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Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi
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630 WN Chapters (Ongoing)
16 LN Volumes (Ongoing)
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Weekly Rank: #71
Monthly Rank: #117
All Time Rank: #99
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I, Mukouda Tsuyoshi, was caught up in a summoning circle into a different world where sword and magical skills are the norm.

However, when the summoners cast ‘Status Appraisal’ on us, the three other people who were summoned with me had [Heroes from Another World] in the occupation box, whereas I was the [Random Guy Caught Up in the Summoning Spell].

As for our ‘Skill Set’, the three Heroes had outrageous sounding skills rolling after their names like [Holy Sword Technique], [Holy Spear Technique] and [Sacred Magic].

In fact, I too have a skill you know? My one skill is called… [Net Super]…

Because it’s clearly not a combat skill, I am automatically treated like garbage.

Furthermore, the King of the country who had summoned us looked really shady.

As a veteran lightnovel reader, I can read the atmosphere well enough to come to the conclusion that ‘This is a bad world to be summoned into’.

Thus, it is decided. No matter what, I must get out of this castle as soon as possible and escape from this rotten country!

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Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (LN)
Food Travel in the Other World with Ridiculous Ability
Gourmet Adventure of Legendary Tamer
Tondemo Skill ga Hontouni Tondemonai Iryoku wo Hakkishita Ken Nitsuite
とんでもスキルが本当にとんでもない威力を発揮した件について
とんでもスキルで異世界放浪メシ
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art3micia
art3micia rated it
May 21, 2022
Status: v11
There are a lot of good things about this story. Its laid back, has interesting story and its an ok read to pass the time. But even though I cant say I dont enjoy it, there a couple of points which since I read until volume 11 are obvious now.

1. For some reason even though there is magic, there are a lot of things missing that of course the MC readily provides. Even though he has strength with his familiars we are in volume 11 and he still doesn't... more>> see it.

2. Its annoying how homophobic the author is, or think his audience is. There are a lot of instances the protagonist is saying this and that to show that other characters are just too close or look at him a certain way. Of course, it could be way worse than it is. (I don't want this to turn to BL FYI)

3. Polygamy- but only for the men. Its been made obvious again and again that polygamy is ok in this world and really I wouldn't have a problem if it mentioned a relationship with a woman as the main focus and her harem, but its always about a man and his wives. We get it author you want to have a harem...

4. No love for the MC. Again, if the author wanted not to make the romance a subplot it would have been fine, but he keeps saying his MC wants to have a woman. So lets see. We have an MC, that cooks, has money, is renowned for his adventures, and is kind, but for some reason, there is no female (not only a human woman, but any other race too) that finds the MC attractive. Which is really s*upid. According to the author elves love food, so if there was someone who makes awesome food, wouldn't then be normal for a female elf to fall in love with him ? Nope... He has money, is kind, and can produce otherworld goodies, wouldn't there be someone that could fall in love for his kindness, and of his other qualities? Nope... Lastly, he may not look strong, but has the ability to command familiars that are strong. No warrior woman is attracted to that side of him as they see only him as weak. We only have a child saying she maybe wants to marry him and is then labeled as a golddigger, so only golddiggers would be interested in him I guess. Sigh

I hope there is in the future someone who appreciates the MC and we also see a change in the writing regarding these points, but I won't hold my breath. <<less
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kamikazedrew
kamikazedrew rated it
March 25, 2022
Status: c81
This one star is solely for the translator and the fact that they cut out parts of the story and change other parts of it due to laziness. They take out full paragraphs and sentences to "get rid of unnesary dialogue and repetiveness" and then combine the scraps to form the chapter.
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Cuchillo
Cuchillo rated it
July 28, 2021
Status: c253
One of my favourite novels, the synopsis is completely unrelated to the story that's for sure. It's actually about a guy who basically has access to Amazon in a fantasy world, and he uses it to cook amazing food for his overpowered familiars. His personality is that of an average person from the modern age as he is scared of fighting and mostly just leaves it to his familiars.
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snapeyaoilover
snapeyaoilover rated it
February 8, 2021
Status: c200
If you love cooking novels, you'll love this one. Tho I still have some complaints.

The first 10 chapters are great, but then it grew kind of Meh after chapter 10, but then got better when Albedo404 started translating. I'm glad kitchennovel took over and started updating regularly.

The first 10 chapters have been re-translated by them too. I hope they'll retranslate the rest as well as I really enjoy this nobiri kind of novels. Which is hard to do when the grammar is icky.

So yes, recommended, but hoping for something better... more>> in the future. <<less
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Novirp13
Novirp13 rated it
July 28, 2018
Status: --
I seriously love this novel. Sure, nothing bombastic happen yet and the MC always try to hide rather than fight everything that on his way but it shows that he is really just a NORMAL GUY

The writing is standard and nothing to be note of. It's super simple but u gotta start somewhere. I remember how simple my writing was when I start creating fanfiction before. And besides, after reading all of the chapters, you can see the improvement of how they write. Sure, it's not much but just wait.... more>> I'm sure they will improve again and again. I always love seeing someone improvement in writing, it's so satisfying

Can't wait to see the new chap to be translated XD

Edit: If you can't stomach the slow pace, you should go read the manga instead. They pad it out well, so the events won't feel too repetitive :D <<less
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Youkonos
Youkonos
March 4, 2022
Status: --
This is a story about a very normal, ordinary japanese man feeding this three overpowered monster companions and some gods with above average homecooking and otherworld products. Honestly, if you just want a slice of life story with some situational comedy, it's very comfy (especially the manga). He doesn't really have any grand ambitions or goals in mind. He more or less just goes with the flow and does things others suggest would be a good idea, which, honestly, is fine. I don't need every series to be about some... more>> grand ambition to take over the country or do great good. Sometimes just going on an adventure with your dog, babie slime, and smol dragon is fine. <<less
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Zzonkedd
Zzonkedd rated it
October 26, 2020
Status: --
It's quite a good slice of life novel, it doesn't have that 'OP' MC that usually keeps me away from reading these Isekai's, the only thing it could be better at is the humor I guess :)
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Liya
Liya rated it
April 24, 2020
Status: c320
It's a simple story that's easy to understand. I went as far as MTLed the untranslated chapters, I wouldn't go that far if I don't enjoy it. What I found interesting here: MC is not OP, has an interesting unique skill, and a tamer as his job. Fer, Sui, and Dora are the stars of this series. The downside: MC is a total doormat, a wimp, a wuss... His character is fairly bearable. Although I don't expect a character development, regression is unacceptable. 300+ chapters, I couldn't continue anymore. Some... more>> people might still be able to enjoy this series since the story is fun, but having a decent MC for a story is the bottomline for me.

Completely spoiler:

Spoiler

Beside being a doormat throughout the series, he doesn't have any meaningful interaction with other characters. One notable person would be Elland, who MC trusted enough to share his secret and dived a dungeon together. However, it didn't get any deeper than that. Friendship? Comradeship? None. Characters exist to create dialogues, animals exist to be used.

His character went further down hill when he decided to buy s*aves. It wasn't well executed by the author. His character is already lame, but to be desperate enough to think of getting a s*x s*ave because he couldn't attract any free-will girl is just disgusting. Hope got crushed, they didn't sell any. So, he bought work s*aves like what's originally intended. And it creeped me out when He (age:27) asked a 5yo little girl to call him oni-san (brother) instead oji-san (uncle) ! She's also the only girl from the s*ave families' children. Just how low the author is trying to make him be?

His wussiness is insufferable to the point being disrespected by his s*aves. He cooked for them, yet the twin s*aves still took Fer's food (The breadwinner). Ofc, Fer gave the "don't mess with me" but Mukouda... I stopped at this point.

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LTigh
LTigh rated it
November 8, 2019
Status: c473
Enjoyable read, but it does take a while for things to pick up.

Very slow-paced, but things start to pick up once our MC and his companions leave the starter-city (well, the starter city after they bug out of the original starter city in the suspect nation that summoned him) and head on over to the first Labyrinth city.

As far as the folks crying about the MC's relative weakness and timidness, it's part of the premise of the story-- he's just a civvie who got caught up in a generic isekai... more>> story who isn't the supposed hero/protagonist, but recognizes enough stuff going sideways to want to not get caught up in things. I'm pretty sure most of the spergs complaining that he isn't pulling some sort of wish fulfillment fantasy would do just as well if they were to get uprooted from their daily routine and thrown into the middle of a middle ages warzone with poor public order.

Anyhoo, yes, it's slow-paced, it's slice-of-life, and it's food p*rn, but eventually the action starts picking up and the MC finds himself growing in spite of himself, especially after

Spoiler

Creation God Demiurgos takes a liking to him, getting the various gods and goddesses off his back (punishing them for their overbearing behavior by confiscating their "tributes" and "grounding" them for a month from contacting the MC).


He even gives the MC his (small) blessing, giving him "limited immortality" and gently nudging the MC towards more fortunate circumstances like acquiring major amounts of lost treasure, hidden dungeon bonus drops, and new, even MORE powerful companions than Fel like Ancient Dragon Gonji.

It's a much more healthy relationship than that of the other gods, almost like a mentorship, and the MC starts to SLLLOWWWLLLYYYY grow a spine to stand up to the Goddesses and his contracted beasts and his various elf stalkers and hostile countries that try to strong arm him, like the corrupt religious state that created a fictional human supremacist religion.


But for the most part, Demiurgos encourages the MC to find his own way in the world, despite giving him "hints, " saying "it's up to you to decide what you want to do with the hints I'm giving you."
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Unfortunately, it takes quite a while to get to this point, so you're going to be subjected to more than 400 chapters of the MC getting pushed around and "going with the flow" and generally acting like a non-confrontational Japanese civilian caught up in circumstances beyond his control.

So yeah, it's a slow-life, timid MC getting pushed around until he starts pushing back sort of story, if you've got any sort of edgelord tendencies or just sperg out because reasons, skip this one. <<less
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22_nguyen
22_nguyen rated it
October 21, 2018
Status: c90
Personally, I enjoyed reading this novel. Despite being set in a fantasy-like world it's surprisingly realistic and clearly displays the hardships one might face IF actually, somehow, appeared in a different world. Even though I read fantasy novels, I prefer simplicity and "Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi" is definitely one of my favourite novels because of that.
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chamchaworld
chamchaworld rated it
June 29, 2018
Status: c89
If you're looking for some serious story with awesome world building, I suggest you to turn back. This is not a serious novel. This is a light reading, full of cooking, cute slime, and gluttonous Fenrir. So yeah, just read this for fun and I think you will not (badly) dissappointed.

Edit: I am at chapter 303 now and need 5 years to start to read this again. After so much happened in my life, this story is 5 stars for me now because reading Mukouda's adventure with his familiars... more>> just so calming, so much that I didn't even care about the other heroes. Still didn't forgive them for laughing at Mukouda tho. <<less
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Puddle
Puddle rated it
May 10, 2018
Status: c59
A fun enough light story with a little humor on the side. If you want a deep or intricate world building this isn`t what you want. But if you want something to relax and read I think you'll like it.
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crystal magic
crystal magic rated it
April 15, 2018
Status: c81
Normally I’m more of a romance story kind of girl but this is supper funny and a nice light read. Don’t read this and want a life changing story, but it’s really fun to have someone summoned and do their own thing and not have any interest in world domination and fighting. Instead food and a easy life is all that is really wanted.
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Midnight Coffee
Midnight Coffee rated it
June 30, 2017
Status: c32
Don't expect anything great from this novel. This is just a simple, light hearted story about a guy who has a so very convenient skill in another world.

I am not a good reviewer, I'll just state the obvious. The story is pretty laid back, and will only continue slowly, I read to chapter 32 and I'm not sure if the novel is progressing or not. It just felt like they're happily, leisurely spent their time.

I am not a cook, or gourmet, and I don't really like or hate the cooking... more>> description in the novel although I feel that it's rough.

Well, read this novel if you have some useless time to spend, really, don't expect anything great from this novel. <<less
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harunomasu
harunomasu rated it
January 23, 2024
Status: v14
I see a lot of 1-star review on this one. That's why I feel like I have to express my feelings as well.

Most of the people who gave it 1-star review said almost the same thing: it's boring, there's nothing, the MC is weak, it's not the typical isekai, and so on. But because it's not all of those typical Isekai it's actually good.

Yes, the MC is weak. Why? Because since the first time he came to the world, his occupation stays "Victim from Another World." He never wanted to... more>> be hero, and he could never be hero. He had capability to do magic, but the monsters he had to face during his adventuring days not the monsters that he could slay by himself.

This is not the type of the Isekai novel, where the protagonist so hella strong without doing almost anything (Yes, I still hold grudge over SAO, even to this day), because they're blessed as "Hero". Our MC, Mukohda, didn't even want to be adventurer, but he had to register because no one else can butcher his familiar's food for him. Imagine: the very weak man with almost no skill and got caught up in summoning, then he got familiar who is gluttonous and ridiculously strong, and he needed to cater to their needs. The monsters they fought range from B-rank to S-rank monsters, how the hell can he slay those monsters?

There's also no harem. Mukohda even had to get a broken heart many times because he got not girls and only familiars with him. He even called the goddesses "disappointment" many times, because to him, they're just people who are greedy over otherworld things.

The power of Mukohda as MC is to see people as people, and it's the same as all his familiars. While people got terrified over Fel the Fenrir, he is the only one who thinks that Fenrir is just a gluttonous doggie. That's why the Fenrir, and all the other familiars who came along in the story at the end, like him because he never once tried to use their power for anything.

Again, this is not your typical Isekai novel. If you expect so many fanservices with girls roaming around the Hero, and them throwing themselves to the Hero because he saved their lives once (JUST ONCE), it's not here. The MC is also not the most powerful, because he was never one, and it's his familiars who are ridiculously strong.

It's one of my most favorite Isekai novel after so many years reading Isekai novel and watching Isekai anime. I got bored when it's another OP hero or the hero with harem, or both. It's so boring. I'm tired of reading the same type of novel over and over again. Thankfully, this one was different and gave me a good laugh in every chapter. It's the novel that I love and would like to have the paperback for collection. <<less
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Suzuranao
Suzuranao rated it
July 19, 2023
Status: c99
Very mild, very repetitive, not a lot of conflict kinda novel. Any conflict really, pretty much a slice of life and cooking every day so far.

Which I like and don't mind but if youre looking for a novel where the protag is suddenly a business tycoon, or gets powered up and defeats everything with his newfound strength then this definitely isn't for you.

In fact MC is rather a big coward, you know like a normal person. Even when he's behind protection spells he still gets spooked when a big monster... more>> comes to him because why wouldn't you?? The barriers are transparent and its easy to forget about them.

Anyways don't expect a super manly powerful protag, Sui is adorably bloodthirsty, Feru is hungry and Mukoda just likes to cook in peace, thats it that's basically your whole dynamic. <<less
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BukuBuku
BukuBuku rated it
May 10, 2023
Status: c488
I like this manga generally and after reading for so long I can say that most people who complain about this manga really don’t get how slice of life works. This isn’t an action packed story driven by any overarching plot or purpose, it’s a story about a dude who is cowardly and doesn’t have an otaku mindset at all being dragged into another world and having to survive and play chef to overpowered creatures with nothing better to do. It’s basically supposed to be a food and product display... more>> in the form of a novel and hey some Japanese companies liked the idea so much that they sponsored this into being an anime that’s basically an obvious product placement but who cares the food looks amazing and the characters are genuinely funny and interesting.

My only complaint about the novel itself is that the author doesn’t really put in any character growth whatsoever and it’s just the same character never really changing facing different but similar situations. But his interactions with other characters and the world around him is what is the most entertaining thing about the story and why I like it.

A little warning though, the current translator/editor is kind of self-centered and is always criticizing the author when they aren’t properly translating the novel. Gumihou does good work and their edited version is good to read, they do correctly interpret and edit the story in most cases to convey the authors words if they were an English speaker but the biggest problems are that they cut out too much content deeming it redundant and thus severely cutting the actual length of the chapter, no to mention they try to hide this putting spaces between every sentence, and that they are arbitrarily cutting out important details of the story to fit their view of how they think the story should go. SPOILER: To emphasize this, in chapters 487 and 488, the author writes that the group want the entire giant crab to eat and they convince the MC to take the whole thing with them and not sell any of it to the guild thus creates the problem of how to cook the whole giant thing which leads to the MC remembering a technique they did earlier in the story which they then use to cook the crab. GUMIHOU rewrites this to where the MC Sells parts of the crab and only takes the legs and then suddenly they are using the technique without any context of where it came from or why they are using it over normal methods. Also GUMIHOU posted an unedited version and their edited version to try and show how much better their interpretation is but what’s scummy about this is that they intentionally show us what is basically a machine translation that’s not properly translated and they think that justifys them changing the entire sequence of the MC’s thought process and interaction. Yes GUMIHOU in those same chapters add in some nice details and flair, but they intentionally changed the story and content of the chapter instead of doing a proper translation. This also begs the question on what else they’ve technically cut out that would help make sense of some chapters if we had the proper context.

spoilers:

Mukoda the Protagonist is blessed with two cheat abilities; an infinite item box which can carry anything and preserve anything that goes into it and the ability to convert this worlds currency via his shopping interface and buy goods from Japan, including name brand items. This catches the eye of divine beasts and gods who highly covet his items cause they’re world does not have such luxuries.

Mukoda is basically a Level 1 person most of the time, despite him leveling up slightly, being dragged around by someone several hundreds levels higher than him into dangerous and calamitous situations that even scare the people native to the new world. So of course no matter what protections he has on him, doesn’t mean he gets desensitized to the danger and scariness of the situation.

This juxtaposition of a cowardly person who’s biggest skill is cooking with high quality ingredients with these battle junkie familiars creates some very interesting scenarios, along with the hilarity that the gods also bring into the equation, makes the story all the more fun to read. <<less
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Reed87
Reed87 rated it
August 5, 2022
Status: --
This is a case where the manga adaptation elevates the narrative into something great. Much of the writing and dialogue are a bit bare bones, and in a slice of life genre, describing scenes well is key to really capture the reader in what would be a mundane setting such as making a meal. The descriptions in the novel are often flat, it reads more like a screenplay rather than a fleshed out story, it is in the manga where the quality of the illustrations and characterization really make this... more>> story shine. <<less
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clmbheat
clmbheat rated it
November 20, 2020
Status: v8
It is very laid back and fun. The MC is a push over and im glad he is with the skill he has. Why give him something super OP when he is so cowardly? Its nice that he only ever really cooks and his familiars are the power that keeps him save. He needs to be able to keep them satisfied so that they don't run amok and at the same time he enjoys being their chef. Now if we didn't have to read pages of cooking and more character... more>> growth then I would give this a higher rating but as it is. <<less
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Rutabaga
Rutabaga rated it
September 25, 2020
Status: c131
At first it was amusing, fresh, and relaxing, but at one point it just started becoming boring for me.

He repeats the same pattern, defeat monsters, earn money, cook. Defeat monsters, earn money, cook. Of course there are plenty of fillers in between these, but it's basically the whole plot of this novel.

Its fine if you like those kind of slow life or cooking novels, but in this case, it might get boring after a while. Of course, you can enjoy it, the writing and translation is mostly smooth (kudos to... more>> the author and translator for that) , but the plot doesn't really work, since you know that the legendary Fenrir can beat almost every single monsters, so some crisis like a flock of wyverns flying around the city doesn't really bring out the kind of urgency the author might want us to feel.

The main character is overpowered, even if without the Fenrir, the slime or the dragon, he has a mithril knife, has the protection thingy from the goddesses (so most things can't hurt him, whether poison, traps, attacks, you get it...)

It had a lot of potential, and the arcs aren't even really arcs, it's just moving from different cities to another.

Read it if you will, but unless youre the type for a nichijou or just a very chill read, I don't think you'd be able to enjoy after 150+ chapters. Whether this novel is good or bad really depends on the reader. <<less
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