in another story, including the would-be samurai/Master of Illusion Tomoe, the former Black Spider of Calamity Mio and the knowledgable lich Shiki.
• Forced Transformation: Discussed after the first Fragment's death results in Tomoe being gravely wounded, Makoto's drive to end the crisis results in him accessing some of her powers, something he normally cannot do. He is told later that this can happen as the master in their master-servant contracts, especially when the master gets close to his servants. This leads to Makoto wondering if he will become some human-dragon-spider-lich hybrid because of his contracts with Tomoe, Mio, and Shiki, respectively. They assure him it won't happen, as the contracts he has with them would prevent such things from happening, since he is the dominant one by far in terms of power.
• Foreshadowing: When Karen Force joins Makoto's class in Rotsgard Academy, her spellcasting is shown at the same time as another new students. A subtle difference between them belies Karen's true nature: Karen omits the part of the spell praying to the Goddess for power. Nearly every hyuman starts off using that part of the incantation because it lessons the burden of magic needed for the spell, and those who don't either are trying something that is sacreligious at best, or an enemy of the Goddess and would never speak it. Karen is the later and is soon revealed to be Rona, one of the top generals of the Demon Army.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With:
  • In general, when two individuals make a contract, the weaker contractor will always assume the image of the stronger contractor's race. Tomoe, Mio, and Shiki assume hyuman form when they made a servant contract with Makoto.
  • Mio's Arkes gradually learn to disguise themselves as hyumans.
• From Bad to Worse: The Goddess transporting Makoto in the middle of a battle where the hyuman army is retreating from the demons had the effect of causing the destruction of both.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Makoto in spades. He starts off as an Ordinary High-School Student with very plain looks and some talent at Archery. By the time he lands in the new world, he's such an overwhelming magical force of nature that he has to wear special clothing and jewelry to suppress his aura, lest adventurers instinctively recognize him as a threat and attack. He just gets more powerful from there, to the point that a major plot point is that he can't interfere with world events or he'll accidentally cause The End of the World as We Know It.
• Funny Animal: Emma and the other Orcs tend to look more like cute pigs in clothes.
• Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: The ultimate fate of Sofia. Luto destroys her memories, leaving her as a happy, if somewhat innocent, young adventurer.
• Giant Spider: Mio, before gaining a human form, and the Arkeys were all large arachnids.
• Gilded Cage:
  • The Lorel Union is a secretive country that respects, supports, if not outright worships lost otherworlders that end up in their world, who they call "The Wise." They are also of the opinion that The Wise should only be in Lorel, and are not opposed to using manipulation to imprison them there.
  • Sairitz, their leader, recognizes Makoto as a Wise after he uses Kanji in his sign, and confirms it later during the Variant Crisis when he uses absurdly powerful magic. Her immediate thought is that she needs to convince him to go to Lorel, where they can properly restrain him via emotional blackmail into staying there forever. Shortly thereafter, she starts reasoning how strong he is, the reactions of politicians and racial groups to him and his company, and the very bad things that would occur if things went sideways when Makoto is involved.
• Giving Someone the Pointer Finger:
  • The anime opening for the second half of season 2 has two sets of opposing forces doing this to each other represeting their upcoming conflicts in this half of the season. The first set are Makoto's students and Ilumgand's team pointing at each other as they will face each other in the upcoming tournament. The second sets are the hyuman leaders of various nations and the church pointing at the upper leadership of the demons referencing the conflict between the factions continuing to grow.
  • During the Rotsgard Academy tournament, Makoto and Tomoe are on the receiving end of this from the headmaster of the academy as he is in disbelief about Tomoe's teleporting powers being able to take everyone to a place she hasn't seen but is in the headmaster's mind.
• God Is Evil: The Goddess is a vain, petty, vindictive and callous Jerkass God. She is capricious in her favors and only cares if people are beautiful. Anything that fails to meet her standards of beauty are to be shunned or destroyed.
• Gold Digger: Soon after Makoto becomes a teacher at Rotsgard Academy, several female students try to approach him and propose marriage to him. They aren't actually interested in him since they think he's ugly, but they know he's a promising merchant with ties to the Rembrandt Company and since polygamy is legal in their world, the girls think becoming one of Makoto's wives would set them for life.
• Hands Go Down: When Jinn is talking with Izumo, Daena, Mithra, and Abelia about Makoto's brutal but effective training regiment, they go through raising and lowering their hands as they realize not only is their growth far more effective here than in other classes, which would lead to jealousy from other students and teachers, and cause problems for Makoto, they also agree that his methods would also bring him issues and likely expelled.
• Happiness in Slavery: Tomoe, Mio, Shiki, and Tamaki make a servant contract with Makoto and are content with it.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: On a national scale. Human armies can pray for the Goddess' Blessing before any battle. The side favoured by the Goddess due to their good looks gets their strength doubled while the opposing side gets their strength halved. This four fold change in combat ability pretty much determines the winner before any engagement. This means that logistics, training, strategy, tactics and equipment are all invalidated in warfare involving human nations; regardless of how much demihumans may develop their military, overcoming this gap is simply unrealistic.
• Hate Sink: The hyuman supremacists, their leader Elaine in particular. They were a trio of hyuman adventurers that tricked Makoto into taking them to the Illusionary City so they could steal some of the weaponry there. They not only attack an orc child just for seeing them, their recklessness causes one of the Draupnir meant to be disposed of to detonate, killing Hayato and Tomoe's fragment, as well as near fatally injuring Hokuto. While two of them are likewise killed in the explosion, Elaine manages to escape, not caring her comrades perished and more focused on the equipment. She then tries berating the clearly unhinged Makoto when he finds her and has the gall to beg for mercy right before Makoto kills her. Safe to say, the only tears shed at their deaths were Makoto's own, not because he felt remorse, but because his body had been conditioned to cry at death.
• Hero's Slave Harem: Downplayed with Makoto's main love interests, Tomoe and Mio, who formed 80/20 "servant" magical contracts with the massively-overpowered Makoto to mutually-benefit from the power the contract provides and both are extremely eager to service him sexually. However, exactly how bound to the servant contract they are is hazy, considering that Tomoe and Mio both regularly ignore Makoto's will or outright coerce him into going along with their whims instead. Makoto also gains additional servants like Shiki and Tamaki who are not romantically interested in him at all.
• Heroic Lineage: Played with. Makoto's parents are indeed something special. However it was not him who was groomed to assume their legacy and fulfill their bargain with the Goddess; it was his elder sister.
• Hidden Depths: Mio turns out to be quite the foodie, not surprising given her original nature as a gluttonous eldritch abomination; this translates into her being an incredible chef as well. Hibiki helped teach her about Japanese food, which Mio finds infinitely more admirable and interesting than Hibiki being one of the two heroes.
• Hollywood Homely: In universe example as most humanoids fall under this. Justified because the goddess is a Jerkass who dislikes ugly things. So she definitely put some influences to "brush off" humanoids who don't meet her beauty standard.
• Hot in Human Form: Tomoe, Mio and Shiki start out as an ancient dragon, a Giant Spider and decrepit lich, only to become highly attractive humans after becoming Makoto's subordinates.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Most Hyumans are depicted as racist, greedy and even outright evil. Most of Makoto's friends and allies are demihumans and he learns the harsh way how demihumans are discriminated and victimized by Hyumans.
• Hybrid-Overkill Avoidance: Hyumans are noted to be incapable of breeding with other species, like Greater Dragons. However, as Makoto is human due to how he was raised on Earth, he is capable of breeding with Tomoe. Luto confirms it to her as he (as a woman) once bore the child of a human centuries ago.
• Identical Stranger: Hasegawa in Japan and Toa the adventurer look very similar despite living worlds apart.
• Informed Deformity: We're told that Makoto is ugly, but he's not drawn significantly different from other humans.
• Inhumanly Beautiful Race: Hyumans are a Human Subspecies created by the Goddess to be extremely beautiful because she values beauty above all else. Makoto is shocked because an "average-looking" hyuman already looks like a work of art.
• Jerkass Gods:
  • The Goddess whom Makoto saw before "landing" to the new world is one. She insulted him, threw him at the wasteland and gave him the ability to speak with non-humans but not the ability to speak the common (hyuman) language which she gives to any other hyuman.
  • Later, when forced to give him the ability to speak the Hyuman language, she does so via brute force, basically hammering it into his soul. This is a problem because the combination of both equates to a high divine tier, "speak to anything with a mind" blessing and a mortal soul can barely contain a blessing that powerful without self destructing. It's to the point that the other Earth gods can't give him a blessing because of it and openly instruct him to use his Zen Meditation trick to power up as fast as possible before his soul explodes.
• Kidnapped by the Call: Makoto was scooped up and dropped into this adventure with little time to pack up and think it over. His choices were: He goes, or, one of his sisters must take his place. He's then promptly abandoned by a Jerkass God who promptly kidnaps two other people instead.
• Kill the Cutie: The death of Tomoe's first offshoot. Particularly brutal, as the explosion didn't even leave a corpse to be buried.
• The Klutz: Hazal is unbelievably clumsy, regularly tripping over his own two feet and accidentally injuring himself when collecting loot from monster drops. Ties into him being the Butt-Monkey of Toa's party.
• Language Barrier: Makoto is able to understand and speak to any non-hyuman beings but is unable speak and understand the common (Hyuman) language though he manages to get through understanding only. He later bargains the Hyuman language from the Goddess.
• Language of Magic: Magic is worked through a system known as Ancient Language.
• Lizard Folk: Tomoe brings a tribe of reptilian humanoids to the demiplane, the Mistio Lizardmen.
• Loads and Loads of Races: It's fantasy so this is bound to happen. The main one that matters is the "Hyumans," which are distinctly not Humans, being incredibly attractive but generally weaker and more attuned to magic than the outrageously physically strong humans. They're cheap knockoffs created by the local sociopathic deity. Others include the local native demi-humans, which due to influence of the local goddess, are openly oppressed, as well as the local Demons, which are in open rebellion to the Goddess (and thus, her hyumans). It's later revealed that the demons is just the term for demi-humans who are the target of genocide from the Goddess / Hyumanity.
• Made of Magic: Makoto studies a mana materialization theory that couldn't be proven true before because the original author didn't have enough mana resources to make it possible beyond materializing a very tiny mana shard. Thanks to Makoto's limitless mana pool, he can put the theory into action and materializes his mana as a giant slime armor that covers his body.
• "Magic A" Is "Magic A": The magic system of the Goddess' world have clear rules, such as the inability to fully use more than one Magic Enhancement spell at once because one overwrites the other.
• Magical Incantation: Known as arias and they come in different varieties, depending on which language they are spoken in.
• Manipulative Bastard: Princess Lily, full stop, who has Tomoki wrapped around her finger with promises of power and glory. She has no intention of letting him live past the wars she plans on using him to win.
• Marry Them All: Makoto finally takes the Adventurers of Origin's advice to be honest with the people he loves about how he feels about them and finally confesses to Mio and Tomoe. He consummates his relationship with both of them shortly afterwards.
• Meaningful Rename: Makoto renames Shin as Tomoe and the Calamity Spider as Mio after they became his subordinates.
• Meditation Powerup: A more permanent variant than normal for this trope. By using the meditation technique he was taught for Zen Archery, Makoto is able to increase his already ridiculous amount of power past 'multiple demon lords' to 'just shy of a god'. Each time he does it he also causes Aurora to grow and warp to become more like Japan. Allowing the growth of Japanese foods. He didn't even realize he was doing it until his companions caught him in the act. It is hinted that his growth was exponential or geometrical, which means a single additional meditation session would have easily put him above the Goddess in terms of pure magical ability, which Tomoe and Mio were worried would result in her immediately attempting to kill him. Given that he's Unskilled, but Strong, he would not have been able to fight her off at that time.
• Miko: Included with the Shrines and Temples that were gifted by the 3 gods; one of them was Touda who later on becomes Makoto's subordinate and is renamed as Tamaki.
• My God, What Have I Done?: The reaction of anyone who is released from Tomoki's mind control. It is explicitly compared to a drug addiction that results in its victims having betrayed friends, families, loved ones and their morals and beliefs in their single minded devotion to Tomoki. To the point that the most common reaction after coming to their senses is suicide.
• My Greatest Failure: Luto's reaction to Sophia deciding to absorb the other dragons. He specifically points out that this was one of his plans that he tossed aside after getting married to Sophia's ancestor, so he feels some serious remorse over it.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Played for Laughs when Tomoe, Komoe, and Makoto have met the giant bird king created by the Demiplane, Tomoe brings up the how the demiplane's unique and new abilities are because of a mixing of Makoto and her powers, the Demiplane is like their first child together, and so Komoe's big sister. There is a cut to Mio who suddenly gets angry as though she can sense Tomoe's semi-teasing action and the implication she is closer to Makoto than Mio is.
• Noble Wolf: Asora has wolves that act as noble guardians of the forest and have an amical relationship with Makoto.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: So far in the manga and novel, the goddess's name hasn't been revealed yet. So the characters and readers call her "The Goddess". It is implied it is a name the reader would know.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: During the Rotsgard Academy Tournament, three noblemen in the VIP box mock and deride Sif Rembrant and her opponent Abelia Hopleys for running around during their match and not standing still while casting their spells. They feel that such actions are not worthy of true noble fighters. Princess Lily of Gritonia immediately challenges them on their words as her kingdom's hero Tomoki attacks from the air on ground forces and uses similar pragmatic tactics. She demands to know if they feel he is not a true noble himself. The King of Limia joins Lily in her criticism of the fools by noting holding to such traditions and restrictions on the battlefield will cost lives, and their words could be considered insults to the heroes. Guildmaster Falz agrees as well, and compliments the fighters on their inovative moves. No one can defend their words, while others watch silently at this criticism.
• Orbital Bombardment: Makoto's ultimate spell, Moon. He summons, by asking the Moon for assistance using his blessing that allows him to talk to anyone and anything, an infinite number of flaming, homing meteors that explode as miniature nukes.
• Otaku:
  • Makoto and Tomoe. The former for having books, games, things on his hard drive and watching so many period dramas. The latter for actually becoming Makoto's subordinate so she can watch his memories of above and record the projections for later viewing.
  • Later, Mio became a fan (preferring Anime and Westerns to Tomoe's Samurai and Detective stories) after Tomoe lent a copy of Makoto's memory recordings of Japanese media. She and Tomoe then fight over watching them.
• Our Demons Are Different: Demons are the number one adversary for the Goddess and Hyumans in their war against each other.
• Our Dragons Are Different: The Supreme Dragons are closer to incredibly powerful spirits or low-level gods, with the capability to shift forms, control entire elements, never age and reincarnate even after their physical bodies are destroyed. Tomoe is a large Eastern Dragon who has the ability to read peoples mind, create mists of illusions, can create an empty pocket dimension, and is into Japanese period dramas. Luto is considered by most to be an equal to the Goddess, can make massive magical networks like the Adventurer system and can shift between a giant golden dragon, a woman and a man at will.
• Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Short stature, powerful facial hair, talented craftsdwarfs, you know the drill. There are two known classifications of Dwarves: the simply named Dwarves and the Elder Dwarves who join "Asora". The latter's work is considered a higher grade than the former's.
• Our Elves Are Different: They're supposedly descended from an older group called the Forest Ogres (who are themselves still around and fit elvish stereotypes of being secretive and isolationist). The manga currently has one named elven adventurer.
• Our Liches Are Different: Admittedly not that different in form, but markedly so in skillset. While still an undead spellcaster, the resident lich Shiki specializes in earth magic and healing magic instead of the more harmful kind. He also gets awfully pretty after forming a contract with Makoto.
• Our Orcs Are Different: The local orcs are boar-like, and more peaceably agrarian than one might expect from a High Fantasy setting. The tribe Makoto encounters early on is primarily concerned with not getting wiped off the map.
• Paying Their Dues: In-Universe: Zara Hardis, head of the Rotsgard City Merchant Guild, believes the typical process for merchants in the world is to work under a senior merchant in their shop or business, learn the process of buying and selling based on the market value, slowly build up contacts and knock on the doors of those who came before, and then using those connections and capital, both financial and social, are they able to open up a shop of their own. He detests people who think money and a few high ranking connections would allow them to shortcut this process. As such, he detests Makoto right away because Makoto is the latter. His only connection to the merchants is Rembrandt and no one else, but using Rembrandt and Makoto's own funds, he has two shops open in two cities. Zara feels this is a lazy ethic and takes pleasure in verbally calling out Makoto when they meet.
• Person of Mass Destruction:
  • Makoto, as a deconstruction of the trope. He is capable of reforming the landscape or wiping out entire armies or countries with ease — and the people who realize this are all openly terrified of him.
  • Mio and Tomoe as well. They leveled Zetsuya to the ground in an evening in a strength contest.
• Playing with Fire: Fire Magic. Makoto in particular has summoned a bow made of flames and fought Mio in their first fateful encounter by firing off a series of fireballs like a rotary cannon.
• Pocket Dimension: The mist town Asora, which is its own little universe contained outside the worlds of the Goddess or our Earth, though it's only the size of a town and later a small countryside.
• Power Incontinence:
  • Makoto has so much mana that he is unconsciously leaking it out at all times, to the point that people witnessing this instinctively recognize him as a lethal threat - a monster in human form. (Described as "like seeing a group of demon lords appearing all at the same time.") This becomes a hindrance to him, as he has to use his Realm powers constantly to restrain his mana, meaning he can't use it for other things like detecting things or defending himself.
  • The Three Gods who arrive to deal with the Goddess wish to give Makoto their own blessings, but realize due to him stopping his Zen Archery Meditation he is dangerously close to a Super-Power Meltdown; due to the Goddess having shoved another, overpowered blessing in without any care to his safety.
• The Power of Language: When Makoto gives new Names to then Shen and the Black Spider of Calamity as a sign of their contracts, his Naming empowers them further. Tomoe even says after receiving her name there is a unique Name for each individual which he could bestow on that will max out the Named one's power. Mio refuses to give what hers would be as she wants something personal to Makoto.
• Power Perversion Potential: Tomoki used his "Charm" ability to brainwash numerous ladies and obtain his harem...
• Power Profit Potential: ...but he also uses said ability to get things he think can be useful in his mission (remember, he still see himself as the rightful hero who will defeat the demons) for free.
• Purple Is Powerful: The strongest group of fighters in Rotsgard Academy staff are the Purple Coats, a squad of men and women dressed in purple cloaks. They are skilled mages usually making a squad of four so each one specializes in one of the four basic elements. They are the defenders of the academy and come forth during the mutation crisis. Unfortunately, the squad Makoto observes face the mutated Illumgand fails in defeating the monster. The mutates Illumgand is immune to wind and earth magic and absorbs water magic. The fire spell barely scratches him, but rather than try more fire magic, the leader uses a mana boost spell first, allowing the mutant to overwhelm them and kills them. It is implied other groups of Purple Coats also suffered loses in their fights against other mutants.
• Redemption Quest: During the Rotsgard Academy arc, Lisa Rembrandt meets with her daughters Shifu and Yona. She explains to her daughters she is displeased with their arrogance and haughty behavior at the school before they were all cursed into horrible forms. As such, Lisa expects them to make up for their many misdeeds and rehabilitate their images before they graduate, or they will suffer her wrath. The daughters are very scared of what it will mean to fail.
• Reformed, but Rejected: Ilumgand regains his sanity after being destroyed, his Hyuman body reforming — with superpowers, but deformed — in the core of the Variant that he became. Unfortunately, Mio was the only one to notice and despite his stated goal of surrendering his life to support Hibiki and make up for what he did, Mio casually slaughters and eats him for the crime of upsetting Makoto.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: The strongest hyuman adventurer is Sofia Bulga who earned the epitaph of "Dragon Slayer" for killing a Greater Dragon. It turns out, Lancer, her supposed victim, isn't dead. He is now her comrade and they are fighting against the Goddess' agents.
• Restraining Bolt: The Goddess is given one in the form of a choker or collar by the other gods. Makoto is warned that if they ever do fight, he must not damage it, because it restricts her divine abilities.
• Retired Badass: Makoto's parents were former adventurers, but in Japan, they became a children's storybook writer and illustrator.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Lily, the third princess of the kingdom of Gritonia, became an adventurer to help the kingdom's Hero, Tomoki. Note that this does not, in any way, make her GOOD. She is a manipulative sociopath, openly hoping to use Tomoki to deal with the Demons and then manipulate him into killing her rivals and taking over the world.
• RPG Mechanics 'Verse: The Adventurer's Guild has a level based EXP system and a rank system, as is typical of isekai novels; however, this one is explained as Luto, the local Crystal Dragon Jesus, having decided to implement the system as a way to organize — and restrain — the Hyumans, based on his first husband being a video game fan from Japan who loved role playing games. A major reoccurring plot point is that the levels are just that — a number — and have nothing to do with skill, talent, or the like. It is implied that the Adventurer Guild system has other benefits for rank, such as unlockable skills, titles, and the like, but Makoto and his allies are completely and utterly uninterested in looking into any of it.
• Sanity Slippage:
  • Ilumgand, due to the influence of the Demon Army's cursed drugs. His side of things is shown in a POV chapter, including that Makoto jumping in to "save" Ruria before Ilumgand could recover emotionally from discovering she wasn't dead destroyed his life. He recovers, in the end, but sadly is not able to redeem himself.
  • Everyone who recovers from Tomoki's mind control has this general reaction to the things they were forced to do, usually ending in suicide.
• Self-Made Man: Rembrandt started as a small merchant and clawed his way up to where he is now.
• Shout-Out:
  • The dungeon sprites are all sprites... that are cosplaying as 2D video game characters. I.e., Sprites. The first one Makoto encounters is dressed up ... in red. With overalls. And a mustache. Which looks really weird on the very female sprite.
  • The dungeon sprite's final attack is to teleport Makoto into a wall. This is a reference to an infamous total party kill permadeath in the Wizardry series of games — if you teleport into a wall, your characters are all instantly dead and the game immediately saves, preventing you from recovering them.
• Shrines and Temples: A Shinto shrine, a Buddhist temple and a Pantheon were gifted to Makoto by the three gods that visited Asora.
• Small, Secluded World: The mist town Asora isn't that much secluded as per se since Makoto, Tomoe and eventually Mio and Shiki can create a mist gate that leads to the outside world which lets them enter and exit the mist town whenever they want.
• Story-Breaker Power: Makoto and his party. Makoto especially could single-handedly end the hyuman-demon war if he wanted to, but ultimately decides not to get involved with it at all and just wants to live as how he sees fit. Daikokuten actually temporarily gives Makoto the ability to see Alternate Timelines where he did stop the wars by taking various sides. It ends poorly in every single instance.
• Super-Empowering:
  • The Goddess blesses Hibiki and Tomoe with powerful skills and items to further enhance their powers and ability to be fighters against the demons.
  • Between human nations when they fight, the Goddess will grant one side strength and endurance, while weaking the other side, thus making earning her favor for empowering a key strategy for victory.
  • Luto, the Harmony Supreme Dragon, can bestow on some people rare skills at a cost after he analyzes them. If he is giving the blessings to a few people, he might limit one to getting just an attack skill, while another could get a buffing skill. He notes these blessings are not something even the Goddess can give.
• Surveillance Station Slacker: An unnamed demon guard at a fort inside the captured territory of Kaleneon is dozing off just as his replacement comes to switch spots. This is when Asora's 100-unit force attacks to reclaim the fort and territory on Makoto's orders. Both see the force charging over the field and sound the alarm.
• Their First Time: After choosing to accept the feelings of his two love interests, Makoto finally has sex with Mio and Tomoe, one after the other.
• They Would Cut You Up: When Makoto tells Luto his total mana capacity has increased several times when even just once is a rarity to Luto's knowledge, Luto responds that Makoto should keep that quiet. Research groups would hunt him down and cut him up to see how they could repeat the results.
  Luto: Slice and dice.
• Third Party Stops Attack: During the climax of the Rotsgard Acedemy Arc, the Goddess is attempting to force Makoto to go save Limia. Makoto refuses because of his hatred for the Goddess, noting he might just join forces with the demons. They trade insults and nearly come to blows when the room shakes and not because of either of them. The fairy attendant to the Goddess arrives and informs her of a visitor from Earth is here and is demanding to speak with her. The Goddess realizes fighting now would not be in her interests and decides to offer Makoto some compensation for doing this task for her.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: In their human forms, Tomoe acts and dresses as a samurai, and loves her name because it comes from a female samurai in Japanese folklore. Mio wears a more feminine kimono and is a Yamato Nadeshiko.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Downplayed but Played for Laughs. Among the Forest Ogres youth, Eris and Aqua are looked up at as excellent fighters with many idolizing the serious Aqua. However, when Eris' antics lead to a week long detention at the Demiplane boot camp, a young Ogre named Shii is with Eris and now idolizes Eris and mimics her personality. Mondo is less than pleased with Shii's change in personality.
• Training from Hell:
  • Tomoe and Mio inflict extremely harsh training regimens on the races of Asora. The Forest Ogres were especially traumatized by the ordeal and made bananas into their Comfort Food to survive the training.
  • Makoto also is very strict when training his students at the Rotsgard Academy. Their first lesson against him has them being made to fight to the point of exhaustion of mana, making them all collapse or throw up while Makoto is not hit once. After a few lessons of this Makoto brings in Liddy of the Mist Lizards as their sparring partner. He only fights at 10% of his strength and still resoundly beats them all.
• Trapped in Another World: Played straight and inverted. Makoto is the former, his parents is latter as they were ones trapped in Earth. See Deal with the Devil for more info.
• Undying Loyalty: Tomoe, Mio, Shiki, Tamaki and those of Asora are extremely loyal to Makoto to the point that they would kill anyone who would disrespect and/or hurt him.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Makoto, having a stupidly strong body and near infinite magical power... doesn't understand much more than the most basic of concepts of magic, tactics, combat, et cetera. His most common tactics are "cast the most basic spell at it," "punch it using magic," and "shoot it with his bow," in order of annoyance.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: Tomoe prefers to use a curved one-edged blade resembling a katana to complement with her samurai identity.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Many adventurers of Tsige become tools of a conspiracy after Rembrandt made a group who takes every single low-ranked quest. Low ranked adventurers have no choice but to take quests which are above their ability, which given that Tsige is on the border of the wasteland, leaves them without any options to earn a living. Compounding this is that most adventurers are from orphanages or otherwise destitute, and have no life skills other than adventuring.
• What If?:
  • Daikokuten gives Makoto dreams of what he could have done and its effects on the world if some things had happened differently. Daikokuten, when talking to the other gods, mentions parallel worlds, so these may be visions of what might have actually occurred in other timelines.
  • "What if Makoto actually goes after the Goddess?" He becomes a revenge obsessed sociopath who murders in cold blood; the Heroes try to stop him and fail, utterly.
  • "What if Makoto had gone south instead of north when landing in the world?" He is found by the kingdom of Gritonia and their hero, Tomoki — and Lily, who manipulates him into being the third hero. After genociding the demon race, he turns on humanity.
  • "What if Makoto allied with the Demons?" In this timeline, he never recruited Shiki, and the Heroes, Mio, and Tomoe are all killed during Makoto's rise to power.
  • "What if [UNKNOWN]?" We aren't given any specifics on this timeline, other than it was apparently very close to the current one. Rather than see what the other Makoto sees, he feels the other Makoto's emotions and hears his Motive Rant... as the other Makoto, an Omnicidal Maniac, decides to kill all life in the universe.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Makoto's reaction to Apple, the group of Immortal Japanese Adventurers hiding in a dungeon. This is also his reaction when offered a Golden Apple from the realm of the dead, which if eaten in the realm of the living, would grant eternal life. He is absolutely disgusted by the idea of immortality. Luto also is very clear that making a mortal live too long leads to nothing but tragedy. It's one of the few times he's seen not happy go lucky and flirty in the series.
• Wizarding School: Academy Town teaches magic, in addition to swordplay and general education topics.
• World of Technicolor Hair: Differently colored hair is common in the Goddess' world.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Downplayed with Makoto's initial understanding of the world. As an avid consumer of isekai literature and games, he initially thinks the world is a bit more mechanical than it is with a kind goddess bestowing him powers to save the world as well as his first few encounters with natives following the typical isekai narrative. Upon meeting the goddess, she reveals herself to be a vain bitch who casually tosses him aside and doesn't care if he lives or dies. He believes Emma might fall in love with him because he saved her life like in other romance scenerios. When Mio arrives in her black spider form and is told by Tomoe the spider will leave if injured enough, Makoto thinks of it as a boss battle where one needs to damage the boss enough before it leaves. Soon after his encounter with Mio, he stops thinking about this world in such rigid mechanics and realizes these are all living, breathing, free people. The anime opening references this poor assumption by having him state how he thinks his "fun adventures" will go (kind goddess, lovely heroines and grateful human settlers) with how things will happen (The bitch goddess, Mio and Tomoe looking intimidating with red eyes and hyumans attacking him).
• Wutai: Laurel Commonwealth is heavily influenced by Japanese culture.