Title: In Another World with My Smartphone Vol. 5
Author: Patora Fuyuhara (Story), Soto (Art)
Publisher: Yen Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
Genre: Isekai, Fantasy
Publication Date: April 26, 2022
The Story
The fifth volume of In Another World with My Smartphone has a couple of interesting developments. They head to Mismede and delivered the letter to the King. While enjoying the castle, Touya stumbles upon a stuffed toy named Paula that wants him to follow it. This leads to him meeting Leen, the Leader of the Fairies. Touya learns that Leen is Charlotte’s teacher when it comes to magic. Leen herself can use Null magic with her most prominent spell being Program… the ability to write instructions onto inanimate objects in terms of simple movements or commands.
Since Touya can use any null spell, he takes Program for himself and begins to experiment with it in the only logical way… by making GUNS!
After modeling a gun, he programs it to fire and reload and even programs real bullets to explode on contact, thus saving him from having to chant incantations during battle. He also programs rubber bullets with paralysis to use on humans.
After they return from Mismede. Touya creates a bicycle and ends up being all the rage. On his way to the store to buy materials, he has his wallet stolen. After tracking down the thief, she is found being bulled by other thieves for infringing on their territory. After saving her by shooting them with his new gun (this really took a hard left turn so quickly), he discovers that the girl’s name is Renne, and is just an orphan trying to survive.
So, we get a new character added to the pile as Renne is now working for Touya. She has an odd pendant that nobody knows the origin of but right when they try to figure it out, Leen tells Touya about a way to enhance the Gate spell… by combining it with Recall. Recall allows you to see someone’s memories and if you see a destination in there, you can attune Gate to it, thus removing the requirement of having visited the location beforehand! This leads Touya to awkwardly holding hands with Yae which can mean only one thing.
We’re off to Eashen!
Characters
While we had a massive amount of new characters in the last volume, we only get two (or three if you count Paula) in this one.
First up is Leen. In addition to being Charlotte’s teacher, she has taken a keen interest in Touya! (How many girls does this make it now?) She desperately tries to get him to become her student but after Charlotte’s horror stories, there’s no way he’s going to subject himself to such… torture. Still, Leen learns Touya’s secret about being able to use any kind of null magic spell. This allows her to share her knowledge which leads to the improvement of Gate. Leen herself is a bit sassy and confident. She definitely has her persuasive ways but she’s not quite a full tsundere. She’s only halfway there. This makes her a bit fun and playful but in retrospect, she’s just another girl to add to the pile for Touya.
Renne has to have something more to her because she’s your typical orphan. Mom died shortly after giving birth and her father went missing after being called to adventure. So, she learned how to steal and has been trying to get by. Of course, due to Touya’s good heart, he takes her in, gives her a job, and even asks the King to try and pardon her. There are a couple of pieces here that could delve deeper into her backstory or even branch off into another story altogether… such as her pendant or the money situation with the orphanages. Outside of that, she’s just a typical kid.
Final Word
This volume had some nice side plots to it, we got a bit of a cast expansion, and we learned a little bit more about the maids and Rime. The biggest thing about this volume was the ending. This entire time, they kept suspecting Touya to be from Eashen (despite being from Japan in our world) due to the similar culture. There were clues that Touya may just find someone there that may have been isekai’d as well. Now that we’re heading there in Volume 6, things just got mighty interesting.
No doubt that we’re probably in for some more characters to be added but who or how many remains to be known. What will Touya find in Eashen? So many questions to be answered and with all of the build-up that this place has been given, I’m expecting some big things to come out of this next arc! I’m sure once they get back, they will continue the whole pendant/orphanage/crystal monster stories that they set up in this volume and, perhaps, Leen can continue to teach Touya to be even more overpowered than he already is!
Another good volume that has me hyped for the next installment!
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