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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
This made me hungry! It's such a cozy food manga, placed in a mysterious setting that combines German and Japanese food concepts. The characters and stories are wholesome; some of the interactions reminded me of Disney's Ratatouille. There wasn't much story development in this volume, leaving quite a few questions unanswered. I can't wait to keep reading and find out more about the world and the little Izakaya!
✨Disclaimer ✨
I received a free copy of this book and this is my honest review.
✨Disclaimer ✨
I received a free copy of this book and this is my honest review.
A food manga with extreme reactions. The setting of medieval Germany with a restaurant connection to what seems like modern Japan is interesting. If I knew that the guests return and we follow their stories I would keep reading, but this book mostly makes me hungry! The waitress and repeat characters are charming and/or intriguing.
This slice-of-life manga will resonate with fans of A Restaurant to Another World. Focused on a Japanese restaurant in a fictional historical German city, residents come to enjoy meals and drinks with ingredients and recipes foriegn to them, yet none leave unsatisfied.
This is a very easy-to-read story, both cozy and charming. It is a great introduction to this series, but I do hope we start to get more background on the chef and why the restaurant is here in future volumes.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the review copy.
This is a very easy-to-read story, both cozy and charming. It is a great introduction to this series, but I do hope we start to get more background on the chef and why the restaurant is here in future volumes.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the review copy.
Izakaya Nobu pub has everything to please the tastes and needs of its customers.
It doesn't matter if you are an infantryman tired of eating potatoes, Chief Nobu will make for you the best potatoes with mustard sauce..
A greedy tax collector who has lost enthusiasm for anything other than amassing large amounts of money... Don't worry, we will cook for you the best Neapolitan pasta ever created to evoke your childhood memories.
The orphaned picky eater heiress of the viscounty who no chef has been able to meet her expectations... No problem! A bwol of Anakake Yudofu will have you begging for seconds.
A soldier contemplating his life and decisions, don't worry... A few shots of sake
It doesn't matter if you are an infantryman tired of eating potatoes, Chief Nobu will make for you the best potatoes with mustard sauce..
A greedy tax collector who has lost enthusiasm for anything other than amassing large amounts of money... Don't worry, we will cook for you the best Neapolitan pasta ever created to evoke your childhood memories.
The orphaned picky eater heiress of the viscounty who no chef has been able to meet her expectations... No problem! A bwol of Anakake Yudofu will have you begging for seconds.
A soldier contemplating his life and decisions, don't worry... A few shots of sake
Beautiful. Stunning. Delicious? Never had a book made me so hungry while reading, or so excited to try new foods!
A lovely manga I was lucky enough to get an ARC for through NetGalley, it highlights how much impact a comforting meal can have. It can brighten our day, draw us closer to our companions. Bring back memories of simpler times, bring out our adventurous side. Or even comfort and broaden our horizons. Beautiful artwork, and a heart warming message!
A lovely manga I was lucky enough to get an ARC for through NetGalley, it highlights how much impact a comforting meal can have. It can brighten our day, draw us closer to our companions. Bring back memories of simpler times, bring out our adventurous side. Or even comfort and broaden our horizons. Beautiful artwork, and a heart warming message!
funny
informative
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
lighthearted
fast-paced
An isekai slice-of-life focused on food. On a superficial level it is cozy and appealing, but any kind of closer reading reveals it as unimaginitive at best and xenophobic at worst. In every single dish vignette, the characters bemoaned the boring or distasteful local food options. Then they found pure bliss in the marvelous food they got to taste at the izakaya. It was pure self-exoticization and agrandizement that ends up feeling almost like colonizing propaganda in its heavy-handedness. This is also the second isekai cooking manga I've read that essentializes Japanese cuisine as an ideal in contrast to the dingy and lackluster food of the fantasy setting. Don't get me wrong, I love Japanese cooking and love going to izakaya whenever I have a chance, but this kind of approach to isekai is completely baffling to me, because if I'm immersing myself in a fantasy world, I kind of want to let my imagination run wild with every aspect of the made-up culture, including its foodways, rather than be told the that thing from the world I know is actually as good as it gets. Ah well, now that I know that "bringing Japanese cuisine to a drab isekai" is a subgenre, I'll try to be on the lookout for it in the future.
Content Warnings
Minor: Xenophobia
Oh, this is SO charming. It's just little vignettes about a time-travelling izakaya which is currently located in a small medieval german town, and shows the locals discovering new food and, sometimes, themselves. Make sure that you're reading when you can go out to an izakaya after, though! You WILL get hungry!
“This is…life. The universe. The answer to everything!”
This manga adaptation of a Japanese novel series which started online in 2014 could be summed up as a bunch of Germans learning to love Japanese food. But it’s more than that.
A small Japanese pub has popped up in the back alleys of Eiteriach, a medieval-style city in what appears to be some planet other than Earth (the giveaway is a second moon). A pair of soldiers, their commander, a young princess, a tax collector, and a pair of new brothers discover the pub across 6 delightful chapters. I think I smiled and giggled through this whole book. You just get to watch all these people discover amazingly illustrated food they’ve never heard of and go bananas for it. Perhaps the pub is magically too perfect, but it is a charming reminder about the difference that seemingly small things like food, warmth, and kindness can make.
There’s a bit of intrigue and mystery as well. Where is this pub sourcing its ingredients from? At some point a character notices Shinobu, the titular waitress, walk out the door into what appears to be a modern or futuristic city (that is decidedly not Eiteriach). It seems the owners have managed to beam their pub from the future into the past to deliver wonders to the people of old.
I’ll note that the tax collector strongly resembles Anton Ego, the food critic from Ratatouille. It felt a little derivative, but still enjoyable, almost like someone wrote some Anton Ego fan fic that expands on the character. Also while I’m noting inspirations, there is a character who looks uncannily like Link from the Legend of Zelda. But hey, it’s Japan!
Anyway, I’m so in on this. I’m glad its cover caught my eye at the library. You never know with some kitschy manga. I’m excited to see more characters discover Nobu, each-other, and eventually the origins of the pub itself.
This manga adaptation of a Japanese novel series which started online in 2014 could be summed up as a bunch of Germans learning to love Japanese food. But it’s more than that.
A small Japanese pub has popped up in the back alleys of Eiteriach, a medieval-style city in what appears to be some planet other than Earth (the giveaway is a second moon). A pair of soldiers, their commander, a young princess, a tax collector, and a pair of new brothers discover the pub across 6 delightful chapters. I think I smiled and giggled through this whole book. You just get to watch all these people discover amazingly illustrated food they’ve never heard of and go bananas for it. Perhaps the pub is magically too perfect, but it is a charming reminder about the difference that seemingly small things like food, warmth, and kindness can make.
There’s a bit of intrigue and mystery as well. Where is this pub sourcing its ingredients from? At some point a character notices Shinobu, the titular waitress, walk out the door into what appears to be a modern or futuristic city (that is decidedly not Eiteriach). It seems the owners have managed to beam their pub from the future into the past to deliver wonders to the people of old.
I’ll note that the tax collector strongly resembles Anton Ego, the food critic from Ratatouille. It felt a little derivative, but still enjoyable, almost like someone wrote some Anton Ego fan fic that expands on the character. Also while I’m noting inspirations, there is a character who looks uncannily like Link from the Legend of Zelda. But hey, it’s Japan!
Anyway, I’m so in on this. I’m glad its cover caught my eye at the library. You never know with some kitschy manga. I’m excited to see more characters discover Nobu, each-other, and eventually the origins of the pub itself.
This adorable little manga was just as tasty as the Japanese cuisine it celebrates! The story begins and ends with a pair of German soldiers discovering a tiny restaurant in a back alley that serves modern Japanese foods. It is clear that the town they live in is from an earlier era and also not of this world. As they sit down and enjoy a meal their troubles fall away. Each chapter introduces a new dish and a new customer.
By the end of the book my mouth was watering and I was dreaming of my next trip to Japan. I don’t tend to continue series like this that don’t have an overarching narrative, but this is the perfect refresher between other long series.
This book was provided to me by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
By the end of the book my mouth was watering and I was dreaming of my next trip to Japan. I don’t tend to continue series like this that don’t have an overarching narrative, but this is the perfect refresher between other long series.
This book was provided to me by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.