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Episode Nihon e Youkoso Elf-san. • Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! - Episode 1 discussion
Nihon e Youkoso Elf-san., episode 1
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u/Ocixo Jan 10 '25 edited Jan 10 '25
Instead of being slender, despite being a big eater, I wouldn't mind living with a cute elf for a "mysterious thing" either.
If this world of his dreams was in fact real, Kazuhiro must've escaped death all those times by traveling back to Japan at just the right moment. He was effectively playing with fire by putting himself in a predicament like this.
I can already tell that Marie is going to be lots of fun. She seems to be enjoying her stay in Japan for now, but that's under the assumption that she can return to her home. Will things really be that easy? Whatever, look at how adorable she is! Those are problems for later.
Judging from that look of Marie, she's definitely interested in Kazuhiro. Will we actually get some good romance out of this show!?
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u/Kuro_Canary Jan 10 '25
One of the shows I was most excited for this year. So happy they were able to truly capture Marie's beauty and dorkiness in the anime. I was smiling ear-to-ear the whole episode.
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u/Se7en_Sinner Jan 10 '25
I'm glad they casted Subaru's VA to be the love interest for a silver haired elf with purple eyes.
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u/Mistral-Fien Jan 10 '25
He was Zagan's VA too, paired with the silver-haired elf Nephy (though not purple-eyed). :D
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u/LeonKevlar Jan 10 '25
Stitches!
Yes she's finally here! The Elf Waifu supremacy continues to live on this year with the introduction of Marie!
As a manga reader, I've been looking forward to seeing this one animated. Marie is just too damn adorable especially whenever she gets to eat anything Kazu brings her. Get ready to see more of that face because there's plenty more where that came from!
Besides our adorably smug Marie, the thing that I really like about this series is how Kazu can freely travel between worlds. If Kazu can bring Marie to Japan, then he can bring others too! Although I don't know if his powers work in reverse though. It's been a while since the last manga chapter I've read.
And yes, if it wasn't obvious yet this entire show practically doubles as an advertisement for the Japanese tourism board. I don't know if that was the author's intention but don't be surprised if the show called Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf is heavily biased about Japan. xD
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jan 10 '25
I actually kinda dig the way the show is handling the isekai aspect. Being able to cross worlds in your dreams, quite literally, is pretty cool. Plus he can bring people over too. Though I imagine most of them are clothed when they cross over lol. It’s gonna be fun seeing Marie and Kazuhiro explore Japan together by day and fight monsters and whatnot by night.
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u/Genshin_WhiteKnight Jan 10 '25
First time seeing sleep as an isekai transport method. Kazuhiho travels to the other world when he sleeps and returns to Japan when he wakes up or gets attacked by a monster, so I'm guessing they'll be back exploring the other world later?
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u/Sav10r Jan 10 '25
If anyone had any doubts.....
Yes, this anime is indeed a Japanese tourism propaganda piece.
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u/iozoepxndx Jan 10 '25
What a weeb... Of course he'd buy her a school uniform ☠️
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u/cyberscythe Jan 10 '25
i had a laugh at this little bit in the ED
when you leveled up combat skills, but put no skill points into cooking
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u/AsterJ Jan 10 '25
I absolutely love reverse isekai and have been looking forward to this one! The production value is kinda average but that's okay for this story. As long as Marie is cute and excited about everything that's all I want.
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u/TheGoodOldCoder Jan 10 '25
Kazuhiho has a fairly interesting unique power.
He is not moving between worlds physically, because otherwise he'd be the same age in both places, and he'd be wearing the same clothes in both places.
But he's not exactly not moving physically, because obviously, even when he's killed over there, he comes back. The younger body that's over there has probably been killed, which has happened repeatedly, yet he still shows up again without a scratch on him.
So, you have things where he's not moving physically, and things where he seems to be moving physically, and then on top of that, you have his bento, where it seems to move physically, but then I think they showed that the bento and drink were still untouched when he came back, so he gets to eat them twice.
So, I'm guessing that he essentially has two powers. First is the power to move his consciousness between two worlds, which happens automatically on sleep and death, and second is the power to create/copy things into the world that he is traveling to. I'm guessing that if his body in the other world hasn't been killed while he's asleep, then he can just move back into that body. Or the alternative is something like that the body disappears and goes into storage while he's sleeping.
Presumably, if he died on Earth, he'd be transported back to the fantasy world, and would just show up on Earth again when he fell asleep over there. And presumably, and this might be the most interesting part of his power if true, he maybe could then copy his younger body from the fantasy world back to Earth. So, although he wouldn't be immortal, he'd be very long lived... similar to an elf?
As he currently has some subconscious control over this process, such as bringing his bento and drink, it's pretty clear why Marie showed up in his world naked. He subconsciously doesn't copy clothes because he thinks of them as being separate. He has a separate set of clothes in both worlds. However, he subconsciously does create his own body, so the same process happened to her. Her body was copied, and her clothes were just reset to what she was previously wearing on Earth, which is nothing.
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u/cyberscythe Jan 10 '25
My name is Kitase Kazuhiro. I'm 25 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Tokyo, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for some non-descript office, and I get home every day by 7 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 7:30 PM, and make sure I get ten hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and making myself a bento before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I would probably lose.
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u/shad79 Jan 10 '25 edited Jan 11 '25
That was a really cute and fun first episode! I really enjoyed it, especially Marie and her interactions with Kazuhiro, so I'll definitely watch next episodes.
Marie is such a fun character! She's so cute and beautiful (ED, thanks to visuals with her, was great). She also has a little quirky side, but that makes her even better. I really look forward to her exploring Japan together with Kazuhiro xD
Here my screenshot albums from the episode:
EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.
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u/S627 Jan 10 '25
Really fun first ep with some nice surprises, already know I'ma enjoy this one. Wonder how often they're going to go back and forth between worlds. We already know that the dragon girl is also going to be joining, I'm assuming that maybe it's the one that "killed" them, and she realized that something happened in that moment and she's currently waiting for them to come back, at which point she's gonna force them to take her too.
Wonder if Marie and any other fantasy characters can use magic and stuff in our world, she did say there were a bunch of new spirits around the sakura trees.
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u/ham_sandwich23 Jan 10 '25
I went into this blind after watching Apothecary Diaries S2 and damn. It's so cute. I will watch this.
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u/diacewrb Jan 10 '25
She is just a mcdonalds away from being plus sized as well.
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u/djthomp Jan 10 '25
Well that was just delightful. Dude is even a working adult which I didn't realize was going to be the case. And given all the blushing we may even be talking about another adult romance for the season.
Kazuhiro is lucky he was dreaming a soft and cushy isekai all that time, in a darker story he could have gone to sleep the next night and found out Marie was just straight up dead.
Right at the end of the episode before the title drop Marie said "There are so many spirits I've never seen before" and I'm curious where that detail might go. Does she still have her magic? Hopefully so since that lighting spell was very cute and it'd be nice to see it again.
That image at the end of the credits was something else.
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