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's 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, by the way) and make it seem as though there's some sort of story that he'll get to at some point. Trust me, there is not. Every single chapter seems to inevitably and invariably devolve into an incredibly shitty food manga where the characters just endlessly waffle on and on about how good and perfect MC-chan's food is, causing an instant foodgasm every time anything she makes touches their palettes. It's fine the first time. 7 millionth times later? Yeah... it just gets a tiny bit boring, you know?
We might get a chapter with some sort of action or fight sequence every so often, but any dilemma is over pretty much instantly because MC-chan is an omniscient, omnipotent god who has the answer to everything and knows pretty much everything ABOUT everything. Even better is that besides being monstrously powerful herself, she has two immensely powerful beast companions to help her solve said dilemmas even faster! After the daily problem is solved, of course, we then 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 that there was never any good faith attempt at writing a decent story from the start.
Dropped.
