Granted, it’s still early in the story, and the MC could potentially start making big bucks that way too.

your issue is a standard weight and measures, but not that the spoken and written language is Japanese and the animals and fauna are all identical to earth?

I agree with you though, this one is turning into knights and magic; the writing quality is low and the imagination of the author is poor. Furthermore the MC is now the greatest mage on the planet and what is he doing with his time? making soy sauce and miso, plus cultivating rice. Talk about low ambitions.

You know this is always where these light novels lose me. Food, yes is an important aspect of life; but the greatest seasoning of all is HUNGER. The obsession these LN protags have with Japanese fare is abnormal, it reaks of privilege, as if the author doesn’t know what its like to be hungry; first world problems to the extreme. Furthermore this little brat is inventing and developing things that could greatly enrich his family’s fortunes but he’s keeping the secret and stashing it for himself. How spoiled and ungrateful is this POS?

50 cents not 50 yen, but yea.