Jan 21, 2024
This Is Screwed Up, but My God This Manga SUCKS
What is the point of this manga, exactly, Ashi-sensei? Showing us how adept you are at wasting Uchiuchi Keyaki's artistic talent on food instead of hentai? Demonstrating your vast swaths of cooking know-how that you probably Google immediately prior to writing the script for every chapter? Do you just hate your readers?
What really enrages me about this manga (other than seeing an artist I really like waste his talent on this) is that the entire experience feels like an exercise in cynicism from the writer. There is no real story, even though they continually pretend as ... though there is. Every so often, the writer will hint at the backstory behind our woefully overpowered, genius protagonist (who's perfect in almost every way) and make it seem as though there is some sort of story that he'll get to at some point. Trust me, there is not. Every single chapter seems to inevitably devolve into an incredibly shitty food manga where the characters just endlessly waffle on and on about how good and perfect the food MC-chan makes is and experience a foodgasm every time anything she has made touches their palettes. It's fine the first time, but after the 7 millionth time, it just gets a tiny bit boring, you know?
We might get a chapter with some sort of action or fight scene every so often, but any dilemma is over pretty much instantly because MC-chan is a god who has the answer to everything, on top of being extremely powerful (with two immensely powerful beast companions to boot!) and then we go right back to the contradictory, meandering monotony of MC-chan cooking food, whining about how she just wants to be left alone and then doing absolutely everything she can to get everyone to continually harass her.
This manga has everything it needs to tell a somewhat decent story and it just NEVER DOES. A traumatic backstory with a genderbent MC who has to make his way in a completely foreign world? Nah, who cares about any of that? Let's just do isekai Shokugeki no Souma except worse and give the MC the ability to create basically everything out of nothing. After over 50 chapters of this bullshit, I'm just tired, man. I keep reading, waiting and hoping that Ashi-sensei will eventually get to the point but it just NEVER HAPPENS. Why? I'm really starting to think that the only reason this manga exists is as a cynical cash grab and there was never any good faith attempt at writing a decent story.
Dropped.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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