Mazumeshi Elf to Yuboku gurashi - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - The worries of a wedded girl

[alacaelum]

@Tersione EXACTLY THAT, you are completely right, if they had their own types of food and just were curious and awed by new techniques it would be so much better, but no the author resolved to go the safe(stupid) route and just made them a bunch of brain dead people.

Like you said it is just masturbatory, and not even the good one.

 

[Tersione]

@alacaelum Well, they certainly do have their own types of food, but they're shit, and they're also curious/awed by his new techniques, but they're also treated like brain-dead people.

 

[radstylix]

Yessss make your chichi better, ehe...ehehe

 

[DevLogger]

Chichi really is huge. The more I read this, the more the story would be better in my mind if the elves simply ate food without cooking or combining it, and only ate meat that had been dried and cured. The MC's quest would be to show them how preparing food from its ingredient form altogether and creating meals out of that would be more interesting. I suppose there would be less gags though.

 

[Say]

@Tersione @alacaelum Having lived in a rural village for a long time, I can assure you that even though the civilization may seem somehow advanced, their methods of cooking are not as good. Growing up in the developed world I was used to good food but when I switched to the villages the cooking was significantly bad. Now, the elven society is clearly an exaggeration, but stuff like this certainly happens to a lesser extent in the real world too. When you are focused on gathering, farming and cultivating, you generally tend to neglect making good food and rather just make serviceable food.

 

[DevLogger]

@Say: Is the character as your avatar from a series or original art? Very nice.

 

[Say]

@DevLogger fanart of shuuten doji from fgo

 

[Tersione]

@Say Fair point. It's just that, like you said, the story goes too far in presenting this reality that becomes silly. It's less that it's unrealistic, but more that it feels like the story's wanking itself off.

Granted I may be biased thanks to similar manga involving cooking. This might change later on.

 

[DevLogger]

@Say: Thank you, I had forgotten about the cute oni with the sexy voice.

 

[Say]

@Tersione I mean this is clearly a comedy/sol manga, exaggerations will obviously occur, and the point of it is making it silly. Moreover so far I have not seen much "Japanese cooking stronk" vibes, but rather a use of different cooking styles which have been created through thousands of years of trial and error.
Now, no new dish comes out perfectly at the first try. Let's now say that you are tasked with prepairing a dish, if you try some new technique, without prior experience or knowledge about it, you are bound to make a far more inferior dish than the elves already do, so their way of avoiding getting their heads chopped is to follow the same old guaranteed to satisfy recipes.
Maybe I am reaching too far to justify the setting of the manga. At the end of the day I just think that there is nothing wrong with having such a silly premise, since elves clearly focus more on surviving then thriving.

 

[kaminomikan]

is this your last appearance?