The second Olivia Maseki Houshokuten e Youkoso novel is half awkward romance, as the love interest spontaneously decides to claw his way out of the friend zone, and half ridiculously forced drama. And then, adding insult to injury there’s actually more food porn than crafting content. It’s just plain bad.
Monster no Niku o Kutteitara Oui ni Tsuita Ken‘s third entry gets our protagonist within a stone’s throw of uniting the continent. Unintentionally of course. As this one doesn’t dwell as much on his internal monologue, it ends up consistently entertaining overall with my only compliant being the re-occurring obsession with eating good food. It’s been like a over a decade since he started eating monsters (and even before that he barely ate anything due to the poisoning attempts) so… why does he still wax rhapsodic about it?