Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want (Manga)

After quitting his job at a toxic company, Shiro Amata moves into the house his grandmother left him in her will. There, he soon makes two life-changing discoveries: one, his grandmother was really a witch from another world, and two, said other world is just on the other side of her closet door! Thanks to a book she left for Shiro, he also manages to obtain an all-powerful skill called “Equivalent Exchange,” which allows him to turn money from his world into otherworldly currency and vice versa. With this, Shiro decides to set up shop and sell convenient items like matches to the colorful inhabitants of the other world. His plan: make a massive profit on the goods he brings from home to become so rich that he never needs another job ever again! Based on the light novel of the same name.

With his match business doing a roaring trade, life is good for Shiro in Ruffaltio, the fantastical world on the other side of his late grandma’s closet. Too bad a little local drama is keeping him from just kicking back and letting the cash roll in. Instead, he’s charged with producing an item that will impress a visiting inspector into opening a branch of the capital guild in town. But since Shiro is new to this world, he has no idea what kinds of products adventurers need, so he sets out on a “trial adventure” of his own to get a taste of the lifestyle. Will he and his escorts survive their foray into the monster-infested forest to the east of town? Even if all goes well, bigger questions are brewing in the background. Is this capital guild all it’s cracked up to be? What will its presence mean for the town’s existing Adventurers’ Guild, the Silver Moon? And can Shiro navigate all of these potential perils while running a business as people start to take notice of his start-up?

In her short life, Aina has faced more than her fair share of hardships and woe. After her hometown was ravaged by war, her mother whisked her away so that the two of them could start a new life elsewhere. Mother and daughter wandered from land to land until they finally came across a sleepy, out-of-the-way town called Ninoritch, where they decided to stay, hoping that war would never again intrude on their lives. But life was hard here too, for they were poor, food was scarce, and toiling away in the fields was backbreaking work. Aina’s mother soon fell ill, and desperate to save her, the little girl turned to the only person who might give her the money to get her mother the help she needs. But Shiro has seen these symptoms before, back in his own world. Will he manage to cure Aina’s mother before she succumbs to this awful disease?