Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki

Thirty-eight-year-old office worker Taichi Tanaka wants the VRMMO One More Free Life Online to be a quiet hobby, not another race for fame. Playing under the name Earth, he deliberately chooses skills most players avoid because they look weak or inconvenient: cooking, potion-making, crafting, and unusual weapons. Patience and experimentation turn those supposedly useless choices into remarkably valuable abilities, and his food, tools, and techniques begin attracting attention from both players and people inside the game world. The more Earth tries to stay away from major events, the more often he is drawn into them by something he created or someone he helped. His goal remains simple: play however he likes, even as the game repeatedly rewards him for refusing to play like everyone else.