Mazumeshi Elf to Yuboku gurashi - Vol. 4 Ch. 21 - Night, moon, and udon

[Say]

@darkcat28 don't forget about Xu Fu and his country!

 

[YumGumYum]

Kidnapping 101

 

[taichou115030]

pretty displeasing cook i would say. you are a cook. do you think you have the power to go home. your determination is high but your will is shit. all you is moping around cooking, staying at the tribe. you didnt go travel like any other isekai mc. if going home is truly your goal you wouldnt sit back and wait for information to come. you go search for them. even the clue you get seems like dead end you sould find another end. follow the clue trail, you souldnt return to the tribe wasting time cooking. even the elf girl went search for you when she heard some body can cook earth food. when somebody make a good reasoning you got mad/sad. you didnt think properly. if you could go back are you sure you can go back to your correct timeline and place.

damn what a rant.

p/s this is a readable manga but the mc is unreasonable and have low thinking capabilities (emotional i guess). perhaps that the extent of mc capabilities .

 

[motheblackcat]

Yeah he definitely overeacted and it feels like either a forced reaction to make the situation more dramatic or Saburo is actually unreasonable (which should have more exemples).

 

[Space_Cannoli]

Moon viewing udon

Moodon

 

[Raguel]

I super don't know how to feel about the fact that this manga is doing the stuff that standard Isekai ignore (like language or wanting to go home like really really badly and that feeling of helplessness in not know how) and doing it well making it feel like this manga just strolled in quintuple galaxy braining it up....

But the stuff it's doing isn't really new or even complicated it's just leagues of things that SHOULD be examined but get hard ignored in the modern iteration of the genre.

Poor kid though, he's taking this well but getting the "Yeah look here's more weird stuff suggesting we're trapped here" button getting HARD slammed is not great.

 

[saph]

@raguel you expressed my thoughts on this manga perfectly lol. These are ideas that would be obvious to explore in the genre, except most isekai are content to be blatant depthless wish fulfilment so seeing one that actually bothers to think about its own premise makes it seem incredible

 

[Say]

@taichou115030 He feels too indebted to the elf tribe to leave them (it's mentioned in the earlier chapters in volume 1). He also searched for a way home and went to the dwarfs but got hard rejected there, and he can't visit the other side of the wall too, where most of the answers may lie.
So his only alternative is to stay with the tribe while getting help from other tribes like the merchant wanwans and the dark elfs for information. Sure, the reaction in this chapter is exaggerated, but his behaviour is not unexplained, it's been justified in volume 1.
Plus, you can't bluntly tell someone to just give up his hopes, and expect them to just nod at your theory, sometimes people may as well lash out at you for stating a truth because they are in denial.

 

[taichou115030]

@Say he still not try hard enough (i appreciate tryhard). he is too lax in searching the way to go home. he could increase his effort and information searching capabilities by creating cook book. as a chef he could try to create recipe book and left the complete book at the tribe (if he feels too indebted) to pay back their kindness and try to make the tribe as the center of delicious food in the word. people will surely flock at the tribe trying their hand to get the food/recipe.
if he think rationally of what the greek kid said, that mean the monkey people from the other side of the wall failed to expand the culture of the delicious food in that word. bcoz of that the higher power of the world summon a cook from earth. if he could think properly like that, shouldnt he increase his effort to spread the delicious food culture in the world. you know how he can do that yea, by travelling the world and spread the culture. besides he can become famous from that. you know famous person attract people. the people from other side of the wall could notice and gained some interest in him. perhaps he can use the excuse expand his culinary repertoire to travel to the other side of the wall.
perhaps in the end of his effort he could attained his goal quickly if he really worried sick of his lil sis.

 

[GoodWorld]

@taichou115030 Can these elves even read lol

 

[RandomPasserby]

There is it! That's why their food cooking skills were bad. People complained a lot for that at the beginning, so I'm Glad that that plot hole was filled.

 

[Say]

@taichou115030
1. Does paper exist in this world... is it as widespread as it is in our world? Living in the savannah, trees must be a scarce resource, plus he doesn't know how to make paper out of trees probably. So for him to make a cook book, and spread it around the world he'd need to make a paper industry. Then there is the language issue, they all speak a common language somehow, but does it translate into written language too? We don't know because there is no paper or writing here.
Books also won't travel as fast as they do now in the real world because of the fast supply chain, so before finding info he might die.

2. His main purpose here is to spread culture, not food culture. In a world with no interconnectivity like ours you could become famous in a really small range of area, let's say probably a city or even a country, but any more than that is unrealistic to say the least, it's simply impossible to become famous all over the world just by cooking two meals while travelling from place to place.

At the core, he wants to repay the elves that have saved his life, so this is how he keeps on searching for a way home.

 

[TsumomoiHedeka]

Ahhhh the heartbreak/dispute before the separation
this one gonna hurt later

 

[Storyteller77]

@RandomPasserby I'm really loving this take on the isekai genre

 

[Liquidxlax]

@Storyteller77 It is more fleshed out and isn't a straight cooking manga or the isekai'd person isn't basically a slave who cooks for their followers and or pets

 

[taichou115030]

@Say @GoodWorld
does it really need paper. you can use cloth/leather/wood duhhh. about language it easy. you pair the ingredient with word while selling the recipe so all will refer same ingredient the same word while the pronunciation might different. the container to keep the ingredient must be written the same. for the instruction you show them and tell them to share knowledge to others. example the merchant sisters did learn to make delicious food from mc. why not add some value to the ingredient by selling them with recipe and if the customers understand the word next time they meet they can get incentives (discount etc).
perhaps the flow of information is slow. and perhaps he will die in that word without coming back earth after exhausting everything at least we can see the his ingenuity and effort. do you think the being who summon him here will allow to return without contributing anything.

 

[Aichan]

Okay, take him.

 

[Say]

@taichou115030 ingenuity means nothing without practicality. One cook cannot spread good cooking far and wide as you think, through books alone. In fact the reason why cooking is so different across regions and countries is because there was no set guide or book between them that told them how to cook, and if even in the 1000's people from India didn't know how to cook italian food, then I don't see how one single japanese school boy can spread his knowledge this way.
And you are totally disregarding his character trait of being indebted with the tribe, which you shouldn't since that is part of his culture.

 

[spathi]

for a guy who desperately wants to go home he sure is doing a whole lot of nothing

 

[Alrange]

Spirited away by a nekomata