Cooking With Wild Game (Manga)

Chef Trainee Asuta Tsurumi was just a normal Japanese teenager, until one day the harassment against his family’s restaurant went too far. Desperate to save his father’s precious cooking knife, he dove headfirst into a sea of flames. Rather than waking up in the afterlife, though, he found himself in a whole new world entirely! Fortunately for our hero, he soon gets picked up by the huntress known as Ai Fa. This guardian angel packs some attitude, though, so it won’t be all smooth sailing for Asuta! Plus his savior seems to have some issues of her own to worry about, too... Just how well will our rookie chef be able to parlay his skills in this utterly unfamiliar world? And with all the danger lurking around, will he even be able to survive long enough to put them to the test?! Come learn a thing or two about Cooking with Wild Game!

Meeting For A Meat Meet Asuta's begun cracking the nut of cooking giba - but butchering and roasting up strange new beasts is easy compared to satisfying the appetite of Ai Fa's grand enemy, Donda Ruu. Can Asuta and the ladies of the Ruu household win over the great hunter and the guests at a grand wedding party? Or do shame and exile from the forest's edge await? A chef's life is never easy, especially when Cooking With Wild Game.

A Big Fat Wedding Banquet When sent to another world, even a routine shopping trip becomes an adventure: all these new scents and foods and possibilities... not to mention heavily armed and drunken jerks causing trouble in the streets. And while this mysterious stranger sure seems helpful, he can't help Asuta and Ai Fa prepare enough giba meat to feed a small army... or a large, honor-bound wedding party. Can a few new recipes and and the lovely ladies of the Ru Clan ensure success? It's a wild time, cooking with wild game!

Do a Little Business! When a visitor to the Forest's Edge gets a taste of Asuta's cooking, things quickly start taking off for the young chef! With an offer to fund a food cart on the table, can Asuta create a killer recipe to sell hungry denizens in the City of Stone - or will they write off the Giba King without a second glance?

Welcome to Giba Burger, home of the giba burger, can I take your order? Asuta's got a food cart in the city, but that doesn't do him much good if he can't attract customers. What's a guy got to do to make an impression around here?

Asuta’s business is steadily growing, enough to buy something nice for Ai Fa, but the wrong people are starting to take notice. The wicked Suun clan is plotting to practically force him to cater for a big meeting of all the clan heads, but could their true aim be something far worse?

The clan head meeting has concluded, and thanks in no small part to Asuta’s efforts, the Suun clan has finally fallen. The people of the forest’s edge have been freed from their wicked and corrupt rule, and now they can forge a new path forward. But first, the former members of the Suun still need to be dealt with. Kamyua Yoshu’s planned caravan is almost ready to go as well, but what will that mean for Leito? And is the danger the Suun clan posed truly gone? Meanwhile, some new ingredients have fallen into Asuta’s hands. However, making use of them won’t be as simple as before. All this and more in the exciting seventh volume of Cooking with Wild Game!

At last, the danger posed by the Suun is gone. They have finally been removed as the leading clan, and Kamyua Yoshu’s plan has cleanly done away with their wicked remnants. However, that doesn’t mean Asuta and company can simply rest on their laurels. New ingredients will be discovered and new dishes created, with an additional chef brought on board to help Asuta with his expanding business. But what exactly is going on with this giant bird that’s been found at the forest’s edge? Find out all this and more in the exciting eighth volume of Cooking with Wild Game!

A great deal has happened to Asuta and company. The chef from another world has already changed the food culture at the forest’s edge, and he’s getting started on the post town as well! And even that doesn’t compare to the upheaval he caused when he brought about the fall of the Suun clan. However, that doesn’t mean things have come to a tidy close just yet! This time around, Asuta has an intriguing new ingredient to tackle: chitt seeds! How will our hero deal with this spicy opponent, and what sort of dishes will he come up with in the process? Also, Reina Ruu gets some time in the spotlight! See all this and more in the exciting ninth volume of Cooking with Wild Game!

With the final remnants of the Suun clan dealt with, new leading clan heads chosen, and business booming for Asuta, the forest’s edge and the post town are swarms of activity. And things are about to get even busier! Asuta is asked to cook for a festival of the hunt, but when he and Ai Fa arrive, she is suddenly–not to mention rudely–challenged to prove her mettle as a hunter! Next, Asuta comes across a new ingredient, the potato-like chatchi, and starts figuring out the tricks to using it. Finally, Asuta begins giving cooking lessons to the local women, and among them he discovers a young girl with a surprising aptitude for cooking. All this and more in the exciting tenth volume of Cooking with Wild Game!