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A review by katarina_kirishiki
Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu Volume 1 by Natsuya Semikawa
2.0
- Read for a Manga Book Club -
I like the idea/concept of this manga but to be honest the execution seems lacking.
The concept of the pub being able toget ingredients from another world , seemed interesting but to be honest everything else around it, seems more of like a mess of things being thrown together.
I get that a "deep plot" is not at the heart of such a manga but the characters and their backgrounds were so cliche and basic it just wasn't interesting.
I also think the vibe to me felt kind of off, I can't place it fully but something in my opinion didn't fully make sense. Such as the town/village they're in always being mentioned as "this ingredient is bad here" "this ingredient is also bad here" or "it's winter so all the food and drinks are bad here", which made it really weird.
Also the, what I interpreted as,child marriage just being mentioned at the end of the chapter with no context or anything felt so weird too. I guess it should portray the "old times" but generally the whole world-building seemed off to me in the first volume, as if just random things were thrown in to fit a "middle-ages Europe but kinda fantasy" concept.
I like the idea/concept of this manga but to be honest the execution seems lacking.
The concept of the pub being able to
I get that a "deep plot" is not at the heart of such a manga but the characters and their backgrounds were so cliche and basic it just wasn't interesting.
I also think the vibe to me felt kind of off, I can't place it fully but something in my opinion didn't fully make sense. Such as the town/village they're in always being mentioned as "this ingredient is bad here" "this ingredient is also bad here" or "it's winter so all the food and drinks are bad here", which made it really weird.
Also the, what I interpreted as,