Isekai Ryouridou - Ch. 73 - The Days That Go On

[jagfanbb]

Finally! Thank God our long national nightmare is finally over!!! 😭😭😭

 

[SoEu]

Damn, what a nothing burger huh? Ironic

 

[mase_aga]

I agree the manga adaptation lost its spark, because when I read the LN it feels amazing. Too bad they canceled the manga before the climax from the first arc.

 

[mongol13]

It frankly amazes me that this manga went on for 73 chapters with basically nothing of consequence happening for most of it for some time now.

It's like "Nothing Ever Happens™ - The Manga." Which, I shouldn't really be surprised, because I gave up reading the WN for many of the same reasons. It was a whole lot of nothing happening for way too long.

And that's the problem. First chapters were maybe not "compelling", but had interesting isekai motif where MC wasn't all-mighty superhero-god-of-war with cheat abilities that could destroy the world from the get-go. It was classic, slow, easygoing slice of life manga about some guy trying to say alive in new, hostile environment. The problem is- even in this genre you need to show something. Anything. And I don't mean constant action keeping you on edge, but really ANYTHING that would convince you to keep reading. Maybe some action from time to time, maybe some drama, maybe some sideplot, or show character development, their personal problems, dilemmas. And what did we get? Really, after first 20, maybe 25 chapters whole lot of nothing, just as you said. It's as if the author decided that if title is revolving around cooking, he's going to show only this. A constant stream of the same and before you know it we ended up with it.
Chapter 30- "oh yeah, I need to go to the city to cook who's coming with me?"
Chapter 34- "oh yeah, I need to go to the city to cook who's coming with me?"
Chapter 41- "oh yeah, I need to go to the city to cook who's coming with me?"
Chapter 46- "let's create some new dish who wants to help?"
Chapter 52- "oh yeah, I need to go to the city to cook who's coming with me?"
Chapter 58- "oh yeah, I need to go to the city to cook who's coming with me?"
Chapter 63- "oh yeah, I need to go to the city to cook who's coming with me?"
Chapter 69- "let's create some new dish who wants to help?"
Chapter 71- "oh yeah, I need to go to the city to cook who's coming with me?"

... for like 40+ chapters we've had the same one thing shoved on us constantly without any pauses, pace changes or anything really. It's sad because I enjoyed observing this cultural difference and struggles at the beginning but it was bound to happen eventually or else what? Another 100 fascinating chapters of waking up and going into the city stall to cook?

 

[definitionofinsanity]

A lot happened. A lot of cooking that is and that's what I was reading for. A cooking show doesn't need a 'save the world' plotline or high political stakes.

Cooking new dishes does not fucking count, I'm afraid.

Even cooking mangas know to advance the plot and have meaningful character development. This... had neither.

 

[Imryse]

wait. wait. wait. wait. wait. THIS is how it ended, out of nowhere, with half the story left open and no resolution to anything!?

 

[alto129]

looking at chapter 1 again, the art shift is so jarring going from cool Ai Fa to cute Ai Fa
tho I guess it does make it ending in a wholesome feels like this despite the not so conventional "confession"

thanks for translating this, Ai Fa are cool and cute

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Cooking new dishes does not fucking count,

Yes, it does, because it's a cooking manga.

Even cooking mangas know to advance the plot

The plot is the cooking and it did advance very much.

 

[Celiohogane]

Impressive, looking at her on this chapter and looking at her on the first chapter, is like she became 20 years younger.

 

[doonser]

nothing ever happens the manga

but like seriously though, don't we have at least like ten or so loose ends to tie up? what's going on with the tsundere girl with the scary face? the dad? nothing? absolutely no character development?

 

[Specplayz]

DUCK YOU AXE-KUN!! I will miss my tribal waifu and the tasty poitans.

 

[arcsalvo]

Sad to see that this ending. I know it got repetitive after a while (considering how dynamic the first chapters and arcs were) but I still loved the setting and characters. I would have liked to see what happened next in manga form. I'm not really a novel guy.

Wish the manga people had decided to speed things up into later on in the novel if that's what it took to break up the monotony of "today let's make a new recipe" filler that took over after a while. After the Suun clan left, not much interesting happened.

Characters didn't get explored, other villages didn't get visited. The tribal culture wasn't tapped into... we never got to see another non-tribal town...

So much should've have been done, but wasn't. I followed this series on omoi.com (formerly azuki.co) and paid $5 every few months to catch up, but it's not done over there yet. I'll probably resubscribe when it is and re-read it there. Shame this series didn't continue. It had more potential than a lot of slop iseki and rom-com high school cliches.