Cooking with Wild Game
A Japanese teen teaches wild game cooking in another world.
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The series follows Asuta Tsurumi, a Japanese teenager who dives into flames to save his father's cooking knife and ends up in another world.[1][2] In that world people are well-fed but take no pleasure in eating and lack basic butchering knowledge.[1]
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Isekai
- cooking
- romance
Facts from the source article.
Making and release
EDA originally published the light novel as a free web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2014.[3] Hobby Japan published the first print volume with illustrations by Kochimo in October 2015.[3] Kochimo adapted the series into a manga published by Hobby Japan.[4] J-Novel Club also licensed the manga, with fourteen tankōbon volumes released as of June 2026.[4][5]
What the cited sources add
Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network gave the first light novel volume a grade of B−.[1][6] Silverman noted the protagonist's father's cooking knife carries "an almost reliquary feel" as a symbol of Asuta's lost life.[1] She observed that cooking scenes, though plentiful, lack the excessive detail of the butchering scenes.[1] She concluded that for readers who enjoy cooking stories, it is "an interesting one" despite not yet achieving perfect balance.[1]
Rebecca Silverman commended the way cultural differences were addressed and the English translation's quality.[6] Silverman noted that the book "isn't the most thrilling of books" and might focus more on elements other than game preparation.[1]
References
- Silverman, "Cooking with Wild Game Novel 1", Anime News Network, 27 February 2019. facts only, no text reused. animenewsnetwork.com
- "Cooking with Wild Game (Light Novel)", J-Novel Club. facts only, no text reused. j-novel.club
- Wikipedia, "Cooking with Wild Game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "異世界料理道", Firecross; Hodgkins, "J-Novel Club Releases Cooking with Wild Game, I Shall Survive Using Potions! Light Novels", Anime News Network, 24 December 2018; "Cooking with Wild Game (Light Novel)", J-Novel Club (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Cooking with Wild Game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: HJ Comic Fire Official Website; Hodgkins, "J-Novel Club Announces Licenses of 7 New Light Novels, 3 New Manga", Anime News Network, 7 July 2019; "Cooking with Wild Game (Manga)", J-Novel Club (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Cooking with Wild Game (Manga)", J-Novel Club. facts only, no text reused. j-novel.club
- Wikipedia, "Cooking with Wild Game" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Silverman, "Cooking with Wild Game Novel 1", Anime News Network, 27 February 2019 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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- Wikipedia: Cooking with Wild Game (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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