Living the good life for sure.

I don't really imagine dwarfs as wine drinkers.

Truth is, in the alcohol production the process is more important than the ingredient (unless it's like rotten), douibly so in the brewed or distilled alcohol, which i imagine dwarfs prefer. And industrious and technologically advanced race like dwarfs would have both technology and production process perfected. Though even in fermented alcohol like wine, the process of ageing is more important and for that process equires you to have rooms that have constant low temperatures like you would find...in some caves for example. Which again gives dwarfs quite the advantage.

Outside of wine wankery about "muh grapes raised on the southern slope of hills in the Burgundy in the year '62", it's all about technology and the process. You can have great moonshine from just sugar, water and some yeast if you know what you are doing. But even in wine, actual blind experiments show that wine tasters can't really tell if it's some great year expensive wine from some famous wineyard or some decent store bouht wine. Dwarfs were right to expell this pretentious hipster, just did it for a wrong reason.

Well, I'unno. Maybe it's like Dwarf Fortress, where your dorfs can brew up to four different types of hooch (and very well) from underground crops, but the best of the best stuff (Sunshine and Whip wine) can only be brewed from aboveground ingredients.

Catchy title

sliceoffriedgold said:

Catchy title

A bit short for an isekai tho

Would this even be an isekai novel? My understanding of the genre is that it needs a dude/ette from our world transported elsewhere, but it seems that this is just some lucky, lucky, LUCKY Dwarf living the best life anyone could live.

Coga said:

Would this even be an isekai novel? My understanding of the genre is that it needs a dude/ette from our world transported elsewhere, but it seems that this is just some lucky, lucky, LUCKY Dwarf living the best life anyone could live.

Isekai literally translates as "different world". The genre is centered around a character being transported from one world to another, unfamiliar world. It doesn't have to be from "our world". Originally, they were called "trapped in another world" stories.

If the dwarves in this universe never leave the underground, then the surface is as "otherworldly" as anywhere else, and the brewmaster was banished there, so he's certainly "trapped in another world." He's just making the most of it, like the protag of any isekai.

LOL HOLY SHIT DUDE

Fuck, the art is always solid, but honestly, I don't usually do much more than huff out of my nose. This one made my ears red and my neck hurt because of how hard I laughed while reading that fucking title.

It's simultaneously hilarious because it's such a perfect satire, but also so crazy because this sounds like 1000x better than the usual anime story with such names I see out there.

LastCommissar said:

I don't really imagine dwarfs as wine drinkers.

Truth is, in the alcohol production the process is more important than the ingredient (unless it's like rotten), douibly so in the brewed or distilled alcohol, which i imagine dwarfs prefer. And industrious and technologically advanced race like dwarfs would have both technology and production process perfected. Though even in fermented alcohol like wine, the process of ageing is more important and for that process equires you to have rooms that have constant low temperatures like you would find...in some caves for example. Which again gives dwarfs quite the advantage.

Outside of wine wankery about "muh grapes raised on the southern slope of hills in the Burgundy in the year '62", it's all about technology and the process. You can have great moonshine from just sugar, water and some yeast if you know what you are doing. But even in wine, actual blind experiments show that wine tasters can't really tell if it's some great year expensive wine from some famous wineyard or some decent store bouht wine. Dwarfs were right to expell this pretentious hipster, just did it for a wrong reason.

Dude, how dare you, like, find logical errors in a cartoon. HARUMPH! HOW DARE U!

asnguy said:

Dude, how dare you, like, find logical errors in a cartoon. HARUMPH! HOW DARE U!

Well, it's just that there was a question in the commentary

I like how this idea raises the question: Dwarfs are known for their liquor, but if they're always under the mountain, how could they control the quality of the ingredients? (Unless they were making moss and mushroom liquor.)"

I just wanted to answer it, given that i have some proficiency, if limited, in brewing and distilling. I make my own cider and brandy and calvados (which is technically brandy too).

Someone did took offense to that and downvoted me, i think.

LastCommissar said:

I make my own cider and brandy and calvados (which is technically brandy too).

Now who's the hipster? : p

But to be fair, there is a lot of pretentious magical thinking in the world of wine so your point is still completely valid.

The dwarves still shot themselves in the foot though. But it's a happy ending for the deserving. ^_^

How to get back on those that scorned you. Live a very good life!

nckeo said:

How to get back on those that scorned you. Live a very good life!

The BEST revenge is living well.

AlgaeNymph said:

Now who's the hipster? : p

Haha, well, i guess you found a hipster who had to shovel manure for a couple of hours this morning.

LastCommissar said:

I don't really imagine dwarfs as wine drinkers.

Truth is, in the alcohol production the process is more important than the ingredient (unless it's like rotten), douibly so in the brewed or distilled alcohol, which i imagine dwarfs prefer. And industrious and technologically advanced race like dwarfs would have both technology and production process perfected. Though even in fermented alcohol like wine, the process of ageing is more important and for that process equires you to have rooms that have constant low temperatures like you would find...in some caves for example. Which again gives dwarfs quite the advantage.

They explicitly said in the 1st panel that they have the same production methods. He comes from the same place. He already knows their techniques (and being outside mean he might have gotten to learns some more from humans, unlike the very secluded dwarfs) and I assume that his orc wife would have no trouble finding a good place for storage.
Meaning the only difference, no matter how minor, is in the ingredients. Where he get the advantage.

blindVigil said:

Isekai literally translates as "different world". The genre is centered around a character being transported from one world to another, unfamiliar world. It doesn't have to be from "our world". Originally, they were called "trapped in another world" stories.

If the dwarves in this universe never leave the underground, then the surface is as "otherworldly" as anywhere else, and the brewmaster was banished there, so he's certainly "trapped in another world." He's just making the most of it, like the protag of any isekai.

The logic is sound, but there are those who argue that Inuyasha isn't isekai because it all takes place on the same world.

Equi_libriste said:

They explicitly said in the 1st panel that they have the same production methods. He comes from the same place. He already knows their techniques (and being outside mean he might have gotten to learns some more from humans, unlike the very secluded dwarfs) and I assume that his orc wife would have no trouble finding a good place for storage.
Meaning the only difference, no matter how minor, is in the ingredients. Where he get the advantage.

First of all, i am not arguing with comics, i am answering a question in the commentary section from the position of real life alcohol making. Second, you made several assumptions that there is no reason to make - if dwarfs are so secluded as you say, how did they even get his wine (i asume it's wine, given the phrase about "opulent reds") and why would his orc wife be able to "find good place for storage"? Does she has some experience with wine making so she know what is required of storage place for ageing wine? It's not just a room with enough space, you know. Also, he may know the tenchniques of dwarfs, but that doesn't mean he can use them. Production is a socialized process. Can he built a distillery? Can he at least make a casket? You need a lot of people to do this stuff. If the outside society is not on the same level of production as dwarfs, he is out of luck.

Last, but not the least, why would dwarfs care about wine when they can make an actually good alcohol? :P

He's living the dream

LastCommissar said:

I don't really imagine dwarfs as wine drinkers.

Truth is, in the alcohol production the process is more important than the ingredient (unless it's like rotten), douibly so in the brewed or distilled alcohol, which i imagine dwarfs prefer. And industrious and technologically advanced race like dwarfs would have both technology and production process perfected. Though even in fermented alcohol like wine, the process of ageing is more important and for that process equires you to have rooms that have constant low temperatures like you would find...in some caves for example. Which again gives dwarfs quite the advantage.

Outside of wine wankery about "muh grapes raised on the southern slope of hills in the Burgundy in the year '62", it's all about technology and the process. You can have great moonshine from just sugar, water and some yeast if you know what you are doing. But even in wine, actual blind experiments show that wine tasters can't really tell if it's some great year expensive wine from some famous wineyard or some decent store bouht wine. Dwarfs were right to expell this pretentious hipster, just did it for a wrong reason.

t. Matpat

Well at least it stays true to the way Japanese light novels are always titled.

Have they always been like that, or was it something 2000 started popping out?

Kumihou said:

Well at least it stays true to the way Japanese light novels are always titled.

Have they always been like that, or was it something 2000 started popping out?

I feel the isekai title inflation only really take off post ZnT, or maybe after it ends.

Best isekai ending: Great life, great wife, and got revenge by being DY-NO-MITE!

sliceoffriedgold said:

Catchy title

Call it IWBFDSFMAOGSIRHWSABALVHANMBISGTDKIPFMTCBBITLIALMBL for short.

Would be a neat premise if they write it right.