Isekai Ryouridou

My review from chapter 37
2 stars

This is a recipe book with other world crops as ingredients. I honestly have a hard time following the plot, because most of the time there is none. They have moments where some things happen but they get resolved fairly quick. Cliffhangers have practically no payoff, worldbuilding is nonexistent, character development is barely a thing, and I’m pretty sure they repeated the same plot over and over again. There are no antagonists that are threatening in the slightest. They tried to make one of the families in the tribe seem important and powerful but they failed to establish anything about them to make you feel that power so it was all pointless. I have never really been this bored from a manga before.
Aside from one mildly interesting arc, I can’t find any real reason to pick this up. Because all this is is watching people cook and come up with new recipes. I get it, its a cooking manga. However this is far from the first cooking manga I’ve seen and they had way more to them than just recipes and cooking. You know a bad cooking manga deserves a cooking metaphor.

Because like cooking, you cant just throw in a chunk of meat in a pan and expect it to be interesting. You need to cut out what’s not needed so it doesn’t leave a bad taste, season it properly to make it more interesting for the recipient, and cook it at a proper pace as to not burn it or make the recipient loose interest because its taking too long. This entire manga is like just shoving that meat on a grill left on low heat while occasionally putting some salt on it.
I’m not the best with metaphors but I’m hoping that still got across.