Title: In Another World with My Smartphone Vol. 6
Author: Patora Fuyuhara (Story), Soto (Art)
Publisher: Yen Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 196
Genre: Isekai, Fantasy
Publication Date: August 9, 2022
The Story
The sixth volume of In Another World with My Smartphone sees Touya and company arrive in Eashen. Right as they are about to settle in, they receive news that the Takeda army is conducting an unprovoked attack. Touya vows to help and uses Gate to get to the fortress where Yae’s brother and father are stationed. Once inside, Touya uses his OP nature to defeat all 15,000 invading soldiers but something is off about some of them. The masked soldiers seem like animated corpses. This is when they learn that Shingen-dono, the leader of Takeda, is dead and his strategist is being controlled by a demon housed inside of an artifact.
So, it’s off to the heart of Takeda. They infiltrate the castle and take care of things… so there is only one thing left to do….
BEACH EPISODE!
Well, there is a tie-in here. The ruins that they were searching for are underwater and they just so happened to be on a beach. So, they naturally stripped into bikinis and swimming trunks because why not?
Here, the white monarch calls upon the black monarch and now Touya has two monarchs under contract. The Black Monarch leads Touya underwater where he activated a magic circle and is transported to the Garden of Babylon where he meets Francesca… or Cesca for short. Cesca has been around for over 5,000 years because she is half machine, half-magically-created biomaterial. Since Touya has mastered all elements, Cesca was instructed to allow him to become his master. She then transfers the rights of ownership to the Garden of Babylon to Touya… via a “unique” way… which leads to her saying something that makes everyone else freak out!
Characters
We have two new characters in this volume that seem, to be sticking around.
The first is The Black Monarch or Sango/Kokuyou. The Black Monarch is a turtle (Sango) with a black snake permanently wrapped around him (Kokuyou). The snake seems friendly and a bit playful but the turtle seems old and stuck in his ways. However, he is humbled pretty fast by Touya and bends the knee to become his servant! Being fused together like that, you would expect the trope of them arguing with each other but they seem to get along just fine.
Francesca is our other new character and through her, we learn how the Garden of Babylon came to be and that it used to be part of a much bigger piece of land but the land was fragmented into 9 parts and each part became a floating island that nobody can see due to a magical barrier. This means that Francesca has eight other sisters, each protecting one of the islands. It is unclear if we will be searching for all of the remaining islands but we do know that Francesca now serves Touya and the Garden of Babylon is his.
Francesca is one of the biggest flirts I have seen. Despite being the equivalent of an android, she has no shame as she wanders around in her panties. It turned out to be a test… or so she says. Her actions at the end of the volume say otherwise. She seems very straight in her personality with very little emotion but her words do have a lot of meaning to them. I supposed that this is just another girl to throw into the Touya harem pile.
Final Word
That was a pretty entertaining volume. We were treated to some action in the beginning, we expanded the harem, we got to see a lot of skin, and we now have our own floating island garden thing! Not sure if they are going to be sticking around in Eashen because the ruins were their goal and now that the ruins led to finding the garden, they might look for the other eight islands which means there will be eight more girls to add to this circus of a harem!
Still, the point of going to Eashen was for Touya to see if there was any connection between it and his old world. The series is looking to move in a different direction and gloss over that but with Touya haven been to Eashen, he can now easily Gate back there so it’s not like it’s going to take some huge elaborate setup to get us back there. They could accomplish it with 1 sentence and half a page if they wanted to.
Still, I found it hilarious just how overpowered Touya is with his phone. Null magic is pretty nuts but it takes all of the mystery and danger out of everything. It works for comedy but it’s being used a bit too much as of late. I’d love to see Touya put into a situation where he can’t get out of it so easily. That would be a nice twist. Right now, though… it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting something like that anytime soon.
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