As it stands, I recommend this manga for anyone who's looking for something a bit different, but has internalized enough anime tropes and isekai logic to appreciate the little acts of subversion this manga does.
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I haven't read the light novel this is based upon, and I'm not interested in spoilers, so for now I'll just wait as new chapters come out. The only other notable character is Tomaruin. This story could go to shit, or it could get even better. As long Goto and Hime are together, all is fine in this world of secrets. Of course, it's important to note there have only been 10 chapters (AKA 2 and a half volumes) so far at the time of me writing this review. She treats him more like a reluctant friend than anything due to their shared origin from another world, while the story treats him mostly as a comic relief and a satire of those nerdy isekai protagonists who suddenly think themselves chads just because they're in a fantasy world. feeling entitled to women and treating them as a prize) - something Haru rightly recognizes and often punishes. Still, he's not perfect, and his biggest flaws are incessant bragging coupled with this potent, nerd-brand misogyny (i.e. Even Haru thinks that, but then the longer the story goes on, she learns that he's actually quite cautious and calculating with everything he does, taking his time to learn as much as he can about the world and its dangers and even planning long term about the rest of his life. He at first seems like your standard otaku-turned-Mary-Sue with unfairly strong powers. Next, there's Chiba, Haru's classmate who got sent to the fantasy world along with her and now makes a living as an adventurer. In it, the female protagonist Haru is thrown into a misogynist fantasy world and has to work as a prostitute to survive, while her classmate, who has also been teleported into this world, is endowed with superhuman powers. Haru's coworkers, for instance, are background characters with little contributions to the story thus far, yet their relationships with her are quite wholesome and cute. Kim Morrissy wrote in her column 'The Best (and worst) Isekai Light Novels' on Anime News Network that JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World is embracing the isekai genre in a much darker and more deranged manner as a commentary on the genre. Of course, there are typical isekai archetypes in this story, but even they have their humanizing moments. Speaking of refreshing, let's talk characters. She's also quick to call misogyny by its name whenever she notices it in the world, something rarely seen in animanga. Some customers are really shitty to her, others are nicer, but she makes it very clear that she doesn't owe anything even to the nice ones. She never sugarcoats how she's treated or what she thinks of the men she services. The author never makes you undeservedly sympathize with Haru's customers either. Indeed, this story isn't all dark despite some sexual content and violence here and there. This characterization even results in rather poignant moments where I got a little choked up with emotion at seeing her get to live a bit of the carefree youth she didn't have in her original world. It tackles her previous life in an interesting way, and gives believable explanations for why she does the things she does, including the reason she chose sex work. Good deal to humanize her than most of this genre. Haru, the protagonist, isn't a blushing naive klutz, but she isn't some dominatrix puppetmaster either. This probably has to do with how the original light novel is geared towards a female audience, so there's no gross glamorizing when it comes to sex work. This idea of a high school girl becoming a sex worker in an isekai setting seems rife for gratuitous objectification and unhealthy "romance," but the story is way more balanced than I expected. This new world we’re in might feel like a game, but it’s really anything but.I read this one on a whim without expecting much, but this turned out to be a lot better than the premise would have you believe. We’ve known each other since we were kids, and now we’re set on leading lives where we won’t have too much to worry about. As for me? Well, I’m joining up with a couple of friends. I suppose they might just be reaping what they sow, in the end. I mean, he was pretty clear right from the start that we wouldn’t be getting any actual cheat skills. There are probably dozens of my classmates who thought they were getting their hands on a real cheat skill, something that would make them invincible, but now they have to deal with some rather unfortunate repercussions. How is he a dark god again? …There definitely used to be a time when I thought that way, at least. And what a swell guy he was, creating new skills at our behest and offering us all kinds of support. “Hey there! I’m a Dark God! Not a bad one though, I swear,” so quipped the dark god (or so he called himself) before he sent my classmates and me away into another world, following our deaths in an accident that no one could have seen coming.