By FUNA and Sukima. Released in Japan as “Potion-danomi de Ikinobimasu!” by K Lanove Books. Released in North America by J-Novel Club. Translated by Hiroya Watanabe. Due to a weird scheduling quirk, I think this is the first time that I have read all three of FUNA’s licensed series in the space of two weeks. Seven Seas’ Make My Abilities Average! came out last month, but its digital version was delayed two weeks for unknown reasons. Kodansha’s Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World also came out with a new volume. And now we have I Shall Survive Using Potions!, which may not be the best of the three (I don’t think I can really call one of these series the “best” easily), but it’s certainly the most interesting, mostly as...
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