Isekai Ryouridou

17 year-old son of a restauranteur will have to take over the family restaurant when his father is injured (but not killed) by truck-kun. The ‘accident’ is obviously an attempt by a corrupt developer to get rid of the old family place to make way for new development. It gets more obvious when the restaurant is set on fire (possibly by truck-kun), and all of this is much more exciting than the story that follows.

Because the kid rushes into the restaurant to save his father’s kitchen knife and is promptly isekai’d into a primitive world where survival is too hard to worry about the taste of the food. He gets protected by a girl of the same age who is a chief by virtue of being her clan’s last member. She lives as a hunter in a society that does not have female hunters. He appeals to her because his girlish weakness and fussiness match her manly toughness, and because marrying any man within her people would mean the end of her clan, and she wants to preserve the lineage.

So she’s interesting, and the clan politics and taboos are interesting, and the interaction of the primitive forest people with the city dwellers is interesting. Naturally, then, we spend all of our time with the milksop boy as he struggles to find ways to replicate Japanese cuisine, mainly hamburgers and grilled meat, in this new world. Oh, and never ever ever try to get with the amazing willing girl he lives with.

It’s dumb and provincial and full of hints at stories that are way more interesting that we can’t see. That said, all the endings are happy (well, not unpleasant, anyway) and all the young women are hot. If you’ve ever thought about developing a fetish for Amazons, this one is for you. Otherwise, it’s moderately entertaining and not too bothersome.